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Francis James Brown (Joseph James)
United States of America, NY
Brown & Seeger
The music of Joseph James is the fruit of a long-standing collaboration between the composers:
- Francis James Brown
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- Stanley Joseph Seeger
Both are composers in their own right, having first met in Florence in the early 1950s while studying with Luigi Dallapiccola. Their recorded works include the film score for Priest of Love, a film biography of D.H.Lawrence directed by Christopher Miles, Sketches from The Scarlet Letter, an opera based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Concerto for 3 Bouzoukis and orchestra and Requiem after J.S.Bach, a moving and imaginative interpretation of Bach's music used for a setting of the Latin requiem mass.
Source: booklet of cd Requiem after J.S. Bach Black Box Musix 1023
Francis James Brown (26/10/1925 - 18/01/2008), known to his friends as Jim and whose doughty Scottish ancestors were amongst the first to emigrate to the New World in the seventeenth century and settle in virtually uninhabited Iowa Territory, was born in Rochester, New York on 26 October 1925 to a mother with an artistic flair. His father was a professor of Sociology who worked in the Truman Administration and was the first American educationalist to be sent to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Brown was a piano and composition graduate of Eastman School of Music and in 1951 earned a scholarship to study composition under Luigi Dallapiccola at Tanglewood. In 1952 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to continue his studies with Dallapiccola in Florence, where he met Stanley Seeger, with whom he was to collaborate on many musical works, including the score of the feature film �Priest of Love� directed in 1980 by Christopher Miles and starring Ian McKellen as DH Lawrence and Janet Suzman as Frieda. Writing as Joseph James ( Seeger�s middle name was Joseph) this was a triumphant collaboration.
Source: http://www.jewishcomment.com/cgibin/news.cgi?id=11&command=shownews≠wsid=977
Requiem after J.S. Bach
Period: Modernism
Duration: ca.56'
Label(s): Black Box Music 1023
This requiem has been composed by Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown and is a choral setting of the requiem mass to the instrumental keyboard music of Bach. It ranges from fairly direct transcriptions of fugues to freer transformations of Bach's music. The result is a beautiful and fitting tribute to Bach with soloists, choir and orchestra.
This requiem belongs to the rich tradition of works based on the music of Johann Sebastiaan Bach, but it breaks with that tradition both in its form and technique of composition. It is a full setting of a requiem mass (using the text set by Tom�s Luis de Victoria in his Officium Defunctorum of 1605), and each of its parts is a vocal movement based on one of Bach's keyboard pieces - in some cases, particularly in the fugues, a fairly direct transcription, in others a more complex transformation using both the harmonic progressions and the figuration of the original in a quite new context.
Author: David Dalle and Michael Raeburn
Requiem after J.S. Bach. This disc (BBM 1023) puts a whole new spin on the idea of transcription, in several senses. For one thing, "Joseph James" is an enharmonic juxtapositioning of two unrelated musical ideas - the composers Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown. And then, the requiem itself is composed of orchestral and vocal transcriptions - some more free than others, but all honoring the style of the original music - of keyboard works by J.S. Bach. The whole emerges as a very convincing mass which just might be by Bach, maybe with politically incorrect (by modern purist standards) editorial amendments to the harmony and orchestration by some Stokowskian romantic non-academic performer. Much more than a parody, a most appealing oddity, and a fine piece of music.
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A rally is replayed without penalty and the server resumes play at first serve whenever a replay hinder occurs. Also, see Rule 3.15 which describes conditions under which a penalty hinder might be declared and result in loss of the rally.
(a) Situations
Court Hinders. The referee should stop play immediately whenever the ball hits any part of the court that was designated prior to the match as a court hinder (such as a vent grate). The referee should also stop play (i) when the ball takes an irregular bounce as a result of contacting an irregular surface (such as court light or vent) or after striking a wet spot on the floor or wall and (ii) when, in the referee's opinion, the irregular bounce affected the rally.
Ball Hits Opponent. When an opponent is hit by a return shot in flight, it is a replay hinder. If the opponent is struck by a ball that obviously did not have the velocity or direction to reach the front wall, it is not a hinder, and the player who hit the ball will lose the rally. A player who has been hit by the ball can stop play and make the call though the call must be made immediately and acknowledged by the referee. Note this interference may, under certain conditions, be declared a penalty hinder. See Rule 3.15.
Body Contact. If body contact occurs which the referee believes was sufficient to stop the rally, either for the purpose of preventing injury by further contact or because the contact prevented a player from being able to make a reasonable return, the referee shall call a hinder. Incidental body contact in which the offensive player clearly will have the advantage should not be called a hinder, unless the offensive player obviously stops play. Contact with the racquet on the follow-through normally is not considered a hinder for either player.
Screen Ball. Any ball rebounding from the front wall so close to the body of the defensive player that it prevents the offensive player from having a clear view of the ball. (The referee should be careful not to make the screen call so quickly that it takes away a good offensive opportunity.) A ball that passes between the legs of a player who has just returned the ball is not automatically a screen. It depends on whether the other player is impaired as a result. Generally, the call should work to the advantage of the offensive player.
Backswing Hinder. Any body or racquet contact, on the backswing or on the way to or just prior to returning the ball, which impairs the hitter's ability to take a reasonable swing. This call can be made by the player attempting the return, though the call must be made immediately and is subject to the referee's approval. Note the interference may be considered a penalty hinder. See Rule 3.15.
Safety Holdup. Any player about to execute a return, who believes that striking the opponent with the ball or racquet is likely, may immediately stop play and request a replay hinder. This call must be made immediately and is subject to acceptance and approval of the referee. (The referee will grant a replay hinder if it is believed the holdup was reasonable and the player would have been able to return the shot. The referee may also call a penalty hinder if warranted.)
Other Interference. Any other unintentional interference that prevents an opponent from having a fair chance to see or return the ball. Example: When a ball from another court enters the court during a rally or when a referee's call on an adjacent court obviously distracts a player.
(b) Effect of Hinders. The referee's call of hinder stops play and voids any situation that follows, such as the ball hitting the player. The only hinders that may be called by a player are described in rules (2), (5), and (6) above, and all of these are subject to the approval of the referee. A replay hinder stops play and the rally is replayed. The server resumes play at first serve.
(c) Responsibility. While making an attempt to return the ball, a player is entitled to a fair chance to see and return the ball. It is the responsibility of the side that has just hit the ball to move so the receiving side may go straight to the ball and have an unobstructed view of and swing at the ball. However, the receiver is responsible for making a reasonable effort to move towards the ball and must have a reasonable chance to return the ball for any type of hinder to be called.
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Halloween movies bring excitement to the month of October
Danisha Rogers, Staff Writer
Posters for all four of the “Halloweentown” movies are shown above. Photo from pinterest.com.
Halloween is officially one week away, which is a bit unfortunate because it’s on a Tuesday, but it’s the second best holiday following Christmas. “October is the best month because that’s when all the good movies come on,” said senior computer science major Ashley Myers.
During October, different networks host movie countdowns, such as Freeform’s 13 Nights of Halloween, Disney Channel’s Monstober, Syfy’s 31 Days of Halloween and AMC’s FearFest. The most iconic Halloween movies that appear every year without a doubt are the “Chucky” series, “Friday the 13th” series, “Jeepers Creepers,” “Halloween” starring the infamous Michael Myers, the “Halloweentown” series on Disney Channel and “Hocus Pocus,” which is also a Disney spooktacular.
The best thing about Halloween is the infinite options of movies that play from animations to true stories to gruesome horror films and comedic horrors.
“‘Coraline’ is my favorite movie to watch during Halloween because it reminds me of the Tim Burton films,” said junior creative writing major Kemaura Vance. “I like that it has a different plot compared to other movies that are made for kids.”
“Coraline” is a fantasy thriller movie that came out in 2009, which is about a young girl who explores the wonders of her new neighborhood and discovers a mysterious door thus introducing her to a different world/realm based on her own life.
“The way the director and creative team designed this movie gave it a special funk,” said Trinity University English major Karrin Thompson. “Even though I don’t remember the exact plot of the movie, I always enjoy it and watch it during Halloween.”
Coraline crawls through the passage to find her “other” family. Photo from imdb.com.
Growing up in the 2000s, almost every child would watch Disney Channel during October because they always had the best movies playing.
“The ‘Goosebumps’ series was always my favorite because I read the books as a child and because I hate scary movies,” said Luke Dice, a sophomore in the physician assistant program. Most of the “Goosebumps” movies feature animated characters along with real actors, which adds more detail and enjoyment to their movies.
One of the most iconic DCM movies is “Halloweentown,” which evolved into a movie series.
“Ever since I was a kid, I would always watch the ‘Halloweentown’ movies because they were my favorite,” said freshman computer science major Candice Morris. “I’ve turned it into my own Halloween tradition.”
“Halloweentown” is based on the discovery of a young witch’s powers and her assistance with stopping the villains trying to take over Halloweentown, which is an alternate realm her grandmother lives in.
Michael Myers is the main antagonist in the horror movie “Halloween.” Photo from syfy.com.
The original movie was released in 1998, followed up with the three others released in the 2000s: “Halloweentown II” in 2001, “Halloweentown High” in 2004 and “Return to Halloweentown” in 2006.
“I’ve always loved watching this series because of all the different animations and the exuberant colors and characters they would have throughout each movie,” said Sierra Logan, an elementary education major at the University of District of Columbia.
Everyone has their likes and dislikes when it comes to Halloween movies, which just makes their holiday even better. If I were asked this question, I would definitely choose the “Halloween” series with Michael Myers, just because of how gruesome it is. Also, the new “Halloween” will be coming out in October 2018, so be on the lookout if you enjoy these kinds of horror films. Don’t forget to check out those networks, because your favorite movie could be waiting for your eyes on one of these spooktober nights.
Published By: Paige Parise
October 24, 2017 in Lifestyle & Entertainment, October 2017 Magazine, Opinion. Tags: Danisha Rogers, Seton Hill University, SHU
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Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship
CFA Center Fellow 2017-2018_Ext.pdf
Call for Applications:
2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship
Deadline Extended: November 15, 2016
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship.
The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding senior scholar from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources. The fellowship also provides for a dedicated intern to assist with research-related tasks. The recipient will be required to spend one semester in residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research during the 2017- 2018 academic year.
Award decisions for this fellowship will be based on the originality of the research proposal, its potential to advance research within the field of Holocaust and genocide studies, and the distinguished achievements of the candidate. The chosen fellow will be expected to provide the Center with fresh research perspectives, to play a role in Center activities, and to give a public talk during his or her stay.
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research distinguishes itself from other Holocaust and genocide institutes by offering access to unique research resources and by focusing its research efforts on the interdisciplinary study of currently under-researched areas. While the Center encourages and fosters innovative scholarly research from all areas of genocide studies, it is particularly interested in the following themes: the interdisciplinary study of resistance to mass violence and genocide; interdisciplinary research on violence, emotion, and behavioral change; and digital genocide research.
Founded in 2014, the Center for Advanced Genocide Research is the research and scholarship unit of the USC Shoah Foundation. The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides, focusing on the origins of genocide and how to intervene in the cycle that leads to mass violence. The Center organizes annual international workshops and conferences, hosts a speaker series on genocide and mass violence, and offers a competitive international research fellowship program. For further information please consult: www.cagr.edu.
The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive holds over 53,000 video testimonies of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, the Rwandan, Guatemalan and Armenian genocides, and the Nanjing Massacre in China. The interviews were conducted in 40 languages and in 63 countries. They encompass the experiences not only of survivors in these contexts, but also of witnesses, liberators, aid providers, and war crimes trials participants. These interviews are life histories, and as such their subject matter includes the history and culture of the countries of the interviewees’ birth and their lives before, during and after genocide. Additional internationally unique and growing research resources at USC include a Holocaust and genocide studies collection at Doheny Memorial Library with over 20,000 primary and secondary sources; and a Special Collection containing private papers of German and Austrian Jewish emigrants, including the writer Lion Feuchtwanger, from the Third Reich.
To submit an application, please send a cover letter, CV, and research proposal (max. 3 pages) discussing the topic, methodological approach, and relevant USC resources by November 15th, 2016 to cagr@usc.edu.
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All About The Last Embrace
Skepto Film Fest: Saman Hosseinpuor’s The Last Embrace
by Roberta Girau
The Last Embrace of the very young Saman Hosseinpuor opposes life and death, alienation and expressiveness, presence and absence. All this in four minutes. Small gem to see and cherish, therefore, this enchanting work of Kurdish origin, which would be nice to have a good distributionYear: 2018
Duration: 4 ‘
Nationality: Iranian Kurdish
Director: Saman Hosseinpuor
A small precious product from Kurdistan, The Last Embrace by Saman Hosseinpuor, which in the immediacy of only four minutes manages to photograph in an inescapable way the alienation of the current world, one in which communication and sharing are increasingly mediated by technology and a real contact made of senses, looks, voices is less and less livable.
A house, a few rooms, four generations, each to embody a phase of the sad and rapid evolution of the human, emotional and social condition, in the arc, more or less, of the last century.
An old man who is dying, we feel the breath, the anxiety, trudging through the last moments of his life, to represent a finite world, far away, which almost no longer exists, which gradually loses vitality and fades to off.
Of the adults, the next generation, perhaps the sons of the old man, sit side by side, each intent on his cell phone, not even for an instant none of them speaks a word, a look, a nod to some of the others . After a few hours you have finished watching the film, you don’t even remember if they were men or women, they are so anonymous and lacking in soul: what they transmit is disconnection from any natural reaction, a sort of surrender, resignation, hallucinatory and monotonous outcome of their theoretically vital condition but which has very little vital.
Some boys, in a dark room, playing video games, not talking, not communicating, staring at the screen, testify to alienation, indifference, lack of stimuli, interests, individuality, they are one with the screen but , unlike their parents, they maintain a minimal, feeble contact with their actions, with their muscles, used to affect the video game.
And, finally, the light, she, small and beautiful, maybe five years old, who with her colors creates her own worlds and does it in a dimension still without structures, visibly still connected with what she feels, smiles, changes the expressions of face, even alone, immersed in its creation. And when he finishes trying to show his drawing to others, he turns to everyone but no one sees her, no one gets distracted from her screen and notices her, who in the end manages to find contact, sharing, exchange of heat with the only dead man, whose death, exactly like her, nobody noticed.
The last scene is very powerful, in which the child, who never stops smiling, embarks on a real encounter with that body, establishes a contact with us, plays with it, draws warmth from it, to the point of falling asleep in that sad and moving as much as wonderful last hug. Sad not for death itself, because what happens between the two of them, divorced from everything else, is the most human and sweet thing one can imagine, but for all that surrounds them and for the very effective and bitter observation that it is , in a few square meters where many people are present, the only real sharing possible. With death. But also with the affection, with the memory, between two bodies that can touch each other.
In reality it is a circular evolution that is described in this very short and dense short film, which somehow gives a kind of hope, the hope of a return to something more tangible, to a less constructed, less filtered, more natural and human contact . Probably that world in which technology had not yet covered and conditioned everything is almost dead, if not definitively dead, but does not mean absolute death, there is still life and perhaps, it is precisely from that death that one can hope for something new, pure, that breathes again, from which the so natural and spontaneous, paradoxically very vivid contact of the child with her grandfather and her serene sleep.
It is a language that goes by contrast to that of the Kurdish director, born in 1993, very young (this aspect too has a considerable value in the context of a film of this type) which opposes life and death, alienation and expressiveness, presence and absence, and that is revealed in the objects, as well as in the characters; in this regard, the subtlety of the child is particularly beautiful who, while drawing, listens to the music of an old audiocassette.
All this in four minutes. Really remarkable.
Small gem to see and cherish, therefore, this enchanting work of Kurdish origin, which it would be
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Freedom of Information (FOI) - Part 1 - Manifesto promises
Thursday, 03 November 2011 17:37 WRT
User Rating: / 23
FOI was raised in the Keys on 1st November 2011:
The Hon. Member for Douglas South (Mrs Beecroft) to ask the Chief Minister:
"When he plans to introduce a Freedom of Information Act?"
As part of his answer he stated:
"I can confirm that the Council of Ministers will be considering a paper on this subject of Freedom of Information at its meeting this week."
PAG trusts that in considering the paper, presumbably written by someone in the Chief Secretary's Office,Ministers will have reflected on the remarks they made about FOI in their 2011 General Election manifestos.Of the 10 members of the Council of Ministers (CoMin) only Shimmin and Teare did not refer to FoI. Here's what the remainder said:
I am in favour of openness and transparency and would support Freedom of Information legislation but not at any cost. It must be understood that much of the information that would be open to inspection would be of little interest, and would cost a lot to provide. On occasions there is a need for confidentiality - sensitive issues involving individuals, commercial confidence and matters subject to delicate negotiation. Contrary to the rumours, there is no conspiracy of silence - but much of the work of Government is mundane, routine and repetitious.
Government must engage with the public more effectively and promote appropriate Freedom of Information legislation to ensure openness and abetter understanding of issues
Cretney
As the person who first raised the need for Freedom of Information legislation his whole politicalphilosophy is one of transparency, accountability and openness
Crookall
I will continue to support the Freedom of Information Bill being introduced as soon as possible .......
Gawne
Transparency and Freedom of Information: I will continue to press for a more transparent system of Government and support the early introduction of stronger freedom of information legislation.
Karran
Introduce a Freedom of Information Act
As a result of the broken promise of the last administration we do not yethave a freedom of information act so there will be a need to continue pushing for this in the new house. To avoid an information request overloadwhen we are eventually able to bring this into law each department should, as soon as possible, embark on a policy of loading as muchinformation as possible on to its internet site because the more information that is readily available the less time will be taken up on expensive searcheslater. Other procedures could be adopted to smooth the path of its introduction to assist the avoidance of excessive costs.
Watterson
I have been frustrated by the lack of a Freedom of Information Bill.
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6. Dr. Hector exhibited the original curve drawn by the large barograph at the Melbourne Observatory on the 27th and 28th of August last, which have very courteously been sent to him by Professor Ellery. This curve shows abnormal oscillations similar to those which he (Dr. Hector) had pointed out at previous meetings of the Society on 29th August and 26th September last as having been produced simultaneously by the barographs at Wellington and Dunedin. By expressing these curves in the same local time it was found that the oscillations occurred about 90 minutes earlier at Melbourne than in New Zealand. If, as was very probable, these remarkable oscillations were connected with the great eruption in Sunda Straits, by measuring the distance along great circles the actual difference in the time would be reduced to about 75 minutes, which would give for the velocity of the transmission of these curious atmospheric waves 600 miles an hour or 1,000 feet per second, or nearly the velocity of sound.
This seems to point to the dispersal of waves through a medium very different from anything we are acquainted with, and suggests the probability of the existence of a somewhat definite limit in altitude to the terrestrial atmosphere with which we are familiar, and in which all our winds and slow moving cyclonic impulses are transmitted. On the occasion of a great outburst of force from the earth's surface, such as the late Java eruption, it is probable that a volume of gaseous matter may be projected through this denser part of the atmospheric envelope, and being there condensed under very different conditions of temperature and pressure, gives rise to pulsations that traverse the upper and more attenuated medium.
Dr. Hector mentioned that the extraordinary coloured glow in the sky which has been visible every clear night and morning since the first week in September, seemed to support this view by proving the existence at an enormous altitude of some vapourous matter capable of refracting the sun's light into its prismatic components. He had observed, to
his surprise, on several evenings, that through rifts in the vapour masses, crimsoned in the ordinary manner by the sun after it had set, a back-ground of intense greenish blue was visible. After all the ordinary sun-set tints had faded, this blue changed to orange pink, and graduated off through the various prismatic tints to a magnificent crimson spanning over what appeared to be cloudless sky, considerably to the eastward of the meridian. This spectacle gradually faded with the advance of nightfall, but lasted about one hour and twenty minutes after the ordinary twilight tints had faded. This shows that the vapour causing the tints must have an enormous and very unusual altitude. A similar phenomenon in the evening sky was observed in New Zealand about sixteen years since, but the exact date has not been ascertained. The glow of September last still continues, but it is drawing now towards the pole, as if the unusual height of the refracting medium was extending the antarctic twilight tint even to our latitudes.
With the hint we get from the self-recording barometers it is very difficult to avoid connecting this curious phenomenon which has been seen all over Australia and New Zealand, with the Sunda eruption.*
Dr. Hector also read a letter from Major Scannell, Inspector A. C., stationed at Taupo, giving an account of marked oscillation in the level of Taupo Lake, amounting to a vertical rise and fall of 18 inches, which was repeated several times at intervals of 20 minutes at about noon on the same date that the tidal disturbance was felt on the coast, viz., on 28th August; affording clear evidence of the passing of waves through the lake, due to a motion of the land, probably produced by the unusual periods of the tidal inequalities of pressure on either coast.
Mr. Higginson, C.E., reminded the meeting that in a paper read before this Society on 2nd February, 1878,† he had described similar disturbances of Lake Wakatipu, which were observed by him on 17th November, 1877.
7. “Notes on the Colour of Tellerium,” by W. Skey.
[Footnote] * In “Nature,” October 25th, No. 730, p. 627, received to-day, I find that a similar disturbance was traced by the barograph, at Mauritius, at the same Greenwich date as at Melbourne, and as these two stations are at the same distance from Sunda, in nearly opposite directions, there can be no doubt but that the disturbance was due to the propagation of a circular wave in the upper atmosphere having the velocity already stated. J. Hector, 20th December, 1883.
[Footnote] † Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. x., p. 180.
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No doubt this will top any grunge fan’s Christmas list and, while Kurt and his pals did hair metal no favours in the mid 90s, even we admit to being massive fans of the mighty Nirvana. The unveiling of their definitive Reading set will have music nuts the world over going wobbly at the knees and the November 2 release date can’t come soon enough!
We still remember watching the clip for Smells Like Teen Spirit for the very first time on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball and being blown away by the sheer ferocity of Cobain and his hard rocking buddies. The fact that their music encouraged the ferel rock beasts that were/are Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains means we can just about forgive them for persuading Def Leppard to record Slang!.
Ranked number one in Kerrang!’s ‘100 Gigs That Shook The World’ and voted as Nirvana’s Number One Greatest Moment by fans in an NME poll, the band’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock’n’roll.
Now, fans will have an opportunity to own a pristine copy of that entire performance – with colour-corrected video from the original film and audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition DVD+CD Deluxe Edition as well as DVD-only, CD-only configurations on November 2, 2009, followed by a two-LP version on November 16, 2009.
While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until two years later on – In Utero’s All Apologies, Dumb and – in its first ever public performance – tourette’s.
The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for Blew, About A Girl, School, Negative Creep and first single Love Buzz. And even further back to the mid-80s for Spank Thru.
Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: Aneurysm, Been A Son and Sliver. Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound – The Money Will Roll Right In by Fang and D-7 by The Wipers.
Only two of the 25 performances on the DVD have ever been released before.
Nirvana Live At Reading DVD:
1. Breed 2. Drain You 3. Aneurysm 4. School 5. Sliver 6. In Bloom 7. Come As You Are 8. Lithium 9. About A Girl 10. tourette’s 11. Polly 12. Lounge Act 13. Smells Like Teen Spirit 14. On A Plain 15. Negative Creep 16. Been A Son 17. All Apologies 18. Blew 19. Dumb 20. Stay Away 21. Spank Thru 22. Love Buzz* 23. The Money Will Roll Right In 24. D-7 25. Territorial Pissings
*not included on CD
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1. The Claims of Japan and Malaysia upon Christendom : exhibited in notes of voyages made in 1837, from Canton, in the ship Morrison and brig Himmaleh, under direction of the owners, v.2 Page 227
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New York, E. French, 1839, pg. 227
4. Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries : being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, and c Page 130
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Singapore, no recorded publisher, 1837, pg. 130
5. Narrative of a voyage round the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37 : including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, v.2 Page 337
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London, R. Bentley, 1838, pg. 337
6. Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries : being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, and c Page A-85
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7. Narrative of a voyage round the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37 : including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, v.1 Page 17
London, R. Bentley, 1838, pg. 17
10. Narrative of a voyage round the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37 : including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, v.2 Page 44
11. Narrative of a voyage round the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37 : including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, v.2 Page 121
12. Narrative of a voyage round the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37 : including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, v.1 Page 228B
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Carter v Secretary of State for the Environment 01 January 1991
Subject: Planning
Keywords: Caravans; Established use; Mobile homes; Planning permission
Where Reported: [1991] J.P.L. 131
Documents: Case Analysis
Terms in Context:
…CarterSecretary of State for the Environment CARTER V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT [1991] J.P.L …
…V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT01 January 1991 Lionel Read Q.C. Read, Lionel, QC (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Planning Caravans Established use Mobile homes Planning permission Caravan established use certificate for residential caravan replaced with mobile home temporary planning permission granted whether inspector had erred in definition of caravan An established use certificate governed the siting of a residential caravan on a small holding. A’s replaced the caravan with a mobile home. The local council granted planning permission for five years for this, subject to a s.52 agreement to take …
…As appealed to the High Court under the Planning Act 1971 s.246 Held, after discussion as to whether the mobile home did or did not constitute a caravan within the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 s.29(1) , and whether the assembling and cementing together of the concrete blocks upon which the mobile home stood constituted integral operations to the erection of a building, that the inspector fell into error for two reasons …
…considered the distinction between operations involved in the moving and cementing of the concrete blocks, and the stationing of the mobile home on those blocks. The matter was sent back to the Secretary of State for redetermination. 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 20060628150122 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.29(1) Planning Act 1971 s.246 Planning Act 1971 s.52 Caravan – mobile home – definition of development – established use certificate. J.P.L. 1991, Feb, 131-137 Caravans Development Mobile homes Planning permission 1991222036 725…
R. (on the application of Green) v First Secretary of State Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 16 December 2005
Keywords: Caravans; Caravan sites; Gypsies; Planning control; Planning permission
Where Reported: [2005] EWCA Civ 1727; [2006] J.P.L. 1185; Official Transcript
Documents: Case Analysis Official Transcript
…R. (on the application of Green)First Secretary of State GREEN V FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE & ORS …
…United Kingdom16 December 2005 Tuckey, L.J. Tuckey LJ Laws, L.J. Laws LJ Moore-Bick, L.J. (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Planning Caravan sites Caravans Gypsies Planning control Planning permission traveller sites planning permission gypsies mobile living accommodation on site planning inspector’s duty to determine status of units The appellant gypsy (J) appealed against a decision ([2005] EWHC 691) quashing planning permission for the stationing of caravans granted by an inspector of the secretary of state. J had applied to the local authority for retrospective planning permission for the stationing of caravans or mobile living accommodation on an agricultural site that he and his family occupied as gypsies. The respondent (G), the chairman of …
…were issued. J appealed to the inspector, who allowed the appeal and granted conditional planning permission for the stationing of mobile living accommodation and ancillary storage on the site. However, her decision was quashed on G’s application because she had failed to consider whether two of the units were caravans as defined by the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 as amended by the Caravan Sites Act 1968 and the potential impact on the question of gypsy status. J contended that the judge had erred (1) in holding that the question of whether two of the units were caravans within the 1960 Act was material to the question of gypsy status; (2) in his decision that the inspector was wrong to grant planning permission. The fact that a person lived in a caravan was capable of being a relevant factor in determining whether he was a gypsy, but it was not determinative. Held …
…with a nomadic habit of life. The statutory definition did not specify that a gypsy had to live in a caravan to qualify as having gypsy status. The inspector’s finding that J was a gypsy could not be undermined by the …
…1212; 92 L.G.R. 473; [1994] 29 E.G. 124; [1994] E.G. 58 (C.S.); Times, April 6, 1994; Independent, April 4, 1994Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c.8) s.288 Jones v Green on behalf of the Friends of Fordwich and District. J.P.L. 2006, Aug, 1185-1196 Caravans Gypsies Planning permission 2008224725 723…
Brice v National By-Products Ltd Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 11 February 1983
Subject: Housing
Keywords: Breach of statutory duty; Caravan sites; Licences; Mobile homes
Where Reported: 81 L.G.R. 652; (1983) 46 P. & C.R. 281; (1983) 127 S.J. 241
Documents: Case Analysis (1983) 46 P. & C.R. 281
…Div)Court of Appeal (Civil Division) UK United Kingdom 11 February 1983 (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Housing Breach of statutory duty Caravan sites Licences Mobile homes Mobile homes caravan on site licence possession The Mobile Homes Act 1975 contains no time limit for making an application to the court for the grant of an agreement …
…respect of which a site licence is in force. In 1968 the local authority granted P planning permission for three caravans for employees to live on their land. By an oral agreement P granted to D, one of their employees, a licence to live on the protected site in his caravan as long as D or D’s brother worked for P. D left P’s employment in 1974 and his brother in 1980 whereupon the licence terminated. Despite a notice to quit, the caravan remained on the site, though the other two caravans had been removed. The site licence issued under the Caravan Sites and the Control of Development Act 1960 s.3 expired in 1977. P failed to apply for a further …
…site. On October 16, 1980 D requested P to enter a written agreement in accordance with s.2 of the Mobile Homes Act 1975, but P refused. Thereupon, the defendant applied to the county court under s.4(1)(a) for …
…1990) 22 H.L.R. 107; (1990) 60 P. & C.R. 72; [1990] 2 E.G.L.R. 185; [1990] 30 E.G. 89; [1990] J.P.L. 657Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.3 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.1 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.3 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.3(4) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.3(5) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.9 Caravan Sites and the Control of Development Act 1960 s.3 Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.4 Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.4(1)(a) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.4(2)(a) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.4(5) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.1 Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.1(1) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.1(2) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.2 Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.3 Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.3(1) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.3(d) Mobile Homes Act 1975 (c.49) s.9 1983032743 723…
Hammond v Horsham DC Divisional Court, 26 April 1989
Subject: Planning; Legislation
Keywords: Caravans; Enforcement notices; Mobile homes
Where Reported: 88 L.G.R. 374; (1989) 58 P. & C.R. 410; [1989] C.O.D. 501; (1989) 153 J.P.N. 564; (1989) 153 L.G. Rev. 670; Independent, May 8, 1989
…HammondHorsham DC HAMMOND V HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL 88 L.G.R. 374 (1989) 58 P. & C.R. 410 [1989] C.O.D …
…DCHAMMOND V HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL DC Divisional Court UK United Kingdom 26 April 1989 (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Planning Legislation Caravans Enforcement notices Mobile homes Enforcement notice use of land as caravan site meaning of “caravan” It is erroneous to assume that the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies to the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 for enforcement purposes, as there is no definition …
…that an enforcement notice under the 1971 Act had to be construed on its own wording. H bought a dismantled mobile home which he reassembled on some land he had acquired in Sussex. In its initial design the mobile home had been intended to come within the definition of caravan in s.13 of the 1968 Act, but it now exceeded the prescribed width by 2.4cm. H used the mobile home as a residence for himself and his family contrary to the terms of an enforcement notice. Held, quashing the …
…incorrect basis. The enforcement notice was to be construed according to its own words, without regard to the definition of “caravan” contained in the 1968 Act. The only live question was whether the mobile home could be regarded as a caravan in the ordinary use of that word. 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 20060628150217 …
…357; [1983] J.P.L. 602; (1983) 127 S.J. 748Wyre Forest DC v Secretary of State for the Environment and Allen’s Caravans (Estates) [1990] 2 A.C. 357; [1990] 2 W.L.R. 517; [1990] 1 All E.R. 780; (1990) 60 P. & C.R. 195; [1990] 2 P.L.R. 95 Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.13 Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.13(2)(b) Caravan Sites Act 1960 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.29 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 Part I Town and Country Planning Act 1971 Town and Country Planning Act…
Howard v Kinvena Homes Ltd Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 14 June 1999
Subject: Contracts
Keywords: Caravan sites; Contract terms; Fees; Mobile homes
Where Reported: (2000) 32 H.L.R. 541; (1999) 96(25) L.S.G. 30
Documents: Case Analysis (2000) 32 H.L.R. 541
…UKUnited Kingdom 14 June 1999 Simon Brown, L.J. Brown, Simon, LJ Rattee, J. Rattee J (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Contracts Caravan sites Contract terms Fees Mobile homes mobile homes pitch fee review relevant factors site owner’s income from bottled gas sales Under the terms of the standard pitch agreement, the annual pitch fee for K’s mobile home site was subject to a review based on the RPI, expenditure by K for the occupiers’ benefit and other …
…v Weir Associates Ltd(1987) 19 H.L.R. 151; [1987] 1 E.G.L.R. 191; (1987) 281 E.G. 1198; Times, January 21, 1987 Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) Part .1 Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.1(2) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Part .1 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Part IV Mobile Homes (Commissions) Order 1983 (SI 1983 748) Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.1(2) Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.2 Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.4 Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.5(1) Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.5(1)(a) Mobile Homes Act 1983 Part I Householder pays for gas not purchased. Conv. 1999, Sep/Oct, 374-375 Agreements Caravan sites Fees Mobile homes 1999162097 723…
Holmes v Cooper Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 10 June 1985
Subject: Housing; Licensing
Keywords: Caravan sites; Licensing
Where Reported: [1985] 1 W.L.R. 1060; [1985] 3 All E.R. 114; 84 L.G.R. 225; (1985) 50 P. & C.R. 437; (1985) 82 L.S.G. 2741; (1985) 129 S.J. 653
Documents: Case Analysis [1985] 1 W.L.R. 1060 (1985) 50 P. & C.R. 437
…CA (Civ Div)Court of Appeal (Civil Division) UK United Kingdom Official 10 June 1985 (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Housing Licensing Caravan sites Licensing Mobile home caravan site licence travelling showmens’ exemption Where one caravan is stationed on land for the purposes of human habitation, a caravan site licence is required, notwithstanding that other caravans stationed on the site fall within the travelling showmens’ exemption, so as to make the site a protected site. D stationed her caravan on land owned by P. The land was run by P as a caravan site. P sought possession of the land from D. The trial judge held that D’s caravan was stationed on a protected site and dismissed the claim for possession. Certain orders were made against P on D’s counterclaim. P appealed. It was argued that a caravan site licence under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 was not required by virtue of the travelling showmens’ exemption set out in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960Sch.1 para.10. P claimed the exemption applied where the substantial or predominant use of the site was for travelling showmen. Held, dismissing the appeal, that where one caravan was stationed on the site for the purpose of human habitation, a caravan site licence was required. P could only rely upon the travelling showmens’ exemption if all the caravans on the site fell within the provisions of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 Sch.1 para.10. As a caravan site licence was required under s.1 of the Act the site was a protected site within the Caravan Sites Act 1968 s.3 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 20060628150224 …
…1 P.L.R. 108; [1989] J.P.L. 513; (1989) 153 L.G. Rev. 328; (1989) 86(3) L.S.G. 44; (1989) 133 S.J. 46Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.1(2) Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.3 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.1 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) para.10 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 Part I Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 Sch.1 Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.1 Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.1(1) Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34) s.1(2) Caravan site licences, exemptions and statutory protection. L.G. Rev. 1986, 150(5), 69-70 Caravan sites Licences 1985030603 723…
Green v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court), 19 March 2009
Keywords: Caravans; Certainty; Planning conditions; Planning permission; Traveller sites
Where Reported: [2009] EWHC 754 (Admin); Official Transcript
…Admin)UKEW England and Wales Official 19 March 2009 Timothy Corner Q.C. Timothy Corner Q.C. Planning Planning permission Planning conditions Caravans Traveller sites Certainty Planning permission Planning conditions Condition permitting stationing of static caravans Certainty of term “static” The applicants, being the local authority and a representative of a local organisation, applied to quash …
…a decision of the first respondent secretary of state, through a planning inspector, to grant planning permission for a Gypsy caravan site in a rural area.The inspector’s decision related to nine appeals. The first appeal was under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s.78 and concerned an application for planning permission for three caravans to be used as all-year-round dwellings. The remaining appeals concerned enforcement notices relating to the use of the site. The site was divided into three units. The first contained mobile living accommodation and a timber shed. On the second there were three caravans, a timber structure and a “van back store”. On the third there were a caravan, a construction formed of two former caravans connected by a central timber structure, a workshop and another van back store. The inspector allowed the s.78 appeal, having concluded that the development would cause no unacceptable harm. He granted planning permission for the siting of three caravans and imposed a number of conditions. Condition 5 provided that no more than eight caravans, including no more than four “static” caravans, should be stationed on the site. The inspector dismissed the appeals relating to the enforcement notices, having concluded that the …
…for a site.The meaning of “static” in a planning condition permitting the stationing of a limited number of static caravans on a Gypsy caravan site was sufficiently clear. Applications refused. (1) J had made it clear before the relevant inquiry took place that they wished to have the eight caravans that condition 5 would permit. Rather than expanding or enlarging the permission, condition 5 had the effect of regulating and …
…a term commonly used in the context of Gypsy cases and arose from the fact that Gypsies generally had one caravan in which they lived and one that was more mobile, which they used when they were travelling. The concept of “static caravans”, as opposed to “touring caravans”, had been in use in government policy documents for many years. Further, the inspector had made clear in his decision …
…31) L.S.G. 25; (2004) 148 S.J.L.B. 825; [2004] N.P.C. 108; Times, July 2, 2004; Independent, July 6, 2004; Official TranscriptCaravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.13 Caravan Sites Act 1968 (c.52) s.13(2) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) Part 1 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62) s.29(1) Circular 01/2006 Circular 01/2006 para.15…
R. v Rent Officer of Nottingham Registration Area Ex p. Allen Queen’s Bench Division, 20 May 1985
Subject: Landlord and tenant
Keywords: Caravans; Fair rent; Landlords powers and duties
Where Reported: (1985) 17 H.L.R. 481; (1986) 52 P. & C.R. 41; [1985] 2 E.G.L.R. 153; (1985) 275 E.G. 251
Documents: Case Analysis (1985) 17 H.L.R. 481 (1986) 52 P. & C.R. 41
…under section 141, Rent Act 1977 Encyclopedia , pp. 2999/881/167). Facts The applicant was the freehold owner of a caravan site at Ollerton in Nottinghamshire. There were concrete pitches or bases for 38 caravans. Each concrete base was occupied by a single caravan, which was not affixed to the base. The caravans rested on their own wheels, and stabilising stands, which were part of the original manufacture. From time to time, the applicant would remove caravans from their bases, in order to carry out repairs and renovations. The whole disconnection operation could be carried out in approximately five minutes. 482 One caravan, a large vehicle of some 30 feet long, was let to a Mrs. Moore on or about January 23, 1984. The caravan, although fully mobile, was connected to a mains water and electricity supply, and to a sewage pipe. Mrs. Moore was eligible for and …
…arise when the facts are between these two extremes; it is necessary to have regard to the features of the caravan which may reveal elements of site permanence on the one hand, or immobility on the other, such as whether the wheels are still on the caravan, whether the stabilising struts are of a permanent nature or of a kind ordinarily used by a caravan when moving from site to site, whether there are services attached, and if so whether they are of a fixed nature or readily detachable, whether the caravan is ever moved and if so for what purpose and with what facility;(4) Rent officers should be on their guard against landlords who rent out caravans on an estate, on a permanent or long-term basis, and who seek to avoid the controls of the Rent Act by making superficial arrangements tending to show some mobility in their caravans when the reality is that they are permanently based on the site; if the occupancy is such that it is plainly used by the tenant as his or her permanent home, then there is a greater likelihood of the caravan being permanently in place rather than it being used as a temporary expedient; the feature of mobility is not the sole determining factor, but is perhaps more significant than any other; (5) In the present case, the movement of the caravans from time to time, and the impermanence of the connection of the various services, established that they could not in …
…submits that there should be an order of certiorari to quash the registration.The applicant owns the freehold of a caravan site at Ollerton in Nottinghamshire. The site is licensed for up to 40 caravans and there are concrete pitches or bases for 38 of them, nearly all of which are used by the applicant himself to support his own caravans. Each concrete base is occupied by a single caravan which is not affixed to the base. The caravans rest on their own wheels and stabilising stands, which are part of the original manufacture. One such caravan, no. 22, was let to a Mrs. Moore, on or about January 23, 1984. There is no evidence before me whether the letting included the concrete base upon which that particular caravan stood. Like the others, this caravan although fully mobile, was connected to a mains water and electricity supply and also to a sewage pipe. All these services are provided for each of the caravans on the site. It is the applicant’s case that these services are easily connected. It is his practice from time to time to remove the caravans from their bases for the purpose of carrying out repairs and renovations. He describes his system of moving individual caravans in this way: “I personally go to the caravan. I disconnect the electricity by pulling out two wires from a trip switch located inside the caravan. I disconnect the water by turning off a mains tap and manually unscrewing the hose. The hose is finger tight …
…rent officer or the county court judge, as the case may be, will have regard to the features of the caravan which may reveal elements of site permanence, on the one hand, or immobility on the other. Are the wheels still on the vehicle? Are the stabilising struts of a permanent nature or of a kind ordinarily used by a caravan when moving from site to site? Are the services attached to the caravan? If so, are they of a fixed nature or readily detachable? Is the caravan ever moved? If so, for what purpose and with what facility? Plainly, rent officers will be on their guard against landlords who rent out caravans on their estate, on a permanent or long-term basis, and who seek to avoid the controls of the Rent Act by making superficial arrangements tending to show some mobility in their caravans when the reality is that they are permanently based on the site. If the occupancy of the caravan is such that it is plainly used by the tenant as his or her permanent home, then there is a greater likelihood of the caravan being permanently in place rather than it being used as a temporary expedient. The present case, on its facts, is …
…of this vehicle place it on both sides of the line, but overall, in my judgment, the movement of these caravans from time to time, as disclosed by the applicant’s affidavit and the impermanence of the connection of the various services, establish that they could not, in reality—although I am only concerned with caravan no. 22—be described as houses.The feature of mobility is not, of course, the sole determining factor in deciding on which side of the line any particular case will…
Newbury DC v Secretary of State for the Environment Queen’s Bench Division, 1 July 1987
Keywords: Alterations; Enforcement notices
Where Reported: (1988) 55 P. & C.R. 100; [1988] J.P.L. 460; [1988] J.P.L. 185; (1988) 152 L.G. Rev. 170; Times, July 2, 1987
…decision letter of the Inspector] was that the requirements of the Enforcement Notice, in so far as it relates to caravans now reads: “(1) Cease the use of the land for stationing two caravan/mobile home units for the purposes of human habitation; (5) Remove from the land all mobile homes and caravans stationed thereon for the purposes of human habitation.”These amendments are clearly wrong. It must follow from the Inspector’s findings of fact that there are established use rights for two caravan/mobile homes to be stationed on the land. As it now stands, the amended requirements of paragaphs (1) and (5) of the Notice appears to prevent the retention even of the two caravans the Inspector accepted were allowed to remain because they were immune from enforcement. In our opinion the Notice should be amended to read as follows: “(1) Cease the use of the land for stationing more than two caravan/mobile home units for the purposes of human habitation; (5) Remove from the land all but two of the mobile homes and caravans stationed thereon for the purposes of human habitation.” We have approached the Newbury District Council who we believe are in …
…The second point relates to the Inspector’s failure to consider the appeal under ground (a) in respect of the two caravans/mobile homes which he found were immune from enforcement under ground (e). In most cases there would be no need for him to do so, but in the case of caravans a successful appeal under ground (e) is not necessarily the end of the story and it is necessary for ground (a) to be considered having regard to the provisions of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 . In order for the two caravans to be kept on the land for the purposes of human habitation, the appellant must apply for, and be granted …
…that the Inspector found that there was immunity from enforcement action in respect of using the land for two residential caravans and yet in amending the enforcement notice he retained the requirement which read, “remove from the land all mobile homes and caravans 105 stationed thereon for the purpose of human habitation.” This was clearly anomalous when it had already been found that two caravans were immune from enforcement action. The evidence shows that there were four caravans on the site in all. The Secretary of State would therefore propose to amend the requirement on removal so that only two mobile homes or caravans were to be removed. No other amendment to the Inspector’s decision is thought to be necessary, but so that no …
…decision letter was that the paragraph should be amended to read: “Cease the use of the land for stationing two caravans/mobile home units for the purposes of human habitation” and paragraph (5) should be amended to read: “Remove from the land two caravans/mobile home units stationed thereon for the purposes of human habitation.” There was also an amendment to paragraph (7) with which …
…3 of the enforcement notice should read “Cease the use of the land for the stationing of more than two caravans/mobile home units for the purposes of human habitation.” Moreover, it is also suggested that paragraph (5) of that Schedule should read “Save as aforesaid in paragraph (1) of this Schedule remove all caravans from the land.” Today, Mr. Eyre put before me a draft which is in substantially the same form of words…
R. (on the application of Green) v First Secretary of State Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court), 13 April 2005
Keywords: Caravans; Gypsies; Material considerations; Planning permission
…2005] EWHC 691 (Admin)UKEW England and Wales Official 13 April 2005 Gibbs, J. Gibbs J (c)Sweet & Maxwell Limited Planning Caravans Gypsies Material considerations Planning permission planning permission gypsies gypsy status consideration of whether static caravans with timber extensions “caravans” within meaning of s.29 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 The appellant (G) appealed against a decision of a planning inspector appointed by …
…respondent (J), a gypsy. J owned a piece of agricultural land on which he and his family lived in three mobile homes. Two of the homes comprised static caravans with timber extensions and the third was made up of two static caravans joined by a timber structure. The local authority had refused to grant retrospective planning permission for the stationing of the mobile homes and had issued enforcement notices against J. On appeal, the planning inspector had granted planning permission for the stationing of three units of mobile living accommodation on the site, having found that despite wishing to establish a permanent base on the land, J and …
…his family retained their gypsy status. The permission was subject to a condition that no more than three units of mobile living accommodation falling within the definition of a caravan set out in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 s.29 should be stationed on the site. G’s primary submission was that the planning inspector had erred in concluding that the units of accommodation on site were caravans for the purposes of the 1960 Act, and in concluding that J had retained his gypsy status. G submitted that the static caravans together with their timber extensions each had to be considered as a whole and could not be regarded as being …
…a planning inspector considering whether to grant planning permission for the use of land by gypsies for the stationing of mobile living accommodation to make a reasoned determination as to whether the units on a site were caravans or mobile living accommodation as defined by the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 s.29.Held, allowing the appeal, that in considering the question of J’s …
…nature and dimensions of the structures on the site. There was at least a sustainable argument that each of the mobile units taken as a whole amounted to a single fixture consisting of a caravan or caravans bolted on to other structures. If each unit was considered as a whole then it was more than arguable
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Stone from High Priest's Breastplate Discovered?
by ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ/BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS
"And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel." Exodus 28:9
Sometimes incredible stories are actually true, and in this case, experts agree that a small onyx stone, claimed to be given to a Knight Templar over 1,000 years ago and handed down through one family from generation to generation, is actually what the present owner claims: a gem from the breastplate of the High Priest in Jerusalem.
A Prophetic Stone?
The stones of the choshen mishpat, the High Priest's breastplate, were referred to in the Bible as the urim v'tummim, a phrase that defies translation.
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aharon's heart Exodus 28:30
The Talmud (Yoma 73a) describes how questions were put to the breastplate, and the stones would light up to spell out the answer. The book of Samuel lists the urim v'tummim as one of the three forms of divine communication: dreams, prophets, and the urim v'tummim.
And when Shaul inquired of Hashem, Hashem answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. I Samuel 28:6
According to the Talmud (Yoma 21b), the urim v'tummim were lost when Jerusalem was sacked by the Babylonians. The Book of Ezra mentions that individuals who were unable to prove, after the Babylonian captivity had ended, that they were descended from the priesthood before the captivity began, were required to wait until priests in possession of urim v'tummim were discovered.
In addition to the 12 stones mounted on the breastplate were two sardonyx stones fixed in gold settings on the shoulders of the High Priest.
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel; and Aharon shall bear their names before Hashem upon his two shoulders for a memorial. Exodus 28:12
Experts believe this is one of those stones. If this is so, contained within it is the power of prophecy and it may play an important role in returning the Priestly Caste to serve in the Temple.
Discovery: Too Incredible to Believe
In 2000, Dr. James Strange, a noted professor in religious studies and archaeology, traveled to South Africa. An acquaintance suggested Dr. Strange contact a family she had met there and if he could, help them with a pro-bono appraisal of a gemstone. They were of humble means and Dr. Strange was a certified appraiser whose services were highly sought after.
Dr. Strange met with the family, intending to humor them. Instead, he was astounded by what they showed him. "I was indeed amazed at the gemstone," Dr. Strange told Breaking Israel News. The stone itself was nothing special. A semi-precious sardonyx, it had little intrinsic worth.
But Dr. Strange was puzzled by the object he held in his hands. "I was unaware that anyone in the late Middle Ages had the technology to cut a hemisphere in such a medium, so I tried to exhaust all other explanations," he said.
Even more astounding than the cut of the stone was the inexplicable inscription inside the stone, visible through the clear surface: two letters in ancient Hebrew. Dr. Stone wrote in his appraisal of the gem, "There is no modern or ancient technology known to me by which an artisan could produce the inscription, as it is not cut into the surface of the stone."
Dr. Strange was an expert but when faced with such a mystery, he sought help. He turned to Ian Campbell, Director of the Independent Coloured Stones Laboratory in Johannesburg and a leading South African gemologist. Campbell was equally dumbfounded.
He studied the stone, trying to ascertain its origin. The owner's story placing it on the High Priest's breastplate were too incredible. But the family had documentation that traced its descent from a Crusader-period male ancestor who had been in the Holy Land in the Middle Ages and claimed the stone was a reward from the High Priest. Could it be true?
The Thousand-Year Story
According to the Auret family tradition, the ancestor, named Croiz Arneet deTarn Auret, received the stone from "the High Priest" in gratitude for his part in freeing Jerusalem around 1189. The custodianship of the stone was passed on in the Auret family through the male line until the nineteenth century. That tradition was broken when Abraham Auret passed away in 1889, bequeathing the stone to his daughter, Christina Elizabeth.
After her marriage to William James Hurst, the stone left the Auret name, and has been passed on from mother to daughter ever since. Meticulously recorded family trees and genealogical reports corroborate the story. The stone was passed on as an inheritance and is presently owned by an elderly woman in South Africa, who wishes to remain anonymous.
It has been strongly transmitted to each member of the family through the centuries that it was God's hand that inserted the mysterious inscription inside the stone.
Experts Agree
The mystery of the writing remained. Dr. Strange noted that the stone had no external markings, so it clearly hadn't been set in a ring or a necklace. He was forced to conclude that it had probably been set in a large plate or breastplate. He dated production of the stone to approximately the 5th century BCE.
As an appraiser, Dr. Strange could not erase all doubt, but he could certainly evaluate it as a one-of-a-kind. He appraised the stone's value at $175-$225 million.
The gemologist, Mr. Campbell, photomicrographed (photographing via a microscope) the stone, confirming it had not been cut open to make the inscription. When asked to estimate the value of the stone, Mr. Campbell wrote, "How does one logically go about putting a value to something like a proven religious artifact that is a 'one of' article?"
He estimated that $200 million was a "fair starting point".
The owner of the stone also consulted Professor M. Sharon from the University of Witwatersrand. The professor, an expert in ancient Hebrew, was given a photo of the stone. The blurry photographs hinted at something astounding but he had to be sure. Intrigued, he asked to examine the actual stone.
In his written report, he said that when he held it to the light, he was amazed to see very clearly inside the stone itself, two letters in ancient Hebrew. The letters seemed to be engraved or burnt into the heart of the stone.
"Due to the clarity of the letters and their fine definition it would be incredible if they are a coincidental natural formation in the stone," he stated in his notarized report. "The lack of any apparent sign of interference with the surface makes the existence of the letters inside the stone a real enigma."
He noted the inscriptions in ancient Hebrew script of what he described as "the equivalent of our 'B' and 'K'." He identified the style of script, dating it to be from the year 1000 BCE, give or take 200-300 years.
In 1994, Dr. Joan Goodnick Westenholz, who served as Chief Curator at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, examined the stone. She concluded, "It is a unique object that has no similar or identical counterpart; it is the only one of its kind in the world."
Dr. Goodnick Westenholz believed that the gem was "priceless", estimating the date of the stone's production to be approximately the 7th century BCE. She noted the inscription "in the shape of a possible letter is a ninth century form of an archaic Hebrew letter bet."
In her notarized report, she observed next to the letter bet "what can be perceived as the image of a wolf." She noted that the wolf corresponded to the blessing Jacob gave Benjamin.
Binyamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil. Genesis 49:27
But Is It True?
Dr. Westenholz and Ian Campbell have since passed away, but Breaking Israel News was able to confirm that their statements and documentation were genuine. Campbell's apprentice, Jeremy Rothon, confirmed the original appraisal and told Breaking Israel News that he was well aware of the stone's heritage. It had made an enormous impression on Campbell and he had discussed it at length with his student.
Dr. Strange remembers the stone very well, and is more convinced than ever of its authenticity. "A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then," Dr. Strange told Breaking Israel News. "I calculated then that if it were a fraud, then one or more very similar others would show up on the international market rather soon, but to my knowledge none has."
He called for new examination of the gem. "I think this object needs a new appraisal and as many scientific tests as possible to determine whether it is genuine," said Dr. Strange. "If it turns out to be an artifact important to the history of the Jewish people, then that is truly wonderful. If it turns out to be a masterful fraud, then I will be pained that I was duped."
The Journey Home
The present owner has contracted with a South African businessman to find investors who are willing to purchase the stone and bring it home to Israel. Both parties prefer to remain anonymous. When he saw the stone and understood what it was, the businessman was dismayed, understanding that it could easily turn into a commodity, an object of greed.
He recognized that this small stone was an enormous part of Jewish history and set out to find an investor who would recompense the owner with the intention of bringing it to Israel and donating it to the Temple.
"I've been involved with deals like this before," he told Breaking Israel News. "There are pieces of Egyptian heritage in museums all over the world. People find something and sell it, without thinking about what it is. That is what is done and it is a shame, even more so with this stone. Several people have been trying to buy or sell this stone, turning it into a business. All I really wanted to do was get the stone back to Israel where it belongs."
Many people have begun to discount the Jewish connection to Israel and the Temple Mount, claiming the Jewish Temples are fairytale accounts. This small stone and its miraculous engraving that once lit up the High Priest's breastplate are proof that the Temple stood in Jerusalem, and may signal the return of more artifacts that have been misplaced, waiting to return home.
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To further its educational goals the Southern Garden History Society provides links to not-for-profit historic properties with significant historic gardens and landscape programs, as well as to organizations and blogs similar in purpose to the society’s.
Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
The American Boxwood Society – is devoted to the appreciation, scientific understanding and propagation of the genus Buxus L. The ABS is dedicated to making popular the use of boxwood in landscapes throughout the country.
American Gardens — 18th to early 19th century — a museum in a blog — Have fun and learn much about early gardens and gardening by regularly reading this handsomely illustrated blog.
American Public Gardens Association
Anne Spencer House and Garden (VA) — Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer made this National Register property her home from 1903 until her death in 1975. Her adjoining garden features “rooms” set out by colorful arbors, a pond with fountains, perennial beds, shrubs, and Spencer’s own roses. It offered poetical inspiration, while Spencer’s cottage, “Edankrall,” provided a retreat from the problems of her segregated times.
Atlanta History Center (GA) — One of the largest history museums in the U.S., the 33-acre site includes the 1928 Swan House and surrounding gardens, the antebellum Tullie Smith Farm, and the Cherokee Garden Library.
Bayou Bend (TX) — Fourteen acres of natural woodlands and formal gardens surround the 1928 Houston home of philanthropist Miss Ima Hogg.
The Charleston Horticultural Society – Founded in 2000, CHS seeks to inspire excellence in Lowcountry horticulture. With membership open to all, CHS has grown to nearly 1,400 and provides quality education through an annual lecture series, monthly workshops, an informative newsletter and a distinctive tours program.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens (FL) — Founded in 1959 by Ninah Cummer, Jacksonville, Florida’s Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens features art and artifacts from the ancient world through the 20th Century, as well as 1.5 acres of National Register-listed historic gardens.
Dumbarton Oaks (DC) — These Georgetown gardens, designed by landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand with clients Robert and Mildred Bliss, include benches and arbors, pools and fountains, orchards and herbaceous borders.
Early American Gardens
Foundation for Landscape Studies
The Garden Conservancy – This organization is dedicated to saving and preserving America’s exceptional gardens for the education and enjoyment of the public. Their projects in the South include the Elizabeth Lawrence Garden, Longue Vue House & Gardens, Montrose, the Pearl Fryer Topiary Garden, and Peckerwood Garden.
The Garden Club of America
The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. was founded in Atlanta in 1928. Its membership includes the Ladies Garden Club of Athens, founded in 1891 as the first garden club in America. The organization includes approximately 350 member clubs with its mission “Beautification, Conservation, Education.” Historic Preservation efforts are carried out through the Historic Landscape Preservation Committee which awards grants for the restoration of the state’s historic non-profit landscapes and gardens. Also part of its mission is the Landscape Initiative, which is a statewide inventory of Georgia’s historic gardens conducted by members and other volunteers that resides at the Cherokee Garden Library of the Atlanta History Center.
The Garden Club of Virginia (VA) — Founded in 1929, this association of 47 garden clubs has garnered respect and admiration extending far beyond the Commonwealth of Virginia. Preservation and Education are central mission elements, as demonstrated in their new publication Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservation Work of the Garden Club of Virginia, 1975-2007.
The Garden Conservancy
The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg (VA) — Colonial Williamsburg is the world’s largest living history museum. The 301-acre Historic Area includes 100 individual gardens and greens.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont | Gardens & Grounds (VA) — National Historic Landmark home, studio, and gardens of artist Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne, overlooking falls of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg.
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens (VA) — Encompasses restored gardens and farm landscape of America’s first president set on the banks of the Potomac River near the nation’s capital.
Heritage Rose Foundation (TX) — is devoted to the preservation of old roses, especially those originating in the 19th century or earlier with particular historic, educational, or genetic value.
Hills & Dales Estate (GA) — A historic property of the Callaway Family located in LaGrange, including Ferrell Gardens and a Georgian Italian villa by the noted Atlanta architectural firm of Hentz and Reid.
Historic Annapolis Foundation (MD) — Carefully restored terraced gardens of William Paca, whose 18th-century home is set in the heart of Maryland’s capital.
Historic Landscapes and Architecture of Georgia
The House and Garden of Elizabeth Lawrence (NC) — Elizabeth Lawrence, garden designer, famed author, and first woman graduate in landscape architecture at N.C. State University, created her garden in Charlotte.
Library of American Landscape History
Longue Vue House and Gardens (LA) — A National Historic Landmark in New Orleans, the gardens were created by Ellen Biddle Shipman, “the dean of American women landscape architects.”
Lynchburg’s Old City Cemetery (VA) — widely known for its array of plants, especially old roses, and well documented in Jane White’s The Book of Attributes for the Living Horticultural Collections of the Old City Cemetery Museums and Arboretum, Lynchburg, Virginia as well as Once Upon a Time, A Cemetery Story.
Monticello (VA) — Near Charlottesville, Monticello features flower, fruit, and vegetable gardens, as well as groves of trees and a variety of fences designed by Thomas Jefferson.
National Park Service Cultural Landscapes ; Facebook page; You Tube channel
Old Salem Museums and Gardens (NC) — One of the leading horticultural restoration programs in the country, with meticulously restored gardens and orchards in Winston-Salem.
Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University (NC) — These Winston-Salem gardens, designed by landscape architect Thomas W. Sears for Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Reynolds, expressed early 20th-century ideals of estate garden design.
Smithsonian Institution Glass Slide Collection
Stratford Hall Gardens (VA) — Westmoreland County home of the Lees, Stratford features an 18th-century garden restored by the Garden Club of Virginia and a modern garden based on 18th-century models.
Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants (VA) — Near Charlottesville, the Center collects, preserves, and distributes historic plant varieties and strives to promote greater appreciation for the origins and evolution of garden plants.
Virginia Historical Society
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Federated seeks to expand its fiber cable in area
Swift County is backing Federated Telephone’s application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would enable it to expand fiber optic cable to every home and business in the Benson telephone exchange area.
That exchange includes the cities of Benson, Swift Falls, DeGraff, and Clontarf, as well as the rural areas around those communities. However, the cities of Benson and Clontarf could be excluded as the FCC reviews the Federated application since both may be considered to already have a sufficient level of broadband service.
Federated came to the Swift County Board of Commissioners seeking its financial backing for its proposal, backing that could come in the form of $1 million over 10 years. The county would pay approximately $100,000 annually for 10 years, but then Federated would pay the money back over the following decade at zero percent interest.
Charter going to all digital signal in September
Charter Communications is planning on changing the City of Benson’s television and internet service to an all-digital service in September, eliminating the analog signal.
It says the conversion from analog to digital signals will allow it to increase the quality of the picture its customers receive as well as offer more than 200 high definition television channels.
Further, with the change Charter says it will also be able to almost double internet speeds to customers in the city.
Changing the signal from analog to digital does involve changing Charter’s cable lines from copper to fiber optic. Fiber allows a much larger and faster flow of information.
Snow should taper off by evening
Periods of heavy snow Wednesday are falling across much of central and southwest Minnesota. Snowfall reports of up to 8 inches of snow have been received. The snow is between South Dakota and the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and as far north as Duluth Superior and into western Wisconsin. The snow should taper off in Western Minnesota by suppertime.
Estimates of snow in Benson are between 4 and 6 inches. Winds are gusting to 23 miles per hour and the current temperature at 3:30 was 28 degrees.
Hancock schools closed at 1 today, however most area schools remained in session. Some activities were called off.
Photo: Students leaving school were greeted by a flurry of snow and wind. Photo by Reed Anfinson.
For the love of basketball and the Food Shelf; fun event raises funds
Lincoln Pahl (31) and other members of the “Seniors” team celebrate a 29-24 halftime lead during the basketball fundraiser game last Tuesday night in the senior high gym.
Benson High School students in the "Me to We" program organized the event.
Me to We is an innovative social enterprise that offers socially conscious and environmentally friendly products and life-changing experiences.
Along with the entertaining game, there were also chances to win prizes. A total of 762 pounds of food and $1,741 in cash was raised during the first annual event.
SCBH board votes to reinstate obstetric services
Babies will once again be delivered at the Swift County-Benson Hospital when all the necessary pieces fall into place to ensure a safe environment for obstetric services.
At their meeting Monday night, the SCBH governing board voted 8 to 1 to proceed with the steps necessary to allow for deliveries.
While the equipment purchases and facility renovations necessary for obstetric services can be in place in a relatively short time, it could take as long as eight to nine months to have the hospital staff trained to the level required.
SCBH Director of Nursing Mellissa McGinty Thompson told the board that the nursing staff at the hospital needs to be trained in the skills that will allow them to assist with deliveries, care for mothers and newborns.
Over the next several months, eight nurses at SCBH will do four-week rotations at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar working in OB services.
Fabric shelters need to be gone by May 1
Last October, the Benson City Council voted to give property owners in the city who have erected fabric shelters until May 1 to remove the shelters. That deadline is now less than a month away.
At its October meeting, the council voted to send the following letter to city residents with the fabric structures on their property:
“In an effort to improve the conditions of our city, the city council has decided to step up enforcement of its zoning ordinance.
“This letter is being sent to make sure you are aware of one of the provisions of the zoning ordinance, section 154.025 subdivision G(2), which states, “Accessory buildings constructed primarily of canvas, plastic fabric, or other similar non –permanent building materials shall be prohibited.”
BNSF challenges city right to issue tickets
As parents living south of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) tracks were getting ready to pick their children up at the Northside Elementary School, a slow moving train came to a full stop on the tracks.
It is about 2:40 in the afternoon Thursday. A heavy wet snow was falling, creating slushy conditions on roads and sidewalks.
The Northside students, children in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, get out of school at 2:57 p.m. Students at the middle school and high school get out at 3:01 p.m.
As the students grabbed their backpacks and coats, heading for the doors and a ride home, the train still sat blocking the three downtown Benson crossings. The line of cars and trucks backed up on either side of the tracks were now a several blocks long. That line on the north side of the tracks grew longer as departing high school students added their vehicles to it.
Miller gets Republican endorsement; will challenge Falk in District 17A
Republican Tim Miller will get another chance to unseat incumbent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Rep. Andrew Falk in Minnesota House District 17A this fall.
Miller, a resident of Prinsburg, was endorsed by Republicans Saturday at their district convention in Benson. He won the endorsement over retired MACCRAY High School teacher and coach Gary Nelson receiving 66 percent of the vote on the first ballot.
District 17A is made up of Swift and Chippewa counties, most of Renville County, and the four southwestern Kandiyohi County townships of Edwards, Holland, Roseland and Lake Lillian.
Falk, of rural Murdock, won a third term in the Minnesota House defeating challenger Miller in the November 2012 race. It was the first election in the newly-drawn state House districts based on the 2010 Census. Falk won two elections in the old District 20A House district.
Photo: Tim Miller will challenge Rep. Andrew Falk.
Highway 29 detour starts in July
Starting in July, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) will be milling down 11 miles of Minnesota Highway 29 south from the Benson city limits to Minnesota Highway 40. It will also be replacing three bridges.
It is estimated the $6.5 million project will be completed in October. During the nearly four months that the work is underway, the highway will be closed.
That will mean traffic heading south from Benson will be detoured. The MnDot official detour out of Benson has drivers taking U.S. Highway 12 east to DeGraff where they will be detoured on Swift County 31 south. The highway becomes Chippewa County 4 7.7 miles south of DeGraff. It is then another 3 miles to Minnesota Highway 40. Drivers will take a right on Highway 40 and travel 6 miles west to where Highway 40 and Minnesota Highway 29 join.
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Worked with Pepsi-Co, Frito Lay, Tropicana Casino, Cosmopolitan Casino, Hard Rock Casino, Stations Casino, Nestle and Boeing. At these locations, he was in charge of design development, overall construction management, cost control and ultimately final member acceptance
Scott McCurry
COO of Swing
25+ years of experience in the Hospitality and Entertainment Industry
Deep business and food beverage background
Will lead the Daily Operations Teams
National Director of Operations for K1 Speed
Former the National Director of Topgolf where he opened the first golf entertainment venue that started the growth of the brand
Built 6 Venue Brand to over 40 venues each averaging $20 million in Revenue a year in 5 years
Has built several Brands from Romano’s Macaroni Grill to TopGolf and K1 Speed
Specializes in building the right Operations Teams, executing sound strategic decisions, striving towards constant improvement and a constant focus on the guest experience
David Largent
President Swing Asia
Responsible for China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
25 years in entrepreneurial and start-up roles based in Hong Kong. Set up the first Tower Records mega-store in KH in 1973
15 years in the golf business in Asia with roles in retail, wholesale/distribution, golf course operations & development, and marketing.
Has worked extensively in the entertainment industry as well as with a start-up US$1.7b luxury integrated casino/resort project as Director of PR & Mass Marketing.
Co-founder and COO of OneAsia.com, Tom.com went IPO & grew company form 3-100 people in one year.
Expert at golf venue operations and service delivery
Seasoned restaurant executive with more than 30 years of proven success with some of the most well-known and highly respected brands in the restaurant industry
Currently the President and COO of FreeRange Concepts a multiple brand F&B operation
Former Chief Operating Officer of Topgolf, where he led the company from $350M in revenue to over $600M
Former Operations Leader of Pappas Restaurants
Former Chief Operating Officer for the multi-concept Lasco Enterprises
Tharwat Abdul-Malik
20+ years of technology and business experience
Skilled in software development, agile project management, enterprise architecture, systems integration, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and blockchain technologies
Independent consultant working for such clients as Travelport, Delta Airlines, McKesson, Sharecare, Vodafone, Racetrac, Raytheon, and a host of startups in advisory, development and leadership roles
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While golf is very popular globally, the time required to become proficient is extensive and many people simply do not have the time, either due to their busy work schedules or pressure from home not to be gone for half a day. As a solution, golfers have started turning towards driving ranges as a lower-cost, lower-time and more entertaining alternative while still enjoying the game of golf. While in principal, the driving range is a viable option, they are traditionally uninteresting as they are small unattractive venues that lack a fun and exciting social environment or any ancillary services that stimulate repeat customer business and loyalty. A need exists for a next generation driving range catered towards a 1-2 hour entertainment experience. This is the solution that Swing Golf provides -- a next-generation golf entertainment facility with interactive gaming technology, delicious food and beverages delivered right to your bay and a dedication to extraordinary customer service while playing, watering and enjoying the game of golf with your family.
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Yes. Swing is a start-up, but with distinct advantages not typically seen with a start-up company. To date, Swing Golf has successfully achieved several milestones. It has: (i) Proven the market for its next-generation golf entertainment facilities, (ii) Assembled an exceptional team of professionals who have already successfully built these types of facilities before, (iii) Architected a world-class venue down to detailed blueprints, (iv) Replicated a successful business model with a second mover advantages, and (v) Secured its first two sites for the flagship facilities. For more information, please Download the Pitch Deck.
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The photograph was taken by a Mr. Henry of the Royal Scotts Infantry of Montreal in 1863 [actually late 1865/early 1866]. Senator Casgrain is on the left; Charles Eusebe Casgrain was born in 1825 in Quebec City. He became a doctor and moved to Windsor in 1856. He was the surgeon for the local militia during the Fenian raids. He was also on the Windsor town council. He was a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate, and represented Windsor from 1887 to 1907, when he died. During the Fenian Raids (1866-1871), British troups were garrisoned in the original Assumption College building; the Port Hope Volunteers were there from November 1865 - April 1866. The man standing on the steps is Captain (later General) Arthur Williams of the Port Hope Volunteers; middle back: Ensign Johnson of the Port Hope Volunteers; middle front: Lieutenant James McLeod,also of the Port Hope Volunteers (source: Township of Sandwich, p. 74)
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Patronal Feast at St. Cecilia’s in Brooklyn
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There will be a Missa Cantata on Wednesday Nov. 21 at 7 pm for the patronal feast of St Cecilia at St. Cecilia Church, 84 Herbert St. at North Henry Street, Brooklyn (Greenpoint) N Y. The celebrant will be Reverend Rafael Perez.
This Mass will also mark the 117th Anniversary of the solemn consecration of St Cecilia’s,
one of only six solemnly consecrated churches in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
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adidas global flagship store at 425 Oxford Street
The joint venture owning the property, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor) and Stow Capital Partners (Stow), has agreed to pre-let 45,000 sq ft of retail space to adidas. The project involves the reconfiguration and extension of the lower five floors of this ten storey building to create a self-contained five storey retail unit with a main entrance on Oxford Street.
This will create a larger unit for adidas, which aims to create a new global flagship store in the prime retail location, opposite Selfridges Department store in the heart of London’s West End.
The work is planned to be undertaken in a series of phases over a circa two year period. The preliminary phase of activity started on site at the end of August 2016 and has included the strip out of the floors and the removal of asbestos in the ground and basement floors. Handover of the bespoke scheme to adidas, to include stairwells and lift cores, is targeted for Spring 2019.
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The Verdict (1982)
R 129 min - Drama - 8 December 1982
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court; to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Binns, Julie Bovasso, Roxanne Hart, James Handy, Wesley Addy, Joe Seneca, Lewis J. Stadlen, Kent Broadhurst, Colin Stinton
Collections: Sidney Lumet
Tagline: The doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case.
Release Date: 8 December 1982
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
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Paco Sery
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SONOR » Artists » Paco Sery
Paco, born 1st of May 1956, has always been fascinated by Drums. Driven by this passion, he made his first drums out of wood by the age of 9.
Paco, original from the Ivory Coast, later moved to Abidjan to start his musical career. Over the decades, he has played with Edy Louiss, Nina Simone, Jaco Pastorius, Sixun, to name a few. From 1995 to 2007 he was the drummer of Joe Zawinul's "The New Zawinul Syndicate" that brought international popularity for Paco. But he has also been active working on his solo projects, with his first album "Voyages" (Blue Note / EMI), released in 2000.
His music is often described as a mix of pure groove, blended with afrobeat, funk and a jazz feel that provides the ever solid foundation of his music.
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Police Murdered in 2011: How They Served
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,policing,Uncategorized,war on cops
Hat Tip to Lou . . .
2011 began with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Suzanne Hopper in Ohio. January 1, Deputy Hopper was shot while photographing a crime scene. She left behind a husband and four children. Another officer was shot but survived.
According to her boss, Sheriff Gene Kelly,
Hopper once went six straight years without calling in sick and often put on charity events for the Special Olympics and other causes . . . Her personnel file is filled with accolades and commendations and always service before self.
By the end of January, four police officers were murdered in Florida during a week in which at least fifteen officers were shot:
[1/24/2011] In just 24 hours, at least 11 officers were shot. The shootings included Sunday attacks at traffic stops in Indiana and Oregon, a Detroit police station shooting that wounded four officers, and a shootout at a Port Orchard, Wash., Wal-Mart that injured two deputies. On Monday morning, two officers were shot dead and a U.S. Marshal was wounded by a gunman in St. Petersburg, Fla. On Thursday, two Miami-Dade, Fla., detectives were killed by a murder suspect they were trying to arrest.
Sgt. Thomas Batinger, St. Petersburg, Florida “just wanted to serve”
Two years ago, Sgt. Baitinger served as mentor for a student at Gibbs High School. Catherine Smith, the former family and community liaison at Gibbs, said he stood out among the 100 or so mentors who volunteer each year. “Some police officers, you know, seem to have like a hard exterior,” Smith said. “This man was just so nice.” When the sergeant showed up, usually carrying a McDonald’s bag, the student’s face just glowed. “He loved him,” she said. “When that young man came down and saw the sergeant, oh my goodness, it was like he saw his father.” His hobbies were golf and poker.
Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz, St. Petersburg, Florida “one of the best people I ever met”
He is survived by his wife, Lorraine, 40, and his children: Caleb, 12; Haylie, 8; and Calen, 5. He was on his way home after his night shift with his police dog Ace when he responded to a call for backup . . . It was like him to go. Just flip through his personnel file down at the police station. . . The night before he died, Yaslowitz helped his neighbor haul new furniture inside. “He was a great guy, I’ll tell you,” said [Herbert] Kane, 77. “A great father, too, and a great husband. I never heard him even argue, ever. They were a great family and I’m just sick about it.”
Detective Roger Castillo, Miami-Dade, Florida “passionate about his job”
To the residents of his well-kept Davie street, fallen Miami-Dade police Detective Roger Castillo was the type of neighbor you wanted to have around. He was the dad you’d see on the front lawn, tossing around a football with his boys. The one who brightened up the cul-de-sac with Christmas lights and inflatables. A helping hand if you were struggling with a fix-it job. “If I’m fixing something, if he passes by, he will ask if I need help, do I need to borrow tools?” said Andre Jean-Louis, a real estate broker . . . On Thursday, as the tragedy unfolded in Liberty City, Castillo’s relatives and neighbors monitored the news and hoped he was safe. Slowly, through phone calls and text messages and hesitant knocks on the door, they learned that their friend was gone. “They stole him,” neighbor Lisa Tuffy said. “He made this world a better place.”
Detective Amanda Haworth, Miami-Dade, Florida “just a beautiful person”
Twenty-three years after she joined the Miami-Dade Police Department, Amanda Lynn Haworth, 44, was fatally wounded, along with another detective — both of them members of an elite team that served arrest warrants on violent suspects. Haworth, a single mother and police detective, loved her job, but was most devoted to her 13-year-old son, her stepmother said. “She took him everywhere she went,” said Diane Haworth, 66. She last spoke with her stepdaughter on Monday, she recalled. “She was just so sweet, so very sweet,” her stepmother said . . . she often played baseball with son, Austin, in their backyard, neighbors said. “Her son and her work were everything to her,” said neighbor Bernardo Gonazalez. She was a big fan of the Weston Red Hawks — the team her son played for — and attended all of his games. “She was just a beautiful, beautiful person,” Gonazalez said.
Why were Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo killed? Because the justice system failed them. Not once, but a dozen times. Because every previous time police risked their lives capturing the thug who murdered them, some lazy judge or overwhelmed prosecutor let him go:
[Johnny] Simms, 22, had been in trouble since he was a teen. Officers first arrested him at 14, for larceny. In all, Simms was arrested 11 times before he was an adult on charges including burglary and auto theft, state records show. He received house arrest in some cases, while others were dropped. His tattoos mirrored his lifestyle: a gun, flames, and the words “savage” and “10-20 Life.” In October 2005 and December 2005, Simms was arrested for separate armed robberies, one with a pistol and the second with a rifle. Prosecutors did not file charges in either case. In 2007, Simms — who also goes by “Sims” — went to state prison for a different 2005 armed robbery and auto theft. He was released in February 2009 on probation. Simms violated his probation when he was again arrested in June 2010, this time for robbery with a deadly weapon and selling cocaine. He pleaded guilty and Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Julio Jimenez sentenced him to one year in prison plus five years’ probation.But Simms served only one month because he had earned credit for time served earlier in a Miami-Dade jail. He was released in September 2010 on five years of court-mandated “administrative probation,” a low-level form of supervision that does not require regular check-ins with authorities. Simms hadn’t been out a month before he was again implicated in a violent act. According to Miami homicide detectives, Simms shot and killed Cornelious Larry, 27, on Oct. 16 in the parking lot of an Overtown apartment complex, 1535 NW First Pl. Miami police say Simms shot Larry to death after the man began yelling and cursing at Simms’ sister. Simms fled on a bicycle. Detectives searched for him for 12 days before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Diane Ward signed an arrest warrant. The charges: first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Simms had been on the lam since.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Shoot, rob, burglar, shoot, beat: get off free. Our highest law enforcement officials in the Department of Justice grandstand about “alternatives to incarceration” and “emptying the prisons.” Our sensitive academics whine endlessly about America the police state as if thugs like Johnny Simms aren’t getting away with murder after murder, abetted by lousy criminal fetishists festering in courtrooms until good cops end up in caskets.
Detective John Falcone
Detective John Falcone, Poughkeepsie, New York. Wrestled a three-year old from a man repeatedly charged with domestic violence who had hunted down her mother and killed her moments earlier. Thanks to Detective Falcone’s sacrifice, the infant survived.
Detective Falcone is survived by his parents.
Alain Schaberger
Alain Schaberger’s life began in Vietnam and ended when Officer Schaberger responded to a domestic violence call in Brooklyn, where a repeat felon with 28 prior arrests, mostly for robbery and burglary, pushed the young man over a railing to his death.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to Schaberger as a “quiet, gentle soul” who dedicated his life to service. “Alain knew a lot about grief,” Bloomberg said of the former Naval officer who joined the NYPD in July 2001. “One of his first assignments as a police officer while he was still in the academy in the days after 9/11 was to go to checkpoints around Ground Zero and help the families who came there to cope with their horrific losses. He brought a lot of comfort to those people.” Addressing Schaberger’s family, including fiancée Shoshone Peguese, Bloomberg said, “I think he would tell you to remember not the last tragic moment of his life, but the many wonderful moments that came before it.”
Schaberger was a 10-year NYPD veteran who was born in Vietnam. He came to the U.S. when he was 5 years old with his father – an Army vet who worked as a civilian guard at the U.S. Embassy when Saigon fell in 1975 – and Vietnamese mother. Raised in East Islip, L.I., Schaberger grew up on tidy block of single-family homes and played basketball at the local public school. . . Schaberger often returned to East Islip to visit with his parents and sister, Tracey, a nurse with two kids, neighbors said. “It’s tragic. It’s unbelievable,” said neighbor Mitchell Greif. “He was a great guy from a good family. He was always pleasant and polite. His parents are devastated.” Schaberger’s mother – a hairdresser – and father were too distraught to speak with reporters. “It’s a shame,” said Bill Conley, 59, an electrician who has lived next-door to the Schaberger family for 25 years. “It’s always the good ones that die young.”
Jonathan Schmidt
Officer Jonathan Schmidt
A policeman who died in the line of fire trying to save his sergeant’s life has been labelled a hero. Officer Jonathan Schmidt, from Trumann, Arkansas, shoved his superior out of harms way when a gunman unexpectedly opened fire during a routine arrest. He was able to return fire on Jerry Lard despite the fact he was shot in the neck and bleeding. The father-of-three then begged for his life. . . Schmidt worked as a night patrolman so he could spend days with his three children. He had a 12-year-old daughter and sons aged ten and 18 months. Schmidt recently received a commendation for saving an infant’s life by giving the child mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Trumann School District Superintendent, Joe Waleszonia said: ‘He wanted to clean up this community. He wanted it to be as safe for the community as it could be.
Kenneth Gary Vann
Sergeant Vann was assassinated while stopped at a red light: his patrol car was struck multiple times. A week later, the killer was caught by police. He had randomly chosen to kill officer Vann.
Sergeant Kenneth Gary Vann
[During the investigation] Detective Louis Antu, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, said the mood was somber but dedicated at the command post Sunday. Many officers, including Antu and the sheriff, were out of town for the three-day Memorial Day weekend, when they were called back to Bexar County. “We’re not robots; we’re all taking time to reflect,” said Antu, who joined the Sheriff’s Office with Vann. “But it was a terrible killing, and everybody wants answers. We’re working for the family, to bring them justice.” Antu said the two men were “kids” when they joined the Sheriff’s Office. Vann was an excellent officer who loved his job and family, Antu said. Vann was married to sheriff’s Sgt. Yvonne Vann and leaves behind two sons, ages 19 and 15, and a daughter, 25, from a previous marriage, officials said. Ortiz was at his hunting lease in Rocksprings when he heard about Vann’s death. “We’re real saddened by the randomness of this incident; there’s really no rhyme or reason,” Ortiz said. “It’s very difficult because we don’t have anything new, but we’re not going to rest until we find the guy who did it.”
Kurt Wyman, daughter born the day of his murder.
Deputy Sheriff Kurt Wyman
Whitestown, NY — Fresh out of high school in 2005, Kurt Wyman joined the Marine Corps Reserve. Activated in 2008, he served seven months in Iraq and won the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Wyman also became an Oneida County sheriff’s deputy in 2007. He rejoined the sheriff’s office when he returned from overseas. In 2010, he was rookie of the year. He twice was awarded the Sheriff’s Grand Cordon Medal, which recognizes outstanding achievement by a detail of officers. “His commitment not only to his country but to his county is second to none,” Sheriff Robert Maciol said. Wyman demonstrated his commitment to the ultimate degree Tuesday. The deputy, 24, was hit by a shotgun blast as he and two other officers tried to take an armed man into custody after a six-hour standoff in the rural town of Augusta. He died after being rushed to St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
Wyman left behind his pregnant wife, Lauren, their 18-month-old son, his parents and a sister.
His wife gave birth after hearing of Wyman’s murder. That’s June.
Officer Brent Long
Officer Long and his canine partner Shadow were shot while serving a felony warrant.
Shadow survived.
A fallen police officer’s K-9 partner is now being honored. Fallen Terre Haute Police Officer Brent Long’s family cut the ribbon on Shadow’s Trail in Terre Haute. Shadow served alongside Officer Long on the force. The trail is beside Brent Long Memorial Way. It’s part of the expansion of the city’s trails and a way to honor the police dog’s service. “They did a good job for our department and to have Brent’s memorial way here and Shadow’s Trail right next to Brent, they’re partners even after Brent’s gone,” Terre Haute Police Chief John Plasse said.
Jeremy Henwood, San Diego
Jeremy Henwood, a captain in the Marine Corps Reserves and police officer for the San Diego Police Department, was shot and killed, Aug. 7. He had walked into a fast food restaurant to buy something to eat and also buy a meal for a 10-year-old boy who happened to cross his path. Moments later, while sitting in his patrol car, a man drove up beside him and fired the fatal shot. Henwood was 36.
Officer Henwood, moments before he was shot
Henwood served as an enlisted infantryman before going on to Officer Candidate School to receive his commission with the Marine reserves. The Canadian-born hero became a United States citizen in order to receive his commission with the Marines. He deployed twice to Iraq, and after his third deployment – this time to Afghanistan as a company commander with Combat Logistics Battalion 2 – Henwood returned to the U.S. in February to continue serving as a police officer with the SDPD. During the memorial ceremony, Henwood was posthumously promoted to the rank of major.
Lt. Joseph Sczcerba
18-year veteran New Castle, Delaware Lt. Joseph Sczcerba was stabbed to death while attempting to subdue a rampaging offender. Lt. Sczcerba and his wife performed volunteer work at a variety of places. His service to the community was memorialized by seventy local culinary school students who baked 10,000 cookies in his honor and delivered them to police officers. 6,000 people attended his funeral.
Derek Kotecki: His loyal canine wouldn’t leave his side after he was shot. He wanted a “noisy” funeral.
Patrolman Kotecki and K9 Benny
Lower Burrell, PA, Patrolman Derek Kotecki was shot and killed while investigating reports of a wanted man at a local fast food restaurant. The man was wanted for a shooting ten days earlier and for threatening police officers during the previous week. As Patrolman Kotecki and his canine, Benny, approached, the man suddenly opened fire. Patrolman Kotecki suffered a fatal wound. The subject then fled but was approached by other officers as he attempted to climb a fence behind the restaurant. He was killed during an exchange of shots with the responding officers. K9 Benny was uninjured but had to be muzzled after refusing to leave Patrolman Kotecki’s side.
Patrolman Kotecki had served with the Lower Burrell Police Department for 18 years. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Officer Thomas Babinsack, one of five people to eulogize Kotecki, said they had talked about the aftermath of such a situation while driving to a memorial service in April 2009 for three Pittsburgh officers gunned down in a SWAT siege. They discussed whether it was respectful to use their flashing lights and sirens in a funeral procession, and Babinsack said he’s since learned the protocol is to use lights but no sirens — which police vehicles observed on their way to Kotecki’s funeral. But Babinsack said Kotecki wanted something else. “Tom, I want you to promise me something: If something ever happens to me, I want everybody to know I was here,” Babinsack remembered Kotecki saying. “I want the fire trucks and police and ambulances going with lights on and sirens.” “He wanted a parade and he’s going to get one,” Babinsack said from the pulpit of the noisy funeral procession that was to follow.
James L. Capoot: a life lived very well.
Officer James Lowell Capoot, 45, of the Vallejo Police Department was killed in the line of duty on Nov. 17, 2011 in Vallejo, Calif. A loving and devoted father, husband, son, brother, uncle, officer, coach, neighbor and friend, Jim lived a full and extraordinary life. Born Nov. 2, 1966 in Little Rock, Ark., Jim attended local schools in Little Rock and graduated from John L. McClellan High School in 1985, where he was a distance runner on the cross country and track teams. Jim enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at age 18 and was stationed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, where he met the love of his life, Jennifer Eileen DeCarlo. The two were married at St. Basil’s Catholic Church in Vallejo on Aug. 29, 1987. Jim left the Marines in 1989 but remained on Active Reserve through 1993. In 1990, he joined the California Highway Patrol and began his career as a peace officer. And, in 1993, he joined the Vallejo Police Department. For 19 years, Jim distinguished himself as a Vallejo police officer while endearing himself to the Vallejo community. He served as a motorcycle officer, motorcycle instructor, driving instructor and SWAT officer. He received two Vallejo PD Medals of Courage, one Life-Saving Medal and many other department commendations. And, in 2000, Jim received the Officer of the Year Award. Jim coached the Vallejo High School varsity girls basketball team and in his second year led the Apaches to a 25-7 record and a Sac-Joaquin Section Division II Championship. Jim left the Apache bench in March 2011 to bring into his home the two children of close friends who were killed in a motorcycle accident in January.
John David Dryer, tended horses, his son. Shot during a routine traffic stop.
John David Dryer found his calling as a teenager when he nursed to health a horse that had become entangled in barbed wire. He turned his grades around, earned his veterinary science degree from Ohio State University, opened his own successful practice — and then became a police officer. . . . At home, Officer Dryer was a doting father to his autistic son, Benjamin. In an interview with the Post-Gazette in 2000 about training bloodhounds, he said his son gave him motivation. “My son Ben, who is 5, was very sick when he was born. In fact, a couple of times I thought I was going to lose him,” he said. “I think this is why I want to search for missing people, particularly children.”
Another Tampa Bay Cop in this bloody year: Arnulfo Crispin.
Since Crispin was shot the night of Dec. 18, [Carlos] Cortes and Officer Julio Ruiz have been by his family’s side, offering any assistance they could. Both officers learned more about their friend and why he always had a big smile on his face. “His family has been so humble and so giving,” Ruiz said. “They put people and family before themselves.” Cortes agreed. “It’s a large family and they don’t have that much,” he said. “At one point, they asked my wife and I to come and eat with them. They didn’t have a lot of food, but they made sure we had something to eat. They don’t have much, but what they do have they will give to others.” That mentality explained a lot about the officer they knew.
Crispin’s parents
Before leaving the family’s house Tuesday night, the officers gave the large family their phone numbers and promised to keep in touch. Although Crispin can’t be replaced, Ruiz said, the Crispin family has “gained 235 brothers and sisters at the Lakeland Police Department.”
Chicago Officer Clifton Lewis: “he took me in as his child”
The off-duty Chicago police officer slain in a West Side convenience store Thursday night had just gotten engaged on Christmas Day, family friends say. Clifton Lewis, 41, an eight-year veteran assigned to the Austin District’s tactical team, was pronounced dead Thursday at Stroger Hospital, officials said. Two men had walked into the M & M Quick Foods about 8:30 p.m. at 1201 N. Austin Blvd. in the Austin neighborhood, shot the officer, and then grabbed his gun and star and fled, sources said. . . . Lewis . . has received 81 commendations for his police work, had proposed to his girlfriend, Tamara Tucker, only after asking her 18-year-old son, Keyonta Thomas, for permission. On Christmas morning, Lewis pulled her son aside and asked for her “hand in marriage,” said Thomas, 18. “I am just at a loss for words,” said Thomas, who said he saw Lewis as a father. “He was just as a father (to me)… He took me in as his child.”
Addendum: Special Agent John Capano of the ATF was killed yesterday as I was writing this. He was on his way to pick up prescriptions for his ill, 81-year old father when he encountered an armed robbery at the pharmacy.
James Capano had planned to celebrate New Year’s Eve at his son’s house. The family is grieving the death of James Capano’s wife of 57 years, Helen Capano, mother of John Capano. She died of cancer on Dec. 18. James Capano said his son had volunteered to share his explosives expertise with military personnel in Iraq. “He knew what he was doing, and he was the best one they had,” James Capano proudly said. A tearful Rep. Peter Kingconsoled the elder Capano on the blood-stained sidewalk outside the pharmacy New Year’s morning. King’s wife was slain agent’s fourth grade teacher. “I’ve known John Capano for years,” King said, recalling giving Capano an award for bravery during a four-month tour of Iraq and Afghanistan. “He had a unique personality, a great personality,” King said. “Everybody loved him.”
James Capano, Agent Capano’s father. His wife, Agent Capano’s mother, died two weeks ago
Capano was the last officer killed in the line of duty in 2011, bringing the total to 163, 66 of which were gun killings. Thousands of other police were shot or attacked but survived.
Assassination-style killings — where assailants randomly shoot an officer or lie in wait for unsuspecting targets, are on the rise. Is cultural anger directed at police — by idiotic Occupy protesters, among others — contributing to an atmosphere in which police are targets? I think the vast majority of responsibility for the presence of dangerous offenders on our streets lies with the courts and civil rights activists who have succeeded in creating a consequence-free world for criminals. But every little bit of scapegoating counts. In 2012, it’s time to start speaking up for cops.
Chicago Weekend: Is Crime Down, Or Are Neighborhoods Emptying?
by Tina in Academicians on Crime,Alternative Sentencing,Chicago,Citizens Fight Back,Crime Denial,crime statistics,New York State,policing
Is crime really dropping in Chicago? Not long ago, the public would have been forced to rely on some pretty unreliable sources for an answer:
academicians who worship at the ‘the public’s crime fears are overblown‘ altar
mainstream reporters who worship at the “academicians who worship at the ‘the public’s crime fears are overblown’ altar” altar
Chicago politicians
From sources like that, you get contradictory numbers like this, in the Chicago Sun-Times:
Five men were killed and at least 19 other people — including two children — were hospitalized after violence in the city this weekend.
Despite the violent weekend, Chicago Police announced Sunday that violent crimes have decreased for the 30th consecutive month and there have been 31 fewer murders this year than through June of last year, a 14.4 percent decrease. The crime stats also indicate a decrease in aggravated batteries, aggravated assaults and criminal sexual assaults.
Five people blown away, 19 others shot or otherwise injured, in one unremarkable weekend that featured the sort of bad weather that tends to drive people off the streets, so that’s good news: crime is down! (**Update: 11 more shot overnight Sunday, ten homicides total)
Sure, murders are down. They don’t say how much agg. assaults and batteries dropped, nor do they offer what might be the most accurate measure of non-safety — the number of shootings, as oppose to the number of entirely successful gun murders. Let’s not reward bad aim, or good doctoring.
At least the public has alternative sources of information, now that cops are blogging. Second City Cop speculates about other possible explanations for the alleged “drop in crime”:
Are there any actuaries out there who can determine the per capita rate of homicides? We lost at least 200,000 people in the recent census, and since rates are measured in terms of crimes per 100,000, is this a real drop in crime or just a statistical equivalent? And are we still doing that thing with people shot during robberies? And the other thing that negates the FBI ever using Chicago numbers in their crime stats because they’re so hinky?
SCC’s commenters (also cops) knock a little more gild off the lily:
What about property crimes? Criminal damage reports? Thefts? And what of the clearance rates, esp. for violent crimes, like robberies? Oh, I forgot, robberies are property crimes, acc. to Cline.
Crime has gone down for over 30 straight months with the shortage of cops? We don’t need any more cops. In fact lets get rid of all of them and let the animals run the asylum.
With severe police shortages, crime reports fall through the cracks. So is the public “over-reacting” or is crime under-reported?
It also appears from the cop blogs that Chicago authorities are camouflaging crime numbers by classifying gun robberies as “property crime” instead of violent crime. I imagine this sort of free pass gets carried over to Chicago courtrooms, where felons who stick guns in peoples’ faces get off easy because it’s just a “property” offense. And remember all the criminals robbing other criminals who aren’t about to call 911, and the residents intimidated into silence.
Remember too the nine-year olds and eight-year olds and 12-year olds caught in the crossfire. I don’t even think that’s a complete list from the past week.
How many violent crimes go unreported in a city like Chicago? This demoralizing Chicago Tribune must-read offers some insights:
Whatever you do, don’t use my name, said the 83-year-old widow, and the fear in her voice was palpable. . .
We [the reporters] met a lot of longtime residents on many blocks fighting to hang on to and regenerate their communities. We wanted to tell their stories, but more often than not they would not let us if we used their names. They are terrified of retribution by the criminal elements — gangs and drug dealers — whose activities mushroomed in the newly vacant houses around them. . . “It’s like young people are berserk around here,” said the elderly widow. “It’s like they’re destroying themselves. Practically every other night or so, we hear shooting just west or east of us, or in the alley. It sounds so close, it scares you.” She has lived in her house for 54 years, one of the early black families to move into the community. . . After years of watching, [the elderly residents] know by sight most of the players in the nightly drama. The one they fear most is a soft-spoken boss of street crews selling drugs. “He is just an ordinary-looking person,” said one of the block club’s men. “He doesn’t dress fancy or drive flashy cars. He is very quiet and usually very courteous with people on the street. But he is a vicious killer who is all business.
“Everybody knows who he is.”
If the drug boss knew people were reporting his activities to the police, club members agree he would strike back at them. It’s a frightening prospect because they say he calmly shot a man to death in front of witnesses near their block several years ago and walked away free. The fear of reprisal for reporting criminal activity seems well-founded. Police recognize that gangs and drug dealers plant their own people into community meetings as spies, taking notes on which residents speak out against illegal activity. Community policing experts tell residents to report crimes in strict privacy, not in public forums.
Does any of this sound like good news about the crime rate? Is Chicago really getting safer, or is the opposite true, despite any temporary drop in murder stats? The reporters here lay too much blame on the “subprime mortgage crisis,” instead of on the thugs or the justice system that allows them to get away with murder, empty houses or no empty houses. But, otherwise, the story serves as a fierce corrective to the “crime is down” boosterism coming out of city hall. For the senior citizens trying to hold their neighborhoods together for the uptenth time in fifty years, it’s horror show:
They are terrified of retribution by the criminal elements — gangs and drug dealers — whose activities mushroomed in the newly vacant houses around them . . . crime problems didn’t seem epidemic, block club members say, until the recent foreclosures as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. According to the census, Englewood and West Englewood lost nearly 20,000 residents in the last decade. Now, 3,500 boarded-up houses and empty lots dot the communities
This actually confirms Second City Cop’s musing about population and statistics: high-crime areas experienced large population losses during the recent mortgage crisis. So it might be that crime rates, adjusted for population, have not dropped at all.
Gee, you’d think some city statistician or publicly funded academic would have caught this. No, they’re all far too busy denying the existence of crime and lobbying to empty the prisons. Meanwhile, back on the block:
Because their street is quieter than nearby streets, the longtime residents say police don’t patrol their block as frequently as they do adjoining ones. “The drug dealers and addicts know that,” said an 80-year-old woman who is also a longtime block club member. “The addicts buy their drugs around the corner and then park in their cars on our block to use their drugs and have their sexual encounters (to pay for drugs). At night, you know they are smoking crack from the blue flame that flares up.”
She talks despairingly of how the crime surge has changed her life.
“I don’t want shooting outside my house or out in the alley. I just want to go to the store and not be afraid, and to get on the bus without fear.”
Is crime really down? Or have the official statistics merely been pummeled by fear of reprisals and thinned by the cop shortage . . . then massaged by statisticians, pled down by attorneys, and shiatsu-ed again by academics, until that hard metal barrel pointed at someone’s face has metamorphosed into a property crime, or maybe just drug possession, if victims are too afraid, or too felonious, to come forward?
Then the anti-incarceration activists can claim that we need more “alternatives to prison” for all those “drug and non-violent offenders” who fill cells. And the cycle starts over again.
Englewood Neighborhood, Chicago (Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune / July 10, 2011)
Remember Police on May 13: A Sister’s Eulogy
by Tina in Chicago,policing
May 13 is the Annual Candlelight Vigil for Fallen Police Officers in Washington D.C.
Last May, Chicago Police Officer and Army National Guard Lieutenant Thomas E. Wortham IV, 30, was gunned down outside his parents’ home just after returning from a trip to Washington to honor other fallen officers. This year, it is his turn to be honored at the memorial along with the 157 other officers who died in the line of duty in 2010.
Thomas E. Wortham IV
There are no words to describe Sandra Wortham’s extraordinary eulogy for her brother. Just listen.
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Marty Hittleman: California Teachers Endorse a Cop Killer, Get Caught, Blame Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
by Tina in Academicians on Crime,Crime and Justice Blog,policing,Pro-Criminal
Question: What’s worse than a teacher’s union voting to support a cold-blooded cop killer? Answer: A teacher’s union voting to support a cold-blooded cop killer, then making up all sorts of lame excuses to the cop’s widow before hanging up on her, then running to their membership to tell an entirely different story to justify their behavior . . . by pointing fingers at Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who, according to the California Federation of Teachers union, is forcing teachers 2000 miles away support a cop killer.
Marty Hittelman, President, California Federation of Teachers
You can’t see it in this photo, but his pants are on fire.
Two weeks ago, Kyle Olson at the site Big Government broke the troubling story about the California Teacher’s Union renewing their support for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Three decades ago, Abu-Jamal gunned down police officer Daniel Faulkner. Although the courts have permitted Abu-Jamal scores of reviews, the conviction unambiguously stands. For background on the Mumia case and factual information and myth debunking rarely reported anymore, go to DanielFaulkner.com, the website run by Faulkner’s widow.
Support for Mumia goes way back in academic circles. In 1995, 1998, and 2000, academics took out full-page pro-Mumia ads in the New York Times. Which academics? All the usual suspects, including Frances Fox-Pivens, whose prominence in this and other causes gives the lie to her current complaint that she was merely an anonymous scholar toiling in the stacks until Glen Beck made her a household name. Along with Pivens, academicians who put their names in the Times on the pro-cop-killing side of the ledger include: Howard Zinn (of course), Henry Louis Gates (of course), Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Kozol, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison, Herbert Aptheker, Peter Matthiessen, Patricia J. Williams and Sonia Sanchez (of course, of course, of course, of course).
And hundreds more. The California Teacher’s Union has long been pro-Mumia — in certain like-minded circles, mind you. But now that the internet is helping get this news to the public, and thus less sympathetic audiences, the union is crying foul . . . about people actually finding out about their prima facie public act of supporting Mumia.
Weird. Isn’t the point of voting for a resolution or taking out an ad in a newspaper getting attention? Apparently not for the CFT. It’s one thing to grandstand in an echo chamber; it’s something quite different to have your controversial actions blazoned in the hard light of day. And so, union president Marty Hittelman has been flailing around, accusing journalists of participating in some conspiracy against him for merely reporting on the CFT’s public policy platform.
Hittelman also lashed out at Daniel Faulkner’s widow, a pretty stupid move considering her proven (and tragically well-worn) capacity to defend herself. Maureen Faulkner, a hero of mine, pulled no punches in her encounter with Hittelman last week:
Thursday, I called and spoke with Marty Hittelman, president of the California Federation of Teachers, to inquire if I had the facts straight regarding its endorsement of the murderer of my husband.
During my brief conversation with Mr. Hittelman, I calmly asked him if he knew what happened the night my husband was murdered. He replied that he did not know and “he has not read any of the transcripts” yet, he believes “Abu-Mumia deserves a third trial.”
He told me that the resolution (by the teachers) only took one minute and he had not personally voted on it. I responded that it may have only taken one minute but the continuing trials, appeals and propaganda have resulted in many years of emotional distress for me and my family. He replied, “I’m sure it has.”
He also said this wasn’t supposed to get out into the press, asking, How did you find out about this?” I replied that I found out through the newspapers and told him, “You have no idea what victims go through when they lose a loved one to murder.” At this point, Hittelman hung up on me!
“How did you find out about this?” What a buffoon. You’d think Hittelman would have learned a few things since his last media wipeout, when he infamously compared the charter school movement to “lynch mobs,” then dug that hole even deeper by defending his choice of words using even less choice words. Here is Hittelman quoted in Intercepts blog:
What’s a lynch mob? It’s when a bunch of angry citizens get together and without any study they decide to lynch somebody. And in this case (the measure), they’re going to lynch their school. If you want to call them a lynch mob, you can, but basically what they’re doing is lynching the school and all the teachers who will be fired and all the kids who will have to go to a different school.
Let me see if I can illustrate Hittelman’s thought processes:
school choice = lynch mob
media coverage = right-wing conspiracy
defending a cop-killer = educator union job
But, there’s more. The excellent Intercepts blog observes that Hittelman has long been deeply involved in pro-Mumia activities for at least a decade. So he was feigning ignorance when he told Maureen Faulkner he knew little about the case. From Intercepts:
It’s curious that Hittelman would claim to have not read “any of the transcripts” since he figures prominently in a May 2000 press release by the Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal attempting to raise funds for newspaper ads (like this one that appeared in the New York Times) advocating for a new trial. He was also a signatory to the ad. Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal [which] still exists, and Hittelman’s name still appears on the organization’s “list of supporters.”
Hittelman’s behavior places educators in California in a very difficult place. If they don’t do something about their union president, his actions will continue to represent them. Imagine being a student whose parent or sibling was killed by some violent thug like Mumia, knowing that the teacher sitting in the front of your classroom is officially supporting the release of a killer. Imagine being a cop’s kid walking into a school where every single teacher is supporting people who kill cops. That’s currently every classroom in California, a new definition of culture war.
The deception gets worse. Marty Hittleman downplayed the significance of the Mumia resolution when he spoke with Maureen Faulkner, but he took a very different stance when explaining the pro-Mumia resolution to teachers themselves. On the CFT website, the official line on the Mumia resolution is that it is crucial for union members to support the resolution because any criticism of the union’s action on Mumia is part of a concerted attack on unions by people like Dick Cheney. Yes, Dick Cheney is part of the conspiracy:
A few weeks after the CFT convention, a conservative activist noticed that among the CFT resolutions—posted on our website—was one supporting a new trial for Mumia Abu Jamal, a man convicted nearly three decades ago of killing a police officer in Philadelphia. This resolution was shared with a right wing “news” website founded by Dick Cheney, which promptly created an uproar in the conservative media machine . . .
The CFT reiterates that they believe Mumia didn’t receive a fair trial, despite Hittelman’s claim that he had not even reviewed the record of the case:
The CFT does not believe he received a fair trial, and everyone who is accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.
Any criticism of anything the unions do is an attack on all workers:
Unions were built through solidarity. We would not have the 8 hour day or minimum wage laws or the weekend if working people hadn’t stood in solidarity with one another, across the country, and with other groups of citizens concerned about democratic rights—much like what is occurring today in Wisconsin and other Midwestern states where workers’ collective bargaining rights are under attack by billionaires and their right wing politician friends. If due process rights are violated anywhere it is a concern of citizens in a democracy everywhere.
You see, according to Marty Hittelman, teachers ARE Mumia. The union is equating educators with a cop-killer, and also saying that’s a noble thing. Demonstrations of such feelings reveal the deep pathology of the pro-criminal left, and the existence of a critical mass of people in academia who fantasize constantly about being oppressed by “lynch mobs” of “evil Americans.” Part of the fantasy is believing that killers in prison are the only real victims, and that crime victims are hateful mobs, and that cops are violent liars who deserve it when they get shot.
So how do California police feel about the California teachers supporting a cop-killer? Brotherhood may run deep among unions, but not so deep that police are going to overlook the CFT resolution. So Hittelman goes on a hysterical offensive, arguing that the real issue isn’t his union’s support for Mumia but the nefarious actions of Monopoly-piece bankers and other assorted fat cats who are trying to use the teachers’ Mumia platform to drive a wedge in worker’s solidarity:
For weeks in Wisconsin, teachers and police stood side by side with other unionists and their friends in the community in demonstrations, marches, and the occupation [sic] of the Capitol in Madison, protesting the outrageous anti-worker attack . . . The story about the CFT resolution, and the way it was spun, is part of a strategy to undermine the solidarity of public sector workers, especially police and teachers. It is also yet another attempt to distract the public from the central story of our historical moment: the crashing of our economy by the wealthy and their Wall Street banks; their continuing successful efforts to fight paying their fair share of taxes to support the public education and services everyone needs . . .
So you see, being critical of California teachers for supporting a cop killer is oppression. Meanwhile, according to Daniel Flynn, the (national) Fraternal Order of Police is pretty unhappy with the (national) Federation of Teachers over the California union’s actions:
On April 14, FOP National President Chuck Canterbury issued a scathing letter to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. In part, it read:
I cannot understand why the CFT, which like us represents rank-and-file employees, would support a murderer. In fact, Abu-Jamal’s victim was a rank-and-file law enforcement officer and a member of F.O.P. Local Lodge #5 in Philadelphia. I can only assume that the membership did so out of ignorance of the facts or that they were misled by this killer’s propaganda machine. I want to set the record straight and would respectively, yet urgently, request that you and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) publicly reject this repugnant resolution.
According to Flynn, the Federation of Teachers isn’t budging, and there are now plans to pass a national resolution supporting Mumia. Soon, teachers in every state may be throwing their support behind a brutal, unrepentant cop-killer. And they should be taken at their word when they do it, like everyone who makes this choice, no matter if they try to weasel out of it in settings where such attitudes are inconvenient.
War on Cops: It Takes a Village to Kill a Cop
by Tina in Arkansas,Federal Policy,policing,Washington State
Last spring was a bloody time for police officers. Chicago buried three officers in fast succession. Tampa/St. Pete, where I live, saw two officers gunned down and two more wounded (seven more police in Florida, three in Tampa/St. Pete alone, have been shot to death since then). Nationwide, by the end of the year, 59 cops had been murdered in shootings. The previous year, 2009, ended on a bloody note, too. On November 29, in Lakewood, Washington, Maurice Clemmons gunned down four officers as they sat eating breakfast in a restaurant.
Maurice Clemmons
Despite a lifelong history of extreme violence and mental instability, Clemmons’ primary experience of the justice system was “catch and release,” that is, the police caught him, and everybody else let him go. So when he went really off the deep end, is it any wonder that he picked cops — and not judges, or lawyers, or parole board members, or politicians — for his targets? Then-Arkansas-Governor Mike Huckabee pardoned Clemmons in 1999 despite a disturbing and precocious record of violence on the streets and while in custody.
Huckabee grandstanded about his Christian motives for releasing Clemmons and other predators, as Clemmons immediately began committing crimes again: aggravated robbery, theft, parole violation. But Arkansas justice officials continued their pattern of leniency: he managed to get out of one ten-year sentence in only two years, and his parole violations were simply ignored. A free man, Clemmons moved to Washington in 2004.
In 2009, he assaulted neighbors, passing cars, a police officer and jail employees. Yet in the amnesiatic calculus of sentencing, he was only charged with a fraction of these assaults and was released on bail. That week, he sexually assaulted two young nieces and held them captive. Arrested again, he was evaluated by psychologists who said that he was dangerous, but another judge granted him bail.
Unsurprisingly, Clemmons also ignored the terms of that bail: he had been taught by “the system” that breaking the law after an arrest is frequently overlooked. Arkansas authorities notified Washington state and said they didn’t care that he had violated parole in their state, so he was not extradited. He purchased guns and showed them to several relatives and friends, telling them that he was going to kill policemen and schoolchildren. He did this at a Thanksgiving dinner at which he was apparently welcomed despite the sexual assault of his child relatives. He talked there about his plans to cut off his GPS monitor in order to lure police to his house to kill them. Nobody called the police to warn them. He cut the GPS monitor off his ankle, and nothing happened to him. He even told people that he had tried to drive to a police station to start shooting people but had experienced car problems. Nobody dialed 911.
The story of Maurice Clemmons is like a fable where people drift slowly towards a crisis, seemingly without the means to veer away. Yet this is not true: anyone might have alerted police that Clemmons had purchased a weapon and was planning to use it to kill innocent police officers and schoolchildren. On the other hand, what if someone did dial 911? The police know that the Maurice Clemmons of the world are protected by many rules and just as many exceptions to rules. What if they picked him up, and the incident turned into an ambush where others were hurt? They would be blamed for framing an “innocent” man, a man who had “done nothing more than complain about police brutality in the past,” as the story would doubtlessly be told. The child-rapes, threats, previous assaults on authorities, and Clemmons’ criminal past would all be erased in favor of an image of a persecuted minority man. This is precisely the way the shameless Christian Science Monitor spun the story of another cop-killer in Georgia this week. Thus are the flames of anti-police hatred fanned.
A fellow Arkansas felon who was also in violation of parole drove Clemmons to the town of Lakewood. When the men saw a police car, Clemmons got out, walked into the restaurant where four officers were sharing breakfast, and shot them dead: Mark Renninger, 39; Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards, 42. Clemmons’ friend drove him away, and other people, including his sister, helped him escape town. Someone phoned in a false tip to police, which delayed his capture and endangered innocent people. Clemmons was finally caught two days later, when his car broke down. Armed with a dead officer’s gun, he charged another police officer, who shot him.
It takes a village to kill four policemen. Mike Huckabee, judges and parole board members in two states, Clemmons’ relatives and friends, his wife, his aunt, and his sister: they all contributed to the murders. High-ranking court officials in two states made decisions that released Clemmons back into society no matter what he did and no matter what he said he would do next. Psychologists said he was dangerous; he held two little girls captive, one for days, and sexually assaulted them, and still there were no immediate consequences, and he was welcomed by family and friends. Only police tried to remove him from the streets, and only police died.
This is the real war on cops: it involves hatred, and negligence by many authorities who aren’t policemen. All through 2010, when one officer after another was gunned down in Chicago, and Memphis, and Tampa, and Los Angeles, Barack Obama said nothing. Eric Holder, “the nation’s top cop,” remained silent.
It may be disturbing, but their silence shouldn’t be surprising. Both men have credentials that place them, politically, in opposition to police. Throughout Holder’s career, he has taken extreme positions against police safety, representing terrorists and even securing the release of murderers who targeted cops. It was incongruous for Holder to remain silent as men and women under his command experienced rising levels of violence. But it would have also been incongruous had he chosen to speak out, given his previous alliances with anti-cop social movements.
Was it incongruous for Obama to insist on staging a televised “beer summit,” allegedly designed to ease tensions between blacks and police, without once acknowledging the rising death toll of police officers of all races? Between the time when Harvard Professor Henry Gates was arrested and briefly detained, and Obama’s famous “beer summit” with Gates and the publicly chastened officer, six cops were killed or succumbed to wounds received in the line of duty. Six cops dead in a little more than a week, and in the Rose Garden, not one word was said about the public’s responsibility towards cops, or the sacrifices these cops made to keep people safe.
Thus Henry Gates’ temporary discomfort at the hands of an officer who was actually just trying to protect Professor Gates’ property was deemed more important that the murders of six cops, so much more important that the dead police were not even part of the conversation. This is a calculus, too.
Deputy Sheriff Robbie Chase Whitebird, Seminole County, OK; Deputy Sheriff Marvin Gene Williams, Seminole County, OK; Sgt. David Joseph Kinterknecht, Montrose, CO; Border Patrol Agent Robert Wimer Rosas, Jr.; Sgt. Steven Edward May, Modesto, CA; Detective Marc Anthony DiNardo, Jersey City, NJ. Oklahoma, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Texas. Six cops who died while the President and the Attorney General grandstanded against the police.
The “Beer Summit”
A year later, Obama and Holder still had nothing to say when violence against police took a terrible toll in their hometown, Chicago. Thomas E. Wortham IV, a young Chicago officer who had ironically just returned from the memorial for murdered police officers in D.C., was gunned down in front of his father, a retired police officer. Two other Chicago cops were soon dead, to resounding silence from the White House and the Justice Department. Imagine how powerful it would have been if Obama had travelled to Chicago and talked about those deaths. He did return to Chicago for a vacation at that time. But he said nothing in public about the loss of policemen’s lives.
Police Officer Thomas E. Wortham IV, Police Officer Thor Odin Soderberg, Police Officer Michael Ray Bailey Sr., all Chicago PD.
According to the Officer Down website, since 2009 there have been 128 officers killed by gunfire, nine fatal assaults, and 21 vehicle assaults — 159 officers murdered in 27 months. This represents a steep rise which continues to grow steeper this year. Last week, Eric Holder finally acknowledged the war on cops. But he wasn’t exactly passionate about it, the way he is with pro-offender issues, like “prisoner re-entry.”
He did announce one promising initiative:
Ask local prosecutors to identify the “worst of the worst” – offenders with criminal histories who cycle in and out of local jails and state prisons – and discuss whether any of these repeat offenders may be prosecuted under federal law for offenses that make the offender eligible for a stiffer sentence.
Considering the careers of men like Maurice Clemmons, that makes sense. But it is also in direct conflict with scores of programs and research studies Holder has been sponsoring that single-mindedly promote “alternatives to incarceration,” the types of programs that enabled Clemmons to be out on the streets in the first place and fed his paranoid, obsessive hatred. Such studies — academic activism, really — always manage to prove what the researchers were seeking: that incarceration “doesn’t work,” or is “unfair” merely because there are higher percentages of blacks than whites in prison. These claims become powerful instruments in the political movements to roll back effective sentencing in the states, including sentencing for prolific recidivists like Clemmons, who directly benefitted from efforts to reduce sentences for people convicted of crimes at a young age (one of Holder’s most passionate causes).
So why use federal law to target recidivists while you’re also quietly undercutting laws in the states that target recidivists?
Philosophically and politically, Obama and Holder side with those who oppose the best measures that tackle offenders who pose the biggest risks to police: amoral adolescents with guns and repeat offenders who ought to be serving long sentences. More importantly, through relentless talk about perceived racial injustices, Eric Holder has fed the paranoid anger of those who believe that law enforcement is illegitimate — this is, after all, the man who put his own career on the line to free FALN terrorists who targeted police and innocent civilians.
That, he certainly believed in.
Holder has a great deal more work to do before he proves that he is no longer accommodating the village that sees nothing wrong, and a great deal to recommend, in killing cops. I don’t think the nation’s so-called “top cop” is really all that interested in protecting policemen’s lives. Somebody has to say it.
Two Tampa-Area Police Dead, Two Others Wounded: It’s Time for a Citizen’s Review Panel . . . of the Courts
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,Florida,Just Not Putting the B******s Away,policing
The Tampa Bay area is reeling from four police shootings, two fatal, two non-fatal only because the officers were wearing bullet-proof vests.
This morning, Tampa officers Jeffrey Kocab and David Curtis were killed at a traffic stop. David Curtis was the father of four young children. He worked the overnight shift so he could spend more time with his children. Jeffrey Kocab was about to become a father: he leaves behind a wife who is nine months pregnant.
Jeffrey Kocab David Curtis
Even in death, David Curtis is continuing to serve. His organs are being harvested today to save the lives of people he never met. In the next few weeks, Jeffrey Kocab’s wife will bury her young husband and give birth to his child.
Of course, the person being sought in these murders has a long record and should have been in prison:
Police said they are looking for Dontae Rashawn Morris, 24, and Cortnee’ Nicole Brantley, 22, but have not named them as suspects. Morris was released from state prison in April after serving two years on a drug conviction in Hillsborough County, records show. In October 2005, he was arrested by Tampa police on charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and robbery. He was found not guilty.
Morris spend nine months in prison, starting in 2004, for several cocaine charges. Upon release, he was quickly re-arrested and charged with murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and robbery. Some judge or jury acquitted him. Why, I wonder. Surely, with multiple gun charges, and an attempted murder, there was evidence. Police did manage to put him away again after the murder acquittal — on yet more drug charges accumulated over two years. He went back to prison in 2008 and got out two months ago.
Why didn’t the murder charges stick in 2005? Why wasn’t Morris’ cumulative — and accumulating — record considered in sentencing him? Now two police are dead, and while it is premature to draw any conclusions, I hope the question gets asked: What happened in the courts that enabled a repeat offender, a violent gun felon, a man charged with a previous murder, to be walking the streets of Tampa last night?
[The] incident began about 2:15 a.m. when [Officer David] Curtis pulled over the Toyota, which was missing a tag, near 50th Street and 23rd Avenue, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. The passenger was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant out of Jacksonville for a worthless check, so Curtis called for backup and Kocab came to the scene. Both officers were shot in the head at close range as they approached the passenger side of the Toyota. . .
Somebody in the courts, or the prosecutor’s office, or the city council, or the state legislature, needs to step up and announce a top-to bottom review of the choices made that put this killer back on the streets, not once, not twice, but three times (not counting the inevitable juvenile record). People crawl all over themselves to create citizen review boards whenever a police officer makes any kind of mistake. Why shouldn’t the same be done with our courts, especially when officers get killed, but also whenever someone else gets killed by a predator who should have been in prison?
Meanwhile, in Lakeland, an hour outside Tampa, two other policemen are alive today thanks only to their bulletproof vests.
Deputy Paul Fairbanks
Deputy Michael Braswell
Deputies Paul Fairbanks and Mike Braswell were shot multiple times after stopping Matthew Tutt, who is described as a “21-year old . . . with a long criminal history.” Another repeat offender who should have been in prison. He was killed by police at the scene, but his presence on the streets that night ought to be the subject of another citizen’s review. The fact that, by the grace of God, the officers were saved by their vests doesn’t change the fact that Tutt tried to murder them:
Tutt fired seven times, according to the sheriff’s office. Three of those bullets hit 58-year-old Deputy Paul Fairbanks III — in the stomach, left wrist and left elbow, Judd said. Deputy Mike Braswell, 32, was hit in the right hand, twice on the chest and once in the right thigh.
Ironically, there will probably be a review of the officers’ actions in shooting Tutt. But there will be no review of the court’s decision to allow Tutt to be out on the streets, armed and dangerous, when he might have been in prison instead. So long as we challenge and micromanage police actions while handing out free passes to the rest of the justice system, it’s the police who will continue to suffer and die.
The Green Mile Syndrome: David Lee Powell Was Not Innocent. His Victims Are Not Hateful.
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,Death Penalty,Georgia,policing,Pro-Criminal,Texas
Someone claiming to be cop-killer David Powell’s cousin has written me, accusing Powell’s victims and the justice system of various sins. Unsupported allegations like these too often pass for debate over the death penalty in the mainstream media. Therefore, it’s worth a look, though the slurs Powell’s cousin tosses at the victims ought to just be trash canned. See here and here for my previous posts on Powell.
The writer, John Struve, makes several assertions about minutiae of the appeals process — assertions that should be taken with a very large grain of salt, for he offers no proof. It’s not as if the courts didn’t revisit these cases in detail: that is why it took 30 years to execute Powell. It’s not as if Struve lacks access to the court documents. But he feels no need to back up his claims, and in this, the media has unfortunately trained him to need no proof as he says everything and anything about the case against Powell.
For, while a technical error or defense-biased evidentiary rules can blow a strong case for the prosecution, the defense suffers no consequences for repetitively and flagrantly lying. Many activists and defense lawyers feel that such lies are an honorable act — a sort of noble rot that produces the always-desired outcome of avoiding consequences for crime.
If Mr. Struve would like to send actual documentation backing up any of his assertions here, I’ll post it. But his claims sound like the type made loudly and repetitively — in cases like Troy Davis’ in Georgia — that lazy reporters reprint without looking into the original court records, or the prosecution arguments, or the trail of appeals.
John Struve’s letter:
You are all so short sighted. The fact still remains that the dying Ralph Ablanedo, when asked who did this, said, ” a girl” and “That damn girl.”
Powell’s female accomplice was the driver. Powell opened fire not once, but twice on officers. Ablenado’s dying words are being misrepresented, which is an awful thing to do.
Several officers testified at Sheila’s parole hearing in 1982 stating that she was a future danger to society and that she did all the shooting and threw the grenade. Unfortunately, this information was not released to us, the family, until 2002, and the prosecutors at that time thought it would be easier to get the death penalty for a man than a woman. He had already exhausted all of his appeals by this time.
Actually, the female accomplice testified that Powell thrust a grenade at her, but she wasn’t able to deploy it right. I’m sure the officers testified that the she should never get out of prison. I would be very surprised if they testified that she “did all the shooting.” Struve appears to be accusing these police of lying in their original testimony in the Powell trial — a serious allegation. Defamation of character is actionable.
Incidentally, if this case were tried today, changes in the law would make it easier to hold all offenders responsible for a crime in which someone is murdered.
Now a human being that had definite reasonable doubt of guilt has been murdered.
Just like Cameron Todd Willingham.
The Powell case has nothing to do with the Willingham case. The Willingham case, in which a man was executed for setting the fire which killed his three small children, is another cause celebré, thanks to wildly biased and strangely querulous reporting in the New Yorker.
Why is it that New Yorker editors seem to thrill at watching predators prey on the great unwashed?
Meanwhile, back in the real world, forensic scientists are revisiting the Willingham case. But cherry-picked claims about the fire itself, which constitutes the much-publicized defense, ignores other forensic evidence and the actual testimony that put Willingham behind bars (and you can buy expert witnesses to say anything — they charge by the act, as do many professionals).
I’m not going to bother to link to anything regarding Willingham. The local news reporting, read in total, explains the controversy. Virtually everything else should be read with a highly critical eye. Embarrassingly, even Wikipedia places the word “alleged” before prosecution testimony that passed courtroom muster while allowing defense testimony which failed to pass muster to be stated as fact. Pretty unprofessional of them, but that’s typical of reporting in these cases.
It’s death by a thousand cuts for the truth. Back to John Struve:
I am 33 years old, so my cousin David had been in jail my entire life.
Officer Ablenado has been dead for the last 33 years of his sons’ lives. Shame on Struve for attempting to insert himself into that tragedy.
Once it came to a point where justice had failed due to officer and political vengeance
Again, defamation?
that caused the truth to be buried, we realized that we needed to embrace that David was guilty of this single act.
And then there was the auto theft, petty theft, stockpiling weapons, drug dealing, over 100 bad checks — yeah, he was a boy scout carrying hand grenades and automatic rifles around in a car, serially ripping off innocent people by the scores. Come on.
Maybe not the one who pulled the trigger, but definitely responsible as the law of parties would suggest. He took that responsibility, although up to his murder, always stated that he has no recollection of what happened that dreadfully fateful night. All we wanted was for his life to be spared. Please read his story at letdavidlive.org before jumping on the “eye for an eye” human written testament of justice bandwagon dated over 2000 years ago.
Crying “vengeance” is offensive. Struve doesn’t know these people.
If killing 100 evil people means that even 1 is innocent, then that indicates that the entire system is dysfunctional. Just think if it were you or someone you loved that was truly innocent. Now, my only hope is that the Willingham and David’s cases serve as martyrs to help us move from the 18th century into the new world where people actually think instead of seek blood for blood. Since David was put to death, then you should
See, we are all vengeful. Bloodthirsty. If I had a dime for every time some bloated defense attorney wannabe accused me of wanting innocent people to suffer . . . I still wouldn’t have enough money to buy enough earplugs.
all believe that Officer Leonardo Quintana should be held to the same standards. [?] The unredacted Key Point report specifically states that his reckless tactics were what caused the police sanctioned murder of a defenseless individual, Nathaniel Sanders III. And unlike David, he had a history of reported violations prior to committing his murder. I used to be a huge proponent of the death penalty, but as I go through life, as I probably would have felt during the Spanish Inquisition, I question the tactics that we, as a society, use to punish individuals for acts of behavior “outside” that of what is considered the norm.
Behavior “outside” that of what is considered to norm? Is Struve equating blowing away an innocent public servant and trying to murder several others (whom Powell shot at, and missed) with, say, changing radio stations or hairstyles?
My brother is a Texas State Trooper. If he were killed in the line of duty or otherwise, I would not want the death penalty for the accused. If he were to murder someone on the taxpayer’s dime or not, I would not want him to receive the death penalty. Now we mourn. Next we move forward with our efforts to abolish the death penalty 1st in Texas, then in the entire United States. NOTE: What do you do when it is later found out that someone WE executed is found to be innocent? Go to their grave and pour some Mickey’s on it?
Nice. Struve places his feelings above the officer’s family’s, makes himself the center of attention, accuses the real victims of heinous, animalistic rage, defames scores of police officers, and then accuses society of failing to live up to his standards of morality. So much of this activism is a sickness, parading around as morality.
I wonder if this John Struve is the same person who sent me an anonymous e-mail celebrating the recent murder of Chicago Officer Thomas Wortham? The sentiment sounds similar.
I welcome any suggestions for identifying anonymous e-mails.
You don’t have to support the death penalty (I don’t) to be disgusted by what passes for activism and reporting on death row cases. An enormous, fact-free myth system has been built up around allegations that innocent men fill our prisons and molder nobly on death row. This “Green Mile” syndrome, indulged by politicians and priests and professors — and more journalists than you could shake a forest of redwoods at — well, it has consequences. It abuses the real victims, because they are falsely accused of everything from ransacking the justice system to being simply evil.
Careless reporting gives careless people free reign.
Consider the Troy Davis case. It has also become a cause celebré. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has reported ceaselessly on the activism for Davis and editorially advocated for him. Yet, nowhere in their reporting (unless there are articles that have never appeared on-line) have they bothered to mention the subject of forensic evidence withheld by the original trial court on a technicality, evidence that strongly supports Davis’ guilt. Nor have they addressed the case made by prosecutors who were (quite unusually) freed up to discuss evidence against Davis after the Supreme Court made an unusual decision to revisit that evidence.
Nor have they mentioned efforts by Davis’ lawyers to keep physical evidence from being considered as the case gets revisited, thanks to the Supreme Court’s actions. No, you couldn’t possibly trust the public with information about the real issues at stake in the Davis case, and other death row appeals. Atlanta readers — by far the largest audience of Davis supporters — know nothing of any of this, unless they read Savannah papers:
Black shorts evidence: After months of wrangling over evidence and legal issues, attorneys for the state’s attorney general’s office last week asked permission to submit Georgia Bureau of Investigation reports concerning “blood examination on pair of black shorts recovered from (Davis’) mother’s home on Aug. 19, 1989.” They also asked to submit a report of DNA typing of the item. Davis’ lawyers cried foul, urging Moore not to allow the evidence which they called “untimely” and “of questionable probative value.” They argued it would “clearly prejudice” (Davis’) ability to rebut the contents of the report. The jury hearing Davis’ 1991 trial never heard about the shorts after Chatham County Superior Court Judge James W. Head barred them from evidence because of what he found was police coercion of Davis’ mother, Virginia Davis, when she arrived near her Sylvester Drive home Aug. 19, 1989. Police seized the shorts from a dryer while searching for the murder weapon.
And this must-read from the Chatham County D.A., published last year in the Savannah Morning News:
Chatham County’s district attorney explains why he’s not concerned that an innocent man may be put to death.
Many people are concerned that an innocent man is about to be put to death. I know this, and I understand it. I am not likewise concerned, however, and I want to explain why.
The only information the public has had in the 17 years since Troy Davis’ conviction has been generated by people ideologically opposed to the death penalty, regardless of the guilt or innocence of the accused.
While they have shouted, we have been silent. The canons of legal ethics prohibit a lawyer – prosecutor and defense counsel alike – from commenting publicly, or engineering public comments, on the issue of guilt or innocence in a pending criminal case.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, the case is over, and I can try to tell our side.
First , Davis’ advocates have insisted that there was no physical evidence in the case. This is not true.
Crime lab tests proved that the shell casings recovered from the shooting of Michael Cooper at a party earlier in the evening were fired from the same weapon as the casings recovered from the scene of Officer Mark MacPhail’s murder. Davis was convicted of shooting Cooper.
And, while it isn’t physical evidence, consider the “testimony” of Officer MacPhail himself: When he comes to the rescue of a homeless man being harassed and pistol-whipped, the officer ran past Sylvester Coles on his way to catch Davis. This makes Davis the only one of those two with a motive to shoot Officer MacPhail. Yet Davis’ lawyers argue to condemn Coles for shooting MacPhail. Why would he?
In fact, Davis’ advocates are eager to condemn Coles based on evidence far weaker than their characterization of the evidence against Davis. Where is their sense of fairness? This is the same Sylvester Coles who promptly presented himself to police, and who was advised by counsel to tell all that he knew – with his lawyer not even present. Which he did. No lawyer who even faintly suspects a client of criminal conduct would let him talk to the police without counsel.
Second , they claim that seven of nine witnesses have recanted their trial testimony. This is not believable.
To be sure, they’ve produced affidavits; a few handwritten and apparently voluntarily and spontaneous, except for concluding with “further the affiant sayeth not.” Who wrote that stuff? The lawyers, perhaps?
The law is understandably skeptical of post-trial “newly-discovered evidence.”
Such evidence as these affidavits might, for example, be paid for, or coerced, or the product of fading memory.
If every verdict could be set aside by the casual acceptance of a witness’s changing his mind or suggesting uncertainty, decades after the event, it is easy to see how many cases would have to be tried at least twice (perhaps ad infinitum).
Thus the law sets strict standards for such “newly discovered” evidence.
For example, it cannot be for a lack of diligence that the new evidence was not discovered sooner, and the defendant is expected to present that evidence at the earliest possible time.
Yet these affidavits were not offered in a motion for new trial until eight days before the first scheduled execution in 2008 seventeen years after Davis’ conviction. If this affidavit evidence was so compelling, why didn’t they rush to seek a new trial in 2003 when they had most of the affidavits they now rely upon? Or collect those affidavits earlier?
Each of the now-“recanting” witnesses was closely questioned at trial by lawyers representing Davis, specifically on the question whether they were in any way pressured or coerced by police in giving their statements or testimony. All denied it.
And while an 80 percent recantation rate – the first in the history of the world ? – may seem to some as overwhelmingly persuasive, to others of us it invites a suggestion of uncanny coincidence, making it very difficult to believe.
Third , they claim that their “newly discovered evidence” (i.e., the recantations) hasn’t been adequately considered by the courts. This is not true.
The affidavits, in various combinations, had already been reviewed by 29 judges in seven different types of review, over the course of 17 years, before Tuesday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The state Parole Board halted the execution in 2007, saying they wouldn’t allow a possibly innocent man to be executed. Then, after more than a year of reviewing all of the evidence on both sides, and hearing from every witness Davis’ lawyers presented – including Davis – they refused to grant clemency.
The trial was fair. Davis was represented by superbly skilled criminal defense lawyers. He was convicted by a fair jury (seven black and five white). The post conviction stridency we’ve seen has been much about the death penalty and little about Troy Davis.
The jury found that Davis, after shooting another man earlier in the evening, murdered a police officer who came to the rescue of a homeless man Davis had beaten. Mark MacPhail had never even drawn his weapon.
A more complete discussion of these – and other – points can be found at Chathamcounty.org/vwap/html [link gone]
Spencer Lawton Jr. is Chatham County District Attorney.
Why would the AJC be so coy, essentially misleading an audience of millions on crucial elements of physical evidence in a controversial case? Because what they are doing is not reporting: it is advocating for Davis. Ditto Davis supporters like the Pope, Bob Barr, Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu — none of whom, I’m sure, bothered to reach out to Officer MacPhail’s family.
As I’ve said before, oppose the death penalty on grounds of universal ethics, or opposition to state-administered death, but when you make a faux hero out of a murderous, worthless criminal like Troy Davis, you are doing so at the cost of the humanity and dignity of the real victims.
Slain Officer Mark Allen MacPhail’s Children
Officer Mark Allen MacPhail’s Website
Clockwork Riots, L.A. Lakers Style: These Are Not Sports Fans
by Tina in California,gangs,Georgia,media coverage of crime,policing,The Crime Experts
“F*** You, Pig-Man,” he screams, winging a full Red Bull can at your face. Luckily, you thought to wear your plexi face shied to work today. Now that you’ve cornered him, Joey head-buts your belly. That hurts. You smack him a few times with the billy-club, always aware that the altercation is being recorded on security cameras for later review. Finally, you manage to subdue him with the help of Kathy P., the new associate from sales. She’s brought her handcuffs, and Joey’s taken off to the bathroom to wash up and get ready for Personnel to review the security tapes.
Cop Injured By Lakers Enthusiasm
I think most police would be grateful if the media and political leaders would just drop the fiction that such premeditated and utterly predictable riots (oh, I’m sorry, University of Santa Cruz: “uprisings”) really have anything to do with uncontrollable fan excitement over sporting events.
For every honest person knows that certain sporting events are just used by criminals and criminal wannabes to justify — to schedule — their own main events: destroying property, setting fires, looting stores, and throwing heavy things at policemen who are damned if they do respond and damned if they don’t respond. The Los Angeles Times described the mayhem this time as a “a sour note as Los Angeles Police Department officers clashed with rowdy fans.” Clashed with?
Imagine what a strictly factual report would say:
Police were forced to prepare for weeks in advance, planning and deploying tactical forces at great personal risk, including risk of lawsuits, and all at taxpayer expense, to try to minimize the anticipated violent lawbreaking scheduled for the conclusion of the Lakers game.
Rowdy fans? Do these look like rowdy fans, or do they look like people who showed up knowing they’d have some consequence-free fun breaking things and attacking bystanders and cops?
Alas, there’s always an apologist in academia ready to argue against personal responsibility:
Psychologist and author Robert Cialdini, who has studied the behavior of sports fans, said the seemingly inevitable reaction by fans on the winning side is rooted not only in the emotional connection they build to their teams but in a chemical one as well. Fans are so heavily invested in their teams that studies have shown that their testosterone levels spike significantly after they watch a major victory, Cialdini said. Elevated levels of the hormone are known to cause increased aggression, especially in young men.
See, they’re not responsible. They’re just hormonal.
“When the team wins, we win and we feel it in a very personal way,” Cialdini said. “We’re likely to experience a great sense of arousal and joy even though we haven’t done anything.”
OK, why do people riot when their team loses, too? Shouldn’t they be taking up needlepoint and thinking about changing their hairstyles instead? And does this really look like joy over a championship season?
How about holding the rioters accountable, instead of the police? L.A.T. columnist Sandy Banks did acknowledge that the police presence was necessary, but even she couldn’t resist minimizing the actions of the criminals and reserving too much irritation for the cops putting their lives on the line . . . to protect people like her. It’s certainly a step in the right direction, but why is it so difficult to look at images like this and just blame the guilty parties . . . full stop?
The antics of a bunch of losers shouldn’t obscure the patience, goodwill and high spirits of the thousands of fans who ventured downtown for a communal party and wound up being treated like pariahs. . . The basketball game had barely begun when LAPD officers were summoned to dispatch growing crowds in the area. “Keep moving, keep moving.” The command came over the loudspeaker as a phalanx of officers advanced, moving us off the paseo and onto crowded Figueroa Street. They pulled metal gates across the entrance to the complex to keep us out. . . . [The police] deserve a lot of credit for controlling the chaos. Everywhere you looked there were cops: on horseback, scooters, motorcycles and bikes, in buzzing helicopters and siren-blaring black-and-whites. If that set some nerves on edge, it also made clear who was in charge. But it was hard not to feel unwanted. “If you don’t have a ticket, go home” was the officers’ message — explicitly delivered and universally ignored.
Throwing chunks of concrete at cops’ heads and trying to pull people out of their vehicles aren’t “antics.” And what Banks labels a police message here is actually a message from the criminals, to people like her: they own the streets, and law abiding people don’t. The police were merely stuck in the middle, trying to prevent innocent people from being injured by violent, lawless criminals.
I’d like to see Ms. Banks follow up by following the cases of fifty-or-so rioters arrested for violent “antics,” as they get serially dismissed by the courts.
Maybe then she’ll gain a better understanding of why it really is that L.A. — and other cities, like Atlanta — can’t host public events for decent people like her. And the answer has nothing to do with whether your team wins, or how the police react to it.
Police Killings are a National Emergency: Why No National Leadership?
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,policing
These are unbearably dangerous times for police, and their families. In the last week, in two different tragedies, older officers witnessed the murder of their police officer sons, one in Chicago, one in West Memphis. The second officer killed in the Memphis shooting was the son and grandson of police officers as well.
Chicago:
Thomas Wortham IV, two-time Iraq War veteran, Chicago police officer, and community activist, was gunned down by four men outside his father’s house in a robbery attempt. His father, retired police officer Thomas Wortham, managed to kill one of the assailants and wound another, but his son, shot in the head in front of his father’s house, did not survive.
The younger Wortham had driven to his parent’s home to show them pictures he had taken at the annual memorial service for slain police officers in Washington the previous week. Next year, he will be among those memorialized there.
In an interview published in the Chicago Tribune the week before he was killed, Wortham spoke out about rising crime in Chicago. Unlike naysayers who excuse such violence, downplay it, or try to exploit it for political gain, he was taking the threat seriously:
Chicago Tribune: Chatham residents fondly remember the fierce competition at Cole Park that at times drew some of the best local talent for pickup games. The park, tucked among the neighborhood’s tidy streets, was also a place for local kids to shoot hoops — and maybe dream of one day being that good. Then on a spring evening last month, a gunman fired into a crowd of teens playing on the court, wounding two young men. One was hit in the calf and hip; the other in the neck. It was the second shooting on the courts in four weeks. By that night, the basketball rims at the celebrated courts had been disabled with locks or taken down altogether, on orders of Ald. Freddrenna Lyle, 6th, who said it was simply too unsafe to play there. The loss of the courts has disappointed many residents who say kids need a place to play. At the same time, the shootings illustrate a deeper concern in Chatham — how this neighborhood that prides itself on its middle-class values will stem brewing violence. “It’s starting to feel like it’s expected in this community,” Tom Wortham, 30, president of the Cole Park advisory council whose grandfather built a home across from the park 50 years ago, said of the violence. “When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they think violence. In Chatham, that’s not what we see. It’s happened, and we’re going to fix it, so it doesn’t happen again.”
Chicago Officer Thomas Wortham IV, speaking out against gang violence a week before his death
Wortham is the second police officer gunned down from Chicago’s Englewood Precinct in a year: last June, Officer Alejandro “Alex” Valadez, 27, was assassinated by two gang members who were free on “felony probation” for earlier violent crimes. Wortham’s killers, too, were on probation from earlier gun crimes.
Like Officer Wortham, Officer Valadez was from a police family: his surviving brother, sister, and girlfriend are all police officers. Why are we sacrificing our nation’s best families — by pandering to the worst?
Chicago Officer Alejandro Valadez, murdered June 1, 2009
Also in Chicago, police cars are being set on fire, and officers’ houses are being burglarized.
Memphis:
Two police officers in Memphis were murdered by a father and his sixteen year old son: the father was an anti-government-and-bank activist who, like the killers in Chicago, had been granted leniency for an earlier gun crime. One of the murdered officers was the son of West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert, who rushed to the scene:
The bloodiest day for area law enforcement officials began with routine-sounding radio broadcasts that West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert and his wife heard from their car. One was from their son, Sgt. Brandon Paudert, reporting that he was providing backup for a traffic stop on Interstate 40. Moments later, however, came a chilling transmission: “Officer down.” The elder Paudert rushed to the scene to find his 39-year-old son, a seven-year veteran with the West Memphis force, lying dead on the pavement, shot in the head and neck, still gripping his service weapon.
Sgt. Brandon Paudert and Officer Bill Evans were both young fathers. Officer Evans’ father and grandfather had been police officers. Their killer had a long history of criminal charges . . .
Since 1983, [Jerry] Kane was arrested or cited six times in Clark County, Ohio, on charges ranging from passing bad checks to criminal trespass, drunken driving and driving with expired tags. Kane was charged with felonious assault in 2004 after allegedly shooting a 13-year-old boy in Springfield with a “handgun-style BB gun.”
. . . and increasing confrontations with the police:
Sheriff Gene Kelly in Clark County, Ohio, said he issued a warning to law enforcement about Kane in July 2004, after Kane said a judge tried to “enslave” him when he was sentenced to six days of community service for driving with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane claimed he was a “free man” and asked for $100,000 per day in gold or silver, Kelly said. “After listening to this man for almost 30 minutes, I feel that he is expecting and prepared for confrontations with any law enforcement officer that may come in contact with him,” Kelly wrote in his warning to officers. Kelly told The Associated Press on Friday that he had been “very concerned about a potential confrontation and about his resentment of authority.”
Sgt. Brandon Paudert and Officer Bill Evans, murdered in cold blood in West Memphis
Seattle, Oakland:
Seattle and Oakland police forces are still recovering from two sets of quadruple murders of police officers by two different child rapists who had, of course, been granted serial leniency from the courts, previously threatened police, and received support from high places, even after they killed the innocent officers.
Seattle Police Sergeant Mark Renninger and Officers Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens, and Greg Richards, murdered by Maurice Clemmons six months ago. Clemmons had been granted leniency and made into a cause celebré by then-Arkansas Governor, now Fox News Anchor Mike Huckabee, who refuses to apologize for his special treatment of Clemmons.
Sergeants Ervin Romans, Daniel Sakai, Mark Dunakin, and Officer John Hege, murdered in Oakland in March, 2009 by Lovelle Mixon, who was celebrated by activists from Oakland’s deeply anti-cop political culture — after the killings.
Detroit:
And in Detroit, five police officers were shot, one fatally at the beginning of this month. The death toll easily could have been higher. Veteran Police Officer Brian Huff leaves behind a wife and ten-year old son. “The world has lost a wonderful man we can’t replace,” said one family friend.
Officer Brian Huff: four other officers were injured.
Officer Huff’s killer, like all the others, should have been behind bars, and he had committed acts of violence against officers in the past. Here is a lengthy and staggering yet still incomplete list of his confrontations with police. There is no way he should have been on the streets:
Gibson was charged in November with being a felon in possession of a firearm and a carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, according to police sources. The charge stems from a Nov. 13 arrest, during which officers conducting an investigation into a shooting patted Gibson down and allegedly found a gun . . . Gibson was released on bond. Gibson was listed as failing to appear in March for a hearing. In addition, he has been listed as an absconder from probation since 2008 in another case. It is unclear why Gibson was given bond while classified as an absconder in that earlier case . . . Gibson served time in prison under the name James Everet, Michigan Department of Corrections records show. He remains on parole after pleading guilty to attempting to disarm a peace officer and possession of cocaine in October 2007. He previously pleaded to two charges of third-degree fleeing and eluding police stemming from a 2005 arrest . . . Last Nov. 13, Detroit Police were investigating a shooting when they spotted Gibson, whose features apparently matched the shooting suspect, walking along E. Jefferson. The police approached, patted him down and felt a gun. They said he then broke free and began to run. Once caught, Gibson struggled before finally being subdued and arrested on weapons charges, documents show. Gibson was charged in the case and released on bond. In another incident, just after midnight on March 26, 2007, two Detroit cops were monitoring a Marathon gas station where there had been trouble at E. 7 Mile Road and Joann. Documents show that the police saw Gibson and another man walking nearby. When the cops stopped to investigate, Gibson took off running south on Joann, zigzagging, according to documents. One of the officers ordered Gibson to stop and confronted him. Documents say Gibson resisted, shouting, “F— you! You all ain’t taking me to jail, get off me.” He swung twice at the cop with a closed fist.
One of the officers wounded while coming to Huff’s aid spoke out recently on the “life in prison” charges and “no bond status” now, finally, filed against Gibson. Too little, too late:
“It does help,” Officer Brian Glover, who suffered a knee injury trying to help Huff, said Tuesday of the charges against Gibson. “But it doesn’t change the fact that he should have never been on the street in the first place.” Glover, who said he’s barely sleeping at night since the shooting, added that “the Prosecutor’s Office has been pointing fingers at, ‘There’s not enough beds in the jail.’ But when someone has such a long history of gun charges, there is a bed for them.”
Anti-cop rhetoric greases the skids of serial lenience towards even the worst, most violent offenders, and police everywhere are paying the price for the anti-cop rhetoric surfacing in political speech and political activism across the political spectrum these days. This anti-cop drumbeat is always the same, whether it comes from the White House or a fringe anti-government website, from libertarian hysterics on the right or criminal rights activists on the left.
The consequences are the same, too, despite the slickest efforts of exploitation artists like Mark Potok, who only speak out on certain instances of murderous anti-cop rage, those that serve some ulterior political, or fund-raising motive — and then spend the rest of their time and substantial resources attacking law enforcement. Potok is an extreme case, but there is no shortage of elected officials and political pundits eager to blame police for the violence directed against them or remain silent when careless words escalate into another officer’s funeral (or hog the spotlight and act out unconscionably, as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley did in the wake of Wortham’s death).
Where is the sane, sober, respectful, national leadership on behalf of police officers?
One month before their own son, police officer Thomas Wortham IV, was killed, Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell interviewed Wortham’s parents at an anti-violence rally near their home. The purpose of the rally was to re-direct funds from Chicago’s failed Olympic bid to provide resources for the police:
“The main thing is we need security and more supervision,” said [Thomas] Wortham [Sr.], who has lived across the street from the park for 20 years. “The Park District hasn’t recognized that there has been an influx of people visiting this park. On any given night, you might have 100 people in the park watching basketball. This is the only neutral park between 71st and 95th Street.” Before the three [other] people were shot, Wortham’s wife, Carolyn, said there hadn’t been a shooting in the park in the 20 years the couple have lived in their home. “All we want to do is to preserve the quality of life that we had as children,” she said.
President Obama could create a sea change in attitudes towards police by recognizing Wortham’s service and sacrifice. But he seems to have remained silent on the young officer’s tragic death, even though it occurred in a neighborhood near where he once raised his own children, even though Wortham’s commitment to community activism exemplifies so much of the President’s own rhetoric on service.
Why doesn’t he make Thomas Wortham IV a household name?
“Every Single Crime Can Be Prevented” — Garry McCarthy
by Tina in New Jersey,Ohio,policing
That’s Garry McCarthy, Police Director of Newark, New Jersey, where the city’s murder rate has declined 25% under a new police administration and a zero-tolerance attitude towards crime. CBS News compares Newark’s success with Chicago’s failure to quell violent crime.
Why doesn’t every Chief of Police sound like McCarthy? If you can’t count on the head of the police to insist that crime is unacceptable, who can you count on?
The Guilty Project, John Kalisz: Somebody Who Shoots Five People is not a “Saint”
by Tina in Florida,policing,The Guilty Project
Sometimes, journalists should apologize.
Tony Holt of the Tampa Tribune is one.
Three days after John Kalisz went on a rampage, wounded two, and killed three, his sister, her friend, a young Police Captain — many more than five lives destroyed — Holt wrote an article highlighting Kalisz’s “better side”:
Sadness, guilt and disbelief have cost Melissa Williams a lot of tears during the past 72 hours.John Kalisz has been her friend for 14 years. He was the subject of a term paper she wrote while in college.
He helped pull her out of a dense fog following the collapse of her marriage, she said. . .
Judith Lavezzi is another long-time friend of Kalisz.
“He may have been a man of a blurry and difficult past, but the John that I knew, and knew pretty well by the way, is a man of compassion, strength and giving back,” she said.
And so on. Unforgivably, the article is titled “The Saint and the Sinner: Friends Recall Two Sides of Kalisz.” What does it mean to seek evidence of a man’s goodness in the week he has taken five innocent lives? It places the killer’s alleged positive qualities, and his acquaintances’ grandiose and self-serving emotions, on one side of a scale and the victims’ lives, and their families’ real losses, on the other side.
It is a degrading act of leveling.
Just because there are stunted people weeping for John Kalisz — and Kalisz is not even dead; he will recover — doesn’t mean they merit notice. Recently, I have been hearing from sex offenders and other offenders who feel enraged that society dares to judge them. I have been hearing from their supporters, who are dismayed that I do not look at these men and feel pure empathy for their plight. That anyone would dare to withhold consideration of their qualities, which seem to consist mainly of the fact that they are sex offenders and thus deserve pity, is viewed by these people as a crime far more unconscionable than the crimes they actually committed. And even mentioning their crimes is far beyond the pale.
Like the sex offenders demanding empathy from me, John Kalisz appears to have seen himself as a victim of “the state,” an entity simultaneously faceless, fascist, and composed of millions of repugnant small-minded people who refuse to proffer the generosity of spirit they see as their due. It is a strange thing to have people like this judge others as lacking compassion, when they have shown so much contempt towards the people they victimize, but the letters I’ve received are dripping with rage.
This rage is what John Kalisz acted upon when he told his friend he was going to kill a policeman, any policeman who came for him. How dare we stop people from sexually abusing their nieces, or terrorizing their relatives, or shooting four women?
How dare we judge?
The Guilty Project. Death by Parole Board: Ankle Bracelet Didn’t Stop Ronald Robinson From Killing Officer Michael Crawshaw
by Tina in Parole,Pennsylvania,policing,The Guilty Project
It’s too bad we don’t have CSI units slapping crime tape around our parole boards. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Ronald Robinson, 32, of Homewood, who is charged with the slayings of Officer [Michael] Crawshaw and another man Dec. 6, has a long criminal history and a record of repeatedly violating terms of his parole . . . From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Robinson was repeatedly accused of wielding firearms on the streets of Pittsburgh and surrounding communities. In a January 1998 criminal complaint, police said Mr. Robinson choked and punched a woman and then pointed a semi-automatic gun at her. In 2001, he was accused of shooting a man in the leg. Two years later, according to court records, a pair of witnesses told police that Mr. Robinson fired a gun in the air at Hawkins Village in Rankin. In each case, many charges were withdrawn.
In other words, after each shooting, Robinson was permitted to plead down to lesser charges. He apparently suffered no consequences for the 1998 semi-automatic attack. He also apparently served less than two years for shooting a man in 2001, for he was out on the streets, firing a weapon, again by 2003. He then repeatedly violated parole assigned for the 2001 and 2003 crimes. How many times did Robinson violate parole and get caught? The Post-Gazette doesn’t say, but they do note that, according to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, “Parolees are sanctioned an average of five times before being sent back to prison.”
Robinson was granted serial leniency. Then he killed a police officer:
At the time of the Dec. 6 homicides, he was on parole following convictions in the 2001 and 2003 cases. He had been released from prison in 2007 after serving a minimum sentence; the maximum sentence would have kept him in jail until February of next year. Mr. Robinson repeatedly was caught violating the conditions of his 2007 parole, according to court records. As punishment, he was jailed for two weeks in July and then released to a halfway house for felons. He was wearing an electronic monitoring device on his ankle at the time of the shootings.
Officer Crawshaw’s family has started a petition drive with a painfully obvious message: stop letting armed, recidivists plead to lesser charges, and we will need to bury fewer police officers. Officer Crawshaw’s cousin, Sarah Kielar, has information about the family’s campaign on facebook, here:
On Sunday December 6, 2009, Penn Hills Police Officer Michael Crawshaw was shot and killed by Ronald Robinson, a career criminal who was on parole and wearing an electronic monitoring device at the time of this crime. We the family and friends of Officer Michael Crawshaw need your help. The system failed Michael and changes must be made.
During the past four years, 11 law enforcement officers have been shot and killed in Pennsylvania. In Allegheny County alone, in just 13 months, five law enforcement officers have been killed. In the most recent example of this senseless violence, Officer Michael Crawshaw was murdered by Ronald Robinson, who like the other offenders described below, exhibited a blatant disregard for human life, the police, and the rule of law. In Robinson’s case, he had multiple prior convictions and was serving a 2 ½ – 5 year sentence when the parole board reported that he was “misconduct free,” they had “a positive attitude toward this inmate” and had “no objection to parole.” Once released, Robinson repeatedly violated the conditions of his parole and was even jailed for 2 weeks due to these violations.
• Agent Sam Hicks: In November 2008 FBI Agent Sam Hicks was shot and killed while serving an arrest warrant on Robert Korbe. Although Robert Korbe did not pull the trigger, had he not been a career criminal, law enforcement officers would not have entered the house and Agent Hicks would not be dead. Korbe had three previous felony convictions but had been sentenced only to probation. He had been arrested on additional violent felony charges just 6 months prior to Agent Hicks’ death.
• Cpl. Joseph Pokorny: In December of 2005, Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Joseph Pokorny was shot and killed by Leslie Mollett during a traffic stop in Carnegie. Prior to this killing, Mollett had been arrested 8 times in 10 years, resulting in three felony convictions. Yet, he had received only a single 2-4 year prison sentence and had recently been paroled prior to murdering Cpl. Pokorny.
• Philadelphia Police Officers Charles Cassidy, John Pawloski, Sgt. Stephen Liczinski and Sgt. Patrick McDonald: During a 16 month period between November 2007 and February 2009 all four were shot and killed by violent repeat offenders with multiple felony convictions, one of whom was reportedly paroled just weeks prior to the killing.
How many times will this story repeat in 2010?
Turkey Seeking New Gravy Train, or Misunderstood Geek?
by Tina in Atlanta,Crime and Justice Blog,Georgia,policing
“People may not like his style” begins the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s denouement of the Chief Pennington years.
As if the crime-weary public has been complaining all along about the cut of Chief Pennington’s jib, not the fact that he poo-poohed the rising crime wave, turned on his own officers, and stopped doing his job.
But implausible deniability has been the newspaper’s line on crime ever since the public started demanding, say, a chief of police who takes all home invasions equally seriously and doesn’t take his marching orders from two-bit activists, or pull a Houdini for months on end.
It’s not that writers Bill Rankin and Bill Torpy are particular fans of the Chief, or any cop — the paper’s biases run to offenders. But when Pennington started parroting the paper’s “Crime? What crime, you stupid hysterics?” line, he became an occasional ally on the side of print journalists and against the public.
Consider this line his going-away gift from the fourth estate:
Pennington often comes across less as the chief of police and more as the CEO of the APD.
Really? I always though he came across less as the chief of police because he gets into bed with Al Sharpton types, not because he’s some sort of Bill Gates in blue.
He brought in a data-driven system that gives a real-time count of the arrests and crimes taking place, enabling police to react quickly to emerging trends. Crime rates fell. Those numbers, Pennington said, are what count.
Yes, crime rates fell. Before they started to rise precipitously, of course, a phenomenon the chief and his mayor blamed on public insensitivity to criminals, rather than criminals’ insensitivity to the public.
Murder rates indisputably did fall before and during Pennington’s time as chief. But should Pennington claim credit for any part, let alone all, of that particular drop in that particular category of crime? Important factors left unmentioned in the AJC article more than explain the drop in murder rates in Atlanta over the chief’s tenure.
First and foremost, a very specific subset of gentrification displaced violent crime outside the city limits, more or less entirely explaining the drop in murder rates. Immediately prior to Pennington’s installation as chief, and concluding during the first years of his tenure, Atlanta’s Renee Glover literally razed the housing projects where and around which most murders and other gun crimes occurred. They shut them down and moved the residents out — the most dysfunctional households going to Clayton County, where former Atlanta Chief of Police and current Clayton County Commissions Chairman Eldrin Bell must be wondering exactly what he did to deserve such magnetic fate. Back in Atlanta, no more Grady Homes: no more murders at Grady Homes. Want to know how extreme this change was? Ask any cop old enough to remember the bad old days. Or, conduct a longitudinal study mapping violent crime trends (murder, aggravated assaults, crime related-hospitalizations) against the relocation of public housing populations, and mention it in the newspaper when the chief tries to take credit for the drop in murders at Grady Homes.
Or don’t.
Another factor in the drop in murder rates was simple burn-out. Crime was already dropping across the board when Pennington arrived in Atlanta. Everyone rode that trend. Atlanta was already poised to move into a lower tier of the city-by-city crime stats by the time Pennington arrived.
Then there’s investigation and punishment. You know, incarcerating recidivists? Sentencing enhancement? This is an interesting subject and one that has not been researched enough. Four specific trends in crime investigation and sentencing doubtlessly impacted the worst of the worst among the criminal classes just as Pennington took charge. First, the (delayed) implementation of DNA testing and databasing finally lopped the top off rape rates by incarcerating some of the most prolific offenders for longer than the five minutes they used to spend cooling their heels in the can. Second, sentencing reform for the most violent crimes raised the consequences for murder for everyone except juveniles. Third, sentencing reform for gun crimes resulted in longer sentences for armed adults and even some juvenile offenders. Fourth, technology — not just DNA, but vast improvements in crime scene processing and emergency room care, underwent a real mini-renaissance in the past ten years. All of these factors slash the violent crime rate because small numbers of hard-core recidivists are responsible for a big percentage of all crimes. When you remove just one of them from the streets for, say, armed robbery, you can prevent multiple future events.
So was Pennington a participant in these universal trends? Sure. Did he maximize the Atlanta Police Department’s ability to participate in them?
That’s the real question, and the answer is no, for reasons of personality, conduct, politics, and ethics — in other words, leadership. Leadership was the real thing Pennington was supposed to bring to the table, leadership of his troops and leadership for the public that was paying him, and he failed both of those fundamental missions. He even failed, according to many, at implementing the very “smart policing” techniques that were supposed to be his strength. Data driven policing and computer crime mapping techniques are only as good as the people in charge. If you don’t have a Bratton, or at least somebody who acts as a leader with his own women and men, then the very techniques that make policing more efficient can turn into sophisticated tools for hiding real crime statistics — or worse:
Critics say his focus on numbers created a quota system that led cops to cut corners. The police shooting of Kathryn Johnston, 92, in 2006 came about because narcotics officers were pumping up their warrants and arrests, critics say.
“The Atlanta Police Department does not have a quota system,” Pennington said after narcotics officers were arrested for the raid.
It was after the fatal narcotics raid that Pennington fundamentally betrayed his command. He could have taken the high road, defending the performance of good cops, cooperating in the investigation of what went wrong, and taking responsibility for his own role in Johnson’s death, as any good leader would do. But instead, he made political hay, denied any personal fault, threw good officers under the bus for political expediency, and, unforgivably for a chief of police, jumped into bed with the anti-cop activists.
At that moment, Shirley Franklin should have removed him from a job for which he was no longer even bothering to show up. In fact, the best thing that might be said about Pennington after 2006 was that he wasn’t around very much, because when he was in Atlanta, he was just as likely to be doing something to undermine the force. In a replay of Bill Campbell’s final days, the cop shop on Ponce de Leon took on that Colonel Kurtz vibe.
By 2008, Shirley Franklin was well on her way to Kurtzing out, too, and Pennington took an increasingly frenetic series of powders:
Pennington’s personal calendars, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through the Georgia Open Records Act, show that the chief attended conferences in Honolulu; LasVegas; Sun Valley, Idaho; Philadelphia; Dallas; Washington; Los Angeles; Phoenix; Miami; Pasadena, Calif.; Boston; New Orleans; and other cities.
And the excuses he offered for failing to do his job grew as obscure as his travel schedule:
Pennington said he tried to connect with the rank and file early on. He held luncheons with groups of 30 officers to field their questions and gauge morale. Later, he went to roll call after hearing complaints about him not attending. But officers did not ask him questions, worried it would get back to their bosses. “So I said, ‘Why am I going to roll call if they won’t talk, won’t say anything?’” he said.
Maybe he should have kept going to roll call, instead of going to Aruba, because it was his f*##!g job, right? Even if the mean kids wouldn’t sit next to him in the lunchroom.
Then the crime wave hit, and that’s when the mayor and the chief of police really lost their marbles. Only they didn’t really lose anything: it is the public that lost. They’re laughing all the way to the bank.
So, yes, people didn’t like Pennington’s style, but it was never a simple issue of taste, or emotions, as insinuated, unfortunately, by the AJC. Voters aren’t children needing reassurance when serious crimes occur: people wanted Pennington to be in town because they were paying his salary and expected him to be doing his job:
Pennington said he left capable aides in charge and raced back in times of crisis.
“I don’t take a lot of vacation,” he said. “No, I don’t feel like I was out a whole lot because, you know, I took the required training opportunities I had.”
“[T]he required training opportunities I had.” Well, isn’t that what it’s all about? A chest-full of merit badges and holiday tan lines while the average cop had nobody in his corner as he faced down thirteen-year-olds armed to the teeth?
For every way that Pennington was bad for Atlanta, Atlanta was bad for Pennington. Something about the toxic political culture of this town — the entitlement culture of its members-only ruling class — took a top cop with a decent reputation and dissipated his promise, like many before him.
In the final analysis, the job of the chief of police is very simple: he must lead his officers. Not waste his time skipping around the country jockeying for political points in other arenas, nor paving a personal path to the next cushy payday. Nor, it should go without saying but apparently must be said, hob-nobbing with anti-cop activists who make their green fomenting dangerous hatreds towards men and women in blue.
In that, Richard Pennington failed, atrociously. And that’s all that really matters now.
“Inmates Rights” From the Left, Under-funding from the Right, Prison Guards Shanked in the Middle
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,policing,Prisons
From the Valdosta Daily Times:
Inmates out of control
Former officers share tales of terror at Valdosta State Prison
Recent reports of violent incidents at Valdosta State Prison have triggered an uproar among former and present correctional officers who claim the inmates are out of control. . .
“The state of Georgia is running that prison with as little staff as possible …,” an anonymous officer told The Times. “One officer is on the floor dealing with 100 close-security inmates at a time, who are locked up for murder, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault and so on. We are only one step away from a maximum security prison. Many of these offenders will never be released from prison and have nothing to lose …”
Another officer said that people are throwing drugs and cell phones over a back fence for the inmates.
“We are also finding several shanks,” the officer said. “And the administration won’t do anything about it.”
The officer added that at least 80 percent of the inmates have mental issues.
“We have no protection out there and we are scared.”
Meanwhile, a story with a slightly happier ending, in the Tampa Tribune.
Criminal Apologetics and Bizarre Technicalities in St. Pete: Blaming Cops for Criminal Acts
by Tina in Appeals,Crime and Justice Blog,Florida,policing,Technicalities
I didn’t have to look far to find today’s dreadful example of the media blaming anyone except criminals for criminal acts. In the St. Pete Times today, Howard Troxler, a normally reasonable man, wanders far down an ugly path by questioning the recent conviction of a knife-wielding repeat offender on two grounds: the purported reputation of the officer who confronted him, and some trumped-up technicality about types of knives that should be considered weapons.
Troxler apparently feels that police officer Joe Ardolino is permanently tarnished because, in 2003, he was involved in a car chase (of a violent, prolific offender) that ended in the suspect’s death. Never mind that Ardolino was cleared in the incident, as he should have been: once charged, always guilty, at least when it comes to the police. Troxler crosses a troubling line when he impugns the officer in the subsequent murder of a fellow officer:
Ardolino was the deputy who made news in 2003 for a chasing a traffic violator through the Lacoochee area of Pasco County until the driver crashed into a palm tree and died. The resulting racial tension contributed, a month later, to the mistaken-revenge murder of Sheriff’s Lt. Bo Harrison.
Joe Ardolino is in no way responsible for the murder of Lt. Bo Harrison. Ardolino was chasing a suspect; the suspect crashed his car and died; the suspect’s family swarmed the scene, practically started a riot, and accused the police of killing him. Later, Lt. Harrison was assassinated outside a nightclub. Calling it a “mistaken revenge murder” is unbelievably inappropriate. When someone aims a semi-automatic at an officer’s head and pulls the trigger, where does “mistake” enter in, no matter what the defense argues in court? The killer is responsible for murdering the officer. Full stop.
After Reed crashed his car, Ardolino tried to revive the suspect while being threatened by a hostile crowd; he was cleared of wrongdoing, and yet, in the eyes of the St. Pete Times, he still must be guilty of something. Here are some details from the 2003 incident:
[Michael] Reed’s family members said he leaves behind a girlfriend and a 11/2-year-old daughter, Mykeia. Friends said he was quiet and liked to visit Rumors nightclub.
The suspect’s family said he was “quiet.” His criminal record, of course, tells a different story:
Records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement show Reed was arrested at least eight times since 1994 on charges ranging from vehicle theft to burglary to cocaine possession with intent to sell. In 1996, when he was 17, he was one of two men who took part in the early morning robbery of R & J Foods that left three people hospitalized with gunshot wounds. A judge sentenced him to 41/2 years in prison in connection with the incident.
[And, once again, we have a criminal who might still be alive if a judge had taken seriously an armed robbery that left three people shot.] Anyway, this is what Ardolino was doing as the suspect’s family threatened him:
The scene of the crash had turned tense as 75 to 100 people yelled threats, profanity, and racial insults at deputies, according to the Sheriff’s Office. . .
Reed had been hurled through the front windshield of his white Chevrolet and was hanging off the car’s hood. His left ankle was hooked on the car’s antenna. Ardolino put a handcuff on Reed’s left hand. After checking Reed for breathing and pulse and finding none, Ardolino began giving Reed chest compressions. After several compressions, Reed began trying to breathe.
Ardolino checked again for a pulse and found one. He unhooked Reed’s leg and laid him on the ground beside the car.
“I then heard Mr. Reed’s breathing become labored,” Ardolino’s report said. “His teeth were tightly clenched together, and he was sucking air through his teeth.”
Ardolino pried Reed’s mouth open and tilted his head so that fluid could drain from his mouth.
“He then continued to breathe while I held his mouth open,” Ardolino wrote.
The crash happened at 6:22 p.m. Ardolino arrived at the scene one minute later, and the chief of Tri-Community Volunteer Fire, Mike Morgan, arrived at 6:27 p.m., according to sheriff’s spokesman Powers.
Ardolino reported that when fire rescue arrived, he briefed an unspecified paramedic on Reed’s condition.
“He took over administering aid,” Ardolino wrote.
This is called a police officer doing his job in the face of extreme danger. Witnesses said the officer was being intimidated and was outnumbered. This is called a sacrifice. Cops are put into dangerous situations all the time; they are forced to deal with dangerous people all of the time; they are investigated and accused and interrogated constantly, and yet they still show up and do their jobs: that’s the curiosity of it.
So, four years later, Ardolino gets called to a dangerous domestic violence scene. The offender, Steven Miholics, who had already been to prison for child abuse (as I’ve said, you have to do a lot to a child to end up in prison), kicked his way into a house. He armed himself with a knife. His terrorized family managed to call the police. Ardolino showed up and confronted the man, who lunged at him. Ardolino shot him. Miholics survived, was prosecuted, and was sentenced to 15 years. As he should have been. Now he wants that reduced to a one-year sentence because the knife he was holding was dull, and Troxler thinks he has a point.
Picture the scene of the domestic violence call, the knife, the split-second decision the officer must make. Here is what Troxler thinks of it:
On appeal, Miholics’ new lawyer raised the issues both of allowing the deputy’s testimony and whether Miholics could have been legally convicted of a “deadly weapon” assault in the first place. State law had been changed in 2006 to exempt a “blunt-bladed table knife” from the definition of a weapon. For Miholics, this could have meant the difference between a year in jail and 15 years in prison . . . This man Miholics has struck out in every way — his record, his choice to wield a knife and spatula as he met the Pasco deputies, his decision to fire his lawyer at a crucial juncture. I do not think many people will feel sympathy for him. And yet, as I said, these twists are worth noting.
“These twists are worth noting”? Oh, don’t be shy. By the lights of newspaper columnists, no offender should ever stop appealing any verdict, no matter the evidence, no matter the cost, no matter the ludicrousness of the grounds, no matter the disruption and danger and suffering of the victim.
Prisons should just be big bingo halls where every offender gets endless bites at the apple until they scamper out the door.
“Twists are worth noting”? Justice be damned, more like. Does Troxler believe that a police officer confronting a man with a violent record, at a very chaotic home invasion-domestic violence scene, should pause and say:
“Hey, wait a minute, that might be a blunt-bladed knife. If I shoot the guy trying to stab me with it, I could get into trouble because some defense attorneys convinced the State of Florida to exclude blunt-bladed knives from the legal category of “deadly weapons.” So since I can’t quite see from here how sharp that knife is in that crazed aggressor’s hand, I’ll just try to back out of the kitchen without getting killed so I can stay on the safe side with the courts.”
This is what we’re asking of officers, among a thousand other stupid, dangerous things.
Also stupid? Suggesting that somebody who terrorizes his family, invades a house, and lunges at a cop with a knife should only get one year in prison.
Troxler manages to squeeze an impressive amount of responsibility-deflection into one column:
He brings up officially discredited claims against Officer Ardolino from 2003 to question his credibility in the 2007 case, rather than blaming Reed for his own criminal acts back then and the crowd for threatening the officer as he tried to save the offender’s life.
He claims that the judge should not have let Miholic represent himself (something Miholic had a right to do, and chose freely), suggesting that Miholic was incapable of bringing the defense that the officer “overreacted” to Miholic’s knife because its blade was dull (Here Troxler chomps at the bit to re-try the case on grounds that don’t even apply because there was no question that the shooting was justified — does no condemnation of police ever satisfy the appetite to condemn police? Ever?). Amazing. And sloppy.
He blames the prosecutor and judge for the “deadly weapons” charge, rather than blaming Miholic for lunging at an officer with a knife.
He points a finger at Officer Ardolino for Lt. Bo Harrison’s murder, rather than blaming the murderer. That’s disgraceful.
Quite a list. Here are the people Troxler doesn’t hold accountable:
criminals who shoot people in robberies and flee from police
people who wrongfully accuse officers and threaten their safety
people who kills cops
people who lunge at cops with knives
Detect a pattern?
Tragically, the justice system reinforces this deflection of responsibility every time they permit defendants to make absurd arguments about things like the relative dullness of their knives. Every cop responding to a call for help has to remember that the courts are stacked against them in this way, and a thousand others.
Imagine a world where, instead of advocating for the release of people like Miholic, Howard Troxler writes columns advocating for the legislature to change that dangerous and wrong-headed “blunt-bladed table knife” law. No? I didn’t think so.
“Lee County Deputy James Anderson remembered as devoted father, husband 500 officers attend service”
From the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer:
OPELIKA, Ala. The barefoot body of Lee County Deputy James Anderson rested at the front of First Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon.
Why Police Morale Stays Low: Cop Killer Gregory Lance Henderson was Supposed to be in Prison. Twice Over. And, a Judge Responds.
by Tina in Alabama,failures to prosecute,Georgia,Judges,Just Not Putting the B******s Away,Parole,policing,Recidivism,Sentencing,The Guilty Project
Gregory Lance Henderson’s adult life is on the record.
Police and court records. . .
The 31-year-old Columbus man is accused of striking with his car and killing James Anderson, a Lee County, Ala., sheriff’s deputy . . . Henderson was sentenced to 15 years and three to serve for a drug conviction in 2007. If he had served the full three years, he would still be in a Georgia prison today.
Despite an extensive criminal record (16 bookings in Georgia alone, a felony conviction for aggravated assault, drug convictions), Henderson faced no consequences for most of his arrests. He drew a 24 months to serve/10 years parole sentence for a violent felony in 2006 and yet somehow didn’t serve that time. His next arrest came five months later — and even though he’d violated parole (if we can call it parole, since he was actually supposed to be in jail), someone let him walk again. A few arrests later, he was in front of another judge who apparently did not consider the fact that he was still supposed to be in prison for the last offense and had also been arrested additional times since that conviction.
So, 11 months after he was sentenced to ten years, 24 months to serve, he was sentenced anew on other charges and given 15 years, three years to serve.
Why didn’t the judge revoke the parole, send him off for ten years, and then slap on the additional charges?
Of course, Henderson didn’t serve those three years, either. He was released 15 months later, and now a Sheriff’s deputy over the Alabama border has been murdered.
Thank you, Muscogee County Superior Court. Thank you, Georgia Pardons and Paroles. Hope you send flowers:
Randy Robertson, vice president of the local Georgia Fraternal Order of Police chapter and a Columbus law enforcement officer, said this case illustrates the need for tougher mandatory sentencing laws from the Georgia General Assembly.
“The state of Georgia needs to write an apology to the Anderson family because this guy was not where he was supposed to be, which is incarcerated,” Robertson said Saturday.
Georgia’s recidivism laws are too narrow and its mandatory sentencing laws are utterly meaningless. The recidivism law excludes all but a few crimes, and defendants can still plead out of the ones that count as “strikes.” (This, as I keep saying, is why we have so many people in prison for “just drug charges” that aren’t really just drug charges.) The mandatory sentencing laws create guidelines and then undermine them by allowing judges to suspend part or all of any sentence (then the Parole Board chops off the other end). What’s mandatory about that?
Did legislators not read these bills before they passed them? Were defense attorneys still in charge of the House Judiciary Committee when these bills were drafted with little poison pills attached? Were publicly law-and-order types privately fudging the legislative intent in order to save the state some money?
Why does nobody ask questions like this?
Any road, the consequences remain the same: a police officer dead, his family mourning.
Remember this: when cops are dealing with out-of-control recidivists, every arrest, even for minor crimes, puts their lives in danger. According to comments in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Henderson has a teardrop-tattoo on his face, universal nomenclature advertising intent of and propensity for unpredictable and extreme violence:
So even when he was just getting popped for traffic offenses, he was announcing to the world that it could end very badly for someone. And finally, tragically, it did. Nobody should deign to express surprise.
Here are merely the last four years of Henderson’s journey through — or, mostly, not through — Georgia courts. Between the rat tangle of lax prosecution protocols, plea deals, judicial discretion and parole, his feet barely touched the courthouse floor, let alone the jailhouse door:
Oct. 14, 2005: Booked into Muscogee County Jail on aggravated assault and armed robbery charges.
Oct. 6, 2006: Pleaded guilty to aggravated assault charges in Superior Court; Judge Robert Johnston sentenced him to 10 years in prison, 24 months to serve.
March 1, 2007: Booked into Muscogee County Jail on possession of methamphetamine and traffic charges.
April 8, 2007: Booked into Muscogee County Jail on misdemeanor battery charges.
May 3, 2007: Booked into Muscogee County Jail on probation violation and aggravated assault charges.
Sept. 7, 2007: Pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine charge in Superior Court. Judge Bobby Peters sentenced him to 15 years, three years to serve.
Oct. 23, 2007: Began prison sentence.
Dec. 29, 2008: Released on parole from Hays State prison by Georgia Department of Corrections.
To revisit the math: while on probation (?) for an aggravated assault for which Henderson is actually supposed to be in prison, he’s busted in March, busted in April, busted in May, pleads to “just drug” charges for the March 1 charge in September and gets out of jail, early, 15 months later. Then, this:
Sept. 24, 2009: Arrested in Lee County, Ala., on capital murder charges in connection with the death of Sheriff’s deputy James Anderson.
Someone claiming to be Judge Peters responds to criticisms in this comments thread. Of course, there’s no way to know if it really is the judge, but he says the D.A. didn’t bring charges for the second aggravated assault before him, only a drugs charge. He also seems to have not looked at Henderson’s prior record, because he apparently did not notice that Henderson was supposed to be in jail when he was in his courtroom. If any of this is true, it simply means that the courts are in even more disarray, not less, frankly.
Scratch the surface of most “just drugs” cases, and you get someone with an arrest record like Henderson’s. Judges should know that and want full disclosure of prior records, right?
My name is Judge Peters and I am posting this to correct the article. James Henderson did not come before me for aggravated assault. He was arrested for a possession of residue of meth in a straw when he was stopped for improper tag lights. A plea bargain agreement with the DA and his lawyer was an agreement where he pleaded guilty, gave up his 4th amendment rights, sentenced to 15 years, three in jail and 12 on supervised probation with drug testing and drug treatment.
OK, fine. Blame the D.A. too. But why would any judge allow a 15-year sentence for, as he modestly puts it, “residue in a straw” without asking why the D.A. wanted to throw the book? Why would any judge not wish to ascertain the defendants’ criminal history to consider in sentencing, for that matter?
Why didn’t the judge revoke his parole, or whatever it was Henderson was serving or not serving for the 2006 aggravated assault charge?
Why didn’t the judge also see that Henderson had another outstanding aggravated assault charge, which would qualify him for recidivism status? I’m willing to believe there are more people responsible than just Judge Peters. But it is his courtroom, his responsibility. The buck stops with him, and if all this is the prosecutor’s fault, then the judge has a serious responsibility to do something about such costly lack of communication. Peters (if it his him) continues:
[Henderson] was paroled by the Pardon and Parole Board prior to his 2010 release date. Deputy [Anderson] was a fine man, all jurisdictions mourn his passing and pray for his family. No one could predict this would happen. the sentence received was a tough sentence for possession of residue of meth. the article was wrong when it listed the crime of aggravated assault as an additional charge at that time. Thank you. — Bobby Peters.
Nobody could predict this would happen? Well, not if you don’t look at the guy’s record. Or his face. The writer claiming to be Judge Peters continues:
[O]nce an individual is sentenced, his fate rests with the Pardon and Parole Board. Victims or family members, DA, may appear before the board or send a letter. I dont contact the board to get a person out or to keep them in. The aggravated assault was a plea bargain in front of another judge in 06. I have asked for a transcript of both cases. The case I heard was a residue meth case where Henderson was on drugs and stopped for no tag light. 15 years with 3 years in prison,12 years on probation, drug treatment, drug testing, random searches, and 12 years to serve if he got in trouble again. No one can ever predict what a defendant will do down the road. This case is really a tragedy for the Anderson family. I dont know why Henderson got out early but the main one to blame is Henderson himself. I, like everyone, am so sorry this happened. Note says no more space. You can call me if you have more questions. — Bobby Peters.
“I have asked for a transcript of both cases”? Now? After a cop gets killed? Why would any judge sentence somebody without knowing their record of violent crime, recidivism, prior leniency shown by the courts, and prior conduct during prior early releases, particularly parole violations?
“No one can ever predict what a defendant will do down the road”?
This one did precisely what he did the last time: got another drug charge, another aggravated assault charge, and then another free pass from another prosecutor, another judge and another pushover at Pardons and Paroles. No mystery there.
Every police officer in the state should descend on the Georgia General Assembly this year in memory of Officer James Anderson, demanding real sentencing reform and judicial accountability. This time.
Post-Press Conference Fallout: Aphorisms Versus Platitudes
by Tina in Atlanta,Crime and Justice Blog,media coverage of crime,policing
I had not been watching Atlanta television news until I tried to watch the press conference yesterday morning. They are sending people to bang on doors, looking for the Chief of Police, and challenging the Mayor on her unwillingness to address the issue. My apologies. The media is alive and kicking in Atlanta.
Yesterday morning, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Police Chief Richard Pennington held a press conference to talk about crime. Here is some of what they said, culled from local news reports:
She asked business to take responsibility and put up cameras to catch crime. She asked citizens to use Crimestoppers to report crime and to email specialenforcementsectiontips@atlantaga.gov to report crime.
In other words, she wants taxpayers to spend more of their own money doing the job they are paying the city to do. Businesses should spend even more money taking more responsibility for doing the job law enforcement is supposed to do? That’s a plan? Citizens are supposed to busk up the street patrols they already must inappropriately, though responsibly, shoulder? Enough platitudes about community action. The community is already fully engaged.
She said she plans to add 139 more police officers to the city’s force in response to criticism that she and the police chief aren’t doing enough about crime. She said Thursday that the initiative will begin Sept. 15 when 27 new officers hit the streets in areas where a recent string of carjackings have concerned residents.
These 27 guys were already in training, right? So that’s not a new thing, and it won’t offset attrition through quitting or retiring, I imagine. Anyway, do those 139 more officers include the 50 new federally funded officers being brought in to replace the 66 officer positions Franklin just cut in anticipation of receiving the federal funds for 50 cops, a move that actually reduced the city’s force by 16, as the erstwhile Stephanie Ramage notes here? Or will the mayor be adding 139 new officers plus the fifty new federally-funded hires, thus bringing the total to 123 new officers, after her 66 cuts? Does any of this factor in attrition, retirement, and unfilled posts? Here are more precise observations from Ramage:
So far this year, according to local IBPO President Sgt. Scott Kreher, the APD has lost 77 officers total due to resignation, retirement, etc. from Jan 1st through June 30th. The department averaged eight resignations per month during that time period. There are 87 eligible to retire in the next 18 months.
Yet, Franklin had the gall to say today that 39 more officers hitting the streets in September will make a difference. And she went on to explain that she has 22 more cops funded under an old JAG grant, 28 new recruits coming out of the academy (they will be assigned to foot patrols in Zone 1) and 50 who will be funded by the Department of Justice’s COPS grant. Remember that COPS grant? That’s the one she counted on landing in order to fund 200 more police officers even as she cut 66 APD positions in June. She landed funding for only 50. . .
I asked Franklin today if she indeed knew she’d only get 50 cops when she cut those 66 positions and she said “We did not cut any filled positions,” which is a very convenient thing to say about a department that has not been fully staffed for at least 14 years.
Three Stooges resonances aside, there is nothing funny about the Mayor’s fudging on the crucial issue of police manpower. What happened yesterday is that the Mayor stood up in front of a bunch of television cameras and lied about expanding the size of the police force. She did not say, look, these 27 (or 39) new recruits will offset or fill some of the retiring or unfilled positions, and we are getting 100 more cops later. She did not talk about or acknowledge the problem of attrition and unfilled jobs. Instead, she said the opposite, claiming against all evidence that her policies, and Pennington’s leadership, were solving problems they actually created. This is Orwellian:
“We have more police officers and retained them than we have in decades” [Franklin said.]
According to The List, a fascinating and obsessive book by Chet Dettlinger and Jeff Prugh — necessary reading for historical perspective on policing and politics in Atlanta — there were 1750 Atlanta police officers in the early 70’s. How many are there today? Are retention rates really up? From when?
What happened yesterday was this: the Mayor held a press conference and said three indefensible, dishonest things:
She essentially blamed the public, and especially business owners, for not spending more of their own hard-earned money on video cameras to catch criminals committing crimes. The public already is shouldering more than their fair share of crime-prevention, and it is not their commitment that is in question.
She claimed she has succeeded in expanding the police force and solved the retention problem. Untrue, on both counts.
She claimed that Pennington’s reign as police chief is both uncontroversial and successful.
So where are the opinion writers? Interestingly, Sunday Paper and Creative Loafing howled — Sunday Paper has been leading the charge against Pennington and Franklin on policing for more than a year — but I’ll be surprised if I see anything come out of the flaccid editorial department of the AJC. And that has everything to do with the preconceptions and biases that rule the mainstream opinion-writers, who still can’t comprehend that the public long-ago wearied of their knee-jerk sympathy for criminals, contempt for cops, and denial of the crime problem at every turn.
So long as Atlanta continues down the path of electing the same, tiny cabal of connected politicians, the needs of city residents will never be the priority of City Hall. Remember, Franklin came out of Maynard Jackson’s regime, was actually named “Mayor Shirley” by the press while her boss Andy Young jetted around the world lining his pockets instead of serving the City (sound familiar?), and then oversaw the bid-rigged Olympics debacle. Pennington came to the city through the influence of Franklin’s ex-husband, a much-indicted insider who also chowed down at the vast set-aside well at the airport.
It’s all about money.
However, when you line your pockets instead of doing your job at the Parks and Recreation Department, all that happens is Fanplex. The stakes are higher in public safety:
Franklin also touted what she has done as mayor over the last eight years and Pennington’s credentials. “Let me be really clear. He has reformed this department,” said Franklin.
Franklin said she supports and stands by Pennington. Pennington said he has not checked out. During the last three days he was attending a police leadership conference in Virginia.
Pennington stressed that he wasn’t going anywhere and he would leave when Franklin left.
Where to start? How about with demands that Pennington account for his whereabouts and hours worked? Which police leadership conference or training in Virginia? If he is leaving so soon, was it really necessary for him to be out of the city, or could this “required training” have occurred at, say, the Georgia facility? Was he really just out of town looking for a new job, on our dime? Saying he “hasn’t checked out” simply is not good enough without facts.
Or is all of this already yesterday’s news?
Taxpayers should not tolerate five more months of this. It is too much of a drain on police morale, at this crucial time. Did anybody watching that press conference yesterday come away believing that the man they were seeing should remain in charge of the police? What happens when they next crisis erupts — not a tragic crime committed against a high profile person, but a situation requiring leadership decisions and support for the cops risking their lives on the street?
Suggested Aphorism: When it sounds like a threat to say that the Chief of Police “isn’t going anywhere,” it is time for the Chief of Police to go.
The Tragedy in Cambridge
It must be pretty awful to be a police officer in Cambridge right now. Looking at their faces on the news, I cannot help but wonder how much more of a burden they are going to be expected to carry, not just now, but weeks and months down the line.
Cops don’t have the luxury to play games, like politicians and pundits. They are forced to confront treacherous social fault-lines every day on the job while less serious people sit by the sidelines and judge their efforts. At times like these, powerful people seem to be rooting for the police to fail, and the unfairness of this, and the pressures it adds to their work, will not be acknowledged.
The media, of course, sprinted down the road alongside Professor Gates and seemed surprised later when the story turned out differently from what they anticipated.
Cops deserve more respect than they received throughout this incident. The presumption of innocence should not be reserved for the criminal class.
What Works? D.C. Moves Forward on Fighting Crime
by Tina in Academicians on Crime,Atlanta,policing,The Crime Experts,Washington D.C.
As Atlanta prepares for the none-too-soon departure of the current mayor and police chief, it’s worth considering the example of cities where reasonable, engaged crime-fighting policies seem to be working:
Washington D.C. is experiencing the lowest murder rate in years. Why? D.C.’s fairly new and interesting Police Chief, Cathy L. Lanier, attributes the drop in murder rates to intensive use of communication tools and intensive planning to anticipate trouble at certain events and between certain gangs:
She said police are able to target specific locations or types of crime and policing is so high-tech that investigators are analyzing crime minute-by-minute and have greater ability to attack crime before it happens. . .
In the District, the department creates a weekly “Go-Go report,” which details where and when home-grown bands are playing, because go-go concerts often bring together rival gangs, causing violence, Lanier said. There is also a weekly gang report that tells officers which gangs or crews are feuding that week.
Armed with that information, police can better predict where crimes might happen and take measures to prevent them.
Lanier also cited community policing and reward money for tips:
She pointed to a better relationship between the department and the community as a factor, saying it has helped get more violent repeat offenders off the streets. She said tips from the community have been flowing faster than ever, due in part to patrol officers knowing their beats and developing connections in the community.
Of course, what often goes unstated is that better communication with the police is a two-way street. The community must do its part as well, instead of simply blaming cops for every ill, including those caused by criminals and by lenient courts. Crime-fatigue plays a role in the numbers, too: even the most relentlessly dysfunctional communities reach a tipping point when residents tire of seeing young men killing each other and start cooperating with the authorities despite the presence of loud “community activists” who paint law enforcement as the enemy.
One such tipping point occurred in the mid-nineties, when crack cocaine had take such a profound toll that law-abiding citizens in high-crime neighborhoods were emboldened to demand harsher law enforcement and longer sentences for drug traffickers, dealers — and users.
I’ve had more than one former co-worker tell me that a prison term back in the 1990’s saved his life. You won’t see lives saved that way now.
But a less-acknowledged factor in the drop in crime in formerly high-crime cities is population-shifting. As Atlanta shut down their centralized housing projects, crime dispersed to the surrounding suburbs. Counties outside Washington D.C. have also been dealing with influxes of criminal activity for more than a decade now. Too much celebration of plummeting inner-city crime rates might not withstand a closer look at some suburban enclaves where crime has skyrocketed. Nonetheless, according to the Washington Post, crime is even down in nearby Prince George’s County, which is (somewhat) to D.C. what Clayton County is to Atlanta — an outer suburb that saw crime rates explode as conditions in the inner city worsened or the population relocated:
In Prince George’s, violence had been steadily rising since the 1990s, when the county started absorbing spillover crime from the District. But this year, crime is at a 20-year low, and homicides are down almost 17 percent.
Police Chief Roberto L. Hylton said that since he took over the department in September, there has been a more defined mission about how to attack crime.
He identified car thefts as one of the county’s major problems and a “gateway” crime, meaning if criminals get away with stealing a car, they sometimes become emboldened and begin committing more daring acts. In 2004, about 18,500 cars were stolen in the county, more than in all of Virginia.
Since then, the department has focused on arresting car thieves and educating the public about protecting their cars, and the number of car thefts has shrunk by half.
There’s a thought. Logistically, in metro Atlanta, a car is vital for committing many crimes. Yet car thefts are still being downgraded by judges who view property crime as unimportant. Perhaps if prosecutors and judges stepped up to the bat and began imposing real penalties for stealing cars, even when the offender is a juvenile, more of those juveniles might live to see 30, even if they spend a few years in jail in the interim.
Most analyses of crime trends still neglect the influential and negative role judges play by letting offenders off easy. When cops and commanders, know that they’re not going to be able to get somebody off the streets, they are naturally less motivated to waste time and resources trying. Then they have to single-handedly shoulder the public’s ire, as well. As policing techniques grow more sophisticated, the courts have collapsed, and nobody notices. The police do a lot, but they can only do so much.
Gary LaFree, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, said it has taken police decades to figure out how to effectively target crime.
“In the ’60s, crime was like an act of God, like a tornado or earthquake,” LaFree said. “Where policing has changed is that we’ve gotten the idea this is a problem we created and there are human solutions to it. Obviously, crime is not randomly distributed. It is connected to hot spots in cities and other areas.”
LaFree is one of the most credible voices in criminology today (I am trying to say more positive things about criminologists). Two of his books, out of print now, I think, are very much worth reading for their non-ideological efforts to understand crime:
Rape and Criminal Justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault
Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
The Post reporter notes that LaFree and others discount the theory that crime goes up during economic downturns:
LaFree and others agree that crime doesn’t automatically go up when the economy is poor. Property crime is also trending down in many jurisdictions, including the District, Prince George’s and Montgomery. The FBI reported last week that bank robberies across the country fell in the first quarter of the year, with 1,498 reported, compared with 1,604 in the first quarter of 2008.
Criminologists point to the Great Depression in the 1930s as a time of relatively low crime compared with the Roaring Twenties, when the country experienced more violence.
Atlanta’s next mayor could do worse than looking to Washington D.C. when filling the role of Chief of Police. D.C. Chief Cathy L. Lanier likely isn’t going anywhere, but the example she sets — a homegrown cop who started in the District on foot patrol; sticks close to her troops and the streets; promotes open communication channels, and is known for her “tireless work ethic” — is the type of chief Atlanta needs:
She has created a Web site where cops can take their gripes and advice directly to her. She gives out her business card to everyone she meets, and often her private cell number as well. (She guesses at least a thousand D.C. citizens now have it.) She insists on being called every time there is a shooting in the city. “A lot of people have criticized me a little for being too far down in the weeds,” Lanier admits. “But if you separate yourself from the people involved in and impacted by crime, you’re going to fail.”
Imagine that.
Sgt. Scott Kreher Update: Cops and Us
by Tina in Atlanta,Crime and Justice Blog,Georgia,policing,Tools for Activists
Sgt. Scott Kreher of the Atlanta Police Department, has been returned to desk duties as Mayor Shirley Franklin continues down the path of using the D.A.’s office to “investigate” him for importune remarks made during a hearing on denying medical benefits to the city’s disabled officers. Stephanie Ramage, at The Ramage Report, has issued another call to restore Sgt. Kreher to his full duties. It’s an amazing plea for forgiveness and the respect the police deserve.
Along the lines of Stephanie’s blog, I’ve been having some interesting conversations with a young police officer at my gym. What always strikes me when I’m talking to police is how they view their jobs as a calling, not just a place to punch the clock. The young officer at my gym told me that he does not do overtime because he recognizes the need to be able to go home and have a life at the end of his shift, because the job is so intense and what is being asked of police officers is so emotionally challenging.
One of the biggest challenges that he sees is the constant pressure of going into situations where people feel comfortable expressing hatred for police officers — and not just on the streets, where it’s not so surprising that the guy you’re locking up is not responding with gracious consideration for the demands of your profession. Almost every cop I’ve ever met talks about the pain of being automatically reviled by some media types and politicians and activists.
In some community groups I belong to or follow, contempt for cops seems like a default, and this is too bad. Setting aside the small handful of people who don’t belong behind a badge, the police are continually reaching out to the public, so I’d like to propose an exercise in consciously reaching back. There are some darn great police blogs out there. Read a few. You don’t need to hug a cop, just try listening to one.
Here are some of the cop blogs I’ve discovered. If you have others, I’d love to know about them.
Second City Cop: A Chicago officer talks bluntly about both policing and the politics of policing in Chi-Town. Brave guy. Really brave guy.
The Johnny Law Chronicles: Johnny Law is not shy about the frustrations of the “bi-polar moments” that arise when “bohemian wanna-bes are afraid of the criminals in their area but aren’t exactly sure about what they want done about it.” I wouldn’t exactly say that he is reaching out to the public in a warm and fuzzy manner, but his perspective on this extremely common dynamic is worth confronting.
The Roanoke Cop: Nobody does a better job of explaining what happens during a long, depressing shift.
Behind the Blue Line: One of the cop blogs that is not anonymous, Cst. Sandra Glendinning is a canine officer in Vancouver. And seems to be a lovely person. Canada, land of the polite and free.
Officer Smith: Officer Smith is a cop who apparently does a lot of highway patrol in California. For readers from Atlanta who have never heard of such a thing, Highway Patrol Cops are police officers who drive on the highways enforcing things like speed limits and other traffic laws.
British Cops, being from Britain and therefore completely unconflicted about being literary while armed, write some of the funniest and most insightful cop blogs. And because they still have a publishing culture and a reading public over there, cops (and nurses, and paramedics, and dispatchers, and social workers) with blogs are getting book contracts left and right:
The Policeman’s Blog: Funny. The author of Wasting Police Time. Lots of the policing and political terms may seem unfamiliar at first, but there’s really nothing all that different under the sun.
P.C. Bloggs, A Twentieth-First Century Police Officer: The author of Diary of an On-Call Girl, about her career as a female police officer. Imagine a world where On-Call girls, rather than Call-Girls, were the feminist heroes of the day. P.C. Bloggs is quite good at expressing the frustrations of officers dealing with an ungrateful, drunken, unruly, and astonishingly piggy public. Many insightful observations about the central role of body fluids in policing.
The Thinking Policeman: My favorite cop blog. Long, non-frivolous disquisitions on Hobbes and Locke, The Social Contract, and how to forget the first utterly blown-out arm you see on a junkie. Posts like “The Mental Health Patient” are an education in policing for the rest of us.
Selective Outrage: What the Paralyzed Cop Scandal Says About Atlanta’s Politicians
by Tina in Atlanta,Crime Denial,Georgia,Hate Crime,policing,The Hate Crime Racket
As elected officials in Atlanta crowd the microphone to denounce Sgt. Scott Kreher for saying something importune about Mayor Shirley Franklin, the list grows . . . of elected officials in Atlanta grandstanding on Kreher while refusing to comment on the city’s grotesque treatment of wounded police officers, the real issue.
Here is a video Kreher helped create that details the systematic abuse of the officers by the city. And here is a petition supporting Kreher, a decent guy who lost his temper over real injustice. Not fake injustice. I urge you to read the text of the petition, if you want to know what really happened.
In recent months, Mayor Franklin and Police Chief Pennington have pointedly refused to speak out against the high toll of violent crime, accusing residents, instead, of merely “perceiving” the crime wave that has left people dead on the streets, and at their jobs, and in their homes. I don’t know anyone in Atlanta who doesn’t either own an alarm system or live behind locks and bars, or both. That’s normal for Atlanta, a normal that is growing worse. Yet the mayor feels that people are exaggerating the effect of crime on their lives, while she simultaneously feels that there should be a federal investigation over a passing remark made about her in anger, in the midst of a City Council meeting about her outrageous treatment of wounded officers.
So if your back door gets kicked in by armed thugs, or your car gets stolen, or somebody holds a gun to your son’s head, then you should just shut up, sit down, and not complain. But if somebody says something in passing about the Mayor while talking about something else, then there should be a federal investigation, with all the resources of the government brought to bear, punitively, on any citizen who deigns to express anger at her Highness.
She gets — to demand that free speech be investigated if it displeases her. You get — to hope that a cop is available to show up when your life in endangered by a violent criminal. The cops get — to stand between you and the criminals, risking a fate like that of their fellow, paralyzed officers who are treated with raw contempt by elected officials.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution is calling the controversy over Kreher’s remarks a “debate.” Well, not really. Debate implies that both parties have the right to speak freely, and that is not the case here, where Franklin may whip up hatred and demand federal government action under the guise of being frightened by what she is codedly pretending to be a racial remark, while Kreher and his supporters, and anyone else who deigns to be upset over the crime situation, or the paralyzed cop situation, must grovel and apologize while expressing their point of view.
It’s an ugly tactic that should be outdated, but is not.
Senator Vincent Fort, the crown prince of such double-standards, has, of course, weighed in for the Mayor. This is Fort’s stomping grounds: he has spent most of his time in office trying to codify such double standards into law, simultaneously lobbying for leniency for violent criminals and harsher sentencing for so-called hate crimes, the system of selectively enforced, selective outrage that dictates that some people’s victimization is more important than others’. The hate crimes code is also what underlies Franklin’s demand for a federal investigation of Kreher, a chilling threat. If Kreher had said such a thing in Canada or Britain or any one of several European countries these days, he would doubtlessly be facing hate speech charges. Luckily, our unique bill of rights largely protects us from prosecution for hate speech, though that would change in a heartbeat if Fort and others had their way.
Fort also, predictably, had bad things to say about the police, playing the police brutality card for the press:
“If I had said that to a police officer on the street, where do you think I’d be?” said State Sen. Vincent Fort.
Fort’s comment here is worth contemplating: he brings up non-existent police brutality but refuses to address the actually brutal treatment of the paralyzed police officers at the hands of Franklin’s administration. Talk about a double standard.
And what a perfect expression of the realities of the hate crimes movement: some people get to have police protection against words. Other people have to beg for any protection against crime. Now that he has inserted himself into this debate, Fort should be called on the carpet, both for what he said about the police, and what he did not say.
Despite the fact that he believes that some people matter more than others.
Here is Shirley Franklin’s latest statement on Kreher, who has already apologized, grovelled before her:
“His threat cannot be tolerated or explained away,” she said on the city’s official Web site. “I believe his threat to be serious and an attempt to intimidate me and other city officials and my family.”
Here is what she said about the wounded officers:
Here is what she said about real crime victims in the city, in an op-ed scolding the public for demanding more police officers:
“The city is safer now than it has been in decades.”
In Atlanta these days, you had better know your place.
How Atlanta Treats its Wounded Police Officers on Memorial Day
by Tina in Atlanta,Crime and Justice Blog,Crime Denial,Georgia,Outrage of the Week,policing,Tools for Activists
If the genius of democracy is the peaceful transfer of power through elections, the tragedy of democracy is the exploitation of this public goodwill by elected and appointed officials who treat their last year or so in office (sometimes, their entire time in office) like a tin pot dictatorship, holing up and divvying the spoils while behaving as if the needs of the people are beneath their concern.
There’s little the public can do about a lame duck elected official who treats them with contempt. Little, that is, except doing their homework for the next election, noting who is aligned with whom, voting accordingly — and carefully counting the towels after each transfer of power is complete.
This last bit of business was sorely neglected when former Mayor Bill Campbell was hauled off in handcuffs — people should not wonder so much when current Mayor Shirley Franklin’s allegedly “reformist” administration feels like deja vu all over again.
Sunday Paper broke this story about the disgraceful treatment of injured Atlanta police officers last weekend. The Atlanta Journal Constitution offered an excellent update yesterday.
Paralyzed cops being denied needed medical services by city administrators: this is the type of injustice that cries out for public leadership. Phone numbers are below.
And where is Atlanta Police Chief Pennington? Vegas? Disney World? Mars? These are police officers who were injured in the line of duty — who took a bullet protecting us. In other cities, that unambiguously means something:
In Atlanta, injured cops are treated like wounded animals put out in the rain. That Chief Pennington refuses to comment on this mistreatment, let alone oppose it, is extraordinary. It is the type of thing that should create an outcry, but it has not. Are people so afraid to speak up for the police who protect them? Is an entire generation so utterly brainwashed by the type of virulent, anti-cop rhetoric that spews from lefty politics and liberal media that they are able to look at a cop who took a bullet to save innocent people and say: well, who cares?
This is the Vietnam of our age.
Meanwhile, Mayor Franklin and Chief Pennington have managed to find the time for a vendetta against the police officer who stood up for the injured officers. Sgt. Scott Kreher lost his temper after months of trying to get the wounded officers appropriate medical care and after two hours of being grilled at a City Council hearing. Kreher said something inappropriate about Mayor Franklin, and now the Mayor is falsely accusing Kreher of being a threat to her and her family.
As columnist Stephanie Ramage points out in her blog, The Ramage Report, Franklin expressed no such anxiety when her son-in-law the violent drug kingpin was terrorizing the city (you can’t make this stuff up). Here is Ramage on the full statement made by Kreher, not reported in the AJC, which truncated the quote:
The indignities that these cops, all of them injured in the line of duty, have suffered at the hands of Mayor Franklin’s administration are simply unconscionable.
And that is what Kreher told the City Council: “These five officers were injured in the line of duty…I want to beat her [Mayor Franklin] in the head with a baseball bat sometimes when I think about it…I cannot believe Mayor Franklin’s administration would allow this to happen. This administration should be ashamed of itself.”
Mayor Franklin was not present. Kreher was not visibly incensed. . . .
Franklin has said “I think it’s [Kreher’s remark] intended to intimidate me, my family and city officials. I think it’s very dangerous language and when someone says they want to take a bat and hit you in the head, from my experience, they want to kill you.”
Her family is intimidated? Franklin’s daughter is, even this minute, on probation for money laundering for her now-ex-husband, a kingpin in one of the most violent drug rings in the history of Atlanta. Mayor Franklin must have had at least a few dinners with the thug, yet she expects us to believe that she is afraid of a cop who says that her treatment of paralyzed and brain-damaged police officers makes him want to take a baseball bat to her head when he thinks about it sometimes?
Kreher has been suspended, but the Mayor and Police Chief are still refusing to comment on their actually unconscionable treatment of the injured officers.
As if it is laughable — a paralyzed cop snapping a leg bone because he can’t get the city to fix his broken wheelchair.
The relationship between City Hall and Atlanta residents has descended into paroxysms of sado-masochism. I wonder when folks will say “enough” and start demanding some respect, if not for themselves, then for the men and woman who sacrificed their ability to walk and talk and think for the public’s safety.
This is, after all, Memorial Day, when fallen officers are supposed to be honored, as is happening in ordinary places, places other than Atlanta.
How Many Gold Mercedes Are There Out There?
by Tina in Atlanta,Burglary is a Violent Crime,Citizens Fight Back,Crime and Justice Blog,Georgia,policing,Recidivism
THE average citizen hardly needs to be persuaded that crimes will be committed more frequently if, other things being equal, crime becomes more profitable than other ways of spending one’s time.
–James Q. Wilson, “Thinking About Crime” Atlantic Monthly, September, 1983
Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that police in Clayton County may have solved a whole lot of Metro Atlanta crimes when they arrested four men and charged them with “breaking into dozens of businesses,” and “stealing more than 200 flat-screen televisions” throughout the city.
The article announcing the arrests mentioned “50 investigators from 17 police agencies [who] joined forces last year after noticing a spike in burglaries and flat-screen TV thefts.” Just last Wednesday, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington announced the formation of a presumably different multi-jurisdictional task-force to address flat-screen thefts.
I imagine citizens weary of crime would say: “I don’t care who’s doing what, just get them off our streets.”
Add to that, “this time.” For, of course, at first glance, at least two of the men have faced previous charges in Clayton County alone (the current crime spree extends to Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Douglas Counties — a wide swath on the map — and I have not checked those yet). Devon Sherman Anderson was charged in Clayton with simply battery, disrupting a public school, and disorderly conduct in 2004, the year he turned 18. The first two charges were dropped, and he received six months probation on the third. Schoolyard fight? Maybe. Or it could be the first adult charge after a lifetime of juvenile crimes, which are sealed. Bershan Lewis‘ record is more extensive. It also begins the year he turned 18: it was a busy year for him. He was charged with four counts of entering autos.
Prior to the current charges, neither man’s records indicates a major crime wave (some of the charges that appear more than once are simply working their way through different courts). But the crimes with which they have now been charged seem outlandishly prolific. If they are guilty, they have been driving Anderson’s gold Mercedes all over the metro area for months, or years now, committing crime after crime after crime.
That’s a lot of broken glass, insurance hikes, and security expenses for small businesses. It’s also a lot of employees of sports bars and laundromats who have the eerie task of opening or closing the doors when nobody else is around, hoping that whoever committed the last break-in isn’t coming back.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution story reports that the men named themselves the “Hit Squad” and that an AK-47 was found in one of their homes. Anderson’s new charges include armed robbery, and there are more charges to come.
There were nearly 10,000 burglaries in the city precincts alone in 2008.
People are scared, and tired. They are sick of hearing that prisons are overcrowded and that judges are looking for alternatives to incarceration for people with records like Johnny Dennard’s. Dennard had at least five burglary convictions when he was arrested on the most recent charge. He was convicted a sixth time and released to an “outpatient treatment center” rather than being sent to serve the (apparently mandatory) minimum five years for the crime.
How many burglaries net you six convictions in our broken justice system?
The Case of the Missing Zero or 785 Officers
by Tina in Atlanta,Crime and Justice Blog,crime statistics,media coverage of crime,policing
WHAT a difference a month makes. Or does it?
A few short weeks ago, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington and Mayor Shirley Franklin were working overtime to insist that residents’ concerns over crime were overblown. “The city is safer now than it has been in decades,” the Mayor callously announced when the brutal murder of bartender John Henderson mobilized residents to demand more police on the streets.
In another scolding published in the wake of that crime, Chief Pennington insisted that, “we have enough resources to deal with it,” “it” meaning crime (making him possibly the first Chief of Police in half a century to make such a claim). He suggested that citizens were simply “perceiving” crime more intensely now that the Internet enabled people to tell each other about crimes that were occurring in different parts of the city.
OOPS. The Internet certainly did that. It also enabled residents to compare notes on what they were seeing on the streets versus what the police department was posting on its website. It allowed them to ponder the often-craven ways the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Creative Loafing work with the Mayor to dismiss concerns about home invasions, like the schmaltzy two-step in which the AJC published a highly selective study of crime statistics one Sunday and Mayor Franklin, a mere four days later, published an editorial in the paper praising the study and using it to bludgeon residents’ concerns about home invasions.
The Internet interrupted this closed-loop system so abruptly that officials and reporters are now scrambling in its wake. Fourteen days after Chief Pennington told reporter Tim Eberly that the Atlanta Police Department didn’t need more resources to keep the city from “becoming less safe,” and one day after the AJC published its “study” showing select crimes in certain places were down, and three days before the mayor thanked the paper for showing the protesters that the city didn’t need more police officers, the AJC wedged in another article reporting that Chief Pennington also said “the city will soon need 2,400 officers.”
That is 785 more officers than the current number, 1,615. Or, to put it another way, a 48% increase in the number of police on the streets.
So according to Chief Pennington, Atlanta either has enough police on the streets right now to combat crime, or it needs to increase the size of its force by 48%. “Soon.”
PERHAPS in order to back away from this absurd and bizarre game of numbers, Pennington has now announced the formation of a task force to investigate burglaries of flat-screen televisions. Or perhaps he is really reaching out to the public.
(Shirley Franklin, who cannot run for mayor again and already has one foot out the door and firmly planted, no doubt, in some half dozen lucrative consulting contracts, doesn’t need to come up with plans to fight crime anymore and has thus said nothing.)
I sincerely applaud any effort Chief Pennington is willing to make to do something about burglary, or any other crime. And I personally think that most of the problem of not addressing criminal behavior lies with the courts, not in the police department. But there’s an element of minimizing the truly threatening nature of these home invasions by creating a “task force to investigate the burglaries of flat-screen televisions.” Why not a task force to investigate the invasions of homes?
This minimizing of crime is not incidental: it is of a piece with everything else that has been said to the citizens of Atlanta, and especially to crime victims and activists, by the Mayor and the Chief of Police since John Henderson was murdered.
So before anyone is permitted to shift the conversation to using DNA to protect television ownership, I think Chief Pennington needs to change the tone of the conversation itself. There needs to be unambiguous acknowledgment of the real problem. It’s not about “property”: it’s about the real danger created by numbly sociopathic or drug-crazed criminals who are kicking in the doors of people’s homes. It’s about never feeling safe because you know there are criminals stalking your neighborhood, waiting for you to leave for work in the morning, and wondering if your wife is going to be safe at home after the car’s not in the driveway at 9:05 a.m.
Chief Pennington needs to acknowledge this instead of playing it down by talking about property theft, even if that’s what the Mayor and many (not all) journalists seem to be trying to do.
I’M certain there are things I don’t know about Pennington, but he did have a reputation as a reformer, someone who did a great deal to clean up the force in New Orleans. I want to believe that he really wants 2,400 cops on the streets and that he believes that every home invasion (home invasion necessarily precedes ripping the flat-screen from the wall) is an intense, personal, violent crime.
Behind statistics there are always intentions. NYPD Chief William Bratton intended to lower crime, so he used crime statistics to solve crimes, not to deny their existence in the newspaper.
Bratton didn’t lecture people about the difference between “violent” and “non-violent” home break-ins or the “victimless” nature of turn-style jumping: he instituted CompStat, which, if you think about it, works precisely because it got the police thinking about property crimes as potential predictors of future violent crime.
Exactly the opposite is happening in Atlanta. But it’s not too late for Pennington to turn that message around.
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Q. Just to follow that up, can you tell us how far along you are to completion right now?
A. I am about two weeks away from showing the director's cut to the studio. I've got some wolves with fur. Some wolves are still invisible basically and some wolves are like -- you've all probably seen the claymation versions. We are still in the light RD phases of what Edward looks like when he's hit -- what the vampires look like when he's hit with light and the diamond effect. Also, the kind of hallucinatory effect Bella has when she hears Edward's voice and she imagines him there. And then we are Alexandre Desplat has just started working on his music for the film. And we are just starting to put together what acts will be on the soundtrack, so it's kind of like keeping ten plates spinning at once, but it's all good because we've got Alexander Desplat who I think is one of the greatest film composers living and because of the kind of the strength of the franchise that I inherited, a lot of bands are really interested in working on the soundtrack and we got visual effects people. And that just leaves me hopefully not dropping the ball in terms of editing together the story.
Q. Can you tell us about the proposal scene at the end of the book? Fans are worried that it's either been altered or cut out of the film. Can you address those concerns?
A. They haven't been cut out. I can tell you that much. It's not going to hit them the exact way they think it's going to, but I will say -- how can I put it? It's going to be quite special. I could have saved all of my gusto for that moment. I don't think it will disappoint.
Q. Would you talk about these rumors or fan speculation or hopes that you might come back to direct 'Breaking Dawn'? And is there any carryover between 'New Moon,' 'Eclipse' and 'Breaking Dawn' in terms of planning?
A. Let me see, I think it's really charming that having not seen 'New Moon' people would be enthusiastic about me wanting to do 'Breaking Dawn.' That's really -- y'know I think the proof is in the pudding and they should see it before they decide there is anything else they want me to do. But I would hope to earn that kind of rumor. We haven't really spoken with Summit about that. All I knew is that I would be too tired to do 'Eclipse' and that somebody else take it over as well so that they could put their own imprint on it. Also, the way the films are being shot would have precluded it anyway. In terms of the planning. David Slade came in while we were still shooting 'New Moon' and I showed him everything I could to sort of give him a sense of what direction we were going. He is going to take it into whatever way he wants to, because he's his own guy and will have his own style and particular take on things. But, just as I was inheriting certain things from Catherine Hardwicke, he's going to inherit certain things from me and make the choice whether he's going to keep them or alter them. So, we have had discussions about -- Tippet is going to do the wolves for 'Eclipse' so there is a continuity for the look of the werewolves and obviously the cast is going to remain the same. Dakota is Jane and all the Volturi are the same people who you are familiar with, but other than that it's sort of David Slade's show to run on 'Eclipse' and by the time that comes out they will probably want him to do 'Breaking Dawn,' not me. I would certainly consider it, but it's funny. I find all my time avoiding the internet, because I end up getting into arguments with 15-year-olds in Germany and I have to concentrate on making the movie, so I don't even know the positive rumors out there. I don't know the negative rumors, I don't know the positive rumors. I"m just trying to do the best job I can, but it's really sweet that people would like me to do that. I think that's very cool.
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Accueil > Item 15: Indigenous issues
Item 15: Indigenous issues
Palais des Nations, Geneva Franciscans International and the Dominicans wish to draw to the attention of the Commission on Human Rights to the lack of real improvement in the condition of indigenous peoples since the beginning of the International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples. One of the key objectives of the Decade is the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and their empowerment to make choices which enable them to retain their cultural identity. The situation of misery and exclusion of indigenous peoples in Latin America remains one of the most serious and unresolved human rights issues.
A negative vision has been shaped over the centuries of indigenous peoples and this should be addressed with seriousness during the International Decade. Additionally, some governments still consider indigenous people as an obstacle to national development. For example, Mexico adopted integration policies for assimilating indigenous peoples, not understanding their vision of the world, their harmonious relation with nature, their values, their historic memory and their projects for the future. Violent responses to the indigenous efforts to organize in a struggle for a dignified life have added to the situation of structural injustice.
Further, the implementation of national development models based on the exploitation of natural resources and the economic dependencies on the outside have led to the dispossession of indigenous lands, their exploitation and marginalization. Evicted from their own territory, under the pretext of development projects from which they did not benefit, the indigenous were forced to migrate to the cities where they suffer misery, discrimination and the uprooting from their community. Further, the political systems have traditionally excluded indigenous participation and representation in the power structure, at various levels, not recognizing indigenous political institutions.
The indigenous rebellion in Chiapas, in 1994, demonstrated that a large gap exists between recognized rights and experienced rights of indigenous peoples. On January 1, 1994, the indigenous people entered on the national political scene as a principal actor in defining their future. This led to negotiations with indigenous leaders and the government which were unique in the history of Central America. Following negotiations moderated by the National Mediation Commission (CONAI), the government signed the San Andres Accords with the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) which recognized the rights and the culture of indigenous peoples. The accords were signed by the most representative indigenous organizations in Mexico and also presented a commitment made by the government with all indigenous peoples in Mexico. The Accords incorporated Indigenous rights in the federal Constitution of Mexico. The federal government of Mexico undertook to fulfill the following promises:
To recognize indigenous peoples in the general Constitution.
To increase political participation and representation.
To guarantee full access to justice.
To promote cultural manifestations of indigenous peoples.
To ensure education and training.
To guarantee the satisfaction of the basic necessities.
To stimulate production and employment.
To protect indigenous migrants.
Also the federal government committed itself to five fundamental principals to regulate the States actions in its new relationship with indigenous peoples: pluralism, sustainability, integrality, participation and self determination.
It is obvious that the government did not intend to implement the accords it had signed. Rather, the government made a counter proposal that was adopted by the Mexican Congress against the wishes of the EZLN. In view of the Mexican governments unwillingess to continue serious dialogue with indigenous peoples, the National Mediation Commission dissolved and the President of the Commission Bishop Dom Samuel Ruiz resigned stating that government harassment had made his job impossible.
In additon to the non recognition of indigenous rights in the Mexican Constitution, the low intensity warfare continues its pace, with the consequent increase in human rights violations against thousands of indigenous persons in the State of Chiapas and elsewhere.
Franciscans International and Dominicans urge:
The Commission to give priority attention to the systematic violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America, especially in Mexico.
The government of Mexico to respect the human rights of indigenous peoples and to honor the San Andres Accords which it signed.
45 displaced, adults and children, live in houses of 15 by 5 meters1.
This situation causes multiple problems, practical as well as emotional. There is no space for the daily activities or for the children to play or run freely. The adults complain about feeling imprisoned.
In many cases the houses´ walls are made out of plastic that let in the wind, cold and rain. The fireplaces are on the earthen floors exposed to the humidity and thus making cooking much more difficult.
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The right to work is established in Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico, article 50 and 123 and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 23.1.
The work in the indigenous communities is working the land, the earth is what maintains the family. The displaced men generally cannot go to work because their fields are in paramilitary territory where they fear for their lives. The impossibility to work and maintain the family causes feelings of anguish and impotence, especially in the family fathers. On the other hand, members of the communities that expelled and plundered are harvesting the products of the displaced.
In the municipality of Chenalhó coffee picking brigades were organized to avoid that the members of the group Las Abejas would lose their harvest again as they did in the 1997/1998 season. These brigades were organized by the National Human Rights Commission, the Mexican Red Cross and this Human Rights Center. The Rights to protection of Health is established in the Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico, article 40 and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 25.1.
The percentage of first grade malnutrition in the indigenous population under 17 years in Chiapas is 51 % and 80% of the inhabitants of the Jungle and the Highlands suffer from some grade of malnutrition. In comparison with the United States of America where infant mortality is at 8 for every 1000 live births, in Chiapas this number is 55 to 65.
Because of the unhealthy conditions in the displacement camps, this situation becomes worse. In the majority of the camps there is not enough running water, the lack of pots and firewood makes boiling the water difficult and therefore there are many cases of gastrointestinal, parasitical, diarretical and infectional diseases.
The houses do not protect enough from the elements which causes diseases like pneumonia, flues and serious colds. The lack of winter clothes and shoes especially for the children worsens these respiratory diseases.
The change and lack of food and the unbalanced diet produce malnutrition and illnesses. In Masojá Yoshijá, municipality of Tila, almost all the childrens bellies are inflated.
In Acteal, the latrines were made for the short term, which means that after more than a year they are in a terrible state of hygiene.
In Polhó, in the 13 months after the Acteal massacre thus situation has caused the death of at least one person per week.2
Frequently we can observe cases were the illnesses have psychological roots which begin with events of high tension. The emotional load is so large that in many cases it is expressed with psychosomatic diseases.
In the municipality of Chenalhó during the coffee picking, the testimonials refer to pain in different parts of the body because of the high tension of being in the home communities again with only minimal security conditions.
One alarming case of mental health problems are the orphans in the municipality of Tila whose parents died at the hands of Paz y Justicia members. The family members feel incapable to care for them and the orphans themselves suffer the permanent reminders of their pain and the feeling of being a burden to the family. There is no strategy of psychological attention for these victims of the low intensity warfare3.
Some communities try to solve these health problems by capacitating health promoters. The group Las Abejas is organizing a network of promoters as well as the autonomous municipality Polhó. However, these efforts confront serious obstacles for the lack of resources.
The right to education is established in the Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico, article 3 and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 26.1.
The illiteracy rate in the municipalities with high a percentage of indigenous population ranges from 29% (Palenque) and 49% (Sabanilla) in children between 6 and 14 years of age and between 27% (Palenque) and 54 % (El Bosque y Tumbalá) in people older than 15 years4.
In the displacement camps in Chenalhó children do not receive classes. For two years now, there are no teachers, no materials, no space for a school. The childrens passivity inhibits their integral, physical and psychomotoric development and their process of academic growth is halted. According to the parents in Acteal, the children cannot recover from the pain of the massacre because they dont attend school or activities to distract them.
The education in the displaced communities in the northern zone is irregular due to the constant inattendance of the teachers who on occasions belong to the group SOCAMA (Solidaridad Campesino Magisterial), and according to the displaced serve as informants for the paramilitaries5.
In Xoyep, Acteal, Polhó and in the camps in San Cristóbal different people organize weekly artistic or game activities for the children. However, these efforts cannot replace the formal education of the children.
Evaluation and Conclusions
The new governmental offensive after the Acteal massacre had contributed to making the situation in Chiapas more and more complex and dangerous. Some moments forewarned about the reinitiation of open hostilities with armed confrontations. The attacks by the Mexican Army against the villages in El Bosque represented the peak of this escalation. The national and international reaction influenced towards a change in the course of the actions and the new strategy in the low intensity warfare. The states force was concentrated in reducing the oppositions spaces in the municipalities: the opposition lost various important municipalities on the war map, among them Ocosingo, Altamirano, Bochil, Chilón and Huitiupán.
The natural disasters on the coast as well as the return to actions in the context of the low intensity warfare helped lifting the image of the human rights situation in Chiapas. The Interamerican Commission on Humans Rights (CIDH) published their report at the end of last year in which it states: The Mexican State is responsible for human rights violations committed by state agents in exercise of their functions.
The State can also be made responsible internationally if it omits to adopt the necessary measures to prevent the mentioned acts and it is responsible for repairing damages via compensation for the victims.
The patterns of violence and human rights violations from years back are being repeated, especially the impunity with all its mechanisms of complicity. One of the basic elements of impunity is the intent to erase the collective memory of the crimes. The law initiative of Chiapas´ governor Roberto Albores which proposes to grant amnesty to armed civilian groups is immoral. Colombia applied this method with the legal decrees 199 y 2034 in 1987. Today in this country the law establishes that the members of the paramilitary groups who turn themselves in to the authorities do not have to confess their crimes nor declare to help clarify them.
The intolerance in society is a time bomb easily activated in the context of the war. The intolerance and cover up of the truth are not only aberrations, but also fundamental weapons to feed the war. The militarization has continued and expanded, especially in the period of this report.
We join in the recommendations of the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights which urge for the presence of a special human rights relater by the UN.
We consider indispensable to typify the paramilitarization and the actions of the paramilitaries as a crime.
We join the recommendation of the CIDH to the Mexican Government, in the numeral 704 which rules to combat effectively the armed civilian groups.
It is urgent that the Congress approves the COCOPA law about the Indian peoples and the implementation of the San Andrés Accords.
We reiterate the demand, not only legal, but ethical, to continue the impartial investigations of the Acteal massacre case.
It is the States task to promote a culture of tolerance in all of its aspects.
The formation of a National Commission for the Displaced that assures the conditions for safe returns.
1 Reporte de observadores, septiembre de 1998
2 La Jornada, 19 de enero, P. 8, H. Bellinghausen
3 CDHFBC, trabajo de campo, enero 1999
4 Censo de la secretaría de hacienda de noviembre 1995.
5 CDHFBC, trabajo de campo, enero, 1999
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Tag Archives: the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She is only the second monarch to have celebrated 60 years on the English throne. Queen Victoria reigned for 64 years, from 1837 to 1901. In this post I will describe the various parts of the 1953 coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II that took place in Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.
The Accession and Preparations for the Coronation
Upon the death of King George VI on February 6, 1953, his daughter, Elizabeth ascended to the throne and be proclaimed queen by the Privy Council. The formal coronation ceremony was not held until one year later since the festivities would be deemed inappropriate during the period of mourning that follows the death of the monarch. The coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II was held more than a year after her accession.
In April 1952 the coronation committee, under the chairmanship of Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh was formed to plan the coronation ceremony. The coronation was scheduled to take place on June 2, 1953 which would allow for 16 months of preparation time. Westminster Abbey was closed for several months while construction crews prepared the exterior and interior. Viewing stands were also built along the route from Buckingham Palace to the Abbey.
Sadly just a few weeks before the coronation day Queen Mary, the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, died on March 24, 1953. Normally, there would be a long mourning period and the coronation would have been postponed for several months but according to the wishes expressed in the dowager Queen’s will she stated that her death should not affect the planned coronation and the event should precede as scheduled.
Rehearsals involving all participants were held in the days prior to the coronation date. Key members that would participate in the coronation rehearsed the different parts of the ceremony and the Queen took part in two full dress rehearsals just days before the coronation date. She had practiced the procession back at the palace with her maids of honor carrying a long sheet instead of the coronation robe that was being specially made for the occasion. The Queen also wore the Imperial State Crown during the days leading up to the event so that she could get used to the heavy weight of the crown.
The Coronation Ceremony
On coronation day in 1953 approximately three million people gathered on the streets of London. Journalists came from around the world to report on the festivities leading up to the coronation and for the first time in history the BBC was going to broadcast the coronation ceremony to more than twenty million viewers around the world. There had been considerable debate within the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Winston Churchill was opposed to the idea but Queen Elizabeth insisted that the event should be filmed for television.
The coronation ceremony for the monarch of England has taken place in Westminster Abbey since William I was crowned in 1066. At the time of his coronation centuries ago there was an older smaller church on the present site in the City of Westminster (London) prior to the building of the current large gothic cathedral. Most people will recognize Westminster Abbey as the place where Prince William married Catherine Middleton in April 2011.
Prior to the arrival of the Queen, various foreign royalty and heads of state arrived in a procession of carriages and one of the last to arrive to the Abbey was the Irish State Coach carrying the Queen Mother. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip traveled in grand style from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey in the Gold State Coach pulled by eight matching horses.
The Gold State Coach was built in 1762 and has been used in every coronation since King George IV; it is also used for other grand occasions such as most recently the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and the Diamond Jubilee. The coach weighs four tons and is 24 feet long and 12 feet high. The gold gilded enclosed coach features panels painted by Giovanni Cipriani and at the four corners are tritons that represent Britain’s imperial power and on the roof are three gilded cherubs that represent England, Ireland and Scotland. The interior of the coach is lined with velvet and satin.
The coronation ceremony for Queen Elizabeth II was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the most senior cleric in the Church of England. Other clergy and peer members had additional roles and most of the participants are required to wear ceremonial robes or uniforms. Government officials and representatives from foreign countries along with members of the royal family and invited guests throughout England and the Commonwealth nations, approximately 8,000 guests were invited.
The Procession –
Finally with everyone assembled the coronation ceremony starts with the procession of the royal regalia. Preceding the Queen into the Abbey are the royal maces, three ceremonial swords representing mercy, spiritual and temporal justice, the Sword of State, St. Edward’s Staff and lastly St. Edward’s Crown. Normally the Sovereign enters wearing a traditional crimson surcoat, this is usually worn for the duration of the ceremony and the other coronation garments and robes are placed over it. Instead of a surcoat Queen Elizabeth entered the Abbey wearing her custom designed coronation gown made by Norman Hartnell and the Robe of State carried by her eight Maids of Honor.
The different sections of the coronation ceremony have largely remained unchanged over the centuries. After the procession, Queen Elizabeth arrives at the front of the Abbey, she kneels to pray and then sits in the Chair of Estate as the royal regalia is brought forward and placed on the altar. Then she moves to stand before King Edward’s Chair which is also known as the Coronation Chair.
The Coronation Chair was commissioned in 1296 for the coronation of King Edward I to hold the coronations stone of Scotland, also known as the Stone of Scone. The high back Gothic chair was carved in 1297 from oak which features four gilded lions that are the legs of the chair. Since 1308 all England sovereigns until 1603 and Great Britain thereafter have used the chair at their coronations, with the exception of Queen Mary I who was crowned in a chair given to her by the Pope and Mary II who was crowned in copy of the chair. In 1996 the Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland with the provision that it would be returned to the chair for the next coronation.
The Recognition –
During this section of the ceremony, the Archbishop along with the other clergy presents the Queen to the four corners of the coronation theatre, starting at the east, south, west and north. The congregation signifies their acknowledgement and shouts their joy. The Queen accepts their acclamations while standing in front of the Coronation Chair.
The Oath –
The Queen returns to the Chair of Estate and the Archbishop stands before her to ask her if she is prepared to take the Oath. Then, the Queen approaches the altar with the Sword of State being carried before her and with her right hand on the Bible she pledges to uphold the laws of the State and Church of England. Afterwards she kisses the Bible and signs the Oath.
The service continues with a reading from the Gospel by one of the Bishops followed by several hymns sung by the choir and the Archbishop will recite more prayers.
The Anointing –
The Queen rises and with the assistance of the Mistress of Robes she is dressed in an anointing gown made of plain white cloth that fastens in the back and is specially made to be worn over her coronation gown. The Queen once again moves to the Coronation Chair and four Knights of the Garter approach with a pall (canopy) made of silk to shield the public from this most sacred part of the coronation ceremony.
The Dean of Westminster takes the Ampulla and the Coronation Spoon from the Altar and with the Archbishop goes to stand before the Queen. The Dean pours the Holy Oil into the Spoon and the Archbishop anoints the hands, breast and head of the Queen. She then kneels and the Archbishop gives her a blessing. The Knights of the Garter remove the pall and walk away.
The Queen rises at with the aid of the Mistress of Robes she removes the anointing gown and replaces it with afresh clean tunic, known as the Colobium Sindonis. The Supertunica is put on and fastened with a Girdle and the Stole is draped over her shoulders and finally the Imperial Mantel. The Queen then returns to sit in the Coronation Chair.
The Investiture –
This is the portion of the coronation ceremony when more items of the royal regalia are presented to the Queen, such as the Spurs, the Sword of State, the Armills and the Orb. The Coronation Ring is also presented and placed on the fourth finger of the Queen’s right hand. Next the Sceptre with the Cross and the Rod with the Dove are given to the Queen.
The Crown –
Finally this is the part of the ceremony that is the most solemn. The Archbishop stands before the Altar and takes St. Edward’s Crown into his hands and says a prayer. He returns to the Queen sitting in the Coronation Chair and reverently raises the Crown over her head for a few moments and then slowly lowers it onto the Queen’s head. This act constitutes the actual crowning of the Sovereign who symbolically takes possession of the kingdom. As the Queen is being crowned, simultaneously the Princes, Princesses and Peers put on their crowns and coronets and a shout goes out among those gathered in the Abbey, “God Save the Queen”.
The Homage –
The Sceptre with the Cross and the Rod with the Dove are given to a peer to hold for the duration of the Homage. The first to pay homage to the Queen are the Archbishop and the other bishops who kneel before the Queen and pledge their support. Then the Duke of Edinburgh pays his homage, pledges his support and kisses the Queen’s left cheek. Next follow the other royal members and peers who have gathered to witness the coronation ceremony.
Just before Communion, the Queen will have the Crown removed and the Orb will be given to a peer to hold. After Communion the Queen will kneel before the Coronation Chair with the Duke of Edinburgh at her side, the Duke’s coronet will also be removed. The Archbishop will say several prayers and ends with a blessing for the royal couple.
The Recessional –
The Queen will go into the private chapel for a few minutes and as she returns she is now wearing the Imperial Crown. The Sceptre with the Cross is placed into her right hand and the Orb into her left hand. Then, the Queen will leave the Abbey as the congregation sings the National Anthem. The members of the Royal family, clergy and guests will slowly follow. Upon exiting the Abbey the Queen and Duke take their seats in the Gold State Coach and escorted by thousands of military personnel from around the Commonwealth they make their way back to Buckingham Palace through the streets of London.
The Coronation Wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II
In 1953, for her coronation ceremony, Queen Elizabeth II worn a specially made gown designed by Norman Hartnell instead of the normal surcoat. The coronation gown was made of white silk with intricate embroidery of the floral symbols of the countries of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Nations, including the English Tudor rose, a Scottish thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, a Canadian maple leaf, an Australian wattle flower, a New Zealand fern and a South African protea. Unknown to the Queen at the time, Hartnell cleverly had a four-leaf clover embroidered on the left side of the dress where Queen Elizabeth’s hand would touch it throughout the day
Over her gown, the Queen wore the Robe of State when she entered the Abbey for the coronation ceremony. Attached to the shoulders of the dress, the purple hand woven silk velvet robe was lined in ermine and had a train that was six yards long. The robe was beautifully embroidered with gold thread that featured a design of wheat and olive branches to represent peace and prosperity and the train ends with the Queen’s crowned cypher.
The Queen also wore the diamond Coronation Necklace and Earrings that were originally made in 1858 for the coronation of Queen Victoria. The Coronation necklace was also worn at the coronations of Queen Alexandra in 1901, Queen Mary in 1911 and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother in 1937. At the time of the coronation in 1953 the necklace had 25 graduated cushion-cut diamonds set in silver with gold links and a large 22 carat diamond pendant known as the Lahore Diamond. The matching Coronation Earrings were also made in 1858 and consist of four cushion-cut diamonds and two drop diamond pendants that are approximately 12 and 7 carats each.
Prior to the start of the coronation ceremony on the journey from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, the Queen wore the Diamond Diadem. The George IV State Diadem was made in 1820 for the coronation of King George IV. The diadem includes 1333 diamonds, including a four-carat yellow diamond, and 169 pearls with a design that alternates between crosses and a floral design which incorporate roses, thistles and shamrocks which are the symbols of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The diadem was later worn by Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV. Queen Victoria inherited it in 1837 and she wore it at her coronation during the recessional from Westminster Abbey. Upon her death in 1901 the diadem was passed to a secession of Queen consorts; Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. The diamen is now part of the Queen’s Personal Jewel Collection and is easily recognizable as it is worn by the current Queen on the postage stamps, coins and currency of England; it is also worn in the annual procession from Buckingham Palace to the State Opening Parliament.
England is the only European country that still uses royal regalia for the consecration ceremony of their king or queens. Some of these items are hundreds of years old and others more recent items were used in 1953 for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. (For more detailed information about the coronation regalia in the Crown Jewels collection please see last month’s post, The Crown Jewels of England – Part One)
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Nov 9,2014
Week 10: Running Back Round Up
Every week, I examine the most turbulent backfields to determine whether a backup is due for a bigger role and how any possible changes will affect Fantasy relevant stars. San Francisco 49ers RB Frank Gore remains the back to own in his backfield.
Frank Gore – Carlos Hyde
Earlier in the week, Marcus Lattimore announced his retirement from the NFL, siting an inability to recover from the two gruesome knee injuries he suffered during his college career. The 49ers had selected Lattimore in the fourth round of the 2013 draft, hoping he could return to form. Believed to be one of the most gifted prospects at the position before getting hurt, Lattimore will no longer appear on San Francisco’s depth chart, leaving only Frank Gore and Carlos Hyde for the remainder of the season. The elder of the two backs has certainly disappointed, averaging fewer fantasy points per game than either Matt Aasiata or Knile Davis. Currently ranked just inside of the top 30 fantasy RBs, Gore has more than double the number of attempts, rushing yards, and touchdowns than the rookie. While Hyde has flashed…
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The Bourgeois and the Beggarly: A Divided Glasgow
December 17, 2012 By Jorn Koelemaij
University of Glasgow in West End, Picture taken by Jorn Koelemaij
Segregation, spatial inequality, and social polarisation are not necessarily phenomena that are common in cities with an industrial past. It is often the case, however, that areas with high concentrations of former industrial working-class citizens struggle to adjust to the contemporary knowledge-intensive and service-based urban economies. While, in some cities segregation might not be always easy to discover for the average visitor, in Glasgow, the contradictions appear to be quite obvious.
Glasgow, the largest city of Scotland at 600,000, is historically working class with an evident industrial heritage, which attempts to improve its current reputation by investing in cultural events and modernizing its urban economy in order to increase its competitiveness. To some extent, it seems to succeed. The fact that the city attracts people nowadays is proven by the fact that Glasgow currently counts as the third-most attractive major British tourist destination and that the city is often being mentioned as the best shopping centre in Britain north of London. At first sight, visitors that particularly come to shop may get the impression that they ended up in quite a vibrant and thriving urban centre, despite the fact that some of the historical buildings could still use a revamp. In any case the tourists extend their movement towards the West End of Glasgow, this idea will be mainly confirmed. The West End is an area dominated by students, with many cosy pubs, hip coffee bars, and specialty boutique shops. Moreover, one will find a well-maintained park and Botanical Garden, while being surrounded by monumental Victorian sandstone buildings. Last, but not least, the characteristic historical buildings of the University of Glasgow and The Kelvingrove Art Gallery are an aesthetic feast for the eyes.
In case they choose to discover the other side of the city centre though, they will get a different idea of the city’s current well-being. Already during the industrial era, Glasgow has been quite segregated: where the West End counted as the bohemian and mainly affluent side of the city, the East End was the industrial and thus mainly working class area. Nowadays, instead of viewing paintings of Monet, Van Gogh, or Rembrandt, one can visit the People’s Palace here, which gives the visitor an overview of the social history and the living conditions of less-affluent citizens in East Glasgow.
One of the other primary attractions within this area is the renowned Barras Market. At this market, people of modest means with a penchant for a good bargain are buying everything you can imagine, ranging from old bikes to DVDs, from general clothing to forage caps, which could be useful for a variety of purposes. Located directly behind the Barras lies Calton, which is generally regarded as one of the most deprived and dangerous places in Glasgow. This is illustrated by the area’s extremely low life expectancy: in 2006, the life expectancy for males in Calton was only 53,9. This is lower than war-torn or undernourished states of the Middle East or Sub-Saharan Africa. Even more striking is that this number is also a lot lower than comparable deprived neighbourhoods in Manchester or Liverpool, as noted recently by The Economist. There are many possible explanations, although researchers apparently are still unable to agree on the primary reason that is able to explain this extreme number.
Beyond shockingly low life expectancy, Calton also has a reputation to be a dangerous place due to links to the infamous Calton Tongs gang. During the 1960s, the area was known as Tongland, and today the area’s new generation seems, according to some recent graffiti pieces in the neighbourhood, to try to continue, maintain, and even glorify this dubious identity.
In sum, Glasgow’s West End clearly seems to maintain its attractiveness among the successful new urban generation that benefits from and enjoys the so-called current cultural-cognitive city. The question is whether Glasgow’s East End, in general, and the area of Calton in particular, will continue to be known as a place of concentration of the less well-off in the near and long-term future. One of the advantages of Calton is, at the very least, that its location could be regarded as being potentially quite attractive. Although clear patterns of gentrification are not yet very visible in Glasgow, the Merchant City, located at the eastern edge of the city centre, has recently become increasingly attractive by a young and affluent crowd. At the same time, the adjacent area, Dennistoun, located just north of Calton, slowly but surely tends to become more popular amongst middle and higher incomes.
Also within Calton itself, some things have changed during the last couple of years: welfare and advisory projects and other volunteer initiatives try to help those most vulnerable that are being hurt by persistent poverty, while urban renewal aims to improve the reputation of the area by trying to increase the social diversity of its citizens. Opinions are divided about the current state of the neighbourhood and whether or not it has really improved indeed. In 2014, the city of Glasgow is hosting the Commonwealth Games, which will be situated mainly in the city’s East End. Perhaps this event could contribute to a general improvement of the larger area’s reputation? Anyway, it goes without doubt that, for urban scholars with an interest in topics as segregation, spatial inequality, social exclusion or concentrations of poverty, Glasgow is a very remarkable and interesting place to research!
All photographs by Jorn Koelemaij and Anouk Tersteeg.
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Jorn Koelemaij
Jorn studied Human Geography and Urban Planning in Amsterdam and Manchester and obtained his MSc in Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Currently he is working as academic assistant/ PhD candidate at the Geography department of Ghent University. Interested in a broad range of topics, including segregation, urban inequality and neighbourhood effects as well as globalisation and political, economic and cultural transition.
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onDecember 17, 2012
Might the (shockingly!) low life expectance rates mean that Calton is a food desert? Or are there other specific causal relations that you could tease out of this neighbourhood that result in such appalling numbers?
I’m not sure if you could regard Calton as a classic Food Desert, but there definitely is an oversupply of cheap, unhealthy snackpoints. There are also quite a lot of pubs in the area, but on the other hand, this is also the case in the affluent West End, so that is in my point of view not necessarily a problem.
As The Economist article also describes, there are a number of clear reasons behind the low life expectancy, though it is still hard to explain why the number in Calton is even that much lower compared to deprived areas in for instance Manchester of Liverpool. Perhaps a critical recalculation, added with some qualitative research might reveal some of the secrets of Calton.
To be honest, I think the area is likely to improve quite a bit in the future, though some more urban renewal is probably needed to achieve that (see pictures). The (New) Gorbals, located south of the river Clyde, could count as an example here since this area, also located on walking distance from the city centre, radically changed over the past 20 years or so (maybe not to everyone’s satisfaction but that’s a different discussion).
Indeed, that Calton is lower than similarly blighted neighbourhoods on the same island confusing, at the least. Here’s to hoping efforts to land major global events result in similar media attention to the problems that exist in the city, much in the same way that the Olympics brought attention to the problems of drug abuse, homelessness, poor mental health care, and prostitution in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (though, to be honest, I can’t say that the heightened media attention and awareness of such problems has resulted in substantial policy change..).
Glasgow's Commonwealth Games: Political Prestige Project or Positive Legacy? | TheProtoCity.com
onFebruary 4, 2013
[…] My previous article already revealed some of the current problems that Glasgow’s East End is facing. The Games thus aim to regenerate this part of the city, not only by providing jobs, but also by making use of otherwise derelict land, by improving health, infrastructure, and transportation networks, and by building upon existing regeneration programmes, for instance regarding social inclusion. One of the things that are believed to remain a lasting positive legacy is the Athletes’ Village, which will be converted into a mixed-tenure residence with 1.100 private homes, 300 socially-rented homes, and a 120 bed-care home, which is expected to provide some positive area effects. […]
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Will Anthony Martial leave Manchester United this summer?
Hardly a surprise given last season’s events, but agent Philippe Lamboley has finally revealed Anthony Martial wants to leave Manchester United this summer. His contract has 12 months to run, but there’s been no progress over an extension which has raised doubt over his long-term future at Old Trafford.
I can’t help but feel his omission from France’s 23-man squad for this summer’s World Cup had a major bearing on the decision to leave. France are still 6/1 to win the tournament, according to the latest football betting odds, but Martial was a regular for Les Blues at the time of his signing in 2016.
He won the Golden Boy award for his performances at the 2016 European Championships, but he’s fallen down the pecking order since as a result of diminishing form at club level. Martial impressed in his debut season at Old Trafford, scoring and creating 15 goals in 29 Premier League starts, but he became a victim of inconsistency which led to him losing his place in the side.
Martial was substituted on or substituted off in 25 of his 30 league games last season, but still ended the campaign with the second-most amount of goals (9) – can someone tell this to Jose Mourinho? Alexis Sanchez’s arrival in January saw Martial taken out of the starting lineup, even after he continued to flop, so why wouldn’t he leave?
He’s not the first Frenchman our current manager has struggled to get the best from in games……but if Martial wants out, which club will sign him? Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly keen and have broken their wage structure to tie Harry Kane down to a long-term deal, but I envisage an entire summer of negotiating with chairman Daniel Levy if they catch wind of his availability.
We know Martial wasn’t at his best last season but losing him would be such a misstep. After seeing Romelu Lukaku, Kevin de Bruyne and Mohamed Salah struggle under Mourinho and go on to become world-beaters after leaving him, surely the alarm bells should ring this time?
The Frenchman has real promise, having contributed 39 goals in 86 league games for United, but Mourinho isn’t trying hard enough to keep him. Martial was named on the bench in the Europa League knockouts and FA Cup final last season – nothing says expendable more than this. I and many other would fume if he was sold this summer, as we’re pretty certain the decision would come back to bite Jose. But our manager’s stubbornness might be the death of him.
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RICHMOND, M. C. (2004). Environmental Views. National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse, 7. Available online at http://www.webclearinghouse.net/volume/. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
Environmental Views
MICHAEL C. RICHMOND
Abstract This experiment looked at how easily people are swayed on their position of the environment after being directly exposed to different compositions about the subject. The 60 college students who participated in this study were given one of three essays and then were asked to complete a survey about their personal beliefs on the environment. The control group was given a composition on procrastination, the pro-environment was given an essay on environmental responsibility and the anti-environment group was given a composition on how green peace organizations shut down mills causing the loss of jobs. The dependant variable in this design is the raw score total from the survey that the participants fill out after reading the essays. It was hypothesized that the participants exposed to the pro-environmental essays would have a higher environmental affinity compared to the control group, while those exposed to the ant-environmental essays will have a lower affinity compared to the control group. Analysis of the data collected showed that there was an extreme flaw in the design procedure for the control group and the pro-environmental group but it did show that people would have a lower sympathy towards the environment when exposed to anti-environmental compositions at a level that approaches significance. This experiment showed that it is possible for a person to influence their views on the environment; the design however should be honed for better results.
INTRODUCTION Effects of Exposure to Positive and Negative Environmental Writings On Personal Environmental Views Throughout time there has been somewhat of a civil war between humans as to how to approach the protection of the environment. On one end of the spectrum people want to preserve mother nature to the best of their ability, at some instances, to the point that they may lose their life. On the other side, there are people that feel the need to quench the thirst of humans, to supply us with the natural resources that we needs. This situation is quite perplexing in nature, we are trying to fight to protect the environment, while at the same time we know what we have to do to sustain our own life. Both of these stances are totally legitimate qualities that can be justified as being innate to all humans. Under the presupposition that man is born with both the qualities to preserve the environment as well as preserve life for man, this experiment is designed to discover how sympathetic these innate qualities are to direct exposure from different compositions exemplifying both of these aspects. In a study conducted by Clark, Kotchen and Moore (2003), on the influences that impact peoples environmental behavior, they found that people tended to favor a notion of self sacrifice towards the environment before they would show self sacrifice towards their neighbors. They were seeing how people would answer questions based on different influences. Questions were geared to have people express their feelings about the environment should it lower their electricity bills, or in other instances asking if reducing air pollution will help people in their immediate region. The greatest findings that they have, is that they were able to manipulate how people felt towards the environment through different types of rhetoric. Their results showed that people are more inclined to help the environment than help another human being when it is at their cost. Bamberg (2003), in a study that questioned the motives behind people performing pro-environmental actions, found that people would not perform in a pro-environmental manner because of immediate circumstances; rather they act in such a way due to long-term conditioning and innate beliefs. People however, who do not have such innate and long-term conditions act within a social context. Bamberg saw that people who had a low environmental concern still reacted in a pro-environmental way due to the direct exposure of the situation. Bamberg saw that because the stimulus was in their hand at the time that they had the affinity to act sympathetically to the issue. This shows that people are directly affected in their thinking by what they are exposed to prior (Bamberg 2003). Glenn D. Shean and Tamara Shei (1995) found, in their study on the values of student environmentalists that when forming an opinion about the environment, an appeal to economic or political mitigating circumstances will lessen that person’s environmental awareness and sympathy to a certain environmental issue. They basically said that even though direct knowledge of an environmental issue is presented, should there be political or economic ties to this issue, those issues would hold more weight (Shean, & Shei, 1995). These studies have all shown that there are many factors that play in any given person’s view on the environment. A solid point however, that was shown by Bamberg, was that people are directly influenced in some way at a single direct time and place by outside influences. This is important to the entire pro-environmental ideal because even those who show little affinity towards the environment will still act in a pro-environmental manner with immediate exposure (Bamberg 2003). People however, though may be innately pro-environmental, have a tendency to act in a manner that that seems anti-environmental when encountered with mitigating circumstances. It is then hypothesized that people who are exposed to pro-environmental stimulus will rate themselves at a higher environmental level while those exposed to anti-environmental stimulus will rate themselves lower on an environmental scale, but not in proportion, due to the innateness to have pro-environmental sentiment.
METHODMethodParticipantsSixty participants were used in this study. All of the people, both male and female were drawn from the undergraduate testing pool at Loyola University New Orleans. All of the participants were over the age of 18 and were given a written consent to prior to testing. All of the students were tested voluntarily. Participants were taken from the subject pool established by the Psychology department who voluntarily signed up on a roster provided by the experimenters.Materials Three different test packets were used in this experiment. All three test packets are the same size with regard to content and the number of pages. All packets included a short composition and two pages of questions. Each packet is different in regard to the composition and five content related questions. One of the compositions was a pro environmental (green advertising) composition. This particular piece of literature was used because we felt it stressed the innate responsibility that humans have towards the environment. The second essay had an anti-environmental, anti-green movement to it. We felt that this was the proper choice for this category because it stressed the human side of the environmental issue, and did not have an anti earth focus. The last composition had nothing to do with environment. Its subject was procrastination; we felt this subject matter was as neutral from the environment as possible. The first five questions on the question section (those that appear on the first page) had to do directly with which composition one received. These questions tested the participants directly on information that was in their respective composition. The final page in the packet is a personal environment inventory constructed by the test givers. This inventory consists of five questions that could possibly measure the strength of a person’s personal environmental views. Such questions as, “How strongly do you feel about the environment?” The questions were designed to show how often people think about the environment and how they personally feel about it.Design and Procedure This study was an experimental study because of the random assignment of test packets to the participants. In this design there were two experimental groups with one control group (independent groups). The groups that receive the pro-environmental and the anti-environmental compositions are the experimental groups. The group that receives the neutral composition, the one about procrastination, is the control group. The independent variables for the experiment are the different types of compositions. The dependant variable is the way that they feel about the environment after reading the different types of essays according to the self made inventory. The amount of subjects that are tested at one time is arbitrary as long as there are enough test packets to go around and enough space in the testing area. As the subjects enter the room, they are handed the consent form, and are specifically told that they experiment that they are about to be a part of is testing the reading comprehension of undergraduate students. This will also be conveyed in the content of the consent form. However many students show up for the experiment will be the amount of test packets handed out. The packets are to be handed out from the left to the right. Because the testing room is open seating, the randomness with which people take their seat creates random assignment. Different packets will be handed out as to ensure a proper ratio between pro, anti and neutral tests. The participants will then be given however long they need to read through the composition and answer the questions. Once done, they participants will hand in the test packets and will be debriefed as to the real purpose of the experiment. The administrators will tell the participants that the experiment was actually testing how easily their personal beliefs on the environment could be swayed after immediate exposure to the compositions. Should any of the participants feel uneasy as to the deception they were just faced with, information about the counseling services on Loyola’s campus is provided.
RESULTS Results There were a total of 60 participants (N=60) that were broken into three groups. There was a pro-environmental group (n=17), a control group (n=15) and an anti-environmental group (n=28). Each group was given a survey with a possible high score of 100. The pro-environment group had a mean score of M=28.3 with a standard deviation SD=8.8. The control group had a mean score of M=30.6 and a standard deviation of SD=6.6. The anti-environmental group had a mean score of 25.8 with standard deviation of SD=6.1.The first research hypothesis in this study was that those exposed to the “pro-environmental” subject matter would have a higher environmental index score than those within the control group. This hypothesis was not supported; the control group actually had a higher environmental score than the pro-environmental group at a level that approached significance, F( 2, 57 ) = 2.32, p =0.108. The second research hypothesis stated that those participants who were exposed to the “anti-environmental” essays would have a lower score than the control group. This hypothesis was not supported, but the scores did approach a significant level, F( 2, 57) = 2.32 p= 0.096.
DISCUSSION Discussion There is very little support for either of the two original hypotheses. The first research hypothesis is not supported because the control group had a higher affinity towards the environment than the pro-environmental group at a level that approached significance. The second hypothesis however does show the means leading to significance but because the results between the control group and pro-environmental group are backwards (i.e. The control group has a higher environmental affinity than the pro-environmental group) it is deemed not supported. The anti-environmental group did have the lowest affinity towards the environment, which gives the study some “saving grace.” Should more extensive research have been done, the sample pool would have been bigger and may prove the difference in mean scores to be significant. There were some problems with the study. The first problem was that the index used was made up, and wasn’t based on any previous index. This proved to be defective seeing how the control group scored higher than the pro-environmental group, though the anti-environmental group did score lower, at a near significant level. Other problems occurred with the participant pool. The majority of the people enrolled on the campus are probably very aware about environmental issues and have a higher environmental affinity overall. Another problem was the essays that were used. The essays were the keystones to this entire experiment and most of the people who read the pro-environmental essay said it was dry and boring, this may have had an adverse effect on the total index scores. There is also the question of if the person was actually swayed in their personal environmental views. This test compared the two groups to a control group, one change that could have helped the experimental design may have been to pretest the individuals before giving them the essays and eliminating a control group altogether.The future for this study is that it should be mainly used as a skeleton for further research. The essays could probably all be changed seeing how they were somewhat ineffective, except for the anti-environmental essay. The index is done well but should be expanded upon by either asking more questions or by expanding on the original ones. Because of its design and participant pool this study proved to find no significant scientific results, it just needs some fine-tuning in order to make it work well. This particular topic should be studied more extensively; the only way to get people to care about the environment is to change their mind on how they feel about the environment.
REFERENCES ReferencesBamberg, S. (2003). How does environmental concern influence specific environmentally related behaviors? A new answer to an old question. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 21-32.Clark, C. F. (2003). Internal and external influences on pro-environmental behavior: Participation in a green electricity program. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 237-246.Shean, G.D., & Shei, T. (1995). The values of student environmentalist. Journal of Psychology, 129, 559-564.
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CAST & CREDITS
A Documentary
Directed by Ken Burns, David McMahon
& Sarah Burns
Featuring Ed Koch, David Dinkins,
Craig Steven Wilder, Calvin O. Butts III, Jim Dwyer, Natalie Byfield, Michael WarrenKevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam
and Korey Wise
No MPAA rating (language, some violent images)
Running time: 1 Hour 59 Minutes
Reviewed by Michael Phillips
"The Central Park Five" is an unusually good documentary about an outlandish miscarriage of justice.
On an April night in 1989, Trisha Meili was beaten, raped and left for dead not far from a path in Manhattan's Central Park. Five boys between the ages of 14 and 16 signed confessions regarding the attack, which was the worst of several criminal incidents unfolding in the area that night.
The boys were African-American and Latino: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, all present, anguished, reflective and accounted for in "The Central Park Five." (McCray declined to be filmed, but his voice is heard throughout.) The victim, who eventually came out of a coma, was white. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have been the one to complain about a "high-tech lynching" two years later, but surely this was the racially inflamed news story deserving of that phrase.
The teenagers served several years in correctional facilities. Then, turnabout: DNA evidence exonerating the five came to light. That, plus a 2002 confession made by serial rapist Matias Reyes — who admitted his guilt to one of the wrongly accused while both were in the same prison — served to free the Central Park five.
Why did they sign confessions if they weren't guilty? The film focuses, intently, on this question, before dealing with much more. There's a sobering moment late in the picture when the holdout juror who believed the boys innocent (but cast a "guilty" verdict anyway) tells us: "I just went along with it at the end because frankly I was wiped out." This is the very reason the boys themselves signed confessions years earlier: the NYPD, under pressure from above, grilled the five, who didn't really know what was happening to them, into exhausted submission. They fit the bill. Their confessions gave the police the win they needed for public-relations purposes. The boys were admittedly out "wilding," as the newly coined phrase had it, to begin with, stirring up trouble in the park. And expedience led to injustice.
"The Central Park Five" comes from, among others, Ken Burns, the man who made "The Civil War," "Jazz" and other broadly expansive works in the documentary genre. The project began with his co-director and daughter, Sarah Burns, and her book on the Central Park Five. (David McMahon is the co-producer, co-writer and co-director.) Their interview subjects range from ex-mayors to reporters to historians to family members (but not to the victim herself). The innocence of the five at the center failed to garner the same attention as their rush-to-judgment guilt. This film is a fine, strong corrective.
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Worlds Best Education Systems
by Mr. Rich | Feb 1, 2017 | Education
Forty years from now, countries of the world will be governed by students who are in school today. Their thoughts and actions will be shaped by what they know and have experienced, learned in school, and their ingenuity. Thus it is important to see which country has the most successful education system in the world.
Every year, the World Economic Forum releases its Global Competitiveness Report on the state of the world’s economies. The data collected ranked countries according to the “12 pillars of competitiveness,” which includes macro-economic environment, infrastructure, health and primary education, and labor market efficiency.
Education is one of the most important things in determining the future success of a country and its citizens ability to create and employ in jobs. Without it our youth would have no guidance in a very difficult world. Unfortunately, education systems are not universal. Some are better than others – others much better.
Although the list varies from year to year, you will see the same top countries. It is important to research why these countries are excelling and why others are not. It is not about the country, so much as what the schools are doing. Once identify schools across the world that are excelling, it serves as a model.
Here is a video from 2014 that provides information about the Top 10 Education Systems and why:
Education Spending According to The World Bank
Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland spend some of the most money on education as a percentage of their gross domestic product, according to the World Bank. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has said that levels of education funding do not necessarily affect academic performance, but these Scandinavian nations all ranked in the top third, generally outperforming Asian nations where students are pressured to perform well.
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Bill & Laws
CSSSSB 12(JUD): "An Act relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to assault; relating to credit toward a sentence of imprisonment for time spent in a treatment program or under electronic monitoring; and providing for an effective date."
00 CS FOR SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 12(JUD)
01 "An Act relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to assault; relating to credit
02 toward a sentence of imprisonment for time spent in a treatment program or under
03 electronic monitoring; and providing for an effective date."
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
05 * Section 1. AS 11.41.200(a) is amended to read:
06 (a) A person commits the crime of assault in the first degree if
07 (1) that person recklessly causes serious physical injury to another by
08 means of a dangerous instrument;
09 (2) with intent to cause serious physical injury to another, the person
10 causes serious physical injury to any person;
11 (3) the person knowingly engages in conduct that results in serious
12 physical injury to another under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the
13 value of human life; [OR]
01 repeated assaults using a dangerous instrument, even if each assault individually does
02 not cause serious physical injury; or
03 (5) that person knowingly causes another to become unconscious
04 by means of a dangerous instrument; in this paragraph, "dangerous instrument"
05 has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900(b)(15)(B).
06 * Sec. 2. AS 11.81.900(b)(60) is amended to read:
07 (60) "sexual contact" means
08 (A) the defendant's
09 (i) knowingly touching, directly or through clothing, the
10 victim's genitals, anus, or female breast; [OR]
11 (ii) knowingly causing the victim to touch, directly or
12 through clothing, the defendant's or victim's genitals, anus, or female
13 breast; or
14 (iii) knowingly causing the victim to come into
15 contact with semen;
16 (B) but "sexual contact" does not include acts
17 (i) that may reasonably be construed to be normal
18 caretaker responsibilities for a child, interactions with a child, or
19 affection for a child;
20 (ii) performed for the purpose of administering a
21 recognized and lawful form of treatment that is reasonably adapted to
22 promoting the physical or mental health of the person being treated; or
23 (iii) that are a necessary part of a search of a person
24 committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections or the
25 Department of Health and Social Services;
26 * Sec. 3. AS 12.55.027(d) is repealed and reenacted to read:
27 (d) A court may not grant credit against a sentence of imprisonment for time
28 spent in a private residence or under electronic monitoring.
29 * Sec. 4. AS 12.55.027(e) is amended to read:
30 (e) If a defendant intends to claim credit toward a sentence of imprisonment
31 for time spent in a treatment program [OR UNDER ELECTRONIC MONITORING]
01 either as a condition of probation or as a condition of bail release after a petition to
02 revoke probation has been filed, the defendant shall file notice with the court and the
03 prosecutor 10 days before the disposition hearing. The notice shall include the amount
04 of time the defendant is claiming. The defendant must prove by a preponderance of the
05 evidence that the credit claimed meets the requirements of this section. A court may
06 not consider, except for good cause, a request for credit made under this subsection
07 more than 90 days after the disposition hearing.
08 * Sec. 5. AS 12.55.125(c) is amended to read:
09 (c) Except as provided in (i) of this section, a defendant convicted of a class A
10 felony may be sentenced to a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years,
11 and shall be sentenced to a definite term within the following presumptive ranges,
12 subject to adjustment as provided in AS 12.55.155 - 12.55.175:
13 (1) if the offense is a first felony conviction and does not involve
14 circumstances described in (2) or (5) of this subsection, three to six years;
15 (2) if the offense is a first felony conviction and the defendant
16 (A) possessed a firearm, used a dangerous instrument, or
17 caused serious physical injury or death during the commission of the offense,
18 five to nine years; or
19 (B) knowingly directed the conduct constituting the offense at a
20 uniformed or otherwise clearly identified peace officer, firefighter, correctional
21 employee, emergency medical technician, paramedic, ambulance attendant, or
22 other emergency responder who was engaged in the performance of official
23 duties at the time of the offense, seven to 11 years;
24 (3) if the offense is a second felony conviction and does not involve
25 circumstances described in (5) of this subsection, eight to 12 years;
26 (4) if the offense is a third felony conviction, does not involve
27 circumstances described in (5) of this subsection, and the defendant is not subject to
28 sentencing under (l) of this section, 13 to 20 years;
29 (5) if the defendant violated AS 11.41.200 and the defendant used a
30 dangerous instrument as defined in AS 11.81.900(b)(15)(B) and
31 (A) the offense is a first felony conviction, five to seven
01 years;
02 (B) the offense is a second felony conviction, nine to 13
04 (C) the offense is a third felony conviction, 14 to 20 years.
05 * Sec. 6. AS 12.55.125(d) is amended to read:
06 (d) Except as provided in (i) of this section, a defendant convicted of a class B
11 circumstances described in (2) or (5) of this subsection, zero to two years; a defendant
12 sentenced under this paragraph may, if the court finds it appropriate, be granted a
13 suspended imposition of sentence under AS 12.55.085;
14 (2) if the offense is a first felony conviction, the defendant violated
15 AS 11.41.130, and the victim was
16 (A) a child under 16 years of age, two to four years; or
17 (B) was 16 years of age or older, one to three years;
19 circumstances described in (5) of this subsection, two to five years;
20 (4) if the offense is a third felony conviction and does not involve
21 circumstances described in (5) of this subsection, four to 10 years;
24 (A) the offense is a first felony conviction, one to three
26 (B) the offense is a second felony conviction, four to six
28 (C) the offense is a third felony conviction, seven to 10
29 years.
31 (e) Except as provided in (i) of this section, a defendant convicted of a class C
01 felony may be sentenced to a definite term of imprisonment of not more than five
02 years, and shall be sentenced to a definite term within the following presumptive
03 ranges, subject to adjustment as provided in AS 12.55.155 - 12.55.175:
07 suspended imposition of sentence under AS 12.55.085, and the court may, as a
08 condition of probation under AS 12.55.086, require the defendant to serve an active
09 term of imprisonment within the range specified in this paragraph;
11 circumstances described in (5) of this section, one to four years;
13 circumstances described in (5) of this section, two to five years;
14 (4) if the offense is a first felony conviction, and the defendant violated
15 AS 08.54.720(a)(15), one to two years;
20 (B) the offense is a second felony conviction, two to five
22 (C) the offense is a third felony conviction, three to five
24 * Sec. 8. AS 12.55.125(i) is amended to read:
25 (i) A defendant convicted of
26 (1) sexual assault in the first degree, sexual abuse of a minor in the
27 first degree, or sex trafficking in the first degree under AS 11.66.110(a)(2) may be
28 sentenced to a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 99 years and shall be
29 sentenced to a definite term within the following presumptive ranges, subject to
30 adjustment as provided in AS 12.55.155 - 12.55.175:
31 (A) if the offense is a first felony conviction, the offense does
01 not involve circumstances described in (B) of this paragraph, and the victim
02 was
03 (i) less than 13 years of age, 25 to 35 years;
04 (ii) 13 years of age or older, 20 to 30 years;
05 (B) if the offense is a first felony conviction and the defendant
06 possessed a firearm, used a dangerous instrument, or caused serious physical
07 injury during the commission of the offense, 25 to 35 years;
08 (C) if the offense is a second felony conviction and does not
09 involve circumstances described in (D) of this paragraph, 30 to 40 years;
10 (D) if the offense is a second felony conviction and the
11 defendant has a prior conviction for a sexual felony, 35 to 45 years;
12 (E) if the offense is a third felony conviction and the defendant
13 is not subject to sentencing under (F) of this paragraph or (l) of this section, 40
14 to 60 years;
15 (F) if the offense is a third felony conviction, the defendant is
16 not subject to sentencing under (l) of this section, and the defendant has two
17 prior convictions for sexual felonies, 99 years;
18 (2) unlawful exploitation of a minor under AS 11.41.455(c)(2), online
19 enticement of a minor under AS 11.41.452(e), or attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to
20 commit sexual assault in the first degree, sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, or
21 sex trafficking in the first degree under AS 11.66.110(a)(2) may be sentenced to a
22 definite term of imprisonment of not more than 99 years and shall be sentenced to a
23 definite term within the following presumptive ranges, subject to adjustment as
24 provided in AS 12.55.155 - 12.55.175:
26 not involve circumstances described in (B) of this paragraph, and the victim
28 (i) under 13 years of age, 20 to 30 years;
30 (B) if the offense is a first felony conviction and the defendant
31 possessed a firearm, used a dangerous instrument, or caused serious physical
04 (D) if the offense is a second felony conviction and the
06 (E) if the offense is a third felony conviction, the offense does
07 not involve circumstances described in (F) of this paragraph, and the defendant
08 is not subject to sentencing under (l) of this section, 35 to 50 years;
09 (F) if the offense is a third felony conviction, the defendant is
12 (3) sexual assault in the second degree, sexual abuse of a minor in the
13 second degree, online enticement of a minor under AS 11.41.452(d), unlawful
14 exploitation of a minor under AS 11.41.455(c)(1), or distribution of child pornography
15 under AS 11.61.125(e)(2) may be sentenced to a definite term of imprisonment of not
16 more than 99 years and shall be sentenced to a definite term within the following
17 presumptive ranges, subject to adjustment as provided in AS 12.55.155 - 12.55.175:
18 (A) if the offense is a first felony conviction and does not
19 involve circumstances described in (F) of this paragraph, five to 15 years;
20 (B) if the offense is a second felony conviction and does not
21 involve circumstances described in (C) of this paragraph, 10 to 25 years;
22 (C) if the offense is a second felony conviction and the
24 (D) if the offense is a third felony conviction and does not
25 involve circumstances described in (E) of this paragraph, 20 to 35 years;
27 has two prior convictions for sexual felonies, 99 years;
28 (F) if the offense is a first felony conviction and the
29 defendant possessed a firearm, used a dangerous instrument, or caused
30 serious physical injury during the commission of the offense, 10 to 25
01 (4) sexual assault in the third degree, incest, indecent exposure in the
02 first degree, possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography under
03 AS 11.61.125(e)(1), or attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit sexual assault in
04 the second degree, sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree, unlawful exploitation
05 of a minor, or distribution of child pornography, may be sentenced to a definite term
06 of imprisonment of not more than 99 years and shall be sentenced to a definite term
07 within the following presumptive ranges, subject to adjustment as provided in
08 AS 12.55.155 - 12.55.175:
10 involve circumstances described in (F) of this paragraph, two to 12 years;
12 involve circumstances described in (C) of this paragraph, eight to 15 years;
21 serious physical injury during the commission of the offense, seven to 12
23 * Sec. 9. AS 12.61.015 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
24 (d) The prosecuting attorney shall make a reasonable effort to confer with the
25 victim of a sexual felony as defined under AS 12.55.185, ask the victim or the victim's
26 legal guardian whether the victim is in agreement with a proposed plea agreement, and
27 record whether the victim is in agreement with the proposed plea agreement before
28 entering into the plea agreement. Nothing in this subsection requires the victim to
29 provide a response regarding the plea agreement or requires the prosecuting attorney
30 to be bound by the victim's response regarding the plea agreement.
31 * Sec. 10. AS 12.55.027(g) is repealed.
01 * Sec. 11. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to
02 read:
03 APPLICABILITY. AS 11.41.200(a), as amended by sec. 1 of this Act,
04 AS 11.81.900(b)(60), as amended by sec. 2 of this Act, AS 12.55.027(d), as repealed and
05 reenacted by sec. 3 of this Act, AS 12.55.027(e), as amended by sec. 4 of this Act,
06 AS 12.55.125(c), as amended by sec. 5 of this Act, AS 12.55.125(d), as amended by sec. 6 of
07 this Act, AS 12.55.125(e), as amended by sec. 7 of this Act, AS 12.55.125(i), as amended by
08 sec. 8 of this Act, AS 12.61.015(d), enacted by sec. 9 of this Act, and the repeal of
09 AS 12.55.027(g) by sec. 10 of this Act apply to offenses committed on or after the effective
10 date of this Act.
11 * Sec. 12. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).
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A. WILL BROWN
Simon Denny: Founder’s Paradox
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland - 2018
MOCA Cleveland presents a new body of work by Simon Denny (1982, Auckland, New Zealand) that includes sculptures, paintings, and prints that explore emergent business philosophies from the technology sector through the visual language of board games.
Reflecting on the popularity of board games, and resonant with game theory’s influence on the technology sector, these works remap board games with narratives from radical and influential texts like Peter Thiel’s Zero to Oneand the libertarian book The Sovereign Individual. For example, Settlers of Catan, the favorite board game of tech entrepreneur and founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman is re-imagined as a story of expansion where players “settle, trade, and build” from a decaying earth to New Zealand, then out to international waters to found an ocean nation, and finally into outerspace.
Simon Denny: The Founder’s Paradox presents newly prominent mythologies about the entrepreneurial “founder” and the role of the nation state in a libertarian future that collides with fantasy imagery, expansionist ambition, and political ideology. These narratives are present within innovations like Bitcoin and emergent platform monopolies enabled by the effects of big data and Web 2.0.
This project also includes collaborative works that explore the intersection of technology and management through a seminar and workshop led by Denny and Youngjin Yoo, Professor at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, with Patrick Barrett, Adjunct Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art. With MBA students and Design students Denny will produce designs for board games that investigate the impact technologies might have on industries —transportation, healthcare and housing as they meet Augmented Reality, blockchain and big data.
Simon Denny (1982, Auckland, NZ) is a Berlin based artist who explores the aesthetics, rhetoric and cultural impact of technology and technologists, both in the public and the private sector. His works take shape in a range of forms that often mimic the visual language and devices that appear at various technology industry trade shows and launch events. Denny is a research based artist whose work offers critical and celebratory insights into the content and structure of the technology industry, governmental information agencies, and individual cult figures in the field. Recent projects include exhibitions, objects, and installations that investigate the emergent cryptocurrency Bitcoin and the blockchain technology that makes it possible; the Berlin based SoundCloud startup; and a series of graphics—including cartoons, maps, and charts—made by a senior designer at the National Security Agency (NSA), which were part of the information leaked by Edward Snowden. Denny has been based in Berlin since 2009 following his studies at the Städelschule, Frankfurt. Recent solo exhibitions of his work include Business Insider, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2016); Products for Organizing, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2015); The Innovator’s Dilemma, MoMA PS1, New York (2015); New Management, Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); All You Need Is Data, Kunstverein Munich, Munich (2013); and Full Participation, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2012). In 2015 he represented New Zealand in the 56th Venice Biennale.
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Screening & Discussion: American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Tue, March 9, 2010 7:00 pm at Alwan for the Arts
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Alwan for the Arts is pleased to screen the documentary “American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein."
Norman Finkelstein and Director Nicolas Rossier will be present.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Norman Finkelstein and Director Nicolas Rossier on the issues engaging American radicals today, the process of portraying these cinematically, and other topics.
Free and open to the public (donations gratefully accepted).
Watch a trailer of the film here.
American Radical: Tthe Trials of Norman Finkelstein (United States, 2009, 84 Minutes, directed by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier)
AMERICAN RADICAL is a probing documentary about American academic Norman Finkelstein. A son of holocaust survivors, ardent critic of Israel and US Middle-East policy, and author of five provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry, Finkelstein has been at the center of many intractable controversies. Called a lunatic and a self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein is a deeply polarizing figure whose struggles arise from core questions about freedom, identity, and nationhood. From Beirut to Kyoto, Ridgen and Rossier follow Finkelstein around the world as he attempts to negotiate a voice among both supporters and critics, providing an intimate portrait of the man behind the controversy while giving equal time to both his critics and supporters.
“For us, Finkelstein is the consummate documentary subject: a complex firebrand, principled to the point of self-ruin, at the apex of several of the world’s largest conflicts. A man who has never been asked to appear on mainstream American television, but who regularly appears – always creating controversy – in the international media. At once anti-hero, clown, and merciless scholar, Finkelstein creates as many storms as he enters. And to what end? When radicals collide, does it create understanding? Some would argue that it sometimes does. Others would claim that Finkelstein’s principled but too often bitter advocacy does much to discredit the cause of a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Audiences can decide for themselves.” – David Ridgen & Nicolas Rossier
“A powerful glimpse into the lonely path of a brilliant academic…. The filmmakers earnestly explore both Finkelstein’s work and the criticisms his detractors level against him, letting audiences draw their own conclusions about this controversial figure.” – Emily Ratner, Director of the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
“The film raises important questions about Norman’s work and controversial path. It should be seen as the beginning of an exploration of some of the deeper issues facing Jews and Judaism in the 21st century.” – Marc Ellis, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University
About Norman Finkelstein:
Norman Finkelstein is an independent scholar with an outstanding international reputation. His works dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust have been translated into numerous languages, and have received praise from Noam Chomsky and the distinguished Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg. Finkelstein is the subject of several documentaries, including "American Radical." Among the titles he has written are Beyond Chutzpah, On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History,The Holocaust Industry, and A Nation on Trial and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. His latest book, This Time We Went Too Far - Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion, will be published in March 2010.
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Officers convicted in L.A. corruption trial
LOS ANGELES — Three of four police officers accused of framing gang members were convicted Wednesday of conspiracy and other crimes in the first trial involving allegations of widespread misconduct in a Police Department anti-gang unit.
The verdicts bolstered an ongoing probe of a police force struggling with demands for reform against a backdrop of mounting liability in lawsuits by victims of corruption.
The Superior Court jury found Sgts. Brian Liddy and Edward Ortiz and Officer Michael Buchanan guilty of conspiracy but acquitted Officer Paul Harper.
“There’s good cops and there’s bad cops,” jury foreman Victor Flores, 30, said outside court. “A lot of us on the jury felt that they just didn’t happen to cover themselves enough and they never thought it would come back to haunt them.”
Ortiz, 44, said he was baffled.
“I still believe to this day that we are innocent and that we did our job to keep the citizens of L.A., keep the streets safe from all the gangs and all the crime that’s going on out there,” he said.
District Attorney Gil Garcetti, just defeated in a re-election bid, was jubilant.
“The issues in this case go to the very heart of the criminal justice system. We must be able to depend on the honesty of all police officers,” said Garcetti, who was fiercely criticized when his prosecutors lost the O.J. Simpson murder case.
The defense immediately said it will seek a retrial, claiming months of allegations of wrongdoing at the Police Department’s Rampart station prejudiced the jury.
“There’s been so much publicity about the Rampart scandal the jury might be afraid if they came in with all not guiltys, people would think it was the O.J. jury,” said attorney Harland Braun, who represented Buchanan.
Barry Levin, representing Ortiz, said he should have tried to move the case out of Los Angeles.
“I was defending an officer that had already been found guilty in the minds of, not only these jurors, but the public,” Levin said.
The jury acquitted Harper, 33, altogether and returned mixed verdicts on other counts. The convicted officers face one to four years in prison. Sentencing was set for Jan. 16.
Liddy, 39, was convicted of one count of filing a false police report but acquitted of two other counts. Ortiz was acquitted of filing a false report on one incident but convicted of filing a false report on another.
In addition to conspiracy, Buchanan, 30, was convicted of two perjury counts involving his claim that he was hit by a truck driven by a gang member trying to escape down an alley. Liddy’s convictions included that incident.
The four officers sat stone still facing straight ahead as the verdicts were read. Their families, who filled two rows of the courtroom, showed no emotion. One of the women told others when the proceeding began: “Remember, no crying.”
The trial was the first to take on the divisive issue of police corruption after a yearlong scandal triggered by disgraced ex-officer Rafael Perez as he bargained to save himself by fingering others after he was found to have stolen cocaine from an evidence room.
Perez claimed that officers in the Rampart anti-gang squad known as CRASH had framed gang members, planted evidence, testified falsely and shot innocent victims.
The seven-woman, five-man jury – a racially mixed panel –spent 18 hours over four days talking about the charges.
The verdicts showed the jurors did not believe the testimony of Liddy and Buchanan about the alley confrontation.
The jurors accepted Liddy’s story of an incident at a gang meeting in a parking lot in which he said a gang member ran, discarded a weapon, raised his arms and said, “Don’t shoot, I ain’t got no gun.” Liddy was acquitted of filing a false report and perjury.
Both the alley and parking lot incidents were detailed in the conspiracy count.
The convictions, while not total, were a victory for prosecutors working under Garcetti, who had been widely criticized for filing the case because it was so thin on evidence.
The Rampart probe had forced county prosecutors who had relied on officers’ testimony in gang trials to go back to court to seek dismissal of criminal convictions tainted by allegations of police misconduct. When the dismissals topped 100, officials estimated that settlements involving those cases would likely cost the city $125 million.
The verdicts will impact the civil suits, according to a lawyer for Javier Ovando, paralyzed victim of a police shooting that will be the basis of another Rampart trial.
“The city needs to come to the table quickly with a realistic offer. The ante is going up,” said attorney Danilo Becerra. “Up to now the offers they have made are unrealistic.”
Perez had been slated as the star witness against the four officers, but his own credibility problems were exacerbated on the eve of trial when an ex-girlfriend accused him of involvement in three murders.
Authorities rushed to Tijuana, Mexico, to investigate her story of bodies buried there. None were found, but Perez demanded immunity from the allegation if he was to testify; the prosecution refused and did not call Perez. After the case went to the jury, the woman said she made up the story because she had been jilted.
In the meantime the prosecution had relied on gang members with questionable credibility and police officers afflicted with memory problems who were accused of practicing a “code of silence” to protect their colleagues.
The defendants took the witness stand and vowed they had done nothing wrong.
The incidents that put the officers on trial occurred in 1996 in the Rampart area, a tough, gang-plagued area west of downtown.
Gang members who pleaded guilty in those cases had their convictions reversed before the officers’ trial.
During the trial the judge acquitted Buchanan of two charges on grounds there was insufficient evidence to prove prosecutors’ claims that he was actually on vacation during a gang raid on which he filed a police report.
A former partner of Perez is awaiting trial in the next Rampart case. Suspended Officer Nino Durden is accused of shooting Ovando after he was handcuffed. Durden has pleaded innocent to attempted murder.
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Questions of Recidivism
Sexual Abuse by Clergy:
Repentance, Cure, or Repeated Offence?
November 1, 2005 - Many bishops, during civil and criminal investigations of priests who abused minors, claimed that they always thought that abusing clergy could be “cured.” They claimed that psychiatrists and mental health personnel misled them. And indeed, that may be a fact in some instances. It is also true that many bishops and superiors did not give treating doctors and facilities the whole truth about the men they sent to them for help. And in some cases bishops and superiors disregarded the advice offered them.
Already in 1952 Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Servants of the Paraclete, wrote: I myself would be inclined to favor laicization for any priest, upon objective evidence, for tampering with the virtue of the young. In the same letter he said of priests who sexually abuse minors: Many bishops believe men are never free from the approximate danger once they have begun. In 1957 he said even more clearly that he considered that priest abusers of minors could not change. He stated firmly that priests who abuse even once should be dismissed from the priesthood.
In their June 2002 meeting in Dallas the American bishops came to a similar conclusion with their zero tolerance policy. This was only after extreme public opinion, media exposure, and legal pressure forced them into some action.
In fact, as Fitzgerald’s apostolate expanded in the 1960s from New Mexico to California, Minnesota, Ohio, Vermont, Puerto Rico, England, and to a house of studies in Rome, he became more convinced that religious measures alone were unable to rehabilitate child abusers. He bought an island (Carriacon) in the Caribbean on which he proposed to isolate priest offenders in a life of prayer and repentance and keep them from any contact with children.
Bishops’ defense of their actions that blame psychiatrists and lawyers for their actions have not stood the test of scrutiny by grand juries (Philadelphia, Boston, New Hampshire, Phoenix, Cincinnati, Suffolk County, NY) or indeed, by their own National Review Board that all put the burden of misconduct on the bishops, the failure of their oversight, their conspiracy to conceal, and their neglect to warn or report abuse.
No American bishop had to be told by a psychiatrist that sex with a minor is a serious violation of celibacy. No bishop had to be told by a lawyer that sex with a minor is a violation of the law. Even here Fr. Fitzgerald in 1963 reminded a bishop: the gravity of this offence (sex abuse of a minor) has strong civil and even stronger divine retributive sanctions.
Although many bishops had ample experience of the repetitive nature of sexual activity by priests who get involved with minors they disregarded the deeper issues of celibate practice and civil responsibility in favor of forgiveness without adequate evidence of reformation.
Most of the studies on repeated sexual activity by men who abuse minors (recidivism) come from the criminal justice system. These studies have to be accommodated to the clergy population in which over 5,000 priests have been credibly accused of sexual abuse over the past 50 years and yet fewer than 300 have been incarcerated. That fact alone has profound implications for the culture of abuse within the priesthood that protects clergy from the civil consequences of their actions.
(Since 1980 the number of imprisoned sex offenders has grown by more than 7 percent per year. In 1994, nearly one in ten state prisoners were incarcerated for committing a sex offence. Cf. Greenfield, L.A., Sex offenses and offenders: An analysis of data on rape and sexual assault. Washington D.C., U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1997)
Mental health facilities that have treated or even specialized in the treatment of sexual abusing priests and bishops (Paracletes, Southdown, St. Luke, Institute of Living, and Seton, etc.) have not yet done extensive studies of their clientele. At one time some claimed zero relapse. In 2003 St. Luke claimed that they knew of only 16 of its over 300 patients had re-offended
Five of the most prominent treatment centers proposed to join together to cooperate on a statistical study of their collective experience. In 1993, after giving initial approval, the American bishops pulled their endorsement and funds for the study on the basis that “the press could get hold of the results.”
TRI-PART VIOLATION OF CLERGY ABUSERS
For understanding and treatment acts of sexual abuse of a minor by a Catholic priest or bishop consideration of three agencies or dimensions—religious, mental health, and criminal—must be addressed.
The criminal justice system, from which we gather most of our statistics on sexual offences and re-offences, has a word for repeated acts of the same crime—recidivism.
The mental health and medical system has a word for an illness that recurs—relapse (or simply a recurrence in the case a new bout with a previously diagnosed disease that was suppressed or cured.)
But the moral/religious system has no one word for the recurring moral acts, each one forgiven and then repeated. The cycle (sometimes unending) of repentance, forgiveness, and re-offense is known in religion, but we do not have a name for it.
A man involved in such behavior can accurately be called recalcitrant, but that is not a common designation in talking about priest abusers. The presumption of redemption (or damnation) in the realm of faith is more absolute than can be postulated in the areas of mental illness and crime.
“Forgiveness” is the word that trumps all others in the realm of religion. It is freely used to deny civil responsibility or the consequences of deviant behavior.
Many bishops, religious superiors, priests, brothers, and nuns are willing to accept the burden of sin when it comes to sexual activity with a minor, but they resist the reality that their activity cannot be isolated in the sanctuary of the church—in a culture that understands, protects, and forgives them without adequate control and assurance that they will not continue to harm others. But bishops and priests are citizens of a larger society and culture that demands moral conformity and exacts retribution for sins (criminal acts) forgiven or not.
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20, January 2019
Congo-Kinshasa: Top court upholds Tshisekedi presidential election win 0
DR Congo’s top court on Sunday declared opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi the winner of disputed presidential elections after throwing out a legal challenge by the runner-up.
Announcing the final results of the long awaited poll, the Constitutional Court said Tshisekedi had won by a simple majority, paving the way for him to take over from longterm leader Joseph Kabila in an official ceremony on Tuesday.
Runner-up Martin Fayulu immediately called on the international community to reject the results, after the court said his appeal was “unfounded”.
“I ask the entire international community not to recognise a power that has neither legitimacy nor legal standing to represent the Congolese people,” he said of Tshisekedi, declaring himself “the only legitimate president”.
Tshisekedi’s victory was first announced earlier this month based on provisional results by the Independent National Election Commission (CENI) but it was challenged both at home and abroad, with the African Union appealing for the final results to be delayed.
On Sunday, the Consitutional Court said Fayulu had failed to prove any inaccuracies. “Only the CENI has produced authentic and sincere results,” judge Noel Kilomba said.
Hundreds of supporters of Tshisekedi had gathered outside the court holding placards saying “No to interference” and “Independent country” as riot police stood nearby.
‘Not their business’
The election commission announced on January 10 that Tshisekedi had provisionally won with 38.57 percent of the vote against Fayulu’s 34.8 percent.
Fayulu denounced the figures as an “electoral coup” forged by Tshisekedi and Kabila, and filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court.
At a summit on Thursday, AU leaders said there were “serious doubts” about the vote’s provisional results and called for the announcement of the final results to be suspended.
But DR Congo government spokesman Lambert Mende had snubbed the demand, saying: “I don’t think it is the business of the government or even of the African Union to tell the court what it should do.”
The AU also announced that its commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, currently the AU chairman, were expected to fly to DR Congo on Monday.
The European Union said it joined the AU in inviting “all the Congolese players to work constructively with this (AU) delegation to find a post-electoral solution which respects the Congolese people’s vote”.
The Financial Times and other foreign media have reported seeing documents that confirm Fayulu as the winner.
“If the court declares Tshisekedi victor, the risk of isolation would be enormous and untenable for a country positioned right in the middle of the continent,” Adeline Van Houtte of the Economist Intelligence Unit wrote on Twitter.
Fayulu’s camp had hailed the AU appeal for the final result to be put on hold, but Tshisekedi’s entourage branded it “scandalous”.
The dispute has raised fears that the political crisis that began when Kabila refused to step down at the end of his constitutional term in office two years ago, could turn into a bloodbath. The vast and chronically unstable country lived through two regional wars in 1996-97 and 1998-2003, and the previous two elections, in 2006 and 2011, were marred by bloody clashes.
The AU has taken the firmest line of all major international bodies with regard to the post-election crisis. The Southern African Development Community (SADC), a bloc that includes Angola and South Africa, initially called for a recount and a unity government.
But in a later communique, it made no mention of those demands, instead calling on Congolese politicians to “address any electoral grievances in line with the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitution and relevant electoral laws”.
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The Kentucky International Convention Center, with a total of 300,000 sq. ft., offers the highest capacity venue for groups meeting in Louisville.
Kentucky's most populous city has a number of notable Black heritage attractions, including the Muhammad Ali Center; Louisville Slugger Museum, which features exhibits on the Negro Leagues; and the statue on the Ohio Riverfront of York, a slave who traveled with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Delegates won't want to miss a chance to tour Louisville's most famous attraction, Churchill Downs, and visit the Kentucky Derby Museum, which houses a permanent exhibit on the contribution of Black jockeys and trainers.
Louisiana's African American Heritage Trail extends from New Orleans to north Louisiana, with highlights including the birthplace of Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps in Alexandria, the birthplace of Madam C. J. Walker in Delta, and Grambling University, located between Shreveport and Monroe.
Monroe is the largest city in the state's Sportsman's Paradise region, popular for fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities. It's also home to the Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum.
Natchitoches, in the Crossroads region, is Louisiana's oldest permanent settlement. Notable sites include the Cane River Region, Cane River Creole National Historical Park, and Melrose Plantation, where many works by African-American folk artist Clementine Hunter are displayed.
Lafayette, in southwest Louisiana, is the center of the state's Cajun community. Local cultural and historical attractions include Acadian Village, the Lafayette National History Museum and the clubs and dance halls featuring Zydeco, a lively style of music with African-American roots.
The premier meeting venue in Louisiana's capital city is the Baton Rouge River Center, a 200,000-sq. ft. facility that features a new 70,000-sq. ft. exhibit hall, 125,000 sq. ft. of flat floor space, banquet facilities and several meeting rooms. The River Center also encompasses the Arena and the Theatre for the Performing Arts. There are more than 8,000 area guestrooms.
The flagship campus of Southern University, the nation's largest historically Black university, is located here. A campus tour offers views of Memorial Union, Jaguar Cage - home to the university mascot, and the Southern University Museum of Art. The city's Odell S. Williams African American History Museum and the River Road African-American Museum in nearby Donaldsonville house exhibits highlighting the area's Black history and culture.
The State Capitol, a 34-story Art Deco-style structure, is America's tallest capital building. The 27th floor observation deck provides a great view of the city and the Mississippi River below, while the front lobby displays a bust of P.B.S. Pinchback, the nation's first Black governor.
Another great spot for a Mississippi River view is the Shaw Center for the Arts, which houses the Louisiana State University Museum of Art. At LSU's Rural Life Museum & Windrush Garden, where exhibits include slave cabins and a blacksmith's shop, visitors can watch live demonstrations of blacksmithing, candle making, soap making and other crafts.
The Old State Capitol, another important architectural landmark noted for its gothic staircase and stained-glass ceiling, offers group event space in the rotunda and the House and Senate chambers. The Old Governor's Mansion, a replica of the White House, has a ballroom and rose garden that can be rented for events.
Two more interesting visitor attractions doubling as event venues are the BREC Baton Rouge Zoo, which offers onsite catering, and Alligator Bayou, which has meeting space for up to 150 people.
New Orleans' biggest event venue, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, offers more than 1.1 million sq. ft. of contiguous exhibit space and 140 meeting rooms. The current lodging inventory consists of about 22,000 guestrooms. The New Orleans Hospitality Community Green Task Force, organized by the New Orleans CVB, is gathering and implementing ideas to create a more sustainable local meeting and tourism industry.
The Crescent City is home to the nation's oldest African-American neighborhood, Faubourg Treme, where two notable architectural landmarks are St. Augustine Catholic Church and the historic home that now holds the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture. Other local Black heritage sites include the Backstreet Cultural Museum, which houses exhibits on Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals and second line parades, and the campuses of Xavier University, Dillard University and Southern University at New Orleans.
The world-famous French Quarter, with Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral at its center, is home to the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley, the Ursuline Convent. The Warehouse Arts District includes the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Louisiana Children's Museum, Center for Contemporary Art , the National World War II Museum, and a host of art galleries along Julia Street.
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Piers D. Mitchell (ed.), Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations. Farnham; Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 278. ISBN 9781472449078. $124.95.
Reviewed by Cornelis van Tilburg, Leiden University (c.r.van.tilburg@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
This volume contains twelve articles discussing sanitation, toilets and pathogenic parasites in the past, when hygiene—as we understand the word—did not come close to meeting modern western standards. Of these twelve papers two authors, Piers D. Mitchell and Evilena Anastasiou, have contributed six (four and two respectively).
A striking element in this scholarly volume is the variety of disciplines: archaeology, medicine, biology, parasitology (including paleoparasitology and/or archaeoparasitology), sociology and history. Some articles give a meticulous description of toilets, their archaeology, construction, history and development, while others focus on biology and parasitology. In some articles, numerous tables are included (especially in chapter nine). Overall the number of illustrations is low, and some chapters have few or no illustrations.
In chapter one ("Why We Need to Know About Sanitation in the Past") Mitchell gives an overview of the themes and disciplines covered in each of the chapters and explains (rightly) that it would be impossible to describe sanitation and its history through all periods and areas on earth. The science of paleoparasitology is relatively young and many areas and periods have not yet been researched. The latrines from the title are mainly discussed in the first six chapters; the parasites mainly in the last six.
Chapter two ("Assessing the Impact of Sanitation upon Health in Early Human Populations from Hunter-gatherers to Ancient Civilisations, Using Theoretical Modelling"), the second contribution from Mitchell, describes the relationship between health and hygiene on the one hand and the transition from hunter-gatherers (nomads) to the first settled civilisations on the other. Some species of animals, like cattle and pigs, were domesticated. This way of life attracted parasites that found their domicile in the alimentary canal and could move from animals to men, since the excrement of both was now dropped in one place. At a later stage, people constructed toilets to tackle this problem. Mitchell states, 'It is possible that they developed…latrines to improve smells, without having any concept that it might improve their health' (p. 6). The use of (human) excrement as fertilizer on their fields was another reason for the increase of parasites, especially the worms Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura.1
The theme of chapter three ("Waste Management in Early Urban Southern Mesopotamia") by Augusta McMahon is the history of the development and functioning of the very first toilets, in Mesopotamia. Already in the sixth millennium BC the discharge of wastewater had been undertaken in this area and by the fourth millennium BC toilets were being used, but these toilets were primitive and as a result people were exposed to parasites and parasite-related diseases and epidemics.
Chapter four ("Latrines and Wastewater Sanitation Technologies in Ancient Greece") deals with the history of the toilet in Minoan Crete (2100-1400 BC) and during the Classical to Hellenistic periods (fifth to first century BC). Georgios P. Antoniou and Andreas N. Angelakis describe how flushing technology was incorporated into the Minoan palaces, where toilets were more developed than their Mesopotamian predecessors. From the Classical period onwards, toilets were constructed in the typical form of Graeco-Roman toilets: a series of seats, equipped with a key-hole-like opening in front, positioned above slanting ducts, which allowed waste to be discharged into the sewers. With twelve figures, this is a well-illustrated chapter.
The volume does not contain a separate chapter solely devoted to Roman toilets, but the following chapter discusses both Antiquity and the Middle Ages ("A Tale of Two Cities: The Efficacy of Ancient and Medieval Sanitation Methods"). Here Craig Taylor clearly and meticulously compares the sanitation of ancient imperial Rome and medieval London. Both cities were equipped with a central organisation that was responsible for the removal of garbage and excrement, a difference being that in Rome, there were both open and closed sewers, while in London only open sewers were used (the sewers of Roman London having long gone out of use). Water for bathing was considered unhealthy and public bathhouses had the negative connotation of lust and prostitution.
In chapter six ("Sewers, Cesspits and Middens: A Survey of the Evidence for 2000 Years of Waste Disposal in York, UK"), Allan R. Hall and Harry K. Kenward describe the history of sewers and parasites in the English town of York. This article is the only one in this volume that is set up diachronically and it moves from Roman York (Eburacum) through to the nineteenth century. During York's long history, more traces of the eggs of parasitic worms are found in some periods, like the Anglian period (fifth to ninth centuries), than in the Viking Age, which followed.
In chapter seven ("Human Intestinal Parasites and Dysentery in Africa and the Middle East Prior to 1500") Evilena Anastasiou and Piers D. Mitchell restricted analysis to Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and Israel, in spite of the sweeping title of the chapter. The authors state that vast regions in western and central (Sub-Saharan) Africa have not yet been investigated. It is interesting to learn that the origin of several species of the parasite schistosoma goes back 70 million years, to the time of the dinosaurs!
In Chapter eight ("Parasitism, Cesspits and Sanitation in East Asian Countries") sanitation in China, Japan, Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan is discussed. According to the authors, Min Seo and Dong Hoon Shin, much research has already been done (especially in Japan) on coprolites. The majority of the Asiatic civilisations that have been researched were agrarian societies with poor sanitation facilities, although some palaces were equipped with more developed toilets, like the palace of Wanggungri in Korea. Since agrarian societies are generally more affected by parasites than nomadic societies, the nomads of Siberia probably suffered less from such infections.
The next chapter ("New World Paleoparasitology") by Adauto Araújo, Luiz Fernando Ferreira and seven others moves from the Old World to the New World, and in it the authors reject the widespread modern belief that the colonisation of the Americas by the Europeans was made easier by the fact that the Amerind people were not able to resist certain pathogens that had been imported from the Old World. Long before the arrival of Europeans there were Eurasian helminths in the Americas, probably imported via the Bering Strait, and mummies show that these parasites had a significant effect on the inhabitants' health. The chapter ends with an enumeration of parasites, dates, archaeological sites and relevant literature.
Chapter ten ("Parasites in European Populations from Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution") by Evilena Anastasiou returns to the Old World and is mainly an enumeration of parasites and the evidence for their appearance in the coprolites and mummies of several European countries, especially the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Scandinavian countries and Greece, all subdivided into chronological periods. The relationship between parasites and the transition from hunter-gatherers to settled farmers especially with respect to their consumption of meat and fish is also discussed in this chapter.
In chapter eleven ("A First Attempt to Retrace the History of Dysentery Caused by Entamoeba histolytica") Matthieu Le Bailly and Françoise Bouchet describe specifically the history of the dysentery-causing parasite, Entamoeba histolytica. Originally, this pathogen lived only in Europe but it has migrated throughout the entire world.
Chapter twelve ("A Better Understanding of Sanitation and Health in the Past") by Mitchell is a summary of the other chapters of this volume. The transition from hunter-gatherers to settled farmers and, finally, to city-dwellers changed the relationship between human beings, their domesticated animals like cattle and pigs, and their parasites: roundworms, whipworms, hookworms and tapeworms. As a result of closer contact between men and animals, the number of parasites increased and caused intestinal diseases. Toilets were constructed to prevent or reduce stench, and feces were used as fertilizer. Paleoparasitology and archaeoparasitology are relatively young sciences, and in the coming years there is much research to be done. The volume ends with a general bibliography and a short index.
This volume is well-produced and the chapters are written in an eloquent, scientific English style. So it is disappointing that the footnotes and some figures contain annoying mistakes and inconsistencies.2 There are also some problems with spelling, especially in words and names in non-English languages.3
The quality of the volume would have profited from a larger number of maps. Many locations in London and York are mentioned (chapters five and six), but the reader has no means of knowing where they are. This is also the case in chapters seven and eight.
The bibliography fails to mention an important book on the theme of this volume, Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (London 1997, and several reprints). In this book, the role of pathogens during the colonisation process and the early period of European hegemony is discussed. The index is short. An unimportant name, Arnald of Villanova, is listed, but persons more frequently referred to such as Pliny and Varro are lacking. Moreover, references to the Indus Valley and other important geographical names are not included. The Latin names of parasites should have been listed; they are mentioned frequently and it should be possible to find them irrespective of the way that they are referred to.
In short, this book contains useful information on the history of parasitology, still a mainly untrodden path. However, the lack of a useful index, an inadequate number of maps and the presence of annoying mistakes and inconsistencies decrease its value. Moreover, a general bibliography can be helpful but in this case it is actually redundant, since all bibliographical information is already given in the footnotes. In fact, abbreviated information in the footnotes would have saved much space.
1. The statement that Hippocrates wrote the treatise Airs Waters Places (p. 16), however, is not correct. While it does belong to the so-called Hippocratic Corpus, formerly ascribed to Hippocrates, it is now clear that these treatises were not written by Hippocrates himself.
2. In chapter four, there are many mistakes and inconsistencies. The map (p. 43) shows a mixture of English, Greek, and incorrect geographical names: Athens (English), Miletos (Greek) and Pergamos (this should be Pergamon or Pergamum). Ephesus (English) = Efes (Turkish) = Ephesos (Greek) is mentioned as Efessos, which is a colloquial transliteration of the modern Greek. On p. 44 n. 12 and n. 13 we find an inconsistent use of spaces between initials, as for instance under the illustrations at pp. 48 and 49. At p. 53 n. 46 the Greek spiritus and some accents are missing. On the same page, in the main text, there is 'Philipp' for 'Philip'; in Greek Philippos. We find 'Asklipieia' (= sanctuaries of Asclepius) on p. 59, 'Asclepieia' on p. 60 and 'Asclepeion' on p. 62. The journal Akroterian mentioned in n. 17 is Akroterion. In chapter five (p. 94) we are presented with 'The 3rd century AD doctor Galen'. There is clumsiness and inaccuracy here: it should read 'the second-to-third-century doctor Galen'.
3. In German: p. 59, n. 61, 'haus' for 'Haus'; 165 n. 2 'Uber die erhaltungsfahigkeit von helmintheneiern in vorand friihgeschichtlichen moorleichen' for 'Über die Erhaltungsfähigkeit von Helmintheneiern in Vor- und Frühgeschichtlichen Moorleichen' (the text, maybe, has been scanned?). In Dutch: p. 116, n. 65: 'Oudheikundig' for 'Oudheidkundig'. In French: p. 124 n. 10 'Troisiemes Journees' for 'Troisièmes Journées'.
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Animals of the North: What Will Global Climate Change Mean for Them
When: Feb. 22 (Wednesday); 7 pm
Where: Cavendish Town Elementary School
Description: Sue Morse of Keeping Track led a fascinating talk in Proctorsville last year on cougars returning to Vermont. If you heard that presentation you know that she is an incredibly knowledgeable speaker and naturalist. She will return to the elementary school in Proctorsville on Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m. to present a talk entitled, “Animals of The North – What Will Global Climate Change Mean for Them?” The program is co-sponsored by the Grafton Nature Museum and the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association.
Her program is designed to educate audiences about ways in which northern wildlife species are already being affected by climate change, with more serious challenges ahead. Canada lynx, moose, American marten, caribou, polar bear, arctic fox and arctic marine mammals and waterfowl are some of the species covered in this stunningly beautiful show. Sue promises not to overwhelm the audience with bad news. Instead, her program will devote equal time sharing remarkable images and stories about plants and animals in their northern habitats - - all in the spirit of Jane Goodall’s “reason for hope.” The intent is to inspire attendees, young and old alike, to join in the vital crusade to change our fossil fuel-burning ways, conserve natural resources and share a healthy planet with all that lives.
Sue Morse is a nationally recognized naturalist and habitat specialist with forty years of experience tracking and monitoring wildlife uses of habitat throughout North America.
Ms. Morse founded a non-profit organization called Keeping Track® in 1994, out of her concern that development in all its forms often unwittingly harms, isolates and even eliminates habitat critical to local biodiversity and broad-scale ecological health. More than 40,000 acres of land in 12 states and Quebec have been conserved on the basis of evidence gathered by Keeping Track teams.
Suggested Donation $5 for adults and $2 for children.
FMI: Please call Claire Walker at (802) 226-7259.
Public Informational Meeting
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Pam Tembhi - Thane
Pam Tembhi Population - Thane, Maharashtra
Pam Tembhi is a large village located in Palghar Taluka of Thane district, Maharashtra with total 1246 families residing. The Pam Tembhi village has population of 4150 of which 2547 are males while 1603 are females as per Population Census 2011.
In Pam Tembhi village population of children with age 0-6 is 515 which makes up 12.41 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Pam Tembhi village is 629 which is lower than Maharashtra state average of 929. Child Sex Ratio for the Pam Tembhi as per census is 966, higher than Maharashtra average of 894.
Pam Tembhi village has higher literacy rate compared to Maharashtra. In 2011, literacy rate of Pam Tembhi village was 87.32 % compared to 82.34 % of Maharashtra. In Pam Tembhi Male literacy stands at 91.07 % while female literacy rate was 80.96 %.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Pam Tembhi village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Pam Tembhi village.
Pam Tembhi Data
Total No. of Houses 1,246 - -
Population 4,150 2,547 1,603
Schedule Caste 342 179 163
Schedule Tribe 126 71 55
Total Workers 2,074 1,800 274
Main Worker 1,984 - -
Marginal Worker 90 71 19
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 8.24 % while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 3.04 % of total population in Pam Tembhi village.
In Pam Tembhi village out of total population, 2074 were engaged in work activities. 95.66 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 4.34 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 2074 workers engaged in Main Work, 51 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 5 were Agricultural labourer.
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How the Foreign NGO Law Has Affected International Adoption
Jasmine I-Shin Su
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Children at a foster care center in Beijing, April 2, 2014.
As a result of applying the Foreign NGO Law on foreign adoption agencies, since July 2017 the Chinese government has prevented foreign adoption agencies from legally filing temporary activities in China, and has effectively shut down at least three major official programs that in the past have helped to facilitate international adoption.
When the Foreign NGO Law went into effect in January 2017, it required all foreign NGOs to register under the Ministry of Public Security to legally carry out activities in China. For a period of time, it was unclear how this law would influence international adoptions in China. Both prior to and following implementation of the Foreign NGO Law, international adoption in China was and is governed by the Measures on the Registration of Adoption of Children by Foreigners in the People’s Republic of China. According to Articles 4 and 7 of the Measures, foreign adoption agencies would submit documents to and liaise with Chinese adoption agencies on behalf of adoptive parents. Chinese adoption agencies would then review adoption applications and report back to the provincial-level Ministry of Civil Affairs if the applications were successful. Serving as intermediaries between adoptive parents and Chinese adoption agencies, foreign adoption agencies are essential in the process of international adoption, especially as there are no channels for adoptive parents to directly apply for adoption from China.
The Foreign NGO Law’s tightening effect on international adoption has since come into sharper focus with additional information from the U.S. State Department and the China Center for Children’s Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA), which is China’s official government agency responsible for adoption and children welfare programs. When meeting with the CCCWA in January 2018, the State Department learned that foreign adoption agencies, just like all other foreign NGOs, would have to register with the Ministry of Public Security. (A CCCWA announcement in September 2017 clarified that all foreign adoption agencies must be non-profits and thus abide by the Foreign NGO Law.) The State Department’s write-up suggests that the Ministry of Civil Affairs and its lower-level counterparts, of which the CCCWA is one, are supposed to serve as the Professional Supervisory Units for foreign adoption agencies seeking to register under the Foreign NGO Law, but that the Ministry has not yet formulated regulations for registering these agencies. (The Civil Affairs bureaucracy has, however, registered dozens of other types of foreign NGOs.)
In the meantime, no foreign NGOs working on international adoption have been able to register under the Foreign NGO Law or have direct contact with Chinese orphanages. Not all foreign adoption agencies, however, are working on adoption. Some of them also work on children’s welfare issues and currently are not handling adoption applications. These agencies have been permitted to register. Ministry of Public Security data show that a handful of children’s services organizations have successfully registered as of June 1, 2018, such as Holt International, Children of Madaifu, Canada-China Children’s Health Foundation, and Save the Children. At the same time, the phrase “adoption” (“lingyang,” “领养” or “shouyang,” “收养”) does not appear in their scopes of work as listed on the Ministry of Public Security website. This further shows that the Chinese government has barred foreign NGOs working on international adoption, but not those working on children welfare, from legally registering in China thus far.
Apart from the tightening effects on international adoption, the Foreign NGO Law also led to the centralization of special needs adoption in the hands of the CCCWA. Prior to the Foreign NGO Law, international special needs adoptions in China were administered through the One-to-One Assistance Program. In this program, each foreign adoption agency was paired with an orphanage in China for special needs adoption, so that each agency drew special needs orphans from a single orphanage. Information about special needs children from each orphanage were thus available only to its paired foreign adoption agency.
However, the CCCWA announced in July 2017 that as a result of the Foreign NGO Law the CCCWA itself would now manage all Chinese orphans’ information, releasing it in an aggregate database available to all foreign adoption agencies. The immediate impact on foreign adoption agencies was that they had to turn in files of children previously assigned to their particular agencies under the One-to-One Program to the CCCWA. It is unclear whether the CCCWA has released these files to the aggregate database after collecting them from foreign adoption agencies in 2017.
Apart from the One-to-One Assistance Program, foreign adoption agencies are also no longer able to administer the Journey of Hope Program and Summer/Winter Hosting Programs in China, which are dedicated to encouraging international adoption of special needs children. The Journey of Hope program, for instance, organized trips for foreign adoption agency representatives to visit special needs and older orphans in China. The program allowed foreign representatives to gather more information about children whose special needs or age had dimmed their prospects for adoption, and then transmit the details of individual cases to prospective adoptive parents abroad. The Hosting Programs, which brought Chinese special needs children to foreign countries for summer or winter camps in hopes of finding them adoptive parents, was also terminated in December 2017.
The termination of these programs, however, appeared to be more a formality than a change of state on the ground. Data on foreign temporary activities registered with the Ministry of Public Security shows that foreign adoption agencies had stopped registering adoption-related activities after the CCCWA’s July 2017 announcement. Five adoption-related temporary activities were filed in the first half of 2017, but none after July 2017.
The CCCWA does not appear to have publicly announced these changes. Multiple foreign adoption agencies, however, republished the CCCWA announcements on their websites. These organizations include the International Adoption Net, No Hands But Ours, Holt International, The Sparrow Fund, and Barker Adoption Foundation. Information on the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs’ website confirms the authenticity of the announcements.
It is worth noting that this is not the first time the Chinese government has tightened criteria for international adoption. In 2006, the Chinese government made a similar announcement that raised eligibility requirements for foreign adoptive parents. The 2006 changes could explain why international adoption from China decreased after 2005. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs, adoption of Chinese children from the U.S., the country that adopts the largest share of Chinese orphans, decreased almost every year after 2005. The tightening of eligibility requirements in 2017 may have had a similar effect.
Another development relevant to international adoption in China is the official relaxation of the One Child Policy in 2015. Eligibility requirements for prospective adoptive parents have long been stricter for Chinese than for foreigners, ever since China opened up for international adoption in 1991. It is widely understood that the Chinese government placed stricter control on domestic adoption to prevent couples from evading the One Child Policy through adoption channels. Having relaxed the One Child Policy in 2015 due to demographic concerns, however, the Chinese government may now have an incentive to prioritize domestic adoptions over international. The CCCWA also announced in June 2017 that foreigners hoping to adopt from China would need to abide by new eligibility requirements, which include restrictions on family size, duration between adoptions, and more. With these new changes to adoption eligibility, foreign adoptive parents now also face a higher hurdle to adopt from China, making it unclear whether domestic adoption in China is still harder than foreign adoption from China. The International Adoption Net, a U.S.-based adoption agency, wrote on its website that more Chinese families are adopting and that fewer Chinese children have been available for international adoption in recent years. This account points toward the same conclusion: regulations and trends in international adoption are changing in ways that give domestic adoption a lot of room to grow in China.
The relaxation of the One Child Policy, decreasing international adoption, and new eligibility requirements could all signal a shift in the Chinese government’s attitude towards foreign adoption. How the government chooses to apply the Foreign NGO Law on international adoption agencies is thus important, as it will reflect what kind of role the government wants international adoption to play in China in the years to come.
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In 1990 the Professional School of Archeology was created, a public school of national scope, promoted by the Ministries of Culture and Education, seeking to respond to the need for specialized training of intermediate technicians, to intervene in Classified Heritage.
The site chosen to install this professional school was the Archaeological Area of Freixo, a space of about 50 hectares, classified as a National Monument in 1986, as a consequence of the discoveries made there since 1980, by the archaeologist Lino Tavares Dias. The first course to advance was the Assistant of Archaeologist, followed by the Technician Course of Museography and Disclosure of Heritage and the Assistant of Conservation and Restoration. More recently the School bet on the Technician of Recovery of the Built Heritage, in response to the needs identified in the market.
In this way, the school prepares intermediate technicians with global and specific training to integrate teams that work in the areas that we consider to be priorities in Cultural Heritage, which are research, conservation and dissemination.
This Professional School seeks to encourage the acquisition of new knowledge, to fight exclusion, to modernize its courses permanently, namely with the introduction of 3 European languages in the curriculum and with the crossing of modules, advancing to specifications in the courses, thus diversifying the potentialities Of employability.
We seek, because it is decisive, to bring the School closer to users. We seek to make the laboratories profitable, putting them at the service of the professionals who need them and the local community. We intend:
Continue the commitment of the Ministry of Culture in the cultural support to the School;
Continue to consider the School as a determinant for the promotion of vocational, multidisciplinary and specialized training in the area of Heritage;
To understand the School as a reference in the analysis of the needs and specificities of the formation in the scope of the Patrimony;
To take advantage of the technical capacities installed in the School to profit from interventions in the geographic area of the Regional Directorate of Culture of the North;
Increase the supply of training in the Heritage area, framed in diversified training levels, in order to respond to the demands of the local community and the national market.
At the Professional School of Archeology we believe that a new, different school can provide development opportunities, not only intellectually, but in all areas ... and that "this will be the school of the future if we have the courage to build it "(LOBROT, 1995, 68).
We understand the Professional School of Archeology as a laboratory for ideas, projects and initiatives.
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Concert 1 program notes
Tōru Takemitsu: Voice
No composer has done more to define a musical relationship between East an West than Tōru Takemitsu. In the end, we know him most from his soundtracks for Akira Kurosawa (Ran, Dodesukaden), but these moments of broadly-distributed intensity stem from his biography, which both used and created influences from East and West alike. His travels made for a focused and powerful musical language, and a beautiful trail of concert works.
Takemitsu was born in Japan in 1930. He moved with his family to China shortly thereafter, and returned to Japan in 1938. He was conscripted into the army in 1944, and witnessed what there was to be witnessed of wartime. Takemitsu’s bitter experience of the war drove him to make a conscious exit from traditional Japanese styles. He joined a group called Jikken Kōbō, which actively sought to build new experimental art away from traditions which brought intimations of Japanese militarism. And he looked for music wherever he might find it. As a composer, Takemitsu was mostly self-taught, though he was deeply influenced by Olivier Messiaen and must have closely studied the orchestration of Debussy. Having started composing in the devastation of postwar Japan, he was also influenced by whatever-was-on-the-radio, and much of that was American.
“I must express my deep and sincere gratitude to John Cage. The reason for this is that in my own life, in my own development, for a long period I struggled to avoid being Japanese, to avoid Japanese qualities. It was largely through my contact with John Cage that I came to recognize the value of my own tradition.” What bound them together was Nothing. Cage famously celebrated the power of absences, and this resonated with Takemitsu’s interest in ma — the space between structural parts. A garden space, a space for the echoes of memory, a space for speculation, a space for acceptance, a space for understanding, a space for not-knowing, a space for finding value in what we can know.
Voice was inspired by Shuzo Takiguchi’s “Handmade Proverbs”
Qui va la? Qui que tu sois, parle, transparence!
Who goes there? Speak, transparence, whoever you are!
– Timothy Summers
John Cage: Amores
It’s hard to talk about John Cage without talking a good deal about nothing. He wrote a Lecture on Nothing; a book entitled Silence; a silent piece (4’33”) for piano; and a radio play called Empty Mind. Even as a high schooler he gave a talk at the Hollywood Bowl proposing a day of quiet for the entire United States. Nothing was forever on his mind. And it must be added: Cage’s radical search was as peaceful as it was absolute — the furthest thing from nihilism.
But what was the point?
First: all this ‘nothing’ had a context: it didn’t come from nowhere. Aesthetic reduction or purity was a modernist priority in all of the arts, so finding its corollaries and consequences in music was simply what-was-done. Whether it came from the direction of Marcel Duchamp and Erik Satie or from that of the Bauhaus and Anton Webern, the quest for the experiential now brought
the power and speed of concept and mind to the front. Additionally — in a Walt-Whitman-sort-of-way — American arts have long sought to reconcile the artificial with the natural, and Cage’s silences can be heard as a way of drawing in the landscape itself, providing Transcendental access to the world. So there were at least these two art-currents in play: Modern and American aesthetic traditions.
But the most generative sort of ‘nothing’ for Cage was that which came from his contact with various translations of Asian philosophy. It began with a musician named Gita Sarabhai, who had come to the US to study Western music. This encounter drew him down several philosophical paths and opened up his life. In the beginning, the primary drivers were Sri Ramakrishna, Meister Eckhart, and, as time drew on, D.T. Suzuki, who was one of the major emissaries to the West in the 20th century. And for the rest of his life, Cage (famously)
drew from the I Ching for his works with chance. There is no way to measure the authenticity of these explorations. The extent to which they might have been Indian, or Japanese, or Medieval German for that matter, will remain an open question. “Amores” is a landmark in the history of the percussion ensemble. It was written for a free dance piece with Cage’s partner Merce Cunningham.
– Timothy Summers
Tōru Takemitsu: Rain Tree
It is called the ‘Rain Tree’ because it seems to make it rain. Whenever it rains at night, throughout the following morning the tree makes drops fall from all its richly growing leaves. While the other trees quickly dry out after the rain, the Rain Tree, because its leaves, no bigger than fingertips grow so closely together, can store up raindrops in its leaves. Truly an ingenious tree!”
– Kenzaburo Oe: “Atama no ii Ame no Ki” (“The Ingenious Rain Tree”)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 (arr. Hummel)
Why play a reduction of a symphony? Why, when there are orchestras and a few dozen recordings (at least) ready to rain out of the digital cloud — why give such a large work when it must be given with so much loss? One would only do it, of course, if there was much to gain. The contact such an arrangement brings with a sense of tangible history, of context, and memory is rich with meaning. To begin: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 was written in 1806.
If one wanted to hear it at home before 1910 or so, one would have to hear it played on a piano. This is something of a trivialization, of course — but it allows for first-hand contact with the basic materials of the composition. Before recordings, a piece would have to be read and touched to be heard. For practical and technical reasons, symphonic arrangements are most often for piano four hands (symphonies are large — Liszt’s Beethoven transcriptions for solo piano are terribly difficult). Larger groups could serve to distribute tasks and expand timbres, as well: Beethoven himself wrote a transcription of the 2nd Symphony for piano trio. So the first dimension of gain with a transcription is in the playing itself, which is a very active form of reading and understanding.
Then there are historical interests: Johann Nepomuk Hummel wrote arrangements of Beethoven’s first seven symphonies. Who was Hummel? One tends to think of him (insofar as one might think of him at all) as another unlucky-notto-be-Beethoven late-romantic, a maker of etudes, a sort of cheerful Czerny. This does him no justice. He seems to have been at the center of AustroGerman musical and artistic circles his whole life. He toured, like Mozart, as a child prodigy; Mozart himself gave him lessons. Haydn, whom he followed at the court of the Esterhazy, composed for the young Hummel a piano sonata, and later gave him musical instruction. He was a successful performer and author, a friend to Goethe and theater generally, and he made significant contributions to institutions for the support and protection of musicians. Amidst this level of activity, Hummel found it worthwhile to study Beethoven’s Symphonies deeply enough to transcribe them — a high level of tribute to Beethoven. And Beethoven deserves this study. If nothing else, one can see his consequential historical role as a catalyst for others’ work. And in Beethoven’s work itself, it remains hard to account for the raw power it offers.
The Fourth symphony seems built from nothing, and yet it explodes. The patient tension of the opening of the first movement is the work of someone absolutely certain that listeners will hang on to every motion. The third movement’s riddling rhythms show an uncanny ear for balance and imbalance. And the fourth movement’s unwillingness to resolve until its end creates a sense of surprising inevitability and release. Of the second movement’s Adagio, Hector Berlioz suggested that it was not written by Beethoven, but rather “breathed by the Archangel Michael when, seized with a fit of melancholy, he contemplated the universe, standing on the threshold of the empyrean.” Maybe that’s not so useful in a post-Romantic context. Amidst the rhymes and riddles of the other movements, however, the second movement stands out for its long melodic arc. And to hear it in a chamber music context, one requires the work of someone like Hummel — no archangel, but a real contributor to the world of what can be heard.
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MEMORIES: More Holiday Weekend Gun Cases Emerge As Court Files Become Available
Our friendly local court system was a little slow to go public with files related to the Memorial Day mayhem downtown. Many of the cases are not as relevant ten days after the fact, but we thought we’d pass along a couple of additional gun cases that we found:
Castro (inset) was arrested in the 200 block of E. Pearson on Memorial Day weekend, police said. | CPD; Google
• A La Raza street gang member who’s on parole for possessing a handgun with a defaced serial number was arrested in Streeterville on May 27. Police said officers saw Jonathan Castro and two others drinking in the 200 block of East Pearson near a car with its passenger side door open. An infant was in the car’s rear passenger seat, according to cops. Asked if anything of interest was in the car, Castro—who has “La Raza” tattooed on his face—told officers that there was a gun wrapped up in a shirt on the passenger floorboard, according to court records. Cops recovered a .38 caliber handgun that Castro allegedly admitted to owning.
Castro, 22, has been charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon - second offense. The Illinois Department of Corrections revoked his parole and he was shipped back to Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday, according to state records. He will be discharged on July 28. At that time, his bail on the new firearms case will be $50,000 per Judge Michael Clancy. State records show that he was paroled in December after serving half of a two-year sentence for the previous firearms conviction.
Cage | CPD
• A 21-year-old Elgin man told police that he forgot to take his brother’s handgun out of a backpack before taking the bag to North Avenue Beach on Memorial Day, according to court files. William Cage was arrested after cops found a 7.65mm handgun in his bag during a routine search at an alcohol checkpoint near the beach around 5 p.m. on May 28.
Cage has been charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Bail was set at $5,000 by Judge Clancy.
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Home > Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
Location: Northern Cape Province. Declared a World Heritage Site in June 2007
The Richtersveld Culural and Botanical Landscape is located in South Africa’s northern Namaqualand. The area is a prime example of the most interesting megaecostem in the world and comprises of 160 000 hectares. The dramatic desert scenery shifts from flat sandy plains, to craggy sharp mountains of volcanic rock, to the lush flood plains of the Orange River. This river forms the border between South Africa and neighbouring Namibia.
The landscape is arid and only the hardiest of life forms survive there.Temperatures are extreme, and in summer temperatures can reach over 50°C. Rain very seldom falls. The Richtersveld depends on the cold nights producing moisture in the form of heavy dew. The early morning fog is so thick that the locals call it
‘Ihuries’, or ‘Malmokkie’ and it makes survival possible for a range of small reptiles, birds and mammals including grey rhebok, duiker, steenbok, klipspringer, kudu, Hartman’s mountain Zebra, baboon, velvet monkey, caracal and leopard.
The area is also home to an impressive 650 plant species. It has the world’s largest diversity of succulents and a number of unusual plants, many of which are found nowhere else on earth. For example, the ‘Halfmensboom’, the ‘half-person tree’, takes the shape of a human. This tree is revered by the indigenous Nama people who inhabit the area, along side others. The Nama people believe that this tree is the embodiment of their ancestors, half human, half plant, mourning for their ancient Namibian home. The Richtersveld is the last place where the traditional way of life of the KhoiKhoi (of whom the Nama are the surviving clan), survives to any great extent today.
Photo: Courtesy of SA Tourism
For more information: UNESCO [1]
Source URL: http://www.dac.gov.za/content/richtersveld-cultural-and-botanical-landscape?qt-heritage=1&qt-multimedia=1&qt-arts_and_culture_affairs=6&qt-performing_arts=1&qt-world_heritage=6
[1] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1265
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A year later, health care reform debate rages on
Brian Blase
Ethan Rome
landmark federal healthcare reform law
Published on March 23, 2011 at 12:00 am
By Mary Ellen Knewtson
One year ago today, President Barack Obama signed a landmark federal healthcare reform law, which has already provided Americans with affordable health care coverage they could not get before the bill. Republic opponents of the law continue to say the it infringes on states rights. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23, 2010, allows children to stay on their parents health insurance plan until they are 26, guarantees coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and saves senior citizens money on their prescription drugs. All of the reforms will be implemented by 2014, according to the law. Brian Blase, health care analyst for the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the law is too far-reaching and expensive. All of the benefits carry a cost, Blase said. Whenever you try to regulate human behavior, there are unintended consequences. Blase said the public popularity of the law today is lower than when it was first introduced, while the Obama administration expected it to gain popularity, he said. House Republicans efforts to repeal the bill are unlikely to gain traction, with Democrats controlling the Senate and the White House. But GOP lawmakers continue their plans to defund the law before it fully goes into effect. Blase said the resistance is working because Florida courts already determined the law unconstitutional. Blase expects the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of the law sometime next year. Until then, he worries about the amount of power unelected officials in the bureaucracy have over the enforcement of the law. Ethan Rome, executive director of the grassroots organization Health Care for America NOW!, said the law represents the end of insurance company abuses. [The opposition] is a completely partisan, corporate-based attack, Rome said. Republicans are corporate backers. They want to give our health care back to the insurance companies. Rome said Republicans have spent a lot of money on advertising that lead people to believe negative propaganda about the law. He expects the law to gain popularity as it reaches more people. Rome said any opposition will be unsuccessful because voters will not tolerate a rolling back of the new health care protections. For students, the most prominent change may be the policy that allows children to stay on their parents insurance plan until age 26, he said. It gives you health security while youre looking for a job, Rome said. UT professor of public affairs David Warner said while partisans are not completely satisfied with the law, the policy is successful in ensuring that illness will not devastate a family. There is a concern that people with higher incomes will see their taxes go up, he said. Warner said repealing is a bit of a fantasy because the opponents do not really have a proposal. The bill is not going to be repealed as long as Obama is president, he said.
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The goal of this project was to produce still photographs and a narrative multimedia production that would represent a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation education reform initiative. David collaborated with the creative director in order to fully understand the nuances of their intentions. In doing so, he was able to develop a narrative and produce images that captured the heart of their mission. The result was a library of photographs that was perfectly in line with their needs, and a multimedia production that was presented at their national initiative launch conference.
"David is truly a master of his craft. From our first conversation, he immediately grasped the complexity of what we were trying to convey, and skillfully helped us hone and elevate our project concept beyond what we had originally envisioned. Our partners in the field universally praised his conduct and professionalism. The end product — a multimedia piece and a library of photographs — spotlights the intellectual and emotional intensity of the Completion by Design planning year, and in doing so does a great honor to the men and women it portrays. Its power and poignancy remains a testament to our work together, and to David's prodigious talent."
— Michelle McClelan, Communications Manager, Completion By Design Assistance Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Initiative
Job for the Future, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Education Reform Initiative.
Completion By Design Assistance Team, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Education Reform Initiative.
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Connect2Edmonton > Regional Issues > Federal Politics > Second Annual Israel Apartheid Week
View Full Version : Second Annual Israel Apartheid Week
Slaughtermaster
Over twenty years, we saw the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, a regime where an ethnic minority set legal and social barriers to separate the "races" in that country. People such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had worked towards bringing an end to that regime and played an integral role in reconciliation between the factions.
Presently, we are seeing a similar phenomenon in Israel - but much like in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, the important thing to keep in mind is that this event is not to demonize or to make Israel "the enemy", rather to acknowledge that both side has a stake in bringing peace to the region and that there are people from both sides who can see the problems in the way the Israeli government is segregating people according to their ethnic/religious background. This event is to send a message to the Israeli government that apartheid practices is not an instrument for peace.
Here is a link to the events calendar:
http://edmonton.apartheidweek.org/
moahunter
^I have some sympathy for the Palestinian cause (an injustice to one people, doesn't justify an injustice to another), but the comparison to apartheid is silly. There are many Palestinians with Israeli citizenship who vote, there are not restrictions on them doing so. Israel is the most democratic country in the middle east.
At issue, is what constitutes Israel, and what doesn't. I dislike the settlements, and the other fighting over land, be it by the Israeli or Palestinian side. But, this is what religion does, religious people fight over land considered significant to them, throughout history. At the end of the day, it isn't my job to care if they kill each other over stupidity (i.e. religion), and it surprises me that a student body in Edmonton really thinks I should.
It's more than religion - it's strictly about land and who gets control of the land. Many non-Jewish residents within Israel, despite having equal rights on paper, are victims of legal and institutionalized discrimination. That's what these seminars are about - to get the experiences first hand from both the Palestinians and Jews who lives in the region who can see the injustices brought on to the non-Jewish populations by the Israeli government.
Some differences to South Africa are; that the colored people in South Africa weren't lobbing hundreds of rockets into the white areas, they weren't for the most part doing suicide attacks against white people.
Ask yourself this question, what would USA do if Canada was sending rockets into USA? The answer is pretty obvious, they would attack us pretty much overnight. So why do you expect Israel to do differently?
After reading through the site, I think I might decide to start shopping at Mountain Equipment Co-op (even though they are higher priced).
This is simply not true. There are many non-Jewish members of the israeli parliament. there are no restrictions on work, residence, or any other civil rights. There are no limitations on the right to travel unless one wished to travel to a foreign state, in which case standard restrictions apply.
This whole "Israel Apartheid" week is a veiled hate fest. The only way to bring about peace in the region is not by singling out one of two sides who are doing the fighting. They need to negotiate and they both need to stop fighting. As such, pressure needs to be placed on BOTH sides simultaneously to ensure a long-lasting peace. From what I understand, Israel needs to withdraw military from the palestinian territory and allow self-governance. On the other side, Palestinians need to recognize Israel and to stop threatening to kill everyone living there (this mostly applies to Hamas).
This particular event is designed to put pressure on ONLY ONE side out of two to gain concessions for the other. The choice of focus is very ironic and extremely unfortunate, unfair, and biased considering that under attack is the only true democracy in the region. Talking about apartheid, there used to me very large jewish populations in Egypt, Jordan, Sirya, Lebanon, and what is now Palestinian territory. Most of those communities have all but vanished.
From the opening paragraph in the website:
In 2010, there are approximately 11 million people who live in Palestine/Israel. Half are Israeli Jews and half are Palestinians, but the trend is that Palestinians are becoming the clear majority. The reality today is that the Israeli government effectively rules over all these people, but they do not all have equal rights. Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip are deprived of the most fundamental civil, political, economic, educational and cultural rights as their land is under relentless assault from settlers and they are relegated to a separate road network. Within Israel, Palestinian citizens have some rights, but face institutionalized and legal discrimination.
1. The reality today is that the Israeli government effectively rules over all these people...
The governing body is the Israeli parliament with members elected through regular elections. There are people of every religion and race represented in the parliament. Like the Canadian government rules over the English-speaking and the French-speaking canadians, the Israeli government rules over the Hebrew and Arabic-speaking Israelis. Btw, both of those languages are the official languages of Israel.
2. Israel has not been occupying Gaza for many years now. The unilateral withdrawal was largely seen as a test whether self-governance in gaza will lead to reduced hostilities and eventual peace. The ensuing rocket fire from there helped to convince many israelis to not make any more unilateral moves.
... and that is why apartheid week is a completely useless event designed to promote the interests of one side and not the promotion of peace between the two people.
kcantor
agreed completely - once again. :) the very name seems designed to promote - or at the least to rationalize - more conflict than to promote mutual respect and resolution. as for the proposed boycotting of mec for selling goods from israel in favour of purchasing alternative goods from who knows what sweatshops with child labour, that's an agenda speaking and little more.
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I hope the organizers are planning apartheid weeks for other countries too. China for example (tibet).
Otherwise this reeks of anti-semitism.
Grish, that is completely not true.
You say it's a hate fest but since when has Israel ever agreed to any of the sanctions from the UN, the Goldstone report, and most recently the Dubai assassination. Explain how Israel sending out hit squads is any different that Hamas' rockets?
http://www.mujahideenryder.net/2009/09/15/ultimate-jihad-and-sabr-in-palestine-picture-of-israeli-throwing-wine-on-palestinian-woman/
That is disrespectful.
As I was saying, singling out one side while completely ignoring the actions of the other is not helpful and will never bring about long lasting peace. While Israel has to make concessions, the Palestinians need to agree to peace and make concessions as well. The biggest concession from the Palestinians (Hamas specifically) is to abandon their calls for the destruction (read: mass murder of the Jewish ihabitants) of Israel.
I am not sure what that little link is supposed to prove or illustrate. There are idiots on both sides and this guy should be charged with assault. His actions, however, cannot not be equated with the policies of the government. If we confuse the actions of one with the policies of the government, we would be concluding that Canada is against public bus drivers following few recent assaults on bus drivers in Edmonton.
JasonR
Many of us who can see both sides of this issue lost just a little bit of sympathy when Arafat turned down the deal that Clinton brokered. They were offered everything they said they wanted and then said no. There are no angels in this at all. But the Palestinians are going to have to accept the existence of Israel just as much as Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state.
Explain how Israel sending out hit squads is any different that Hamas' rockets?Interesting Armin that you chose that phrase, the individual who was killed in Dubai Mahmoud Rauf al-Mabhouh was a founding member of the military arm of Hamas. He was directly involved in the death of two Israeli soldiers.
Associated Press article http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jSdL4oiz5cg_6JzNK8g-zrAiYk7wD9DUG6B80
I just have to shake my head at those who point to one side or the other as being the victims or villains in all of this.
CigarHippo
Oh my...how ignorance is bliss...
Israel doesn't have to "agree" to any "sanctions" by the UN b/c the bulk of UN is dominated by arab/muslim/leaftleaning countries who hate anythig that is Jewish... in a word: the UN is rigged.
Please get real and read a little.
The "Dubai hit", first and foremost, was not done by Israel, there is no proof yet it was (even the Hamas is saying today it was either Egypt or Jordan)..but even if it was Israel, since when killing a terrorist mastermind a crime? it should be praised not condemned.
This "Apartheid week" is indeed a hatefest promoted by terrorist supporters who advocate the elimination of Israel.
The moment they start discussing the Arab discrimination against jews, christians, women and gays in arab countries I will start having some sympathy for the cause.... in the meantime it's just a propaganda drive that preys on the ignorant and the gullible like you....
exactly. I hope this message came through in my posts, so I will agree with this to make sure it does. "Israel Apartheid" thing is the complete opposite of what is needed to bring peace. I absolutely refuse to take part in this hate propaganda exercise.
Marcel Petrin
Ummm, if you think that this movement is a "hate propaganda exercise", then you're the kind of person JasonR should be shaking his head at. There are real issues in Israel relating to institutionalized racism and discrimination against Palestinians and Arabs. Israel is very much a "Jewish" state, the very UN resolution that called for it's creation stated as such and so do it's basic laws (interestingly enough, they don't appear to have a formal constitution).
Is it comparable to South Africa under apartheid? Of course not. They're clearly reaching by drawing that comparison, and they might well not have a well reasoned point to stand on.
But they're entitled to their opinion without it being labeled "hate propaganda." Correct me if I'm wrong, but nowhere on their website to they argue for the destruction of Israel, expulsion of Jews, or anything else even remotely resembling hate speech. They have a different political viewpoint on the situation than you. Quite possibly it's egregiously and provably wrong. That doesn't make it hate speech.
This is one of those issues that just gets people so riled up. But in the end both sides have been total villains to each other. The Palestinians seem to want the destruction of Israel rather than a shared state or a two state model. The Israelis always answer an attack with an attack ten times stronger. It never ends. I don't understand how a nation-state that is a democracy can be based on race and religion, but that's what both sides have ended up doing. It's terrible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but nowhere on their website to they argue for the destruction of Israel, expulsion of Jews, or anything else even remotely resembling hate speech. They have a different political viewpoint on the situation than you. Quite possibly it's egregiously and provably wrong. That doesn't make it hate speech.
I will correct you. You're wrong.
Their website
shows the map if Israel labeled as "Palestinian" with the "Palestinian" colours and 2 arabs.. if that is not advocating hate I do not know what is... Until Arabs come to terms with the fact that they need to stop hating Israel and realise the world will come to ashes before Israel dissapears, until then, there will not be peace in the region and Arabs will have a hard time getting support from those not aligned with terrorists or the extreme left.
faraz
Palestinians have for a long time been willing to settle on a two state model but that doesn't mean at all costs. They have asked for the pre-1967 borders to be drawn and the dismantling of hundreds (yes hundreds) of settlements housing hundreds of thousands of settlers on Palestinian land. But Israel has never agreed to do so because it serves as a strategic location to grab land and control any future Palestinian state.
Look at the map of Palestine in 1930 and then 1948 and then 1967 and 2010. As they say, picture is worth a thousand words.
debos
How is the targetted assination of a Hamas leader by an (until now) unknown group different than the indiscrimante bombing of civilians? Oh that's a tough one...
Israel has existed for last 60 odd years and with one of the largest armies in the world backed by the sole superpower in the world, both of whom possess nuclear weapons, it's not going anywhere.
A better question is whether Israel and its supporters are willing to accept a Palestinian state not controlled and at the mercy of Israel?
Before this degrades into a full fledged heated argument on Middle East politics, I'd like to say that both sides have made mistakes. Palestinians are not completely innocent and neither is Israel.
This does not compute. Consider the actions. The state of Israel gave up land for peace with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Gaza. With the last two, instead of peace they got artilery attacks closer to the populated areas. I would excuse them being reluctant in pulling back more until peace is agreed upon. The last two pull backs were done unilaterally without a reciprocal gesture. This is why I do not believe that you can single out only one side of this conflict and label them villians. There should have beena gesture in kind towards peace from the other side of the conflict.
Jason shook his head (correct me Jason if this is not the case) at people who single out one side. This event singles out one side. I point to the fact that both sides need concessions such as Israel pulling out and Palestinians opting for a long lasting peace accord. Any event singling out only one of two sides with made up causes is a hatefest.
They got everything they asked for in the deal Clinton negotiated and Arafat said no. To be fair to Israel, they have dismantled settlements, they have agreed on a Palestinian state.
You are correct Faraz. Though, the name of this event would indicate otherwise. Perhaps the meaning of the Dutch word 'apartheid' could be applicable but the conotations it carries do not make for a suitable comparison.
My understanding when I read the title was that it's referring to the treatment of the Palestinians within the territories. I think many people mistook it to mean inside Israel.
Watching the movie District 9, the conditions of the aliens reminded me of Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza.
Dismantling a few settlements when hundreds exist doesn't mean much. But I also understand that there are interest groups in Israel who are completely against such actions so when the government tries to do anything, there is great opposition.
Bush was the first US President to explicity demand the existence of a Palestinian state. The fact that it took 40 odd years for someone to do it shows how concept of a Palestinian state is treated.
with the 'slight' differences that the prawns in the movie didn't fire rockets at civilians on the other side nor did they blow themselves in buses to kill hundreds of innnocent ppl.... oh...and the prawns didn't want the population on the other side to be thrown to the sea... these are just slight differences ...other than that, yeah, poor pals.
In or outside of Gaza and the West Bank - it's still not a comperable situation to South Africa during 'apartheid'.
The plight of Palestinians in Isreal and in the occupied territories is often overlooked and I applaud the organizers of the event for attempting to bring that our attention. Still, the use of the word 'apartheid' and the comparison that the organizers are trying to play off is unnaceptable and out of context. They'll get nowhere with an approach that tries to vilify the other party from the start rather than engaging them.
To say oppression shouldn't be fought is a very unrealistic stand. Yes, the methods should be appropriate but to lay the entire blame based on the wrong methods is incorrect.
Yes, the Palestinians should be smarter about how they resist but does that absolve Israel of the oppression and injustice that caused this reaction?
It's comments like yours that make these debates really annoying.
Israel killed hundreds of people last year and they'll never be held accountable for that, and that kind of one sided bias is a problem.
You're blaming Palestinians as a group because some rebels launch crappy rockets that have killed less than 20 people in 10 years. Israel used white phosporous on civilians.
And since when is assassination recognized as a substitute for international law?
I'm not blaming anyone... I just don't resort to lies and the propaganda machine used by the arabs and their 'rebel' brothers (aka as terrorists)
I am just stating facts: more than 2000 rockets fell on Israel from Gaza from 2008 until the war was launched:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2008
What would the U.S do if Canada fired more than 2000 rockets into their territory? Canada would simply cease to exist...Of course Canada and the US are civilised nations so this would never happen, but i just use the example to illustrate the fact that Israel is 100% justified in launching a war to defend its citizens...
If you want to defend your cause use facts not made-up propagandistic lies..
I think you forgot to mention one statistic....how many Palestianians were killed, how many children died, how many houses destroyed because of the Israeli occuption since 1967?
And since you bought it up, how many Israelis died from those rocket attacks?
No I didn't forget...Lots of arabs have been killed by Israel and lots of Isrealis have been killed by arabs as well...
About 50,000 between them... since 1948... but don't forget that muslims have killed more arabs than anyone else...more than 10,000,000 (yes, 10 million) since 1950...Funny how the arab propaganda machine forgets these statistics and concentrates on the (yes, terrible) 25,000+ deaths inflicted by Israelis on arabs...
I dunno, about 5?... what i'm saying is that having 2000 rockets fall on your head day and night is not nice and I would want my government to crush whoever is firing those rockets and doesn't let me sleep...Again, what country would tolerate that? Israel is to blame in that they let 2000 rockets fall on their citizens and didnt act with full force
And remember, if those attacks did not take place not a single arab would have died in Gaza.. The arabs only have themselves to blame...Informed people will not fall prey to propaganda..so the propagandistic attacks on Israel are really laughable to those with access to the internet
Don't get me wrong, my friend. I don't entirely disagree with you, although I think that you aren't giving enough credit to Israel. If it were up to the hardliners in Israel all of the occupied territories would be amalgamated with Israel as spoils of war. To dismantle any settlements was massively controversial in Israel. And considering the attempts to make peace and the results, you'll have to understand why there are many who just don't believe that the Palestinians want peace with Israel at all.
For my part, I believe that many on both sides are fed up with old hatreds and want to move forward, while too many others still hold on to old hatreds.
Day and night? Ten years is 3650 days. 2000 rockets. I think your statement is a little hyperbolic, especially since in the last few years, rocket attacks have decreased exponentially and the majority of those rockets were back 5-10 years ago.
There was another article in the Journal today on Israeli settlement expansion. They don't have enough land so they keep building giant walls and pushing back the Palestinians.
http://www.wake-up-america.net/apartheid_wall_files/image004.jpg
http://www.sott.net/image/image/9591/israel-palestine_map.jpg
something to think about before taking in on the hate-fest:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/dark%20side%20Israeli%20Apartheid%20Week/2612768/story.html
That article is the exact reason why non Israeli Jewish people should distance themselves from what the government of Israel does. How Israel treats the Palestinians and acts internationally just enflames anti semetic groups like the KKK.
you got THAT out of the article? wow
It's an article which tries to defend Israel by saying others are worse. It doesn't address the issue of the apartheid like treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis.
Points fingers and stereotypes other groups while ironically complaining about the same treatment.
From your article Grish:
One of those organizations, the Ottawa Public Interest Research Group, refused in 2008 to promote a lecture on African development because Jewish students at the University of Ottawa happened to be organizing it. The event had zero connection to Israel but OPIRG said it wouldn’t partner with the Jewish students’ union due to the latter’s “relationship to apartheid Israel.”
I found this article to counter your article.
http://jewschool.com/2010/03/02/21314/israel-apartheid-week/
its a superb article .... "pal" supporters are a joke, they are resorting to the same tactics of the 1930s nazis... too bad for them the world is not as ignorant as they'd like it to be..... more than a hatefest i'd call it a terrorfest because the organisers have the exact same tactics as the muslim terrorists such as hamas , hezbollah...which have graciously been called in here "rebels"...lol...what a hoot...
That article is one sided. Read the one I posted for some more perspective.
Israel is just as bad as Hamas as far as i'm concerned.
As a general comment on the situation as a whole, I bet 90% of both Palestinians and Israeli Jews would be fine living side by side in the same unified, representative democracy where they all have equal rights and there's no need to worry about security checkpoints, security walls and all that other wonderful stuff. They do it throughout the world in other democracies. It's the 1% or 5% or 10% that are hardcore ideologues on either side that wreck it for everyone else and prevent any meaningful solution to the problems.
Can you point me to it specifically? Nearest I could find was this: http://apartheidweek.org/sites/apartheidweek.org/files/iaw%202010%20bookmark%20back%20FINAL.jpg
And that's just flat out factual. The maps anyway. Again, near as I can tell they don't call for the destruction of Israel and there's nothing outright "hateful" about their agenda.
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Hate is hate. being one-sided in an argument is not hate.
Where have they advocated anything hateful about Israelis or Jews?
Going through the event, it includes Anna Baltzer, Fulbright scholar and grand daughter of Holocaust survivors and b.h. Yael, an Israeli-Canadian director whose documentary about Palestine will be shown.
I'm sure they'll be labeled as hate filled too now.
ralph60
A little interesting reading to put things in perspective:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisrael.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisraelsum.html
Thanks Ralph... here is a graph from the above site, of FATALITIES (not injured) people in Israel from terrorism.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisrael-1.gif
Nice chart. Now why don't you show the one that shows the Palestinian deaths?
The reason why is that you can't since no one can keep count.
They did manage to record them after Israel's last attack.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jan/03/israelandthepalestinians
Israel has killed about 4 times as many Palestinians and displaced about 4.5 million people. In fact, out of the 1600 killed last year, more of them were children than the highest point of your chart.
Armin the funny thing I note that you skirt around is the issue of rocket and mortar attacks prior to Israel invading Gaza. If Hamas and others weren't attacking Israel in violation of the treaties then Israel wouldn't have invaded and nobody in Gaza would have died.
You say you want peace, but you want it unilaterally and on your terms only.
It is in what is not being said... what exactly is being proposed? equal citizenship and human rights for all? Are you sure Israel already does not have that ideal? No country is perfect and as canadians we know that. But israel in my mind has come a very long way to becoming a tolerant society. that includes having full members of their parliament who oppose the very state they serve...
equal rights to palestinians living in gaza and the west bank? being part of one country? then why push for the withdrawal? why demand settlers to leave? why not demand equal rights instead? rather than kicking out the settlers, invite them in. make the whole country a welcome place for jewish, muslem, christian and other people. that is never talked about, suggested, or even whispered. why is the onus on the israel to create a tolerant society and not on israel, palestinian authority in the west bank, and hamas in gaza? israel already has two official languages, people of eveery race and religion with full citizenship, etc.. Cross the border to Gaza–are the rights of jewish people respected there? If we talk apartheid, I am not so sure it is israel who is the guilty party, or at least not the only guilty one...
Hate? it is in the misleading label, in hypocricy, in hiding behind slogans and big, emotionally charged words like "apartheid, human rights, opression, etc.." The constant singling out of only one nation out of a whole line up of gross offenders including some nations who are the first to sling mud at israel.
No, we may not necessarily see it written. But hate is the underlying message in this sad event. Hate is what blinds one side to only see faults in the other and the inability to have any sort of intraspection and honesty to realize it takes two sides to agree to a peaceful coexistence.
This event has nothing to do with improving the treatment of the palestinians by israel. if that were the case, there would be offers of reciprocity in well-treating the jewish israelis, in calls to stop indescriminate attacks, and in other good will gestures like releasing the kidnapped soldiers. this event is to score public relation points and to put pressure on israel. it is a struggle against israel rather than a struggle for peace.
I always hear this argument of how Israel is so democratic and treats everyone equally. Does that give her the right to subjugate and oppress an entire people?
As for the one state solution, Israel will never ever accept it because it knows that the Arabs (muslims/christians) will be in the majority and she will lose her Jewish nature. No Israeli PM will ever advocate that and it is one of the reasons that Israel refuses the right of return for refugees.
Labeling this event hate is just a way to distract everyone from the real message. Yes, this event gets the Palestinian point of view across which is often missed in the media. Do we know about the frequent incursions in the refugee camps that Israel makes? The hundreds of Arab houses that get destroyed in Jerusalem because they don't have the 'right permit?'
The Palestinian uprising began in 1987 but the occupation by Israel had started 20 years ago in 1967 and continues on to this day.
If the event is so biased and hate filled, why are two speakers/presenters of Israeli/Jewish origin invited?
everyone is entitled to their opinion and everyone is entitled to be wrong. it just happens that their opinion coincides with the agenda of the event. I think they are wrong to participate in it. But that is my opinion.
Grish, we all got off the main topic here which is pretty normal in anything related to Middle Eastern politics.
The main issue was the Israel Apartheid Week event and it seems like many posters jumped to conclusions without even looking at the program and based on articles written by the Canadian Jewish Congress (who of course will defend Israel at any cost).
All I'm saying is for Edmontonions to look at the speakers and the program to make up their own mind about attending.
they don't. as far as I know, all israeli citizens are treated with the same fairness. What is it in the laws of Israel that specifically prohibits a muslem arab from moving around, owning property, having access to education, health, representation in government, etc?
Haifa is one (of many) great example where Jewish and Arab residents live side by side without an issue.
The people living in hostile to Israel areas are treated with suspision, subjected to checkstops and other security measures that are warranted based on the history of violence, not the policy of the government. In these same areas, jewish israelis are subject to hostility and murder. This came to be during the state of war and has continued. In these areas, both sides are not able to be free.
And that is the crux of the problem. At some point the war needs to end. That is when people will stop being affraid that one will stab you or blow you up and the other will search and hassle you. It is that tension along the fighting zone that continues to opress both sides. Until both sides come to a negotiation table and negotiate, rather than posture to their electorate, no event will help the situation. Particularly not one that unfairly singles out one of two sides. IAW is a propaganda excercise at best and a hate fest at worst. It is not something positive as it does not seek a positive resolution for peaceful coexistence. It is only designed to assign blame and act against one of two sides in the conflict.
It starts with the title of the event. Once you place it in the heading–a false claim about one of the two sides–the whole event becomes the propaganda/ hate filled IAW's we have seen in the past.
Call it: "Issues of Human Rights in Israel-Palestine Conflict" and there is room for a conversation, the equal presentation of both sides of the conflict, and a discussion towards (for not against) a peaceful resolution.
Agreed entirely.
Many people believe that ghetto like occupation of the territories surrounded by walls and dotted with illegal, lush, and suburban Israeli settlements is reminiscent of the apartheid era. Hence the title.
You can disagree and that's your right.
The issue at discussion is not about Israeli citizens but Palestinians in the occupied territories because they are treated worse than prisoners.
Tanks, jets, and heavy artilellery is used to keep a cloud of fear and of course any one who gets killed in the Israeli incursions is automatically labeled a militant. For every Israeli, there are 5 Palestinians murdered through 'precision weapons.'
Read the Amnesty and UN reports and you'll find the daily abuses that Israel inflicts and the thousands of deaths that you won't hear about in the media.
But I guess Amnesty and UN are biased too right?
and many would argue that it is the fault of the leadership of the palestinian populations. for example, when all israeli settlers from Gaza were forced to evacuate, they left in tact large agricultural infrastructures. Instead of Hamas taking ownership of these and providing people with employment and, at the same time, food, they were looted.
For the most part, Gaza and the west bank have been self-governing for years with only a small percentage of the territory in the west bank in direct contact with the state of israel and affected by the separation barrier, yet there are no improvements on the ground. The living conditions are poor, and unemployment is high.
There is definitely the armed conflict with israel that shares in blame, but considering the millions of dollars in international aid, a large portion of responsibility for the conditions should be placed on failed leadership in the territories. The leadership that continues to seek military conflict rather than provide for their citizens.
Two sides to the argument. Both need to be heard in order to work for peace rather than against israel.
For the most part, Gaza and the west bank have been self-governing for years with only a small percentage of the territory in the west bank in direct contact with the state of israel and affected by the separation barrier, yet there are no improvement on the ground. The living conditions are poor, and unemployment is high.
There is definitely the armed conflict with israel that shares in blame, but considering the millions of dollars in international aid, a large portion of responsibility for the cnditions should be placed on failed leadership in the territories. The leadership that continues to seek military conflict rather than provide for their citizens.
Israel evacuated but still controlled the air, land, and sea entrances to Gaza. So while it trumpeted to the world about the pull out, it kept the economic blockade to starve and punish the people of Gaza.
It allowed bare minimum food requirements and nothing else that would help spur development of any kind.
This is the other side of the story.
you missed the part when Gazans were given the means to produce their own. At one point, you grow your own food so you do not starve.
So 2 million Gazans are expected to cultivate land and feed themselves because Israel is not willing to lift the blockade as it should?
I am not sure if you are reading what I am saying.
There is a part to blame the military events for the living conditions. The firing of rockets and the constant attempts by israel to stop the smuggling in response is one aspect subject to blame. The other is not taking ownership for your own future such as taking the opportunity to cultivate your own food.
How can any development for the future takes place when Israel refues to lift the econimic blocked of the occupied territories?
I would say the hundreds of lush illegal settlements (land grab) combined with the humiliating occupation causing THOUSANDS of deaths is the reason for the resistance. Once again, the occuption began in 1967 and the uprising in 1987.
and just so there is no misunderstanding on the blockade from air and see etc that faraz claims.
Here is a news story from the Teheran Times stating that israel is doing as promised in lifting of the blockade. If an Iranian news agency reporting Israel is doing as promised, then it must be so. This is days before rockets started raining on israel yet again leading to yet another armed conflict.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=171519
Grish, I don't defend every method that Palestinians use for self defence but it is a response to the occupation and oppression by Israel since 1967.
Generations have grown up seeing Israeli tanks and soldiers destroying homes, grabbing land, and building settlements while the occupied territories becomes one of the most crowdest regions in the world.
BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7818022.stm
So Tehran Times is reliable when it lines up with your views? Otherwise, it is biased and propaganda?
Read the BBC article. It is actually pretty neutral and discusses both sides of the issue debunking the myth of lifting the economic blockade.
there is still an armed conflict to resolve. there will be blockades as long as one side has evidence or is convinced the other side is smuggling arms. I am surprized people are surprized by it. In the mean time, the Hamas is responsible for their people. They have to find ways to produce food, educate, provide health care, safety and security. The constant blaming of Israel does not obsolve them of their responsibility to their people. Use the donated funds to build up your nation, not to purchase weapons.
I did not claim Teheran Times to be biased or unbiased. I claim that when a news paper from Iran–a sworn enemy of Israel– says that Israel has done something half decent, it must be so.
The BBC article does not contradict Teheran Times. It admits that both sides broke the truce. Hamas continued to fire rockets, and Israel in response did not fully re-open the borders. What is the issue?
The six-month ceasefire, brokered by the Egyptians, was often broken in practice. Its terms were never written, but were widely understood to include Hamas ending all rocket fire from Gaza and weapons smuggling from Egypt, while Israel stopped military activity against militants in the strip and carried out a phased lifting of its blockade of Gaza. Negotiations on the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit were also supposed to begin.
Rocket fire was greatly reduced, though not completely stopped, for the first few months of the truce. The volume of goods allowed into Gaza also increased for some of the time, but remained well below pre-embargo levels.
Don't just quote parts that suit you:
"Hamas said Israel had broken the truce by failing to lift the blockade; Israel said Hamas had used the period to smuggle more rockets into Gaza, was planting explosive devices on the border fence and had not stopped the rocket fire completely.
Hamas demanded that the blockade be ended or it would not renew the ceasefire.
What have been the effects of the Israeli blockade?
They have been severe. Little but humanitarian basics have been allowed into Gaza since Hamas seized power in 2007. Before the Israeli operation began, health, water, sewage and power infrastructure were seriously ailing because of a lack of spare parts. The blockade includes limits on fuel, which have on several occasions forced the power plant that supplies Gaza City to shut down.
A total ban on exports has left the already fragile economy devastated. Unemployment has soared. The United Nations Relief and Works agency (Unrwa) provides basic food aid to about 750,000 people in Gaza, but in the weeks preceding the Israeli operation these were suspended because the UN ran out of food because Israel closed the crossings into Gaza citing security reasons.
Goods ranging from food to missiles have, however, been brought in through smuggling tunnels from Egypt."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/israelandthepalestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1051211.html
Guardian and UN officials clearly blame Israel for violating the truce. The reason?
Well it is not the missiles as so widely claimed but an 'imminent' threat to kidnap soliders according to Israel. Imminent or fabricated, either way, Israel broke the truce.
Sundance the funny thing I note that you skirt around is the issue of Israel expanding greatly beyond what was mandated to them under the UN Partition Plan (1947) into what was designated Arab territory. If Israel had respected the terms of the agreement and not forced countless Palestinians out of their homes and into refugee camps, Hamas wouldn't have fired rockets and nobody in Israel would have died.
Note: I am in no way advocating rocket attacks... treaties are treaties, but this debate is not one sided.
Ah yes how far back shall we go back, getting back to the UN Partition plan what happened afterwards? Seems if my memory is right in January 1948 Egypt's Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni invaded Israel, as well as Fawzi al-Qawuqji from Syria invaded Israel as well with around 3,500 to 6,000 fighters. Jerusalem was blockaded. Of course the partition plan should be applied to Jews not Arabs?
Ask yourself a question why are there refugee camps in Arab countries? Why are they not welcomed into their countries societies? Many Arabian people are citizens of the state of Israel, however Palestian refugees are barred from Lebanese citizenship.
the rockets never stopped. there was never "cease fire". but that is a never-ending, circular debate. the point is that a one-sided event with a title attacking Israel is not conducive to working towards peace as it takes two hands to "shake".
IAW is a publicity stunt, a propaganda event, and a hate fest that has got nothing to do with the promotion of peace in the region.
Hypothetical situation:
The Amish(or any other religious/ cultural group) are discriminated against around the world, and as a result, desire a new homeland. Now, the United States and England desire to help them create this homeland, and state that the Amish should receive all the land north of highway 16 (including half of Edmonton) in Alberta. The government of Alberta has no say in the matter.
The plan proceeds, and Amish immigration begins to that territory, gradually displacing Albertans. Eventually, Alberta's fellow provinces decide to help out Albertans by invading, in an attempt to stop this. They are dealt a crushing defeat by the new powerful Amish army, and the Amish expand to take over most of the province in the course of the war, with the majority of the Albertan population being displaced into Saskatchewan.
In time, Albertans are allowed self rule, but only to the area inside the boundaries of Banff and Jasper national parks. Some are even granted citizenship of the new Amishonia, but face discrimination, and their elected reps are seldom allowed to take part in government coalitions.
Ask yourself the question: You are forced out of your home outside of Edmonton, where your family has lived for generations. Would you even want to consider becoming a "citizen" of Saskatchewan, and establish a new life there after that?
I'll admit that this situation is a bit simplistic compared to reality but many argue that if displaced Palestinians accept citizenship in other countries, it would mean them accepting the situation, and giving up any say.
With two Jewish/Israeli presenters at the event, I'm sorry but your argument makes no sense.
Just to counter the first argument that will come up: lets say that the ancestors of these Amish people lived in Northern Alberta thousands of years ago and were promised the land by God.
Since when did I skirt a thing?
I wasn't the one shouting 'thousands of rockets daily' but then only a smattering of injuries or fatalities. And while it's tragic that anyone dies or gets hurt, I do know that as soon as a siren warns, Israelis head down to their bomb shelters.
Gaza residents have no bomb shelters and Israel destroyed crucial infrastructure that will cost billions to repair.
You want a balanced debate but nothing Israel does or says comes close to fair. Banned weapons like DU, WP, cluster bombs are all being used so when you say I'm skirting around the rockets, I say you're skirting around Israeli war crimes.
Many TERRORIST SUPPORTERS believe that ghetto like occupation of the territories surrounded by walls and dotted with illegal, lush, and suburban Israeli settlements is reminiscent of the apartheid era. Hence the title.
Fixed it for ya...
not only is it "a bit simplistic', it might be more appropriate if you presented it as a first nations scenario and not an amish one... although i have to wonder "which side" of your simplistic scenario you would then choose to support.
Being promised something by god justifies anything, including killing women and children in his name, while he claps and cheers like the christian god did (e.g. the story of Jericho). Which is why the world would be better off without hateful Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other gods, for they are the justification to do anything. It is no coincidence that many of the worst war spots in the world, are those locations where religions meet to do evil in their god's name.
It is a different situation. The First Nations were here before Europeans, that is not debatable.
The Palestinians have just as much of a claim to that land as the Jewish community.
The primary issue in my mind is the unilateral decision of the Israeli government to expand beyond the boundaries of the original partition plan.
CigarHippo, you are free to state your opinion under your name but please don't change my comment under my name.
Do the 1948 or the six day war or the yom kippur war not factor in here at all? It wasn't Israel that did not hold to the original partition. Israel is not blameless, but let's keep our facts straight.
and it wasn't israel who forced anyone to leave. and it isn't israel who to this day refuses to grant citizenship to those who chose to believe in the false promises made to them by others...
actually, lets not go to thousands of years ago and hypothetical promises by god... according to the ottoman empire records, there has always been Amish population on the territory you describe and some of the Albertans moved to the location as recently as some of the Amish. Alberta as an independent country did not exist until the US and the British helped to create the Amish state. Until then, there were various "mandates" and before that, the Ottoman Empire ruled over Alberta, the Albertans and the Amish living there.
and all this back and forth with facts, history etc underscores the need for a balanced presentation of facts, an open discussion and a mutual negotiation. An event such as IAW does absolutely nothing towards the promotion of peace. It is a propaganda event and a hate fest.
The fact that there are two token jewish people participating only underscores that people are free to have opinions, not that their opinions are correct.
i wouldn't put an awful lot faith in the guardian's numbers. it's no secret that reported numbers of deaths are regularly inflated for the media:
"The IDF released its official numbers of the Palestinian fatalities in Gaza and updated them on 26 March: "According to the data gathered by the Research Department of the Israel Defense Intelligence, there were 1166 names of Palestinians killed during Operation Cast Lead. 709 of them are identified as Hamas terror operatives, amongst them several from various other terror organizations. Furthermore, it has been found that 295 uninvolved Palestinians were killed during the operation, 89 of them under the age of 16, and 49 of them women. In addition, there are 162 names of men that have not yet been attributed to any organization."
"A few out of these women and teenage victims were actually also proven as combatants or failed suicide bombers, but their number were left among the civilians. The further 162 identified fatalities were unclassified males, the majority of whom believed to be military men. Assuming their composition of military vs. civilians being similar to the other males;
"one can conclude with high probability that more than 71 % of the Palestinian fatalities in Gaza were parts of the Hamas/Palestinian terror/military and less than 29% could have been civilian victims. Though every civilian death is tragic, this is a very low civilian casualty rate in any international comparison - particularly if one considers Hamas' consistent use of its population as human shields.
"These figures are very different from those provided by diverse Palestinian sources and Palestinian-leaning NGO-s, who talked of about two-third of the casualties being civilians. Ample evidence supports the IDF figures and practically none the Palestinian hearsay.
"To those however, who have doubts as to which side they can believe, let's remind the figures of the famous "Jenin massacre" rumors in April 2002. Saeb Erekat - the Palestinian Authority's Minister of Truth then - talked of 3000 and days later of 500 Palestinian civilian victims in Jenin. Israel - the IDF - reported within two weeks a total 52 Palestinian dead, mostly combatants. It took the UN investigating team until August to publish its report declaring that "no massacre whatsoever was committed by Israel in Jenin", and reporting about 53 Palestinian dead - mostly combatants - thus justifying the IDF figures to the letter."
and it's also no secret that hamas and other palestinian "militia" groups consistently dress as civilians and use civilian populations - particularly those in hospitals and religious buildings and schools - as human shields.
any fatality - civilian or not - is tragic but trying to find a workable solution that will be not only verbally acceptable to both sides but implemented by both sides (because acceptance without implementation is worthless for both sides) will not come about by using arithmetic as a shield as well.
kcantor let me point out the flaw in your last post.
You belittle the Guardian for a report that is created by the same guys who did the killing, it's like allowing Charles Manson to be his own prosecution.
There's videos of IDF soldiers using Palestinian civilians as human shields so you might want to watch your claims. Israel's soldiers weren't exacly saints either.
http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/2009/03/anti-israelidf-propagandaisraeli-soldiers-t-shirts-depict-shooting-arabs/
by belittling, do you mean rebutting an newspaper article with a report that was verified as accurate by a united nations investigating team?
i didn't represent any group on either side as being comprised solely of "saints" (an interesting word choice in this discussion :) ). on the other hand, i would certainly differentiate between the actions of specific individuals on either side and the actual official policies and tactics and procedures developed and implemented and condoned by either side.
what i did say was that any fatality - civilian or not - is tragic. i also said both sides have to work together instead of throwing stones at each other either literally or figuratively using your "your side is worse than our side so that justifies our actions" as a rationale. that's the rationale behind why things are not much different for the current war in gaza than they were for:
· 1948 Arab-Israeli War (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War)
· 1956 Suez War (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1956_Suez_War)
· 1967 Six Day War (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1967_Six_Day_War)
· 1970 War of Attrition (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1970_War_of_Attrition)
· 1973 Yom Kippur War (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1973_Yom_Kippur_War)
· 1978 South Lebanon conflict (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict)
· 1982 Lebanon War (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War)
· 1987-1993 First Intifada (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/First_Intifada)
· 1982-2000 South Lebanon conflict (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/1982-2000_South_Lebanon_conflict)
· 2000-2007 al-Aqsa Intifada (http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada)
and lest anyone think this is entirely an israeli phenomonen, they may want to look a little further at the relationships between jordan and syria, black september in jordan, the north yemen and lebanese civil wars, the conflicts between libya and egypt (who has "made peace" with israel and been more than somewhat ostracized for it), the wars between iraq and kuwait...
they might also want to look a little further at the deaths of more than 400 palestinians in the ain al hilweh refugee camp or those in nahr al-bared to try and identify the real common denominator.
and while you might want to question the full equality of an arab israeli's citizenship, that citizenship certainly offers more than virtually all palestinians are granted in virtually all of her neighboring states.
(links from wiki - certainly not the only source but reasonably quick and reasonably accurate as well)
Ken, as usual, spot on.
If there's one thing there's just not enough of in this world, it's internet forum discussions about the Arab/Israeli conflict. Good to see folks here addressing this issue! :smt023
good to see you managing to find something positive to post. :smt023
Regarding the chart that Sundance copied from my links a point should be made. If a person was to put the yearly Jewish deaths from the Holocaust onto a chart of this scale the lines for 1942-1945 would be over 1000 feet high.
Israel was created to provide a homeland for the survivors of history's worst crime. Although the Palestinians have absolutely no blame in the holocaust, with an event like this well within living memory how can anybody expect the Israelis to be understanding about just a few rockets?
The people of Gaza allowed 2000 rockets to be launched from their territory against Israel. This means Gaza is either a failed state or a hostile state. I think the Israelis were totally justified in their actions to stop the rockets. The Gazan's obviously couldn't or wouldn't.
In a sad coincidence the first day of Israeli Anti-Apartheid Week was marked with a hatchet attack against a prominent Jewish shopkeeper in Edmonton.
Here is a link to an essay that says virtually everything that needs to be said on this issue. IMHO
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/03/by_alan_m_dershowitz_every.html
Link? Was it racially motivated?
i doubt - hope? - there was no racial (?) or religious motivation to that attack. although your asking the question then begs the question of whether you think there is a racial or religious motivation behind the current situation in the middle east. and if so to which side would you attribute the motivation? because if it is racial or religious, then neither military or economic solutions will be effective without first addressing and overcoming that. :(
I wasn't implying anything about the situation in the middle east, I was genuinely curious if it was just sad coincidence or not.
And of course race and religion play a huge part in the conflict in the middle east. I haven't been keeping score on which side is more of a bigot unfortunately.
Actually, it offers more than to ANY arab citizen in ANY country in the middle east... I would love to know what arab country in the middle east allows the level of freedoms and rights that Israeli arab citizens in Israel enjoy... If you ask ANY Israeli arab whether they'd like to live in any arab country or in Israel i am willing to bet that more than 90% would rather stay in Israel (and that includes the non-existent but potentially achievable state of "palestine")
Top_Dawg
' Course !
Everybody knows that Al Queda's newest sleeper cells are the desparate crackheads of Emonchuk's inner city.
Ralph, where does it claim anywhere that assault was racially motivated, or are you just assuming because he's jewish, that it was an act of anti-semetism?
kcantor, all of those links you posted are 1 sided. i've at least been trying to keep unbiased about this but it's obvious that none of you have any interest in doing so.
Hamas may be listed as a terror group, but I think that should be extended to include Israel as well who continues to break more laws than any other country in the world.
Cigarhippo, you're dreaming. I've read many accounts where arabic Israelis are treated like crap.
Armin, What part of "In a sad coincidence" was so hard to understand?
all of those links??? there were only two source targets. the first was a link to a report verfied by the united nations. the others were all taken from a single wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East
and while wiki - as noted in the original post - isn't the be all/end all source reference, i would certainly put them right up there with the self admitedly biased guardian...
I don't know what that means.
What I do know is that you claimed that shopkeeper was attacked because he was jewish. I asked you to cite your information and you came back with an obscure deflection.
and while wiki - as noted in the original post - isn't the be all/end source reference, i would certainly put them right up there with the self admitedly biased guardian...
Wikipedia shut down the jewish group CAMERA from writing articles specifically because they were altering them to a pro jewish slant.
The biggest issue is who decides what is the truth?
I can counter every link you choose to pass with an alternate recounting of events. The point is to figure out who is actually telling the truth in a manner that doesn't have us resorting to baseless accusations or hyperbolic disconnects and actually provides a civil debate without the inflamatory jingoism.
This back and forth thing solves nothing until each other side concedes and admits to making mistakes.
and let this be the finale word as you have finally agreed that an event that takes a one-sided approach at the issue is not going to solve anything "until each other side concedes and admits to making mistakes." Any event that promotes the "mistakes" of only one side is at best a simple propaganda and at the worst a hate fest.
I almost want to agree with you. In fact I do take offense to them calling it an apartheid week by just singling out Israel, but I wouldn't even think of stopping them. Call it payback for the George Galloway thing when he was banned from Canada as a terror supporter by Jason Kenney (the homophobe who just removed sections from the immigration guide relating to gay marriage), who was acting under the wishes of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the JDF which is recognized as a terror group in the United States.
As a supporter of free speech, that event was offensive since Galloway's only crime was giving some money and riding a boat filled with diapers and wet naps. I fail to see how a speech can be taken as a terror threat anyways.
If Israel wants to throw an apartheid week, they can, I won't try to stop them either.
You're wrong.you like to reject arguments based on personal opinion and not out of reliable information/facts
So, let's do this:
I challenge you to a bet... come up with a poll where it shows that more than more than 10% (ten percent) of Israeli arabs would rather live in another ARAB country than Israel and you've won yourself CDN $1,000 (One thousand Canadian dollars)
You have until noon MST of March 5th to accept this challenge...don't want to give you time to create something bogus. It has to be an independent, legitimate source, not Israeli or Jewish or Arab or muslim related.. (like the UN, HRW, etc)
Accept the challenge and all you have to do is prove that more than 10% of Israel arabs would rather live in an arab country...
On the other hand...if you accept the challenge by noon tomorrow, I would win the bet if i can come up with the same proof i am asking above...That is, an independent, reliable source stating more than 90% (ninety percent) would not leave Israel for another ARAB country...
This C2E forum will serve as a sort of collective witness for the bet...
If you think the amount of the bet is too high for you, name another number higher than $100...you know, to make things interesting...
So, either put your money where your mouth is or stop spreading lies and try to spread your twisted ideology across...
As i said before, propaganda pays off until confronted with facts..
You're on?
Armin, the word "coincidence" means two things happening at the same time by pure chance.
I didn't say anywhere that the man was attacked because he was Jewish, and the opening line of my post made that very clear. I suggest that you take a deep breath and actually read what people are posting and if you don't know the meaning of a word just google it.
If you want a source for the story, I think you should read a newspaper or go to the Journal or Sun's website, it was cited by both papers quite prominently, or are the local papers too big of an obscure deflection?
Call it payback for the George Galloway thing when he was banned from Canada as a terror supporter by Jason Kenney (the homophobe who just removed sections from the immigration guide relating to gay marriage), who was acting under the wishes of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the JDF which is recognized as a terror group in the United States.
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what does this have to do with anything? i guess the discussion has reached its logical end (or the end of any logic).
Agreed - although I'm not sure that a thread about Israel Apartheid Week started by someone opting to use Slaughtermaster as an alias wasn't always slated to be ironical rather than logical in it's conclusion anyway.
What a ridiculous proposition that has nothing to do with the topic.
You're deflecting the debate by trying to put me up against an irrelevant statistic. Argue that with Kcantor since you were using his quote.
lmao!!
Translation: "i'm a tool of arab and Jihad propaganda and stop asking for facts...facts are for informed ppl, we arab supporters rely on propaganda Jihad only"....
Alahu Fubar!!
I asked you twice now to back up the claim that this man was attacked because he was jewish and now you're backpeddaling. You make the claims, you scite the sources. I've read a few stories on that and have yet to see any claim to support your allegations.
There is a new article that says this: "The Jewish immigrant originally from South Africa is a member of the Beth Israel Synagogue in west Edmonton."
That's the only thing I could find noting his background. Why they pointed that out seems a little suspect to me. Could it be that you're the one looking for racial divisions? I'd say that's a little anti-semetic for pointing out this man is jewish.
Look, you're asking me to look for something irrelevant that probably doesn't even exist. You throw up a straw man argument and tell me to prove it. When I say it's useless, you resort to namecalling and slanderous interjections without ever backing anything up.
I never made any such claims and you're purposely avoiding the real debate which is about Israel and Palestine.
I'm including 2 links to show 2 different perspectives
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
These are 2 different situations and don't overlap. I'm including both just to show that I'm not biased, unlike some of these other posters.
"I was similarly struck by what I heard from a business group at the Karni industrial park. This group of predominantly young businessmen and women graphically described the devastation that has been wrought on the private sector in Gaza, an economy that is now only operating at some 10-15 percent of capacity. Over a thousand companies have gone out of business since the Israeli Army’s Operation Cast Lead in early 2009. Unemployment now runs at over 50 percent."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/opinion/05iht-edmartin.html?scp=2&sq=gaza&st=cse
I suppose the New York Times is just a tabloid too.
^God told the chosen people that it is ok to do this. She also told the not-chosen people that it is ok to hold the Israeli soldier in captivity.
I hope Shalit makes it home safe. No one should be used as a political pawn.
Hamas or should release him but Israel should have taken the offer when it was given to exchange his release.
It's not irrelevant b/c u said arab israelis are treated like crap and i rebuffed you by saying you are wrong, that more than 90% of arab israelis would rather live in Israel than in any arab country...and the poll exists and i can prove it...agree to the bet and i will post it...
as i said, you made a bogus claim that arabs are treated like crap and i, as you said, interjected with offering proof as a challenge to you... you rejected, meaning you know you're lying...
why can't you accept that most arabs (yes, many are treated like crap, but there'll always be ppl treated like crap in any country, usually a small minority in democracies like Israel and Canada) in Israel have it way better than any arab country
If you don't accept it, if that is blasphemy to an arab, then offer some proof affirming that most israeli arabs would rather live in an arab country. otherwise you're full of it..
You asked a loaded question. Why would they want to leave their country of birth?
That would be like the city of Edmonton taking over Enoch reserve and saying they should either accept it or move to some reserve in northern Saskatewan. Not exactly a Mecca location.
Post your poll, by all means. Israel is a nice country full of pools, big houses, a great history, lots of technology and western conveniences. I'd want to live there if it wasn't full of guns but I was born in a different culture. Who wouldn't want to live like that opposed to the rubble and poverty in Gaza? As far as other countries go, well I do know that there are Iranian, Turkish, and even Iraqi jews who live peacefully without persecution. Iraq is dangerous in general, so no one is truly very safe, but they are there.
As far as muslims moving to other countries, there's lots of refugee camps that no one ever talks about. There was a Leonardo dicaprio movie I saw lately with a scene at one of these camps. It looks like a set from District 9. Sunny pools of blue water or tainted stillwater. Only a fool would choose the latter.
As far as other countries go, well I do know that there are Iranian, Turkish, and even Iraqi jews who live peacefully without persecution. Iraq is dangerous in general, so no one is truly very safe, but they are there.
I would be asking for a source backing such a statement, but it would be difficult to establish the bias for the source as even in most oppressed conditions, people claim to love thei leader and their country.
One thing you did touch on is the state of jewish people in the entire region. Those communities and the jewish communities in Jerusalem and many other cities in Israel date back thousands of years.
However, the jewish communities of the entire middle east have been decimated in all countries except for Israel. The majority of Persian Jews (Iranian Jews) living in the middle east live in israel. There was a combination of reasons for that including iranian revolution amongst all others. Still, Israel took on hundreds of thousands of refugees from communities that include Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan etc.. While some simply fled, others were kicked out. This is true for the Palestinian refugees, many of whom have fled on their own and others were kicked out.
The difference in the reception of the refugees is that they were settled in Israel with full rights (that of course ties with the chief nature of the state of israel). Palestinian refugees are to this day confined to cramped refugee camps particularly in Lebanon. They have been restricted from becoming full citizens even though many "refugee camps" are real cities now and most of the "refugees" are second or third generation. I believe there are no refugee camps in Jordan as all refugees were kicked out of the country and many were killed by the Jordan army due to the politics there.
While the status as a refugee in the country is one of those matters that needs to be negotiated by all nations together with Israel and Palestinian leadership, the conditions of those camps, the status of those people in their host countries, and other issues of human rights are in fact a lot more severe than those in Gaza and the West Bank. That includes safety as there are routine military clashes between the Lebanese army, for example, and the militia in the camps with civilians falling to "collateral damage".
Wow. Two sides that won't budge and ignore each other's good points and play up their own. Remind anyone of anything?
isn't that a loaded question as well?
the total number of palestinian "refugees" that left the newly formed state of israel in 1948 is estimated to have been somewhere between 700 and 750,000 with a further 300 to 400,000 leaving during the 6 day war in 1967. the number of palestinians "classified" as refugees today whether they live in refugee camps or not has been estimated at anywhere between 4 and 6 million.
the issue is further complicated in that the un has never actually provided a workable definition of a palestinian refugee although it should be noted that the unrwa does include those displaced in 1948 and their descendants regardless of where they have lived since. palestinians are the only group to have ever been defined as refugees based on descent alone and this definition has exacerbated their circumstances for more than 6 decades...
kcantor, you just gave a bunch of statistical numbers then defined part of the semantical technicalities surrounding the conflict. Is there an answer to my somehow loaded question in there?
Grish, there's plenty of sources available to tell you whether or not there is jewish communities in those locations. It's fairly common knowledge and you can go pull up any source you deem credible. I'd do it for you but you'll just call all my links biased.
You ever hear of genome mapping? It's wonderful, they can tell where anyone is from just by using this thing called DNA. With it they figure out which Israelis are actually descendents of the region, and which ones are just using their religion to lay claim to the land. Arabic Israelis share the same DNA with the Arabic Palestinians. The only difference is the religious aspect. European Israelis are european in origin. They're eastern german jewish migrants who use the law of return to take away land from Arabs.
JasonR, this stupid argument could go on for days and I am being intentionally stubborn until they concede a few facts or at least stop making such ridiculous claims.
armin, no offense, but you are just as guilty. You cannot argue the fact that Arabs have it much better in Israel than Jews have it in Arab countries. You place the blame all on Israel, and that's just not fair or accurate.
what are you replying to? the conditions under which the jewish communities live or whether or not they exist?
You have no clue what genome mapping is. You are probably thinking of some sort of genetic geneaology thing, not the genome mapping project that simply tries to identify all human gene codes.
Since you have quite obviously taken gene samples from all jews of the world, you have convinced yourself that there were no jewish people living in Jerusalem, in Tzfat (or Safed), Haifa, Ramle, Cescaria, Hebron, and many, many other cities and villages.
You have also remembered–a reasonable thing to do using the magic of Gene Geneaology–to take samples of the DNA from every Arab living in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia etc and have identified all those arabs having different DNA from the DNA of the Palestinian Arabs. Obviously, when in lat 1800's and early 1900's the Zionist movement of the European Jews was taking place, not a single arab moved into what is now the state of Israel. I am sure the economic activity and trade would not have attracted anyone else just like no Arab has made a move to Canada or the US in search of a more prosperous life.
This "scientification" of land claim has striking similarities to what the Nazis did to convince the enlightened Germans at the time that Arian is the pure race, others like Italians and the Spanish are a bit lower, and Jews and Gypsies are practically not human. But if you are going to go down that path, why not sample everyone and designate the areas in the world where they can establish a country for themselves.
And you guys keep putting all the blame on the Palistinians. I've already answered that question earlier in this thread. I've even condemned Hamas earlier, but no, I'm just being racist.
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Grish, where do you get your information from?
You're talking about Eugenics, which wasn't a Nazi born idea. It was actually incredibly popular in the United States long before Hitler started buying into that junk. Also, Hitler was an *****.
They can use the genome project to trace dna back to villages that are thousands of years old. Israel funded alot of the recent research trying to find genetic connections to religious writings.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7686
I didn't write this stuff, and your accusations are close to Godwin rules. If you want to play the nazi card, you already lose because it's a stupid insinuation.
First of all, I have never called you racist. Second, I haven't ever put all of the blame on the Palestinians.
i don't believe i've ever called you a racist or even inferred it. but you have been guilty of deflecting criticism of some of your statements and positions.
you asked "why would anyone want to leave their country of birth?"
i pointed out that most palestinian refugees were not born in israel and acknowledged that as being an issue that has to be dealt with by both sides. you cannot at the same time question why people would want to leave their country of birth while you are supporting exactly that.
and you came back stating that trying to address real numbers - who are all at the end of the day real people and not just numbers - is no more than "a bunch of statistical numbers" and "part of the semantical technicalities surrounding the conflict". how do expect the two sides to be able to resolve the conflict if even you can't even get past the semantical technicalities when semantical technicalities are one of the major reasons this conflict has gone on for more than six decades.
and then you started to ramble on to grish about genome mapping and DNA and JasonR about how you are "being intentionally stubborn until they concede a few facts or at least stop making such ridiculous claims".
as near as i can tell, most of the positions put to you have been more verifiable than many of your statement like that "As far as other countries go, well I do know that there are Iranian, Turkish, and even Iraqi jews who live peacefully without persecution".
in the last 60 years, the jewish population of arab countries declined from estimates of between 750,000 and 900,000 to less than 9,000 in total. this would include your example of iraq with a decline from 140-150,000 to fewer than 100 today.
the decline in non-arab muslim countries in total would be similar to or greater than your other two examples of turkey - which went from 140,000 to 17,000 - and iran - which went from estimates as high as 150,000 to 10,800 today.
hardly true reflections of living peacefully without persecution.
kcantor, define the Israel Palestine border and we'll probably get to the crux of the problem.
You're accusing me of deflection, but I can say the same thing.
The racist comment was to Grish and her stupid accusational tone.
And all your stats mean very little without citations. I'll get back with a better response when I've got more time.
as for my defining the border, israel's original borders weren't acceptable to her neighbors - it wasn't israel that went to war to change them. nor has any proposed border since been acceptable to her neighbors whether pre or post any of the wars since. my "definition" isn't likely to be any better received.
you can certainly say the same thing about deflection if you want. although - much like many of your other assertions - that won't make it true.
as for a better response with more time, you probably don't have to bother. as long as facts don't mean as much as your own personal opinions, our "stalemate" isn't likely to be resolved regardless of how much time goes in to crafting it. if the source of facts provided (regardless of how easy they are to verify) isn't cited, you discount them completely. although earlier when a source was provided you simply discounted the source just as readily and just as completely. if you have more accurate facts, please table them. until then, i will stay quite comfortable with mine.
well, you didn't read it either.
this article has nothing to do with providing a link between lineage to land claim. nor does it make an unequivocal claim to being trust-worthy.
trying to "scientisize" something like that to determine belonging is not that far from claims of supremacy. i did not start down that path. I am just giving you a heads up that once you try to test the DNA of one people, every people will be subject to the same DNA analysis. Racism can be dressed up in many different ways. Saying that a whole people does not belong due to the absence of a particular DNA is not that far from the scientification of stature, head shape, etc perfected by Nazi "scientists". You are going to start building historical arguments, you should expect others to bring up history to counter them.
kcantor, prior to 1948 there was no Israel. Palestine was under Britain at the time, and they just decided to give away land that never belonged to them. If the situation was different and the US gave away a part of Alberta to any reserve, I'd call you a coward if they were allowed to push us out and you just sat back. That's no different than any Israeli, or Palestinian. Both of them feel deserving of the land. The big problem is for the last 60 years, Israel has been taking all the land without sharing or treating arabs equally.
Grish, just stop before you embarrass yourself further.
You accused me of racism. After that, all gloves are off because I've fought racism for at least the last 20 years and for you to make such accusations is insulting.
When you take a pair of Doc Martins across the head, then you can come back and try accusing me, until then you don't have any right to say spit.
The link I posted is relevant because you accused me of preaching eugenics. I just showed you a link that confirms studies relating to genetic testing by Israel. Double standard much? Where's their allegations of racism?
First of all, you need to tone down your threats of physical violence and name calling.
prior to 1948 there was no palestine either. There was no country for either people. There were jews and arabs and armenians and several other groups living on this land. European jews have orchestrated a large scale move into the land to join the jews already living there. That much is true and is very well documented. There were rich philantropists who have helped purchase land. That was done legally under the Ottoman Empire laws. Jewish settlers who did move back, moved into land they legally owned. Your comparisons to US giving parts of Alberta away are made out of complete ignorance of the history of the region.
for some reason, you quite freely deny histry of one people over another. more over, you have written down as a fact that genetics has proved jewish people have no right to any claim on the land. as a proof, you offered an article on the religious comparison between judaism and the opinions of a scientist who has worked on the human genome project. The goal of the project was to map the DNA of humans. The opinion of the scientists has to do more with divine creation versus evolution. Yet, to you this article is written about the rights of jewish people to the land claim.
You don't want to be called racist, but you are perfectly ok with using genetics to differentiate between people and their rights. The last time someone tried to use science to differentiate between people and their rights were the Nazis.
I will not call you a racist. You pick a word that suits you better. Next time you threaten me to throw a shoe, make sure the shoe is not a boumerang.
ps I did not accuse you of eugenics. Yet another term you quite obviously do not understand. I did not ever say that you wish some sort of purposeful, selective breeding:
from the dictionary...
eugenics is the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
but I did accuse you of trying to pervert human genome project into something that it isn't and to differentiate between different groups of people and their rights.
prior to 1948 there was no palestine either.
or ever. there has never been a "palestine", ever... it has never been a country, it was a territory whose name was given by the romans when they conquered it and it remained like that until the brits took over from the turks... "palestina" is a name of a town in Italy, that's where the name dates back to, to ancient Rome.
the name "palestine" has zero conection to arabic.. it has no arabic backround. it's a latin name.
Neither "palestine" or "AlQuds" are named even ONCE on the Holy Quran, not once.
Israel otoh, is named 52 times in the Quran. The Quran. The one document that arabs most believe in has no connection to "palestine" whatsoever.
Armin, why isn't "palestine" mentioned once in the Quran? Where is the muslim connection to "palestine"? it seems to me the name "palestine" is just an made up name for a made up ppl, kind of like "Mordor" or "KPax"
Zombie thread but the topic fits. Brave stuff by Israeli commedian to call it like it is, apartheid.
://youtu.be/QyyUvxHLYr4
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/in-last-monologue-israeli-comedy-show-host-implores-israelis-to-wake-up-and-smell-the-apartheid/
I don't believe the answer is two state anymore. I think the only way for peace is for the Palestinans to be granted the same rights as Israelis (including the right to live anywhere and to vote) and the constitution to be rewritten not as a Jewish state but as a Secular state. With mutual rights and respect Arab and Jew can live together in peace in the Middle East, just like in Canada.
"With mutual rights and respect Arab and Jew can live together in peace in the Middle East, just like in Canada."
lovely sentiment moa... if only it were either accurate or true. unfortunately it is neither and reflects at best a lack of understanding on many levels.
firstly, there is no "equivalency" between "arab" and "jew". one describes a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula. the other describes people whose traditional religion was judaism. your descriptives aren't even exclusive of each other.
secondly, i'm not sure that canada does treat either of these overlapping groups equally (or, more accurately, canada probably does treat both groups equally but not with equality in much the same way that canada still not treat first nations canadians with equality).
thirdly, i find it interesting that you now want to insist that israel would be a better place if it became a secular place where religion no longer impacted on life within the state or on the state's behavior towards other states. interesting insofar as there seems to be no similar sentiment calling for the establishment of secular states in jordan or lebanon or syria or saudi arabia or yemen or iran or iraq or turkey or egypt or yemen or libya or qatar or the united arab emirates or kuwait or oman or bahrain or even palestine to rewrite their constitutions and enshrine similar rights and freedoms and security throughout the middle east.
^did you watch the video? I'm guessing you didn't like watching an Israeli pointing out how inhumane it was that within a few kilometers, while he lives a good life, others struggle to get even basic government services / health care.
So because Israel is better than the rest of the middle east (for some of its residents, per you), its perfectly acceptable that some of its people live a very good, "white equivalent" apartheid live, whiles others live a "black equivalent" apartheid life with few rights and basic services. I would have though Israel can be better than that, maybe with a Swiss style government of quasi states (which could at a regional level choose a state religion), but I guess its good enough for you the way it is. I don't think its good enough, when you repress people into poverty / enclaves, a people whose population is growing at a faster rate than yours, the end result is not going to be pretty the longer it takes to face up to the inequality.
yes, i watched it...
and i thought how different the acceptance of a different point of view in israel than if that video had come from jordan or lebanon or syria or saudi arabia or yemen or iran or iraq or turkey or egypt or yemen or libya or qatar or the united arab emirates or kuwait or oman or bahrain or even Palestine in terms of its remaining available for discussion. or even its author still being available for discussions.
i also found it interesting to see which thread you chose to resurrect to make your point...
kkozoriz
The PLO was the secular group fighting for Palestinians. In order to split the Palestinian vote, Israel supported Hamas, a religious group.
How Israel helped create Hamas
Hamas launched in 1988 in Gaza at the time of the first intifada, or uprising, with a charter now infamous for its anti-Semitism and its refusal to accept the existence of the Israeli state. But for more than a decade prior, Israeli authorities actively enabled its rise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/?utm_term=.c1c5608ef9c6
Israel, particularly the current Netanyahu government, isn't interested in a secular state. And there's no way that Israel will aloow the Palestininans in the occupied territories to become citizens. In a generation or two, Jews would be a minority
You can't even get married in Israel unless you're approved by the approved religious authorities. If you want to marry in a secular, mixed faith, same sex or otherwise unapproved marriage, you have to do it outside of Israel.
Israel’s religious authorities — the only entities authorized to perform weddings in Israel — are prohibited from marrying couples unless both partners share the same religion. Therefore, interfaith couples can be legally married in Israel only if one of the partners converts to the religion of the other. However, civil, interfaith and same-sex marriages entered into abroad are recognised by the state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Israel
Immigration to Israel is based on your ethnic and/or religious background. You don't meet those standards, it's almost impossible to move there.
Immigration to Israel and Israeli Citizenship
Israel, despite being a liberal democratic country, is not an immigration country. Therefore, Israel does not have laws and regulations enabling foreigners who wish to come and settle Israel the opportunity to do so.
http://www.visa-law.co.il/immigration-to-israel/
It's really not that different in result than many of the countries you mention Ken. Only in execution. And isn't Israel supposed to be the example?
Different laws for arrest and imprisonment based on citizenship, which, as we see above, is heavily titled towards Jewish citizens. A Christin or Muslim or Atheist person, even if they are a citizen, face a much harder time that a Jew would in the same circumstances.
It's a rarity for a Jewish person to have their home taken from them by the government. Usually only in the cases of illegal settlements and usually not even then. However, Palestinians are often, you could even say routinely, evicted from their homes, often with little to no notice.
But, according to Ken, that's their fault. If people who these people don't even know or support, who were put in power by the Israeli government, would simply stop doing what they were created to do, everything would be wonderful. Remember, if something bad happens to a Palestinian, it's their own fault, regardless of the circumstances.
Jewish nation state: Israel approves controversial bill - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44881554
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April 28, 1952 -- Congress Expressway Project Obtains Final Three Lots
April 28, 1952 – Acquisition of land for the Congress Street expressway comes to an end as the Chicago City Council approves purchase of three downtown properties, the last of 1,860 parcels that have been acquired since 1942. The final three properties, purchased for $540,212, are for the widening of the expressway as it reaches Michigan Avenue by means of creating sidewalk arcades at Roosevelt College, the Congress Hotel, and Annes Restaurant at 51-59 East Congress Street. The Commissioner of Subways and Super Highways, Virgil E. Gunlock, says that about 96 percent of the Congress corridor’s right of way has been cleared of buildings and that the super highway is expected to be completed by 1955. He didn’t miss by much. The completed expressway opened April 10, 1956. The above photo gives some idea of how those 1,860 parcels of land came into play as the swath carved out for the new expressway brings it closer to the Loop.
April 28, 1893 – The Chicago Club moves into “new and commodious quarters” [Chicago Daily Tribune, April 29, 1893] in the structure that formerly held the Art Institute of Chicago before the museum’s move to its new building on the lakefront. Designed by John Root, the headquarters for the Chicago Club, at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street, “meets the taste of the critic in its plain yet rich proportions.” Francis M. Whitehouse is the architect charged with renovating the building to make it suitable for the wealthiest private club in the city. The first story wall will be lowered to make the ceilings of the entry level appropriate for the use of club members and “By this arrangement an extensive and finely proportioned hall was secured two and one-half feet below the level of the reading room. A flight of marble steps leads up to the latter room.” Servants’ rooms and a laundry are contained in an addition that has been built over the former courtyard of the Art Institute. The club’s new headquarters will also have its own ice plant and electricity generating plant. The elegant building would remain the Chicago Club’s headquarters until 1929 when it collapsed while being remodeled. The top photo shows the building that the Chicago Club moved into in 1893. The photo below that shows the same corner today.
April 28, 1909 -- The Cubs come back in the ninth inning to beat Cincinnati in a squeaker, 6-5. Another sports reporting gem, this one by I. E. Sunburn in the Chicago Daily Tribune. "Meek as so many cosset lambs during the early innings of today's game," he writes, "Chance's [player-manager Frank Chance] men suddenly tore off their disguises, converted themselves into ravenous wolves, snatched away from the Reds the victory which was apparently clinched, and plunged a stiletto deep into the vitals of Clark Griffith [Cincinnati's manager]." Reds pitcher Bob Ewing is in command until the seventh inning when he allows two runs, but the Wrigley nine is still down by three going into the top of the ninth. Chance leads off the final frame with a single to right. Third baseman Harry Steinfeldt "poled a long fly" to left, but shortstop Joe Tinker "smashed one so hot that [Red shortstop Mike] Mowrey had no chance of stopping it. Outfielder "Circus Solly" Hofman laces a line drive into center. Chance scores, and "only two runs were needed to tie her up." Cubs second baseman Heinie Zimmerman pulls a line drive between short and second and Reds left fielder Dode Paskert, hustling to cut down a run at the plate "fumbled the ball in his eagerness and it bounded gleefully back toward the fence." Tinker and Hofman score and Zimmerman "sneaked around to third a toenail ahead of Paskert's throw in." Cubs catcher Pat Moran hits a bounder to Reds second baseman Miller Huggins, who makes "a fine shot to the plate to nil Zim's run," but Cincinnati catcher Frank Roth drops the ball. That is all that is needed to seal "the grandest rally that has been pulled off this season in any section of the map." The game is played at Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans, pictured above.
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Monitoring is usually undertaken as part of a project, however all too often it is not designed to provide information relevant to the questions being asked. If we can’t measure the impact that we are having on biodiversity, then how can we make informed decisions on how to improve it? Even if that project is a rewilding one, therefore open ended, it is still important to know what is happening to biodiversity as a result of our actions (or inaction).
Biodiversity; Biodiversity Assessment; BQC
Climate change will have a range of significant impacts on people, as well as our planet. It will also change our biodiversity and natural processes globally. Changes in climate and weather, and rising temperatures will change our ecosystems and species beyond recognition. In many cases, wildlife will need to commute north or to habitats higher in elevation to survive this change, and we will see more exotic species reaching our shores to adapt to the change in conditions and habitat types.
Connectivity; Green Infrastructure; Biodiversity; Nature Recovery
Scotland is one of the wildest places in the UK, with mountains, lochs and woodland extending out for miles. It is where the first beaver reintroduction trial sites were established in the UK; where pine martens roam and osprey soar through the skies. Experiencing these areas allows you to believe that Lynx, elk and wolves could be reintroduced to these areas more successfully than in southern England, for example.
Biodiversity Indicators
Biodiversity Measurement
The British Standard for Biodiversity BS42020 was published in 2013 and the Ecosulis quality system meets the requirements of the standard; however, it is only just starting to filter into planning applications and is becoming increasing recognised as a standard to adhere to. The standard was written for Ecological Consultants, Local Planning Authority ecologists, and anyone else in the ecology profession, to provide a national standard of working. The standard has been written to be used throughout the UK, independent of legislation and policy.
ecological consultancy
ecological consultants
Suitably Qualified Ecologist
National Planning Policy Framework
Ecological Consultant
National Planning Policy Guidance
ecological consulting
Ecosulis are now offering a Pioneering Pre-Acquisition Rapid Risk Assessment to allow an initial ecological site assessment to be made at the pre-acquisition stage. Ecology can have timing constraints and constraints to layouts, especially where notable habitats or protected species are present. There are too many projects where ecological consultants are brought in at a late stage when the layout has been fixed, and as a result it can be difficult and expensive to change the layout to accommodate ecological mitigation.
Ecological Mitigation
Beavers often get bad press for being the cause of flooding, and this is one of the key factors affecting the decision of whether to reintroduce beavers to Britain’s waterways. Heavy rain has caused flooding in Alyth Burn in Scotland, and many theories have linked this flooding to the presence of beavers in the area.
A “one in 200 year flood” occurred this summer and this caused extensive flash flooding within the village of Alyth, leaving homes without power.
This month saw the launch of Rewilding Britain, which is a charity set up to encourage rewilding projects across the UK. This includes enhancing biodiversity and natural habitats across the country, as well as improving our health and wellbeing through the enjoyment of natural areas. Rewilding is also frequently associated with the reintroduction of key species back to the UK, including beavers (which are already in parts of Scotland and Devon), pine martens, lynx and eventually wolves.
Technology and biodiversity are two concepts that are usually viewed as polar opposites. However, the source of technical advances are often inspired from the natural world. Species in particular that have evolved to a certain role or niche provide unique opportunities for us to learn and develop technology and materials. Maintaining high levels of biodiversity will protect the vast range of species and their evolutionary functions, some of which could be utilised to improve our way of life.
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Section Board
The Section Board is keen to welcome new members. It especially seeks to recruit younger scientists ready to make their debut on the international stage; or individuals who are keen to organise an activity such as a workshop or specialist symposium, or to contribute to the EFB European Congresses of Biotechnology. The current membership, and their responsibilities, are listed below. The Section Chairman (e-mail [email protected]) would be pleased to hear from others who are keen to become involved in helping with the organisation of Section activities.
Horsfall
Louise Horsfall
Louise Horsfall is a lecturer in biotechnology within the multidisciplinary research centre for synthetic and system biology, SynthSys, at the University of Edinburgh. Research in the Horsfall lab seeks to employ synthetic biology tools to increase the energy efficiency and resource efficiency of applied biotechnology. Current challenges include the production of metallic nanoparticles and platform chemicals to incentivise the decontamination of waste, water and land by engineering microorganisms, adopting biological compartmentalisation methods and optimising enzymes and pathways. She is programme director of the MSc in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology and teaches biotechnology to both undergraduates and postgraduates. She organises the section’s ‘Focus on…’ meeting series
@lehorsfall
Tim Overton
Tim Overton is a lecturer in biochemical engineering at the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham. His research interests include fermentation development and intensification for the production of recombinant protein drugs and biopolymers, the use of engineered biofilms for biocatalysis and biotransformation, and the use of flow cytometry to monitor and optimise biological processes. He teaches fermentation, cell culture and systems and synthetic biology. He is director of MSc programmes in Biochemical Engineering and Advanced Chemical Engineering. He organises the EFB Applied Synthetic Biology meeting series.
@overtonlab
Marles-Wright
Jon Marles - Wright
Jon Marles-Wright is a Senior Lecturer in Microbial Biotechnology in the School of Biology at the Newcastle University. He trained as a biochemist and structural biologist working on diverse projects from immune recognition of bacterial lipids, environmental sensors in Gram positive bacteria and plant cell wall degradation. His current research employs structural biology methods complemented with biochemistry, biophysics and synthetic biology tools to understand metabolic compartmentalisation in bacteria. Through an understanding of the basic biology and design principles of metabolic compartments, we hope to use these as synthetic biology platforms for the production of valuable natural products, and to refactor these systems for use as containers and scaffolds for biotechnology applications. Jon teaches subjects ranging from structural to synthetic biology and was a 2015 SynBio LEAP fellow.
@jmarlesw
Cecilia A.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Cecilia A Roque
Cecília Roque is an Assistant Professor at Departamento de Química and head of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She holds a degree in Chemical Engineering (Major in Biotechnology) and a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, PT). Cecília has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (UK) and at the Catholic University of America (US), a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (University of Cambridge, UK) and at INESC-MN (PT). Her research work focus in Biotechnology and sits in the frontiers between chemistry, biology and engineering. Cecília is active on the development of affinity receptors towards important biopharmaceuticals, as well as on the design of smart-responsive platforms for bioseparation processes, biosensing and biomedical applications. Cecília has received several national and international awards and published over 47 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Neil Dixon is BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow, based at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology MIB, University of Manchester. His lab’s research interests are to enhance current capacity and incorporate new capability into microbial cell hosts for a variety of biotechnological applications. This broad area of activity is currently focused on: i) Developing novel RNA-based gene expression devices, and SynBio circuits for tunable recombinant protein expression, to address secretion and co-expression challenges and facilitate upstream bioprocess optimization. ii) developing novel protein and RNA-based bio-sensors to detect substrates, co-factors and products of relevance to Industrial Biotechnology.
INSA-Toulouse, France
Jean Marie François
Jean Marie Francois is PhD in Agronomy and Biological Chemistry from University of Louvain-La-Neuve (UCL) Belgium in 1988. He became full professor in Industrial Microbiology and Nanobiotechnology at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées/Toulouse in 1993 and reached the exceptional class in 2010. His research activities are focused on “Integrated Physiology and Functional Genomics” in microbial systems, with specific issues on regulation of microbial carbon and energy metabolism, cell wall biogenesis, and metabolic refactoring of microbial metabolism. He is author/co-authors of more than 180 peer reviewed paper and 15 patents. He is also cofounder DENDRIS SAS, a spin off dedicated to molecular diagnosis using state of the art micro and nanotechnologies.
Aalto University, Finland
Alexander Frey
School of Chemical Technology, Aalto University. His research focuses on the rationale design of novel and improved production organisms harnessing state-of-the art synthetic biology tools in combination with computational biology and high throughput screening approaches. Yeast’s importance has led to it being well studied scientifically, and in recent years this has led it to being used in the production of not only food, but also pharmaceuticals, vaccines and secondary metabolites. His group uses nature as blueprint to redesign and tailor baker’s yeast as cell factories creating new ways to make “tried and tested” products – however in a more efficient way as in the existing production methods. He teaches many aspects important to modern biotechnology starting from the basics in genetics and microbiology to metabolic engineering, systems biology and rational design of production hosts.
Pengcheng
University of Limerick, Ireland
Pengcheng Fu
Pengcheng Fu is an adjunct biorefinery and bioenergy professor in the department of design and manufacturing, University of Limerick, Ireland and a professor in the college of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. Dr. Fu received his undergraduate training in chemical engineering at Zhejing University, China in 1982. He obtained his M.S. degree in chemical engineering at Zhejing University in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in biochemical engineering at University of Sydney, Australia in 1996, respectively. He then performed postdoctoral research in Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, University of Minnesota and University of California at San Diego during 1996–2000. Dr. Fu was employed by Diversa Corp (recently renamed Verenium, San Diego, CA) in 2001–2002. He joined the faculty at the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering in the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2002. He then joined the faculty in China University of Petroleum, Beijing in 2009. Dr. Fu joined the faculty in college of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology in May 2013. Dr. Fu’s area of research interests include: Biofuels and Bioenergy, Metabolic Engineering, Functional Genomics, Bioprocess Control, Metabolomics/Metabolite Profiling, Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology. Dr. Fu has published scientific articles filed patents on synthetic biology and systems biology. Dr. Fu and Dr. Sven Panke from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland have edited a book entitled published by Wiley and Sons in 2009.
Jäntti
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Jussi Jäntti
Jussi Jäntti is leading the Synthetic biology research team in the Industrial Biotechnology division at the VTT Technical research Centre of Finland. His research focuses on the development of efficient microbial Cell factories for the sustainable production of chemicals and proteins. His team develops modelling approaches for the design and establishment of novel enzymatic pathways and regulatory genetic circuits. An important target of their work is to establish efficient genome engineering methods for industrially relevant organisms to speed up the process of Cell factory establishment. In addition to yeasts and filamentous fungi his team is also working on electrobiology investigating the possibilities to effectively use the concept of microbial electrosynthesis for industrial biotechnology.
Messerschmidt
University of Potsdam, Germany
Katrin Messerschmidt
Katrin Messerschmidt is leading the Synthetic Biosystems research team in the biochemistry and Biology department of University of Potsdam, Germany. Her research focuses on the design and generation of an orthologous, light-inducible protein expression platform in yeast Sacchararomyces cerevisiae. She received her Biochemistry degree from University of Potsdam and a PhD in Biochemistry from the same University. Subsequently, she did a PostDoc research project in biotechnology and antibody technologies developing methods for the selection of antibody-producing bacteria and mammalian cells before joining the field of synthetic biology in 2013.
De Mey
Ghent University, Belgium
Marjan De Mey
Marjan De Mey obtained a PhD in Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University. She was visiting researcher at TU Delft (The Netherlands) and MIT (USA) and since 2011 she holds a position as professor in Metabolic Engineering at the faculty Bioscience Engineering of Ghent University where she leads the Metabolic Engineering group at the Laboratory for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis. Their research focuses on the development of novel tools and methods to fine tune metabolic pathways. They apply these tools to create custom designed microbes for the production of useful chemicals, special sugars and natural products from renewable resources. She is also affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics at MIT where she is involved in the development of microbial production processes for terpenoids and monoethyleneglycol.
TU Berlin, Germany
Peter Neubauer
Peter Neubauer is professor in bioprocess engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). Research in the Neubauer lab is directed to the development of robust bioprocesses with a focus on (i) bioprocess scale up und scale down strategies including two – and three-compartment scale-down reactors, (ii) process analytical technologies (PAT) for the characterisation of industrial scale bioprocesses in terms of the reactor inhomogeneities with the aim for improved bioprocess control and product quality, and (iii) the development of a high throughput technology platform for the automated consistent development of bioprocesses. He is cofounder of the company BioSilta which develops the EnBase® biocatalyst based substrate delivery systems for a seamless scaling of controlled growth conditions.
DECHEMA –Forschungsinstitut, Germany
Jens Schrader
DECHEMA – Forschungsinstitut, Germany
Jens Schrader received his degree as a biotechnologist from Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He is member of the executive board of DECHEMA Research Institute, Frankfurt, a private foundation dedicated to interdisciplinary research for sustainable technologies. His research interest is the combination of metabolic and bioprocess engineering to develop novel microbial processes starting from renewable resources. His group focuses on the biotechnological synthesis of natural products, especially flavour and fragrance compounds and terpenoids. The group is also interested in industrial biotechnology based on “non-sugar” carbon sources such as glycerol and methanol and in bioelectrochemical syntheses. He is associate professor at Goethe University Frankfurt teaching in the master program molecular biotechnology.
Urartu
Seker
Bilkent University, Turkey
Urartu Seker
Urartu Seker is an Assistant professor in Bilkent University- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Institute. Dr. Seker earned his PhD degree in Molecular Biology-Genetics and Biotechnology Program in Istanbul Technical University and in University of Washington (Visiting graduate student), in 2009. Upon completion of his PhD, he workedas a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Singapore Nanyang Technological University where he worked on developing biophotonic probes and devices using proteins -quantum dot nanoparticle hybrdis, from 2009-to 2011. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at MIT Synthetic Biology Research Center, and Research Laboratory of Electronics from 2011 to 2014. During his work at MIT Synthetic Biology Research Center he focused on designing living material systems using synthetic biology tools. Since 2014, he is working as an Assistant professor and leading Synthetic Biosystems Research Laboratory at Bilkent University. His research interests are: synthetic genetic regulation, living material systems, engineered biofilms, whole cell sensors, synthetic biology enabled synthesis of bio/nanomaterials and tissue engineering.
Di Ventura
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Barbara Di Ventura
Barbara gained a degree in Computer Science from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” after which she obtained a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the EMBL, Heidelberg. She is currently group leader at the BioQuant center, at the University of Heidelberg. Her team is interested in understanding the mechanisms used by cells to control processes in space and time using an interdisciplinary approach that combines molecular and cellular biology with synthetic biology and mathematical modeling. A special focus of the lab is optogenetics, that is, the use of light to externally control protein function and localization in individual living cells.
University of Kent, UK
Martin Warren
Martin Warren is Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Biosciences at the University of Kent. He is well known for his research into the biosynthesis of modified tetrapyrroles, the so called pigments of life, such as hemes, chlorophylls and corrins (vitamin B12). His interest in vitamin B12 chemistry led to a study of how cobalamin is used for propanediol utilisation (pdu) in some bacteria, where remarkably the metabolic process is sequestered within a proteinaceous organelle called a bacterial micrcompartment, one of the largest protein-based complexes found in nature. He uses recombinant DNA technology and synthetic biology approaches to re-engineer pathways into organisms in which they do not naturally occur and redesigns them for enhanced performance.
De Wever
Flemish Institute of Technological Res. Belgium
Heleen De Wever
Flemish Institute of Technological Research, VITO. Belgium
Heleen De Wever is a Project Manager at the Flemish Institute of Technological Research (VITO) in Belgium and leads the Biotechnology team in the business unit Separation and Conversion Technology. The main research lines of the team are process intensification, valorization of biomass and CO2-to-product bioconversions. Technological approaches include the combination of separation technology with bioconversions for high cell density fermentations,in-situ product recovery, enzyme immobilization and/or selective product separation, tailoring of biomass towards defined oligomer fractions, and gas fermentations in explosion-proof conditions. Heleen is also involved in the MELiSSA project focussing on organic waste recycling and valorization in space conditions.
Tony Hitchcock.
Cobra Biologics, UK
Diethard Mattanovich.
BOKU, Austria
Victor de Lorenzo.
CNB, Spain
Jens Nielsen.
Chalmers, Sweden
Matthew Edmundson.
University of Edinburgh, UK
Ian Eggington.
Virginia Echavarri-Bravo.
Konstantinos Vavitsas.
University of Queensland, Australia
The section is governed by a section board, comprising:
A chair and a secretary (or two co-chairs, each of whom also act as co-secretaries);
A treasurer;
An industrial liaison manager;
and a number of other members without title.
In addition, there is a section advisory board, the function of which is to offer advice and support to the members of the section board.
The section board will meet at least once a year.
The section board will be elected annually at the AGM. Nominations for members of the section board will be held 1 month before the AGM.
The section will organise events such as meetings and conferences. The major features of these activities are:
They are international in scope and focused specifically on Europe;
They are interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing any area within the fields of bioengineering and bioprocessing;
They promote participation from researchers, scientists and engineers at all career stages; and
They involve all sectors such as academia, industry, government agencies and research institutes.
Funds raised by the section will be used to fund section activities and pay section management expenses.
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By Sam Borden
USWNT lawsuit in the news, but pay equality a global fight at Women's World Cup
PARIS -- The biggest game of the Women's World Cup happens here Friday night, a mouthwatering quarterfinal between France and the United States. It is the ubertalented hosts against the best team on the planet. It is a showdown, a prizefight, a classic. It is the type of match that, played to its peak, might well define a tournament.
Just not this time.
Not this time, not at this tournament, not at an event where so, so many players from so, so many teams have decided to use this moment, the most significant of their careers, to speak. To raise the volume on the conversation about gender inequality to an intensity it has never reached before.
It is everywhere. You could be forgiven, if you are only just now focusing on this tournament, for thinking the subject was limited to the United States. And the Americans are, to be sure, squarely at the heart of it: The fact that the U.S. players are playing for a world championship while literally suing their own federation for alleged gender bias is an absolutely stunning truth on its own. Taken in context with the vacuum in which most sports and their athletes prefer to live -- the we're-on-to-Cleveland, we-just-take-it-one-game-at-a-time crowd -- it is a reality that is staggering.
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"Traditionally, athlete activists have been shut down, fired, discriminated against, all of that," says Nicole LaVoi, who is the director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport. "What's happening here, though, is working. They're drawing attention to the issue. They're using their collective power."
But that American effort is also only the roots of what has rippled out of this 24-team tournament from the very start. While the Americans have a history of pushing for progress, their willingness to elevate the battle while playing in a World Cup -- not before or after, but squarely when the lights are brightest -- has now been complemented by an unprecedented international chorus.
Ada Hegerberg, the reigning world player of the year, withdrew from playing at all for Norway here because she was dissatisfied with the level of treatment for the national team. Marta, the Brazilian who is typically recognized as the best female player in history, set the all-time World Cup scoring record (for both men and women) and celebrated, with all the cameras on her, by pointing to a pink-and-blue symbol on her shoe and dedicating the goal to "anyone fighting for more equality." Then, when her team was eliminated by France on Monday night, instead of reflecting on her own career, Marta took the opportunity to deliver an emotional, demonstrative soliloquy on television in which she passionately called on young Brazilian girls to keep pushing. "Women's soccer depends on you to survive," she said. "You have to cry at the beginning so you can smile at the end."
It was powerful and meaningful. And the list goes on. Jamaican players, like the star forward Khadija Shaw, spoke out against the latent sexism they saw in their own federation when they were forced to work with a benefactor, Bob Marley's daughter, Cedella, to re-form their team after being disbanded. They then shocked just about everyone by becoming the first team from the Caribbean to make it to a Women's World Cup.
Argentina's players, perhaps the surprise of the group stage, reveled in their first World Cup point by calling out their own federation, too, for an incredible lack of funding that saw their team disappear just a few years ago. And Nigeria's players staged a sit-in at their hotel after being eliminated in the round of 16 because, they said, their federation frequently didn't pay them an appropriate portion of the prize money they had earned.
Australia, led by the sensational Sam Kerr, has fought with its own federation (even boycotting a tour of the United States) but turned its attention toward FIFA at this World Cup, threatening the governing body with a lawsuit over the massive gap in prize money awarded at the women's tournament as compared to the men's.
"Any team that has the courage and initiative to stand up," says Elise Kellond-Knight, a midfielder for Australia. "We support it." England defender Lucy Bronze said the chain-reaction effect of one team being inspired by what it sees from others is real. "It's something we can get behind -- with women empowering other women," she said.
Almost everyone, however, points to the importance of the American players' efforts as the equivalent of the lead car in a caravan. Even as they prepared to try to beat the United States earlier this week, Spain's players acknowledged the global value of what their opponents do. "American soccer is an example in every way," Spain defender Marta Torrejon said. "The media coverage, the impact on society ... [all of] this also helps the rest of us who play soccer."
And yet still, it is not without its difficulty. The fight between the American players and U.S. Soccer is one that has seen many venues and variations going back as far as the 1990s. The latest clash is playing out in federal court after 28 players, including stars like Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe, sued the federation in March for "intentional gender discrimination" that they say ranges from the type of medical treatment they receive to their salaries to their travel arrangements.
All of it, they claim, is inferior to how the men's national team operates, which has prompted them to use the massive microphone that the World Cup affords them to highlight what they see as unfair. "If we are successful at the World Cup then we've got more eyes on us, more attention," veteran defender Becky Sauerbrunn told Reuters. "Obviously, we want to do well for many reasons but we also feel that if we are successful that also will help further our fight."
The federation has denied (and rebutted) all charges of gender bias, saying the players' working conditions were approved by them as part of the collective-bargaining agreement their union representatives agreed to in 2017. The federation also says the men's and women's programs have different demands and structures -- the women receive guaranteed salaries whereas the men are paid only when they actually play, for example -- and adds that some things, such as revenue sharing from major tournaments, are the responsibility of FIFA and not in U.S. Soccer's control.
Trying to make direct comparisons between the men's and women's programs, then, is tricky. And while the women's team and the federation agreed to attempt mediation after the World Cup concludes, it is difficult to predict whether that will help them find common ground, particularly since much of the language used by both sides in making their arguments has been provocative, if not fiery.
The fervor around the lawsuit, though, is why the players' choice to sue just before the World Cup is so remarkable. They could have chosen to concentrate on their preparation for this tournament, worrying only about how they would defend their 2015 title.
Suing now meant adding something more, something serious, to the mental calculus of this tournament, but the players did not hesitate. "In general, employers have the leverage," said Pamela Wheeler, the founding director of the WNBA's players' association, "so when employees can seize it, they have to take the advantage and push it."
Other prominent American athletes have recently done the same, too. Meghan Duggan -- the captain of the U.S. women's hockey team, which threatened a boycott before the 2017 world championships as a way to force USA Hockey to finally address glaring disparities between the treatment of the men's and women's teams -- said she feels particularly inspired by what the women's soccer team has chosen to do as she watches the team play on television.
"This is the biggest stage of their lives and this is just another example of their boldness and their leadership," Duggan said. "There is no time to wait. Someday is today, and that's a powerful statement that they're making."
It is. And however the lawsuit ends up, the trickle-down value of that decision is undeniable.
As Kellond-Knight, the Australian defender said, "One hundred percent, the U.S. team is paving the way for women's football. ... If they can bump the standard higher, it's going to bring everyone up."
That is, of course, the hope. And it is also why the quality of the games at this Women's World Cup, while certainly riveting and entertaining, won't ultimately be what is remembered from here.
The voices will.
Alyssa Roenigk and Tom Hamilton contributed to the reporting.
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Fabio Petani was born in summer 1987 in Pinerolo. After having obtained the scientific high school degree, he receives an M.A. in Cultural Heritage (Faculty of Humanities) from the University of Turin, with an M.A. thesis on Urban Art and the street culture from the origins to this day. This kind of investigation brings him closer to the art scene of Turin. Soon he begins to collaborate with the activities promoted by the Street Art Tourino, which aim at bringing out the backstage to the city’s most important walls and their particular features. Shortly after he becomes part, together with the artists
Corn79, MrFijodor, Etnik and the photographer Livio Ninni, of the cultural association Il Cerchio E Le Gocce (particularly active within the art scene not only of Turin since 2001). Fabio Petani counts a large number of artistic partnerships within the Turin area and in 2014 he joins the team of StreetAlps, an important urban art festival that takes shape in the valleys around Pinerolo. Since 2015 he is also a member of the group Murarte Torino. His works are characterized by a disarranged harmony of lines, shapes and volumes, which complement each other through the use of faint and harmonious colors, blended into breaking elements. His research analyzes the chemical and molecular aspects of objects giving rise to a lengthy operation of reconstruction of the elements in the periodic table. An increasingly detailed production that brings out an ever-changing organic complexity. Each chemical element, just like each plant, is somehow connected to the environment, the space or the context in which the wall is
made. Both, chemical element and plant, are peculiar to decadence and dereliction. But nature, intruding upon buildings in disuse, regains its own space and gives rise to an harmonious contrast between the building’s death and the rebirth of life. By the same token, his works, and particularly the walls, represent the llife-death dualism, being modeled on the places’ story and getting harmoniously mixed up with the decadent and forgotten industrial architectures. As a matter of fact, all his interventions are made in order to let the work becoming part of the transformation process of the wall itself.
The importance of the connection between work and context is evoked also by his works on wood, paper and other alternative materials. It is through the employment of such materials that Fabio Petani tries to get carried away by the matter, aiming at ending the periodic table with a cluster of artworks able to tell a story about the alchemy between art, chemistry and nature. “The ability to create while maintaining the Being’s two parts, the visible and the invisible, reality and fantasy and all those primogenital dualisms, leads to a continuous personal evolution. When I hear the word alchemy I automatically think about a wonder. A strange thing that is fascinating and
underestimated at the same time, probably because it is not comprehended. I believe that by giving up prejudices and others’ way of thinking one can see beyond, in order to get truly in touch with the world and look at the system from the outside.”
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Easter is suppose to be the time of the year when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. So from where do all the chocolate bunny rabbits and painted eggs come from? And according to Church Traditions, if "Good Friday" is the day He died and "Easter Sunday" is the day that He arose from among the dead, where are the three days and three nights which He said that He would be in the heart of the earth?
MATTHEW 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Let's tackle the second question first. How do you get three days and three nights from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning? You can't, no matter how you twist it and turn it. As we shall see, Yeshua (Jesus) wasn't crucified on Friday, nor did GOD raise Him from the dead on Sunday. He was probably crucified around 9 am Wednesday morning, died that afternoon around three, and rose three days later, sometime after three p.m. on Saturday, the weekly Sabbath. Then, "The first day of the week [Sunday] cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher" (JOHN 20:1). Notice that by the time Mary had arrived at the tomb, which was just as their Sunday was beginning, He had already been risen.
One reason this is so rarely understood is because Church Tradition has refused to admit that it has painted itself into a corner. We know from Scripture that Yeshua was crucified just before the Sabbath, but they err in thinking that it was Saturday, the weekly Sabbath. Tradition therefore wrongly concludes that He must then have been crucified on the day before, which would have been Friday. Of course the problem with that is you can't get three days and three nights between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning. They therefore conclude that Yeshua didn't really mean three whole days, but just parts of three days. Still, where are the three nights?
Rather than believing the Bible is trustworthy, they too often hold that their traditions are accurate and then go about to make the Bible fit into their traditions. Yet when one cuts himself free from the preconceived ideas with which Church Tradition has interpreted this important event, and then understands the Jewish culture of the time, all is made clear.
Saturday was of course their weekly Sabbath. However, according to the Gospel of John, on this particular week there were two Sabbaths. One was the regular Saturday Sabbath and the other was a special Sabbath, "a high day" (JOHN 19:31), which happened to fall this year on Thursday. For us today, it would be like if Christmas fell on Thursday, that would be a special day. Yet Sunday would also still be the weekly special day. The Jew's first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was that Thursday, and Friday was a regular work day, when the women could have prepared the spices to anoint His body. See Biblical Chronology.
So how about Easter itself, where did it come from? Many are surprised to learn that the word Easter is never used in the Gospels. In fact, only once in the entire King James version of the Bible can the word Easter be found.
ACTS 12:4 And when he [Herod] had apprehended him [Peter], he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
The word translated Easter here in ACTS is pascha in the Greek. This word pascha is used over seventy times in the Bible and only here, this one time, is it translated Easter. In every other occurrence it is translated Passover. The Passover was the Jewish feast celebrating Yahweh (GOD) delivering Israel out of bondage in the land of Egypt. While they were slaves in Egypt, Moses had commanded them to slay a lamb and sprinkle the blood on the door post, promising them that the angel of death would not visit their house but pass over if they did so. Thus originated the Passover Feast.
Not only did the Passover festival give the Hebrews a time for reflection, but more importantly it was instituted by Yahweh to point unto the ultimate sacrifice of HIS own Son, the very Lamb of GOD, Yeshua. He was their Passover Lamb, which their religious leaders unknowingly sacrificed that year.
So one has to wonder, what has today's Easter celebration got do with all this Passover stuff. Very little! Our Easter revolves around boiling, painting, hiding and then finding chicken eggs. Why? This is the story.
The origins of the name Easter is not known for sure. Most scholars accept it as pagan, probably derived from Eastre (or Eostre), the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of spring and fertility. The Venerable Saint Bede, (672-735), an early Christian scholar, reportedly asserted this first in his book De Ratione Temporum.
Ancient man followed and worshipped the Sun with great attention. As they watched it drift southward in autumn, they felt winter descend from the north. Thus they held feasts and celebrations to assure its return again in the spring. Then in the spring, during the "Vernal Equinox" they celebrated its return as the beginning of the spring season. Thus they had many customs and traditions associated with the Sun's movements. Though called by many names in the pagan world, springtime was a great celebration of life anew. Crops were beginning to grow, trees were budding and rivers were rising.
The resurrection of Yeshua, "the first born from the dead", was gradually merged with the pagan Easter celebrations. As the early Church was made up of many pagan converts, they naturally brought with them their rites, symbols and customs, which were associated with Easter. Failing to ardently measure these practices with Scripture, many in the early Church accepted them as their own.
Sun worshippers predate Christianity by thousands of years. Many believed that the Sun was a god that traveled across the sky during the day, then at night had to fight its way back through the underworld so as to be able to rise again in the east. The worship of the Babylonian god Tamuz was thus shown by the Lord to Ezekiel in a vision.
EZEKIEL 8:13-16 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S [Yahweh's] house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
From Easter Candles, Lilies, Hot Cross Buns and Sunrise Services, many traditions associated with Easter have pagan origins. The ability of the rabbit to quickly multiply in the spring, is why it is such a big player in their Easter celebration. It was also sacred to the Goddess Eostre, being sacrificed to her. Supposedly, the hare was originally a bird, which Eostre changed into a rabbit. Eggs were painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring.
It is hard for us to imagine that the early apostles and disciples of our Lord could ever have endorsed in any way these pagan practices. No doubt, after the true Church was gathered together into heaven in A.D. 70 a later generation wove these pagan rites into their Church Traditions.
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Sinless: Aims for more than superficiality, but misses the mark
Sinless by Sarah Tarkoff
In many ways, Sarah Tarkoff’s debut novel Sinless (2018) follows the Dystopian YA rule book: a young woman in the near future discovers that the seemingly-idyllic world she lives in is built upon a foundation of lies, and in the process of deciding how best to fight back, discovers previously untapped depths of pluck (as well as previously-unrequited feelings for a dashing and rebellious young man from her childhood). This specific young woman is Grace Luther, the daughter of a well-connected American cleric, and her world is one of beauty and service to the Great Spirit, who made its presence known gradually around the globe in the years 2024-2025. People who are pure in thought and deed are gifted with glorious good looks, while people who transgress instantaneously experience a range of punishments from disfiguring ugliness to a slow, choking death. When Grace accidentally learns that there’s more to the world than she’s been led to believe, she starts down a path which could change her life, as well as the life of everyone on the entire planet. Sound familiar?
Unfortunately, there’s nothing unexpected about Sinless, nothing that challenges genre conventions or even just standard YA tropes. Adults are universally not to be trusted, and the same holds true for most of Grace’s fellow teenagers, leaving her to run pell-mell toward whatever action will either carry or confound the plot (whichever is required in the relevant chapter). As well-intentioned as she might be, Grace embodies the Standard-Issue Dystopian Teenage Protagonist in every way: she’s sheltered beyond belief until her societal awakening, bullies her way into the rebellion’s forces despite her inexperience and liability to them, and is preternaturally lucky enough to avoid detection or severe consequences in dangerous situations. Though a total novice to any form of delinquency, she’s simultaneously stealthy enough to sneak through an illicit prison and charming enough to fool nearly any adult into trusting her with exposition dumps. I could go along with all of this if Grace had been training with the resistance for a few years, or if she were an adult who had undergone special espionage training — or if Sinless were an entirely different kind of book and Grace were a meta-human of some type. But it isn’t, and she isn’t, and the end result wasn’t impressive.
There were other aspects of Sinless that didn’t match up, like the specific mention of differing opinions on the “acceptability” of homosexuality within various cultures. For the religion of the Great Spirit to truly have a dominant hold across all cultures and belief systems on Earth, wouldn’t there need to be a stronger and more unified message on this and so many other issues? Wouldn’t the subsequent fact that some people are punished for certain actions and other people aren’t cause a rift between believers, and therefore cause divides between the prophets and adherents — thereby putting entire societies at risk? This last point is briefly touched on within Sinless, but only in an in-the-moment context as it directly concerns Grace, without any mention of historical context or precedent. And since the narrative is relayed by Grace in retrospect from a prison cell (shades of Paul the Apostle, or the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), there’s room for a greater perspective that simply wasn’t provided in this book, but might be explored later.
Tarkoff is also a little heavy-handed with character names: there’s the Prophet Joshua (a variant of the Hebrew name Yeshua, itself the origin of the Latinized Greek name Jesus) and his Guru, Samuel; Grace Luther herself, of course, and the unavoidable associations with Martin Luther; her father, Paul, a name with deep ties to early Christianity; Grace’s childhood best friend, Jude, who is Jewish and whose name could easily be a reference to either Judah or Judas, depending on how subsequent books play out. Most character names have some sort of significance, in fact, and the characters themselves could have used more fleshing-out in exchange for less-flashy nomenclature. There were moments that seemed primed for genuine growth, especially as Grace comes to understand more about her own charmed life and the disadvantages other people might be subject to, but those moments never quite received the attention they deserved. The idea that this is all told with the weight of hindsight does help in that regard, but it’s hard to get a sense for how much distance is being applied — is it years, months, or only weeks? — and it’s easy to forget that Grace is relating her past mistakes from a future date.
Tarkoff’s background is in screenwriting, and it shows. The requisite action scenes appear as expected and hit their marks, stock characters argue and make up and argue in turns, and the novel as a whole tends to read a bit like a pitch for a television series geared for a teenaged audience. Sinless is the first instalment in the planned EYE OF THE BEHOLDER series, and its target audience may well enjoy its fast pace, short chapters, and mercurial main character more than I did.
Published January 9, 2018. With shades of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and Ally Condie’s Matched, this cinematic dystopian novel—the first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder series—is set in a near future society in which “right” and “wrong” are manifested by beauty and ugliness. In Grace Luther’s world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are “good” are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequences—disfigurement or even death. The daughter of a cleric, Grace has always had faith in the higher power that governs her world. But when she stumbles onto information that leaves her questioning whether there are more complicated—and dangerous—forces manipulating the people around her, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle, where good and evil are not easily distinguished. Despite all her efforts to live a normal teenage life, Grace is faced with a series of decisions that will risk the lives of everyone she loves—and, ultimately, her own. With each page in this electrifying debut novel, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully plunges us into a nightmarish vision of the future. Full of high drama and pulsating tension, Sinless explores the essential questions teenagers wrestle with every day—What is beauty? What is faith? Do we take our surroundings at face value and accept all that we have been taught, or do we question the mores of the society into which we are born?—and places them in the context of a dark, dystopian world where appearances are most definitely deceiving.
January 9th, 2018. Jana Nyman´s rating: 2 | Sarah Tarkoff | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
JANA NYMAN, with us since January 2015, is a freelance copy-editor who has lived all over the United States, but now makes her home in Colorado with her dog and a Wookiee. Jana was exposed to science fiction and fantasy at an early age, watching Star Wars and Star Trek movie marathons with her family and reading works by Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury WAY before she was old enough to understand them; thus began a lifelong fascination with what it means to be human. Jana enjoys reading all kinds of books, but her particular favorites are fairy- and folktales (old and new), fantasy involving dragons or other mythological beasties, contemporary science fiction, and superhero fiction. Some of her favorite authors are James Tiptree, Jr., Madeleine L'Engle, Ann Leckie, N.K. Jemisin, and Seanan McGuire.
Marion Deeds / January 9, 2018
This is a shame. Actually, I got twitchy when I saw the MC was named “Grace Luther,” daughter of a prominent cleric.
Jana Nyman / January 9, 2018
Yeah, it’s not subtle.
Marion Deeds / January 10, 2018
But it doesn’t always have to be, in order to entertain. It does seem a bit overdone here.
Jana Nyman / January 10, 2018
Indeed. If the book had been more entertaining, I would have looked the other way on the lack of subtlety.
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Pope updates norms for former Anglicans, Episcopalians
La Croix International staff - Vatican City - Wed, Apr 24th 2019
Substantial change regards use of the Missal, known as Divine Worship, in liturgical celebrations.
File photo of Pope Francis (Vatican Media)
Pope Francis has approved an updated set of norms governing "personal ordinariates" for Catholics coming from the Anglican tradition.
The updated "complementary norms" include a provision Pope Francis approved in 2013 explicitly stating that the personal ordinariates are not only for former Anglicans and their families, but may include persons evangelized and brought into the Catholic Church through the ordinariate's ministry.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on April 9 published the updated Complementary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus that were approved by Pope Francis, Vatican News reported.
The constitution governs the institutions and "personal ordinariates" that minister to the lay faithful originally of the Anglican tradition.
The updated Complementary Norms integrate the experience of the past 10 years and seek to make their application more in tune with the spirit of the Apostolic Constitution.
Currently, there are three ordinariates of former Anglican ministers and lay faithful — the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales; the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the United States; and, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia.
The ordinariates are led by an ordinary, who has the powers of a bishop, but may not necessarily be ordained a bishop. If the cleric chosen is a married former Anglican priest or bishop, he cannot be ordained a bishop in the Catholic Church.
Whether or not the ordinary is a bishop, he is a member of the bishops' conference in the country of the ordinariate.
The new norms introduce several modifications to those promulgated in November 2009.
The most substantial change regards the use of the Missal, known as Divine Worship, in liturgical celebrations.
An entire article, number 15, was added to regulate the liturgical form approved by the Holy See for use in the ordinariates.
Divine Worship "gives expression to and preserves for Catholic worship the worthy Anglican liturgical patrimony, understood as that which has nourished the Catholic faith throughout the history of the Anglican tradition and prompted aspirations towards ecclesial unity."
First, use of the liturgical form is restricted to the personal ordinariates.
Second, the norms allow any priest incardinated in an ordinariate to celebrate Mass according to Divine Worship when not in a parish belonging to the ordinariate, if done privately.
The celebration of Mass with a congregation is possible, if the pastor of the church gives his permission.
Third, if a pastoral necessity exists or no ordinariate priest is available, any diocesan or religious priest may celebrate Mass according to Divine Worship for members of the ordinariate. Non-ordinariate priests may also concelebrate Mass under the liturgical form.
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Gerard Butler talks Hunter Killer
To celebrate its home entertainment release, Gerard Butler opens up about his latest blockbuster hit, Hunter Killer.
Hunter Killer is a seafaring explosive action thriller that’s perfect for a Saturday night in with a big bag of popcorn while the kids are tucked up in bed.
Its star, Gerard Butler, lets us in on everything from preparing for the movie to what he’s learnt from it.
How did you prepare for the role of being a commander in a submarine for months on end?
So I went out on a Virginia Class sub which is the new nuclear fast attack sub, which can do pretty much anything. They used to have subs for different reasons – now they’re capable of anything. I went out on one of them for a few days and spent time in every department but especially hanging out with the captain.
We also had a captain commander that was on the movie with us for months and I hung out with him all the time to find out the rules that you have to learn but also the challenges – the physical challenges, the mental challenges – what it really means to be under water all that time. I also spoke to a lot of the crew and you kind of start to get that sense of no escape, there’s nothing you can do, you have no connection with the outside world.
What makes your character a hero?
I love this character because he was much more contained. There was no necessary physicality and he was somebody who, in a much more subtle way, learnt the jobs of everybody on that ship better than anybody else. He’s coming from a place where he’s unconventional and can be seen as quite radical but he has a very specific moral compass, which makes him very unpopular because it’s a young crew who are emotional and sometimes overly patriotic.
A big part of the plot is their reaction to what they see happening when one of their subs goes down and my character has to think in a different way and make decisions which are actually making his own crew very vulnerable but you hope for a higher good. He has a lot of conviction in the decisions he makes and he might not be right, which really helps that feeling of claustrophobia and that tension and pressure that everybody’s feeling cooped up on the sub.
What do you hope audiences will take out of the film?
To me it’s almost more a film of good against evil. You see that even though there are certain rogue operators and there’s obviously a tension between these two countries and unfortunately as much as there’s a machinery that fights to maintain peace, there’s a machinery that, the second something kicks off, is pushing you towards this inevitable war and there are a lot of warmongers in there.
Donavon Marsh is a relatively young director. What was it like working with him?
Great, he’s very intelligent, incredibly hard working, he spends all day thinking about the scenes, thinking about the movie and I love that; a director who is passionate and dedicated and very easy to work with because he also knew his limitations. He’d never made a big movie before and he didn’t have any ego about that, so I worked very closely with him having more experience there. He was very intent on bringing this immersed feeling, really bringing an audience into the reality of what’s it’s like to be cooped up in a space with these challenges in front of you that seem all consuming and quite terrifying at times. I felt he really helped bring us into that world.
Is there anything you learnt about the navy that you’ll take away with you?
We worked with the US Navy and as much as you need to create a drama to keep it stimulating for an audience at the same time you don’t want to go too far because there were times when we had some crazy stuff in our script, we had men being taped up as a prank and then we thought no, that’s not the movie we’re trying to make. It’s so much about the plot and getting into this and showing the difference between inexperience and experience and good sailors and great sailors.
There’s a thing in the Navy called ‘forceful call back’ where they’re encouraged to question a captain because there are so many variables and so many things that can go wrong that when you make a kind of ballsy decision or a move there are people there to say I just want you to double check this is the right thing. We obviously took that to a new level to keep it fun and exciting but I think one of the things that I really took out of this was how unbelievably smart these guys are.
Hunter Killer is now available on digital download and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD from 25th February.
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Here’s Why Apple May Introduce A Specific 7.85-Inch iPad Mini
It is been highly rumored by the sources over the production chain that Apple is preparing an iPad Mini model to launch this year along with several new features to the iPad series. The analysts claimed in the past that Apple is looking forward to launch a mini iPad device in the market to compete with its rival in the market such as Amazon, and its Kindle series that are actually bugging into the iPad series as most of the users like to purchase the e-readers and Amazon Kindle is the perfect e-reader device with installed Android. However, maybe Apple has no objection with existence in the market, but they don’t like the product because it running a custom Android firmware version. Yes, Android is the real problem!
However, the smaller iPad is rumored to be coming in the market by sources in the past, but we have not yet seen any solid proof regarding the release of this device. According to leak information, the device is said to be 7.85-inch in size, with fewer hardware resources than the original iPad. As Apple tries to reduce the cost of iPad, and wants to compete with other tablets on the market that are running Android firmware versions. However, the world is expecting the arrival of iPad Mini despite pretty clear statement by Steve Jobs that “10-inch screen is minimum necessary” for a tablet.
While the different sources are working on new rumors, a new report comes from AppAdvice highlights that why Apple will choose the 7.85-inch size for the iPad Mini, while the Steve Jobs believe that 10-inch screen is the minimum level for the best display in tablets. Well, the answer is pretty simple and cool, as the folks over AppAdvice have done a simple math on the screen resolution and its depth to reveal the secret of the 7.85-inch display screen iPad Mini. The folks have calculated the PPI (points per inch) of a 7.85-inch display screen, and the iPad Mini display screens produce 163 PPI points in their mathematical test, which reveals that the same pixel density is already landed in the market by Apple in the original iPhone and iPod touch before the integration of Retina Display, means the iPhone 3GS.
The Secret Behind iPad Mini 7.85-Inch Display Size:
Here is the complete detailed report from AppAdvice about the PPI calculation for iPad Mini display:
See, when Apple was designing its first iPhone (circa 2006), company engineers determined through testing that the minimum comfortable size for an interactive element on a touchscreen display is 44 x 44 pixels. Anything smaller would yield erratic results. The pixel density used to arrive at this number, naturally, was that used in the first iPhone — again, 163 PPI. (Note that with the advent of the Retina display, the term “points” is used instead of “pixels.”
However, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines still call for a direct equivalent based on the original measurement. For example, the new iPhone 4/4S HIG has its interactive minimum set at 44 x 44 points, which is 88 x 88 pixels.) In layman’s terms, all this simply means that no app has tappable input zones smaller than Apple’s approved dimensions.
Well, it is the interesting calculation describing the actual depth of iPad Mini display, but again, we would say that it is not confirmed whether Apple introduces iPad Mini or not in the public. No doubt company has numbered of different prototypes to make the final device perfect before the actual launch of the device, so we may see prototype images leak in the upcoming months.
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James D. Bissell to Marlon Brando
Gary Bond Biography (1940-1995)
Full name, Gary James Bond; born February 7, 1940, in Alton, Hampshire, England; died of cancer, October 12, 1995. Actor. Gary Bond was one of the best-known performers of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's work. He established the character of Joseph in the Lloyd Webber-Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at its debut at the Edinburgh Festival in August, 1972. Bond attended the Central School of Speech and Drama on a scholarship during the1950s. He made his stage debut in Not in the Book in 1963. In 1964, he appeared in the Embassy film Zulu, and in the television programs A Dragon to Kill, Monica, Great Expectations, and Frontier during the 1960s. Bond portrayed two other Lloyd Webber roles during his career, one in 1978, when he took overthe part of Che Guevara in the London production of Evita, and in 1994, whenhe played George Dillingham in Aspects of Love. He also toured in a production composed of Lloyd Webber songs during the 1980s.
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Further Reference
Who's Who in Hollywood, Facts on File, 1992.
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Stade Sylvio Cator
Title: Stade Sylvio Cator
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Stade Sylvio Cator is a multi-purpose stadium in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is currently used mostly for association football matches, and is turfed with artificial turf.[2] The stadium bears the name of Haitian Olympic medalist and footballer Sylvio Cator. It was named after him in 1952. Before then the stadium was called the Parc Leconte.[3] and then the Stade Paul-Magloire.[4] With a capacity of 30,000, the structure is undergoing renovation and expansion as of August 2011. It was partly destroyed by the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, and a tent-city sprouted within its confines.[2] It is also where the Haitian national team play its home games.
^ http://news.cnet.com/2300-1038_3-10002227-9.html
^ a b Wilentz, Amy (27 January 2010). "A Visit to Soccer City: Living in Postquake Haiti".
^ http://tchh.org/documents/The%20Impact%20of%20Association%20Football%20on%20Haitian%20Identity.pdf The Impact of Association Football on Haitian Identity Page 8
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Danielle O’Brien was a participant or observer in the following events:
(9:25 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Dulles Airport Controllers Mistake Flight 77 for a Military Fighter
Todd Lewis. [Source: NBC]After air traffic controllers at Washington Dulles International Airport notice an unidentified aircraft, later determined to be Flight 77, approaching Washington on their radar screens (see (Between 9:25 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and 9:32 a.m. September 11, 2001), they initially think it is a military fighter plane, due to its high speed and the way it is being flown. [ABC News, 10/24/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 9] Yet the alleged hijacker pilot of Flight 77 has been known for his poor flying skills. [Washington Post, 9/30/2001; New York Times, 5/4/2002]
Aircraft Performs Elaborate Maneuver - The Dulles controllers are unable to identify the plane because its transponder—which transmits identifying information about an aircraft to radar screens—has been turned off (see 8:56 a.m. September 11, 2001). [Washington Post, 9/11/2001; Washington Post, 9/12/2001] It is flying at almost 500 miles per hour while approaching Washington, and then performs a rapid downward spiral, “dropping the last 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes,” before hitting the Pentagon (see 9:34 a.m.- 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [CBS News, 9/21/2001; USA Today, 8/12/2002]
Moving 'Like a Military Aircraft' - Controller Danielle O’Brien will later recall: “The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane. You don’t fly a 757 in that manner. It’s unsafe.” [ABC News, 10/24/2001] Another controller, Todd Lewis, will recall: “[N]obody knew that was a commercial flight at the time. Nobody knew that was American 77.… I thought it was a military flight. I thought that Langley [Air Force Base] had scrambled some fighters and maybe one of them got up there.… It was moving very fast, like a military aircraft might move at a low altitude.” [MSNBC, 9/11/2002]
Alleged Pilot 'Could Not Fly at All' - Yet many people who have met Hani Hanjour, the hijacker allegedly at the controls of Flight 77, considered him to be a very poor pilot (see October 1996-December 1997, 1998, February 8-March 12, 2001, and (April-July 2001)). Just a month previously, an airport refused to rent him a single-engine Cessna plane because instructors there found his flying skills so weak (see Mid-August 2001). [Gazette (Greenbelt), 9/21/2001; Newsday, 9/23/2001] And an employee at a flight school Hanjour attended earlier in the year will later comment: “I’m still to this day amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon. He could not fly at all” (see January-February 2001). [New York Times, 5/4/2002]
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9:32 a.m. September 11, 2001: Dulles Airport Controllers Notice Flight 77 Approaching, According to 9/11 Commission
Danielle O’Brien. [Source: ABC News]At 9:32 a.m., according to the 9/11 Commission, several air traffic controllers at Washington Dulles International Airport notice a fast-moving target, which is later determined to be Flight 77, heading eastbound on their radar screens. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 25; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 33] At the Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) at Dulles Airport, which is 22 miles west of the Pentagon, controllers have been searching for primary radar targets since 9:21, when the facility was notified of the loss of contact with Flight 77 (see 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001). [USA Today, 9/13/2001; Navy Times, 9/22/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 25]
Controllers See Fast-Moving Radar Track - They now notice an unidentified blip on their screens, heading toward the White House at unusually high speed. [Washington Post, 9/11/2001; Spencer, 2008, pp. 145] Controller Danielle O’Brien will later recall: “I noticed the aircraft. It was an unidentified plane to the southwest of Dulles, moving at a very high rate of speed.… I had literally a blip and nothing more. I slid over to the controller on my left, Tom Howell, and I asked him, ‘Do you see an unidentified plane there southwest of Dulles?’ And his response was, ‘Yes. Oh, my gosh, yes! Look how fast he is.’” According to O’Brien, the aircraft is between 12 and 14 miles away when she notices it. It is heading for what is known as Prohibited Area 56 (P-56), which is the airspace over and near the White House, at a speed of about 500 miles per hour. [ABC, 10/24/2001; ABC News, 10/24/2001; Department of Transportation, 8/4/2005] Because the plane’s transponder has been turned off (see 8:56 a.m. September 11, 2001) its identity and type are presently unknown, and the Dulles controllers initially think it is a military aircraft (see (9:25 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Washington Post, 9/12/2001; ABC News, 10/24/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 25]
TRACON Notifies Others - The Dulles TRACON alerts Washington’s Reagan National Airport (see (9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001) and the Secret Service (see (9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001) to the approaching aircraft. Its operations supervisor also provides continuous updates over a teleconference that has been established at the FAA’s headquarters. [Federal Aviation Administration, 9/17/2001 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 25] According to an FAA chronology that is published shortly after 9/11, the Dulles TRACON controllers notice the unidentified aircraft earlier than the 9/11 Commission says, at between 9:25 and 9:30 (see (Between 9:25 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Federal Aviation Administration, 9/17/2001 ]
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9:34 a.m.- 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 77 Flies Complex Near-Circular Loop before Striking Pentagon
Before crashing into the Pentagon, Flight 77 performs a rapid downward spiral, flying almost a complete circle and descending 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes. [CBS News, 9/21/2001]
330-Degree Turn - At 9:34 a.m., Flight 77 is about 3.5 miles west-southwest of the Pentagon. But, at an altitude of around 7,000 feet, it is flying too high to hit its target. [CBS News, 9/21/2001; New York Times, 10/16/2001; National Transportation Safety Board, 2/19/2002 ] Based on an analysis of radar data and information from the plane’s flight data recorder, a 2002 National Transportation Safety Board report will describe the maneuver the aircraft then performs: “[Flight 77] started a right 330-degree descending turn to the right. At the end of the turn, the aircraft was at about 2,000 feet altitude and four miles southwest of the Pentagon. Over the next 30 seconds, power was increased to near maximum and the nose was pitched down in response to control column movements.” The aircraft accelerates to about 530 miles per hour as it closes in on the Pentagon. [National Transportation Safety Board, 2/19/2002 ]
Controllers Watch on Radar - Air Traffic Controllers at Washington Dulles International Airport follow Flight 77 on their radar screens as it performs this maneuver. Danielle O’Brien will later recall: “John, our supervisor, relayed verbatim, ‘OK, he’s 12 miles west, he’s moving very fast eastbound.… Eleven miles west.’ And it was just a countdown. Ten miles west, nine miles west.… And it went six, five, four, and I had it in my mouth to say three, and all of a sudden the plane turned away. In the room it was almost a sense of relief.” [ABC, 10/24/2001; ABC News, 10/24/2001] Todd Lewis will recall that the aircraft “was heading right towards a prohibited area in downtown Washington.… Then it turned south and away from the prohibited area, which seemed like a momentary sigh of relief, and it disappeared. But it was going away from Washington, which seemed to be the right thing.” [MSNBC, 9/11/2002] However, O’Brien will continue: “[T]he plane turned back. He continued in the right-hand turn, made a 360-degree maneuver.… We lost radar contact with that aircraft. And we waited. And we waited.” [ABC, 10/24/2001; ABC News, 10/24/2001]
Maneuver Indicates Advanced Flying Skills - According to CBS News, “The steep turn” made by Flight 77 “was so smooth… sources say, it’s clear there was no fight for control going on.” The “complex maneuver suggests the hijackers had better flying skills than many investigators first believed.” [CBS News, 9/21/2001] Aviation experts will conclude that this maneuver was the work of “a great talent… virtually a textbook turn and landing.” [Washington Post, 9/10/2002] Due to the aircraft’s high speed and the way it is being flown, Dulles Airport controllers mistake it for a military fighter jet (see (9:25 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Washington Post, 9/12/2001; ABC News, 10/24/2001; MSNBC, 9/11/2002] Yet the hijacker allegedly at the controls, Hani Hanjour, was considered to be a very poor pilot at numerous flight schools he attended (see October 1996-December 1997, 1998, January-February 2001, February 8-March 12, 2001, (April-July 2001), and Mid-August 2001). [Washington Post, 9/10/2002]
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Settlement and Growth of St. Charles
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When the white man first visited the Illinois country it was inhabited by eight different tribes: the Illinois, the Miamis, the Kickapoos, the Mascoutins, the Pottowatomies, the Sacs and Foxes, the Winnebagoes, and the Shawnees. These all belonged to the Algonquin family.
The splendid location, fine climate, fertile soil, abundance of all kinds of game were causes of many a bloody war for its possession. Its famous hunting grounds were known even to the distant Iroquois who made raids upon the country and tried to drive out the resident tribes.
The French in Illinois. - Illinois was first discovered
by the French explorers, Joliet and Marquette in 1673. In 1682 Illinois became a possession of the French crown, a dependency of Canada, and a part of Louisiana.
Priests and traders of the early French occupation in Illinois missed our Fox Valley region. Two routes were used by the traders and missionaries from Canada. Both routes used Lake Michigan -after a stop at Mackinac and. St. Ignace. One route was from Lake Michigan, up the Chicago river with a difficult portage to the Des Plaines into the Illinois, and hence into the Mississippi. The other route from Lake Michigan, through Wisconsin, using the Fox river which empties into Green Bay, with an easy portage to the Wisconsin river, hence into the Mississippi became the popular route because of easier portages and a more direct way to the Mississippi. The traders were constantly looking for a route by means of a river to the far east, so they explored the Mississippi and its tributaries.
Our Fox river was skipped for it meant too great a portage from Lake Michigan. So we find French villages or monasteries built by the early Jesuits as early as 1721 but they were at Cahokia and Kaskaskia or along the trade routes, and not in our valley.
For nearly one hundred years the French worked diligently to hold the Louisianna territory. They supplied the Indians with French goods and tried to protect them from the hostile Iroquois. Our valley was in this vast region, discovered and held by the French.
England takes possession of this region. - England and France vied with each other to get possession of North America. France had seized the St. Lawrence and Mississippi Valleys which she defended by a line of forts, leaving England only a narrow strip along the sea coast. England claimed the whole continent because her explorer John Cabot discovered it she claimed. So she gave her colonies along the Atlantic grants pf land extending from sea to sea. Soon English pioneers pushed through the mountain passes into the great Ohio valley. A series of wars broke out lasting nearly a hundred years. At last in 1763 France was forced to give up all the land east of the Mississippi to England, so then the Illinois country was counted a possession of England.
Title Settlement and Growth of St. Charles
Creator Davis, Alice L.
Subject [LCSH] Saint Charles (Ill.)--History
Description Photocopy of the history of St. Charles. Includes bibliography (p. 34).
Geographic Coverage United States--Illinois--Kane County--Saint Charles
Format Photocopy
Title Settlement_pg02
Transcript 2. When the white man first visited the Illinois country it was inhabited by eight different tribes: the Illinois, the Miamis, the Kickapoos, the Mascoutins, the Pottowatomies, the Sacs and Foxes, the Winnebagoes, and the Shawnees. These all belonged to the Algonquin family. The splendid location, fine climate, fertile soil, abundance of all kinds of game were causes of many a bloody war for its possession. Its famous hunting grounds were known even to the distant Iroquois who made raids upon the country and tried to drive out the resident tribes. The French in Illinois. - Illinois was first discovered by the French explorers, Joliet and Marquette in 1673. In 1682 Illinois became a possession of the French crown, a dependency of Canada, and a part of Louisiana. Priests and traders of the early French occupation in Illinois missed our Fox Valley region. Two routes were used by the traders and missionaries from Canada. Both routes used Lake Michigan -after a stop at Mackinac and. St. Ignace. One route was from Lake Michigan, up the Chicago river with a difficult portage to the Des Plaines into the Illinois, and hence into the Mississippi. The other route from Lake Michigan, through Wisconsin, using the Fox river which empties into Green Bay, with an easy portage to the Wisconsin river, hence into the Mississippi became the popular route because of easier portages and a more direct way to the Mississippi. The traders were constantly looking for a route by means of a river to the far east, so they explored the Mississippi and its tributaries. Our Fox river was skipped for it meant too great a portage from Lake Michigan. So we find French villages or monasteries built by the early Jesuits as early as 1721 but they were at Cahokia and Kaskaskia or along the trade routes, and not in our valley. For nearly one hundred years the French worked diligently to hold the Louisianna territory. They supplied the Indians with French goods and tried to protect them from the hostile Iroquois. Our valley was in this vast region, discovered and held by the French. England takes possession of this region. - England and France vied with each other to get possession of North America. France had seized the St. Lawrence and Mississippi Valleys which she defended by a line of forts, leaving England only a narrow strip along the sea coast. England claimed the whole continent because her explorer John Cabot discovered it she claimed. So she gave her colonies along the Atlantic grants pf land extending from sea to sea. Soon English pioneers pushed through the mountain passes into the great Ohio valley. A series of wars broke out lasting nearly a hundred years. At last in 1763 France was forced to give up all the land east of the Mississippi to England, so then the Illinois country was counted a possession of England.
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The Bathtub, Mencken, and War
By Wendy McElroy
Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag. Not a governor proclaimed a day of prayer, wrote H.L. Mencken on December 28, 1917, in the New York Evening Mail. The occasion for the iconoclastic journalists lament was A Neglected Anniversary, so titled because, as Mencken declared, America had neglected to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the invention of the modern bathtub, which had occurred on December 20, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He proceeded to offer a history of the bathtub in the United States. President Millard Fillmore had installed the first one in the White House in 1851. This had been a brave act on Fillmores part, since the health risks of using a bathtub had been the subject of great controversy within the medical establishment. Indeed, Mencken observed, Boston early in 1845 made bathing unlawful except upon medical advice, but the ordinance was never enforced and in 1862, it was repealed.
A Neglected Anniversary was the direct result of the anti-German propaganda that dominated the newspapers in the years before and during Americas involvement in World War I. Mencken was an established and respected newspaperman. He had started his career as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899, becoming city editor in 1904. In 1906 he began his long association with the Baltimore Sun. Yet during Americas anti-German period, he could not get material on World War I published because of his pro-German views, which sprang from a love of the culture rather than from its politics. Mencken was enraged by the popular portrayal of Germans as barbarous Huns who committed atrocities such as the widely reported bayoneting of Belgian babies. (Although this accusation had been absolutely accepted by the American people, it was later proven to be pure Allied propaganda.)
Mencken attempted to infuse some real-world perspective on the war into American newspapers. Near the end of 1916 he traveled as a reporter to the eastern front to cover the hostilities, but the breakdown of diplomatic relations between Germany and America forced him to return. At home he discovered to his horror that most of his dispatches had not been published. Edward A. Martin writes in H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers, It was 1917; Mencken, passionately pro-German, felt muzzled by the excesses of patriotism that dominated the attitude of Americans. The Free Lance column [Menckens daily column in the Evening Sun] had been a casualty, in 1915, of his unpopular views of the war. The war and all of its ramifications were excluded from his writing until after 1919.
Thus, Mencken-a political animal to the core-turned to nonpolitical writing in order to publish. A Book of Prefaces, a collection of literary criticism, appeared in 1917. His book on the position of women in society, In Defense of Women, was issued in 1918. And the first edition of Menckens magnum opus, The American Language, emerged in 1919. He also wrote for the literary magazine he co-edited with George Nathan, The Smart Set.
But Mencken was far from sanguine about having his political views suppressed. He complained to Ellery Sedgwick, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, whose pages were also closed to him: It is, in fact, out of the question for a man of my training and sympathies to avoid the war. . . . How can I preach upon the dangerous hysterias of democracy without citing the super-obvious spy scare with its typical putting of public credulity to political and personal uses?
Seeking an Outlet
His restless frustration found vent in A Neglected Anniversary. Like so much of Menckens writing, the article was not quite what it seemed to be on the surface. It had levels of meaning. A Neglected Anniversary was a satire destined to become a classic of this genre of literature in much the same manner as Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal, which satirized English policy in Ireland. In the article, Mencken spoke in an eloquent tone of mock reason, which was supported by bogus citations and manufactured statistics.
In short, his history of the bathtub was an utter hoax set within the framework of historical fact.
The modern bathtub had not been invented in Cincinnati. Fillmore had not introduced it into the White House. The anti-bathtub laws Mencken cited were, to use one of his favorite words, buncombe.
Calling the hoax an amazing mixture of obvious fact and hard to refute fiction, the author of An Un-Neglected History, P. J. Wingate, observed, The story said that Millard Fillmore became President in 1850. True. It was easy to look that up. Also it said, obliquely, that Gen. Charles M. Conrad was Secretary of War under Fillmore. True again. As for the hard to refute fiction, Wingate continued: Mencken set a couple of very carefully hidden traps. He quoted from The Western Medical Repository of April 23, 1843, and the Christian Register of July 17, 1857. No editor or scholar in the land could find these imaginary journals but they had plausible names. Moreover, Menckens citation of specific dates lent credibility to the quotations so that researchers might well assume that their own archives were incomplete.
The journalists purpose was not good clean fun, though it is certain Mencken enjoyed the hoax. A Neglected Anniversary was an act of merry contempt directed at journalists who blithely reported fiction as fact and at readers who were so gullible as to believe blatantly false reports without question. As he later wrote, One recalls the gaudy days of 19141918. How much that was then devoured by the newspaper readers of the world was actually true? Probably not one per cent. Ever since the war ended learned and laborious men have been at work examining and exposing its fictions.
Through his hoax, Mencken demonstrated to himself and to selected friends that the American public would believe any absurdity, as long as it appealed to their imagination or emotions. They would even believe a nonexistent inventor in Cincinnati, Adam Thompson, had hired blacks to haul water from the Ohio river in buckets to his bathtub because the city then lacked running water.
Keeping Quiet
Content with his private joke, Mencken remained silent about the hoax until a follow-up article, Melancholy Reflections, appeared in the Chicago Tribune on May 23, 1926, some eight years later. This was Menckens confession. It was also an appeal for reason to the American public.
His hoax was a joke gone bad. A Neglected Anniversary had been printed and reprinted hundreds of times in the intervening years. Mencken had been receiving letters of corroboration from some readers and requests for more details from others. His history of the bathtub had been cited repeatedly by other writers and was starting to find its way into reference works. As Mencken noted in Melancholy Reflections, his facts began to be used by chiropractors and other such quacks as evidence of the stupidity of medical men. They began to be cited by medical men as proof of the progress of public hygiene. And, because Fillmores presidency had been so uneventful, on the date of his birthday calendars often included the only interesting tidbit of information they could find: Fillmore had introduced the bathtub into the White House. (Even the later scholarly disclosure that Andrew Jackson had a bathtub installed there in 1834years before Mencken claimed it was even inventeddid not diminish Americas conviction that Fillmore was responsible.)
Mencken speculated on the probable response to his confession, The Cincinnati boomers, who have made much of the boast that the bathtub industry, now running to $200,000,000 a year, was started in their town, will charge me with spreading lies against them. The chiropractors will damn me for blowing up their ammunition. The medical gents, having swallowed my quackery, will denounce me as a quack for exposing them. He wondered whether disclosing the truth about the bathtub would lead to a renewed cry for his deportation to Russia as a Bolshevik.
One can only speculate on whether the actual response to Melancholy Reflections surprised Mencken, who was a practiced cynic by then. Many people believed that his confession, and not the original article, was the hoax. Mencken felt impelled to pen a second follow-up appeal, titled Hymn to the Truth. Writing in the Chicago Tribune of July 25, 1926, he commented, The Herald printed my article [Melancholy Reflections] on page 7 of its editorial section . . . with a two column cartoon labeled satirically, The American public will swallow anything. And then on June 13, three weeks later, in the same editorial section but promoted to page 1, this same Herald reprinted my 10 year old fake-soberly and as a piece of news!
Menckens history of the American bathtub had been so graceful and charmingly constructed that people simply wished to believe it. Since then, curious researchers have thoroughly discredited Menckens bathtub facts. Biographies of Mencken feature the hoax he had played so well that even he could not debunk it. (All the bathtub pieces and more are compiled in The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos, edited by Robert McHugh.) Yet references to Fillmores first bathtub still can be found. That piece of fiction has even made it into the Age of the Internet. The Internet Public Librarys page on Fillmore, part of its series on presidents, lists under Points of Interest the following: The White Houses first library, bathtub and kitchen stove were installed by the Fillmores. (See http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/mfillmore.html.)
It is easy to laugh and lose sight of the motive behind A Neglected Anniversary. Mencken wished to demonstrate the dramatic inaccuracies of many newspaper accounts, which are too often swallowed whole by uncritical readers. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in periods of war, when great efforts are made to stir the publics emotions so that it unquestioningly supports the governments policies. When reading accounts of war, it is valuable to consider Menckens estimate that probably not one per cent of it is true.
This article is reprinted with permission from The Freeman, August 1999. © Copyright 1999, the Foundation for Economic Education.
Wendy McElroy is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.
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Willard's nightmare in Apocalypse Now (United Artists/American Zoetrope, 1979)
I saw Apocalypse Now today at the Seattle Cinema, part of their 70mm festival. A sign at the door informed the moviegoers that the print of the film had a “color fade” due to its age and less than ideal storage, though the sound, for which the film is famous for, was in excellent condition. Did this detract from my enjoyment of the film? Well, yes and no. Yes, only slightly, but largely no, because it accentuated an aspect of the film with which I am deeply fascinated. Let me explain.
To begin, I absolutely love the film and have seen both the original and Redux cut numerous times since I first encountered it in high school, so I was very excited to see this on the big screen (in 70mm no less). The lights went down, the curtain parted, and Coppola’s masterpiece, slightly over-exposed and red-tinged, flickered to life. The first thing I thought: “All is definitely not lost here, but Vittorio Storaro’s orchestration of colors and the principles behind their use (his color philosophy) will be undermined.” Just how crucial are Storaro’s vibrant colors in the film? In an interview with The Guardian, Storaro cites the illustrations from Burn Hogarth’s Tarzan as an inspiration for the choice of colors in Apocalypse Now: “[Francis and I] didn’t want to do anything naturalistic….I didn’t want it to look like reportage. I put artificial colour [and] artificial light next to real colour [and] real light—to have the explosion of napalm next to a green palm tree; to have the fire of an explosion next to a sunset in order to represent the conflict between the cultural and the irrational.” Additionally, in his book Writing with Light: Volume 1, Storaro additionally characterizes the film’s cinematography as representing “a discourse on the senses of civilizations”; the notion that light represents the civilized world and darkness represents the uncivilized (primeval) world is presented through “technological color’s abuse of natural colour forms…in cinematic terms, this is the conflict central to the film…it is the way artificial colour violates natural colour” (Storaro, 2001, 280). So in this sense, the color fade in the print used by the Cinerama was problematic.
The color fade, however, did enhance the experience in a way that I did not expect. As I have written elsewhere, Apocalypse Now disrupts the traditional war film conventions through its use of haunting, phantasmagorical imagery, a departure from the traditional panoramic vision of earlier war films (and later ones like Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan). In conjunction with Storaro’s use of color, this is achieved through Walter Murch’s juxtaposition of images (see photo above). With the color fade, this technique became even more pronounced, allowing this technique, and its haunting effects, to be more visible on a screen originally designed to accompany films like Ben-Hur. Through this effect, war trauma is elevated to the status of ghostly manifestations, haunting American mythology and national narratives.
Despite a slight disappointment with the quality of the print, this was still a rewarding experience that I would recommend to any fan of Apocalypse Now. One suggestion for future revival screenings of the film: acquire a copy of the old printed program that was distributed by ushers at the film’s original screenings, create a revised version of it for contemporary audiences, and pass them out at screenings as a collectable. In any case, today’s screening was a reminder of why this film has stuck with me all these years, in the operatic scope and scale that it was originally intended.
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Jordan’s protests a chance for needed reforms
Jun 05,2018 - Last updated at Jun 05,2018
Jordan is going through a political crisis, one that has been simmering for some time. The spillover came without warning, as the government submitted a controversial income tax bill to the Lower House, ignoring calls for it to be discussed publicly with various economic sectors first. A day after the country witnessed an unprecedented general strike, organised by the professional associations, in protest against the proposed bill, the government approved a steep hike in the cost of fuel products, thus pushing an anxious public over the edge. Spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across the Kingdom.
Even after the government was ordered to reverse its decision on fuel costs by His Majesty King Abdullah, Jordanians continued their protests; this time calling for the government of Hani Mulki to be sacked. The protesters, the majority being young men and women, want a reversal of austerity measures, transparency in fighting corruption, reforms and accountability. But, most importantly, they want a better future.
The King has called on the government and Parliament to lead a comprehensive, rational, national dialogue to reach a consensus on the income tax draft law that does not fatigue the public, combats evasion and improves efficiency of tax collection. He also said that it is unfair for citizens to be left alone to carry the burden of financial reform, stressing that shortcomings in providing vital services such as education, healthcare and transport will not be tolerated.
But, as the protests entered their fifth consecutive day on Monday, with tens of thousands rallying all over the Kingdom, the King moved to defuse the crisis. He accepted the government’s resignation on Monday, and asked former minister of education Omar Razzaz to form the next Cabinet. Razzaz enjoys credibility and integrity, but the question is Will he be able to chart a new course out of the crisis? Still, the leaderless protesters continued their protests into Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, professional associations have not cancelled a general strike planned for Wednesday. Jordanians have become weary of successive government measures that have led to steep rises in the cost of fuel, electricity and foodstuffs, and overburdened various economic sectors with additional fees and taxes. The public is yet to see the benefits of a three-year economic restructuring programme agreed to with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meanwhile, government policies have failed to contain the nagging problems of unemployment, which currently stands at about 18 per cent, and poverty, at more than 20 per cent, while the rate of economic growth remains modest at an average of 2.5 per cent annually.
Government austerity, which goes back almost a decade, has failed to address the growing burden of a large and inefficient public sector that drains most of the state budget. Meanwhile, successive governments have resorted to one quick solution in order to raise revenues: Taxing the public. Such an approach has overburdened economic sectors, limited consumer spending and failed to address the endemic problem of budget deficit. Continued and irresponsible borrowing by the government has spiked the national debt to a whopping $39 billion. At the end of 2017, government debt was equivalent to 95.60 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, raising fears that the Kingdom was sliding toward insolvency.
Jordanians have patiently accepted austerity measures in the hope that the current economic stagnation will end soon. Mulki promised the public last November that their hardship would end by the middle of this year. That did not happen. In fact, if the income tax bill is approved in its current form, economists and the heads of various economic sectors believe it will stifle the local economy, bringing it to a halt, while failing to increase government revenue and meet IMF targets. The extra burden on the middle class will nearly decimate the economy.
The current crisis has deepened people’s distrust in government policies. Without a public mandate, any future government will have a rough time building credibility and will be alone in facing a growing opposition. The most immediate challenge for any government will be to meet public demands to reexamine the entire economic policy. Furthermore, the crisis has raised calls for a fresh batch of political and economic reforms to be adopted, including a more equitable election law that will lead to the formation of parliamentary governments that are answerable to the people.
The current crisis has underlined a number of important phenomena. In the absence of credible political parties, professional and workers’ associations and unions have resurfaced as the only viable tool for popular political action. Furthermore, the protests, which are spontaneous and largely peaceful, are led overwhelmingly by young men and women who have the most to lose amid worsening economic conditions. The majority is not politicised and its main objective is to ensure a better future.
In addition, it is important to note that the reaction by the police has been disciplined and laudable, setting Jordan apart from many other countries in the region. And one cannot but underline the role that social media platforms have played in mobilising people at a time when state-run media failed miserably in covering the historic event.
The time has come to pave the way for the formation of parliamentary governments that are accountable to voters. This is the only way that trust can be restored between the public and future governments. And, finally, there is a need to initiate a responsible dialogue that involves representatives of all economic sectors on the government’s strategy to kick-start the economy and address the elephant in the room, which is the burgeoning public sector that has become a major hurdle in the path of serious economic reforms.
Osama Al Sharif is a journalist and political commentator based in Amman Twitter: @plato010
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Lotte's board defers final decision on land exchange for THAAD
By KH디지털2
Lotte Group, which is to provide the site for South Korea to host an advanced US missile defense system, on Friday deferred a final decision on accepting a government-proposed land exchange.
Group officials said the board of directors for Lotte International, the owner company of the golf course picked as the site, met for two hours to review exchanging the lot for land near Seoul. There was no decision from the meeting, they said. There was also no announcement of a second meeting.
"The issue is extremely sensitive, and there are many things to review, such as feasibility and the value of the land involved, so there was no conclusion from a single meeting," a group official said. "I believe there will be a number of board meetings on the matter for continuous review."
The government in October picked Lotte's golf club in Seongju, a rural county in the country's southeast, to install the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The conglomerate would in exchange receive a plot of land in Namyangju, just east of Seoul, currently belonging to the military.
The 1.48 million-square-meter golf course has a 85 billion-won
($74 million) book value but 45 billion won in state appraisal.
The Namyangju land owned by the military, 200,000 square meters, is valued at 140 billion won on the books. The government is expected to offer a part of the Namyangju plot to balance the value.
The THAAD deployment, highly controversial in the country, has wrought problems for Lotte, which operates big businesses in China.
Beijing fiercely opposes the deployment, charging that the missile shield system is a security threat to China and the region.
Lotte delayed the decision as US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was visiting Seoul. Mattis and his South Korean counterpart Han Min-koo in their talks Friday agreed to aim for THAAD becoming operational in South Korea within this year. (Yonhap)
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A major nation-wide campaign to popularise IT awareness, literacy and fluency is urgently needed if Malaysians are to fully benefit from the quantum leap into the digital era
(Petaling Jaya, Monday): I welcome the proposal by the Mimos Bhd president and CEO Tengku Dr. Azzman Shariffadeen calling for the abolition of the time-based telephone billing system for Internet users and the restoration of the previous flat-rate charge system.
Azzman said that the introduction of the time-based telephone billing system for Internet users has been identified as the cause of decline of the growth of Internet users in Malaysia.
In April last year, before the introduction of the time-based telephone billing system, MIMOS was forecasting that Malaysia would have 150,000 Internet subscribers by the end of the year and that this figure would reach 500,000 Internet subscribers by the end of this year.
However, the exponential 23 per cent growth of Internet subscribers per month plummeted sharply to 10 per cent, despite the appointment of TMNet as the second Internet Service Provider, following the introduction of the time-based telephone billing system.
As a result, there has a great shortfall from the MIMOS forecast in April 1996 that Internet subscribers would reach 150,000 at the end of 1996 and 500,000 by the end of 1997 - as the total number of Internet subscribers by the end of the first half of 1997 is even lower than that originally forecast for the end of last year.
At present, there are only 120,000 Internet subscribers - with 70,000 subscribers registered with Jaring and 50,000 with TMNet.
The high-powered National Information Technology Council, which is chaired by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, should regard this drastic shortfall in the national Internet take-up rate as a great setback in the promotion of Information Technology among the people and devise a strategy to counter this trend.
This strategy should constitute at least two elements:
Firstly, the immediate abolition of the time-based telephone billing for Internet users; and
Secondly, a major nation-wide campaign to popularise IT awareness, literacy and fluency among Malaysians.
A major nation-wide campaign to popularise IT awareness, literacy and fluency among Malaysians is urgently needed if Malaysians are to fully benefit from the quantum leap into the digital era.
This nation-wide campaign should not only ensure that every student who leaves school by the year 2,000 is computer-literate, but also popularise IT awareness, literacy and fluency among adult Malaysians, particularly among those above 35 years who - like their counterparts in other countries - have a fear of computers.
The nation-wide campaign for adult Malaysians should be two-pronged: one, to remove the fear of computers from the adult Malaysians and to persuade them to acquire basic computer-literacy. Secondly, for those who are unable to acquire basic computer skills, to make them fully aware of the critical importance of Information Technology for the nation and the new generation of Malaysians so that they could give full support to provide all available facilities and opportunities for the new generation to acquire IT literacy, competence and even mastery.
The campaign to increase the national Internet take-up rate as well as to popularise national IT awareness, literacy and competence should be one which involves all sectors of society.
In response to my query in Parliament in March, the government had earlier said that it was planning a massive nation-wide campaign in May this year to raise the national Internet uptake rate, but this campaign has not materialised.
There should be a greater sense of urgency that such a national campaign should be launched off without any more delay, if Malaysia is not to lose precious time to prepare Malaysians for the Information Age.
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Reviews : The Informational City
BEAUREGARD, Robert A. "Reviews: 'The Informational City' Manuel Castells Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1989 ...". Journal of Planning Education & Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, October 1993, pp. 67-70. (en)
"Reviews : The Informational City"
La nueva revolución rusa
PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ, Guillermo A. "La nueva revolución rusa". Investigaciones históricas: Época moderna y contemporánea, No. 13, 1993, pp. 395-397. (es)
"La nueva revolución rusa"
Book reviews: Castells, M. 1989: The informational city: information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process
CLARK, David. "Book reviews: Castells, M. 1989: 'The informational city: information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process'". Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 1991, pp. 480-482. (en)
"Book reviews: Castells, M. 1989: The informational city: information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process"
Informational city. Manuel Castells
WILSON, David. "'Informational city'. Manuel Castells" [Reseña]. Growth and change, Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall 1991, pp. 185-188. (en)
"Informational city. Manuel Castells"
Unfettered enterprise
HENDERSON, Jeffrey. "Unfettered enterprise" [Reseña: 'The Shek Kip Mei Syndrome: economic development and public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore' ...]. The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21st June 1991, p. 24. (en)
"Unfettered enterprise"
The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regional Process
HEPWORTH, Mark. "Book Review: 'The Informational City': Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regional Process: MANUEL CASTELLS, 1989". Urban Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, June 1991, pp. 489-490. (en)
"The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regional Process"
Redefining the Role of Technology
LIPPMAN ABU-LUGHOD, Janet. "Redefining the Role of Technology" [Ressenya: 'The Informational City']. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 3, May 1991, pp. 408-410. (en)
"Redefining the Role of Technology"
The informational city
MILES, Ian. "Castells, M. 1989: 'The informational city'" [Reseña]. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 1991, pp. 139-141. (en)
"The informational city"
The Informational city; information technology, economic restructuring and the urban-regional process by Manuel Castells
Webster, Frank. "'The Informational city': information technology, economic restructuring and the urban-regional process by Manuel Castells". Environment and Planning A, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1991, p. 458-459. (en)
"The Informational city; information technology, economic restructuring and the urban-regional process by Manuel Castells"
Exploring the Space of Flows
THRIFT, Nigel. "Exploring the Space of Flows" [Reseña: 'The Informational city' ...]. The New Statesman, Vol. 3, No. 88, 16th February 1990, p. 33-34. (en)
"Exploring the Space of Flows"
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Revolutionary Computer Game faces Crackdown in Iran
By editor on 20th June 2016 in Communication, Politics, Security
A number of artists in Iran also helped with the development of “Black Friday.” Khonsari said, “Out of concern for their safety, they felt pressured to leave the country and did so because of the work on the project.”
Once word about the game got out, Iranian hard-line newspaper Kayhan called it anti-Iranian. Shortly afterward, the National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG) banned “Black Friday” and even raided video game stores in Tehran and other cities. NFCG director Hassan Karimi also condemned the game as anti-Iranian, saying, “Games like this can poison the minds of the youth and young adults about their country by means of false and distorted information, and also damage their spirits.”
Still, Khonsari hopes “Black Friday” will initiate dialogue. “This is a game that should be experienced by Iranians, for no other reason than to see what someone else tells of this narrative and also so they can [potentially] disagree with it.” He added, “If you don’t like what you’re playing and you feel it is false, then start a conversation.”
Direct Flights Launched between Tehran, Astrakhan
First Fuel Oil Export Cargo Loaded in Assalouyeh
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Medical Architecture appointed for the redevelopment of Guisborough Hospital
Medical Architecture has recently been appointed as architect and health planner for the redevelopment of Guisborough Hospital in North Yorkshire. The scheme is being developed by NHS Property Services, with Medical Architecture forming part of the Kier team which won the project through the NHS Procure 21+ Framework.
The project will support NHS South Tees CCG to provide care closer to home and improve choice and involvement for patients in their treatment.
Lianne Knotts from Medical Architecture, said:
“We are excited to be involved in this project, which will result in the delivery of services from a building that is fit for purpose. The benefits that these changes and developments will bring to the people of Guisborough will be invaluable to their health and wellbeing”.
Working directly with the CCG, the services that will be delivered from the new facility are currently being finalised, prior to the formal design process commencing in October.
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Weekend Wrapup
Putting a bow on another eventful weekend in Pittsburgh sports:
1. As I watched Saturday night's Penguin game, I can't say I was surprised by the fact that the game went into OT. It was the fifth time in the past six games that's happened, and the seventh time in the past nine games. If these guys weren't already shorthanded, playing all that extra hockey at this point in the regular season couldn't help.
Thankfully, the Pens' intestinal fortitude once again reared its head in the extra period, when Dustin Jeffrey scored his second goal of the game and seventh of the season at 1:52 of OT. The win meant the Penguins are a mere two points behind Philadelphia for the division (and conference) lead, and that, my friends, is simply unbelievable.
I know this season probably won't turn out the way we had all hoped once it started, but it won't be for a lack of effort. This team does the city proud every time it takes the ice. For them to even be in the playoff race considering what they've lost is a testament to the coaching of Dan Bylsma, the moves of Ray Shero, and the mental toughness present in that locker room.
2. Congrats go out to the Pitt Panthers, winners of the Big East regular season title and owners of a 27-4 record going into the postseason, after their victory over Villanova on Saturday. We're almost accustomed to such dominance after a decade of it, but I'm not too young to remember that this hasn't always been the case. Expectations may be raised, but the season should be considered a good one already.
Ashton Gibbs, who's had a great campaign, was just named First-Team All-Big East, only the ninth time a Panther has received such an honor. He joined Jerome Lane, Charles Smith, Brian Shorter, Brandin Knight, Chevy Troutman, Aaron Gray, Sam Young and DeJuan Blair by doing so. Gibbs leads the conference shooting 46.6 percent from 3-point range and 89.5 percent from the free-throw line, and has averaged 16.4 PPG. In addition to Gibbs, Brad Wanamaker got second-team honors, and deservedly so. The senior leads the Panthers in minutes played, free throws made, assist-to-turnover ratio and steals, and is second on the team in scoring, rebounding and field goals made.
While it's nice to see such individual honors coming this team's way, we all know that to the players, it won't mean as much without the Final Four trip that's eluded this program for so long. If ever there was a year when the sport was wide-open and the Panthers had as good a chance as anyone to win it all, this is it.
3. Speaking of local hoops, Robert Morris, sans Mike Rice, is back in the NEC title game with a 64-62 win over Quinnipiac thanks to a late jumper by sophomore Velton Jones. The Colonials, winners of eight straight, will play at Long Island University for the NEC championship at 7 p.m. Wednesday; the game will be televised by ESPN2. LIU is the tournament's #1 seed, while RMU sits third with an 18-13 overall mark. A win would be the Colonials' third straight trip to the NCAA tournament and first under coach Andrew Toole.
4. There's not much Steeler talk these days, thanks to the limbo-rific CBA discussions (which I have no interest talking about - at all). Most of the web chatter these days is about mock drafts, and the latest one I've seen (from Fox Sports) has the Steelers selecting Derek Sherrod, an OT from Mississippi State. The reasoning is as follows:
Though hardly considered the league’s gold standard last year, the Steelers offensive line did a pretty darn good job protecting Ben Roethlisberger in 2010. Flozell Adams obviously isn’t the long-term answer at tackle, though, and two other big boys are set to become free agents if a new CBA is worked out. Pittsburgh should go offensive line with this pick. Enter the rather versatile Sherrod. The All-SEC performer helped pave the way for a Mississippi State rushing attack that averaged 227.6 yards per game in 2010. He’s a road paver who can play all over the line. If Sherrod’s still hanging around at No. 31, it’s a solid pickup for the AFC champs.
You're not going to have to sell me on the Steelers taking an offensive tackle. Sherrod is ranked 30th overall in the insanely comprehensive 1,000-player ranking that CBS put together, so that would put his value right in line with where the Steelers would be making the pick.
5. The Pirates were busy over the weekend, but not in a good way. James McDonald struggled to find his rhythm in 2 2/3 innings, and was pulled due to his pitch count in a 5-0 loss to Toronto yesterday.
We've still got four weeks until Opening Day, so the hurler has some time to iron out the bugs. But make no doubt about it, McDonald is being counted on to play an integral part in this team's perennial hopes for a turnaround. He was falling behind in the count early and often yesterday and that was ultimately what led to his early shower; that's something he will have to clean up in the next few weeks.
Offensively, the Pirates were, well, the Pirates. The team totaled just four hits, with two coming from Pedro Alvarez. If this sounds like a familiar theme, you're not the only one saying so. "We've got work to do offensively," new manager Clint Hurdle said. "We knew that coming in."
The work-in-progress Buccos are back at it today at 1:05 against Tampa Bay at McKechnie Field.
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okel dokel said...
What a game by the Pens. Bylsma should be a coach of the year candidate even if they are one and done.
They work hard, cycle down low and maintain their defensive gaps which is paying being dividends.
Niskanen has been awesome and Neal is starting to show what he can do. He needs to score and I feel that will come in time. Once Sid returns he will be a nice addition for the kid.
Corey said...
looks like the pirates are already in midseason form!
I'm trying desperately to not sound like a pirates apologist, but didn't they also beat the phillies this weekend? And beat these blue jays and the yankees (2-0, by the way) earlier in the week?
But keep bashing them - that's easiest.
i think i heard something like 13 K's?
I don't think it is such a general bashing of the Pirates, as much is it is pointing out that hopes of a new era in pitching is linked to McDonald who has a way to go yet, and the only offense is being generated by Pedro. If the pitching staff can not be competative, and the offense is as inconsistent as it has been previously, it's going to be another long year in Da Burg for any remaining Pirate fans...
I agree with Todd. I didn't see that as bashing the Pirates so much as saying that McDonald needs to fix some things in his next start.
That said...half of McDonald's runs were unearned and he only walked one batter. I'm not ready to freak out over one 4.2 inning start. If he's still having this kind of outing when real games start, then it's time to panic about him.
granted - the second paragraph has to do with McDonald, the third involved their (granted) lack of producers. The first paragraph could've mentioned Overbay being a surprise, could've mentioned we stuck around and beat the phillies. One pitcher's bad 2 and 2/3 does not a bad weekend make...
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Fear Almighty God
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. (Psalm 111:10)
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On July 11, the United States sanctioned the Maduro-aligned General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, known as DGCIM, for operating in Venezuela’s defense and security sector, pursuant to E.O. 13850, as amended.
The DGCIM has been implicated in a variety of human rights violations and abuses, most recently in the July 5 report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), as well as earlier reports by the Organization of American States and Human Rights Watch, among other organizations. The reported abuses include intimidation, arbitrary arrest, torture, forced confessions, and brutal methods inflicting harm on detainees.
The United States is taking this action to impose costs on Maduro-aligned officials for these abuses, in particular for their recent actions leading to the killing of Venezuelan Navy Captain Rafael Acosta. The heartbreaking pleas and reported visible signs of torture of Captain Acosta at a public hearing and his subsequent death on June 29 left no doubt of the extent of the DGCIM’s vicious attacks on the military.
The United States will continue to take action in support of the liberation of the Venezuelan people from the repression of Maduro and his security forces and until they are able to live again in a democracy.
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OECD Home Statistics and Data DirectorateLabour statisticsHarmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: July 2017
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OECD unemployment rate stable at 5.9% in May 2017
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11/07/2017 - The OECD unemployment rate was stable at 5.9% in May 2017. Across the OECD area, 36.8 million people were unemployed, 4.1 million more than in April 2008.
The unemployment rate in May was also stable (at 9.3%) in the euro area, although with some variation across countries. The Slovak Republic recorded the largest decline (down by 0.2 percentage point, to 8.1%) while there were small increases in France and Italy (up by 0.1 percentage point, to 9.6% and 11.3%, respectively).
The unemployment rate increased in Japan (by 0.3 percentage point to 3.1%) and Canada (by 0.1 percentage point, to 6.6%). By contrast, it fell by 0.4 percentage point in Korea (to 3.6%) and by 0.1 percentage point in Mexico (to 3.5%) and the United States (to 4.3%). More recent data, however, show that in June, the unemployment rate increased by 0.1 percentage point in the United States (to 4.4%), and decreased by 0.1 percentage point in Canada (to 6.5%).
The OECD youth unemployment rate (covering the 15 to 24 age group) declined by 0.1 percentage point, to 12.0%, in May. It fell by 0.6 percentage point in the United States (to 8.8%) and was stable in the euro area (at 18.9%) but continued to rise in Japan (by 0.2 percentage point, to 5.2%, the third consecutive monthly increase). More than one third of all youth remain unemployed in Greece, Spain and Italy.
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NegroFont Real Estate Condominiums in Singapore
Riviere Condo Zouk Club Singapore District 9
The Riviere condo is the new residential project of Frasers property developers. It is a leasehold property for a period of 99 years. The apartment complex is being constructed on the banks of the Singapore river, close to Clarke Quay in a prime area of Singapore. The Zouk Club was originally located at the site, and now the site is being redeveloped by Frasers. Since the project is located in a posh city centre area of Singapore river close to the Jiak Kim street, it is highly recommended as an investment for real estate investors, since only a limited number of similar properties are available in the area.
Riviere Condo Former Zouk Club Singapore
The plot for the Riviere residential project is located in district nine of singapore and has a site area of 145,063 square feet. On this plot the builders are allowed to have a built up area of 551,245 sq. feet. At present the number of blocks and storeys has not be finalized, however a total of 455 residential units may be constructed. Sports facilities which are planned include tennis courts, swimming pool, indoor gym and playground for children. Other facilities are guard house, sun deck for sunbathing, club house, function room and BBQ pit. A number of reputed colleges and schools are located close to the condo.
Riviere Great World City MRT Station
The MRT station of Great World City on the East Coast line is located in the vicinity of the Riviere plot, allowing residents to quickly and conveniently travel to the rest of Singapore. The proximity to the central expressway makes it convenient for car owners to reach other places. There are also a number of buses, traveling along Zion Road, Kim Seng and River Valley road which are close by. The shopping centres of Valley Point, Concorde and the Great World City are extremely convenient for residents of Riviere who wish to go shopping since they offer a large variety of products and have restaurants and entertainment facilities.
Riviere Fort Canning Park Nearby
The Fort Canning Park nearby has facilities for many outdoor activities and a lot of greenery, making a home in Riviere ideal for those who love nature. It is also used as venue for outdoor entertainment like dramas, concerts and plays. The condo property is also integrated with the Fraser’s residence promenade, which is having a large number of serviced apartments. Frasers property is one of the most reputed construction companies in Singapore, and started its construction activities in 1980. It currently has built residential and commercial properties worldwide including Europe, Australia, China, Southeast Asia and Singapore.
Fraser Residence Promenade Great World City Singapore River
Marking them on the top of the construction industries, Frasers Centrepoint Limited stands top in line of the most builders, that offers you Flats, Luxury Apartments, and Villas in Singapore with undisputed trust and undiluted quality. Frasers Centrepoint Limited has businesses in Australia, Singapore, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe, and our established construction footprint spans more than 80 cities across Europe, Asia Pacific, North Africa and Middle East.
Fraser Residence Promenade Singapore River Great World City
Fraser Residence Promenade Frasers Property is the latest project located in the heart of Singapore River. The land was basically under the Reserve List on the Govt. Land Sales Program and was auctioned for sale. Fraser Residence Promenade represents the highest class located city center property which is located nearby Havelock MRT Station and Great World City MRT Station.
The site by Frasers Property is nearby to many amenities and malls and is close to many of the exotic bars and diners along the Singapore River. A true cosmopolitan lifestyle awaits nyou at Fraser Residence Promenade. A feeling of green open space, largeness, green patches tucked away in unexpected places between towers, flowers-bordered walkways, beautifully maintained parks, stepping out onto the dew-covered grass in an aesthetic and invigorating environment is a daily pleasure for residents of Fraser Residence Promenade.
Fraser Residence Promenade Facilities Located at Site Plan
The large and luxuriously fitted clubhouse Frasers Property is probably the best-in-class feature when compared with any available property in Singapore. 50m swimming pool and Tennis, shopping arcades, gymnasiums, spas, high tech security and ample parking are just some of the other amenities Fraser Residence Promenade offers its residents. Fraser Residence Promenade – premium residence in Singapore – the importance of layout emphasizes on harmonious apartments with every amenity in easy reach and access. This project adds to the sense of security in life as all vital and essential things are in arm stretch distance. The designs also make the community dwell in peace with nature an essential part of the design conceptualization.
Fraser Residence Promenade Located at Singapore River
The flow of fresh air from Singapore River to Fraser Residence Promenade is a happy break from air pollutants of horn-blowing city dwelling. Fresh air feels healthy and rejuvenates the life of residents in the residence. Amenities add a sense of completeness, rest the way life will feel and look, making them one of the best available homes in Residence.
If you intend to buy Fraser Residence Promenade in Singapore, checking out this flagship project of Fraser is something worth your time and effort. Top class construction quality is a hallmark of all Fraser projects and Fraser Residence Promenade is no exception to that. The best workmanship and materials deliver the quality you can trust with your hand. And when your add that with a superb-designed interior, the result is a perfect home.
One Balestier Freehold Condo Near to Farrer Park MRT Station
One Balestier is a mixed development condo being developed by one of the most famous properties in Singapore, Oxley Holdings at the center of Balestier road as well as Tessensohn road. This project sits next to many amenities and at the same time, its entire ground floor is home to many shops where residents can shop conveniently. One Balestier Freehold Condo stands out as the best project ever developed within the region. It has facilities hardly to find in other freeholds. Some of its facilities are gym, tennis court, huge swimming pool, kid’s playground just naming a few.
Shopping Malls Near to One Balestier City Square
Other than being at the heart of numerous shopping malls, One Balestier also homes shops on the ground floor. The huge number of shopping avenues eases residents shopping task. There is everything you want, meaning no traveling to long distances in search of daily needs. These malls include city square, Mustafa center, Jalan Plaza and Centrium Square which have various tenants serving the residents of One Balestier and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Accessing One Balestier Farrer Park MRT Station
Accessing One Balestier Oxley MRT Station is simply easy you won’t struggle. Residents of One Balestier have different ways of accessing the region. They can reach the residence through Farrer Park MRT Line as well as buses playing Balestier Road as well as Serangoon Road.
Residents of One Balestier Farrer Park MRT Station are among the most advantaged in Singapore. They are at the center of the pool of schools. Thus, they are at the disposal of choosing the schools where the kids would study. Also, the schools are minutes away from the residence. This makes it convenient for commuting students since they will spend a few minutes walking to and from school thus getting much enough time for their studies and resting.
Schools Near to One Balestier Freehold Condo
These schools are North light, Canossian, Eton House, Hong Wen, St Andrews Junior as well as Bendemeer schools among many others. The residence and the neighboring have some of the very powerful and rich people living within the area. Thus, they need to get time to come together and share ideas as well as have fun together. Due to this demand, many country clubs are established within the region. Some of the country clubs found close to One Balestier include Island, Raffles Town, Singapore, Taglin clubs among many more.
If you have not yet bought your unit at One Balestier, then you’re being locked out of the wonderful and elite lifestyle you can live in Singapore. The place is at the center of wonderful amenities and is made from quality facilities. Don’t hesitate anymore.
Meyerhouse by UOL Group Located at Meyer Road
Located in the Tanjong Katong area of Singapore is a new freehold property, Meyerhouse. Formally, Nanak Mansions, the site was sold and transferred to Secure Investments (No. 1) which is a subsidiary of United Overseas Limited (UOL) Group. Meyerhouse (formally Nanak Mansions), was previously owned by a low profile Indian family, consists of 36 maisonettes, of either 4 or 5 bedrooms each. It was sold to the UOL Group at $201.m, amounting to $1,429 per sq. ft. per plot ratio. It was then renovated, upgraded and renamed to by the OUL Group to Meyerhouse.
Meyerhouse Prime Meyer Road District
Located in the prime Meyer Road district, Meyerhouse UOL Group is near to the Tanjong Katong MRT station that is to be built on the Thomson-East Coast Line scheduled for completion in 2023. Commuters can also access a number of buses along the Mountbatten Road and Marine Parade Road. Travelling to the city is easy and convenient for its residents due to its closeness to East Coast Parkway (ECP). It is surrounded by lots of shopping centers among which are the famous Parkway Parade, 112 Katong and the Katong Shopping Center. It is also close to the East Coast Park – a popular outdoor place of fun and relaxation for residents to spend quality time with their families. High-class schools around the property include Chatsworth International School, Katong Primary School and Katong Girls’ School.
Facilities Located at Meyerhouse Condo
This luxurious, neatly decorated freehold property is located with fully functioning and state-of-the-art facilities such as indoor gym, guard house, BBQ pits, tennis court, children’s playground, function room, club house, sun deck and 50m swimming pool. It provides all the fun and entertainment that you, your family, friends and loved ones need conveniently under one single room. Add to this, the peaceful, sublime and naturally refreshing environment of Tanjong Katong district.
Meyerhouse by UOL Group
UOL Group acquired the Meyerhouse sites in a bid to replenish its land banks. With its 99 years leasehold, Meyerhouse is an interesting option for buyers seeking freehold property in the Tanjong Katong district. As a leading real estate developer, the UOL Group is committed to commercial governance that holds environmental and social control of development management in perspective. Launched in 2016, the Group is a component of the SGX Index and is a top governmental and economic association in Singapore. The Group exhibits a high level of commercial social responsibility and adheres strictly with principles and rules given for Commercial Code as established by the Authority of Monetary in Singapore. It responsibly demonstrates a zero-tolerance for data protection violations, anti-competitive frequencies and corruption.
Juniper Hill Allgreen Properties Bukit Timah
Juniper hill, the new development by famous Allgreen properties is located exactly next to Bukit Timah. The plot was used for nursery business and landscaping before this project. Juniper Hill is close to the Tanjong Katong, and is located between tow famous apartments: the shore residence and the sea view. The site is kite shaped piece of land that faces Cyan Condo across Ewe Boon Road. Allgreen properties is among the rapidly developing real estate company in Singapore that was established in 1986. The company is among some other companies that have entered the stock exchange market of Singapore. The development of Juniper Hill bukit timah presents an opportunity of investors who are searching for freehold land in Bukit Timah area.
Juniper Hill freehold condo always has something to offer to everyone including all kind of facilities to fulfil their family needs. For example, all entertainment needs of children are fulfilled at children’s playground. There is an indoor gym for the people who love to involve in bodybuilding activity. Some other facilities are tennis court, swimming pool, function room, and clubhouse. There are also several shopping centers and malls located close to Juniper Hill allgreen. Some of the famous nearby malls to fulfil your requirements are Beauty World, Balmoral, and Bukit Timah center. In fact, Juniper Hill is located on major area of freehold land that highlights the timely decision of investment by Allgreen Properties. Juniper Hill Bukit Timah has huge opportunities for buyers who want to buy a freehold property in the area of Bukit Timah.
Schools Near to Juniper Hill Allgreen
The area is also famous for highly rated educational institutions, such as the National University of Singapore, Anglo-Chinese School, Raffles Girls’ School, Methodist Girls Schools (Primary and Secondary), Hwa Chong Institution and the National Junior College. Both the Singapore Chinese School for girls and the Anglo Chines School are almost one kilometer radius from the location of Juniper Hill. It is almost fifteen minute drive from the Marina Bay Financial District, and Raffle Place CBD.
Location of Juniper Hill Near to Shopping Malls and Supermarkets.
The main feature of Juniper Hill condo are its location, nearby shopping malls, supermarkets, dining, and hotels. If you like nature walks amongst green location, you can visit Singapore Botanic Gardens that is near to Juniper Hill allgreen properties. There were twelve bids for the location of Juniper Hill that shows the interest of developers in development in the city center area. The reason is that the city center region offers freehold investment houses for investors. Juniper Hill is located at EWE Road that is a huge residential enclave. You can access Juniper Hill with Stevens MRT Station, and Fourth Avenue MRT Station that connects to the main area of the city. People who prefer to take buses to access, there are many bus services available along Dunearn Road, and Bukit Timah Road.
8 St Thomas Bukit Sembawang Estates Orchard MRT Station
8 St Thomas Condo is situated on Saint Thomas Walk in district 09 and near the Great World City. If you want to move to Orchard, then 8 St Thomas condo should be your first choice. If you need a much larger space, there are penthouses available just for you. With the amenities and facilities that are available at 8 St Thomas guarantee you of having the ideal lifestyle.
8 St Thomas Near to Shopping Centres
There are numerous shopping centers where residents can shop for all the items they need from groceries, beauty products, and other household items. The Great World City, Takashimaya and 313@Somerset city center are located there. The Great World City has numerous shops such as Cold Storage supermarket, Golden Village and Food Junction where you can enjoy the best delicacies. If you are a trendy youth, then Cathay Cineleisure is the place for you. It has a karaoke lounge, food courts and beverages are also sold.
8 Saint Thomas Great World City and Orchard MRT Station
8 St Thomas is also well connected to the transport network, and residents can easily access other parts of Singapore. The Great World City and Orchard MRT stations are located near the residences. The Expressways and roads near 8 St Thomas also offer transport to residents and they do not have to worry about how to get to other parts of Singapore. Clarke Quay is also near the residences and residents can take some time off and go to the Singapore River. You may decide to sit by the river and listen to the water flow, or you may as well go on a river cruise. Outgoing residents who love having fun can enjoy living in 8 Saint Thomas since there are plenty of joints to hang out. For instance Sakae Kushi and K Box. There are also other several entertainment places along the Mohamed Sultan Road.
Food Outlets Near to 8 Saint Thomas Condo
Food outlets are abundant in the residences and residents can enjoy the best delicacies. Koufu food court, Havelock Road Food Centre, People’s Park Complex Food complex and Food Hall are some of the best food joints. There are also many restaurants located at the Robertson Quay as well as fantastic bars. Residents also do not have to be bothered by their children’s education since 8 St Thomas has some of the best schools in Singapore. River Valley Primary School, Superland Montessori, Tanglin School, Chatsworth International School and Little Stars Music School among others are located near the residences. Therefore, parents have a wide range to choose from. At 8 St Thomas residents are assured the best lifestyle anyone could ever dream off.
Amenities in and around the Botanik Residence
The Botanik residence is a freehold development that’s located at 1 Jalan Remaja in the heart of Hillview Avenue, a residential neighborhood in the western region of Singapore. The freehold condo is under the Tuan Sing Holdings, a renowned Real Estate Developer that holds several high profile development projects in and around Singapore. This company focuses on building quality real estate projects that bring value to the residents and stakeholders. They have stood the test of time and weight of scrutiny with a good reputation in the market.
The Botanik residence is situated within a quiet private residential territory of Hillview surrounded by parks and nature reserves. The project is expected to be complete by 2022 where future residents will have the opportunity to tour the stunning surroundings and appreciate the serene ambiance of this vicinity. The condo has been designed specifically for residents who want to escape the bustle of busy city life and those seeking solace from the overcrowded residential areas.
Located in a residential neighborhood, there are various social amenities surrounding this development. The Rail Mall is one of them, located in close proximity for all the dining and shopping needs. Restaurants and Cafes such as the Kinsa Sushi and Cedele are located inside the mixed-use development where one can enjoy a variety of local and exotic food options. West Mall is another shopping complex where residents can go grocery shopping and even for movie dates in the luxury cinema located within the Mall.
Educational Institutions Around Botanik Residence
Educational institutions located in the area include the Lianhua Primary School, Yusof-Ishak secondary school, and the Assumption English School. These institutions are well equipped with all the necessary learning materials that will guarantee success among the students. Being in close proximity, there’s no cost of traveling and you’ll spend most of the time with your kids.
A community club is also located near the HillV2 commercial shopping mall. The club hosts a rooftop garden, a dance studio, culinary studio, multi-purpose hall, and food and beverage outlets. The nightlife here is second to none, and the party lovers will have something to thank themselves for.
Tuan Sing Holdings Amenities Around Botanik Residence
Tuan Sing Holdings have always been at the forefront as far as the design of social amenities inside residential developments is concern. From their past work, communal facilities such as a clubhouse where residents can hold parties with family and friends are expected to be part of the complete project. Additional facilities such as a swimming pool, gym and even landscape deck where residents can spend their evening admiring the natural scenery of the place are also part of this development.
The Botanik residence is undoubtedly one of the best in-progress residential condos located in the HillV2 area. The unique design of the residence by the Tuan Sign Holdings plus its exclusive location makes it an irresistible habitat that will attract residents from various parts of the country.
Continue reading “Amenities in and around the Botanik Residence”
The Garden Residences Serangoon North Condo
The Garden Residence is located in Serangoon North Avenue 1 is under the safe hands of Wing Tai Holdings and Keppel Lands. Keppel Land along with Wing tai holdings has given the top bid of $446,28 million for buying the plot of land. The Garden Residences Serangoon North even receive handsome number of tender bids from different developers. The Garden Residences so huge, it measures 184,954 square feet with a plot ratio of 2:5.
The locality is very convenient as there are several schools , shopping centers and other commercially required places nearby .The Wing Tai holdings of The Garden Residences has various facilities , including a guard house , function room, indoor gym, clubhouse, swimming pool , children’s playground , BBQ pits and various other kinds of facilities provided . It features different floor and site plans according to the different families that will be staying in The Garden Residences Serangoon North Avenue 1. There are many amenities near the location of The Garden Residences Condo . One the most popular buildings like NEX Shopping Mall is located right to Serangoon MRT Station Interchange, so the daily requirements of the families living in The Garden Residences are thereby very well looked after.
The Garden Residences Keppel Land and Wing Tai Holdings
Its location is amidst the quieter part of the Serangoon North which is away from its loud and disturbing main town where there is a lot of regular hustle. So the residents of The Garden Residences Keppela Land can live there peacefully without any noise disturbances. This Residence is located near Bidadari that include more services and facilities in the town. The master plan for Bidadari site is mainly focused on preserving the touch of history of the Singapore’s heritage. Unique green spaces and many public amenities will be there. It consists bicycle trails, which will assure connectivity of Bidadari with different close by areas.
Garden Residences Serangoon North Avenue 1
Keppel Land is a part of the Keppel group, which is one the most premier real estate development company. It is popular because of its major iconic constructions like the real estate developments in Singapore, and it has committed to deliver excellent service for its stake holders. Some of the projects by Keppel Land include Marina Bay Financial Centre and The Ocean Financial Centre. The developer has truly diversified in its business because of the core and principal values made by them that they follow with such clarity of focus, that helps them identify investment opportunities on a global level.
Wing Tai Asia is one of the leading lifestyle and property development company with its assets exceeding $4.9 billion . This investment holding company has its main focus on the development of Asia’s growth markets. Thus this brand has been able to making a good reputation of its brand because of its association with the utmost reliability. This group has shown its complete dedication towards exquisite craftsmanship and smart designing.
Thus The Garden Residences Wing Tai Holdings being under Keppel Land and also under Wing Tai Asia, is working its way to be one of the most productive projects with high class facilities, which therefore results in its increase in demand in the market.
Daintree Residence New Condo at Toh Tuck Road
This is a 99 years old leasehold development which is under new development by a Malaysian developer. This development is it’s not far from World MRT Station. This site was released by government under movement land sales program. According to the size of land and plot ratio of this land, it’s estimated to accommodate 325 homes. The completion and launch of this development will trigger mass development in the near areas.
Daintree Residence Toh Tuck Road is fully equipped with unique facilities ranging from swimming pool, indoor gym, children playgrounds among others which makes it a place to be with your family. Living in the Daintree Residence, you will be indulged in a calm and idyllic lifestyle.
There are various shopping centers which are located just next to Daintree Residence Jurong Central Business District, These shopping centers contain various eateries, entertainment joints, restaurants, hospitals among other useful facilities which are of very high importance to the residents of Daintree Residences. These shopping centers include; Beauty World Center which is just next right-hand side of the Beauty World MRT Station. It’s just a few minutes’ walk from Daintree residence. There are various anchor tenants located in this mall like MacDonald’s and Watsons. It’s also home to Great Express, Dulukalala Peranakan Restaurant, and Top 1 Homemade Noodles among other home signature local delights. Daintree Residence is by the developer S P Setia International and is located at Toh Tuck Road.
Bukit Timah Is another shopping center near to Daintree Residence. It’s a fully air-conditioned shopping center in Singapore which is located just adjacent to Beauty World center. It’s also next to NTUC supermarket. Where Daintree Residents can shop groceries. It hosts many maid employment agencies and health spas. Located here also are restaurants and supermarket.
Daintree Residence Location Near to Jurong Central Business District
Jurong Business District is located just short distance from Daintree Residence. It’s home to many shopping centers like BigBox Westgate among others. There exist many dining joints. It’s also the terminus of high-speed Railway which links Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
Among education institution near Daintree Residence Toh Tuck Road is Ngee Polytechnic which is located along the Clementi Road and Beauty World. It’spopulaar school especially among just completed GCE O level examinations secondary school students.. It offers a number of various courses that equip student with real practical work experience. It offers various courses which range from diplomas, postgraduate diploma, and short courses to cater for different individuals. It also offers it’s student oversee exposure, as they believe, will help students to learn more skills.
Daintree Residence Floor Plans and Layout
Residents will be able to access Toh Tuck Road easily by buses or by MRT through public transport. For the car owners, when they plan to access other parts of Singapore, it’s very convenient. This is because Daintree is located next to all major expressways like Pan Island and Bukit Timah. owners of Daintree, it’s now a breeze to travel to Jurong East and central Business.
Don’t relent; a healthy and prosperous lifestyle is waiting for you at Daintree Residence. This is a place to be with your family, where you can be free to welcome your friends where you can go to various eateries joint to have fun together. Serene Environment, world-class facilities, thousands of meeting joints, shopping arcades among other beautiful features around and in Daintree Residence.
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Hotspot (geology)
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This article is about the geologic term.
Over millions of years, the Pacific Plate has moved over the Hawaii hotspot, creating a trail of underwater mountains that stretch across the Pacific.
In geology, a hotspot is an area in the Earth's mantle where a column of hot magma rises up to melt through the crust, resulting in volcanic activity. The term hotspot is also used when referring to the location on the Earth's surface where such volcanism has been taking place. In 1963, J. Tuzo Wilson came up with the idea that volcanic chains like the Hawaiian Islands result from the slow movement of a tectonic plate across a "fixed" hotspot deep beneath the surface of the planet.
Geologists have identified some 40–50 hotspots around the globe. Of these, Hawaii, Réunion, Yellowstone, Galápagos, and Iceland overlie those that are currently most active.
1 Formation of a hotspot
2 Following the trail of a hotspot
3 Hotspots versus island arcs
4 List of hotspots
4.1 Former hotspots
By studying hotspots, geologists have been able to track the movement of the Earth's crustal plates. In addition, by examining lava flows from a series of volcanic eruptions, they have come to the conclusion that there is a reversal of Earth's magnetic poles at intervals of about 5,000 years.
Formation of a hotspot
For a long time, geologists have thought that a hotspot is caused by a narrow stream of hot mantle, called a mantle plume, rising up from near the Earth's core-mantle boundary.[1] With the formation of a plume, magma builds up under a tectonic plate, eventually erupting with basaltic rock, forming what are called Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs). The resultant volcano then continues to pour out lava.
However, recent evidence indicates that the upper mantle is hotter and more fluid than what was once believed. As a result, a number of geologists attribute hotspots to convection in the upper mantle, formulating an alternative to the plume model.[2][3] It has been suggested that the term "hotspot" be replaced by the term "melting anomaly."
Either model provides an explanation of how volcanoes can occur far from the edges of tectonic plates, where plates are subducted into the mantle.
Along with these models, there has been a revival of what has been called the "antipodal pair impact hypothesis." It is the idea that pairs of opposite hotspots may result from the impact of a large meteor.[4]
Most hotspot volcanoes are basaltic because they erupt through oceanic lithosphere (such as Hawaii, Tahiti). As a result, they are less explosive than subduction zone volcanoes, in which water is trapped under the overriding plate. Where hotspots occur under continental crust, basaltic magma is trapped in the less dense continental crust, which is heated and melts to form rhyolites. These rhyolites can be quite hot and form violent eruptions, despite their low water content. For example, the Yellowstone Caldera was formed by some of the most powerful volcanic explosions in geologic history. However, when rhyolitic magma is completely erupted, it may eventually turn into basaltic magma because it is no longer trapped in the less dense continental crust. An example of this activity is the Ilgachuz Range in British Columbia, which was created by an early complex series of trachyte and rhyolite eruptions, and late extrusion of a sequence of basaltic lava flows.[5]
Following the trail of a hotspot
Diagram showing the formation of a series of volcanoes when a crustal plate moves over a hotspot in the Earth's mantle.
As the continents and seafloor drift across the mantle plume, "hotspot" volcanoes generally leave unmistakable evidence of their passage through seafloor or continental crust. In the case of the Hawaiian hotspot, the islands themselves are the remnant evidence of the movement of the seafloor over the hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The Yellowstone hotspot emerged in the Columbia Plateau of the US Pacific Northwest. The Deccan Traps of India are the result of the emergence of the hotspot currently under Réunion Island, off the coast of eastern Africa. Geologists use hotspots to help track the movement of the Earth's plates. Such hotspots are so active that they often record step-by-step changes in the direction of the Earth's magnetic poles. Thanks to lava flows from a series of eruptions in the Columbia Plateau, scientists now know that the reversal of magnetic poles takes about 5000 years, fading until there is no detectable magnetism, then reforming in near-opposite directions.
Hotspots versus island arcs
Hotspot volcanoes should not be confused with island arc volcanoes. Although each will appear as a string of volcanic islands, island arcs are formed by the subduction of converging tectonic plates. When one oceanic plate meets another, the denser plate is forced downward into a deep ocean trench. This plate releases water into the base of the overriding plate as it is subducted, and this water causes some rock to melt. This process results in a chain of volcanoes, such as the Aleutian Islands near Alaska and Sweden.
List of hotspots
Distribution of 45 selected hotspots around the globe. The numbers in the figure are shown in parentheses in the list of hotspots on the left.
World map showing the locations of selected prominent hotspots. (1) Divergent plate boundaries, (2) Transform plate boundaries, (3) Convergent plate boundaries, (4) Plate boundary zones, (5) Selected prominent hotspots.
Over millions of years, the Pacific Plate has moved over the Bowie hotspot, creating the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain in the Gulf of Alaska.
Below is a list of hotspots around the globe.[6] The numbers in parentheses correspond to the numbered hotspots in the figure on the right.
Afar hotspot
Amsterdam hotspot
Anahim hotspot (45)
Ascension hotspot
Azores hotspot (1)
Balleny hotspot (2)
Bermuda hotspot
Bouvet hotspot
Bowie hotspot (3)
Cameroon hotspot (17)
Canary hotspot (18)
Cape Verde hotspot (19)
Caroline hotspot (4)
Cobb hotspot (5)
Comoros hotspot (21)
Crozet hotspot
Darfur hotspot (6)
Discovery hotspot
East Australia hotspot (30)
Easter hotspot (7)
Eifel hotspot (8)
Fernando hotspot (9)
Galápagos hotspot (10)
Gough hotspot
Guadalupe hotspot (11)
Hawaii hotspot (12)
Heard hotspot
Hoggar hotspot (13)
Iceland hotspot (14)
Jan Mayen hotspot (15)
Juan Fernandez hotspot (16)
Kerguelen hotspot (20)
Lord Howe hotspot (22)
Louisville hotspot (23)
Macdonald hotspot (24)
Madeira hotspot
Marion hotspot (25)
Marquesas hotspot (26)
Meteor hotspot (27)
New England hotspot (28)
Pitcairn hotspot (31)
Raton hotspot (32)
Réunion hotspot (33)
St. Helena hotspot (34)
St. Paul hotspot
Samoa hotspot (35)
San Felix hotspot (36)
Shona hotspot
Society hotspot (Tahiti hotspot) (38)
Socorro hotspot (37)
Tasmanid hotspot (39)
Tibesti hotspot (40)
Trindade hotspot (41)
Tristan hotspot (42)
Vema hotspot (43)
Yellowstone hotspot (44)
Former hotspots
Mackenzie hotspot
Crust (geology)
Mantle (geology)
↑ "Hotspots": Mantle Thermal Plumes. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
↑ Laura Wright, Nov. 2000. Earth's interior: Raising hot spots. Geotimes. American Geological Institute. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
↑ Robert L. Christiansen, G.R. Foulger, and John R. Evans. October 2002. Upper-mantle origin of the Yellowstone hotspot. GSA Bulletin 114 (10): 1245–1256. doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1245:UMOOTY>2.0.CO;2. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
↑ Jonathan T. Hagstrum, 2005. Antipodal hotspots and bipolar catastrophes: Were oceanic large-body impacts the cause? Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 236 (1-2): 13–27. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.020. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
↑ Peter Holbek, November 1983. Report on Preliminary Geology and Geochemistry of the Ilga Claim Group. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
↑ Bernhard Steinberger, 2000. Plumes in a convecting mantle: Models and observations for individual hotspots. Journal of Geophysical Research 105 (B5): 11127–11152. doi:10.1029/1999JB900398. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
Hekinian, Roger, Peter Stoffers, and Jean-Louis Cheminée, eds. 2004. Oceanic Hotspots: Intraplate Submarine Magmatism and Tectonism. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3540408592
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Sigurdsson, Haraldur, et al. 2000. Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. San Diego: Academic Press. ISBN 012643140X
Turcotte, Donald Lawson, and Gerald Schubert. 2002. Geodynamics, 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521666244
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Prominent Hotspots on World Map. U.S. Geological Survey.
Raising hot spots. Geotimes.
Large Igneous Provinces. Large Igneous Provinces Commission.
Map of World Hotspots. ThoughtCo.
Hotspot (geology) history
History of "Hotspot (geology)"
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HomeNEWS FSI takes over 35% of Lumson, 65% to the Moretti family
FSI (“Fondo Strategico Italiano”), one of the largest European country-focused private equity funds with a growth strategy and the Moretti family announce the signing of an agreement whereby FSI is going to acquire a 35% stake in Lumson SpA (“LUMSON”).
LUMSON is the Italian leader in the primary cosmetics packaging sector, with an estimated turnover of approximately 100 million euros in 2018.
The company has nearly 550 employees, two production sites in Italy, and commercial branches in the USA, France, Spain and Germany.
FSI will invest in LUMSON by acquiring a direct stake from LUMSON’s holding company MPM SpA and by subscribing a capital increase and a convertible bond for a total consideration of about Euro 70 million.
At completion of the transaction, LUMSON will be cash positive and financially able to pursue an ambitious growth plan.
The company’s Board of Directors, comprised of seven members, will include: Cav. Remo Moretti, Honorary President, Matteo Moretti, President, Paolo Valsecchi, Managing Director, Giovanni Broggiato, Vice President and CFO of Lumson, Marco Tugnolo, Investment Director of FSI, and Carlo Bozotti, Industrial Partner of FSI and former CEO of STMicroelectronics, as well as an independent board member to be appointed in the near future.
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Exploring Politeness in Business Emails A Mixed-Methods Analysis Author: Vera Freytag
Ebook(EPUB) - 240 pages
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Exploring Politeness in Business Emails explores the contextual complexities of workplace emails by comparing British English and Peninsular Spanish directive speech events and systematically assessing the impact of contextual factors. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis, and the inclusion of metapragmatic insights in the interpretation of the results, the book offers an innovative approach to the study of politeness. The book partially contradicts previous assumptions about English and Spanish directives and provides new insights into the role of politeness in the workplace. By offering a meticulous account of the linguistic choices made by the English and Spanish first language users and the contextual factors influencing these choices, the book suggests far-reaching implications for future research in cross-cultural pragmatics and business discourse, as well as practical implications relevant for academics, postgraduate students and practitioners interested in these fields.
This book is a timely and welcome contribution to the field. It rests on solid interdisciplinary theoretical grounds and employs an innovative, carefully designed methodological framework to examine two comparable data sets of naturally-occurring, socially-situated emails in British English and Peninsular Spanish. Its ethnographically-informed interpretation of the texts sheds fresh light on our understanding of language variation vis-à-vis a number of relevant social factors.
- Patricia Bou-Franch, Universitat de València, Spain
Vera Freytag is a Consumer Interaction Specialist for Beiersdorf AG in Germany. Her research interests include CMC, business discourse, sociolinguistics and politeness.
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Matt and Dom with Serj from SOAD
System of a Down is an alternative heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. They use a wide range of instruments, including baritone electric guitars, electric mandolins, sitars, 12-string classical guitars, and many other West Asian instruments. Their main influences are most noticeably from earlier alternative rock bands. They also draw influence from the heavy metal, punk rock, jazz, jazz fusion, Armenian folk music, classic rock, blues, and industrial genres. Some bands that System are influenced of: Black Sabbath, Slayer, Snot, etc. They have influenced enough bands like Muse (Bellamy once stated that the riff to Stockholm Syndrome was influenced by SOAD[1]) and other bands that are signed to Serj's label, Serjical Strike, as their style is unique and includes many techniques and bizzare phonetics. Upon meeting Muse, Serj offered to sign them to his record label, which they declined. He also nominated their album Absolution for the Shortlist Award in 2004, proving a mutual appreciation and possible influence between both bands.
Tom Morello has cooperated with Serj in a project called Axis of Justice.
↑ Matt Bellamy: New Guitar Genius (2007-08). Total Guitar. Retrieved 2007-09. [verify]
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Goo Goo Dolls FAQ v4.03 (8/3/99)
For simplicity, click on a subject to find related question.
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please email any questions, comments, or additions)
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/googoodolls/misc/faq.htm
2.3.9 Dizzy
2.3.10 Slide
3.2.2 Covers
1. Who are the Goo Goo Dolls
1.1 The Band
1.2 Johnny Rzeznik
1.2.1 Johnny's Life
1.2.2 Johnny Pre-Goo
1.3 Robby Takac
1.3.1 Robby's Life
1.3.2 Robby Pre-Goo
1.4 Mike Malinin
1.4.1 Mike's Life
1.4.2 Mike Pre-Goo
1.4.3 Becoming Mike Goo
1.4.4 Clumsy
1.5.1 George Tutuska
1.5.2 Lance Diamond
1.5.3 Nathan December
1.5.4 Dave Schultz
2. Origins of the Band, Name, Songs, Albums, and Influences
2.2 The Name "Goo Goo Dolls"
2.3 The Songs
2.3.1 I'm Addicted
2.3.2 No Way Out
2.3.3 Artie
2.3.4 Two Days In February
2.3.5 Only One
2.3.6 We Are The Normal
2.3.7 Flat Top
2.3.11 Broadway
2.3.12 January Friend
2.3.13 Black Balloon
2.3.14 Amigone
2.3.15 Full Forever
2.3.16 Iris
2.3.17 Extra Pale
2.3.18 Hate This Place
2.4 The Albums
2.4.1 First Release/Goo Goo Dolls
2.4.2 Superstar CarWash
2.4.3 A Boy Named Goo
2.4.4 Dizzy Up The Girl
2.5 The Influences
3. The Albums and Singles
3.1.2 Jed
3.1.3 Hold Me Up
3.1.3.1 Two Days in February
3.1.5.1 Stand Alone
3.1.5.2 Ain't That Unusual
3.2 Non-Album Tracks and Covers
3.2.1 Non-Album Tracks
3.2.3 Bang!
3.2.3.1 What is Bang!?
3.2.3.2 Track Listing
3.2.4 Dizzy Up The Goos
3.2.4.1 What is Dizzy Up The Goos?
3.4 Alternate Lyrics/Music
3.4.1 Cuz You're Gone
3.4.2 Another Second Time Around
3.4.4 Eyes Wide Open
4.1 Studio Albums
4.2 Compilations, Promos, Etc
4.3 Bootlegs and Imports
1. Who are the Goo Goo Dolls?
1.1) The Band
The Goo Goo Dolls are a musical trio who have been playing amazing music for over ten years now (since 1986) and have released 6 complete albums. Their musical style has been debated and can be classified in many categories. Some say hard-core pop (although that is sort of contradictory). Others call it melodic punk. To be more specific, it is a combination of hook-laden guitar riffs, two very capable and versatile vocalists, profound lyrics, and non-stop energy.
1.2) Johnny Rzeznik...
...is the guitarist and vocalist.
1.2.1) Johnny's Life
John was born on December 5, 1965. By the age of 15 he was an orphan. Before then he had navigated a life like so many others in what he describes as a "tightly knit ethic community" on Buffalo's working-class East Side. He grew up on the corner of Clark and Kent Streets; as kids he and his four older sisters called it "Superman Corner." When John's mailman father and school teacher mother died within a year of each other (his father of alcoholism; his mother, according to him, of loneliness), John's life took a dramatic turn. He got an apartment on his own and started hanging out with "shady people." Rzeznik was the only "punk" (his quotes) at Buffalo's McKinley Vocational High School, where he studied to be a plumber. He made himself a target with a mohawk and a penchant for everything from the Cure to Depeche Mode to the Damned and the Replacements. John is married to an ex-model named Laurie, about whom he wrote some of his songs about.
1.2.2) Johnny Pre-Goo
Johnny has been with the band since the beginning. He was playing in a band called the Beaumonts (with Robby's cousin) when he was picked up by Robby and George to form the Sex Maggots (who became the Goo Goo Dolls). He was attending a vocational school as an aspiring plumber when the band formed.
1.3) Robby Takac...
...is the bassist and vocalist.
1.3.1) Robby's Life
His birthday is September 30, 1964.
1.3.2) Robby Pre-Goo
Robby was first in a punk band called The Monarchs. He and George, who were school friends, got together to pick up Johnny.
1.4) Mike Malinin...
...is the current drummer. He joined the band on contract in 1995, replacing George Tutuska. In fall 1998, it was announced that Mike was made an official Goo Goo Doll.
1.4.1) Mike's Life
Mike was born in Washington, D.C., on October 10, 1967. He grew up in South Florida and started playing the drums in seventh grade. His first band was called the Mixed Desmids. He graduated from high school in 1985 from Ransom-Everglades School. He attended North Texas State University (now University of North Texas), enrolled in music, and then became a Philosophy major (no degree).
1.4.2) Mike Pre-Goo
Mike bands in Texas included: Dark Horse (Austin; rock-n-roll, originals & covers), Angry Jasmine (Denton; alt-rock, semi-experimental), Last Rites (First Denton, then Dallas; hard rock, somewhere between earlier Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Butthole Surfers without the stage show), the Cowtippers (Dallas; a part-time project simultaneous to LR; played quasi-Cowboy Junkies music, originals and covers; Mike played almost everything with brushes - no sticks), BillyGoat (Dallas, funk rock, major party band), and Caulk (Dallas, hard rock, cool sh*t).
1.4.3) Becoming Mike Goo
Mike quit Last Rites in the early 90's in order to move to Los Angeles and play in a band called Blowfish. They were put together by Terry Glaze (who was the original singer in Pantera and went on to lead Lord Tracy), and included Brandon Smith (who was also in BillyGoat) on bass, who was later replaced by Rob Cooper (who played with Last Rites at one time). Blowfish was kind of like Pearl Jam, but less serious (and IMO a lot better). I still think they were an incredible live band, even if some of Terry's songs were a bit too 'Night Ranger.' They stuck around a few years, and attracted some record label attention, but eventually split apart after too many nights playing to empty rooms, etc, etc. (Trivial tidbit - before disbanding they changed their name to Red Tool Box after Hootie and the Blowfish took off).
At this point Mike returned to Dallas for a short while, recorded the CD 'Learn to Take' with Caulk and was all set to move back to Texas and take over the open drummer's seat in Caulk. But, when he returned to L.A., a friend told him that one of his favorite bands, Careless, had found itself without a drummer and that Mike should consider auditioning. He did, he was hired immediately, and he cancelled his plans to return to Texas. Careless was a WAY COOL band. It featured Brian Baker, Nathan December, and Marc Solomon (and some others along the way). Brian was formerly with DC hardcore legends Minor Threat and Dag Nasty, and is now playing guitar in Bad Religion. Nathan, as you know, is touring with the Goos now; he also toured worldwide with REM a few years ago. Marc was/is in Tommy Stinson's band Perfect, and also plays in Mike's side-project Clumsy (more on that later). Anyway, back to Careless... They were pretty successful in the LA club scene, and were DAMN close to being signed to Atlantic(?) records, but broke up when everybody got these 'offers-of-a-lifetime.' I'm not 100 percent sure about the details, but I think Brian left first when he was asked to join Bad Religion; then REM asked Brian if he would go on their world tour as an extra guitarist. Brian declined, but suggested Nathan, and so the offer was passed to him, which of course he accepted. Marc went on to join Perfect (which I think at the time was called Bash and Pop), and that left Mike with no gig and no place to go. Once again, he was packing his bags to move back to Texas when Careless's manager, Pat Magnarella, called him up. Pat also managed the Goo Goo Dolls, and he called Mike with the news of George's firing. He told Mike that Johnny and Robby had heard a Careless demo tape and wanted to know if Mike was available to audition for the opening. Of course, Mike accepted; after all, he'd been a Goo fan for years and already owned all their records. The next week, the three of them were jamming in a studio in L.A., and the rest is history.
1.4.4) Clumsy
After the Boy Named Goo tour, Mike started jamming with his old buds, Marc Solomon and Rob Cooper under the name the Noods. They eventually changed their names to Clumsy and added a second guitar player, For more Clumsy info, visit: www.yapyap.com/clumsy.htm.
1.5) Others
1.5.1) George Tutuska...
...was the drummer from 1986 to New Year's Eve 1994, he was dismissed in 1995. He spent some time as a construction contractor and currently is in a Buffalo band called Hula.
1.5.2) Lance Diamond...
is a local Buffalo entertainer who has appeared with the Go Goo Dolls many times. As well as performing live with them, he has recorded with them on: "Down On The Corner", "Never Take The Place of your Man", "My Girl", "Do You Believe", and "Bitch".
1.5.3) Nathan December
Nathan played as the "touring guitarist" for the Goo Goo Dolls on the Dizzy Up The Girl tour! If you've seen the Goo Goo Dolls on a talk show, you've probably seen Nathan December. Nathan played second guitar on some appearances for "Name" and played mandolin and slide guitar on "Iris" appearances. Previously, he played guitar in Mike's previous band Careless and toured with REM as a rhythm guitar player on their Monster tour. Most recently, he was in a band called Holy Bulls that had a song out on the Iggy Pop tribute album.
1.5.4) Dave Schultz
Dave toured with the Goo's on the Dizzy Up The Girl tour. He was considered a musical prodigy as a child and plays keyboards with Lance Diamond's backing band. In Buffalo, his nickname was the Grinch, and on tour, they Goo's called him Duuf and Schnitzer. I've heard he played in a German techno band once, but that could be a rumor. His musical likes include Devo and The The.
All members are Buffalo natives (except Mike, new drummer). All had some previous band experience. In the early 80's, Robby was in a punk band called the Monarchs. Johnny was in a band called the Beaumonts, where a fellow bandmate was Robby's cousin. Robby and George were long time friends through school and they picked up Johnny, who was attending a vocational school as an aspiring plumber. In early 1986, they formed a band and they enjoyed playing together so much, they immediately entered a recording studio and produced the "First Release", which was released on a $750 budget.
2.2) The Name "Goo Goo Dolls"
The original name of their band was Sex Maggots. A promoter had caught a performance at a local club and decided to book them. However, he disliked the name Sex Maggots and insisted they change it to something a bit more acceptable. One night before a performance and slightly under the influence, the boys flipped through the pages of a True Detective magazine and discovered an ad for a Goo Goo Doll. It caught their attention, enough to make it the new name of their band. Appealing at the time, Johnny has stated numerous times that he felt the name was a hindrance to selling records and that under a different title, they may have sold more.
2.3) The Songs
On the first three releases, much of the lyrical composition was on a personal level. They used to write about (sometimes quite direct) booze, friends, posers, girlfriends (and loss of), and then (for Johnny), wife. More recently, Johnny has developed a more philosophical approach to his lyrics.
2.3.1) I'm Addicted
"I'm Addicted" was written about "devil-worshipping bands who blow-off concerts in Buffalo."
2.3.2) No Way Out
"No Way Out" makes a reference to Delaware Park.
2.3.3) Artie
"Artie" was written about, you guessed it, previous manager Artie Kwitchoff.
They played a practical joke on Artie and called him up saying that they were going to break up because they got into a fight. They taped his reaction and put it on the album. ([email protected])
2.3.4) Two Days in February
"Two Days in February" was written for Allison Braun, a writer/photographer for Maximunrockandroll and Flipside. They kinda dated for two days in February and broke up. She's thanked on "Hold Me Up" and also has a photo credit on that album. She's from LA, Johnny was from Buffalo. It wasn't going to work. One of the "Two Days in February" is February 15, 1990. The other one is either the 14th or 16th. ([email protected])
2.3.5) Only One
Contrary to popular belief, Only One was not written about Kurt Cobain.
In fact, Johnny said:
"I did not know Kurt Cobain. I did not listen to his records very much and he really didn't have very much of an influence on me, my life, my music -- anything. So how could I write a song about him?
"I'm never telling anyone who that song is really about. That song is not about Kurt Cobain, but it is about somebody and nobody will ever know who. A lot of people think that though. They say, "come one, this line right here." It's like the album cover. Somebody said to me, "is that a take-off on the Nirvana album cover ["Nevermind"]?" I'm like, "no." I saw this picture of this little kid and it struck me really hard.
"['a thousand other suckers are dying to fill your shoes.'] is more a comment on the tortured artist syndrome. The "oh, my god, my life is so hard" thing. Yeah, it's so hard making $480,000 a year and having people cater to your every whim, being carted around in a beautiful bus and having everybody praise you and tell you how great you are. How'd you like to be the guy who got up a five o'clock every morning and had to take an elevator a mile and a half below the earth and dig all day for $10 an hour."
Only One peaked at #21 (charted 11 weeks) on Billboard Top Album Rock tracks on 4/8/95 and at #36 (charted 3 weeks) on Billboard Modern Rock Tracks on 4/15/95.
2.3.6) We Are The Normal
Here's a quick summary. The Goo Goo Dolls sent a 4 song almost instrumental (1 song had some lyrics) demo to Paul and asked him to give birth to some lyrics. "We Are the Normal" and "So Far Away", which appeared on the demo, were the two Paul wrote lyrics too. Paul sent them back and the Goo Goo Dolls retained the lyrics to "...Normal" and archived the ones for "So Far Away".
"We Are the Normal" peaked at #5 (charted 10 weeks) on Billboard Modern Rock tracks on 3/6/93.
2.3.7) Flat Top
"Flat Top is just about how, (sigh) everybody is having their lives dictated to them by masses media. I read alot of, well, I read 3 of Douglas Copeland's books and it just inspired me in the sense that it made me realize that the whole concept of Generation X was a load of crap, you know, basically. And that really inspired me to write. Um, they accomplished there point but I just felt it was an underestimation of an entire group of human beings who are every bit as valid as everybody else." -Johnny Rzeznik (MuchMusic)
"Flat Top" peaked at #38 (charted 3 weeks) on Billboard Top Album Rock tracks on 8/5/95
2.3.8) Name
"Name I guess sort of encapsulated everything else that had been going on you know? Ah, -pause- I had been reading alot of books about...about the people coming up now, the generation coming up and stuff. And it really kinda bummed me out, you know what I mean? We get to meet a lot of kids when we're out on the road and it just seems like it's such a big dangerous world now. It's just so much more dangerous, especially in the States, more so than here [Canada] cuz there's just guns everywhere, and you know, and there's such good people now, it seems like. You know, they have more integrity than a generation ago, I think"
(MuchMusic Spotlight 10/30/96)
GW: Was Name written about anyone in particular?
Rzeznik: "No...As far as I can tell though, name is about having the inevitable regrets that come with growing up. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about which way it goes. You just have to choose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have."
(Guitar World, May 1996)
2.3.9) Dizzy
Dizzy peaked at #9 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart on 5/1/99
2.3.10) Slide
This song is about Broadway and Fillmore in Buffalo, the neighborhood John grew up in. It's his comment about the residents' perspective in the world.
Slide peaked at #1 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart on 4/3/99 and at #9 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart on 5/1/99.
2.3.11) Broadway
2.3.12) January Friend
This is about a trip Robby took to Hawaii. He says when you are in paradise, some weird things go to your head after a while.
2.3.13) Black Balloon
Is about "seeing someone you love that is so great just fuck up so bad."
2.3.14) Amigone
This song takes its name from the funeral home chain of the same name in Buffalo.
2.3.15) Full Forever
Inspired by Robby's girlfriend.
2.3.16) Iris
"The lyrics for the song were sort of about - I was kind of trying to write it from the perspective of Nicolas Cage, where he's, he's about to give up his immortality - and he's sort of pondering that thought because he's so in love and he wants to, he wants to feel something real for once."
MTV's Artist Cut, 5/17/98
"Iris" peaked at #1 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 and Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.
2.3.17) Extra Pale
Named for the phrase on a Rolling Rock beer tap. Robby felt this described his life at the time.
2.3.18) Hate This Place
Everyone always says they sound like the Replacements, so Johnny wanted to write a song that sounded like them.
2.4. The Albums
2.4.1) First Release/Goo Goo Dolls
Self-explanatory. I believe the original pressing was self-titled, with the reprints having a stamp of "First Release", hence the two names.
2.4.2) Superstar Car Wash
Superstar Car Wash is a real place. It's located on William St. as you approach the heart of Buffalo.
2.4.3) A Boy Named Goo
Is from Johnny Cash's boy named sue. The boy on the cover is a kid named Vance from California who is in his mid-teens now. It rhymes. Johnny said, "I was sitting around one day and I said, 'life ain't easy for a boy named Goo.'"
2.4.4) Dizzy Up The Girl
Johnny says: it was inspired by a girl he knows who works too hard and doesn't take much time out for fun. "She's way too serious," he says. "It just came into my head when I was driving down the street one day when I was thinking about her. I said, 'You know, why don't I just take her out and dizzy her up a little bit�take the girl out, show her a good time, dizzy up the girl.' It was that simple."
2.5) The Influences
Well, because their earlier sound offers reflections on late 70's, early 80's punk and metal, you can surmise that bands like KISS and the Ramones have had the most impact. Johnny proudly admits that Triumph was his favorite band growing up. Also mentioned: Dramarama, Replacements, Buzzcocks, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Ramones, the Who, the Clash, Elvis Costello, and Depeche Mode. Of course, they also have respect for, and have worked with, Paul Westerberg and the Replacements and Husker Du. They have covered Rolling Stones, Dead Boys, Soft Boys, INXS, Cream, the Lime Spiders, the Enemies, CCR, Blue Oyster Cult, Tommy Tutone, the Plimsouls, the Damned, and Prince(!) to name a few.
Mike was a huge David Bowie fan in High School, particularly of the Ziggy Stardust / Alladin Sane era. He basically liked any DB music that featured Mick Ronson on guitar. Sources say he owned every Bowie album ever released and quite a few bootlegs and imports as well.
3.1) Albums
The Goo Goo Dolls have released 6 studio albums.
1. Torn Apart
2. Messed Up
3. Livin' in a Hut
4. I'm Addicted
5. Sunshine of Your Love
6. Hardsores
7. Hammerin' Eggs (The Metal Song)
8. Don't Fear the Reaper
9. Beat Me
10. Scream
11. Slaughterhouse
12. Different Light
13. Come On
14. Don't Beat My Ass
3.1.2) Jed
1. Out of Sight
2. Up Yours
3. No Way Out
4. 7th of Last Month
5. Love Dolls
6. Sex Maggot
7. Down on the Corner
8. Had Enough
9. Road to Salinas
10. "Em Elbmuh"
11. Misfortune
12. Artie
13. Gimme Shelter
14. James Dean
3.1.3) Hold Me Up
1. Laughing
2. Just the Way You Are
3. So Outta Line
4. There You Are
5. You Know What I Mean
6. Out of the Red
7. Never Take The Place of Your Man
8. Hey
9. On Your Side
10. 22 Seconds
11. Kevin's Song
12. Know My Name
13. Million Miles Away
14. Two Days In February
3.1.3.1) Two Days in February
The vinyl version of this song has about 3 extra seconds to the intro for this song as Johnny stumbles over his dedication. ([email protected])
3.1.4) Superstar CarWash
1. Fallin' Down
2. Lucky Star
3. Cuz You're Gone
4. Don't Worry
5. Girl Right Next to Me
6. Domino
7. We Are The Normal
8. String of Lies
9. Another Second Time Around
10. Stop the World
11. Already There
12. On the Lie
13. Close Your Eyes
14. So Far Away
* Certified gold (500,000 copies sold) on 11/16/95
* Certified platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) on 2/8/96
* Certified double-platinum on 7/17/96
1. Long Way Down
2. Burnin' Up
3. Naked
4. Flat Top
5. Impersonality
6. Name
7. Only One
8. Somethin' Bad
9. Ain't That Unusual*
10. So Long
11. Eyes Wide Open
12. Disconnected
13. Slave Girl
* Stand Alone
3.1.5.1) Stand Alone...
...was written by George Tutuska and Robby and Johnny did not want to exploit his efforts after he was dismissed. It appeared on promotional versions of A Boy Named Goo, but was replaced with Disconnected and Slave Girl after George was fired.
3.1.5.2) Ain't That Unusual
On the aforementioned promo version of A Boy Named Goo, Ain't That Unusual was labeled as Someday.
3.1.6. Dizzy Up The Girl
* Certified gold (500,000 copies sold) on 12/3/98
* Certified platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) on 12/3/98
* Certified double-platinum (2,000,000 copies sold) on 3/24/99
1. Dizzy
2. Slide
3. Broadway
4. January Friend
5. Black Balloon
6. Bullet Proof
7. Amigone
8. All Eyes On Me
9. Full Forever
10. Acoustic #3
12. Extra Pale
13. Hate This Place
3.2. Non-Album Tracks and Covers
3.2.1) Non-Album Tracks
o Do You Believe in Him? (1989 Xmas Single, 1997's That Other Christmas CD)
o My Girl (1989 Xmas Single)
o I'm Awake Now (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Soundtrack)
o Wait for the Blackout (Tommy Boy Soundtrack)
o Don't Change (Ace Ventura II Soundtrack)
o Lazy Eye (Batman & Robin Soundtrack)
o Hit or Miss (various singles)
o I Wanna Destroy You (various singles)
o Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Major League Baseball promo)
o I'll Be There For You (from Shred N Ragen)
o Nothing Can Change You (various singles)
o Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Superstar Car Wash demo)
o A Thousand Words (live interlude to Cuz You're Gone)
3.2.2) Covers
o Bitch (No Alternative Compilation) [Rolling Stones] (w/Lance Diamond)
o 867-5309/Jenny Jenny [Tommy Tutone]
o Never Take The Place of Your Man [Prince] (w/Lance Diamond)
o Don't Fear the Reaper [Blue Oyster Cult]
o Sunshine of Your Love [Cream]
o Slave Girl [Lime Spiders]
o Disconnected [The Enemies]
o Don't Change [INXS]
o Down on the Corner [CCR] (w/Lance Diamond)
o I Don't Want To Know [Fleetwood Mac]
o Gimme Shelter [Rolling Stones]
o Million Miles Away [The Plimsouls]
o Hit or Miss [The Damned]
o I Want To Destroy You [The Soft Boys]
o I'll Be There For You [The Rembrandts]
o Nothing Can Change You [Tommy Keane]
o Wait For The Blackout [The Damned]
3.2.3. Bang!
3.2.3.1) What is Bang!?
Bang! is an official Warner Brothers release, but it was only released in Japan. It goes under two or three names, apparently, one other being Live From Goo.
3.2.3.2) Track Listing
1. Name (live, acoustic)
2. Don't Change (live, acoustic)
3. Girl Right Next To Me (live, acoustic)
4. Another Second Time Around (live, acoustic)
5. Long Way Down (album version)
3.2.4. Dizzy Up The Goos
3.2.4.1) What is Dizzy Up The Goos?
Dizzy Up The Goos was a promo-only radio sampler that Warner Brothers sent out just before the release of Dizzy Up The Girl. It is subtitled "The Hits You Know and some You Might've Missed".
1. Lazy Eye
4. Stop the World
5. On The Lie
6. Long Way Down (Radio Version)
10. Cuz You're Gone
11. Naked (Remix)
12. Lucky Star
14. Take Me Out To The Ballgame
3.3) Videos
o No Way Out
o There You Are
o Laughing
o I'm Awake Now
o We Are the Normal
o Name
o Naked
o Burnin' Up (live MTV performance video)
o Flat Top
o Only One
o two versions of Long Way Down
o Lazy Eye
o Iris
o Slide
3.4) Alternate Lyrics/Music
3.4.1) Cuz You're Gone
The Goo's have been known to play a sort of interlude to Cuz You're Gone affectionately titled A Thousand Words. It has not shown up on any albums thus far, and no one has heard that they intend to ever put it on an album. It sounds similar to songs of the Hold Me Up/Superstar CarWash era. Lyrics can be found on the World of Goo lyrics page.
3.4.2) Another Second Time Around
On the Japan-only EP Bang!, Robby sings "Feel it in my head like I thought you'd never know" instead of "Gray like stormy skies I hoped you didn't know".
Flat Top has had many variations over the years. Some of the most famous include substituting "As long as O.J. Simpson's on TV" for "As long as there's a victim on TV" and playing Sweet Home Alabama in the middle on the Dizzy Up The Girl tour.
3.4.4) Eyes Wide Open
Possibly from a Letterman appearance (and in concert), Johnny has sung "I don't do the dishes and I never walk the dog" in Eyes Wide Open, as opposed to "I don't take the bus and I never walk to far".
4. Discography
Format Year Album Name Record Label
CD, LP, MC 1987 Goo Goo Dolls (First Release) Celluloid/Mercenary
(MERCD-2102)
CD, LP, MC 1989 Jed Enigma/Death Records
(7 73406-2)
CD, LP, MC 1990 Hold Me Up Metal Blade
CD, MC 1991 Goo Goo Dolls (First Release) remastered Caroline/MB
(CAROL CD 2211)
CD, MC 1993 Superstar Car Wash Metal Blade/WB
CD, MC 1994 Jed (re-released) Metal Blade
CD, MC 1994 Goo Goo Dolls (first release) (remastered, re-released) Metal Blade
CD, MC 1995 A Boy Named Goo Metal Blade/WB
(9-45750-2)
CD, MC 1998 Dizzy Up The Girl Warner Bros
Compilations, Promos, Etc.
Promo MC 1987 CBGB's Mercenary promo with "Sunshine of Your Love" CBGB's/Mercenary
(MER-2102)
LP 1988 We Killed McKinley - music from Buffalo, NY with "No Way Out" Maxwell Records
(MXC-3630)
Promo CD 1989 Ragin' for the Cajuns - one track from Jed Enigma promo
MC 1989 Xmas single with Lance Diamond and Pauline (with "Do You Believe?", and "My Girl"), called "For Children of the Night"
Promo CD 1990 "There You Are" with tour dates on cover Metal Blade
(PRO-CD-4520)
Promo MC 1990 "There You Are" and "On Your Side" tour sampler (Goo Goo Dolls/Junk Monkees) Metal Blade
Promo CD 1990 "There You Are" (video re-release) Metal Blade
Promo CD 1991 "Just The Way You Are" with B&W picture cover and live performances of "Just The Way You Are", "Hey", and "You Know What I Mean" (very rare) Metal Blade
CD, MC 1991 Freddy's Dead soundtrack ("I'm Awake Now", "You Know What I Mean", and "Two Days in February") Metal Blade
Promo CD 1991 "I'm Awake Now" Metal Blade
Promo CD 1991 "I'm Awake Now" on Follow Our Trax Volume Seven Metal Blade
Promo MC 1993 Superstar Car Wash - Advance Promo Warner Bros.
Promo 7" 1993 "We Are The Normal", "Another Second Time Around" Warner Bros.
Promo CD 1993 "We Are The Normal" Warner Bros.
Promo CD 1993 Black Light Special with 3 tracks from Superstar Car Wash WB promo
CD, Cass 1993 "We Are The Normal", "Another Second Time Around" Metal Blade/WB
(91505-4694)
Promo CD 1993 "Fallin' Down" WB promo
CD, MC 1993 Son-in-Law soundtrack with "Fallin' Down" Hollywood
CD, MC 1993 No Alternative compilation "Bitch" with the Incredible Lance Diamond Arista Records
(07822-18737-2)
CD, MC 1993 Generation X w/ "Fallin' Down" Warner Bros.
(OPCD-1652)
CD 1993 Musician Magazine's New Music Sampler - A Little on the CD Side #9 w/ "We Are The Normal" Musician
(PRO-MST-9109)
Promo CD 1994 A Boy Named Goo (Advance promo with Stand Alone) Metal Blade/WB
(2-45750-A)
Promo 7" 1995 "Only One", "Slave Girl", and "Disconnected" (pink record) Warner Bros.
(PRO-S-7440)
Promo CD, Cass 1995 Only One (radio version) Warner Bros.
CD 1995 Current Vision Comp. w/ "Only One" Warner Special Products
CD, MC 1995 Tommy Boy soundtrack with "Wait For The Blackout" WB/Broadway
Promo CD 1995 "Flat Top" WB Records
CD, MC 1995 Angus sountrack with "Ain't That Unusual" Reprise/WEA
Promo MC 1995 Tour sampler with "Flat Top" and "Long Way Down" WB/MB
Promo CD 1995 "Name" (album version) WB Records
(PRO-CD-7740-R)
Promo CD 1995 "Long Way Down" WB Records
Promo CD 1995 "Naked" (Goo and Album Goo Versions) WB Records
Cass 1995 "Name", "Burnin' Up", and "Hit or Miss" Metal Blade/WB
CD 1995 The Holiday CD, with "Name" and "Naked" HT031
CD 1995 huH with "Flat Top" HA0108D
Promo CD 1995 Compilation with Only One, Flat Top, Naked, and "Name" Warner Bros.
Promo CD 1995 "Name" (album and edit versions) Warner Bros.
Promo CD 1995 "Naked" (radio edit) Warner Bros.
CD 1996 Modern Rock Live with "Girl Right Next To Me"
CD, MC 1996 Ace Ventura II soundtrack with "Don't Change" MCA/Morgon Crk.
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CD, MC 1996 Twister soundtrack with "Long Way Down" WEA/Warner Bros.
CD, MC 1996 VH-1 Crossroads CD w/ "Name" WEA/Atlantic
CD, MC 1996 X-Games, Volume 1 - Music From the Edge, w/ "Only One Performed" (live) Tommy Boy Records
CD, MC 1996 Rock of the 90's, Vol. 1 - Rock From the Revolution, w/ "We Are The Normal" Priority
CD 1996 Shredd-N-Ragen TV Theme CD with "I'll Be There For You" Mark
CD 1996 WAAF 107.3FM Unusual Suspects compilation with "Name" SAR
CD 1996 WHFS 99.1FM Just Passin' Thru compilation with "Name" HFS-99.1-96
Promo CD 1996 "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" (radio & full versions) WB Records
Promo CD 1996 [email protected]!# the Rules compilation with "Long Way Down" WB Records
Promo CD 1996 Live From The Pit Global Satellite Network
Promo CD 1996 Fuck the Rules with "Long Way Down" Warner Bros.
CD, MC 1997 Batman & Robin soundtrack with "Lazy Eye" WEA/Warner Bros.
Promo CD 1997 "Lazy Eye" Warner Bros.
Promo CD 1997 August '97 compilation with "Lazy Eye" WB Records
CD, MC 1997 MTV Buzz Bin Two w/ "Naked (remix)" PGD/Mammoth
CD, MC 1997 "Do You Believe in Him?" from That Other Christmas CD Media Play/Hot Wings
CD, MC 1998 Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours with "I Don't Want To Know" Atlantic/Lava
CD, MC 1998 City of Angels Soundtrack with "Iris" Warner Sunset/Reprise
Promo CD 1998 "Iris" (radio edit & album version) Warner Sunset/Reprise
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Promo CD 1998 Dizzy Up The Goos (14 tracks from soundtracks, ABNG, and SSCW) Warner Bros.
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Promo CD 1998 Slide Warner Bros
Bootlegs and Imports
CD 1995 "Only One"/"Impersonailty"/"Hit or Miss" Warner Bros.
CD 1995 "Only One"/"Impersonailty"/"Hit or Miss" WB Australia
CD 1995 "Long Way Down" (radio edit)/"Don't Change"/"Name" Warner Bros.
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CD 1995 "Name"/"Burnin' Up"/"Hit Or Miss" WB Australia
CD 1995 "Name"/"Burnin' Up"/"Hit Or Miss" Warner Bros.
CD 1996 BANG! - "Name" (live), "Don't Change" (live), "Girl Right Next To Me" (live), "Another Second Time Around" (live), and "Long Way Down" Warner (WPCR-803)
(Japan)
CD 1996 "Long Way Down", "Don't Change" (live, acoustic), "Name" (live, acoustic) Warner Bros. (Germany)
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CD 1996 "Name", "Nothing Can Change You", "I Want to Destroy You" Warner Bros. (Germany)
CD 1996 "Name" (edit), "Burnin' Up", "Fallin' Down" (live), "Naked" (Goo version) Warner Bros./Metal Blade (Japan)
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Bootleg CD 1996 Gaa Gaa (Dedicated 2 Perfection) D2P 009
CD 1996 Naked Dolls in the City (live from Tokyo, Japan) The Pore the Sole Productions
PTS 059/60
CD 1998 "Iris", "Lazy Eye", "I Don't Want To Know" Warner Music Australia
CD 1998 "Iris", "Lazy Eye", "I Don't Want To Know" WEA International
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CD 1998 Dizzy Up The Girl (with bonus tracks "Name" and "Slave Girl") Warner Music Australia
5" CD 1998 "Slide", with "Nothing Can Change You" and "Acoustic #3" Warner Music Australia
CD 1998 Dizzy Up The Girl (with bonus track of "Iris (acoustic/movie version) Japan
CD 1999 Dizzy EP w/ "Dizzy", "Slide (Acoustic)", "Naked", "Long Way Down", and "January Friend", Japan
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Breakthrough drug-eluting patch stops scar growth, reduces scar tissues
28 July 2014 12 August 2018 admin 245 Views asian, chemical, health, healthcare, hispanic, national, ntu, women
Scars — in particular keloid scars that result from overgrowth of skin tissue after injuries or surgeries — are unsightly and can even lead to disfigurement and psychological problems of affected patients. Individuals with darker pigmentation — in particular people with African, Hispanic or South-Asian genetic background — are more likely to develop this skin tissue disorder. Current therapy options, including surgery and injections of corticosteroids into scar tissues, are often ineffective, require clinical supervision and can be costly.A new invention by researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (reported in the current issue of TECHNOLOGY) provides a simple, affordable and — most importantly — highly effective way for patients to self-treat keloid scars. The team of scientists and engineers from NTU’s School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, in collaboration with clinicians from Singapore’s National Skin Centre, have developed a special patch made from polymers fabricated into microneedles, which are loaded with the US food and drug administration (FDA)-approved scar-reducing drug, 5-fluorouracil. Self-administered by patients, the microneedles attach the patch to scar tissue and allow sustained drug-release (one patch per night). The drug as well as the physical contact of the microneedles with the scar tissue contributes to the efficacy of the device, leading to the cessation of scar tissue growth and a considerable reduction of keloids as demonstrated in laboratory cultures and experiments with animals. “Most patients seek treatment due to disfigurement and/or pain or itch of scars,” says Assistant Professor Xu Chenjie from NTU who leads the study. “We wanted to develop a simple, convenient, and cost-effective device able to inhibit keloid growth in skin tissue and reduce the size of disfiguring scars,” adds Yuejun Kang, another key investigator in the study from NTU.”Self-administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,” comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.Story Source:The above story is based on materials provided by World Scientific. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Postsurgical pain control linked to patient satisfaction with hospital experience
7 March 2014 12 August 2018 admin 128 Views affordable, american, consumer, healthcare, pacu, pregnancy, study
Postsurgical pain scores were highly correlated with reports of overall patient satisfaction during hospital stays, in a new finding that was true for some types of surgery more than others. The researchers, who presented results in a scientific poster today at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, stressed the importance of improving patient care in the peri-operative setting in alignment with new federal requirements tying performance to pay.The goal of the research by Dermot Maher, MD, and colleagues from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., was to clarify the relationship between pain control after surgery and the answers provided by patients on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). The HCAHPS is the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives on the care they receive in the hospital and is filled out at the time of discharge. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 makes the 27-question HCAHPS a factor in value-based incentive payments.”This study illustrates the crucial role that pain management in the acute post-operative setting can have, not only on a patient’s perception of pain management, but also on the global perception of their hospitalization,” Dr. Maher said.Investigators examined HCAHPS responses by 2,933 surgical patients who were hospitalized at a single trauma center between March 2012 and February 2013. Four questions (2 assessing satisfaction with in-hospital pain management and 2 addressing general satisfaction) showed a statistically robust relationship when retrospectively compared to patient pain scores as assessed via the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) visual analog scale.Dr. Maher said the results are important to hospital care providers and patients.”Patients consider a number of factors when evaluating physicians and hospitals. One of the most influential factors is a patient’s perception of pain,” he said. “The universal unpleasantness and complicated nature of pain, especially in the post-operative setting, has the potential to negatively impact overall satisfaction if not optimally managed.”Further analyses of the data showed patients who had surgery related to spine, non-spine orthopedics, and obstetrics and gynecology showed significantly larger correlations of PACU pain scores with HCAHPS responses than did patients who had other types of surgeries. The stronger association between HCAHPS scores and post-operative pain in certain populations calls into question the appropriateness of universal application of patient satisfaction surveys, or at least the pain component, as a means of reimbursement, Dr. …
Women fare worse than men following stroke
9 February 2014 12 August 2018 admin 130 Views baptist, cancer, health, healthcare, life, materials, medical, neurology, research, source
The good news: More people survive stroke now than 10 years ago due to improved treatment and prevention. The bad news: Women who survive stroke have a worse quality of life than men, according to a study published in the Feb. 7 online issue of the journal Neurology.Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center compared the quality of life in men and women who had a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). A total of 1,370 patients ages 56 to 77 from the AVAIL registry – a national, multicenter, longitudinal registry of ischemic stroke and TIA patients – were included in the study.The patients’ quality of life was measured at three months and one year after a stroke or TIA using a formula that assesses mobility, self-care, everyday activities, depression/anxiety and pain.“We found that women had a worse quality of life than men up to 12 months following a stroke, even after considering differences in important sociodemographic variables, stroke severity and disability,” said Cheryl Bushnell, M.D., associate professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist and senior author of the study.“As more people survive strokes, physicians and other healthcare providers should pay attention to quality of life issues and work to develop better interventions, even gender-specific screening tools, to improve these patients’ lives.”The study findings showed that at three months, women were more likely than men to report problems with mobility, pain/discomfort and anxiety and depression, but the difference was greatest in those over age 75. At one year, women still had lower quality of life scores overall than men but the magnitude of those differences had diminished, Bushnell said.“The reason we do these types of studies is to be able to add different variables sequentially to determine what accounts for these gender differences,” Bushnell said. “We found that age, race and marital status accounted for the biggest differences between men and women at three months, with marital status being the most important. Even though the women in the study were older than the men, our study showed that age really had very little effect on quality of life.”The results suggest that further research on mobility, pain or discomfort and anxiety/depression may provide a clearer understanding for how to improve the lives of women after stroke, Bushnell added.The next step for the Wake Forest Baptist team will be to look at the trajectory of cognitive decline in men and women before and after stroke, she said.Story Source:The above story is based on materials provided by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Survivor Insight Series: Florida Couple Survives Pleural Mesothelioma with High-End Treatment
4 February 2014 12 August 2018 admin 169 Views asbestos, florida, health, healthcare, lebenthal, military, panama, pleural, surgeon, veterans
Survivor Insight Series: Florida Couple Survives Pleural Mesothelioma with High-End Treatment Regardless of the outcome now, Sheri and Leon Delikat
The ACA getting the job done, and a great Health Wonk Review
31 January 2014 12 August 2018 admin 138 Views access, brad, cloud, cloudflare, health, healthcare, life, owner, review, stuff, wonk, your-browser
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Screening guidelines may miss ten percent of colon cancers
23 October 2013 12 August 2018 admin 114 Views agriculture, alzheimer, cancer, database, healthcare, institute, journal, major, science, study, university
Oct. 22, 2013 — For people with a family history of adenomas (colon polyps that lead to colon cancer), up to 10 percent of colorectal cancers could be missed when current national screening guidelines are followed. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States and the second deadliest.In the largest population-based study to date, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah made this finding based on nearly 127,000 individuals who underwent colonoscopy in Utah between 1995 and 2009. The results appear online in “Early View” of the journal Cancer.Family history of colon cancer is widely accepted as a factor that increases risk for the disease. This study quantified the increased risk to first-degree relatives (parents, siblings, children) of patients with adenomas or advanced adenomas at 35 to 70 percent higher than in relatives of patients without these conditions. The study also detected smaller percentages of elevated risk in more distant second- (aunts and uncles, grandparents) and third-degree relatives (cousins, nieces and nephews, great-grandparents).“We expected to see increased risk in first-degree relatives, but we weren’t sure the risk would also be higher for more distant relatives in multiple generations,” said N. Jewel Samadder, MD, MSc, principal investigator of the study and an HCI investigator. “The biggest surprise was the percentage of missed cancers under the current guidelines. We figured there would be a few percent, but 10 percent is a large number,” he added.For the general population, current national colon cancer screening guidelines recommend colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. For first-degree relatives of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer or advanced adenomas before they were 60 years old, increased screening is recommended—colonoscopies every five years starting at age 40. …
Eye contact builds bedside trust
19 October 2013 12 August 2018 admin 164 Views agriculture, cancer, doctor, doctors, engineering, feinberg-school, healthcare, medicine, montague, professor, school, science
Oct. 16, 2013 — Doctors who make a lot of eye contact are viewed as more likable and empathetic by patients, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.Patients also gave doctors higher empathy scores when their total visit length was longer and when doctors engaged in a few “social touches” such as a handshake or pat on the back. However, more than three social touches in one visit decreased empathy scores. The researchers said it’s possible that too many social touches from a doctor may seem forced and not genuine to a patient.The study, published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine, analyzed videotaped doctors’ visits and reinforces the notion that nonverbal social communication is an important part of doctor/patient relationships that should be thoughtfully managed, especially as more technology and “screen time” is introduced into doctors’ offices.”The goal is to one day engineer systems and technologies that encourage the right amount of physician eye contact and other non-verbal social communication,” said Enid Montague, first author of the study. “As we collect more data we can build models that tell us exactly how much eye contact is needed to help patients trust and connect with a doctor, and design tools and technology that help doctors stay connected to patients.”Montague is an assistant professor in medicine, general internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an assistant professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.The researchers collected data from 110 first-time encounters between patients with common cold symptoms and primary care doctors. All of the doctors used paper charts and spent an average of 3 minutes and 38 seconds with each patient. After each visit, patient participants completed questionnaires to measure their perception of their doctor’s empathy, connectedness with the doctor and how much they liked their doctor.The visits were videotaped and researchers analyzed the recordings second-by-second, documenting what each person was doing, paying special attention to non-verbal communication. The researchers purposely chose to study doctors who used paper charts so they could develop a baseline for nonverbal communication activities without the presence of computerized systems.”Previous studies have found that nonverbal communication is important based on patient feedback, but this is one of the few that have looked at these things more broadly quantitatively,” Montague said. “We rigorously looked at what was happening at every point in time, so we validated a lot of the qualitative studies.”They concluded that while social touch and length of visit can play a role in a patient’s perception of doctor empathy, the amount of eye contact the doctor made was the most important factor for patients.”Simple things such as eye contact can have a big impact on our healthcare system as a whole,” Montague said. “If patients feel like their doctors aren’t being empathetic, then we are more likely to see patients who aren’t returning to care, who aren’t adhering to medical advice, who aren’t seeking care, who aren’t staying with the same providers. …
The Hard Reality of Birthing Injuries
18 October 2013 12 August 2018 admin 184 Views babies, event, healthcare, king, personal injury, severe, standard, united
The unfortunate reality of childbirth is that not every baby is born strong and healthy. While some infants may be born with birth defects (structural or functional abnormalities that are present at or before delivery), others may actually sustain a physical injury during the birthing process. These children often go on to face a lifetime of disability, and in severe cases, may even die as a result of their injury.A recent study suggests that birth-related injuries occur in 29 out of every 1,000 births in the United States, although published rates have historically varied widely. Birth injuries can occur for a number of reasons, including factors related to the baby (size or positioning in the womb), the mother (difficulty or prolonged labor; small pelvis), or even the decision-making of the medical staff assisting with the birth (e.g., negligence).Head and brain trauma, bleeding, nerve damage, and bone fractures are common examples of birth injuries. Severe swelling of the baby’s scalp can occur as the head bears the brunt of the pressure during delivery, and bleeding between the skull and its fibrous covering can also occur. Babies who are delivered with the help of vacuum extraction or forceps may suffer from bruising or even cuts to the head and face. If the positioning of the baby during labor and/or delivery causes facial nerves to be compressed and/or injured, the baby may suffer from facial paralysis. Nerve damage in the arms and hand or fractures to the baby’s collar bone can occur when the mother has difficulty delivering the baby’s shoulder. Under some circumstances, a baby may not receive adequate amounts of oxygen during labor and delivery, which can lead to a wide range of problems. While some babies may be resuscitated quickly and suffer no lasting injuries, others may suffer organ damage, seizures, or even a coma. …
Accident Health Insurance Plans is drawing lot of concentration
15 October 2013 12 August 2018 admin 111 Views accident-health, gent, group, Health Insurance, health insurance news, healthcare, insurance-plans, life insurance
Accident Health Insurance Plans is drawing lot of concentrationAccident health insurance plans are pulling insurers attentions towards the supplementary fortuity insurance coverage market on account of its usefulness. The personal injury insurance plan falls under the restitution group rather than the insurance group. Restitutes insure you for disability, loss, or accidental injury in cash expenditure to you either directly or through the healthcare provider. These accidental health insurance plans are as if guarantee subject & doesn’t require any wellness queries while inscribing. Those Americans who own this kind of accident insurance plan go through all the advantages concerning with this plan like treatment with any doctor, ER hospital, or urgent and critical care services.Those who have these plans can decide a welfare quantity of amount, policy …
Innovative ‘pay for performance’ program improves patient outcomes
11 September 2013 12 August 2018 admin 94 Views agency, agriculture, bardach, development, group, healthcare, medical, pediatrics, procedures, science, ucsf
Sep. 10, 2013 — Paying doctors for how they perform specific medical procedures and examinations yields better health outcomes than the traditional “fee for service” model, in which everyone gets paid a set amount, according to new research conducted by UC San Francisco and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.”Pay for performance’ programs shift the focus from basic care delivery to high quality care delivery,” said first author Naomi Bardach, MD, assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Pediatrics. “So they are designed to incentivize people to improve care.”In a study scheduled to be published on Sept. 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Bardach and her colleagues tested a tiered pay for performance program at physicians’ offices in New York City with high proportions of Medicaid patients. The program rewarded physicians successful in preventive health care to reduce long-term risks of heart attack and stroke — for instance, in blood pressure control and aspirin prescription for those who need it.The innovative “pay for performance” model they tested rewarded physicians for every single patient who did well, and paid extra for “high-risk” patients who were difficult to treat based on co-morbidities such as diabetes or coronary artery disease or socioeconomic factors (uninsured and Medicaid patients).”The worry about pay for performance programs that pay only if physicians meet the quality target, is that the financial incentive discourages physicians from caring for more complicated patients,” said Bardach. “This program did not penalize physicians for patients they were caring for whose blood pressure might be more difficult to control than others, for medical or for socio-economic reasons. It also recognized, through higher payments, the additional work it might take.”Improvements with Incentivized Patient GroupIn this randomized clustered controlled study conducted from April 2009 through March 2010, improvements in the incentivized group compared to the control group ranged two-fold to eight-fold (9.7 percent versus 4.3 percent, and 9 percent versus 1.2 percent). With the help of electronic medical record data, researchers examined 7,634 patients (4,592 in the incentivized group and 3,042 in the control group) for this study.”The numbers are meaningful because the rates of blood pressure control were so low to begin with, for instance, only 10 to 16 percent of patients with diabetes had normal blood pressure control, so an improvement of even 5 percent of patients is relatively quite large,” Bardach said. This is a high-risk population for heart attack and stroke and so getting their blood pressure under control will make a difference.”While the findings are encouraging, Bardach said further research is needed to determine whether or not this trend can continue over time since these pay for performance programs are intended to remain in place for more than a year.”The hope is to study this over a longer time period, since the goal of health care is to improve long-term outcomes among our patient population,” she said.Bardach is the first author of the paper. Co-authors include Jason J. …
New MR analysis technique reveals brain tumor response to anti-angiogenesis therapy
19 August 2013 12 August 2018 admin 137 Views concept, current, disease, healthcare, hospital, massachusetts, result
Aug. 18, 2013 — A new way of analyzing data acquired in MR imaging appears to be able to identify whether or not tumors are responding to anti-angiogenesis therapy, information that can help physicians determine the most appropriate treatments and discontinue ones that are ineffective. In their report receiving online publication in Nature Medicine, investigators from the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), describe how their technique, called vessel architectural imaging (VAI), was able to identify changes in brain tumor blood vessels within days of the initiation of anti-angiogenesis therapy.”Until now the only ways of obtaining similar data on the blood vessels in patients’ tumors were either taking a biopsy, which is a surgical procedure that can harm the patients and often cannot be repeated, or PET scanning, which provides limited information and exposes patients to a dose of radiation,” says Kyrre Emblem, PhD, of the Martinos Center, lead and corresponding author of the report. “VAI can acquire all of this information in a single MR exam that takes less than two minutes and can be safely repeated many times.”Previous studies in animals and in human patients have shown that the ability of anti-angiogenesis drugs to improve survival in cancer therapy stems from their ability to “normalize” the abnormal, leaky blood vessels that usually develop in a tumor, improving the perfusion of blood throughout a tumor and the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation. In the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma, MGH investigators found that anti-angiogenesis treatment alone significantly extends the survival of some patients by reducing edema, the swelling of brain tissue. In the current report, the MGH team uses VAI to investigate how these drugs produce their effects and which patients benefit.Advanced MR techniques developed in recent years can determine factors like the size, radius and capacity of blood vessels. VAI combines information from two types of advanced MR images and analyzes them in a way that distinguishes among small arteries, veins and capillaries; determines the radius of these vessels and shows how much oxygen is being delivered to tissues. The MGH team used VAI to analyze MR data acquired in a phase 2 clinical trial — led by Tracy Batchelor, MD, director of Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology at MGH and a co-author of the current paper — of the anti-angiogenesis drug cediranib in patients with recurrent glioblastoma. The images had been taken before treatment started and then 1, 28, 56, and 112 days after it was initiated.In some patients, VAI identified changes reflecting vascular normalization within the tumors — particularly changes in the shape of blood vessels — after 28 days of cediranib therapy and sometimes as early as the next day. Of the 30 patients whose data was analyzed, VAI indicated that 10 were true responders to cediranib, whereas 12 who had a worsening of disease were characterized as non-responders. …
Study debunks controversial multiple sclerosis theory
15 August 2013 12 August 2018 admin 116 Views ccsvi, charity, healthcare, internal, professor, public, research, sclerosis
Aug. 14, 2013 — There is no evidence that impaired blood flow or blockage in the veins of the neck or head is involved in multiple sclerosis, says a McMaster University study.The research, published online by PLOS ONE today, found no evidence of abnormalities in the internal jugular or vertebral veins or in the deep cerebral veins of any of 100 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with 100 people who had no history of any neurological condition.The study contradicts a controversial theory that says that MS, a chronic, neurodegenerative and inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, is associated with abnormalities in the drainage of venous blood from the brain. In 2008 Italian researcher Paolo Zamboni said that angioplasty, a blockage clearing procedure, would help MS patients with a condition he called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI). This caused a flood of public response in Canada and elsewhere, with many concerned individuals lobbying for support of the ‘Liberation Treatment’ to clear the veins, as advocated by Zamboni.”This is the first Canadian study to provide compelling evidence against the involvement of CCSVI in MS,” said principal investigator Ian Rodger, a professor emeritus of medicine in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. “Our findings bring a much needed perspective to the debate surrounding venous angioplasty for MS patients.”In the study all participants received an ultrasound of deep cerebral veins and neck veins as well as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the neck veins and brain. Each participant had both examinations performed on the same day. The McMaster research team included a radiologist and two ultrasound technicians who had trained in the Zamboni technique at the Department of Vascular Surgery of the University of Ferrara.The research was funded by a collection of private donors including the Harrison McCain Foundation, W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Charity Intelligence and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation as well as many concerned individuals.
How superbug spreads among regional hospitals: A domino effect
31 July 2013 12 August 2018 admin 107 Views american, association, california, county, health, healthcare, infection, international, moderate, research, vre
July 30, 2013 — A moderate increase in vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) at one hospital can lead to a nearly 3 percent increase in VRE in every other hospital in that county, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).VRE is one of the most common bacteria that cause infections in healthcare facilities.Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), University of Pittsburgh, and University of California, Irvine created the Regional Healthcare Ecosystem Analyst (RHEA), a mathematical and computational model, to track the movement between hospitals of VRE-colonized patients (patients carrying the organism but not yet infected) over the course of a year in Orange County, Calif. Using this model, they were able to assess how increases or decreases in one hospital’s VRE affected neighboring hospitals.Not only did the investigators find that a moderate increase in VRE at any one hospital caused an average 2.8 percent increase throughout the county (range: 0 percent to 61 percent), they also discovered that hospitals in the most populated area of the county had an even greater likelihood of spreading VRE throughout the network. Additional modeling identified a potential for “free-riders” — hospitals that will experience decreases in VRE incidence due to other hospitals’ infection control efforts without initiating any infection prevention measures of their own.The study points to the underutilization of patient-sharing data between regional hospitals, the importance of inter-hospital communication and collaboration in decreasing VRE rates, and the scope of variables that must be considered in analyzing the outcome of any one infection prevention initiative.”Our study demonstrates how extensive patient sharing among different hospitals in a single region substantially influences VRE burden in those hospitals,” states Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA, lead author and Associate Professor of International Health and Director of Operations Research, International Vaccine Access Center, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Lowering barriers to cooperation and collaboration among hospitals, for example, developing regional control programs, coordinating VRE control campaigns, and performing regional research studies, could favorably influence regional VRE prevalence.”Vancomycin-resistant enterococci are resistant to vancomycin, the drug often used to treat serious infections for which other medicines may not work. VRE can live in the human intestines and female genital tract without causing disease. However, sometimes they can cause infections of the urinary tract, the bloodstream, or of wounds associated with catheters or surgical procedures. There are an estimated 20-85,000 cases of VRE each year in U.S. hospitals.
Missed diagnoses and drug errors make up bulk of primary care malpractice claims
20 July 2013 12 August 2018 admin 83 Views agriculture, attack, australia, australian, cancer, claims, ecology, healthcare, king, national, science
July 19, 2013 — Missed diagnoses―particularly of cancer, heart attack, and meningitis―and drug errors make up the bulk of malpractice claims brought against doctors in primary care, finds an analysis of published data in the online journal BMJ Open.The risk of litigation has not been given a great deal of attention in primary care, say the authors. But with most healthcare contacts taking place in primary care, it is important to characterise the causes and types of claims arising from these encounters, they add.They carried out an extensive trawl of published research in English about the number and causes of malpractice claims in primary care in April 2012 and again in January 2013.Out of a total of 7152 studies, 34 were eligible for inclusion in the analysis. Fifteen studies were based in the US, nine in the UK, seven in Australia, two in France, and one in Canada.In the US, studies indicate that malpractice claims brought against primary care doctors accounted for between 7.6% and 16% of the total. In the UK, GPs made up the greatest proportion of an overall 20% increase in claims between 2009 and 2010, with claims against them more than doubling between 1994 and 1999.And in Australia, GPs accounted for the highest proportion of claims and the highest number of new claims on the national Medical Indemnity National Collection database for both 2009 and 2010.Missed diagnoses were the most common source of malpractice claims, accounting for between a quarter (26%) and almost two thirds (63%) of the total. And the most common consequence of this in the claims filed was death, ranging from 15% to 48% of claims made for missed diagnoses.Among adults, cancer and heart attack were the most commonly missed diagnoses in the claims made. Others that cropped up frequently included appendicitis, ectopic pregnancy, and fractures. Among children, the most frequent claims related to meningitis and cancers.The second most common sources of malpractice claims were drug errors, the proportion of which ranged from 5.6% to 20% across all the studies.A substantial proportion of claims were unsuccessful, with only one third of US claims and half of UK claims ending up in a pay-out. But while the number of claims brought against US doctors has remained fairly stable over the past two decades, those brought against Australian and UK GPs have been rising.The authors acknowledge that it may be difficult to generalise their findings as the term ‘primary care’ does not mean the same thing in all the countries studied, and none of the healthcare systems is the same. Using legal claims as a proxy for adverse events also has its limitations, they add.But they point out that the threat of litigation can result in “defensive medicine” and over diagnosis and treatment, and that doctors who find themselves on the end of a malpractice claim, often find the process very distressing.
Have a brain injury? You may be at higher risk for stroke
27 June 2013 12 August 2018 admin 96 Views academy, affairs, agriculture, american-academy, brain, department, ecology, healthcare, injury, result, stroke, university
June 26, 2013 — People who have a traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be more likely to have a future stroke, according to research that appears in the June 26, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.”Both stroke and traumatic brain injury are common, costly, and leading causes of severe disability in adults, and approximately 20 percent of strokes occur in adults under age 65,” said study author James F. Burke, MD, MS, of the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. “A large proportion of stroke risk is unexplained, especially in the young, so if we can identify new risk factors, we have the potential to prevent more strokes and improve outcomes.”For the study, researchers looked at the records of adults who went to the emergency department or were admitted to a hospital for TBI or other trauma with no brain injury in the state of California during a five-year period.A total of 435,630 people with traumatic brain injury were studied, along with 736,723 people with trauma with no brain injury. Over an average of 28 months following the injury, 11,229 people, or 1 percent, had an ischemic stroke. A total of 1.1 percent of those with TBI suffered a stroke, compared to 0.9 percent of those with trauma with no brain injury. With an ischemic stroke, blood flow to part of the brain is blocked. Eighty percent of strokes are ischemic.After adjusting for factors that can affect stroke risk, such as age, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, as well as other disorders such as heart disease and the severity of the trauma, the researchers found that people with traumatic brain injury were 30 percent more likely to develop a stroke than those with trauma with no brain injury.”While the stroke risk of one person with TBI is small, the overall link between TBI and stroke was substantial — as large as the link between the strongest stroke risk factor, high blood pressure, and stroke,” Burke said. “If further research establishes TBI as a new risk factor for stroke, that would stimulate research to help us understand what causes stroke after TBI and help us learn how to prevent these strokes.” The study was supported by an advanced fellowship through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Americans’ vitamin D levels are highest in August, lowest in February, study shows
23 June 2013 12 August 2018 admin 89 Views agriculture, analysis, article, healthcare, king, professor, public, sun
June 22, 2013 — UC Irvine and Mayo Clinic researchers have found that vitamin D levels in the U.S. population peak in August and bottom out in February. The essential vitamin — necessary for healthy bones — is produced in the skin upon exposure to ultraviolet B rays from the sun.Vitamin D helps bones absorb calcium and can protect against osteoporosis. It’s also thought to play a role in seasonal illnesses, such as the flu. Low levels of vitamin D are believed to impair “innate immunity” i.e., the body’s first line of defense against pathogens. To further study this link, good estimates of the cyclicality of the vitamin are necessary. Solar exposure — a timely topic since June 21 marks the first day of summer — is the most important way people acquire vitamin D. But certain foods, including egg yolks and oil-rich fish like mackerel, salmon, sardines and herring contain the nutrient. In addition, milk and cereal are often enriched with vitamin D.”Even with food fortification, vitamin D levels in the population show a high level of seasonality due to the influence of sunlight,” said Amy Kasahara, a UC Irvine graduate student in public health and first author on the paper, which appears in the journal PLOS ONE.”The exact biochemical pathways from UVB rays to vitamin D were discovered in the 1970s,” she said. “In this study, we have shown that vitamin D levels lag the solar cycle, peaking in August and troughing in February.”The correlation between the seasons and vitamin D has been known for some time. …
Flu shot likely prevented 13 million illnesses, 110,000 hospitalizations from 2005-2011
20 June 2013 12 August 2018 admin 98 Views based, control, ecology, healthcare, journal, kostova, mla, science
June 19, 2013 — Approximately 13 million illnesses and over 110,00 hospitalizations may have been averted by the flu vaccine over the last 6 years in the U.S, according to calculations published June 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Deliana Kostova and colleagues from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Share This:The researchers calculated the healthcare burden of flu cases that would have occurred in the absence of vaccination based on factors such as illness and hospitalization rates during the flu season, vaccination coverage and vaccine effectiveness. Based on these data, Kostova and colleagues estimate that flu vaccines averted several million instances of illness and over 110,000 flu-related hospitalizations in the flu seasons of 2006 to 2011. The largest number of averted cases occurred during the most recent period studied, 2010-2011, when 5 million flu cases, 2.1 million medical visits and 40,400 hospitalizations were prevented by vaccination.The U.S is the only country with universal influenza vaccine recommendations that suggest everyone aged 6 months and older should receive an annual dose of the vaccine. However, previous studies have not provided ways to reliably assess the number of flu cases or hospitalizations that are prevented by vaccination each year. Senior author on the study Joseph Bresee adds, “”These results confirm the value of influenza vaccination, but highlight the need for more people to get vaccinated and the imperative for vaccines with greater efficacy, especially in the elderly.”Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:|Story Source: The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Public Library of Science. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above. Journal Reference:Deliana Kostova, Carrie Reed, Lyn Finelli, Po-Yung Cheng, Paul M. Gargiullo, David K. Shay, James A. …
Austerity cuts to Spanish healthcare system are ‘putting lives at risk’, experts say
14 June 2013 12 August 2018 admin 124 Views effects, healthcare, hygiene, london, london-school, madrid, professor, school, spanish, tropical-medicine
June 13, 2013 — A series of austerity reforms made by the Spanish government could lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of the country’s healthcare system, with potentially detrimental effects on the health of the Spanish people, according to new research published in BMJ.National budget cuts of 13.65% (€365m) and regional budget cuts of up to 10% to health and social care services in 2012 have coincided with increased demands on the health system, particularly affecting the elderly, disabled and those with poor mental health. The authors, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also highlight the increase in depression, alcohol related disorders and suicides in Spain since the financial crisis hit and unemployment increased.Spain already has one of the lowest public expenditures on healthcare for its GDP in the European Union. Further cuts of €1108m will be made to the dependency fund for elderly and disabled people in 2013, putting these vulnerable people even more at risk.Key changes made by the Spanish government include excluding undocumented immigrants from accessing free healthcare services and increasing co-payments that patients must make for extra treatments such as drugs, prosthetics, and some ambulance trips. Authorities with devolved powers in 17 regions across Spain have also been required to make further cuts. In Madrid and Catalonia this has led to a move towards privatisation of hospitals, increases in waiting times, cutbacks in emergency services and fewer surgical procedures.Lead author Dr Helena Legido-Quigley, Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “Our analysis is the first to look at the overall impact of austerity measures in Spain on the healthcare system and the findings are of great concern. Many of the measures taken to save money do not have a strong evidence-base. We are seeing detrimental effects on the health of the Spanish people and, if no corrective measures are implemented, this could worsen with the risk of increases in HIV and tuberculosis — as we have seen in Greece where healthcare services have had severe cuts — as well as the risk of a rise in drug resistance and spread of disease.”As part of the analysis, researchers conducted interviews with 34 doctors and nurses across Catalonia. Many reported feeling ‘shocked’, ‘numbed’ and ‘disillusioned’ about the cuts and expressed fears that ‘the cuts are going to kill people’. Some also raised concerns around the ‘clear intention to privatise and… make money on health and social services’ and made allegations of corruption and conflicts of interest.Co-author Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “For five years, policies to address the financial crisis have focussed almost entirely on economic indicators. …
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The University of Sydney (commonly referred to as Sydney University, Sydney Uni, USYD, or Sydney) is an Australian public research university in Sydney. Founded in 1850, it is Australia's first university and is regarded as one of its most prestigious, ranked as the world's 27th most reputable university. In 2013, it was ranked 37th and in the top 0.3% in the QS World University Rankings. Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty. Its campus is ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington. The university comprises 16 faculties and schools, through which it offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In 2011 it had 32,393 undergraduate and 16,627 graduate students. Sydney University is a member of the prestigious Group of Eight, Academic Consortium 21, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning, the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN), the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Worldwide Universities Network. The University is also colloquially known as one of Australia's sandstone universities.
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Burna Boy’s mother gives powerful speech while accepting son’s BET Awards (video)
Burna Boy won the award for Best International Act at the 2019 BET Awards that held last night.
Though he was at the event with his girlfriend, Stefflon Don, he wasn’t available when it was time to receive his award so his mum went on his behalf.
“He must be the most restless person I ever met, because he was here right now,” Burna’s mother said of her son as she accepted his award.
She then gave a short acceptance speech that was so powerful and moved everyone present.
Speaking with grace and poise, she said: “Thank you very much BET. Thank you Africa. Because that’s the constituency for which we got noticed in the first place. And the message from Burna, I believe, would be that every black person should please remember that you were Africans before you became anything else.
At this point, a loud cheer went up in the venue.
“Thank you,” she concluded, lifting the award plaque and left the stage.
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The Young Appeal of the Super Mario Bros. 3 Happy Meal
Or 'why did it take us so long to get some real Mario action figures?'
Just when I thought I’d never decide on something to write tonight, Matt over at Dinosaur Dracula comes through. Plus, with the recent release of Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 on Wii U’s Virtual Console, I’m not sure there could be a better time for this.
His latest piece, “The best McDonald’s collectibles on eBay,” speaks to me on multiple levels. One is that I love “Fast Food Culture,” of course, and another is that one of those items is none other than the display case used to show off the Super Mario Bros. 3 Happy Meal toys released in 1990.
My full thoughts on everything in the article can be found in the comments section there, but I wanted to expand on my thoughts regarding the Super Mario Bros. 3 display here.
When the Super Mario Bros. 3 Happy Meal first came out, I was immediately obsessed with having the entire set. Fortunately for me, we were at the beach when they hit, so getting the first few was easy (though I’m sure my parents would have liked more meals somewhere nicer than McDonald’s).
I got Mario and Luigi right away, and while the spring-powered Raccoon Mario was neat, I’d already just gotten a non-Raccoon Mario almost exactly like it (along with a green Koopa Paratroopa) just before it on literally the same trip (along with some other Applause figurines that used the same/similar sculpting), and while having some sort of Luigi was cool, my eyes were mainly on the flipping Little Goomba and the hopping Koopa Paratroopa. Their gimmicks were cool, but even without them, they were suitable enough for action figure-style purposes — as was the “Under-3″ Raccoon Mario finger puppet (not shown, but granted upon request), which was my overall favorite of the lot.
Here’s the thing: in the late 80’s, “Nintendo Mania” was frickin’ huge, and there was all kinds of merchandise everywhere. Not unlike today, really, except that now it feels a lot more casual. However, for all the plush, the figurines, the bedspreads, the ice cream sandwiches, the cartoons, and now the Happy Meal… there was little to nothing in the way of action figures.
No poseable Mario, no vehicles, none of that. In fact, there wouldn’t be any until Ertl’s 1993 toy line based on the Super Mario Bros. movie. Now I love that movie to death, but even I recognized that’s really not the way to enter the action figure arena. Mario wouldn’t return to poseable plastic pieces until Toy Biz’s Mario Kart 64 line, and today? There’s more than I could imagine back then — or afford now.
So yeah, pickings were slim, and so I made do with whatever I could. At one point, I even drew my own “figures” based on the whole cast of DiC’s The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon, plus Castle Koopa, the Doomship, and even those little mini-Doomships used in the episode “True Colors.” (Sadly, those were all probably disposed of when my dad moved out of his old house and left most of what was there to whoever bought it — people I think I hate now for never getting back to me after I called about getting my stuff.)
Anyway, there was more than just the figures — there were television commercials (of course), and decorations all over the restaurants. For the most part, it was cut-outs of different Super Mario Bros. 3 stock art, as well as tray liners/placemats (featuring a pic of King Koopa from the cartoons colored like Bowser from the games), Happy Meal boxes, and of course, the display seen at the top of this article.
I wanted it all, but unfortunately, the world had other ideas in mind. I tried, believe you me, but while I still have all the toys (times two for the Little Goomba and Koopa Paratroopa), all their inserts, and possibly the tray liner, my parents wouldn’t let me keep the Happy Meal boxes due to the grease inside from where the food had been (it really wasn’t that bad), while the restaurants we visited denied me the cut-outs and, worst of all, the display case.
In a world devoid of any sort of action figure-styled goodness for Super Mario Bros., one where the McDonald’s toys made up a good chunk of the best you could hope to get, the display — a loose recreation of the Super Mario Bros. 3 title screen with a pipe added — was basically the playset of the piece. Masters of the Universe had Castle Grayskull, ThunderCats had the Cats Lair, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had the Sewer Playset, and so on, and for Mario? We had this.
Except, you know, the vast majority of us who didn’t. In that regard, it probably skewed closer to the nigh-impossible-to-get-unless-you’re-that-kid status of Transformers‘ Fortress Maximus or G.I. Joe‘s U.S.S. Flagg aircraft carrier. Of course, those were rarely had due to their sheer size (two feet and 7.5 feet, respectively) and the cost associated, rather than the rarity involved with getting fast food management to part with their assets.
Me being me, I made do with what I had, and what I had were the aforementioned inserts that came with the Happy Meal toys. While not usable as a playset or even a backdrop, each provided a little bit of information about the character they came with, and the Little Goomba and Koopa Paratroopa’s were particularly fascinating to me. While Mario and Luigi had the usual “heroes who help when needed” spiel, the Paratroopa’s revealed that the reason they fly/hop around so aimlessly is due to poor eyesight, while the Goombas are surly and rebelled against the Mushroom Kingdom because — and this is brilliant — they keep messy houses and are disgruntled because no one ever comes to their parties.
Hardly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, but it expanded the world of Mario just that little bit more, and I ate it up. I don’t know if the bios came from Nintendo of America and the same sort of style guides that gave us this, but regardless, it’s out there.
Anyway, I took that and ran with it. It wasn’t much, but before I was emboldened enough to make my paper cut-out “figures” (which were colored by marker and then stapled to cardboard taken from the backs of notebooks for sturdiness), I made my own backdrop of a Goomba’s Toad House (“Goom House”?) with a sign out front saying that they were having a party, and everyanyone was welcome. That, and I also occasionally repurposed the Sewer Playset’s green pipes towards this end.
I don’t know if I still have the house today, but even though there are many much better, more playable Mario toys today, I still have the full set of Happy Meal toys and hold them near and dear to my heart. Of course, I also have some of those newer toys, and maybe I should talk about some of those soon.
Or maybe I could talk about the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Happy Meal sometime instead?
Naaaaaah.
Update: It wasn’t planned this way, but I’ve managed something of a follow-up to this article, which you can read here.
Charles-Emmanuel Ouellette
Lovely story. They’re something fun about those Happy Toys linked to family meals on the go, vacation and childhood.
I have fond memory of the Changeables Transformers like toys and those Super Mario’s ones. I was on the tail end days of actually playing with my action figures (the last ones I played with were from the Dick Tracy movie by Playmate toys) but I remember being happy to have actual, physical representation of those video games I liked so much. There was something charming at having them step out of the TV screen, because as you say, figures featuring those plumbers guys and critters were pretty scarce in those days! I also love that they features the early designs with color overall and blue shirts for the Mario Bros, back when their look changed a bit at every games before settling out.
And indeed those “bios” trivia were cute, as this whole universe is. Even do those character fall into bottomless pits, throw hammers and fireballs at each other they’re always an angle of joyful, cutesy challenges where’s they’re no real treat, just big fun adventures and mayhem!
Nehemiah Zamora
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The Times Good University Guide rates University of Reading in UK top 25 – University of Reading
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The Times Good University Guide rates University of Reading in UK top 25
Release Date 14 June 2012
The University of Reading features among the top 25 universities in the UK in The Times Good University Guide 2013 published today (14 June 2012).
The University of Reading was ranked 24th in one of the most authoritative and widely respected guides to universities in the UK, a jump of nine places from 2011.
Subject areas in which Reading fared particularly well in the new Guide include town and country planning and landscape (4th), land and property management (2nd) and agriculture (2nd). Reading was also rated in the respective top tens for archaeology (7th), art and design (7th), building (4th), food science (5th) and law (9th).
A key element of The Times ranking is graduate prospects. This year's league table is based on data from 2010 graduates. Both the University's employability data from 2010 and, more recently 2011 graduates, shows that employability for Reading graduates is at its highest point for a decade, with almost 70% of Reading graduates in graduate jobs or further study and 92% in employment, further study or volunteer-related positions. All undergraduates at Reading have access to opportunities for placements to further enhance employability.
Sir David Bell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, said: "The University of Reading continues to rank among the leading research-intensive universities in the UK. It is pleasing to feature so strongly in all this year's league tables, including The Times, however league tables only offer a snapshot into the strengths of a University such as Reading by attempting to reflect factors such as the quality of the student experience, research quality and employability.
"Prospective students should gauge which university is right for them by visiting their short list of universities, meet current students, view the facilities and talk to the staff that will be teaching them. Students who are successful in gaining a place at the University of Reading can expect a stretching and challenging academic experience, top-class facilities and good prospects."
The University is hosting an Open Day on Friday 22 June. Thousands of prospective students will be visiting the main campus to find out more about the University's academic offering and excellent facilities. The Open Day offers a chance to meet the University's excellent teaching staff, many of whom are undertaking research in related fields as well as look around the University's facilities, including the high-quality student accommodation and teaching facilities located within the award-winning 130 hectare Whiteknights parkland campus.
The Times Good University Guide is the fourth UK league table of the year to be published. The University of Reading has risen in all the league tables published in 2012 to date and is also now ranked 25th in The Guardian, 32nd in the Complete University Guide and 12th in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey.
More information about the University of Reading's Open Day on 22 June >>>
Further information from the University of Reading press office on 0118 378 7115/7391
The Times Good University Guide 2013 ranks 116 UK universities according to eight criteria, including student satisfaction, research quality, graduate job prospects and degree results.
Full details can be found at www.thetimes.co.uk/gug (subscription required) and in a print supplement in The Times today (June 14).
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Other's On-Line Resources (Chapter 7)
Through clearly-written text and wonderful graphics, this on-line reource (1) clarifies the difference between null and alternative hypotheses, and (2) shows how different versions of the alternative hypothesis lead either to a one-tailed test or to a two-tailed test.
Click on the colored title of this on-line resource: "Hypotheses."
Carefully read the text material and examine the various pictures.
Click on the term "inductive research" if you'd like to get a brief explanation of how this form of scientific thinking works.
Sky Huck's Puzzle Questions:
(1) It is stated in this on-line resource that of the two hypotheses being discussed (null and alternative), one of them describes the researcher's prediction. Why is this sometimes not true? (2) Near the end of this on-line resource, you're told what to do if your original prediction is not supported by the data. Do you agree?
Type I Errors
By using this interactive on-line resource, you'll come to understand fully what it means to "commit" a Type I Error. Moreover, you'll be able to see this kind of error take place right before your eyes.
Click on the colored title of this on-line resource: "Type I Errors."
After clicking on "Begin," change (in the next screen) the mean for Population B from 15 to 10. This makes the two population means identical. In other words, the null hypothesis (Ho: mA = mB) is true as we now check to see if the mean of a sample drawn from Population A is significantly different from the mean of a sample drawn from Population B.
Click "Simulate" and look inside the gray box to see if the t-test's calculated value (disregarding its sign) is equal to or larger than the critical value. If so, we reject the null hypothesis. This decision is summarized in the upper right-hand portion of the screen where a "1" will appear next to "Significant" or "Not significant."
Click on the "Simulate" button about 20 times while watching what happens in terms of the frequency counts that appear next to "Significant" and "Not significant." Whenever the number in the "Significant" window goes up, this is because a Type I Error has been made.
Now click on "Simulate 5000" and look to see what appears in the "Percent Significant" window. This number should approximate .05, the level of significance.
Sky Huck's Puzzle Question:
Click the "Reset" button, change the mean for Population B from 15 to 10, and then change the n from 8 to 100. What effect, if any, do you think this change in the sample size will have on the occurrence of Type I Errors? After making your guess, click on "Simulate 5000" to see what happens.
Type II Errors
By using this interactive on-line resource, you'll come to understand fully what it means to "commit" a Type II Error. Moreover, you'll be able to see this kind of error take place right before your eyes.
Click on the colored title of this on-line resource: "Type II Errors."
After clicking on "Begin," note (in the next screen) that the mean for Population A is 10 whereas the mean for Population B is 15. Clearly, two population means are different. In other words, if we now conduct a study to see if the mean of a sample drawn from Population A is significantly different from the mean of a sample drawn from Population B, the null hypothesis (Ho: mA = mB) is false.
Click "Simulate" and look inside the gray box to see if the t-test's calculated value (disregarding its sign) is equal to or larger than the critical value. If so, we reject the null hypothesis; if not, we fail-to-reject the null hypothesis. This decision is summarized in the upper right-hand portion of the screen where a "1" will appear next to "Significant" or "Not significant."
Click on the "Simulate" button about 20 times while watching what happens in terms of the frequency counts that appear next to "Significant" and "Not significant." Whenever the number in the "Not significant" window goes up, this is because a Type II Error has been made.
Now click on "Simulate 5000" and look to see what appears in the "Percent Significant" window. This number will turn out to be quite a bit lower that 100%, thus suggesting that this particular t-test comparison has about a 30% chance of leading to a Type II Error.
Click the "Reset" button and then change the n from 8 to 100. What effect, if any, do you think this change in the sample size will have on the occurrence of Type II Errors? After making your guess, click on "Simulate 5000" to see what happens.
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You are here: Home | Aum Shinrikyo | Japan’s top court upholds death sentence against Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult member
Japan’s top court upholds death sentence against Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult member
Aum Shinrikyo, RNB's Religion News Blog Saturday November 19, 2011 Religion News Blog
Japan’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Tomomasa Nakagawa, who was sentenced to death by lower courts for involvement in a series of incidents including the group’s sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 and in Nagano Prefecture a year earlier.
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Japanese news agency Kyodo reports
Nakagawa, a 49-year-old former physician, is set to become the 12th member of the group to have a death sentence finalized. Nakagawa could still file for an amendment of the ruling if he identifies an error within 10 days, but the country’s top court has rarely accepted such a request.
Nakagawa was convicted of involvement in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway on March 20, 1995, that killed 13 people and left thousands ill, and was found guilty of involvement in an earlier sarin attack that killed eight people in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 27, 1994.
He was convicted of murdering a total of 24 people in the two sarin attacks, the killing in November 1989 of 33-year-old anti-AUM lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife and son, and two other criminal cases, according to the lower court rulings.
Yuki Furuta, presiding justice of the top court’s second petty bench, said the crimes in which Nakagawa and other AUM members were involved were organized and planned to “defend the cult and challenge the nation governed by the rule of law” and they were “antisocial and wantonly disregarded human life.” […]
The judgment stated that Nakagawa played a proactive, indispensable role in the crimes, including fatally strangling Sakamoto’s wife and son, and synthesizing sarin, and he therefore bears a heavy criminal responsibility.
The five justices of the No. 2 petty bench unanimously reached the conclusion that the death penalty is unavoidable for Nakagawa, even though he committed most of the crimes on the instructions of AUM founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto. […]
The top court also plans to rule Monday on an appeal filed by senior AUM member Seiichi Endo, 51, a veterinarian and virologist, who was also sentenced to death by lower courts for his involvement in the sarin gas attacks.
Asahara, 56, was found to have masterminded the heinous crimes and he was convicted of murdering a total of 27 people in 13 criminal cases and sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in February 2004. His death sentence has been finalized. […]
Monday’s Supreme Court decision on Endo’s appeal will effectively put an end to more than 16 years of investigations and trials for Asahara and a total of 188 members of the group, who were charged with involvement in a series of AUM crimes. All the defendants were found guilty.
Three AUM members are still on the run and remain on the wanted list.
AUM Shinrikyo, known as AUM Supreme Truth in English, renamed itself Aleph in 2000. It remains under the surveillance of the Justice Ministry’s Public Security Intelligence Agency.
In 2007, a senior member and some followers left Aleph to launch a splinter group called Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light).
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PRANKS! Excerpt: Earth First!
R/S: I read that Edward Abbey’s book The Monkey Wrench Gang was an inspiration, and furnished a model which you adapted.
EARTH FIRST: Abbey is kind of a cantankerous desert rat, as is pretty well known. He’s kind of anti-human in that he’s an outspoken critic of overpopulation. That’s something the environmental movement seems to stay away from. Back in the early ’70s we used to actually talk about the concept of growth and the threat of overpopulation, but now, that fact that the world population is five billion and still increasing is never mentioned by the Sierra Club or any of those groups. Abbey was willing to throw his opinions out and a lot of the time they made an incredible amount of sense. He’s taken a lot of flak, but on the other hand there are those who respect him for being so frank.
We call our theory deep ecology. A Norwegian philosopher named Arne Naess coined the term about 10 years ago. He was an academic ecologist who decided that you couldn’t just be an academic ecologist. If you really cared about the earth and all this biota that’s being destroyed, you had to take it out of the classroom and put it into practice in your personal life. That meant more than just buying recycled paper and voting for the conservation candidate. He started organizing to save rivers from being dammed and forests from being cut down, even resorting to civil disobedience.
He was also hammering away at the academic institutions that contain most of our knowledge about life on earth. Everybody was looking at it in such a narrow way—one person studied only frogs, another only hummingbirds. Even though they knew that there were less of a particular species of frog or hummingbird than there were 10 years ago, they weren’t making that leap and seeing that if you put all these numbers together, it spells disaster—that we have to do something if we want to survive on this earth, because it’s biological diversity that makes our life possible. It was necessary to extrapolate that human beings are not the Crown of Creation like the Christians had always insisted, but are just one of many citizens of a biological community.
What deep ecology espouses is ecological egalitarianism. It’s really a practical and logical extension of the civil rights movement! Are we really better than a wolf or a dolphin or a microorganism in the soil? Under the present-day legal system they have virtually no rights whatsoever, just like blacks and American Indians not so long ago.
Human beings have been divorced from the natural world for only a short period of time during their evolution. The longer that has progressed, the worse conditions have gotten. A very practical reason for adopting an ecological egalitarian world view is because it’s a question of survival. But also, if you felt it was important for people to struggle for their rights in the civil rights movement, then you’ll also want to do that for the other organisms.
I think that’s really the underlying philosophy of Earth First! We’re not doing this for “the babies.” We’re not doing this for “society.” To us, the highest goal would be to do something for earth (hence the name Earth First!), even though we live in a post-Pleistocene era in which the flora and fauna have been damaged beyond repair on this planet.
There was this time when a lot of conservationists were called druids, and were embarrassed because that means being called a tree-worshipper and a pagan. However, if you look at the druids, what you see are forest-dwelling human beings, indigenous people living in close harmony with the land. They were practicing their religion living in the forest, gathering wild plants and growing little gardens. These people didn’t fence in their pastures; they lived much closer to the earth—these so called “druids” and Germanic tribes known as “barbarians.” They were exterminated by the Christians, and I don’t think they were necessarily just stabbed and killed, I think they were wiped out when their forests were removed. By the 1600s in Europe, anything remotely resembling big wilderness had been destroyed.
A lot of environmentalists seem afraid to admit that they actually have a different world view than the person who is just following this path called “progress” and not questioning it. I think that at this stage we have to do more than question—we have to challenge it.
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Isaiah and the Idea of Messianic Hope- Thoughts after Tisha B Av
If you were to ask me to list who were the people who made the greatest impact on human thought, you might expect to hear the traditional triad of Marx, Freud, and Einstein.
However I wish the privilege of changing that list and mentioning instead, two figures who never received the due credit for affecting the way we perceive the future and ourselves, namely Yeshayahu ben Amotz and Yehezkiel ben Buzi, or, as they are known in English, Isaiah and Ezekiel.
From Isaiah, modern civilization derived its idea of a messianic redemption, of a vision of a better world in the future, far greater than anything the present offers.
From Ezekiel, the world received the concept of the individual, of personal responsibility, of the ability to choose.
Now, I will propose a third question: “Who made the profoundest impact on the Jewish personality?"
To which I will answer, Yirmiyahu ben Hilkiyah, Jeremiah, who taught us how to muster our moral courage and survive the first great disaster of Jewish history.
These three names are cardinal in the Bible as the three great literary prophets whose works have been extensively preserved for us. Two weeks ago, as we entered the period of the three weeks of mourning, from the Seventeeth of Tammuz till Tisha B Av and the beginning of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas, I spoke of Jeremiah. At another point, I will speak of the message of Ezekiel.
For this Shabbat, I will focus on Isaiah. Last week, the Haftarah was the opening chapter of Isaiah, which spoke of the impending doom facing the people of Judea. It was chanted to the melody of Aicha, Lamentations, the reading of Tisha B’Av. This Shabbat, we read again from Isaiah, this time from Chapter 40: Nahamu, Nahamu Ami—Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. The same book of doom is the book of hope and deliverance.
We here felt in our hearts the fear of the people of Israel in their time of struggle in the last several weeks; we felt an extended mood of Tisha B Av over us. We also watched as Jews in Europe were attacked. They were attacked by Moslems in Europe, but we could understand that Moslems would with fellow Moslems. They were attacked not by neo-Nazis, and this too we could understand because they were being true to their miserable roots. But we were shocked and pained by the attacks by the enlightened and supposedly tolerant Left, the Greens, the Socialists, the left-over Communists, who were only too eager to blame the Jews. We felt shock here too, when entertainers and celebrities were only too eager to jump on the band-wagon to condemn first, ask questions later. We felt shock when UN, European and even US officials rushed to condemn Israeli bombs on schools even before the evidence came in if the bombs were indeed Israeli or Hamas. We were let down by news correspondents who only after they left Gaza had the courage to announce that they cooperated with Hamas by refusing to show scenes of rockets firing from schools and hospitals. We were even more stunned to see that the most powerful support came from Israel’s Arab neighbors, Egypt and Saudi Arabia!
Now, there is a cease-fire with the hopes of a working solution to the threat of the Hamas gangs who rule by terror in what was the historic Land of the Philistines, Gaza.
( PS. The word Palestine, is taken from Philistia, the same Gaza Strip invaded by foreign Mediterranean Sea Peoples, not indigenous to the region, around the same time as the Exodus. The Roman Empire imposed the term “Palestine” on the former Kingdom of Judea in a willful measure to erase any identity of the ethnic Jews in what is today Israel.)
After Tisha B Av, comes then, the hope. Hence, the reading from Isaiah , Nahamu : Comfot ye, Comfort ye, is so important. We all so desperately need that message.
Where is the comfort in Isaiah?
It is in proposing the possibility of a new social order on earth the likes of which had never been imagined before. All of the religious and political movements of the Western world, would be driven by that vision .This phenomenon of modern society, of trying to achieve the end of history and the perfection of human society, is the ultimate outcome of the teachings of Isaiah, the preaching of a Messianic era.
Who was he?
To be fully fair, today, it is commonly assumed that he was at least two, if not three people. The Isaiah of “Nahamu Nahamu”, Comfort Ye, Comfort ye” that we read today, preached two centuries after the Isaiah wrote Chapter 1. This Second Isaiah is preaching, challenging and encouraging the Jews who have now been brought back to the Land of Israel before the destruction of the Temple. The first Isaiah, of whom I will speak, is preaching and warning sometime in the 8th century before the common era as the northern Kingdom, Israel, is falling, long before the southern kingdom, Judea, and the Temple fall.
Isaiah was a court prophet in Jerusalem, continually and regularly in contact with the king. Perhaps he was of royal blood, and possibly even the grandson of a king of Judea. Certainly, he had ready access to all the nobility, spoke to them personally, and was the advisor to King Hezekiah.
As a result of his background, Isaiah, more than any other prophet spoke in monarchial tones, envisioning God as enthroned King. It was out of this milieu that his vision of the ideal future king grew.
Isaiah was not the first prophet to make mention of a redemption or an end of days.
Amos referred to the "Day of the Lord" as a common folk belief in ultimate national triumph. In the words of Amos, however, it was to be a day of ultimate reckoning.
Some of Isaiah’s words also appear in the preaching of Micah, a contemporary.
Isaiah, however, was the first to give this concept its full expression
(Chapter 11) A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
It is this vision, that one day, a descendant of King David, the ideal King of the past, would once again sit on the throne in Jerusalem, bring back all the lost and scattered tribes of Israel, and usher in a universal era of peace for Jews and for all nations around. An ancient tradition even stated that the Messiah would be born on Tisha B’Av—the redemption would come out of the depths of sorrow.
The utterance of this statement marks a turning point in the history of Jews and of mankind.
From this moment on, we learned to move from the past and look to the future.
No longer was the golden age in the past, and the future bleak. The time to come held out hope and promise of an ideal soon to be attained.
Hope is one of the most powerful of drugs. It can keep us alive. It can also drive us with impatience. No longer could one sit patiently, knowing that there was no choice; no longer would one just fold awaiting disaster.
Thus, Jews, Christians and Moslems have for the past two thousand years and more been looking for the Messiah to come; for Christians and Moslems ,it is a second time around, for us, the first time. ( The Second Coming of Jesus is significant in Christian belief and the return of Isa is an essential step in the final triumph of Islam in the end of days).
So, we, Jews wait, in anticipation. We marked off the calendars. In all generations, we set dates for the redemption. Speculation on the nature of the end of days was rampant.
Havlei Mashiach, it was called. The world is going through birth pangs to-give forth a Messiah
The youth would revolt against their elders, insult them, make them stand up while they sit. The generation would be dog-faced and. arrogant. Places of study would become places of ill repute. Sound just like today, doesn't it. Every generation felt that it was the last, that it was experiencing the birth pangs of the Messiah.
Would- be-Messiahs arose in every generation.
Bar Kochba led to the death of half a million Jews at the hands of the
Romans.
Aboulafia was jailed. when he tried to convert the Pope.
Shabbtai Zvi ,became a Moslem and dragged many of his followers into Islam with him.
Jacob Frank, the most bizarre of all said that all Jews must be sinners before the Messiah will come.
But even as the idea of an ideal “ Once and future king” created so many crack pots and delusionists, it served to keep the Jewish people alive. Even in modern times, as Jews abandoned traditional belief, we stuck to the Messianic ideal and translated it into aspirations for all the new movements of the last two centuries.
Liberalism and Rationalism, then the Nationalisms of the lands of our exile, then Socialism, and Communism were new Messianic movements for Jews to latch on to. In many ways, Zionism and the birth of Israel has served as the new manifestation for us of the ancient Messiah ideal, but we know to take it realistically as a project, not as a mindless Utopia..
It powered European Civilization as well. It was transformed into the idea of Utopia, into the idea of Progress, into the ideas of the American and French. Revolutions which set in motion the events of our times, both for good and for bad. To paraphrase Charles Dickens, It was the best of ideas and the worst of ideas.
There is one great caveat that the Rabbis brought to the discussion of the Messianic era or King: Ain Dohin et Ha Ketz-Don't hasten the end. Don't speed things up by force. The Messiah cannot be created by “ Reigns of terror” or by the fanatical mobs. It will come, of its own, in God’s time, as long as it takes,”af alpi she-yitmameha”, even as long as he may delay.
We do our part, we build and repair the world, Tikun olam, restoring the world, one stone and one brick at a time, encouraged and buoyed by a faith that there is a ultimate redemption.
We go back to Isaiah. In the first chapter, he warned of impending doom for the wayward of Israel. But already in the second chapter he looked to the future:
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
. . .The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
That is the Messianic ideal we are still hoping and praying for, speedily, in our day.
It is therefore appropriate for us, that the next week on the Jewish calendar, is Tu B’Av, the 15th of Av, the happiest day of ancient Jerusalem, when young men and women would find their matches. We move on the calendar, from mourning to celebrating. So may it always be. Amen.
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Interest Rates & the Economy
The yield curve is a graph with the rates of U.S. Treasury bonds plotted by maturity. The slope of the curve is the difference between short-dated bonds and long-dated bonds. Normally, it curves upward as investors demand higher yields to compensate for the risk of lending money over a longer period. The curve flattens, however, when the rates converge.
Investors pay attention to the yield curve to identify buying opportunities in the bond market and because it has a history of forecasting economic growth. A flat yield curve suggests that inflation and interest rates are expected to stay low for an extended period of time, signaling economic weakness. A steep curve indicates stronger growth ahead.
In the first week of December 2018, the difference between 10-year and two-year Treasury yields — an indicator that tends to be closely watched by investors — was the narrowest since 2007, though still positive. The flattening yield curve was partly to blame for a year-end spike in stock market volatility, because some economists and investors took it as a warning that the odds of an economic downturn were increasing.1
Curve Confusion
Short-term Treasury yields are tied to the Fed’s interest rate policy, and the benchmark federal funds rate rose to a range between 2.25% and 2.5% in December 2018. Although the committee initially projected two more rate increases in 2019, projections released in March 2019 suggested the Fed might not resume raising rates until 2020.2
Yields at the long end of the curve are determined by supply and demand in the bond market and tend to reflect a broader range of factors, including the economic outlook and investor sentiment. Longer-term yields dropped over the last two months of 2018, partly due to investor concerns that tighter Fed policies could slow U.S. growth more than expected.3
Signs of a weakening global economy also appeared, while some export-driven economies were hit especially hard by trade disputes. China, the world’s second largest economy after the United States, is growing at its slowest rate in nearly a decade.4 In addition, uncertainty surrounding the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union — or Brexit — has restrained growth in the region.5
Recession Worries
When short-term rates actually rise above long-term rates, the yield curve becomes inverted, signaling that a recession may be coming in about a year. In fact, the last seven U.S. recessions were preceded by an inverted yield curve. There have also been two notable false positives when recession did not follow an inversion.6
It’s possible that the bond market has been distorted by the central bank’s bond-buying program (quantitative easing), which was implemented to boost liquidity and help the economy recover from the Great Recession. If so, the yield curve might be a less-reliable leading indicator than it was in the past.
Only time will tell whether the yield curve’s gloomy economic forecast will come true, or whether the market-based indicator has been thrown off by monetary policy and/or global events. Either way, investors and economists (including policymakers at the Federal Reserve) would likely view a steeper yield curve as a step in the right direction.
U.S. Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government as to the timely payment of principal and interest. The principal value of bonds fluctuates with market conditions. If not held to maturity, bonds could be worth more or less than the original amount paid.
1) Bloomberg.com, December 3, 2018
2) The Wall Street Journal, January 10 and May 9, 2019
3) The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2019
4) The New York Times, December 9, 2018
5) The Guardian, October 30, 2018
6) Federal Reserve, 2018
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NEWARK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WINS PRESTIGIOUS AVIATION INDUSTRY AWARDS
Newark International Airport has won two awards in Airports Council International-North America’s fifth annual Excellence in Airports Concessions Contest, judged by experts in the concessions, retail and marketing fields.
The airport’s Terminal C captured a first-place award for Best Retail/Specialty Program at large airports, while Terminal C’s d_parture Spa, which offers massage and salon services, won a second-place award for Most Innovative Concession.
“We are honored that such a prestigious organization has confirmed what we already knew: The ongoing commitment to excellence by the Port Authority and its private partners has made Newark International Airport a world-class facility,” Newark International Airport Manager Susan M. Baer said.
The awards announced this week are just the latest in a growing list of accolades for airports operated by the Port Authority.
John F. Kennedy International Airport was named North America’s best cargo airport earlier this year in a prominent competition judged by cargo industry leaders. Shops and restaurants at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark International airports took four first-place awards this year in Airport Retail News’ Best Concessions 2002, bringing to 13 the total number of first-place awards the airports have earned in this competition over the past three years. Port Authority airports also won 15 second-place, third-place and fourth-place finishes in this year’s competition. LaGuardia Airport took first prize for its food and beverage program in last year’s Airports Council International-North America’s Excellence in Airports Concessions Contest.
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MEN Arena, Manchester
Eric Clapton - MEN Arena, Manchester (UK) - 14th May 2013
Clapton recently hinted that his current tour in celebration of a staggering fifty years in music will be his last international road jaunt. Walking onstage with his band, Clapton strapped on his acoustic guitar for the opening number 'Hello Old Friend' which was followed by 'My Father's Eyes'. It was hardly the most electrifying way to start a concert; Clapton often infuriating fans with his laidback approach. After an all-too-mellow beginning Clapton put on his Strat and played an excellent version of the old Derek And The Dominoes song 'Tell The Truth'. The last, and admittedly only time, I'd seen Clapton live before was at this very venue back in 2006 with support from Robert Cray whom I have to admit was much better. Clapton's problem then was that he left much of the soloing to his guitarist, but thankfully this time around old Slowhand was on fire and seemed far more enthusiastic.
The setlist was a mix of something old, something new and something obscure. Sadly, the set lacked the big singles of his career such as 'Bad Love', 'Pretending' and 'Forever Man' in favour of lesser known songs, but did, obviously, include the lead song, 'Gotta Get Over,' from his new album 'Old Sock'. The slightly-too-long sit-down acoustic segment of the set included his famed unplugged version of 'Layla' as well as 'Tears In Heaven', which was a surprise given that I thought he'd dropped that number for good, and 'Lay Down Sally' (amongst others) but overall I had the feeling that such an intimate and personal set would have been better suited to the likes of the Manchester Bridgewater Hall or the Liverpool Philharmonic rather than the cold, soulless slab of concrete that is the Manchester Arena.
Clapton's band included the brilliant white English soul singer Paul Carrack who handled lead vocals on a few numbers, including 'It Ain't Easy (To Love Somebody)' and the closing song 'High Time We Went', a Joe Cocker cover. The better known electric songs ('White Room', 'Blues Power', 'Crossroads' and 'Cocaine') naturally got the biggest rounds of applause. Annoyingly, Clapton allowed Bolton buffoon Peter Kay to introduce the encore and even sing/played fake guitar during 'Sunshine Of Your Love' which totally ruined the song. Much of the audience seemed to enjoy it but it just wasn't necessary especially as the gig was supposed to celebrate Clapton's career, of which Kay is not a part!
Surprisingly for such a high profile tour/artist the venue wasn't a sell out; much of the higher tier was covered and there were empty seats dotted about. The problem with legacy artists such as Clapton is that they have nothing left to prove anymore which means they can pretty much do what they like. I walked away from the venue with the feeling that I wanted something more. Clapton and band his band performed brilliantly, it has to be said, but the gig lacked atmosphere; something seemed to be missing...
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We welcome inquiries from parties interested in exhibiting their products and services of relevance to the heritage science community. For details of the opportunity, please contact the committee by email.
We are delighted to announce the support of the following commercial exhibitors:
AICON 3D Systems is one of the world’s leading providers of optical camera-based 3D measuring systems. The company, founded in 1990, develops and distributes systems for the business areas of inspection and testing including car safety and tube inspection. Since the acquisition of Breuckmann GmbH in August 2012, the product range also includes scanners for 3D measurement of complex geometries.
The digital acquisition and documentation of cultural masterpieces is increasingly gaining importance — be it in architecture, fine arts, archaeology or paleontology. The contact-free 3D scanning technology of breuckmann Scanners works in the museum as well as at the archaeological site. It allows handling delicate objects with the utmost care and provides detailed 3D data with high-resolution color textures for thorough studies without using the original. AICON 3D Systems is an industrial partner of SEAHA and is actively involved in scientific research projects at national and international level.
For more information, please visit http://aicon3d.com/breuckmann-scanner/arts-culture.html
Analytik in partnership with Headwall Photonics
Analytik are suppliers of a wide range of non-destructive analytical equipment including Visible and Near-Infrared (Vis-NIR), FTIR, Raman, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging, and Light Measurement to UK and Ireland conservation and heritage organisations. With a range of spectroscopy and spectral imaging techniques, Analytik is able to provide heritage specialists with the latest technology, providing real-time analysis where and when required.
For more information, please visit http://www.analytik.co.uk/
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Heritage Science is an open-access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research covering scientific, mathematical and computational methods and analysis of objects, materials, artefacts and artworks of cultural and historical significance in the context of heritage and conservation studies.
For more information, please visit http://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/
Proceq is the leading Swiss manufacturer and inventor of the Equotip, the most renowned portable hardness tester of its kind.
Proceq UK provides a complete range of portable non-destructive testing instruments for rock, metal, concrete and paper testing and has a local certified service and calibration centre. The company’s strong research and development team continue to create products that set industry standards. This includes the recent Rockschmidt which was launched in 2014. Portable instruments such as the Pundit PL200, Schmidt family and Equotip are important tools that gather empirical data for the analysis of materials for use in either the laboratory or on location.
For more information, please visit http://www.proceq.com/
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The Society of Light and Lighting is open to everyone with an interest in lighting With over 3400 members globally, the SLL is recognised as an authority on lighting and welcomes all those who are interested in any aspect of the world of light, lighting, and its design or application.
SLL is a learned body, promoting education and knowledge transfer in a variety of ways, including seminars and an events programme which runs all year round. Lighting designers, consulting engineers, researchers, students, professors, manufacturers, sales staff and many more all contribute to and are members of the SLL.
For more information, please visit http://www.cibse.org/society-of-light-and-lighting-sll
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Home > Jacking and Installation of Bridges in France
Sarens Jacks and Installs Two Bridges in France
Sarens performs the challenging installation of two bridges shaped like a parallelogram.
August 2018: Sarens was commissioned to maneuver and install two bridge sections - PS10 and PS20 of the A36 in France. The construction of the A36 / N1019 interchange is part of the extensive 2 x 2 lane operation of the national road between the A31 (Langres) and the Swiss border (A16). This project will prove beneficial for travel between Belfort and Montbéliard, also making it safer.
Sarens had to move the two bridge sections weighing 350T and 375T respectively. The PS10 measured 13.8 m wide and 50.75 m long, while PS20 measured 13.8 m wide and 53.4 m long and was shaped like a parallelogram. The parallelogram shape resulted in additional challenges for the team to move and install it safely.
The two bridges were to be installed consecutively. The first bridge had to be installed over the highway during a weekend-night. The second bridge had to be installed over a regional road, during a weeknight, little over a week later. An additional challenge concerning the planning was the fact that all equipment had to be disassembled, transported to the other construction site a few kilometers further, and reassembled in between the installation of the first and second bridge.
Sarens crew of five members deployed 16 axle lines K24 ST for the maneuvering and four jacking towers CS250 to jack the bridge sections and install them by placing the deck on the elastomeric supports on the concrete pillars of the future bridge. Bracing system BS610 with turntable connections were also deployed to compensate for the fact that one of the bridges was shaped like a parallelogram.
Project Manager, Tom Jonckers says, "Preparation area for jacking and assembly of equipment was very small, but our proven experience and skills of our team made the operation successful in record time. The client was very happy with the installation."
Watch the video here!
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Summer Camp is Back for Year 2!
Posted by Schuylkill River RFC on Jul 05 2018 at 09:43AM PDT
Schuylkill River RFC, Philadelphia Women’s RFC, and the North Philadelphia Nomads RFC are proud to announce year two of their summer rugby program at the NE Frankford Boys and Girls Club. Building off of the success of last year’s summer camp the ten week program sees coaches, players, and administrators from all three teams continue to give back to the community and help develop the game on the grassroots level.
The Clubs plan to make this year’s program even bigger and better than last year’s with Kate Hallinan of Philadelphia Women’s RFC stepping into the role of Director of Rugby for the Boys and Girls Club. Hallinan, who has previously been involved in rugby programs at other youth organizations such as Philly Girls in Motion, brings a wealth of experience to the position. “As the kids continued to grow and develop as rugby players during last year’s summer program and beyond it became clear that they were ready to take the next step and see a more nuanced approach to the game” Hallinan stated. She added “it’s my intention to monitor their progress this summer and tailor the sessions to give them the best experience they can have as beginning rugby players while developing their skills.”
Helping out with the program is North Philadelphia Nomads RFC coach James Brunson who is also known to his peers as the overall heart and soul of Philadelphia rugby. Brunson was a founder of the Nomads program who has made a positive impact on countless lives through his dedication to the game and the community. According to Brunson “The partnership with the Boys and Girls Club gives members of the Nomads an opportunity to build bonds with, and mentor, youth and help grow the game in our city.”
Schuylkill River Board Member Ryan McHugh, who is also a coach for Roman Catholic high school and the Wissahickon Braves youth program is another of the volunteers for this program with substantial youth development experience and strong ties to the Philadelphia rugby community. McHugh had this to say, “As my teammates know, this is where I grew up and I’m excited to have the opportunity to give back to my community and help teach these kids the greatest sport on earth. I really can’t express how much I appreciate working with Rafiq, Donald, and Denise from the Club to help provide an opportunity for these kids."
Schuylkill River President Dave Codell, who is also involved with the Narberth Otters and the Wandering Warriors rugby teams, believes this staff might be one of the strongest youth rugby groups in the entire country. “Look around at all of the talent we have involved: Kate Hallinan just Captained and Player-Coached Philly Women to Nationals in 7s and 15s, she’s Philadelphia’s most accomplished rugby player overall at this moment and deserves credit for her status nationally. Brunson founded a club from scratch and their story was so good that they made a movie about it (which Brunson and I both happen to be in so make sure you see Nomads when it comes out!) while McHugh has twenty years of playing experience, is a D1 starter in 15s and a player-coach in 7s while also being involved in a total of 4 youth programs when you factor in Schuylkill River’s U-19 team in addition to his work with Wissahickon, Roman Catholic, and the Boys and Girls Club and that’s just a small sample of who we’ve got coaching the program this year. There’s also Greg Mininger who has overseas playing experience and various select side/all-star coaching experience and several other players from each of the Clubs mentioned. Nobody else is out there rolling out this kind of talent, that is a fact and it’s why this program is so successful and the kids enjoy it so much. I’m proud to be a part of it.”
The Club is anticipating that as many as 130 kids will participate in their summer program and the Club’s hours are expanding from 15 hours per week in the school year to over 40 hours per week in the summer which makes this a great opportunity for the teams to lend a hand where it’s needed and help provide these kids with a summer that they’ll never forget.
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Barbara Brend on the 'Khamsa' of Nizami & the 'Khamsa' of Amir Khusrau
Speaker(s): Barbara Brend
Date recorded: 3 Jul 2012
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[Over a richly coloured Persian miniature painting of a prince surrounded by courtiers, the following text appears in a black box: State Library of Victoria. Love and devotion: Persian cultural crossroads: The Khamsa of Nizami and the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau: some similarities and differences reflected in their illustrations – Dr Barbara Brend. Chair: Susan Scollay.]
[The logos for the State Library of Victoria, the Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford, Melbourne: UNESCO City of Literature, and the State Government of Victoria appear on the far left of the screen.]
[Dr Barbara Brend stands at a podium in front of detail from a Persian manuscript showing a seated man, with a flaming aureole around his head, and a woman holding hands.]
[Note to the reader: Some of the slides referred to by Dr Barbara Brend in this lecture are not shown in the video.]
Dr Barbara Brend: Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps you know that I had previously assigned to me a rather smaller slot, so that what I'm going to talk about has a sort of extra unit stuck on the front. And this is, I now realise, rather simplistic in comparison with some of the talks you've just listened to yesterday. So, if you already know this, I hope you'll pardon me. And if you're just getting into it, perhaps you can treat some of it as revision.
Now, this picture you have already seen with Charles Melville. We're now into Persia and beyond, and it is, indeed, far beyond my capacity to introduce this topic for all cultural forms. So I'm going to concentrate mainly on painting, with a little teeny bit of architecture and a little schematic bit of history behind them. And my main purpose is to sort of sweep the path in front of Susan Scollay and Lesley Forbes. I'm going to treat this little introduction bit in rather broad strokes, without the proper academic nuances. So I hope, again, you'll pardon that and make the finer points for yourselves.
This is the map of the Persian Empire at its greatest extent, about 513 BC, under the Achaemenian Darius. Modern Iran, as you doubtless know, forms only a small, central part of this, but Persian influence persisted or returned over much of the former empire. So some areas of what we are going to consider as 'beyond' may once have been under Persian rule. But it's quite evident that the Indus formed a very strong barrier. Actually, it's not quite evident 'cause the colour doesn't come up very well on this. But the Indus did form a barrier to much Persian invasion. As you also doubtless know, the name 'Persia', as marked just above the Persian Gulf, derives from the province of Fars. This is a little picture, a tiny detail, from the Achaemenian capital of Persepolis, and I put it there just as a sort of hint of what was happening in the old days before the bit we're going to look at. I shall just assert that there is a certain relation to what we see later in things like the restrained elegance of line. I'm not, this moment, going to go deeply into whether this is a matter of revival or survival or just a coincidence resulting from the geography and the strong light of the area. Then the other thing I wanted to do was ... [off-topic aside] I just wanted to point out where Anatolia is. At the moment, in this Persian Empire, it's under Persian rule, but it's going to come, obviously, under modern Turkey eventually. So we're going to start off with a look at the Turkish world and then we're going to have a tiny little look at north India. [Off-topic aside] The Turks, as, again, you probably know, didn't originate in present-day Turkey, but in Central Asia. In the 11th century, headed by a group known as the Seljuqs, they moved into and conquered Iran.
[On a screen, the left-hand photo shows the interior of a room built of pale brick. A relief in stucco can be seen above three archways. It is captioned, 'Friday mosque, Ardistan, late 11th century.']
Dr Brend: The mosque on the left at Ardistan was built in the later 11th. And here we're looking up into the vault of the great ayvan. The material is brick, the form is arcuate, and the embellishments are in stucco. The Seljuqs moved westward into Anatolia and established themselves in Konya, and by the early 13th century, they're building away there vigorously. They continue to build even when they get overtaken by Mongol rule in 1243.
[The right-hand photo shows an elaborately carved stone facade. The caption reads, 'Ince Minareli medrese, Konya, c. 1260.']
Dr Brend: On the right, we have the Ince Minareli medrese of Konya, which is about 1260. We're looking up into the half vault of the main portal. The material is now stone, the form is rounded rather than arcuate, but there are carved embellishments that are in the tradition of Persian work – the important inscription bands and the palmettes of Seljuq Iran, in this version, vastly magnified. Not much material survives to make clear the earliest stages of Persian painting, but we can guess at it from decorations on pottery, as on the left. It's a sherd in the mina’i technique, which I won't go into, probably of the early 13th century from Iran, perhaps from the city of Kashan. This style is clearly to be related to that of the manuscript on the right, which is a romance in Persian by the name of Varqa u Gulshah. The manuscript contains the name of a painter and a match to this name is found in Konya, so it's considered probable that the manuscript was produced there in the mid 13th century. Anyway, you'll see the obvious similarity in horses, for example. Now here we come to a bit of jump. By the 15th century, the Ottomans, one of the successor groups to the Seljuqs, are located in Bursa in the north-west corner of Anatolia, just opposite the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. On the left, the mosque of Murad II of 1426 draws on the ceramic tradition of Iran …
[The left-hand photo is a close-up of hexagonal tiles in light blue and dark blue, with their borders and centres decorated with gold. The caption reads 'Muradiya camii, Bursa 1426.']
Dr Brend: … in the form of glazed tiles with applied gold, and it represents the colourful splendour of the 15th century right through from Iran and into Anatolia. Murad's son, Mehmed II, captured Constantinople in 1453, and the city gradually became known as Istanbul. Probably had been a bit before, but we won't go into that. This is the period about which Dr Scollay is going to talk. So I'm going to pass over this formative period of Ottoman art to have a quick look at what happens afterwards, sort of where it's going to. And I'm doing that on this side in the form of the mosque of Süleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul …
[A slide shows the exterior of a large mosque built in stone with domes of increasing size visible above a line of elongated archways. The caption reads 'Süleymaniye camii, Istanbul, 1557'.]
Dr Brend: ... which was built in 1557. Now, there are tiles in the interior, not quite like the Persian ones, and there is a debt to Byzantine architecture, but I'm not going to enter into either of those. What I wanted to convey here is the feeling of Ottoman Empire, which is what this building gives me. The dominant impression of mature Ottoman architecture is this sense of order and decorum. It's like the Ottoman polity. It's formed of diverse elements, but they're held in check, and moulded into an empire. And the whole thing is extremely complex, but it has a sort of logical serenity to it.
Here, just a year later, 1558, is an Ottoman manuscript, the Süleymannama, which is history. And, again, it shows the particular interest in the empire. It's showing you how it was run, it's showing you current history. Its pages convey the same dignified order. Here, we look into Topkapi Palace. The functions of various people can be deduced. And the roof has been lifted off the divan so that we see into it and we can see the innermost workings of the state. The general conception of the picture is Persian in origin. The scene is laid out with its high viewpoint, and it has a certain diagrammatic character and carefully placed colours. There is even a memory of Persian landscape conventions in the sparse grass tufts. There is, though, a trace of Europe in the treatment of the trees and some arbitrary shadow. But wholesale European influence is, as it were, held at arm's length. I think this is because the Ottoman state is a front-line state in regard to Europe. It'll take a bit, but it has to be careful. So, anyway, the whole picture is in Ottoman dress. Now we'll go to India. The Turkish forces who invaded India in 1192 discovered a vigorous tradition of architecture and of sculpture, Hindu and Jain.
[A photo shows ornate stone pillars running along the edges of a courtyard. The caption reads, 'Quvvat al-Islam mosque, Delhi, 1198'.]
Dr Brend: The Quwwat al-Islam Mosque at Delhi was first constructed from the spoils of numerous Hindu and Jain temples. I think the number is estimated at 27, but the precise number doesn't matter. The columns and beams of this trabeate architecture have been richly adorned. And in spite of being in a mosque, you may notice that there is some survival of figural representations here. Lady. Well, a goddess, presumably. So these sort of seem to have got by with only being slightly defaced. In 1198, a screen of arches was added ... That's the bit over here.
[In a photo of a courtyard, ornate stone pillars frame a towering stone archway, which is flanked by two smaller archways. The caption reads, 'Quvvat al-Islam mosque, Delhi, 1198’.]
Dr Brend: … to give it a more Islamic appearance. The visual impression is from the Persian tradition, though the construction is of stone, and the arches are formed not with radiating voussoirs, but are corbelled out, as is clearly shown by the horizontal lines of colour variation. Now, for three and a half centuries, there is a tract of history that can loosely be called the 'Sultanate period'. During this, a great variety of buildings and manuscripts were produced, some close to Persian prototypes and some more divergent from them. A rather Persianate cluster of manuscripts was produced in Mandu in western central India in the late 15th to early 16th century. One such manuscript is the Ni‘matnama, on the right, a book of recipes and other practical advice, such as how many musicians you need to take if you're going on a hunting trip.
Dr Brend: So the Ni‘matnama was started by one ruler by the name of Ghiyas al-Din Khalji, who had retired with a view to being served entirely by women, and it's completed for his son, Nasir al-Din, after 1500. The Persian tradition is evident in the general lines of the style, but we have some different features in the architecture … and a sort of different look about it. So you wouldn't mistake it for Persian, is what I'm trying to say. We are in a close match for the pool on the other, which is in a little pleasure pavilion also produced for Nasir al-Din in 1508. So you can see how the architecture matches what's shown in the picture. And in many Sultanate manuscripts, one argues that they are from India on the grounds of the architecture. Though the Mughals first entered India in 1526, evidence of their patronage is mainly known from the 15th century, the mid century, onwards, when Humayun, the second Mughal ruler, acquired the services of several artists from Iran.
The picture on the left shows Mir Musavvir, one such artist, and is either by the subject himself or by his son. It is in classical Safavid style – elegant and informative in an abstract kind of way. The drawing of the reader on the right represents the transformation that took place in Mughal India during the following quarter century. Unfortunately, it's not dated, so one can't be frightfully sharp about that. The drawing is attributable to Basawan, one of the numerous Hindu painters to serve the Mughals. While it has elements in common with the Persian picture, in conception, flowing line, costume, it has new effects of volume and some more down-to-earth detail. I particularly like the toes, if you look at those. I think this change is because the Hindu painters, with their strong background of three-dimensional sculpture, are able to take up ideas that come flowing in from Europe more easily. And, again, unlike the Ottomans, they don't need to feel resistant to European things because they're at a safe distance from them.
Here we are in the time of Akbar, in 1595, a picture for him in a Nizami on the left. Mughal painting, of course, continues afterwards, as Lesley Forbes is going to explain to you. What's happening here is that an old woman castigates Sultan Sanjar for the oppression she's experiencing. The influence of Europe is very clear in the treatment. We have realism, volume, the suggestion of shadow, and a magnificent effect of recession. But this manuscript was produced during a phase of renewed interest in Persian literature on the part of the patron. The Mughal picture makes an interesting comparison with this on the right, which is basically the same story, but applied to a different sultan, Malikshah. The text of this manuscript, which is one of the works of Khwaju Kirmani, was copied in Baghdad in 1396, and the pictures are probably of about 1390. And it's got a curious similarity to the Mughal picture in that the lady is waving her arms and has a long trailer down the back, whereas, in many other pictures, she's a little, bent, old lady. So something I'd like to look into further. So, anyway, this is my introduction. I hope it's of some use.
Now we come to the particular matter of Nizami and Amir Khusrau. In the late 12th century, the celebrated Persian poet Nizami composed his Khamsa, a quintet of books. The first book contains a set of didactic essays reinforced with brief parables, and the other four books are romances, three of which have a quasi-historical background. At the turn of the 13th to 14th century, Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, Amir Khusrau of Delhi, who was born in India and lived there, though he is of Central Asian/Turkish extraction and Persian culture, so that he's really a sort of paradigm of Persia and beyond, he composed a Khamsa of his own that, in some respects, follows that of Nizami and, in some, departs from it. The works of both poets have been illustrated both in Iran and India, and, in consequence, we have a great wealth of illustrations. In order to treat this subject within reasonable limits, I intend to use the State Library of Victoria's Amir Khusrau as a central focus. The Amir Khusrau is going to come up on … mostly on the left side of the screen and it's going to be unlabelled. The comparisons are mostly on the right and labelled. The manuscript … the Amir Khusrau, as you may see in the exhibition, is dated to 1599 or 1600. Here, I'm comparing it with a much earlier picture, which is from a Nizami. The basic iconography of this stays very much the same. Some illustrations, though from different times and places, have the same iconography in pictures for both poets, and this is especially evident in the illustrations that give a framework to the tale of the Sassanian Prince Bahram Gur, which Nizami calls Haft Paykar, ‘Seven fair forms’ and Amir Khusrau calls Hasht Bihisht, ‘Eight paradises’. Amir Khusrau is sort of notionally paying tribute to Nizami, but he's always trying to sneak in something that he's a little sort of more so. We have ... Bahram Gur goes and visits a pavilion of a princess every day in the week.
[Seven colourful artworks appear on the screen, each depicting a couple framed by an arch or pavilion. The first is predominantly black, the second saffron, the third green, the fourth light red, the fifth features a violet gazebo against a blue sky, the sixth a light brown gazebo in a garden and the seventh, unfinished, is white against a light red background.]
Dr Brend: It's rather interestingly the same sort of structure as we have with those jinns that Dr Carboni was talking about yesterday. A jinn for each colour. But I noticed that the colour sequence wasn't quite the same as it is in these. But, you know, it all hangs together in a conception of cosmology, what the world is made of.
Here, we have the black pavilion of Saturday. [Non-lecture aside] The Amir Khusrau pavilion on the left has a similar iconography to that on the right, which illustrates a Nizami text of 1411. Those who are deeply into this subject will know that it's not a complete Nizami. It's part of an anthology, but, for present purposes, it's a Nizami text. What the pictures do not reveal is that Amir Khusrau embellishes the title of the pavilion. For him, it is not simply the black pavilion, but the musk-black pavilion. And in it, the princess will tell a story that is a bit different from that in Nizami. There we have the black one. Some manuscripts confine themselves to the illustration of the first two pavilions – just the black and the pavilion that, for Nizami, is yellow, and, for Amir Khusrau, is saffron. Some manuscripts of either poet show the pavilions of all the days of the week. And, as you imagine, when all pavilions are shown, there is a risk of repetitive dullness. But the illustrator of the Melbourne Amir Khusrau triumphantly takes us through seven days of the week with a delightfully varied architecture. Where the Nizami pavilion would be green, Amir Khusrau's is verdant. Where Nizami's would be red, Amir Khusrau's is pomegranate-coloured, the designation perhaps emphasised by a pomegranate tree growing beside it. Where Nizami's pavilion is blue, Amir Khusrau's is violet. And here, the painter introduces variety by rendering the pavilion as a delicate gazebo. And to return for a moment to the narrative, it will be no accident that Amir Khusrau accords the more romantic stories of his collection to the pomegranate and the violet pavilions, the fruit and the flower. For once, Amir Khusrau follows Nizami in naming the Thursday pavilion 'sandalwood'. Presumably, he could not think of an additional poetic way of saying 'brown'. The pavilion of Friday, the holy day, is white for Nizami and camphor-white for Amir Khusrau. The camphor pavilion in the Melbourne manuscript is of particular interest since it's unfinished. The story told in it concerns the conduct that distinguishes a chaste and pious wife. It is, however, interesting that the Melbourne illustration was intended to portray …
[A close-up of the white and light red image reveals that the drawing of the couple is unfinished. On the right, a similar picture shows a couple in brightly coloured clothing framed by a pink and gold archway. To the left an attendant carries a golden dish and to the right two musicians play.]
Dr Brend: … a slightly greater degree of intimacy between Bahram and the princess than is shown in the other pavilions. And we may perhaps wonder whether this is the reason it's not completed. The other thing it shows, of course, only I don't know if you can see it frightfully well on the screen, but that sort of little unit of arabesques sticking up above the picture must be a later addition because it runs over a white dome.
[Non-lecture aside] We now move from the story of Bahram Gur to that of another Sasanian prince named, like the author, Khusrau. So Amir Khusrau on this side for once. This prince has journeyed to Armenia, met and fallen in love with the Princess Shirin, and is entertained by her aunt. In this illustration, it is by no means clear to me whether the lady in conversation with the prince is intended as Shirin or as her aunt. Indeed, the whole picture could be taken for one of Bahram Gur's pavilions were it a little more definite in colour. This demonstrates the fact that some pictures have a generic iconography that could well be used in other manuscripts for other subjects. Both from the Amir Khusrau. Similarly, in the following scenes from the Amir Khusrau, we have a very charming effect. But the pictures, the compositions, the precise compositions, could have been used the other way round. And, indeed, it seems to me not impossible that the artist got them the wrong way round. In the left-hand one, Khusrau and Shirin are enthroned at night and entertained by ten youths and ten maidens.
[A colourful image shows a couple sitting together on a platform in an outdoor setting. Attendants, musicians and a dancer entertain and wait on the couple.]
Dr Brend: Khusrau invites the attendants to pair off with the promise that he will unite them. However, Shirin and Khusrau themselves quarrel and fail to follow suit. In the second fête champêtre on the right, Khusrau has journeyed to Isfahan to find solace with the beautiful Shakar …
[A slide shows couples in colourful Persian dress sitting in a landscape of flowers, shrubs and rocks. One couple sits on a deep blue carpet.]
Dr Brend: … who is a rather shady lady, though technically chaste. She welcomes him and entertains him with music and, in the morning, they marry. This moment comes a little later in the story. Shirin has heard of the marriage. A young sculptor-cum-civil-engineer named Farhad has fallen in love with her. Khusrau has caused the death of Farhad. Here, Khusrau has come to the door of Shirin's castle to plead with him for admittance. And the same composition with the same storyline we find in Nizami, I think, in the exhibition. Now, this is, I think, an extraordinarily important composition type, and I would like to sort of go into it for a moment. I see it as a sort of L-shaped – vertical on the left, of course, and horizontal coming towards us. I think it is a sort of paradigm of Persian painting in that it tells you what is going on but it is not realistic, naturalistic. I mean, if you imagine it in cinematographic terms, you couldn't do a shot which would show the gentleman at the bottom of the castle and the lady at the top of it without panning. So space is reduced. And, again, they couldn't really hold a very long and discursive conversation from that sort of distance, but it's telling you what happens. So this character in Persian painting is what I mean by 'diagrammatic'. It's like a chart – it shows you. You know what the narrative is, everything's perfectly plain. And on top of that, it has a certain sort of symbolism because, obviously …
[Slide shows two Persian miniature paintings of a woman looking down from a window at a turbaned man on horseback. In the left-hand painting, the woman is dressed in white and looks from an arched window, while the woman in the right-hand image is dressed in black and stands in a rectangular window. In the right-hand image, the horse stands in a garden. Two male attendants stand behind.]
Dr Brend: … Shirin at the top of the window has the upper hand in psychological terms. And, furthermore, in symbolic terms relating to mysticism, it places her more suitably as the divine object with the lover below asking to come in and come up. So it's a very important composition and had been used in other works from the 14th century onwards, and it gets used in many, many different sorts of narratives and places.
Another point where the Amir Khusrau and the Nizami stories are quite close – they're not identical – occurs in their third book, which is set in pre-Islamic Arabia, as we were hearing yesterday. Majnun's mad for love of Layla, a girl from a different tribe, or a different tribe in Amir Khusrau. When Majnun is wandering in the desert, he is befriended by Naufal, a Bedouin chieftain. Naufal offers to obtain Layla as Majnun's bride, and a tribal battle ensues. For the work of both authors, this scene is distinguished from a generic scene of warfare by the presence of camels. In the Nizami – this side, from the 1411 text – Majnun is watching … and he's going to intervene in the battle. In the Amir Khusrau story, Majnun is not yet present at the initial battle, which is what we've got in the Amir Khusrau side. Later, he comes to hear of a plot to kill Layla, so he goes and clutches at Naufal's stirrup, to prevent further warfare. Then there's the matter of visits to Majnun in the desert. Amir Khusrau also diverges from Nizami in the matter of visitors to Majnun when he is in the desert, pining for Layla. In Nizami, Majnun is visited by his father and then by his uncle and mother. In Amir Khusrau, he's also visited by his father, but later by friends who seek him out and invite him to join their joyful gathering. This subject gives rise to very endearing scenes of affection, both in the Melbourne manuscript, in a fairly simple but sweet effect, and in a manuscript of 1495, in Herat style, in which we may possibly see the hand of the celebrated painter Bihzad. One story starts off somewhat similar and then diverges, as Dr Abdullaeva has shown in the exhibition book. We have the slave girl whom Bahram Gur takes out with him on a hunt. She is named Fitna in Nizami and Dilaram in Amir Khusrau. The girl raises Bahram's ire and he casts her off. By long practice, Fitna, the Nizami one, acquires the capability to carry a calf up a flight of stairs …
[The right-hand image shows a woman standing on a rooftop carrying a cow across her shoulders. She faces a man, while more wait near the door below. The left-hand image depicts a woman playing a harp seated next to a man by a stream and surrounded by animals. A boy waits nearby with a horse and three others observe from behind a hillside.]
Dr Brend: … as one does, and so confounds Bahram and is reunited with him. Dilaram, on the other hand, learns from a wise man how to draw wild animals into an enchanted sleep, and thus she achieves the same result. And I think that's clearly Amir Khusrau trying to upstage Nizami.
Now, the parables in the first book of the quintets are quite different in both. So here is a sequence of the Amir Khusrau ones. These pictures run fairly true to a tradition of Amir Khusrau pictures. The picture on the left and, indeed, on the right shows us a group of travellers in the desert who are stricken with thirst. A man comes along and offers them water, but since each refuses to drink and passes the water to his friend, they all die of thirst. The Melbourne manuscript has several features, figures and colours which relate it to a version probably of the 1520s in the style of Bukhara. I won't elaborate. I hope you can see them. We now come to the Mughal effect. The Amir Khusrau manuscript on the right was copied in Mughal India in 1598 and can be considered as a companion volume to the Nizami of 1595 of which I showed you a picture before. In this parable in the first book, a young man wanders in a garden and an old man makes an approach to him. The young man taunts the old man for his stooped posture. The old man replies that he's looking on the ground for the coin of lost youth and that, one day, this will be the lot of the other. In the Melbourne picture, the young man and the old are shown separated symbolically by a tree. In the Mughal painting, we have a great deal of luscious detail and background added, but the essentials are the same. The figures are separated by a tree, youth still wears his vermilion garment, and the old man still wears a blue gown, though he has taken off his yellow coat. Sometimes, both Persian and Mughal comparisons can be brought to bear. This subject provides us with an interesting example of a rather stable iconography.
Another of the parables, this parable, deals with the longing of the soul for the divine. A furnace stoker looks at a king and loves him and weeps. The king understands and smiles. The smoky heat of the furnace is to be identified with the mystical passion experienced by the stoker. The iconography of the Melbourne picture is quite close to that of an illustration, probably from the Caucasus, that precedes it by some hundred years. But then its fundamental elements are also to be found in the Mughal manuscript of 1598, its near-contemporary. At first, we see a confusing mass of figures. But if we take out a detail … that eliminates some two-thirds of the picture, a similarity to the Melbourne picture becomes clear, albeit with much augmented landscape.
We return to the story of Khusrau and Shirin. Farhad, you will recall, has fallen in love with Shirin. Shirin asks Farhad to build a channel that will bring to her the milk from the flocks in mountains, and she comes to visit him at work. The Melbourne picture is unusual in showing Farhad hugging his knees, but I'd like you to note this point. The Mughal composition shows the more usual iconography as it might be found in a Nizami. In spite of this difference, the Melbourne and the Mughal manuscripts have in common Shirin and a horse and a rocky background, as might be expected. But, looking more closely, it becomes clear that there's an odder similarity. Shirin's rather distinctive costume in the Persian manuscript – orange and blue with a draped headdress – has been transferred to one of the attendants in the Mughal picture. How this comes about actually is a mystery to me. I mean, there's obviously a back tradition, but I can't quite see what it is.
Now, in Nizami … Khusrau becomes jealous of this slight connection between Farhad and Shirin, and he sends a messenger who gives Farhad false news of the death of Shirin, which caused Farhad to die. In Amir Khusrau, this is slightly elaborated because, first of all, Khusrau goes himself disguised as a shepherd. So, on the far side, we have Khusrau himself visiting Farhad, disguised as a shepherd, but it's using the format which, in a Nizami, would be the messenger. On this side, in the Mughal manuscript, we have the messenger bringing the false news. He's finding Farhad in conversation with a shepherd. But the remarkable thing in the present context is that we see here Farhad in a hunched position, which matches that that we had in this. So there's some sort of cross-current. I don't quite know what it is, but something has connected there.
A final point I should like to make touches both on similarity and divergence and on the legacy of Persian painting in India. We're both Nizami here. In Nizami's work, at a climactic moment in the narrative, Majnun is led by a well-wisher to the encampment where Layla is, or possibly the town where she is, and both the lovers faint from emotion. The well-wisher tries to revive them. This subject has a long history, as you can see from the – at least the 1411 upwards. And I'm not sure if it's before that, but, anyway, it's long. Though the Mughal, of course, treats it in a slightly different manner. Now, this episode doesn't occur in Amir Khusrau, but, instead, we have Layla deciding to visit Majnun, not Majnun going to Layla. Layla goes to Majnun. She equips herself with a camel …
[A slide shows a painting of a man being cradled in the arms of a woman among trees and forest animals. A camel sits a short distance away. In a second colourful image, a couple sit facing each other near a hill. Nearby, brightly dressed women stand watching, and a man holds a camel. The caption reads, 'Layla visits Majnun, Rajasthan, 18th century, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne AS 62-1980.']
Dr Brend: … and a mahmil, the litter on top of a camel, and she goes and finds Majnun. She finds him asleep and takes his head on her lap. On waking, Majnun faints, and stays thus for a while. And then they both revive and talk to each other of love. In the Mughal Amir Khusrau, we don't, unfortunately, have a camel, which can be quite a key piece, but we have a conversation in the desert. But in later Mughal pictures ... There are quite a number of later pictures in various Mughal albums and on show in the exhibition. And Mughal pictures, so far as I know, show the couple in conversation and with a camel, and, if they do, they are in the tradition of Amir Khusrau and not in that of Nizami. Camel again. I mean, it's got an extra man leading it, who's extraneous, I think, but it's the basic fact. And so we see that there's a web of traditions of illustrations that meet and diverge between the two Khamsas. How the traditions are handed down or transferred from centre to centre is, most often, not certain. For the most part, we do not know if ways of portraying things were carried in complete manuscripts, in isolated sketches, or in the memory of painters. Thank you.
[On a black screen, under the words, 'Images courtesy of', appear the logos of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, State Library of Victoria, and National Gallery of Victoria.]
[The logos for the State Library of Victoria and the State Government of Victoria appear in white on a black screen.]
'There's a web of traditions…that meet and diverge between the two ‘Khamsas’.'
- Barbara Brend
Join Barbara Brend for a discussion about two remarkable versions of the ‘Khamsa’.
Adorned with beautifully illustrated miniatures, the ‘Khamsa’ of celebrated 12th-century Persian poet Nizami is considered one of the finest examples of the Indo-Muslim arts of the book.
Inspired by this work, several other notable poets later wrote Khamsas in Persian and in Turkish.
Discover the similarities and differences in the ‘Khamsas’ as Barbara contrasts the Persian version with that of famous Indian poet Amir Khusrau, created over a century later.
Barbara Brend is an independent scholar whose research focuses on form and meaning in Persian and Mughal manuscript illustration.
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Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Casey Quinn
by Qiana Towns Read the Story June 20, 2016
Art by Dave Petraglia
What did you discover the last time you Googled yourself? If it’s not anything exciting, feel free to make up something.
There’s a writer with a very similar name as mine, and when I Google “Casey Quinn,” she pops up. She writes romance novels set in the south.
Poets often say that a poem is never finished. Do you feel the same way about your stories? If not, how do you know when a story is finished and ready for the world?
I think it’s the same for fiction writers. For me, time passing is the real pain in the butt. I think you’re trying to create a static thing in a chaotic universe, and you the writer are constantly changing emotionally—your aesthetic is evolving, you’re hopefully becoming a better writer (whatever the hell that means). There’s nothing worse than realizing a few weeks after you’ve sent something out that it really wasn’t “ready” or what it really should be.
So I’ve been trying to put things away for a while and returning to them after time has passed, which is really hard. I think that’s a fairly common writing policy for fiction writers; I’m not sure about poets.
A follow-up question—do you celebrate the completion of a story? If so, how?
I don’t celebrate but I feel good for a while. Then the doubt and jealousy seep in. I’ll read someone that blows me away or see an awesome film. Wax on, wax off.
The father in your story seems to be a bootstraps kind of man. The kind of man who only kisses his wife on holidays. The kind of man who tells the same story time and again. The kind of man who still eats Freedom Fries! Yes! The kind of man who might still refer to black people as negroes because he never learned anything different. Or maybe he reminds me of my papa. Anyway, what else can you share with us about him that is not revealed in the story?
Yeah, that’s definitely his type. A small person out of time. Someone who doesn’t quite fit the mold anymore and is clinging to what he knows. He wears the same clothes that he wore fifty years ago: short-sleeved button-down shirts. He probably came close, but never hit his wife. His greatest insecurity is that he can’t and has never been able to grow chest hair. Someone who covets Hemingway and ideals of masculinity but maybe was never the top dog amongst the guys, so he was braggadocious at home?
There is something very unsettling about the sons in your story. It’s difficult for me to pinpoint what it is, but by the end of the story I am very angry with them. How do you respond to that?
I think as a society we’re inclined to give older generations a lot of leeway in terms of their idiosyncrasies, beliefs and physical aliments, so to see someone’s own children wanting them to just keel over is upsetting, no matter how big of a jerk that older person is. The sons aren’t very sympathetic towards their father’s plight or his memory loss. They’re more annoyed than anything. They’re just vultures circling. I imagine most people can empathize with the frustrations of taking care of someone or something. These sons are kinda the manifestation of all those awful thoughts people hopefully ignore. The onus is on them to be sympathetic and patient because this is their father and because he is old.
What’s your favorite Muhammad Ali quote?
“I have wrestled with a alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail.”
Bonus question: Why aren’t there any women in the story? I don’t mean to imply that there have to be women in the story; I’m just curious about why there aren’t any.
The sons were more inherited from an earlier version than anything else. That story started out more as a fable with the father being 120 with fifteen sons, some of whom were dead, etc. I liked the way the “we” worked since death is a communal event, so I kept that. And to have both daughters and sons kinda felt like breaking up the point of view by introducing more individuality than I wanted to deal with in such a short form, if that makes any sense. It could have been all daughters. Now that you posed that question I kinda wish I had written it with all daughters. There would have been so much to play with.
I’m also kind of the anti-Disney. I really love my mother, so I probably never would have thought to make the father a mother. Sorry, Dad. My dad also painted the accompanying artwork.
Casey Quinn holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and has received scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, The Edward F. Albee Foundation and Hamilton College. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, Post Road and Bartleby Snopes.
Qiana Towns is author of the chapbook This is Not the Exit (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2015). She resides in Flint, Michigan, where she serves as the community outreach coordinator for Bottles for the Babies, a grassroots organization created to support the residents of Flint during the water crisis.
A Best Small Fictions 2015 Winner, Dave Petraglia's writing and art have appeared in Bartleby Snopes, bohemianizm, Cheap Pop, Crack the Spine, Five:2:One, Gambling the Aisle, Hayden's Ferry, matchbook, Medium, McSweeney's, Necessary Fiction, North American Review, Per Contra, Points in Case, Popular Science, Razed, SmokeLong Quarterly, Up the Staircase, and others.
This interview appeared in Issue Fifty-Two of SmokeLong Quarterly.
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Earliest Castlehaven Sextons: John (G1) and his sons, Timothy and Cornelius, and daughter, Mary (all G2)
Sextons descended from Timothy (G2): Scobaun (Lot 4) & Toehead
Sextons descended from John Sexton c.1795-1847 G3 (Scobaun)
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Sextons descended from Cornelius (G2): Scobaun (Lot 5 and 7, near the school)
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Hannah Sexton
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Hannah Sexton (Australia, family origins in Limerick)
Hannah Mary Helen Sexton (1862-1950), surgeon, was born on 21 June 1862 in Melbourne, youngest of five daughter of Irish parents Daniel Sexton, builder and architect who had emigrated from Limerick in 1850, and his wife Maria, née Bromwell. Hannah was educated at Carlton Ladies’ College. After matriculating she planned to study medicine in England, as the medical school at the University of Melbourne was not open to women. Meanwhile she enrolled in arts and met Lilian Helen Alexander, who shared her ambition for a medical career. Resolving to press the university to admit female medical students, with the support of six other interested women they wrote to the university council and interviewed every council-member. Largely as a result of their persuasions, council in March 1887 passed by a substantial majority the motion to admit women to medicine.
In 1892 Sexton became the third woman to graduate M.B., B.S. in Melbourne. Penalized by the unwillingness of hospitals to appoint women, especially to honorary positions, the early graduates directed their efforts to establishing ‘a hospital of our own’. Helen Sexton was one of the group of medical women who met under the leadership of Dr Constance Stone in September 1896 to found the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children. It began as an out-patient clinic, but when it was officially opened in July 1899 it was a ‘small airy hospital with eight beds and a well designed operating theatre’. Sexton was the leader of surgical work until she resigned in 1908, remaining on the honorary consultant staff as a gynaecologist.
In 1899 she became the first woman to hold an honorary position as surgeon in any other Melbourne hospital, with her election by subscribers to the position of honorary gynaecological surgeon at the Women’s Hospital. Her ability won her acceptance and respect throughout Melbourne, and her early retirement due to ill health in 1910 prompted numerous expressions of regret and tributes from the medical world.
Sexton’s medical career was not yet over. After touring Europe in 1912-14, she offered her services to the Australian authorities on the outbreak of World War I. She was refused, and instead joined several other women in starting a field hospital of twenty-five beds at Auteuil in France. Sexton was given the military rank of majeur in the French Army. She later worked at a hospital in Paris.
Sexton returned to Melbourne in 1917 and settled at Toorak, but in 1919, retiring finally from practice, she resumed her travels and eventually lived in Florence, Italy, where she was said to have done ‘wonderful work among the poor’. In later life she suffered from arthritis and paralysis agitans. She died, unmarried, in London on 12 October 1950.
For some years a well-known figure in Melbourne, Sexton was noted for her tailor-made clothes, her ‘dumpy hat’ and ‘flat, sensible shoes’. From her business investments and her medical cases she was said to have made ‘a good pile’, which enabled her to indulge her love of ‘the hoary and the historical’, of travel, and of art. In private, as in her career, she was said to be ‘terribly serious about … life and duty, but she had a love of fun as well’. Melbourne Punch commended her bedside manner for its ‘kindly brusquerie’, and recognized, with some surprise, her ‘broad sense of humour’. Above all she was noted for her great charm.
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Understudy Hall: ‘Race”s Afton C. Williamson is no longer a clenched fist
by Jesse North
Every day, understudies hope to go on in the role they cover. Yet as much as that is the desire they obsess over, the even greater dream is to take over the part permanently. Understudy veteran Afton C. Williamson’s dream came to fruition on June 15 when she stepped into the role of Susan in David Mamet’s legal drama Race for the remainder of its run. Understudying Kerry Washington since Race began previews in November, Williamson will stay with the production through its August 21 closing date. Already an experienced understudy from last year’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Williamson sat down with Stage Rush to discuss achieving the ultimate understudy dream.
How does it feel to go from understudying a role to taking it on as your own?
Surreal. As an understudy, you usually only get a performance or two, if that. When I did Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, I didn’t get any performances. I was understudying three women, and it was a wonderful experience. All of them became some of my best friends in the world. To come through all this and to still keep building people in New York, it’s always good to have people around you who get it.
This is a situation that not many understudies find themselves in.
Being with Race for seven months and listening to it every night and seeing over 200 shows, all of that has really just prepared for this moment. But I didn’t know it when it was in existence. There were days where I was like, “Man, I really wanted to go on stage tonight, but OK.” You just do it. It’s the craziest job in the world. You just got to be ready at any moment, but as actors, all the gratification is when we’re on stage. But as an understudy, you don’t get to act. You work up all this stuff every day and then you don’t get a release. The actors on stage get the release. I kind of go home like this—(m,akes a clenched fist). You’re like, “Maybe once! Maybe once!” When we have understudy rehearsals, that’s when all the understudies get the opportunity to let it all out. I think it’s going to be exciting to have that experience every night.
How have rehearsals changed for you, since you’ve taken over the role?
With any role, when another actor is playing it, when it comes out of their mouth, it’s going to be completely different. Impacting my character, hearing it differently, or coming from a different angle has definitely impacted Susan. I go home with new stuff, new nuances every night, thinking, “That’s interesting! I never thought about that line like that before.”
You’ve gone on twice for Kerry Washington. Tell me about the first experience.
The first time was February 24, and it was planned. That was the first payoff in my entire understudy experience in New York. It was the pot of gold at the end. It was my mom’s birthday. It all coincided; the stars aligned. I flew her out here, because I got to know in advance, which was the sweet part. All my Joe Turner people came. It was sweet, because there was so much support. Nobody in New York had really seen me do anything. I kept getting these jobs based on my audition work, but a lot of my friends never understood what I was doing. For them to see it, they were like, “This is your time.” It was surreal. I was nervous as heck when the lights went up. You realize in that moment that this is the biggest audience you’ve ever played for, and that this isn’t an understudy rehearsal.
People are usually disappointed when understudy cards fall out of a Playbill. What are your thoughts on that?
The second time I went on for Kerry Washington, it was early this month. It was so last minute, there wasn’t a chance to put the “At This Performance” notices inside the Playbills. It was very impromptu and things were crazy. The stage manager had to announce it, which they don’t like to do, because of the bad response. So the curtain’s down, I’m on stage with James Spader, David Alan Grier, and Richard Thomas, and we hear him say, “The role of Susan, usually played by Kerry Washington, will be played by Afton Williamson.” And we heard the audience go, “Ugh, for real?” All the guys on stage were just like, “PSSSHHHH!” We were kind of having a party. And that made me feel better. That just fueled the fire, because I was thinking ‘You’ll get your money’s worth. We’ll see what you say at the end.’
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I saw Afton in the role of Susan on June 16 and thought she was OK…then I saw her again on June 20 and she was excellent. It was amazing how those couple of performances really allowed her to free herself from any nervousness or doubt. The first performance I saw both she and Ray Anthony Thomas (David Alan Grier’s understudy) seemed tentative and did not command the stage, but four days and five performances later they were forceful and did a wonderful job. Best wishes to her for the rest of her run; she is a very talented actress.
Jesse North
It’s great to hear from someone who has seen her perform! It’s really exciting to watch an actor grow in a role. It’s very interesting that you went back to see the show within such a short time period. What inspired that? And it’s definitely great to hear you say Afton made a huge improvement. And whoa—a performance with two understudies?! That must have made for some interesting sentiments, in both the house seats and back stage—something this series is always aiming to explore.
My apologies for not responding sooner. I saw the play twice during that week because it was the last week for James Spader and I wanted to catch his performance a few more times before he left the show. I knew that Afton C. Williamson and Ray Anthony Thomas were going to be doing the roles that week until the new cast took over the following Monday. I truthfully was a little disappointed after Wednesday’s performance…everyone seemed to be working with less intensity than normal. Thus when Sunday’s performance rolled around I wasn’t expecting the electricity I experienced at previous performances I had attended featuring the full original cast…well, I could not have been more wrong. The new players were up for the challenge and Spader and Thomas were ruling the boards once again. The original members seemed to tone back their performances when the new members were first added, but realized they could go for it in spite of the change. It really was a wonderful performance by one and by all.
KJ Cohen
Afton is beyond wonderful, she has come a long way since her understudy days. Talented, a master of accents, a true actor in the rare form.
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Pediatric nurse practitioner Sarah Gutknecht, who died at age 54, left smiles as she traveled globe
She made frequent trips overseas with Operation Smile, an international charity that provides free surgery for children with cleft lips and palates.
By Libor Jany Star Tribune
September 6, 2017 — 9:56pm
On frequent trips overseas with Operation Smile, an international charity that provides free surgery for children with cleft lips and palates, Sarah Gutknecht used to joke that the only continent she wouldn’t visit was Antarctica.
Penguins don’t have lips, she’d say. Besides, she was needed elsewhere.
Her outgoing manner and cheerful spirit endeared her to patients at home and abroad, and they remained intact even as cancer weakened her.
Gutknecht, a pediatric nurse practitioner — the first to hold that position at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, colleagues say — died of the disease on Aug. 24. She was 54.
News of her death prompted an outpouring of gratitude and sadness online from parents of children Gutknecht had treated. “We are so thankful to her for the amazing care and compassion she showed to us and our daughter,” one wrote.
Her colleagues noticed it, too.
“She cared deeply about the very difficult decisions that patients and their families faced, in terms of their medical conditions,” said the Rev. Helen O’Brien, Gillette’s lead chaplain. “I think you have to have a big heart to be in this work for as long as Sarah was in it. You have to be willing to work in conditions that we don’t know anything about ... to help people navigate that uncertain future.”
Dr. Tom Novacheck, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Gillette and longtime colleague of Gutknecht’s, said she had a way of putting her young patients at ease.
“She was committed to learning because she thought two things: Help improve a patient’s life and, secondly, if she could learn something she could pass that on to someone else,” he said.
Her whimsy and sense of humor drew people to her and made them feel important and loved, Mary E. Kautto said of her old friend, with whom she regularly traveled to reservations in the Dakotas to treat children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and juvenile arthritis.
“It was just in her soul, it was just part of her,” said Kautto, of Gillette’s marketing department. “When we did these outreach clinics, and go to these small towns, clearly that was her element, caring for people.”
“I think it was her way of giving back,” said Novacheck, who hired Gutknecht at Gillette.
Gutknecht went on nearly 30 missions to six continents with Operation Smile — everywhere from Venezuela to Jordan to Thailand — helping patients as young as 9 months old. She also spent time with Healing Hands for Haiti, a charity that works with people with disabilities. (She did eventually visit Antarctica, on a personal trip.)
After a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer last year, Gutknecht wrestled with whether to undergo chemotherapy, knowing “the outcomes weren’t good,” said her sister, Amy Nelson. Gutknecht ultimately decided to pursue the treatment, Nelson said, so that she could continue to help care for their father, whose health was failing.
“Even with getting chemotherapy, she made several trips to Florida,” Nelson said of her older sister, adding, “She made time to FaceTime my 82-year-old mother every night at 7:30.”
The second oldest of five children, Gutknecht was raised in Albert Lea by parents Arthur and Suzanne, who instilled in her a sense of responsibility and a desire to help others.
In one of her last journal entries, dated July 23, Gutknecht wrote, “I have tried very hard to accept my situation, emotions have been all over the map,” she wrote.
Gutknecht is survived by her spouse, Ann Kools; parents Arthur and Suzanne Gutknecht, brother Scott and sisters Anne Schreck, Julie Savelkoul and Amy Nelson; nieces and nephews, and “her faithful dog,” Otto, a shelter rescue. A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 17 at the University of Minnesota’s McNamara Alumni Center.
Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.
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Action on Roadkill
Tasmania has been branded as ‘the road kill state’. An apt title considering that Tasmania has the highest incidences of wildlife roadkill in the nation (Magnus et el, 2004). An estimate 293,000 animals are killed on Tasmanian roads each year. Of those, approximately 3,000 Tasmanian devils are killed (3% of the total devil population) making roadkill the second biggest threat to the devil population after Devil Facial Tumour Disease. Examples of every species of Tasmanian native animal can be found dead on the roads: quolls, bandicoots, wedge-tailed eagles..the list goes on. Local newspapers and State government departments frequently receive comments and complaints from visitors to the state expressing concern about the amount of roadkill they have seen on Tasmanian roads.
The obvious solution to reducing the amount of roadkill is changing driver behaviour. Roadside signage aimed at educating drivers about the importance of reducing their speed from dusk to dawn is becoming more common, but needs to be improved. A survey was conducted by roadkiltas.com, with the help of the RACT, asking the readers of the RACT Motor News Journeys to respond to the design of wildlife warning signs. Participants were asked to comment on four different wildlife warning signs; two which are currently used on Tasmanian roads and two new designs. The new designs were of a Devil, face-on, and a wallaby with a joey in its pouch. The majority of respondents rated the face-on Devil as the most effective sign (for images of wildlife signs and full survey results visit: http://roadkill.imaginocean.com.au/info/roadkill-signs-survey-article.pdf)
The TCT in conjunction with the creators of roadkilltas.com are working with DIER to carry out surveys on the effectiveness of signage in roadkill hot spots in relation to changing driver behaviour. Further details of this project will be available on the TCT website next year. Roadkilltas.com is a website that has been created to better educate drivers about sharing the road with wildlife. It also provides locations of roadkill hot spot areas which can be downloaded to a GPS www.roadkilltas.com
In addition, the TCT in conjunction with the Save the Devil Program and roadkilltas.com have designed a flyer educating drivers on how to avoid wildlife on the road. DIER has agreed to send out the flyer with car registration renewals. The design of the flyer is still in the approval stage, but it is hoped that they will be sent out early next year.
The TCT is also planning to launch an advertising campaign in the New Year. We are currently seeking donations to fund a roadkill advertisement to be placed on the back of a Metro bus, similar to the following image. To donate to this campaign, please visit the TCT website: www.tct.org.au
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