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Central Lee Softball
Conference: SEISC
Overall Record: 9-18
Winning Streak: L1
District Win %: 28.57%
05/22/19 7:00PM Mount Pleasant Box Score L 9-0 Central Lee High School
05/23/19 7:00PM New London Box Score L 8-5 New London Jr-Sr High School
05/30/19 7:00PM Van Buren Box Score L 3-2 Van Buren Community High School
05/31/19 7:00PM West Burlington Box Score L 1-0 Central Lee High School
06/04/19 7:00PM Cardinal Box Score L 4-1 Central Lee High School
06/05/19 7:00PM Winfield-Mt Union Box Score L 3-1 Central Lee High School
06/06/19 7:00PM Highland Box Score L 11-0 Central Lee High School
06/07/19 9:00AM Prairie Box Score L 12-0 Prairie High School, Cedar Rapids
06/07/19 9:00AM Lisbon Box Score L 2-0 Prairie High School, Cedar Rapids
06/08/19 10:00AM Mid-Prairie Box Score W 11-1 Prairie High School, Cedar Rapids
06/08/19 10:00AM Prairie Box Score L 7-2 Prairie High School, Cedar Rapids
06/10/19 7:00PM Danville Box Score L 6-5 Central Lee High School
06/13/19 7:00PM New London Box Score W 13-3 Central Lee High School
06/14/19 7:00PM Iowa Mennonite School Box Score W 13-1 Iowa Mennonite School
06/18/19 7:00PM Van Buren Box Score W 7-6 Central Lee High School
06/19/19 Lone Tree Game Preview Central Lee High School
06/21/19 7:00PM Pekin Game Preview Pekin Community High School
06/24/19 Centerville Box Score W 8-4 Central Lee High School
06/24/19 5:30PM Centerville Box Score L 4-3 Central Lee High School
06/27/19 Davis County Box Score L 4-3 Central Lee High School
06/27/19 7:30PM Fort Madison Box Score L 9-6 Central Lee High School
06/28/19 7:00PM Louisa-Muscatine Game Preview Central Lee High School
06/29/19 Burlington Box Score L 11-1 Burlington Community High School
06/29/19 3:00PM Burlington Box Score W 2-1 Burlington Community High School
07/01/19 7:00PM Danville Box Score L 3-0 Danville Junior-Senior High School
07/02/19 7:00PM Keokuk Box Score W 8-2 Central Lee High School
07/03/19 5:30PM Cardinal Box Score W 11-4 Cardinal Middle-Senior High School
07/08/19 7:00PM Washington Box Score W 7-3 Washington High School
07/10/19 7:00PM Louisa-Muscatine Box Score L 6-0 Louisa-Muscatine High School
Sophie Woodley 2 Junior
Makenna Hall 9 Senior
Macy Watkins 18 Freshman
Zoe Eschman 1 Sophomore
Paige Worrell Sophomore
Meghan Hopp 5 Freshman
Everlee Harvey 8th
Shayna Niggemeyer 13 Senior
Sophie Turner 27 Freshman
Cloey Davis 3 Senior
TiAhnna Bryant 8 Senior
Daly Brisby 16 Junior
Andrea Benner 21 Junior
Bella Steffensmeier 12 Freshman
05/22/19 21 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 @ Mount Pleasant
05/23/19 35 8 5 1 0 0 4 0 1 @ New London
05/30/19 39 6 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 @ Van Buren
05/31/19 25 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 vs West Burlington
06/04/19 26 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 vs Cardinal
06/05/19 25 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 vs Winfield-Mt Union
06/06/19 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 vs Highland
06/07/19 18 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 @ Prairie
06/07/19 24 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 vs Lisbon
06/08/19 27 15 11 2 1 0 10 1 3 vs Mid-Prairie
06/10/19 28 6 5 1 0 0 3 2 7 vs Danville
06/13/19 32 17 13 7 0 1 12 1 2 vs New London
06/14/19 33 13 13 1 0 1 10 0 4 @ Iowa Mennonite Sch
06/18/19 34 9 7 3 0 2 5 0 1 vs Van Buren
06/20/19 22 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 @ West Burlington
06/24/19 26 8 8 0 0 2 7 1 4 vs Centerville
06/27/19 31 10 6 1 0 0 5 0 3 vs Fort Madison
06/27/19 28 5 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 vs Davis County
06/29/19 17 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 @ Burlington
07/01/19 24 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 @ Danville
07/02/19 31 11 8 4 2 0 6 0 3 vs Keokuk
07/03/19 35 14 11 5 0 0 8 5 3 @ Cardinal
07/08/19 33 13 7 2 0 0 5 0 1 @ Washington
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Boston’s hot start has been fuelled by five stars
By Mark ZwolinskiSports reporter
Thu., June 2, 2016timer3 min. read
The Boston Red Sox have the best record in the American League, living up to pre-season projections that they will win the East Division.
The Blue Jays head into Fenway Park on Friday with a chance to gain some ground on Boston in a three-game series. But they’ll have to go through Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, David Ortiz and a host of other hot-hitting Boston players. The Red Sox lead the league in runs, hits, RBIs, average, on-base percentage, slugging and OPS. In fact, as intimidating as last year’s Toronto batting lineup was, the Red Sox are on pace to outscore that Jays team by an astonishing 77 runs.
Here’s a look at five stars behind their success so far (not including Thursday’s Red Sox-Orioles game):
Stats: 14 HR, 42 RBIs, .288 batting average
Impact: The best leadoff man in the AL right now, Betts just made history by becoming the first player to hit home runs in each of the first two innings in consecutive games. During that stretch, he had five homers in seven at-bats. Those tracing his arrival at this level point back to his minor-league days, when Greenville hitting coach U.L. Washington (now retired) got Betts to shorten his leg kick and be more aggressive in hitting counts. Seems to have worked.
Stats: 6 HR, 30 RBIs, .347 BA
Impact: The shortstop leads the AL in hits (77) and average. Batting third, he was on a 25-game hitting streak entering Thursday. Bogaerts was four games shy of matching the AL season-best streak of 29, set by teammate Jackie Bradley Jr. this season. Boston is the first team in league history to have two players with hit streaks of 20 or more games before June 1. Bogaerts now has most hits in the AL since the start of last season — 273. With David Ortiz announcing he’s retiring after this season, the talk in Boston is about locking up the future by giving Bogaerts and Betts long-term extensions. Both are 23. It would be a wise move.
Stats: 15 HR, 48 RBIs, .339 BA
Impact: Ortiz is tearing it up in what is supposed to be his farewell season. He leads the AL in doubles (23), total bases (131) and RBIs, and has a slash line of .420/.728/1.148. Ortiz seems to be having fun, too — he just told a Boston radio station that, in his youth, he could eat about a thousand wings (the world record at one timed sitting is 477, so he was exaggerating). He’s also made a cool video for Dunkin Donuts with Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski. Life is good for Big Papi.
Stats: 7-1, 5.11 ERA, 68 2/3 innings
Impact: His 79 strikeouts rank seventh overall in baseball, and first in the AL. His ERA has dropped from above 7.00, but it’s still not up to Price’s standards. His wins rank third in the AL, but that’s partly because the offence is scoring an average of 6.17 runs per start at Fenway for Price. Boston is 20-11 in games started by Price, knuckler Steven Wright (5-4, 2.45 ERA) and Rick Porcello (7-2, 3.68). Boston just dropped Joe Kelly to the minors and Clay Buchholz to the ’pen, and are hoping Eduardo Rodriguez can shore up the rotation after opening the season on the DL with a knee injury. They are 11-9 in games started by Kelly, Buchholz, Henry Owens and Sean O’Sullivan.
Impact: Pedroia would be in the conversation to be an all-star by now, but he’s playing on a Boston team loaded with hitters putting up huge stats. But Pedroia is certainly back in his top form, hitting out of the No. 2 hole, supporting Betts and Bogaerts. He is one of the great leaders in the game, and his 11th-inning triple downed the Jays in Toronto last week. Pedroia also was the first to notice a slight hitch in Price’s mechanics and spoke to the ace lefty about it. Price has improved since the talk.
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Uber Founder and CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns From Scandal-Hit Ride Sharing Group
Uber Technologies founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned from the ride-sharing company just days after he was asked to take a leave of absence.
Martin Baccardax
Jun 21, 2017 2:43 AM EDT
Uber Technologies Inc. founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned from the ride-sharing company just days after he was asked to take a leave of absence in the wake of a report into allegations of discrimination and bullying at the world's startup.
"I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight," Kalanick said in a statement given to the New York Times, which originally reported his departure.
Uber is currently valued at around $70 billion, making it the highest-valued private technology company in the U.S, putting it well-ahead of the $7.5 billion price associated with rival ride-sharing firm Lyft.
However, the group has been beset by controversy both at home and abroad, partly as a result of the aggressive corporate culture that allowed it to win more than 20% of the global taxi and limousine market in only a few years of operation. That culture, however, has drawn the ire of regulators and investigators, who have challenged the company's expansion amid allegations that its ignored local laws and skirted environmental regulations.
Uber's internal culture was also in focus this year after a February blog post from one of its former engineers, Susan Fowler, detailed troubling allegations of sexism, discrimination and a toxic working environment.
The collective effect of the company's bad PR has led to slump in its U.S. market share by the end of last month, according to e-commerce research company PYMNTS, falling to 77% from the 84% it held at the beginning of 2016. Lyft, meanwhile, has seen its bookings increase 135% year-over-year.
Earlier this week, co-founder Garrett Camp says the embattled ride-hailing startup's broken company culture may be a result of some "serious" growing pains that quickly got out of hand.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Camp detailed how he believes Uber can survive the recent string of controversies that have forced CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick to take a leave of absence, spurred two separate investigations into harassment claims and resulted in a steady stream of executive departures over the last several months. Camp isn't involved in the day-to-day operations at Uber, but Kalanick credits Camp with forming Uber's main purpose of a high-end ride-sharing service.
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Hamas leader quits Finsbury Park mosque board after watchdog inquiry
Mohammed Sawalha became a trustee of Finsbury Park Mosque in 2010
A ruling member of Hamas has stood down as a trustee of one of Britain’s most prominent mosques after an inquiry by the charity regulator.
Mohammed Sawalha’s role at the Finsbury Park Mosque, north London, was investigated by the Charity Commission after The Times revealed in 2017 that he had been appointed to Hamas’s political bureau. The mosque said it was unaware of his Hamas role until the report. Mr Sawalha had been a trustee since 2010, making him legally responsible for the management.
The US and EU designate Hamas as a terrorist group. Only the military wing is banned in Britain, meaning that Mr Sawalha has committed no offence.
Separately, the mosque became notorious in the 1990s as the base for the preacher Abu…
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Sun and clouds mixed. High 83F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph..
Thunderstorms likely. Storms may contain strong gusty winds. Low 72F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Boston suburb reflects broad changes in US immigration
By Philip Marcelo Associated Press
CHELSEA, Mass. — Guatemalan bakeries, Honduran restaurants and Salvadoran markets are joining an already ethnically diverse mix of businesses in downtown Chelsea, a tiny industrial city across the Mystic River from Boston.
Among them is Catracho's, a modest Honduran eatery recently purchased by Johanna Mateo, who was born in New York and raised in Honduras until she was 12, when she joined her older sister in Chelsea.
"I always wanted to reinvest in Chelsea," said Mateo, 27, who plans to expand to a vacant storefront next door. "I like the roots it's set within the Latin American community, and I want to keep it that way."
Chelsea (population, 40,000) is a microcosm of broader changes sweeping the United States, as the number of Central American immigrants increases and the number of Mexican immigrants decreases. Mexico generated one of the largest immigration waves in U.S. history, starting in 1965 and lasting well into this century, until an improved Mexican economy and lower birthrates helped reverse the trend. Now, more immigrants are fleeing poverty and violence in Central America's Northern Triangle.
Mexicans are still the largest group in the U.S. illegally but are down to 5 million in 2017 from 7 million a decade earlier, while Central Americans rose by 400,000 to 1.9 million and Asians also grew, the Pew Research Center reported last month. Nationwide, Pew estimated 10.5 million people in the U.S. illegally, down from a peak of 12.2 million a decade earlier.
The dynamic is playing out at the state level, said Jeffrey Passel, co-author of the report. Only five states saw statistically significant increases from 2007 to 2017, led by Massachusetts and followed by Maryland. Both are magnets for Central Americans. California, with its large numbers of Mexicans, and other immigrant-heavy states such as Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York have fewer people in the country illegally.
The changes extend to immigrants regardless of legal status.
In Massachusetts, 8% of immigrants are Central Americans, while less than 1% are Mexican, according to census data analyzed by the Migration Policy Institute. In Maryland, 24% of immigrants are Central American, compared with only 4% Mexican. Nationwide, 33% of immigrants are Central American and 25% are Mexican.
The demographic shifts are transforming the Boston area and helping fuel its economic boom, said Luc Schuster, director of Boston Indicators project.
As recently as 1990, most foreign-born residents in the area hailed from European nations. Today, China, the Dominican Republic and Brazil top the list, he said. No European country even cracks the top 10.
Boston's urban ring cities have seen the most marked changes. Just two decades ago, Chelsea and its neighbors — Everett, Malden, Revere and Lynn — were all majority white. Now, they're among the region's most diverse communities, Schuster's study found.
Chelsea is now more than 60% Latino. More than one-third of residents hail from Central America, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
The city had a growing Latino community of mostly Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Cubans when her family arrived from Puerto Rico in the 1960s, recalls Gladys Vega, the longtime head of the Chelsea Collaborative, a community advocacy group. That started to change as the first wave of Central Americans came as refugees from civil wars in the 1980s and eventually became U.S. citizens.
The devastation of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 brought another wave of Central Americans, many of whom were granted Temporary Protected Status, a special authorization that President Donald Trump's administration is trying to phase out.
The successive waves of Latino immigration helped the city pull back from near collapse, said Vega.
After decades of financial mismanagement and corruption, Chelsea faced insolvency in the 1990s. Businesses along Broadway were boarded up. The school system was so bad it was turned over to Boston University, an unprecedented arrangement that lasted for two decades until 2008.
"Latino immigrants helped rebuild Chelsea when people didn't believe in Chelsea," Vega said. "They invested in little storefronts that have grown and become established. They bought homes and they took pride in them. The contributions of the community are all around."
The transition hasn't been without challenges.
Many of the new high school-age students from Central America are coming from rural areas where they might not have attended school beyond the fourth grade, meaning the district needs more teachers, tutors and social workers, said Superintendent Mary Bourque. The district of roughly 6,300 students is 86% Hispanic, with about 40% considered English language learners.
"We've absolutely struggled," Bourque said. "But if we were appropriately funded in the state budget, addressing their needs would be far easier."
Local nonprofits and police, meanwhile, have taken new approaches to adjust to the changed community.
Roca, an organization that helps young adults with criminal records get jobs, launched an initiative three years ago focused on making sure Central American youths stay in school and away from gangs. Two years ago, Chelsea police were involved in a major takedown of some 60 MS-13 members by federal and local authorities that helped stem a rash of violence that included nine homicides.
Last summer, Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes joined Boston's police commissioner and others on a trip to El Salvador to build ties with Salvadoran law enforcement and understand how the gang communicates and recruits for its U.S. affiliates.
At the same time, Kyes stresses that his officers — nearly 40% of whom are fluent in Spanish — respect Chelsea's long-standing sanctuary city policy, which prohibits the department from getting involved in immigration enforcement actions that don't concern public safety.
"We're one big community, regardless of where we or our parents came from," he said.
Back on Broadway, Mateo, the new owner at Catracho's, hopes that as Chelsea undergoes a building boom, Latino businesses and residents aren't pushed out.
About a half a mile away, near her old high school, is a cluster of new luxury apartment complexes, hotels and other hallmarks of a rapidly developing region. The city's only Starbucks, a popular brewery and a gleaming new FBI office tower are nearby and, just across the city line in Everett is a new $2.6 billion hotel and casino complex.
"For a long time, Latin American people were the only ones investing in Chelsea," Mateo said. "Will they still be here in five or 10 years? Can they afford it?
"I believe our community can keep up with the change and be a part of it, if it's done well."
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The Financial Diaries: How Americans Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider
Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider are the authors of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty (Princeton University Press; April 11, 2017).
2017-06-20 09:00:00.0 by Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider
In our study, the U.S. Financial Diaries, we found widespread financial instability, even among households whose annual income placed them in the middle class. We saw both income and spending spike and dip throughout the year. Sometimes the spikes and dips can be managed easily, but other times, not. Challenges arise when paychecks arrive at the wrong time or in the wrong size relative to spending needs, even if annual income is sufficient to cover expenses overall. Similarly, the options for paying bills flexibly and quickly when families do have cash on hand can be expensive.
Sarah Johnson's experience is illustrative. In one of our first interviews, we asked Sarah what her main financial goal was. She and her husband Sam both worked full-time and owned a home outside Cincinnati, where they lived with their three children. Together, they earned right around the U.S. median income. Yet, she replied, "I just want to be able to pay the full electric and phone bills that come in, not in bits and pieces."
Sarah put real effort into piecing together their household finances, and while she had a straightforward system for paying their bills, she described it like a game of whac-a-mole. Sam was paid twice monthly, on the first and the fifteenth of the month. Sarah allocated his first check to their mortgage and his second check to their car and insurance payments. She paid other bills with whatever was left over plus her own paycheck. Sarah's paycheck came every two weeks (rather than on the first and fifteenth), so sometimes it arrived at the same time as Sam’s but other times not. (About half of the Diaries households share this pattern, with one worker's job paying twice each month and the other's paying every other week.) Sarah found that the months in which her paycheck alternated with Sam's were much easier to handle than the months when the checks piled up on top of each other, leaving wider spaces in between.
The digital age has afforded easier ways to help people match their earning with their spending needs. Since most employers pay their workers electronically, instead of by paper check, companies could, in principle, give workers access to their earnings on a more flexible basis. Ridesharing companies, such as Lyft and Uber, enable drivers to receive their earnings instantly, and thirdparty companies such as PayActive, Active Hours, and FlexWage have emerged to enable other kinds of workers to receive their pay outside of their usual pay cycle.
Families who experience rollercoaster finances often turn to the services of check cashers, paying a fee in order to get immediate access to cash rather than wait three to five days for a check to clear. They pay fees to rush bill payments in order to pay on the exact date the bill is due or because they don’t have the cash far enough in advance to risk mailing a check. They sometimes avoid bank accounts when they have volatile earnings and spending, in part to prevent overdrafts.
These families would benefit greatly if the financial services industry enabled realtime payments, but until recently, it has had little incentive to develop a faster system. The U.S. payments system moves a jawdropping $175 trillion through the economy on an annual basis in over 120 billion transactions with inspiring accuracy, so delays of a few days to move money have not been universally perceived as justifying the extraordinary investment and coordination required to develop the infrastructure for faster payments.
However, over the last few years, spurred on by the Federal Reserve's creation of the Faster Payments Task Force, momentum toward faster payments is finally building. The investment in this infrastructure is a lot more than an investment in efficiency. It would help people like Sarah Johnson become more financially secure, giving her more accurate real-time balance information and greater control over managing her day-to-day cash flows.
Excerpted in part from The Financial Diaries: How Americans Cope in a World of Uncertainty by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider. Copyright © 2017 by Jonathan Morduch and the Center for Financial Services Innovation. Reprinted by permission.
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Home » Newsroom » Press Releases » International community shows outstanding support to the UN Palestine Refugee Agency
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) received the outstanding support of the representatives of states and institutions at its annual international Pledging Conference held on 25 June in New York. Representatives of states and institutions unanimously commended the Agency’s role in preserving the rights and dignity of Palestine refugees and praised its staff members for their commitment in support of the human development of 5.4 million Palestine refugees in the Near East.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl stated, “Today in New York, we witnessed another remarkable mobilization and great generosity in support of UNRWA. I am deeply grateful for the trust of United Nations (UN) member states, for the pledges of more than US$ 110 million, and for the commitment to the dignity and rights of Palestine refugees.”
UN Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres, the President of the UN General Assembly Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinoza, Commissioner-General Krähenbühl and numerous member states spoke about the centrality of Agency’s role to the stability and development of the Middle East. Speakers referred to the invaluable contribution of UNRWA to the human development of the Palestine refugee population through education, health care, gender parity, and economic empowerment, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind. Secretary-General Guterres set the tone by stating that, "Given what is at stake at the human level, at the political and security level, and at the multilateral level, we must rise to the challenge and empower UNRWA to continue its important and impressive work."
The Conference was an opportunity for UNRWA to showcase the impact of its protection and assistance mandate on the lives of millions of Palestine refugees living in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza. Secretary-General Guterres and Commissioner-General Krähenbühl praised the collective mobilization that had allowed the Agency to face immense financial challenges in 2018, and expressed their confidence that the same spirit of solidarity would allow the continuation of education for 532,000 girls and boys and basic health care through to 8.5 million medical consultations this year.
The UNRWA Commissioner-General stressed that the Agency’s current financial situation will be particularly challenging for emergency operations in Gaza and Syria and for UNRWA schools across the region. Food for one million refugees in the Gaza Strip, as well as quality education to Palestine refugee children, but also essential cash assistance to over 400,000 people in Syria, will be severely affected if the Agency's financial requirements for 2019 are not covered.
UNRWA is confronted with an increased demand for services resulting from a growth in the number of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability and their deepening poverty. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support has been outpaced by the growth in needs. As a result, the UNRWA programme budget, which supports the delivery of core essential services, operates with a large shortfall. UNRWA encourages all Member States to work collectively to exert all possible efforts to fully fund the Agency’s programme budget. UNRWA emergency programmes and key projects, also operating with large shortfalls, are funded through separate funding portals.
UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and mandated to provide assistance and protection to some 5.4 million Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA across its five fields of operation. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip achieve their full human development potential, pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. UNRWA services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, protection and microfinance.
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April 11, 2011 / 6:21 AM
China: Stop preaching human rights to us
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) speaks as U.S. President Barack Obama (R) listens as they meet with U.S. and Chinese business leaders and CEOs at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building January 19, 2011 in Washington, DC. UPI/Alex Wong/Pool | License Photo
BEIJING, April 11 (UPI) -- China heavily criticized a U.S. State Department annual report for interfering in Chinese internal affairs and said Washington should stop preaching on human rights.
Beijing and Washington should have a dialogue on human rights issue but "based on equality and mutual respect" and not use "the pretext of human rights issue" for interfering in China's internal affairs, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.
He said the United States should reflect more on its own human rights problems and not be a "preacher" of human rights.
"The United States should stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs with their human rights report. But we are firmly against interfering in our internal affairs under the pretext of human rights issues," Hong said.
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The Chinese government attaches great importance to protecting human rights, he said, adding that China is increasing its access to democratic processes and strengthening its legal system to protect individual human rights.
All ethnic groups in China enjoy extensive freedom and rights, Hong said.
However, the State Department report criticizes the Chinese government for restricting human rights "as it takes additional steps to rein in civil society, particularly organizations and individuals involved in rights advocacy and public interest issues and increased attempts to limit freedom of speech and to control the press, the Internet and Internet access."
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Political activists and public interest lawyers are targeted with extralegal measures including enforced disappearance, so-called soft detention and strict house arrest, including house arrest of family members", to stop them from airing their grievances public," the State Department claimed.
"Individuals and groups, especially those seen as politically sensitive by the government, continued to face tight restrictions on their freedom to assemble, practice religion and travel," the report said.
The Chinese government "continued its severe cultural and religious repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and Tibetan areas. Abuses peaked around high-profile events, such as the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to democracy activist Liu Xiaobo and sensitive anniversaries."
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Human rights issues in China have been the focus of continuing diplomatic spats with the United States since the communists defeated the nationalist forces in 1949 and mainland China became a one-party state. But Beijing reserved some of its harshest words for Washington last December over the Nobel Prize for Liu.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 401-1 for a resolution congratulating Liu on winning the Peace Prize.
U.S. legislators should "change their rude and arrogant attitude" toward China over the Nobel Peace Prize issue, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at the time. Liu was a "convicted Chinese criminal" and more than 100 countries and international organizations support China on the issue.
"The so-called resolution approved by the U.S. House of Representatives disregards facts and distorts truth and is a flagrant interference in China's internal affairs," Jiang said. "We urge relevant U.S. lawmakers to stop their wrongdoing on this issue, change their arrogant and rude attitude and show due respect for the Chinese people and China's judicial sovereignty."
Liu was sentenced in December 2009 to 11 years in prison for allegedly engaging in activities aimed at overthrowing the government. The Obama administration issued a statement in December, after Liu was awarded the Peace Prize, that his trial was "uncharacteristic of a great country" and his case is "clearly a political trial that will likely lead to a political conviction."
During a state visit to the United States in January, Chinese President Hu Jintao said China is committed to protection and promotion of human rights and acknowledged that more needed to be done.
"China recognizes and respects the universality of human rights," said Hu, addressing a news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington. "And at the same time, we do believe that we also need to take into account the different national circumstances when it comes to the universal value of human rights.
"We will continue our efforts to improve the living standard of the Chinese people and will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law in our country."
Earlier this month Ai Weiwei, a well-known Chinese artist and government critic, was detained by Beijing police.
Ai, 53, is the designer of the Olympic stadium in Beijing. He was stopped at the city's airport as just before boarding a flight to Hong Kong and hasn't been seen since. Police also briefly detained eight of his employees working at his Beijing studio.
The State Department report also comes down heavily on Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea, the Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus for alleged human rights violations.
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FLASHBACK: When the U of R led the way in employee recognition
By Dale Johnson Posted: January 20, 2018 8:00 a.m.
U of R employees in January 1977 found out about a new program recognizing long-serving employees. U of R Archives and Special Collections
Among the historical highlights at the University of Regina (and its forerunners) during the month of January:
1963: Plans are announced for a new $6,000,000 building complex at the new Regina Campus. The Leader-Post reports, “One unit will contain classrooms, faculty and student office, administrative facilities and a library. Another will contain laboratories, food services, a large lounge, facilities of buildings and grounds, some offices, a post office and a book store. The third will house one 300-seat and two 165-seat lecture theatres.”
1965: Degrees and diplomas in Education will be offered at Regina Campus in the fall, the President of the University of Saskatchewan, Dr. J. W. T. Spinks announces. This means students already studying Education at Regina Campus will be able to complete their degrees in Regina, instead of having to transfer to Saskatoon. “This is yet another step on the way to improving the university facilities in this city,” a Leader-Post editorial says.
1967: Registration at Regina Campus is 15 per cent greater than anticipated, providing an increase of 35.5 per cent over 1965-66. Principal Dr. W. A. Riddell states in his annual report, “This was accounted for in part by the introduction in 1965-66 of the final three years of the education degree program and the diploma in education programs.”
1975: The Extension Department wants to attract more part-time learners. Among the new classes offered this semester: a workshop for counsellors in adolescent sexuality, management skills for the contemporary woman at home, and one designed with couples in mind called The Search for Intimacy in the Christian Perspective. Popular courses being offered again include photography, painting, creative retirement, folk guitar, and pottery.
1977: The University of Regina announces a program to recognize long service by employees. It is the first of its kind in a Canadian university, in that it covers all employees. “I’m a little surprised and delighted that this university, when compared with some that are 50 or 100 years old, should find itself once again in a position of leadership in expressing appreciation to all employees for their service to this university and to their community,” President Lloyd Barber tells the Leader-Post.
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American Go E-Journal » South America
Help Wanted: KGS Go Server
-by Paul Barchilon, AGF Vice President, KGS Liaison
As many of our readers are aware, the American Go Foundation (AGF) agreed to take on ownership of the KGS Go Server in 2017. Our goal was to stabilize and grow the server, and also provide a financial buffer for the service after its creator, Bill Shubert, no longer wanted to run it. We think KGS is the best place for reviewing games online, with unparalleled game review tools, and terrific chat features that allow people to build real community. Although there are many other go servers out there, including Asian ones with beautiful graphic design and strong players, we think KGS is still a unique and valuable server. A common complaint has been that many high level dan players have moved to other servers. The AGF’s mission focuses on education and learning, and we think KGS is the perfect place for beginners and more advanced kyu players to learn and grow. Dan players are important too, but we think the server can grow more of them, and that more strong players will come back to the server if we can revitalize it.
We had hoped that by providing financial security for the server, it would be able to survive and grow on its own. However, as time has passed, it has become clear that we need more support from the community to make that a reality. Our team of programmers (all volunteers) have busy day jobs, and although they do their best, there is too much work to be done. Our admin team has also become smaller, and is greatly in need of an infusion of volunteers.
The go community should have lots of programmers out there who can help. We should also have lots of people who are willing to be admins. If you are interested in volunteering to help make KGS the best possible server it can be, please email me at kgs@agfgo.org.
On the programming level, we need people who can code in Java and Javascript. The code for ShinKGS is actually open source. Skilled coders could help us bring more features to the web compatible version of KGS and – most urgently – to create a registration module that can run from any web-browser and doesn’t require Java. If you are willing to help us with our task list, email kgs@agfgo.org.
On the Admin side, we need team players who have a helpful, forthcoming attitude, can stay calm under pressure, and are able to properly judge if, when, and how to intervene in public chats, deal with complaints and enforce KGS policies on escaping. A community only thrives with the support of those in it. The more people maintaining the spirit of KGS, the easier for all.
Admins need enough spare time to be on several times a week and should be able to keep an idle window open on the server. They should be quick to step in when needed. We also need admins in many languages and time zones, and would like to have at least one admin on at any given time.
While the AGF owns KGS and, with the help of many donors, provides the basic financial support, KGS really belongs to all of us. If the server is to move forward, we need help from the community.
Categories: Europe,Go Classified,Latin America,Main Page,South America,U.S./North America,World,Youth
Ye, Velasco, Trujillo top Pan-American Championship
Aaron Ye 7d of the US took first place in the Pan-American Championship in Mexico City on November 10th. Canadian Player Manuel Velasco came in second and Cuban player Orlando Trujillo placed third. Mr. Kijin Song, the director of the Korean Cultural Center in Mexico presented the winners with certificates and cash prizes of $30,000, $20,000, and $10,000 Mexican pesos for their respective placings in the tournament. The online qualifiers drew players from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Peru, Cuba, the USA, and Canada. The finals were held at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas, within walking distance of the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City. The event drew a large audience from the local go community. “The 2nd Baduk Festival in Mexico was held at the same time,” reports organizer Sid Avila, “we had free games amongst the public participants, the majority of them being children; 2 raffles were held so that 18 people could play simultaneous games with Soohang Ryu 7P, from the Korean Baduk Association.Later prizes were raffled for the public, and we had a baduk book exhibition and a photographic exhibit as well.”
Online preliminaries were held in August, and determined the top five players from different countries. They were invited to Mexico City, with all expenses paid, to compete in the final stage. In addition to Ye and Velasco, Fernando Aguilar of Argentina (who had to cancel due to family complications), Alfonso Artique of Uruguay, Abner Turkieltaub Melo of Chile, and Orlando Trujillo of Cuba (by invitation) were the finalists. As the host country, Mexico was excluded from the online qualifier and received a seeded seat into the finals. The Korean Cultural Center in Mexico held a separate online qualifier for Mexican players, which was won by Abraham Florencia, a high-dan player who placed 8th at the World Amateur Go Championships earlier in the year.
A great amount of attention was focused on the game between Ye (black) and Velasco (white). Velasco had a strong opening and held a large territorial lead until a detrimental mistake in the middle-game. Ye successfully seized the opportunity and killed a large group, ultimately securing a win-by-resignation. After the tournament, the game was displayed on a projector in the background and was reviewed by Ryu.
Ye reports ” I was glad to have the opportunity to attend the event and make new go friends from Latin American countries. Organizing a Pan-American tournament was a creative and innovative idea to connect go players from North and South America. After all, an important part of the game is connecting with the community. I was surprised but excited to see the event attract quite a lot of local Mexican go players. The experience was very unique and memorable and I hope to continue to promote go on the continent in the future.”
The event was sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Cultural Center in Mexico, with the valuable support of the National Museum of World Cultures, the Korean Baduk Association, the Tygem Go Server, the Korean Sports Promotion Organization, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. For more pictures, click here. -Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor. Photo by Korean Cultural Center in Mexico photographer Seol Ha Kim.
Categories: Latin America,Main Page,South America,U.S./North America,World,Youth
Second Latin American Go Congress set for Oct 12-15
The second Latin American Go Congress has been scheduled for October 12 to 15 in Antigua Guatemala. Last year’s inaugural event was held in Cancun, Mexico and attracted players and professional teachers from as far away as South Korea and Japan. “The Latin American Go Congress appeals to many go players as it is both inexpensive and short compared to other go congresses,” reports William Luff, who attended last year’s. The Congress begins on Friday and wraps up on Monday. Participants will also have the opportunity to visit World Heritage sites holding Mayan ruins. The Congress includes the second Latin American Youth Go Championship, the third Ibero-American Pair Go Championship, the second Latin American Pandanet Team Championship and the 20th Ibero-American Go Championship, which is being held in memory of Hans Pietsch, the young German professional murdered while on a promotional tour for the Nihon Ki-In in Guatemala in 2003. Anyone who knew Pietsch who would like to contribute to a short tribute video which will be played at the Congress’ opening ceremony should contact Luff at will122166@gmail.com
Categories: Main Page,South America
Mexico readies for the first Latin American Go Congress in October
Mexico will be the host country for the first-ever Latin American Go Congress in Cancun, Mexico October 13-15. Sponsored by the International Go Federation, the event will host the 19th Ibero American Go Championship, the final match of the 1st Pandanet Go Latin American Team Championship, the 1st Latin American Youth Go Championship, the 2nd Ibero American Pair Go Championship and a Go Instructors seminar taught by experts of Kwonkapyong Baduk Academy, one of the best go academies in South Korea.
Professional players from Japan, Korea and North America will be hand as well to teach lectures, review championship games and play simul games with the participants.
“We are expecting many players from abroad. From Argentina, Colombia, Brasil and Ecuador we have complete delegations registered, among participants from other countries as Costa Rica, Venezuela, Denmark and the US” reports Congress director and Mexican Go Association president Emil García. “It will be a great event. It’s about time that Latin America had its own Congress and considering the nearness of Mexico to the United States we are more than pleased to invite the AGA community to participate. See you in Cancun!”
Register and find more information here.
photos: Cancun beach and playing venue.
Categories: South America
Venezuela Hosts 18th Ibero-American Championship
Over forty players from seven different countries competed in the 18th Ibero-American Championship tournament, held at the Pestana Premium City & Conference Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela from October 7-9. The field included 23 Venezuelans and 17 players from other six nations.
Locals including taxi drivers, workers from the bakery, hotel, caretakers, retired players, the Venezuelan players who live abroad, teachers at the Japanese schools and the Embassy of Japan all pitched in to make the event succeed, said Loli Puerta, president of the Venezuelan Association.
Fernando Aguilar 7d (Argentina) won first place; Hisao Uyama 7d (Brazil) finished second and Juan Carlos Carrillo 1d (Chile) was third. “Venezuela is a land of peace and its people are great” said Aguilar.
In every Latin-American Championship friendship and solidarity is celebrated between people of brother counties, Juan Carlos Pachón told the E-Journal. “The beautiful discipline of go proposes perennial values that allow us to be above and beyond borders of ephemeral and changing political situations.”
To close out the XVIII Ibero-American Championships, the first Iberoamerican Go Couples Tournament — sponsored by the World Pair Go Association — was conducted on Monday, October 10th.
– reported by Special Correspondent Francisco d’Albuquerque
Iberoamerican Go Championship Extends Invitation to Players Worldwide
The Venezuelan Go Association, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan, will host the 18th Iberoamerican Go Championship October 7-9 at the 5-star Pestana Caracas Premium City and Conference Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. “We would very much like to have a lot of participants from every country,” says Loli Puerta of the Asociacion Venezolana de Go.
The 7-round Swiss-paired tournament will be played using WAGC rules, with players playing even games with 6.5 komi. Trophies will be awarded to the top three players. Games will be played on all three days of the tournament, with a city tour following the closing ceremony on Sunday. Lunch will be provided on each day.
To register, contact the Organizing Committee by October 4th with your name, rank, country, and age. Include photo identification. The registration fee is $30. Transportation to and from the airport will be provided. Any questions about the event may also be directed to the Organizing Committee in either English or Spanish.
– edited by Brian Kirby
Categories: South America,World
Latin American Youth Tourneys Heat Up
Monday December 14, 2015
Chile won the Orion Latin American Online Youth Team Tournament, held November 28 and 29. The event drew 9 three-player teams from 4 different countries, reports organizer Sid Avila. “We contacted Yunxuan Li, President of the American Go Honor Society, about having a friendly match between the division winners in the School Teams Tournament with their Latin American counterparts, and Chile is looking forward to the match,” said Avila. The Chilean team included Matias Salinas, Benjamin Mimiza, and Esteban Orellana. The Mexican team took second place, and included Diego A. Luciano, Lilian Zavala, and Omar Zavala. The Venezuelan team took third place, with Abel Pérez, Yenderwin Palomino, and Yendervy Palomino.
Earlier in the year, on July 4 and 5, the Latin American Online Youth Tournament ´Las Tres Águilas´ was held on the Online Go Server. 55 players from 5 countries represented their schools, academies, and go clubs, their ranks ranging from 25 to 6k.The top three players for the 19 by 19 division were Abel Pérez 12k from Venezuela, Matías Salinas 8k from Chile, and Mateo Nava 12k from Mexico. The top three players for the 13 by 13 division were David Poblete 15k, Juan P. Ascencio 25k, and Francisco Gonzales 16k, all from Chile. Yuri León from Colombia received recognition for his fighting spirit. For more information and pictures click here for Tres Aguilas and here for Orion. -Story by Amy Su. Photo: Students from Chile competing.
Correction (12/19): Poblete, Ascencio and Gonzales are from Chile, not Colombia, as originally reported.
Categories: South America,U.S./North America,World,Youth
Nihon Ki-in Pros Join Seattle’s 20th Anniversary Party
The recent 20th anniversary celebration at the Seattle Go Center attracted over 100 people, including two professionals from Japan, Hiroshi Yamashiro 9P, vice president of the Nihon Ki-in, and Yuma 6P, who is also known as Kuma-sensei in Seattle. The October 3 evening reception and concert featured a short speech from Consul General Masahiro Omura from the Seattle Japanese Consulate, who noted that Kaoru Iwamoto’s purchase of the Go Center building for use by the U.S. go community was a good symbol of the continuing reconciliation between Japan and the United States since WWII. Go Center Board President Lee Anne Bowie reported that the late Iwamoto-sensei’s vision to extend go internationally and promote mutual understanding and friendship through the game of go has been upheld at the Seattle Go Center. Harry van der Krogt, Manager at the European Go Cultural Center, another Iwamoto-funded center, extended his congratulations to the Seattle Go Center, and hoped for increased international cooperation to promote go in the future. Andy Okun, president of the AGA, noted that the Seattle Go Center has a strong base of volunteers.
While Mr. Yamashiro had to return to Japan the day after the party, Kuma-sensei gave lectures and played simultaneous games for the next four days at the Seattle Go Center. This was his second visit to Seattle. Sunday’s lecture consisted of reviews of games from the Saturday tournament (Seattle Go Center 2oth Anniversary Tournament Draws Big Crowd 10/20 EJ). His Monday lecture was for the “Double Digit Kyu Class,” which is usually taught by Nick Sibicky. Kuma-sensei explored the double low approach to the 4-4 stone, and did a very good job of keeping his explanations simple enough for kyu players. On Tuesday, he played simultaneous games with eight players while others watched, and then gave short lessons as each game finished. As usual on Tuesdays, there were more than 30 players visiting the center. On Wednesday, Kuma taught the “Single Digit Kyu Class”, with Andrew Jackson hosting. Kuma-sensei also had time to see more of Seattle, and to enjoy Northwest seafood. Photos: (top) Hiroshi Yamashiro 9P giving greetings from the Nihon Ki-in, (left) Fumi Tagata soprano, (right) Kuma-sensei playing simultaneous games. More photos here.
– Report/photos by Brian Allen
Categories: Europe,Go News,Japan,South America,U.S./North America
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Meteorite Diamonds Could Shed Light On A Lost Planet
April 18, 2018 at 9:16 am by Danica Simic
When a 13-foot asteroid exploded above the Nubian Desert about a decade ago, it thankfully didn’t cause any damage. However, scientists decided to volunteer and search for fragments that came from the asteroid, and they were able to collect more than 600 pieces of the meteorite. The meteorite is called Almahata Sitta. The original asteroid is known as 2008 TC3 and scientists believe that meteorite diamonds that fell in the desert from the explosion could hold information about a long-lost stellar neighbor that was destroyed when the solar system was starting to form.
While there are eight main planets orbiting the solar system, an international team of scientists believes that perhaps there could have been another planet that could have ceased to exist at the time when the planets and the solar system itself were chaotically forming. According to the team, the small fragments of the meteorite diamonds could be connected to a long-lost planet that once existed in our solar system.
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The researchers tested and analyzed the asteroid findings using the technique of transmission electron microscopy, in order to come up with this theory. The tiny fragments of the asteroid were cataloged into a collection named Almahata Sitta. Many of the rare meteorites contained nano-sized diamonds.
According to the team, the materials could have been formed at pressures of roughly 200,000 bar, which is believed to be the pressure found at the very core of the planet. The team’s theory suggests that the planet from which these meteorite diamonds came from could have been as large as Mercury or Mars.
The results of their analysis indicates that the fragments also hosted chromite, phosphate and iron-nickel sulfides, which are chemicals that are often found in diamonds on Earth, although scientists hadn’t observed similar fragments before this from space.
“What we’re claiming here is that we have in our hands a remnant of this first generation of planets that are missing today because they were destroyed or incorporated in a bigger planet,” Philippe Gillet, one of the co-authors of the work published in the journal Nature Communications on April 17, told the Associated Press.
Scientists posed different theories and created several models of the solar system that could provide evidence of another planet, or planets, that existed in the solar system during its earlier days, during its chaotic formation, according to a press release from EPFL, Switzerland, which is one of the institutes that also collaborated with the team on the meteorite diamonds. One of the theories suggests that there was a planetary body known as Theia as large as Mars that collided with Earth, which resulted in earth’s natural satellite, the Moon being formed.
The theories further suggest that the rest of the planetary bodies initially formed in the solar system became part of larger planetary bodies like Jupiter, or Saturn, or ended up being destroyed by the sun, or possibly ejected from the solar system, similarly like it’s believed for ‘Oumuamua, our first interstellar visitor. According to the authors of the study, their theory “provides convincing evidence that the ureilite parent body was one such large “lost” planet before it was destroyed by collisions some 4.5 billion years ago.”
Author: Danica SimicDanica Simic has been writing ever since she was a child. Before she started writing for ValueWalk she was reviewing laptops, headphones and gaming equipment as well as writing articles about astronomy and game development. Danica is a student of applied and computational physics while also studying software and data engineering. Her hobbies include reading, swimming, drawing and gaming whenever she has free time. - Email her at dsimic@valuewalk.com
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William Curran Killed, Woman Injured in Motorcycle Accident in South Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona—William Curran, age 56, died as a result of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident that occurred on Sunday evening.
According to investigators with the Phoenix Police Department, Mr. Curran was operating his motorcycle near 48th Street and Baseline Road. A 59-year-old woman was a passenger on the motorcycle. As Mr. Curran entered the intersection, a vehicle driven by Thane Dennison turned left into the path of the motorcycle.
Mr. Curran and his passenger were thrown from the motorcycle. Both were taken to a local hospital, where Mr. Curran was pronounced deceased. His passenger is in extremely critical condition with multiple broken bones, brain bleed, collapsed lung and internal bleeding.
Following the accident, Mr. Dennison was booked on counts of aggravated assault and manslaughter. He reportedly had cocaine in his system and a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20, nearly three times the legal driving limit. A search of Mr. Dennison's vehicle revealed two empty 1-ounce bottles of Fireball, an empty bottle of Corona and an open can of Budweiser.
Mr. Dennison has prior convictions for DUI, reckless driving and was driving on a revoked license. He also reportedly was involved in a hit-and-run accident in 2014.
We extend our condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Curran over this tragic loss, made worse by the reckless actions of another. We also wish his passenger a complete recovery.
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Brannen Carter was killed on Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by another vehicle near 16th Street and Campbell in Phoenix.
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Needs Go Unmet 6 Months After Maria Hit Puerto Rico
Samuel Vasquez rebuilds his house, which was partially destroyed by Hurricane Maria, while his wife Ysamar Figueroa looks on, whilst carrying their son Saniel, at the squatter community of Villa Hugo in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Dec. 11, 2017. Villa Hu
Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired.
Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territory is still struggling to recover from the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly a century.
“There are a lot of people with needs,” said Levid Ortiz, operating director of PR4PR, a local nonprofit that helps impoverished communities across the island. “It shouldn't be like this. We should already be back on our feet.”
Some 250 Puerto Ricans formed a line around him on a recent weekday, standing for more than two hours to receive bottles of water and a box of food at a public basketball court in the mountain town of Corozal. Many of those waiting were still without power, including 23-year-old Keishla Quiles, a single mother with a 4-year-old son who still buys ice every day to fill a cooler to keep milk and other goods cold amid rising temperatures.
“Since we're a family of few resources, we have not been able to afford a generator,” she said. “It's been hard living like this.”
Crews already have restored water to 99 percent of clients and power to 93 percent of customers, but more than 100,000 of them still remain in the dark and there are frequent power outages. Justo Gonzalez, interim director for Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority, said he expects the entire island to have power by May, eight months after the Category 4 storm destroyed two-thirds of the island's power distribution system - and just as the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season is about to start.
Gonzalez also pledged to inspect dozens of wooden and cement poles still leaning haphazardly across the island after a wooden telephone pole fell on a car. It killed an elderly couple on Sunday as they returned from a town fair in the mountains of western Puerto Rico. The deaths of Luis Beltran, 62, and Rosa Bosque, 60, have angered Puerto Ricans and raised concerns about the safety of people as they recover from the hurricane.
“It worries me because ... it can happen anywhere,” Mayor Edwin Soto told The Associated Press, adding that crews were going to inspect poles across the mountain town of Las Marias to ensure they are in good condition.
FILE - Joe Quirindongo tries to repair a makeshift
FILE - Joe Quirindongo tries to repair a makeshift tent where he keeps some belongings at the squatter community of Villa Hugo in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Dec. 9, 2017.
Beltran's youngest sister, Migdalia Beltran, said her brother was living in New Jersey when Hurricane Maria hit, but that he moved back three months ago to be with family.
“He was No. 1,” she said as her voice cracked and she began to cry. “He was the one who gave me support to keep going.”
The storm caused an estimated $100 billion in damage, killed dozens of people and damaged or destroyed nearly 400,000 homes, according to Puerto Rico's government.
In the six months since the hurricane, more than 135,000 people have fled to the U.S. mainland, according to a recent estimate by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York.
More than 40 percent of them settled in Florida, followed by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, the study found.
Meanwhile, those who stayed behind say they need more help.
The AP recently found that of the $23 billion pledged for Puerto Rico, only $1.27 billion for a nutritional assistance program has been disbursed, along with more than $430 million to repair public infrastructure. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency also has spent more than $6 billion from its standing emergency fund.
Meanwhile, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources issued a letter on Friday demanding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explain why it is reducing the number of crews helping restore power when there are still people who remain in the dark.
“While we recognize that much progress has been made in restoring power to the majority of customers, the job is not done,” the letter stated.
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Welwyn mechanics forced to move after 22 years
By Alex Lewis
Daniel Monk, manager and Jason Monk, mechanic
A family-owned garage in Welwyn is having to leave the yard it has occupied for 22 years.
The Monk family of mechanics, who have run their Autoline business from School Lane since 1992, were told last month by their landlord Mark Quinlan to leave by May 31, when the seven-year lease expires.
Daniel Monk, 31, told the Welwyn Hatfield Times: “It came as a bit of a shock.
“Everybody we talk to is very disappointed.
“Nearly all our business comes from word of mouth.
“They are more than customers, they are friends.
“It has been my whole life.”
The business was started by his father David Monk, now 63, and employs Daniel, his 27-year-old brother Jason and their mother Alison, who does paperwork and administration.
Although they live in Welwyn Garden City, they have many friends and customers in Welwyn, where Daniel and Jason went to school.
The family is negotiating to move into another yard in Codicote Road, Welwyn, but Daniel said the move would involve considerable trouble and expense, and they would have liked more notice.
Mr Quinlan, who owns the yard through his company AT Jenkins Ltd, responded: “Mr and Mrs Monk knew the term expired on May 31, 2014 at the time they signed the lease in 2007 and knew that it could not be renewed.
“We make no further comment.”
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Le Quesnoy Conference 2018
France and New Zealand during the Great War:
the Centenary Conference 1918-2018
organized by the University of Waikato and the Le Quesnoy City Council
On 5 August 1914, Lord Liverpool, Governor-General of New Zealand announced Great- Britain’s declaration of war against the Austro-Hungarian empire. New Zealand, a British dominion since 1907, then established the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force (1st NZEF) which would recruit over 120,000 men throughout the conflict. The New Zealand government sent occupation forces in German Samoa in August 1914 and, two months later, a body of 8,500 men to the Middle East. After a disastrous campaign in the Dardanelles, the New Zealand troops were then reorganized and reinforced by the end of 1915. The New Zealand division was then deployed to the Western Front in May 1916 while a smaller contingent stayed in Palestine. The Diggers took part in the 1st Battle of the Somme, where they suffered their highest casualties of the war. The following year, they fought in Ypres, Messines and, Passchendaele in late 1917. Both mentally and physically exhausted, the New Zealanders were sent near Amiens in a desperate attempt to stop the front line being breached by the Germans. Two months later Amiens was liberated. Thus began the 100 day offensive which would conclude for New Zealand troops with the liberation of the fortified town of Le Quesnoy on 4 November 1918.
Beyond languages and cultures, a strong relationship has grown between the inhabitants of Le Quesnoy and the New Zealand veterans and their descendants. This friendship is still going strong and many New Zealanders visit Le Quesnoy while they are travelling or on their O.E in Europe. Over the years, these historical links have been reinforced and transformed into cultural exchanges symbolized in 1999 by the twinning of Le Quesnoy with Cambridge in the Waipa region, a unique relationship in France and New Zealand history.
As part of the Centenary commemorations, the town of Le Quesnoy and the French Department at the University of Waikato in New Zealand are organizing the Centenary Conference France and New Zealand during the Great war 1918-2018.
The Conference will be held at the Trois Chênes Theatre in Le Quesnoy on 2 & 3 November 2018.
There will be two keynote speakers:
Christopher Pugsley, ONZM, DPhil, FRHistS (Vice President of the Western Front Association, former lecturer at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy). His latest book is The Camera in the Crowd: Filming New Zealand in War and Peace, 1895-1920.
Michaël Bourlet, Head of Military History at Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military schools has recently published L'armée américaine dans la Grande Guerre (Ouest France).
Papers presented will go beyond a military approach to the conflict and support a socio-historical and multi-disciplinary perspective.
life in occupied France
life in the trenches
living in New Zealand during the Great War
Pākehā and Māori during the conflict
first impressions between New Zealanders and the French
first impressions of France/ romanticized portrait of France
commemorations and war memorials
myths and realities of war
art and war
literature and remembrance
Brochure about this special event.
A special invitation.
Abstracts are now closed.
For more information send an email (in French or English)
nathalie.philippe@waikato.ac.nz
Dr Nathalie Philippe
FASS/School of Arts/ French/
For more details on Le Quesnoy itself please contact service.culturel@lequesnoy.fr
Le Quesnoy 2018 Call for Papers - french
Accomodation in Le Quesnoy area
or 0800 800 145 (within NZ)
Email: wfass@waikato.ac.nz
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Blue plaque to go up in honour of architect of Leamington town hall
John Cundall. Picture courtesy of The Leamington History Group. www.leamingtonhistory.co.uk
Published: 17:19 Tuesday 13 June 2017
A blue plaque will be put up in Leamington at the address where the Victorian architect for the town hall once lived.
John Cundall was born in the town and lived at 37 Warwick Street for part of his life.
He was an architect of some standing who designed various buildings in Leamington including the town hall, the churches of St Paul and St John’s and also contributed to features in Jephson Gardens including the Hitchman Fountain.
Mr Cundall’s great grandson Edward Sargent, himself an architect, gave a talk about his great grandfather at an event in November.
Blue Plaque Group member Robin Taylor said: “Of the many things I learnt from Mr Sargent’s talk I shall select one.
“It had never occurred to me before that the Victorians were fond of asymmetry.
It is a taste that deserves, not necessarily approval, but at least thought.
“The front of the Town Hall, while it makes me smile, has always puzzled me.
“Now, thanks to Mr Sargent, I shall wonder if, instead of smiling at it I might do better to smile with it. “
“Of course having selected one thing I cannot resist a second, something I have long wanted to know: the identity of the woman on the mosaic high up on the front of the Town Hall.
She is Hygeia, the goddess of health, whose symbols are a cup and a snake, the snake sometimes drinking from the cup.
“On the Town Hall the cup is in her right hand.
“As far as I can tell, using binoculars, the snake is entwined round her left hand and wrist.
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“Her significance for Leamington is obvious.
“Not surprisingly she is the daughter of Aesculapius, the god of medicine, who is also accompanied by a snake.
“A snake, because it sloughs its skin, represents renewed youth.”
The building of Leamington’s town hall as it is today started in 1882 and it was opened in 1884.
It is actually the town’s second town hall with the first being built in 1830 in High Street where it is still standing and now used as the Polish centre.
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Cheverly: A neighborly niche in Prince George’s County
Cape Cod-style brick homes can be found throughout the older neighborhoods of Cheverly. (Jim Brocker/for The Washington Post)
By Jim Brocker
They’ve lived in Cheverly only since February, but Jennifer and Abou Kone already feel as if they belong. For one thing, they have met all their neighbors — something that didn’t happen when they were living in Northern Virginia.
“Here, we saw the people walking around, kids playing,” said Jennifer, 27, who discovered the area while traveling to her information technology sales customers. “We thought it was so pretty.”
Her husband, Abou, enjoys the town’s diversity and welcoming spirit. Cheverly “makes you feel like a part of something, and not just in it,” said Abou Kone, 29.
Residents have found that it’s easy to be a part of this Prince George’s County community of 6,500. Many have chosen to join groups such as the Parent Resource Center and the Cheverly Community Market. There are environmental groups, a garden club, an American Legion post, the Boys & Girls Club, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the swim club, and church, school and civic organizations.
Michael Callahan, the town’s mayor since 2010, said he and his wife, Peggy, were looking for an affordable place within commuting distance when they moved from Arlington County in 1985. “We had no intention of staying. But what we found was it was a community we just couldn’t leave,” said Callahan, 58, who raised his three children in Cheverly and was active in the Boys & Girls Club.
(Laris Karklis/The Washington Post)
“Somebody has an idea and people do a tremendous job of supporting it,” Callahan said. “People give back to the community on a very consistent basis.”
Multigenerational: The pull of the community was also strong for Jeanne and John Doherty, who grew up in Cheverly and returned to raise their children. Jeanne, 50, whose father is town historian Raymond Bellamy, is one of several generations of her family to live in Cheverly. The town’s Bellamy Park is named for her grandfather.
“I think it’s a great place to make memories with your family,” she said while her niece, Jenna Bellamy, romped through a playground on a Sunday afternoon in Gast Park, known locally as “Cheese Park” because its yellow play equipment resembles Swiss cheese. John, 51, recalled playing football in the same park as a youngster. He and his wife attended St. Ambrose School in Cheverly.
Brian Callahan, 37, who is not related to the mayor, was busy running after his sons, Shea, 4, and Gavin, 2, at the park. He had high praise for the town’s play group that meets Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. “We’ve met a lot of great friends,” he said.
Nearby attractions: Cheverly’s snug location between major highways just minutes from the D.C. line has long attracted government workers. Commuters gravitate to Cheverly, says Michael Callahan, because of the inside-the-Beltway location that allows easy access via automobile or the Cheverly Metrorail station. “You can get back at 6 or 6:30 and have a family life,” he said.
In addition to Metrorail and Metrobus, Cheverly is served by Prince George’s County’s transit system, The Bus.
The community also is close to Prince George’s Hospital Center, the Publick Playhouse performing arts center, and several shopping areas along the Route 202 corridor.
Activism is strong: Early development began along a railroad around 1918, according to a history on the town’s Web site. The town’s name came from Cheverly Gardens, a nearby subdivision. The town was incorporated in 1931, and many of the early homes remain, including bungalows, Cape Cods, and a few Sears and McClure “kit” houses. A tree canopy has grown over the years, creating a shady enclave for residents, who are encouraged to add additional trees through a town program that offers free plantings.
Now Cheverly is home to several elected officials, including Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker and members of the Maryland General Assembly. But the spirit of activism goes beyond the elected officials and residents who serve on town committees. Progressive Cheverly, a citizen group, is concerned with social justice as well as environmental and zoning issues, and the Friends of Lower Beaverdam Creek, an environmental group, takes on trail maintenance and invasive plants.
Living there: The boundaries are roughly Baltimore-Washington Parkway to the west, Route 50 to the south and east, and Landover Road (Route 202) to the north. Houses with similar floor plans and square footage can vary widely in price depending on the interior, and there can be “a really big swing in prices” depending on upgrades, said Susan Pruden, an agent with Century 21. Most houses range from 1,100 to 1,600 square feet, she said.
In the past 12 months, 63 homes have sold in Cheverly, at prices from $100,000 to $400,000. Seventeen were short sales or foreclosures. Fifteen houses are on the market now, from $210,000 to $445,000. Sixteen are under contract, from $130,000 to $340,000. “I have always believed that houses in Cheverly are undervalued,” said Pruden, a Cheverly resident since 1991. The town has about 1,800 single-family homes and about 500 apartments, said Callahan, the mayor.
Schools: When Jen Eldridge moved to Cheverly from Montgomery County, she said she had “preconceived biases” about Prince George’s County’s public schools. She’s now the PTA president at Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary. She and her neighbors took a proactive approach to the school that serves most of the town’s youngest children. “We wanted our neighborhood public school to be a good option for us,” she said, supporting events such as school-supplies drives and fundraisers. The PTA has also sponsored programs, such as an information session on the Affordable Care Act, to appeal to the broader Cheverly community. “It’s important for families, whether they have students there or not, to see [the school] as a resource,” Eldridge said.
Other public schools serving Cheverly are Bladensburg and Robert R. Gray elementary, William Wirt and G. James Gholson middle, and Bladensburg and Fairmont Heights high schools.
Crime watch: The Cheverly Watch Resident Radio Program allows residents to contact a patrol officer directly by radio over a town channel. Police can then respond immediately, said Chief Buddy Robshaw. “We’ve had over 50 arrests from observation from people in our town,” said Robshaw, estimating that 60 portable radios had been distributed to residents for the program, now in its sixth year. Theft is the most prevalent crime in Cheverly, with 120 in a 12-month period. Twelve robberies and 14 assaults occurred during that time, according to statistics reported by police in the town newsletter.
Jim Brocker is a freelance writer.
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6 ways to celebrate Anthony Bourdain on Bourdain Day
(Washington Post illustration; Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Food Network SoBe Wine & Food Festival)
By Natalie B. Compton
Natalie B. Compton
Reporter covering the mechanics of travel
It started with an Instagram post. Two of the world’s most prominent chefs, Éric Ripert and José Andrés, stood smiling on camera to proclaim a new holiday. “On June 25, we all are going to celebrate the birthday of our dear friend and beloved Anthony Bourdain,” Ripert says in the post.
The two take turns piecing together a single request: “We want all of you to celebrate Tony’s life.” To do that, all you need to do is pick up a beverage of your choosing and toast to Bourdain on camera, and post the moment to social media with the hashtag #BourdainDay. The chefs complete their announcement by taking long pulls from their porróns, a traditional wine pitcher from Spain.
Ripert wanted to take the lead on shaping the dialogue around the legacy of Bourdain, who died by suicide June 8 of last year. To change the tone of the conversation from solemn to celebratory, Ripert ordained June 25 Bourdain Day.
“The idea was to create, on his birthday, an event that anyone can contribute to, something that is low-production,” the chef of Le Bernardin says in a phone interview. “We will make sure that Anthony is being remembered on his birthday, and not when he left. We will keep this tradition year after year.”
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To participate in Bourdain Day is simple. “It’s so easy to lift your beer or a glass of wine or tea, whatever you want,” Ripert says. The gesture allows as many people as possible to get involved, and its social element brings everyone together, at least digitally.
Some people will get together in person for the occasion. This year, Ripert will celebrate Bourdain Day with Andrés in Singapore, where the two will be gathered for this year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. They plan on toasting together with a beer over some street food. “Something that Anthony liked to do,” Ripert said, “which was, as you know, going to the hawkers in Singapore or eating in the streets and having a beer.”
Anthony Bourdain, left, and Éric Ripert, who crowned a day to honor his late friend, in 2014. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Food Network SoBe Wine & Food Festival)
The beauty of the Bourdain Day toast is that you can do it anywhere. “People can celebrate at home, people can celebrate at the top of a mountain, people can celebrate in a bar in Guatemala, in Antigua. People can celebrate anywhere,” Andrés says. “The point is we can all honor him by doing a little video and tag along."
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Beyond their toasts, Andrés and Ripert will support a new scholarship established by the Culinary Institute of America, his alma mater, in Bourdain’s memory. The Anthony Bourdain Legacy Scholarship will support cooks who dream of following in Bourdain’s footsteps by traveling abroad. “He was a guy who educated all of us,” Andrés says. “This is a way to use his memory to keep educating the future talent in the food world in all of its forms.”
If you’re looking for ways to celebrate the immense life of Bourdain in addition to raising your glass on Tuesday, here are five more suggestions:
Bourdain saw travel as a great unifying force. One of his most referenced quotes, from the series finale of “No Reservations,” is about the ability of travel to expand worldviews and empathy:
“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move."
Take those words of wisdom into account and plan a trip into the unknown, whether that’s 50 miles away or 5,000.
Bourdain holds his daughter, Ariane, in 2008. (Lynne Sladky)
A man who spent some 250 days per year on the road, Bourdain still made time for volunteer work.
“He always came back to help raise money for World Central Kitchen without getting paid, without anything,” Andrés says. “He never said no.”
Carve out space in your schedule to volunteer, or make a donation to a worthy cause.
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Part of what made Bourdain stand out from others in food media was his appreciation of food at every level. He gave credit where credit was due. You don’t have to dine at a Michelin-starred restaurant to dine like Bourdain; appreciate the people in your neighborhood who pour their hearts into their cooking. Dive in hungry and “eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat,” as he wrote in “Kitchen Confidential.”
Consume Bourdain’s literature
Before Bourdain was on TV, he was writing articles and books. We’re lucky to have his quick-wit immortalized on paper and online.
“He always said he was he was really lucky, and he got a big break. He always said he never believed he would be a New York Times bestseller,” Andrés says. “Really? You write like the gods! You could argue why it didn’t happen before, no?"
You can start where it all began with his 1999 essay in the New Yorker, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” Then pick up some of his classics, like “Kitchen Confidential,” or try cooking a dish from “Appetites: A Cookbook.”
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Binge Bourdain on television
It’s always a good idea to turn on a Bourdain show. Fortunately, those episodes are easily accessible with the right streaming subscriptions (here’s where to find them all.)
Try the “No Reservations” Quebec episode (Season 2, Episode 4) that humanized Inuit fishing traditions and the “No Reservations” Beirut episode (Season 2, Episode 14) in which violent conflict breaks out, an experience that “was clearly a defining moment for the show — and some kind of crossroads for me personally,” Bourdain later told Blogs of War in 2014. Don’t sleep on “The Layover,” either. The places he visits in Los Angeles at the end of the first season still hold up (looking at you, Tiki Ti).
Bourdain talking with Jason and Yeganeh Rezaian in Iran while filming "Parts Unknown." (CNN)
One of Andrés’s recommendations: Bourdain’s episode in Iran on “Parts Unknown.” If you want to understand what an important person Tony was, watch his show on Iran,” Andrés says. “There you will see that actually the American people should not be afraid of the Iranian people. They don’t look any different than you and I on that amazing show.”
Whether on Tuesday, or any other day, there is much to honor when it comes to Bourdain. He meant a lot of things to a lot of people.
“Tony was this person who gave a voice to the voiceless,” Andrés says. “He was able to show us the unknown side of humanity. The show brought us together.”
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Europe wants to crack down on fake news. But one person’s fake news is another’s democratic dissent.
A German journalist reviews an article with false claims. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News)
By Michael Birnbaum
Michael Birnbaum
Brussels bureau chief covering Europe
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Thursday will unveil a strategy for fighting fake news that could be a model for Western nations, but already it has run into trouble defining the line between disinformation and dissent.
The new E.U. proposals will encourage voluntary pledges from Facebook and others to highlight the sources of information they feature and to promote content from credible media outlets. The E.U. also wants to push news literacy education and to fund private fact-checking organizations that subscribe to standards of political independence and objectivity.
Other countries, including the United States, are also cooperating with each other to combat fake news. France, Germany and Italy are working on national plans.
But a separate E.U. effort to combat foreign interference illustrates what can go awry.
The E.U.’s East Stratcom Task Force compiled a hall of shame of 3,800 news articles it says reflect Kremlin attempts to influence political discussions in the West. Last month, however, the task force made an embarrassing about-face after three Dutch news outlets complained they were singled out because they quoted people out of step with the European mainstream.
“It’s a reminder of how really difficult it is, and potentially problematic, if public authorities take it upon themselves to be arbiters of truth,” said Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, who advised the E.U. on its new proposals.
The task force cited each of the three Dutch outlets for promoting a dark view, advanced by the Kremlin, of Ukrainian corruption and alleged fascism.
One article, published by the Post Online, conveyed that “Ukraine is an oligarch state with no independent media” and that “the resistance army, which killed thousands of Polish Jews during the Second World War, is still respected,” the task force wrote on its website, EUvsDisinfo.eu.
In fact, the article was summarizing a lecture delivered by a journalist who had spent time in Ukraine.
The Post Online editor Bert Brussen said his publication was targeted because Brussels dislikes critics of its pro-Ukrainian policies.
“For us, it was easy to show the world this is how it happens: You write something negative about Ukraine, you do everything right, they black-label it as fake news,” said Brussen, whose website regularly skewers centrist Dutch politicians and mainstream journalists who, he said, cover up problems with Muslims and migration.
In a second case, the task force appeared to take literally the views expressed in a tongue-in-cheek piece — an apparent byproduct of an article that was flagged by a non-Dutch speaker using Google Translate to search for evidence of Kremlin bias.
The task force has a staff of 14 with just three people working full time on the database, and it relies on volunteers across Europe to identify articles of concern. All three Dutch articles were sent in by Ukrainian activists, none of whom speak Dutch.
The news outlets — the Post Online, GeenStijl, a far-right news blog, and De Gelderlander, a regional newspaper — complained they had no notice before they were included in the database and had no clear way to appeal.
After they filed a lawsuit, the E.U. backed down, removing the three articles from its database and softening how it refers to outlets that publish what it says is disinformation.
“Some of the things did get lost in translation,” said Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for the European External Action Service, the foreign-policy arm of the European Commission that oversees the task force.
“What they do as a team is done in a very transparent way. This in no way interferes with freedom of expression and freedom of speech,” she said.
But damage was already done. After the Dutch outlets filed their complaint, sympathetic Dutch lawmakers forced a debate in their national parliament. A motion to send their interior minister to Brussels and push to strip the task force of its funding passed a voice vote with wide support from political parties.
“Addressing fake news is very important, but what is fake news?” asked Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius, a lawmaker from the ruling center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy who co-sponsored the bill. She said she thought it was appropriate for governments to intervene when foreign actors try to undermine democracies.
But when local newspapers report on meetings, she said, “then you are getting involved in the content of media. And I think that is super dangerous.”
The concerns extend beyond the Netherlands.
“The lack of methodology has been opening the door to abuses of expression,” said Alberto Alemanno, a law professor at HEC Paris, a business school, who filed a separate complaint about the task force’s work. “They are clashing with the right of the self-determination of readers, of listeners.”
Despite the criticism, the task force retains E.U. backing. It recently won a $1.5 million budget increase, and at a meeting of the E.U.’s 28 foreign ministers this month, it was singled out for unanimous support — including from the Dutch government.
Members of the task force are not allowed by their superiors to speak out publicly, a restriction that hampers their ability to respond quickly to charges. Spokeswoman Kocijancic said the rule ensures their messages are part of the broader foreign policy strategy of the European Union.
An official familiar with the group’s plans said members want to use some of the increased funds to pay for better and more standardized vetting of the coverage they monitor. They may also shift focus away from countries such as the Netherlands, where sensitivities about government oversight of journalism is high, toward more direct monitoring of the Russian-language media, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to explain internal thinking at the task force.
“The core of the issue is the resources,” said Jakub Janda, the director of the Prague-based European Values think tank, which is among the most active groups that flag possible disinformation for inclusion in the E.U. database. He said that Russian efforts to discredit the British government’s account of the nerve agent attack against ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, last month help highlight the need for a public project to fight Kremlin narratives.
Private groups do similar work, but the E.U. task force sends an important message, Janda said.
“It shows that this whole issue of Russian disinformation is a major national security issue,” he said. “It’s an official database, which is guaranteed by an E.U. institution.”
Quentin Ariès contributed to this report.
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FISA court releases opinion upholding NSA phone program
By Ellen Nakashima
Ellen Nakashima
A federal surveillance court on Tuesday released a declassified opinion upholding the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s sweeping collection of billions of Americans’ phone records for counterterrorism purposes.
The gathering of “all call detail records” from phone companies is justified as long as the government can show that it is relevant to an authorized investigation into known — and, significantly — unknown terrorists who may be in the United States, the Aug. 29 opinion states.
Moreover, the government need only show that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” the records will be relevant to the investigation, a lower burden than required in ordinary criminal investigations. That is justified because the goal is to prevent a terrorist attack, not solve a crime that has already taken place, the court said, affirming the government’s position.
Taken together, the argument is a bold assertion of authority that critics say is not justified by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) or the Constitution. Some elements of the court’s reasoning had been discussed in an earlier Justice Department white paper released by the government, but the concept of the “unknown” terrorist and the argument for the lower burden had not been explicitly linked to the program.
The 29-page opinion signed by Claire V. Eagan, a judge on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), is the first to be released that addresses the constitutionality of the NSA’s “bulk records” collection of phone data. It is an attempt to address growing criticism about the broad surveillance since its existence was disclosed in June in a document leaked to the Guardian, a British newspaper, by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The program was authorized by the court in 2006 under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which amended FISA, but that was not known until June. In the program, the NSA gathers records of phone calls, their time and duration, but not subscriber names or call content.
The opinion was released at Eagan’s will, Justice Department officials said, not at the request of the government or in response to lawsuits from civil liberties groups. Eagan, appointed to the federal bench in Oklahoma by President George W. Bush, is a fairly new member of the FISC.
A senior Justice Department official said that it is not a substitute for the release of other lengthier, significant opinions relating to the surveillance program.
Privacy advocates reacted with dismay upon reading the ruling.
“This isn’t a judicial opinion in the conventional sense,” said Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director. “It’s a document that appears to have been cobbled together over the last few weeks in an effort to justify a decision that was made seven years ago. I don’t know of any precedent for that, and it raises a lot of questions.”
Jaffer added that the opinion was “completely unpersuasive” as a defense of the call-records program. The constitutional analysis fails to mention the landmark United States v. Jones privacy case decided by the Supreme Court last year, which suggested a warrant was necessary for long-term tracking of GPS data, he said. And Eagan’s analysis of the statute overemphasizes some terms while ignoring others, he said.
“On the whole, the opinion only confirms the folly of entrusting privacy rights to a court that hears argument only from the government,” said Jaffer, referring to the fact that there is no adversary in the classified proceedings.
Eagan’s ruling endorsed the government's argument that the broad collection was necessary to find unknown terrorist operatives who may be in the United States “because it is impossible to know where in the data the connections to international terrorist organizations will be found.”
The senior Justice Department official said the “unknown” language was important. “If you know who all the people were, you would just ask [the phone companies] for those numbers,” he said. “So that’s why you need all those numbers. . . . The bottom line is this: You have to have this larger body of data to find the needles in the haystack.”
The ruling also reaffirmed the government’s contention, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1979, that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy in records of their calls held by phone companies, and a warrant to collect them is not required. A warrant would be required to wiretap the calls.
Eagan asserted that to date, no company has challenged the legality of an order. She also stated that Congress ratified the program when it reauthorized the statute without change in 2010 and 2011, because it had access to information on the statute’s application to the phone program.
Kurt Opsahl, senior staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation, disagreed. “The outrage of many Congress members” upon hearing about the program’s scope “shows this is not true. We should not have the legal basis of the surveillance state resting on a judicially created legal fiction.”
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The marriage of many
By - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 11, 2005
“Polygamy rights is the next civil rights battle.” So goes the motto of a Christian pro-polygamy organization that has been watching the battle over homosexual “marriage” rights with keen interest.
“We’re coming. We are next. There’s no doubt about it, we are next,” says Mark Henkel, founder of www.TruthBearer.org.
Traditional values groups often argue that legalizing same-sex “marriage” is a “slippery slope” — that if marriage is redefined to allow homosexuals to “wed,” it will be further redefined to allow other unions, including polygamous ones.
Homosexual rights leaders and their allies insist that the “slippery slope” argument is a rhetorical dodge. It’s a “scare tactic,” says Freedom to Marry founder Evan Wolfson.
“What homosexuals are asking for is the right to marry, not anybody they love, but somebody they love, which is not at all the same thing,” Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch has written.
South Dakota lawmakers this year proposed the first constitutional marriage amendment that specifically outlaws unions of “two or more” persons.
The measure’s author, South Dakota state Rep. Elizabeth Kraus, said the ban on polygamy is intentional.
After Canada legalized same-sex “marriage,” its government “launched a study to look at the ramifications of polygamy,” Mrs. Kraus said. “Once you open the marriage door to anyone other than one man or one woman, you haven’t begun to slide down the slippery slope. You’ve already hit rock bottom.”
Voters will decide on the measure next November.
Also this year, a New Jersey appellate court expressed concerns about a right to polygamy in its 2-1 rejection of same-sex “marriage.”
“The same form of constitutional attack that plaintiffs mount against statutes limiting the institution of marriage to members of the opposite sex also could be made against statutes prohibiting polygamy,” New Jersey Appellate Judges Stephen Skillman and Anthony J. Parrillo said in their ruling in Lewis v. Harris.
“Indeed, there is arguably a stronger foundation for challenging statutes prohibiting polygamy than statutes limiting marriage to members of the opposite sex” because unlike homosexual “marriage,” polygamy has been and still is condoned by many religions and societies, they wrote.
Judge Donald G. Collester Jr., who dissented in the case, said his colleagues exaggerated the “specter of polygamy.”
The homosexual plaintiffs “do not question the binary aspect of marriage; they embrace it,” Judge Collester said. Moreover, he said, despite myriad briefs filed in the case, “no polygamists have applied” for marriage rights.
But can the polygamy issue be so easily dismissed?
Polygamous families, polygamy rights activists, civil liberties lawyers, libertarians and family scholars say no. They agree that polygamy is a legitimate family form that should not be interfered with by the government.
“Indeed, why not polygamy?” asks Colby College professor Cheshire C. Calhoun, who has written about the merits of allowing both same-sex “marriage” and “gender-neutral” polygamy.
Polygamy resistance
Polygamy has been outlawed in the United States since Colonial days, and despite the notable detour of America’s home-grown Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it seems likely to remain so.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected polygamy in its 1878 decision in Reynolds v. United States, which said government can enforce anti-polygamy laws even if they run counter to people’s religious beliefs.
Utah’s Constitution outlaws polygamy “forever” and, in 2001, the state’s anti-polygamy laws were upheld when Thomas Green, a fundamentalist Mormon man with five wives, was sent to prison for bigamy and related crimes.
In recent years, the federal government and 40 states have passed Defense of Marriage Acts and/or constitutional amendments that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
But two 2003 court rulings changed the legal landscape on sex and marriage: The Lawrence v. Texas decision by the U.S. Supreme Court disallows states to criminalize private sexual behavior among consenting adults, such as sodomy between homosexual men. The Goodridge decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which legalized same-sex “marriage” in that state, says “the right to marry means little if it does not include the right to marry the person of one’s choice.”
Taken together, these rulings appear to support a right to polygamy by consenting adults, according to pundits such as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.
“[I]f marriage is redefined to include two men in love, on what possible principled grounds can it be denied to three men in love?” Mr. Krauthammer has asked.
However, many conservatives say legalized polygamy is a serious threat but not an imminent one.
“I think right now probably the courts would not go for polygamy, says Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Fla., who fights for traditional marriage in lawsuits and supports a federal marriage amendment.
Support for polygamy rights today would be “political suicide,” says Jan LaRue, legal specialist at Concerned Women for America.
Indeed, public disapproval of polygamy is 92 percent, according to a Gallup poll released in May.
However, conservatives say, legalized same-sex “marriage” was unthinkable just a few years ago and they think a battle over polygamy legalization can’t be very far off.
“We’ve got some judicial activists all over the country, especially on the 9th Circuit [Court of Appeals], who would probably be ready, willing and able to include polygamy as a constitutional right,” Mrs. LaRue says.
Polygamy is ‘ultrafamily’
Pro-polygamy activists are counting on time being on their side.
“Polygamy would make sense” if people didn’t have knee-jerk reactions based on stereotypical information and instead thought about it intelligently, Mr. Henkel says.
Two polygamous families associated with Mr. Henkel’s organization agreed to speak by telephone with The Washington Times on the condition that they wouldn’t reveal their names or whereabouts.
They all said their marriage choices were logical, biblical, normal and worthy of legal recognition.
If polygamy were legal, there would be more stable families, fewer single mothers and less welfare, says “Poppa,” who lives in the Pacific Northwest with “Momma,” his wife of 34 years, and “Mom,” a single mother who joined them in “marriage” five years ago.
Contrary to stereotypes, Poppa says, his family is self-sufficient and active in their community. All the adults work and share in household duties and the care of six children. “We pool our money and our resources and whenever one [adult] has to take off, another will watch the kids,” he says.
Momma says she welcomed Mom into the family because she felt compassion for the 37-year-old single mother and knew “my husband could take care of both of us.”
“He’s always had more love than I could absorb,” Momma says. Good polygamous men, she adds, “are not trying to create a collection [of wives]. They’re trying to make sure this [single] woman has a support mechanism for her and her children.”
And religiously speaking, they have no doubt they are living God’s will.
“Biblically, it stands that marriage has always been more than one wife,” Momma says. “It says right in the Scriptures that you’ve got men throughout the ages who have always taken care of more than one wife.”
Says Poppa: “Polygamy is family. It’s us. It’s a unity and identity of a family group. … It is the ultrafamily.”
The second polygamous family also rejected characterizations of their lives as abnormal, sex-focused or prone to child abuse.
“The only difference between us and any other normal American family — you know, that whole image of the dog, the cat, the 2 kids, two-car garage, swimming pool, two-story, three-bedroom house and a husband and a wife — it’s all the same, except it’s just a husband and a wife and a wife,” says the second “Poppa,” who lives with “Mamasita” and “Momma” and their six children in the South.
“We’re extremely pro-family, we’re extremely pro-children,” says Momma, who is 36 and joined Poppa, 29, and “Mamasita,” 28, at their request six years ago.
They say that theirs is a harmonious, loving home — “we’re sensitive to each other,” Mamasita says — and having another adult in the house has allowed both women to share child care, go to college and get good jobs.
Issue of recognition
Decriminalization of polygamy would bring shared health benefits and other legal privileges of marriage, they say, but the bigger issue is recognition.
“People assume they have the right to look down on us or treat us badly because in a lot of people’s opinions, we’re just bad,” Poppa says.
“We’re consenting, nobody was forced,” Momma says. “What I want is to be accepted as a wife. I want to be accepted as a family. I don’t want to be looked down upon.”
Pro-polygamy forces may look nascent in 2005, but they have more than a few supporters — legally, academically and culturally.
Already, an estimated 30,000 to 80,000 families are living polygamously in the United States, including hundreds of Laotian Hmongs in Minnesota and thousands of fundamentalist Mormons in Arizona and Utah.
In Utah, a married fundamentalist Mormon couple has filed a federal lawsuit with another woman they want to marry.
The Supreme Court’s Lawrence decision should apply to consenting adults who want to engage in polygamy, says their lawyer, Brian Barnard, who argues that the trio’s constitutional rights to religious expression, privacy and intimate expression have been violated.
The case, Bronson v. Swensen, was dismissed by a federal court but is being appealed, says Mr. Barnard, who adds he is also seeking a repeal of the 1878 anti-polygamy Reynolds decision.
Polygamy allies
Polygamy is supported in principle by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Libertarian Party. In a 2004 commentary in USA Today, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said anti-polygamy laws are hypocritical and that Green’s 2001 bigamy conviction was “simply a matter of unequal treatment under the law.”
Georgia State University professor Patricia Dixon has interviewed numerous polygamous families who live in America in three black communities — African Hebrew Israelite, Ausar Auset Society and African American Muslim.
Polygyny, in which one man co-partners with many women, can be quite advantageous for women when it’s practiced openly and with consent, Ms. Dixon concluded in her 2002 book, “We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves.”
The women in these communities probably would “really appreciate” having polygamy rights, she tells The Times. “Not having a legal license [as a second or third wife] causes a lot of anxiety.”
Liberals and feminists have to be pro-polygamy because of their tolerance doctrine and belief in a woman’s right to choose, which certainly includes “the right to choose polygamy,” Mr. Henkel says.
The goal, therefore, is to convince conservatives, especially Christians, that “consenting adult” polygamy is biblical and valuable, both to society and to individual men and women.
Once the conservatives come around, Mr. Henkel says confidently, opposition to polygamy “will come crashing down … like a house of cards.”
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Police activity as reported by the Rothschild Police Department
Rothschild police log Oct. 6 to 13 Police activity as reported by the Rothschild Police Department Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: http://wdhne.ws/100ZVko
Published 11:00 p.m. CT Oct. 15, 2014 | Updated 11:08 p.m. CT Oct. 15, 2014
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On Oct. 6, a 26 year-old woman was arrested at The Bar, 10302 Market St., on charges of theft.
On Oct. 6, a 27-year-old woman was arrested at Motel 6, 904 W. Industrial Park Drive, on a Milwaukee County warrant.
On Oct. 7, an officer took a report of theft from a resident in the 20 block of Yawkey Avenue.
On Oct. 8, a 27-year-old woman was arrested at Shopko, 1105 E. Grand Ave., on charges of retail theft.
On Oct. 8, a 30-year-old man was arrested at Shopko, 1105 E. Grand Ave., on charges of possession of a narcotic with intent to deliver, possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia, obstructing an officer, retail theft, a probation violation and a Marathon County warrant. A 23-year-old man was arrested at the same location, on charges of possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver and obstructing an officer. A 28-year-old man was arrested at the same location, on charges of obstructing an officer.
On Oct. 11, a 24-year-old woman was arrested on Ellen Street at East Grand Avenue on charges of first-offense drunken driving. A 29-year-old man was arrested at the same location, on a probation hold.
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Rep. Fleming officially announces for Louisiana Senate race
3 years 7 months 1 week ago Monday, December 07 2015 Dec 7, 2015 December 07, 2015 1:41 PM December 07, 2015 in News
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BATON ROUGE - Republican U.S. Rep. John Fleming has launched his campaign for the Louisiana U.S. Senate seat being vacated by David Vitter. Fleming is positioning himself as a contender willing to take on Washington's GOP leaders.
In a video posted Monday, Fleming - in office since 2009 - says he believes "America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington."
He described himself as willing to challenge not only President Barack Obama, but Republicans who don't follow "conservative principles."
U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, a Republican who represents southwest Louisiana, also has said he will announce his Senate campaign soon. Other well-known Republicans eyeing the race are Treasurer John Kennedy and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle.
Vitter, a Republican, announced he wouldn't run for re-election in 2016 after losing the governor's race last month.
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Home » Podcast » Episode 2: Jai Williams Talks About Food Photography
Episode 2: Jai Williams Talks About Food Photography
Food Glorious Food! Do you love taking photos of your food and posting them on Instagram? Want your photos to look even better? Professional photographer Jai Williams gives tips on making your food photos look more appetizing.
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Charlene Giannetti, editor of Woman Around Town, is the recipient of seven awards from the New York Press Club for articles that have appeared on the website. A graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charlene began her career working for a newspaper in Pennsylvania, then wrote for several publications in Washington covering environment and energy policy. In New York, she was an editor at Business Week magazine and her articles have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including the New York Times. She is the author of 13 non-fiction books, eight for parents of young adolescents written with Margaret Sagarese, including "The Roller-Coaster Years," "Cliques," and "Boy Crazy." She and Margaret have been keynote speakers at many events and have appeared on the Today Show, CBS Morning, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and many others. Her new book, "The Plantations of Virginia," written with Jai Williams, was published by Globe Pequot Press in February, 2017. Her podcast, WAT-CAST, interviewing men and women making news, is available on Soundcloud and on iTunes. She is one of the producers for the film "1Life After You," focusing on the opioid crisis that will be filmed in 2019. Charlene divides her time between homes in Manhattan and Alexandria, Virginia.
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Church of Scientology Participates in the Parliament of World Religions
20 Nov 2015 Posted by Linda Wieland, Public Affairs, Church of Scientology
Church members shared the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program with those attending the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held October 15-19, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Scientology aligns with other world religions to advance society and world peace at the Parliament of World Religions.
In the light of providing an avenue where representatives and leaders from various faiths and traditions can come together towards improving society and promoting peace, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, — the oldest, largest and most inclusive assembly of people of all religious affiliations — convened in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Palace Convention Center. An estimated 10,000 members of 50 different religions from 80 participating countries joined together to achieve the common goals contained in the overarching theme, “Reclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity – Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability.” The conference included Scientologists, Mormons, Native Americans and other participants of indigenous faiths.
Some 10,000 members of 50 different religious traditions representing 80 countries attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions
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The Parliament reflected a refreshing contrast to the religious discord and disunity often portrayed in mainstream media and inspired the expression and display of compassion and humanity towards other participants from a myriad of religious traditions. “What struck me was the humanity and caring evident in the members of so many different religions. That’s what we all have in common,” enthused Janet Wieland, Church of Scientology Los Angeles Public Affairs representative. She also observed that the spirit of agreement and working together was evident in the momentous event that united many people of such a broad range of beliefs and cultural orientations. “The theme of the conference – working together – was very appropriate,” Ms. Wieland commented.
Ms. Wieland continued: “We were able to share our humanitarian initiatives and provide materials anyone can use to tackle the issues all of us are involved with and concerned about.” She was grateful for the opportunity the Parliament provided to network with individuals who take organized action to tackle social issues, similar to the church’s “Truth About Drugs” drug education and prevention initiative. Apart from Truth About Drugs publications that send a clear message to support the fight against drug abuse, issue-driven educational materials are also published by church-supported programs, meant to address looming societal ills such as crime, immorality, intolerance and abuse of the human rights of others.
United for Human Rights is primarily focused on human rights education, making sure that the articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights are clearly understood by individuals of all ages. The Church of Scientology also supports The Way to Happiness Foundation, which promotes a nonreligious moral code that serves as a guide to joyful and peaceful living, called The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living.
Scientology Volunteer Ministers were on hand to describe the program and provide Scientology assists—techniques developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard that address the spiritual and emotional factors in stress and trauma.
Scientology Volunteer Ministers tents were also present at the Parliament and proved to be very popular, with people lining up and calling ahead to receive what is called a Scientology “assist,” which is a technique developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard to help a person confront physical difficulties by addressing its mental and spiritual aspects. The church provides free Volunteer Minister training to educate interested persons who would like to acquire simple skills and enable themselves to provide help in any crisis.
The Parliament of the World’s Religions began in 1893, bringing together Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Spiritualists. This year’s Parliament was held in Utah, the global headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Scientology religion was founded by author and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard. The first Church of Scientology was formed in Los Angeles in 1954 and the religion has expanded to more than 11,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups, with millions of members in 167 countries.
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Linda Wieland began in community relations for the Church in Buffalo, New York, in 1971, later coordinated the Church's Social Reform activities in Los Angeles, and for the past decade has worked in public affairs for Church of Scientology International.
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Facing calls for resignation, Acosta defends Epstein deal
By JILL COLVIN and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press |
Posted: Wed 1:12 PM, Jul 10, 2019 |
Updated: Wed 11:19 PM, Jul 10, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to tamp down calls for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex-trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein, insisting he got the toughest deal he could at the time.
Alexander Acosta, the 27th United States Secretary of Labor, Photo Date: 2/22/18 / Source: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0
In a nearly hour-long news conference, Acosta retraced the steps that federal prosecutors took in the case when he was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida a decade ago, insisting that "in our heart we were trying to do the right thing for these victims." He said prosecutors were working to avoid a more lenient arrangement that would have allowed Epstein to "walk free."
"We believe that we proceeded appropriately," he said, a contention challenged by critics who say Epstein's penalty was egregiously light.
The episode reignited this week when federal prosecutors in New York brought a new round of child sex-trafficking charges against the wealthy hedge fund manager. And on Wednesday, a new accuser stepped forward to say Epstein raped her in his New York mansion when she was 15.
Jennifer Araoz, now 32, told "Today" she never went to police because she feared retribution from the well-connected Epstein. She now has filed court papers seeking information from Epstein in preparation for suing him.
While the handling of the case arose during Acosta's confirmation hearings, it has come under fresh and intense scrutiny after the prosecutors in New York brought their charges on Monday, alleging Epstein abused dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s, paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for massages, then molesting them at his homes in Florida and New York. Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the charges; if convicted he could be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
Acosta's lawyerly presentation was an effort to push back against growing criticism of his work in a secret 2008 plea deal that let Epstein avoid federal prosecution on charges that he molested teenage girls. A West Palm Beach judge found this year that the deal had violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act because the victims were not informed or consulted.
He was also out to persuade President Donald Trump to keep him on the job as Democratic presidential candidates and party leaders called for his ouster.
Acosta insisted his office did the best it could under the circumstances a decade ago. He said state authorities had planned to go after Epstein with charges that would have resulted in no jail time until his office intervened and pressed for tougher consequences, a contention that is supported by the record. The alternative, he said, would have been for federal prosecutors to "roll the dice" and hope to win a conviction.
"We did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail," Acosta said. "He needed to go to jail."
But Epstein only was given 13 months in a work-release program, which let him work out of the jail six days a week. Acosta said it was "entirely appropriate" to be outraged about that leniency, but he blamed that on Florida authorities. "Everything the victims have gone through in these cases is horrific," he said, while repeatedly refusing to apologize to them.
"I think it's important to stand up for the prosecutors" in his old office, he said.
His account did not sit well with Barry Krischer, who was the Palm Beach County attorney during the case. Krischer, a Democrat, said Acosta "should not be allowed to rewrite history."
Acosta's South Florida office had gotten to the point of drafting an indictment that could have sent Epstein to federal prison for life. But it was never filed, leading to Epstein's guilty plea to two state prostitution-related charges. In addition to the work-release jail sentence, Epstein was required to make payments to victims and register as a sex offender.
Krischer said the federal indictment was "abandoned after secret negotiations between Mr. Epstein's lawyers and Mr. Acosta." He added: "If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the State's case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved forward with the 53-page indictment that his own office drafted."
Acosta has said he welcomes the new case, and earlier defended himself on Twitter, crediting "new evidence and additional testimony" uncovered by prosecutors in New York for providing "an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice."
Pressed on whether he had any regrets, Acosta repeatedly suggested that circumstances had changed since the case arose. "We now have 12 years of knowledge and hindsight and we live in a very different world," he said. "Today's world treats victims very, very differently."
Trump has, so far, also defended Acosta, praising his work as labor secretary and saying he felt "very badly" for him "because I've known him as being somebody that works so hard and has done such a good job."
Though Trump may have made the tagline "You're fired!" famous on his reality show "The Apprentice," he has shown a pattern of reluctance to fire even his most embattled aides. Trump, for instance, took months to dismiss Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Agency administrator despite a dizzying array of scandals, and allowed Jeff Sessions to remain as attorney general for more than a year even as he railed at and belittled him.
Trump typically gives his Cabinet secretaries the opportunity to defend themselves publicly in interviews and press conferences before deciding whether to pull the plug. Indeed, he encouraged Acosta to hold Wednesday's press conference laying out his thinking and involvement in the plea deal, according to a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Early reaction in the White House appeared to be positive, with one official saying the performance was likely enough to buy Acosta more time unless questions about his part in the 2008 case linger in the news. Vice President Mike Pence said he was "pleased to see Secretary Acosta step forward."
Trump has his own long personal history with Epstein, but has dissociated himself from the wealthy hedge fund manager, saying this week the two had a falling out 15 or so years ago and haven't spoken since.
Acosta told reporters that his relationship with Trump remains "outstanding," but also noted that every member of Trump's Cabinet serves at the president's pleasure.
Democratic presidential contenders and party leaders have been calling for Acosta to resign or be fired, and he has been called to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee on July 23. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, welcomed that move, saying Acosta "has a disturbing record on sexual and human trafficking that stretches from the horribly permissive plea agreement he gave to Jeffrey Epstein, up to his time now as Labor Secretary."
Many Senate Republicans, meanwhile, have taken a wait-and-see approach.
Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Zeke Miller and Darlene Superville in Washington and Curt Anderson in Miami contributed to this report.
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Finding Humanity In The Pain As We Talk With Author Garrard Conley About ‘Boy Erased’
It’s hard for some people to realize that you just can’t change everything…
Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Lucas Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program; or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
This is a real life horror story in the truest sense of the word, but with this writer/director Joel Edgerton has crafted something that is painfully unique, poignant and will pack a punch for audiences everywhere as it’s deeply layered and rich messages come through.
After a successful festival run, Boy Erased is getting ready to hit theatres in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver and in advance of the premiere we got the unique please of talking to the man who all this actually happened to. Author Garrard Conley.
We talk about his initial reaction to learning that is story was getting optioned into a film, working with Joel Edgerton, the larger issues the film brings up, not only in the LGBTQ community but in society at large and so much more…
David Voigt: This story is so rich in layers, because it’s heavy, it’s emotional, there’s even some small moments of hope in it. I’d love it if you could walk me through everything that you’ve experienced with this process especially in those initial moments when the reality of this very personal story that you’ve written is going to be on the big screen for the world to see.
Garrard Conley: As I’m sure you can imagine people just don’t pay as much attention to books as you’d hope and while I did get a lot of great feedback, it really wasn’t a best seller either. I was just living my normal life and about a week before that I had gotten the offer from Joel (Edgerton) and his team, we had received an anonymous offer; they wouldn’t tell us who they were which is just weird (and honestly a little creepy) and my agent told me that we just didn’t want to go with them because we’d end up being really embarrassed at the premiere and I can’t tell you any more than that. I of course at least asked how much they were offering, because I am a starving artist and I just moved to New York where things are actually pretty expensive, but my agent just told me to think about it and I eventually did turn it down, which was just the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Of course then a week later I was rewarded like I had won the lottery when Joel’s team came in with their offer and this great group.
Then of course Joel wanted to meet with me in Brooklyn because of course I thought this had to be fake! Why is this straight Australian man interested in my story all of a sudden? Then we met and he was just super nice and also wanted to meet with other survivors of conversion therapy and even offered to let me write the script. However I had never written a movie script in my life and as much as this is my story it’s not exactly something that I ever want to write again either so I was happy to let him do it because at that point I really was just exhausted by it at that point because obviously my family had been in somewhat of a public eye and it was freeing and a lot less stressful to be able to hand it over to someone else. He wrote the script in about a month and he sent me drafts the entire time and it was a very fast process. I think I got the initial call from Joel and his team in like January or February and by October we were on set shooting. That’s how insane this all was, it all came together really quickly.
Was there one specific moment in all of this where you ended up really knowing that Joel was the right man for the job of telling this story?
You know I think it was at that first initial meeting where I was really sold on his vision because when we met I asked him point blank; “What are your intentions with this story?” and he was straight me saying that he wanted to get A-List Actors on this project so we could really get people paying attention to this story and so that we can get people like my father and others who support Conversion Therapy to go and watch the film. In my mind that was a good enough reason for me and granted there are a lot of other reasons to make a movie like this. Maybe if it had been made by a Queer director it would have become this incredibly personal story but in doing this way with Joel I really saw it as an opportunity for advocacy, to be able to get it to the right people. And really who knows if that will ever happen because it’s hard and our country is just so divided right now, you just don’t know. At least if it gets people, who identify with Russell Crowe from Gladiator and wonder why he’s in this LGBTQ film, why is someone like Flea in this film as well. It’s having people like that in a movie that really helps to spark on conversation of why they are in a movie like this. I really think those things do matter and it’s important when your allies in trying to get a message across are actors that a lot of people look up to.
Oh absolutely because there are some aspects of the story that I just found absolutely fascinating because as much as this your story, when we’ve seen other stories along a similar vein come to the big screen we tend to see issues of faith get thrown to the back burner as well as things like the culture of toxic masculinity that we live in today which is just so pervasive in today’s society which do elevate this film beyond being just an LGBTQ story and tackles something so much more universal…
And that’s especially true with Flea’s character who is just terrible and making them perform this toxic masculine rhetoric was really uncomfortable for some of them and I’m so glad you picked up on that theme in the movie. It was something really important to me and during this entire process of making the film and having it all come together, I knew that we just had to get it right. For the most part the gay conversion centers are a white industry and mostly male as well and when you are dealing with that dynamic you really do have to lean into the darker side of things and genuinely critique it, otherwise you’ve just made another movie with white gays in it. You have to lean into the darker aspects that are there so we can really see how domineering and uncomfortable it can all be in an environment with almost no diverse voices.
I think that’s why the film really works on such a universal level as well because while I’ll grant that I live in a left-leaning, multi cultural big city like Toronto; the message of the need for us all to maybe move a little more towards ending all the divisiveness which is so poisonous and counterproductive on so many levels is something that needs to be said and I definitely see it here.
Oh I hope so to be sure and also there’s going to be people in all of our lives from different walks of life who you’ll never really find a common ground with. I mean finding common ground with someone who is blatantly racist is a dangerous thing, but I especially think that people like my parents really do provide a road map for people who have messed up in the past and I mean I even equate “messing up” as something like being at a family dinner and someone says something racist or homophobic…but you just let it slide. That kind of compliancy is also making a mistake and at some point you do have to stand up for people, especially those who just aren’t as privileged as you are. I think the character of my mother is something that people can really map their own lives on to and see an example of what it actually means to do the right thing.
Is that one of the main goals for you on this project? Not only about creating awareness around things like gay conversion but on a broader scale as a call for us as a species to just be generally nicer and treat each other better then we historically have in the past?
Yeah for sure that is one of the main goals, and while obviously I wanted to do everything that I can to raise awareness about Gay Conversion Therapy, it’s so important to be able to put out there that comfort really isn’t necessarily the key ingredient in any kind of family or social gathering. There’s a tendency just to try and smooth things over and just go “Oh never mind, it’s just my racist uncle” rather than calling these issues to light and reminding everyone that words matter. I think this is especially big in group settings and making sure that occasionally it’s important to make things a little messy and a little awkward and have a discussion about things to see alternate view points and maybe even convey even the smallest idea that to someone who would have never considered it before.
Obviously while on the festival circuit, the film has had great reactions in places like New York, San Francisco, LA, Toronto but have you had a chance to see the film be screened in front of audiences that aren’t necessarily as receptive as the one’s you’ve had so far and see that needle move in a direction more positive then we’ve seen in the past.
Well, not yet and yeah obviously in the cites you just mentioned we are kind of “preaching to the choir” as it were and they’re the kind of cities that need it the least…but that doesn’t mean they don’t still need it. After the New York premiere, I had these two young girls come up to me and gave me letters saying that they hadn’t come out to their parents yet but after seeing the film they feel like they can take their parents and have more of an open dialogue with them then they had ever had before so it’s not to say that the big cities don’t need it…
And that really does speak to the larger point of the film as well because in many ways, everybody needs that push in a more tolerant direction…
It does! There’s this interesting detail that I always like to point out because 10 miles away from San Francisco in San Raphael, California is where “Love & Action” the conversion therapy centre that I went to was born in 1973. 10 miles from the safest place that there ever was for Queer people, the exact opposite was created. I think that’s a perfect example of how nowhere is really free of this type of hate. Any time we make progress there will always be some kind of push back and it’s never going to be a straight line. When the community achieved marriage equality, there was such a temptation to just go “Yay, we did it we won!” So many people just want that moment to relax and feel good when there’s still work to do.
That speaks to society’s ills as well because as a species we’re always looking for the quick fix or the cure. It’s an idea that’s ingrained in us and it’s so much more complicated than that.
And that’s a dangerous idea no matter what form it comes in. I talk about this a lot in the book but not nearly as much in the movie but this Great Gatsby like idea where everything will suddenly change and we’ll all get a happy ending. American’s are just obsessed with that, with the idea that if you just “Work Hard” you can make it and do anything. That idea of just “work hard” was the exact mentality that was pervasive in conversion therapy…and guess what it didn’t work! Some things just don’t change!
And that really does capture how I felt the first time I heard the words “Gay Conversion” because my first reaction was “Wait, that’s actually a thing?”
And most people have that reaction but if you came from where I came from, people do think it is a real thing.
Boy Erased is open in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver now…
Dave Voigt
David Voigt is a Toronto based writer with a problem and a passion for the moving image and all things cinema. Having moved from production to the critical side of the aisle for well over 10 years now at outlets like Examiner.com, Criticize This, Dork Shelf, to.Night Newspaper he’s been all across his city, the country and the continent in search of all the news and reviews that are fit to print from the world of cinema. Having launched his own home; In The Seats (intheseats.ca) back in 2015 for all the latest and greatest movie reviews and interviews he’s one of the leading voices in the film criticism scene in Toronto, and eventually the world. David is the Entertainment Editor for Addicted Magazine.
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Morgan Mill to host annual Thanksgiving dinner
E-T Staff Report Come one and come all to the annual Morgan Mill Independent School District Thanksgiving dinner. This year's popular event, that drew close to 700 guests last year, will take place Friday, Nov. 16, at the Morgan Mill School. Festivities take place from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Guests will enjoy a full traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey, dressing, yams, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, bread, and homemade desserts. The staff has ordered six cases of fruit cocktail alone.
All Morgan Mill students take part in some facet of preparation of the meal from decorations to making personal invitations. Students serve food, greet guests, and the faculty helps prepare the food.
The meal began in the mid-90s as a way to showcase what the Morgan Mill School had to offer.
�Everyone will come and say this is a good thing. We feel at Morgan Mill, that the things our students learn are not necessarily measured by standardized testing. It is the sense of community that makes us special,� said Superintendent Dean Edwards. �It has to do with a learning experience, to get involved with their community, get proactive, to be the producers and not the takers.�
When it all began, the Morgan Mill School served the meal in the former lunchroom and hallways, which now houses the kindergarten room. The event's reputation grew and so did the guest numbers. Now, the meal is served in the cafetorium and the lines are long.
Students have an assignment to contact dignitaries including everyone from local public officials up to the President of the United States. This year, the Morgan Mill School will be honored to have military personnel from Ft. Hood to participate.
Edwards said preparations for the annual dinner began in July. Donations from area businesses help serve everyone.
�We served approximately 700 last year and are shooting for 800 this year,� Edwards said.
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Category Archives: “Anchors Aweigh”
“Anchors Aweigh”: Seafaring Strings of Steel
Posted on February 26, 2014 by Zeroto180
Countless country music fans have heard steel guitarist Lloyd Green without realizing it. Green has played with over 500 artists and performed on 115 number one hits, as well as over 100 top ten hits. Between the years 1965 and 1980, Lloyd averaged an astounding 400 recording sessions in Nashville a year.
“Anchors Aweigh” is a Lloyd Green original from 1966 album Day for Decision, his first of two albums for the Little Darlin’ label:
Of the 24 singles released between 1967-1979, just three managed to penetrate the country chart, although Green’s version of “I Can See Clearly Now” – I am happy to report – broke into the Top 40 (#36 country) in 1973.
Little Darlin’: Mayhew + Paycheck
As MusicRow.com reports, record label, Little Darlin’, was a business partnership started in 1966 between producer/songwriter, Aubrey Mayhew, and country “outlaw,” Johnny Paycheck as a commercial outlet for artists such as Jeannie C. Riley, Bobby Helms, Lloyd Green, and Paycheck himself, whose edgy country songs recorded for Little Darlin’ are widely acknowledged to be hard country classics.
Mayhew’s interests were not solely tied to music, however:
“Mayhew was also one of the world’s foremost collectors of John F. Kennedy memorabilia and, at the time of his death, was embroiled in a high-profile legal battle over ownership of the window through which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy in 1963. Shortly after Kennedy’s death, Mayhew produced a JFK tribute album that sold 8 million copies, and in 1970, he purchased the Texas School Book Depository Building saving it from demolition.”
Also important to note that in 2005, Mayhew came out of retirement to produce honky tonk (and truck driving country) singer, Dale Watson, for his tribute album to the label, The Little Darlin’ Sessions.
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Public Health Act
Overview of Public Health Act
Public Health Act Regulation Forms
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Officials and Organizations
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Third Party Liability - Health Care Costs Recovery Act
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The provincial health officer is the senior medical health officer for British Columbia and is responsible for providing independent public health advice to the Minister of Health, the government and the public; and overseeing the activities of medical health officers. The provincial health officer is required to report publicly on the health of the population through the Minister of Health to the legislature each year, and issues periodic reports on specific issues.
Medical health officers use public and population health knowledge and skills to play leading and collaborative roles in the maintenance and improvement of the health and well-being of their communities. They are responsible, with the public health team, for monitoring, preventing and controlling communicable and chronic diseases, investigating disease outbreaks and hazards to health and coordinating public health responses to health threats. Medical health officers carry out legislated requirements of a number of public health statutes which pertain to communicable disease prevention and control, environmental health, tobacco harm prevention, drinking water protection and community care facility licensing.
Environmental health officers investigate and influence conditions in the natural and built/physical environment that affect human health and wellbeing. They deal with the health impacts of contaminated air, water, land, and food, indoor and outdoor environments, and address biological, physical, chemical and radiological hazards. Environmental health officer’s duties include inspections of and investigating complaints about food establishments, swimming pools, water supplies and sewage disposal systems. They also administer and enforce environmental health legislation related to these matters.
Public health nurses promote and protect the health of populations in communities and specific diverse settings, such as community health centres, schools, street clinics, youth centres and nursing outposts, to meet the health needs of the whole or specific populations. They work with many partners in communities to implement maternal and child health promotion programs, disease and injury prevention programs, school health programs, sexually transmitted infection prevent, treatment, education and outreach, immunization clinics, and communicable disease surveillance and control.
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White Minority of America
Welcomess friends. Over the weak end I stumbled across this video on you tube. The topic was concerning Thanksgiving,not to my surprise the news-caster explained how the stories that we all have been told, is a complete lie. Like the history of the true Hebrews of the bible, a small group of Europeans have twisted truth to support theft and lies. The story of the Indians is told by the victors. The victors are merchants, politicians and investors. The main stream history books are controlled by this same group. In the near future I will add a section on HWUNET.ORG to research the parallel hell, that the parasitic so called elite have inflected on our brothers, the endogamous peoples of the Americas. Here are a few books and videos to explore.
History is written by the victor and rewritten by the rebels, truth is found somewhere in between times of freedom. We are now living in between times of freedom. The wars we see brewing in Europe and North Africa are being instigated by those that hate freedom. History is forever repeating. The merchants, politicians and investors are at it again. The World Bank, European Union, IMF and NATO keep showing the world their true nature. They can care less about the people.
Below are two books that are found in the report:
James W. "Jim" Loewen
" James W. "Jim" Loewen (born February 6, 1942) is an American sociologist, historian, and author, best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, which was republished in 2008. "
" Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by sociologist James W. Loewen. It critically examines twelve American history textbooks and concludes that textbook authors propagate factually false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of history. In addition to critiquing the dominant historical themes presented in textbooks, Loewen presents a number of his own historical themes that he says are ignored by traditional history textbooks. A newly revised and updated hardcover edition was released on April 1, 2008. The New Press lists Lies My Teacher Told Me as its top all-time bestseller "
" Robert Beverley, Jr. (1673 – April 21, 1722) was an important historian of early colonial Virginia. He was born in Jamestown and died in King and Queen County, Virginia. He was also a substantial planter of the time as well as an official in the colonial government. Beverley's History and Present State of Virginia, published originally in London in 1705, is considered by many[who?] to be the most important and accurate history of early life in the Virginia colony.
Beverley took part in Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood's 1716 "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition" to the Shenandoah Valley. Journalist John Fontaine records that on the return trip, both Beverley and his horse fell, and rolled to the bottom of a hill, but without serious injury to either. However, when Beverley published a revised edition of his History in 1722, he continued it only to 1710, so there is no known account by Beverley of this event. "
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Library Road Trips: How to Build Relationships with Libraries Abroad
Thursday, March 22, 2018, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 202 AB
In 2016, the Alexandria (VA) Library received a generous donation to fund an international travel fellowship. The first trip took place in 2017 and focused on libraries in Scotland and England. Our international counterparts deal with many of the same staffing, funding, and community challenges, yet we rarely take the opportunity to connect with them. Discover the unique initiatives taking place in British libraries and how to build your own connections with international libraries.
1: Increase their understanding of donor relations, specifically how to cultivate donor support for unique initiatives. 2: Increase their knowledge of international libraries and how these libraries respond to challenges, such as budget reductions, recruitment and community engagement. 3: Increase their ability to learn from and interact with international colleagues, even if they cannot send staff abroad.
Level 1: People with no previous knowledge of the topic.
This session will have: Low interaction (example: single speaker/panel with Q&A at the end of the program)
Track: Collaborate
Tags: Administration/Management, Administration and Management, Fundraising, International Issues, Librarianship, Multicultural Services
Renee Di Pilato, Deputy Director of Libraries
Alexandria Library , VA
Renee Di Pilato is the Deputy Director for the Alexandria (VA) Library. In addition to an MLS from the Catholic University of America, Renee holds a Master"s in Public Administration from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in Managerial Leadership from Simmons College. An active member of professional organizations, she has served as a Councilor-at-Large for the American Library Association and as Chair for PLA?s Leadership Development Committee.
Cynthia Thornley, Library Director
Horry County Memorial Library , SC
Cynthia Thornley is the Library Director, for the Horry County Memorial Library, South Carolina. She previously managed the Beatley Central Library in Alexandria, Virginia, for three years. In addition to a Master's in Education, she holds a Master's in Library Science from the University of Kentucky. Prior to joining the Alexandria Library, Cynthia was a school administrator and held several positions in the Charles County Public Library in Maryland.
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It could be true that choosing one of these options won’t get you all of shows you could get with cable. However, if you truly want to get rid of cable, knowing what some of the options are can help you choose the BEST one. Then you can make the decision of whether or not it is worth it to spend the additional money to get the extra one or two channels through cable OR sacrifice one or two shows to save a BUNCH of money. It just depends your priorities.
For the technically competent, I’d recommend setting up a Home Theater PC. A $70 AMD A6-5400K should handle all of your HTPC needs. If you’d like to game as well, consider a more expensive A8 or A10. Of course, you need to couple this with a case, PSU, motherboard, RAM, HDD, wireless 802.11n adapter, wireless keyboard/mouse, and OS. Most people who go this route aren’t starting from scratch, but if you are, it’s a significantly more expensive option than a set top box.
This is captivating. It doesn't trivialise the atrocities at all. The colour makes it more life like, even if it's not perfect, which ends up making it all the more real. The other positive is that I can't remember if I've ever seen so much WWI footage in one go, without some hideous, sombre voiceover. It's beautifully edited and tells an honest story.Take the time to watch it, even if you feel it will make you feel uncomfortable. You'll then understand the hideousness of The War to End All Wars
The first thing to do is think about your TV watching habits. Do you have any specific “must see” shows? Write down the name of the show, and the network it is on. Do you watch a lot of sports. If so, see if there is a season pass you can buy for the Internet (you can stream these on many newer TV sets). Write down your TV watching habits – are you a channel surfer, do you TIVO or record everything, etc. Your responses will give you a good idea of whether or not you can drop your cable TV subscription.
What you get: With its updated pricing, Sling’s Orange package is now $25 and includes about 30 cable channels but no broadcast TV. It supports one user at a time. Sling Blue, also $25 per month, supports three users and a different mix of about 40 channels, including local broadcasts and regional sports. (Among other differences, Sling Orange includes ESPN.) A combined plan costs $40. Themed add-on packs cost $5 per month, and you can add HBO, $15; Showtime, $10; and Starz, $9.
Antenna: The antenna is the way TV started. You connect an indoor or outdoor antenna to your TV and receive programs from over-the-air local and network affiliate TV channels. This is a great way to receive free programming from the major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB, and PBS). It is important to note that older analog TVs, and many HDTVs made before 2007, will require the use of a digital converter box that is placed between the antenna and the TV.
Sony PS4 (starting at $299.99) / Microsoft XBox ($299 to $499): One of the biggest unexpected players in this space has been the major video game console companies. The Sony PS4 and Xbox One X are state-of-the-art in terms of their streaming capabilities, and they’re even creating their own services that attempt to serve the same functions as traditional cable TV. (More on that later.) The Xbox One S, Microsoft’s previous model, was still for sale as of August 2018, at $200 less than the One X. Click here to compare the two on the Xbox website.
The Internet is your friend. As long as you have an internet connection, you can still watch some television. Many of the TV networks post videos of their shows on their websites which are available to watch for free. There are a number of other websites which provide hundreds of television series links, and allow you to browse the shows and watch all from their website. Some of the sites provide the service for free, while others charge a few bucks a month to users but either way, you’re going to save a lot of money compared to your existing cable bill.
Plus, now that there are several live TV streaming services, that may be the best way to handle all the viewing sans cable. Hulu with live TV is $479.88 per year—add HBO and Showtime to it and the price jumps to $719.76. If you add all the remaining streaming services (Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube Red, CBS, and Starz) that's $1,214.38—still cheaper than the average pay TV cable service.
There are a few things that you can do to ensure the process runs as smoothly as possible. Make sure all of the TVs that you want to be connected are in the house at the time of installation. Keep the area around your TV open so that the technician has room to work. If you're getting satellite, make sure the technician will have easy access to your balcony or roof where the dish will be mounted. Set aside enough time in your schedule for the technician to complete the entire process. Keep your phone on hand in the days and hours leading up to your appointment, so that the technician can call and confirm or alert you to any changes.
DIRECTV: This satellite provider was purchased by AT&T in 2015. Their package prices tend to be higher than Dish Network, but you do have a choice of six different packages as opposed to Dish's four. Football fans will find this choice a no-brainer as DIRECTV is the only one of the two companies which offer NFL Sunday Ticket. Check out the full DIRECTV channel lineup here.
Adam… there are countless options and opinions out there on what’s “best” but it all boils down to what the readers want and need. The wife and I cut cable completely about 6-7 years ago. We have internet only for $50/mo. We now have a $4 a month (taxes only) VOIP phone (Ooma) for home phone, cut our cell phones down to bare minimum $5/mo. plans and rolled the savings to an amazing 55″ OLED SmarTV television on an open box deal. Between the apps on that, the computer attached by HDMI, the over the air antenna and free apps and web sites, we don’t need any of the devices or subscriptions to have it all… and then some. There’s no need for Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Sling, Philo, Fire Stick or anything. Our motto is keep it simple. We get library access online 24/7 and instead of asking “what’s on TV tonight?” the question is “what do you WANT on TV tonight?” … $54/month total… we’re good!
Customer service is fairly average, with a rating of 60 out of 100 from the ACSI and 59 out of 100 from Consumer Reports. This can be attributed to the fact that you’ll likely have to call to get any information and access to more plan options. Those plans might include a Frontier Prime plan, that has 60% of the most popular channels. It only skips out on HBO, Nick at Nite, and other premium networks.
NFL RedZone, produced by NFL Network, whips around every NFL game on Sunday afternoons delivering the touchdowns and most exciting moments as they happen. When a team goes inside the 20-yard line, NFL RedZone takes fans there. The channel keeps fans up-to-date in real time, switching from game to game with live look-ins, highlights and a chance to see the key plays. NFL RedZone also delivers up-to-the-minute fantasy stats, extended highlights, and much more.
But seriously, DIRECTV is where it’s at if you’re a sports fan. On top of NFL SUNDAY TICKET, DIRECTV offers à la carte programming for most major sports leagues, including MLB EXTRA INNINGS®, NBA LEAGUE PASS, MLS Direct KickTM, and NHL® CENTER ICE®. Also, when you upgrade to the ENTERTAINMENT package, you’ll get ESPN, TNT, and TBS—which carry Monday Night Football, Inside the NBA, and the majority of college hoops (including March Madness) between them.
Since the advent of streaming online video, industry insiders have wondered what impact it would have on the future of television. As more companies move toward launching their own proprietary subscription streaming services, the future hasn’t been entirely decided yet, but new clues are emerging, pointing toward a potentially surprising answer: all this disruptive new media is just gradually re-creating familiar old-media models.
Another thing to consider is if you can set up antenna TV to catch local channels. While it might not work for everyone or everywhere, if there's a network TV show you just have to see live then this is the cheapest option. Digital TV antennas are easy to find with designs ready for home and apartments -- check out our guide for more info on how to choose the right one.
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/ Music in the brain
Music in the brain
“One of the core debates surrounding music is to what extent it has dedicated mechanisms in the brain and to what extent it piggybacks off of mechanisms that primarily serve other functions,” Josh McDermott says.
Joshua McDermott
Kanwisher Laboratory
McDermott Laboratory
Music perception
Nancy Kanwisher
Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds that people typically categorize as music, but not to speech or other environmental sounds.
“It has been the subject of widespread speculation,” says Josh McDermott, the Frederick A. and Carole J. Middleton Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. “One of the core debates surrounding music is to what extent it has dedicated mechanisms in the brain and to what extent it piggybacks off of mechanisms that primarily serve other functions.”
The finding was enabled by a new method designed to identify neural populations from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Using this method, the researchers identified six neural populations with different functions, including the music-selective population and another set of neurons that responds selectively to speech.
“The music result is notable because people had not been able to clearly see highly selective responses to music before,” says Sam Norman-Haignere, a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
“Our findings are hard to reconcile with the idea that music piggybacks entirely on neural machinery that is optimized for other functions, because the neural responses we see are highly specific to music,” says Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT and a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
Norman-Haignere is the lead author of a paper describing the findings in the Dec. 16 online edition of Neuron. McDermott and Kanwisher are the paper’s senior authors.
Mapping responses to sound
For this study, the researchers scanned the brains of 10 human subjects listening to 165 natural sounds, including different types of speech and music, as well as everyday sounds such as footsteps, a car engine starting, and a telephone ringing.
The brain’s auditory system has proven difficult to map, in part because of the coarse spatial resolution of fMRI, which measures blood flow as an index of neural activity. In fMRI, “voxels” — the smallest unit of measurement — reflect the response of hundreds of thousands or millions of neurons.
“As a result, when you measure raw voxel responses you’re measuring something that reflects a mixture of underlying neural responses,” Norman-Haignere says.
To tease apart these responses, the researchers used a technique that models each voxel as a mixture of multiple underlying neural responses. Using this method, they identified six neural populations, each with a unique response pattern to the sounds in the experiment, that best explained the data.
“What we found is we could explain a lot of the response variation across tens of thousands of voxels with just six response patterns,” Norman-Haignere says.
One population responded most to music, another to speech, and the other four to different acoustic properties such as pitch and frequency.
The key to this advance is the researchers’ new approach to analyzing fMRI data, says Josef Rauschecker, a professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University.
“The whole field is interested in finding specialized areas like those that have been found in the visual cortex, but the problem is the voxel is just not small enough. You have hundreds of thousands of neurons in a voxel, and how do you separate the information they’re encoding? This is a study of the highest caliber of data analysis,” says Rauschecker, who was not part of the research team.
Layers of sound processing
The four acoustically responsive neural populations overlap with regions of “primary” auditory cortex, which performs the first stage of cortical processing of sound. Speech and music-selective neural populations lie beyond this primary region.
“We think this provides evidence that there’s a hierarchy of processing where there are responses to relatively simple acoustic dimensions in this primary auditory area. That’s followed by a second stage of processing that represents more abstract properties of sound related to speech and music,” Norman-Haignere says.
The researchers believe there may be other brain regions involved in processing music, including its emotional components. “It’s inappropriate at this point to conclude that this is the seat of music in the brain,” McDermott says. “This is where you see most of the responses within the auditory cortex, but there’s a lot of the brain that we didn’t even look at.”
Kanwisher also notes that “the existence of music-selective responses in the brain does not imply that the responses reflect an innate brain system. An important question for the future will be how this system arises in development: How early it is found in infancy or childhood, and how dependent it is on experience?”
The researchers are now investigating whether the music-selective population identified in this study contains subpopulations of neurons that respond to different aspects of music, including rhythm, melody, and beat. They also hope to study how musical experience and training might affect this neural population.
The Science + Engineering of Intelligence
BCS Department Head Jim DiCarlo leads a panel of MIT faculty to discuss the quest to achieve true progress in our understanding of intelligence.
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Home » News » Shoigu told about the new mysterious Russian hypersonic weapon
Shoigu told about the new mysterious Russian hypersonic weapon
The Russian Defense Minister spoke about the mysterious hypersonic armament.
The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, in the framework of the scientific-practical conference, made a statement in which he was surprised at the experts. According to Shoigu, in the near future the Russian military will receive the latest hypersonic weapon, which has no analogues in the modern world.
“In the near future, the army and the navy will receive a completely new, unparalleled weapon based on hypersound technology and laser energy. Its first samples have already been put on experimental combat duty ”, - said the head of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
It is noteworthy that Sergei Shoigu didn’t make any clarification, and therefore, there were suggestions that it could be a question of new hypersonic missiles, as well as laser weapons, since the same Avangard missile systems, "And Peresvet laser complexes have already been on experimental combat duty for a long time.
Earlier, sources reported that unique tactical missile systems equipped with hypersonic missiles were being developed in Russia, and therefore, it is possible that the head of the Russian Defense Ministry was talking about them.
Yuri Borisovich July 12 2019 in 10: 01
That's when Israel will try to bomb the Russian base, or shoot down Russian planes, that's when your verbal diarrhea will take place. Russia should not and has no right to shoot down Israeli planes and missiles during the shelling of Syrian objects - this is the concern of the Syrians themselves. Russia did not undertake to protect Syria from everyone and everything. And even when Syria officially fought with Israel - our troops did not participate in the hostilities ... Counselors didn’t count.
Hypersonic and laser weapons are not developed for this purpose in order to fight for Syria.
Ahmat July 11 2019 in 11: 15
... when in Syria, in response to the shelling, Tsahal Air Force planes will fall into a super weapon from Shoigu and it will be possible to believe. In the meantime, everything is exactly the opposite (see how many Russian planes and helicopters are shot down and how many Israeli or American, and the Jews bomb Syria regularly, including very close to the bases of the Russian Federation) to believe in fairy tales is extremely difficult. And do not worry about the “firing on us”, hitting it, etc., try dodging around someone’s military base and see what happens
rum July 11 2019 in 08: 41
You are either a fool or an enemy radical, one of two things.
This is really a "miracle", zero air resistance in the atmosphere of the earth, just ridiculous. RUSSIA does not frighten by its achievements, and RUSSIA HASN'T WAS AN AGGRESSOR.
Alex July 10 2019 in 19: 22
That expert sofa, knows more than the Minister of Defense. We have already heard about cartoons that the bridge in Crimea is a holography, hyper-weapons are cartoons, etc.
Vladimir July 10 2019 in 16: 24
Shoigu again carried away fantasies. He has no supertechnologies. All 60's rocket technology. There is only one super technology: patent number XXUMX "Device for controlling the flow around an aircraft." Aerodynamic drag LA reduces to zero. Reaching 149598 km / s in a dense atmosphere is real. But Shoigu does not want to introduce such technologies.
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1107 at 20.30, Mestni trg, 5280 Idrija, Slovenia Bee Geesus in Idrija: Četrtki na placu
1307 at 14.00, Dravlje, Ljubljana Singing at the wedding
2708 at 22.00, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana Beginning of the new season in Celica
Gospel Fever 2019 - African Roots
20. June 2019, at 20.00
Konservatorij za glasbo in balet Ljubljana, Ižanska cesta 12, 1000 Ljubljana
Welcome to Gospel Fever 2019, the peak of Bee Geesus choir concert season. With a concert at the KGBL Hall, the a cappella Gospel Choir will celebrate its 11th anniversary. This year’s annual concert is titled “African Roots”, and as such the music will be fully colored in African colors. This years musical guest is the Slovene African choir Sankofa. Together we will prepare an evening full of African rhythms, harmony, dance, genuine energy and joy for life, but the red thread will always be gospel and black spiritual music - this year with an African design.
Bee Geesus is a Slovenian gospel choir. Group of cheerful singers weave vocals in a harmonious, urban sound under the baton of a known A cappella artist Matej Virtič. They call their musical expression Gospel Fever; it is known for its energetic execution of spiritual music with a strong harmony and firm rhythm. The choir remains always faithful to the original message of gospel music, which is no less important today than at the time when it meant a loud cry for personal freedom and hope for all oppressed. With an A cappella execution the Choir Bee Geesus feels especially close to the earliest form of the music, since the spiritual music in the beginning was exclusively vocal. Last year, the choir Bee Geesus celebrated their 10 year anniversary. Accompanied by former members and musical guests on the stage of Cankarjev dom we reminisced about our beginnings and events that led us to where we are now. You can relive the concert by listening to the song I’m Free that was sang with the entire audience. This year we are setting a different tone for the concert. At the beginning of the season we chose a topic and focused all our work around it. You will be able to enjoy the fruits of our labour on 20th of June at Conservatory for Music and Ballet Ljubljana. For the concert we chose a title that we believe captures African spontaneity, energy and dance – African Roots. Musical tradition of the black continent substantially influenced the development of gospel music and related musical genres. Furthermore, we can still find the footprints of it in the modern popular music.
The Sankofa choir has been established in 2009. It was founded by Dalanda Diallo, an independent dancer and co-founder of the Baobab cultural arts society. It unites Africans, their descendants and friends. It was created as part of a year-long project “The Expressive World of African Culture”, which promotes the development and spread of African culture and awareness throughout Slovenia. The name Sankofa comes from a ghanic symbol, which means taking something good from the past and using it in the future. This is why, the choir chooses traditional African songs and presents them in a new, fresh way. Sankofa’s repertoire includes traditional and contemporary African songs as well as original songs by its members. Sankofa is currently under the artistic direction of Matej Virtič. They are going to mark their 10th anniversary with a concert on October 15th in Ljubljana’s Španski borci hall.
African music was always present with the Bee Geesus Choir before it even started under this name. The original cast was unofficially called “Little Afro-gospel choir”. Their first song, too, was Freedom is coming from South Africa, and one of the later recordings of this song has the highest number of hits on YouTube. The first thematic Gospel Fever will cover the most popular songs. To those the choir added novelties, some of which you will be able to hear for the first time at the concert. The season dedicated to Africa is an opportunity to deepen the knowledge about rhythm and learn texts in already “familiar” and new African languages. The audience is encouraged to sing-along to the wonderful music, so take care of your voices and do some vocal exercises before you come! :)
Come, dance and sing. Let’s celebrate the gospel fever!
pre-sale 15 €, 12 € *, on the day of the concert 18 €
Lower price applies to students, pupils, school children, younger children, pensioners and the unemployed. Tickets are available in pre-sale in the Mojekarte.si system and on the day of the concert one hour before it starts in the KGBL lobby.
Link to online sales
Info: 00386 31 658 826 and info@beegeesus.si
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White Pines and Bright Invention news!
Stand-up comedy comes to White Pines!
April 10, 2017 / Benjamin Lloyd
Brandon Mitchell, appearing at White Pines April 29th
presenting . . .
The Crash & Burn Cafe
Dan Getz, host of The Crash & Burn Cafe
At White Pines, we love it when one program leads to another. So we were delighted to discover Dan Getz, who appeared on the scene as an aide to one of our students with special needs. We got to know Dan through his gentle and compassionate support of our student, and the way he bravely participated in some of the games and exercises we run in Acting Out! our acting class for youth with special needs.
So how cool is it to learn that Dan is a stand-up comedian! After approaching White Pines' Executive Director Benjamin Lloyd about setting up a stand-up series at White Pines, it was only a couple of weeks before Dan and Ben had fleshed out The Crash & Burn Cafe, a once-per-month stand-up comedy series taking place the last Saturday of each month.
Jake Mattera, headlining The Crash & Burn Cafe.
The debut of The Crash & Burn is Saturday April 29th at 8:00 pm, doors open at 7:30. You can reserve tickets here.
We interviewed Dan - and here's what he had to say!
Tell us about how you got started doing stand-up? About five years ago I went to an open mic in Doylestown and I was hooked. The following week I told jokes on stage for the first time and have been doing it ever since.
Who are the other comics performing at the first show at White Pines? What are they like? Where have you and them performed before? Jake Mattera is headlining the show. He has been seen recently at festivals all across the country. Michael Brooks is in the feature spot. Michael has performed at LOL @ The Grand in Wilmington, The Comedy Connection, and The Comedy Works in Bristol. Megan Goetz and Brandon Mitchell will also be performing. Megan has been seen at Gotham Comedy Club, in The Bechdel Test Festival, and at Wisecrackers Comedy Club. Brandon can be seen once a month on his variety show Black History Monthly at the PHIT Comedy Theater.
Megan Goetz, appearing at White Pines April 29th
What attracted you to doing a stand-up series at White Pines? I began working with White Pines when I was assisting with their Acting Out class on Sundays. The room itself seemed like it would be a great place for stand up, and I'm excited to work alongside the great people who run it.
What's the one thing you think people don't understand about stand-up comics? This is a difficult question to answer. I think the most important thing would be to remind people that a lot of time and preparation goes into the jokes people tell on stage, and if you treat it like you would any live theater experience you're going to have a better time.
Who are the comedians you admire and why? I listened to a lot of stand-up comedy growing up, but I didn't start paying much attention to it until I heard Mike Birbiglia's "Two Drink Mike". The list has grown exponentially since then, but he continues to be one of my favorites.
If you could ask yourself any question in the world what would it be? "What would you ask yourself if you could ask yourself any question in the world?"
Don't' miss the debut of The Crash & Burn Cafe Saturday april 29th at 8:00 pm, doors open at 7:30. Featuring:
Jake Mattera
Michael Brooks
Megan Goetz
Dan Getz, host
Reserve tickets here!
Michael Brooks, appearing at White Pines April 29th.
April 10, 2017 / Benjamin Lloyd/ Comment
WPP special events, WPP announcements
brandon mitchell, dan getz, jake mattera, Megan goetz, michael brooks, stand-up, stand-up comedy, crash & burn cafe, crash and burn cafe, white pines
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Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend shipment
This Martin Luther King jr. weekend, a Pittsfield family will celebrate 20 years of working for the people of Central America, by preparing another 40ft container with used dental/optical equipment, carpentry tools and equipment, pianos and much more. In 1996 the O’Toole family loaded up a used school bus with all Ed O’Toole’s mechanic tools, and drove the 6000 miles to Guaimaca, Honduras. The initial idea was to live and work for five years with a community that O’Toole got to know as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late seventies. Two years after they were in Guaimaca, hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras. Soon afterwards they received a $15,000 donation from Dick and Megs Dunn, now deceased, former members of the Unitarian Universalist of Pittsfield.
That donation turned the O’Toole’s five plan into living in Honduras for 13 years. First, they returned and disassembled a nursing home in Springfield, bought another bus and filled it with the parts of that nursing home. That bus was shipped from Delaware to Honduras and driven to Guaimaca. When the bus was unloaded and put back together, it was sold for the purchase price, plus the shipping cost and the airfare, leaving the O’Toole’s with the $15,000 and the used materials to build a building.
They then worked with the community to build two buildings. A smaller house-sized building, which currently has a library, and a larger building to be used as a vocational school. During the 13 years the O’Toole’s worked with the community, teaching mechanics, purchasing an ambulance here in Pittsfield to start an ambulance service and having classes in subjects areas such as, French, hair styling, Italian, English, ceramics, first aid, and many more.
In 2009 the O’Toole family returned to the Berkshires so their daughter, Sonrisa, could finish high school here and go on to college. When the Berkshire Hills School District built new schools, the O’Toole’s were offered the desks, filing cabinets and other school equipment. At this point they contracted with the shipping companies that deliver bananas from Honduras. These are refrigerated containers that look like tractor trailers must return to Honduras every week to be filled again.
The truck driver, after unloading bananas in Albany, Pittsfield or some other city, stops at a warehouse where a group of volunteers load the 40ft container with donated items. The last container included three hundred theater chairs donated by Berkshire School, along with medical equipment and school equipment. Hundreds of small bags with clothes and shoes were stuffed into the nooks and crannies. Today, preparations are in their final stages for another shipment to Central America.
On January 22nd after delivering bananas to our area, the truck driver will stop at a warehouse in West Stockbridge to fill the container with all the donations. What is needed now are small items to fill those nooks and crannies like:
soccer shoes and equipment,
good, clean clothing and shoes,
school supplies,
wheelchairs and crutches,
and carpentry tools.
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Return to: College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences
Philip D. Sweet, Chair
www.radford.edu/~forl-web/
The foreign languages program is designed to teach a command of a foreign language, to teach students to analyze language and literature, and to make students aware of the heritage of another culture. Students may earn either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree; the degree programs prepare students to become language teachers or to work in business or government.
All majors in modern foreign languages are required to show satisfactory participation in an intensive immersion experience in the language of their major. This may be in the form of a study abroad program, a service project, or intensive upper-level language instruction in the United States. In all cases, this experience may not be less than four calendar weeks and must be approved by the department prior to departure. Radford offers a summer study program abroad in China, France, Mexico and Spain, and a semester or year’s study in China, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and France.
Credit Granting Policy Advanced Placement
Students who score three or four on an Advanced Placement examination in Spanish will receive six hours of credit; students who score a three or four in French, German, or Latin will receive eight semester hours of credit toward graduation; those who score a five in Spanish will receive nine hours of credit, and those who score a five in French, German, or Latin will receive twelve semester hours of credit. However, students are required to complete at least one three semester hour course on the second year level or higher at Radford University in order to satisfy the B.A. requirement.
Students who have taken a foreign language in high school and who begin their college-level study of that language above the first eight hours of language instruction (above the first nine hours in Spanish) will receive an additional six semester hours of elementary language credit in that same language if the following conditions are met:
The student’s first two college courses in that language at Radford University are completed on the above mentioned level or beyond.
A GPA of 2.4 or better is received for those two courses. Students already receiving AP credit for a foreign language are ineligible to receive this additional credit in that same language.
Eligibility for Enrollment in Language Courses
To provide the best learning environment in language classes, it is essential that students enroll in courses appropriately suited to their current abilities. Placement is determined by the faculty, based on the student’s previous learning, interviews, and placement testing. The decision of the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is final. Students who have successfully completed four or more years of a foreign language in high school may not enroll in the first semester of that language for credit, and those who have successfully completed three or more years are normally placed above the first semesters of language instruction.
No student may take a first year language course for credit toward graduation after successful completion of a second year or higher level course in that language.
Classical Humanities Minor
Foreign Languages, B.A.
Foreign Languages, B.S.
Foreign Languages Minor
Intercultural Studies Minor
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full time at redfin
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 ( 3 comments )
Oh, yeah. It happened so fast I forgot to mention. I've gone from contract-to-hire to full time at Redfin. My first day was monday.
can the w3c give us a standard browser to test with?
# web
So Joel on software has this big long post about Web Standardsists vs. Web Pragmatists. He seems to like the idea of standards, but thinks they'll never really work. Part of it is because we're already too far down the Many (browser) to Many (website) path. But I think the crux of his argument is this:
"...you can’t have a standard with just a spec–you must have a super-strict reference implementation, and everybody has to test against the reference implementation. Otherwise you get 17 different “standards” and you might as well not have one at all."
Ok, there has to be One Authority, I buy that. Joel implies that since we don't have that now we can never have one. Maybe I'm being an idealist in my own way, but why can't we have this super strict implementation? The w3c has some resources, right?
Can't the standards people pressure them to create this reference implementation? It doesn't have to be fast, or have any features or anything. It just needs a viewport, back button, a way to point it at an url and to be Official. (also, scriptability would be awesome). It wouldn't fix old web pages, but it could stop the spread of new problems.
Hmm. On second though, it's probably more likely that the w3c would give us all ponies...
How about this: nobody use html 5 until we've got our reference. Promise?
Casa RakkaLeff is moving
Published: Sunday, March 09, 2008
# mi casa
As if I wasn't busy enough.
We're not moving far. Just upstairs, actually. At the end of the month. Seems crazy, I know.
But it's a bigger place. And it has a view of trees and the street, instead of a brick wall. And it's on the third floor so we don't have to worry about people peering in the window.
But really, it is crazy. It comes down to this, too much time in one place and I get the jimmy legs. Maybe it comes from moving every few years when I was coming up, but anything longer than about two years feels like a looong time. We've been in this apartment for 2 and a half.
So, based on that initial bit of crazy, moving up stairs actually makes a lot of sense. Both Rakka and I really like this building, and the building manager too (the first time I've ever been able to honestly say that about a building manager/land lord). This way, we get what I hope is the perfect balance of keeping the good and still getting shiny new.
leff and the big project
Published: Thursday, March 06, 2008 ( 1 comment )
# redfin
Work's been hella busy lately. So much so that I feel completely justified using the adjective 'hella'. On monday night at about 2am it finally paid off. That's when the release went out. There was a bunch of stuff that went out; my bit is not directly user facing so it's not even mentioned in the press release.
My bit was to implement a CMS that covers the bulk of the informational sections of the site. Before, most of the content lived in JSPs that were just part of the system. Which meant we had to do a push of the whole thing just to fix a typo. Which is a big deal involving a bunch of people. With the CMS in place we can push content by running a single shell script. It's a good thing it's easy; we've done it twice more this week.
In the process I ended up redoing all the html and a lot of the css on those pages, so I guess I do have some user facing stuff. You can see it in the about, buy and sell sections. Of course, I didn't do everything there, just the data definitions in Bricolage and the Mason templates that build pages from them. I'll talk more about that on the Redfin dev blog sometime. I had a ton of help and I send a big shout out to everybody; you know who you are.
If this sounds like a "I'm done. I can finally relax." post, it's not. Now that it's so easy to do, we're pushing content once a week. And I still have a bunch of stuff in the next big release. So, if anything, it'll be more hectic. I think we're past the 11 hour days for a while though. *whew*
Hooray for Zipcar
hooray for zipcar!, originally uploaded by Rakka.
So there was flexcar and zipcar, and then they merged, and now we just have zipcar. I've been meaning to sign up for a couple years. I think I shied away because flexcar, who operated here in seattle, seemed to not have a good deal with Tennessee, which is where my records are. I've dealt with Tennessee and records. I didn't want to do it again.
So then zipcar merges with flexcar, and zipcar has no problem with Tennessee. So they approved me over last weekend. They send you a card which unlocks the doors and stuff; this came thurs. So this weekend we rented a car named Izzo and headed out. We just did some targeting, but it was kinda fun to be out under our own power.
It's the entire motoring experience encapsulated in one service. I love that.
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Don't Call It A Smartphone
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone 6 Plus
The iPhone 6 Plus is huge. Let me be clear: the iPhone 6 Plus is HUGE.
I bought it out of sheer curiosity: I figured I’d give the behemoth a try, but probably end up returning it a week later, content to return to my thoroughly-demodé 4-inch iPhone. I was surprised to find that the exact opposite happened: I found myself preferring the gigantic size of the 6 Plus. By far.
People who know me know that I frequently make glib references to “the supercomputers we have in our pockets”. But it’s true. These devices we call “smartphones” aren’t really “phones” in any meaningful sense. They have cellular radios, sure, and contain an app that lets you make telephone calls. But they’re really general computing devices, both as engineered pieces of technology and as cultural artifacts. The fact that they’re called “smartphones” is merely a historical curiosity, a vestigial artifact of evolution.
To me, the 6 Plus is the first device I’ve used that truly embraces this1. I don’t use it the same way I used my 4-inch iPhone. It’s no longer my “smartphone”, a device in my pocket that exists to provide me with an endless stream of content to swipe through every time I have a spare five seconds waiting in line. It’s my mobile computer, a tool that I can pull out of my bag whenever I need to look something up or send someone a message, and that otherwise stays out of my way.
Part of this is the luxury of the larger screen. Browsing the web in landscape is spacious, more like a “real” browsing experience than smaller iPhones. But it also feels intimate and personal. I feel distinctly uncomfortable using words like “intimate” and “personal” to describe the act of searching for something on Google, but it’s hard to find better words to convey the sense with which this feels more like a “personal computer” than any other computing device I’ve ever owned. The highest praise I can give this hunk of metal: when I need to look something up or send a quick email from the comfort of my home, with my laptop, iPad, and iPhone all within reach, I most frequently find myself grabbing my 6 Plus.
The other thing about the 6 Plus is that it is, frankly, awkwardly large. Although it does fit comfortably in my pants pocket, I prefer to keep it in my messenger bag2. While one-handed use is certainly possible, it requires careful hand positioning to make it even remotely palateable.
I’ve come to appreciate this as a feature, not a bug. I no longer feel the compulsion to pull my phone out of my pocket every time I have a spare moment to see what’s new on Facebook or Twitter or Slack or whatever the content delivery mechanism du jour is. I’m no longer drawn out of personal conversations with friends to see why my phone’s buzzing at me, letting me know who has liked or faved or starred the latest thing I’ve posted to the same list of skinner boxes we call “social media”.
Don’t get me wrong: this isn’t intended as a blanket screed against the evils of modern technology (see: how often I tweet). But I do think that there are aspects of the 3.5”/4” smartphone form factor that frequently encourage unhealthy usage patterns. So far, I’ve found the larger form factor of the 6 Plus to be very effective in minimizing the negative social effects of having an always-on Internet connection in my pocket.
This awkwardness cuts both ways. As much as I try to avoid it, there are often times where I have a valid reason to use my phone while walking down the street: texting a friend that I’m running late, looking up directions to where I’m going, changing music. The 6 Plus frankly sucks at that. And god forbid you try to actually use it as a phone without a pair of headphones, an experience evocative of the better-left-forgotten Nokia N-Gage and sidetalking.
Of course, it just so happens that Apple is hard at work on a new piece of hardware. And if you happen to have watched their press conference from a few months ago, they showed off three main use cases for this mystical new device: communication, mapping, and music. What a cooincedence!
Based on my limited time owning a 6 Plus, having a larger pocket computer for “serious” computing in tandem with a smaller, more passive device for low-friction interactions feels like the perfect combination. Announcing the 6 Plus and the watch on the same day, it’s clear to me that Apple’s product team has a similar vision. Looking a few years down the line, this is a very likely model for the future of mobile computing3.
In the meanwhile, I’m perfectly happy using my “mobile computer” while everyone else putters around with their old-fashioned “smartphones”.
Yes, Android has had “phablets” for years. I was one of the people making fun of them. Maybe the 6 Plus is a significant enough step up in usability and industrial design to mark a meaningful difference. Maybe I’m merely a closed-minded Apple fanboy. ↩
An unexpected bonus: many of my bags, including vintage ones from long before the age of computers, have easily-accessble inside front pockets that fit the 6 Plus like a glove. Without having done any research into the history of bag design, I suspect these were originally intended for small notebooks. In any case, they make storing my phone in my bag incredibly pleasant. ↩
Where this scenario leaves the poor iPad is anybody’s guess. ↩
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The Spanish Constitution, La Pepa. March 19, 1812.
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The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy (Constitución Política de la Monarquía Española), also known as the Constitution of Cádiz and as La Pepa (for it was signed on March 19, San José´s day, commonly Pepe in Spain), was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest constitutions in world history. It was established on 19 March 1812 by the Cortes of Cádiz, the first Spanish legislature. With the notable exception of proclaiming Roman Catholicism as the official and sole legal religion in Spain, the constitution was one of the most liberal of its time: it affirmed national sovereignty, separation of powers, freedom of the press, free enterprise, abolished feudalism, and established a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. It was one of the first constitut...
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Expedition of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq
July 628 AD,3rd Month 7AH
Nejd
*Successful operation, many killed and captured[1]
Abu Bakr Unknown
Unknown (large platoon) Entire tribe (unknown population)
Unknown Many Killed and taken prisoner (Sunan Abu Dawud[2])
Expedition of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq[3] to Nejd took place in July 628 AD,3rd Month 7AH, of the Islamic Calendar[4]
Abu Bakr led a large platoon in Nejd on the order of Muhammad. Many were killed and taken as prisoner. The Sunni Hadith collection, Sunan Abu Dawud mentions the event, where Abu Bakr was the leader of the expedition:
“ The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) appointed AbuBakr our commander and we fought with some people who were polytheists, and we attacked them at night, killing them. Our war-cry that night was "put to death; put to death." Salamah said: I killed that night with my hand polytheists belonging to seven houses.Sunan Abu Dawood, 14:2632 ”
^ The life of Mahomet and history of Islam, Volume 4, By Sir William Muir, Pg 83 See bottom of page, notes section
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The Budapest Memorandum
Actually, it isn't the foreign policy of the 1980s that is calling, it is the foreign policy of the 1990s.
Deeply worried politicians inside Ukraine's parliament have pleaded with Britain and the United States to come to their rescue, after Russia was accused of launching a series of raids in the Crimea region.
The two Western powers signed an agreement with Ukraine in 1994, which Kiev's parliament wants enforcing now. The Budapest Memorandum, signed by Bill Clinton, John Major, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma – the then-rulers of the USA, UK, Russia and Ukraine – promises to uphold the territorial integrity of Ukraine, in return for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons.
Here is the actual text,
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear-weapon State,
Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time,
Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the Cold War, which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces.
Confirm the following:
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm, in the case of the Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments.
This Memorandum will become applicable upon signature.
This is not a security guarantee or a treaty, but what it does do is give the USA and GBR a very large opening to engage in some lawfare. Now, I fully understand that your tanks trump my paper, but this is helpful. It also puts the integrity of the USA and GBR on the line, so it paints everyone in a corner.
UKR, GBR, USA, or RUS - someone is going to lose face here unless our diplomats can do some very deft work.
At a time when we need a Kennan , we seem to have a Kerry instead.
Hat tip MTH.
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The City of East Dublin was officially chartered by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia on February 1, 1952.
The bill incorporating the city named as its governing body the same persons who had been elected to vote under its previous charter in 1951. They were E.B. Warnock, Mayor; W.L. Lake, H.D. Keen, J.T. Braddy, J.E. Sammons and O.D. Cullens. At its first meeting the Mayor and Council elected Harold E. Ward to serve as Attorney and C.H. McDaniel as Clerk of Council. Later in the year Councilman Cullens resigned and a special election was called at which timeHubert Martin was chosen to serve out Cullens’ unexpired term.
The following is a list of persons that have served as Mayor of the City of East Dublin:
Elvin Burney Warnock
Willie Lewis Lake, Sr.
Allison Harlow Manning
Herbert Renfroe
William Hugh Wood
Elmer Allen Page
Oliver Don Bradshaw
George H. Gornto
East Dublin provides its citizens with water, sewage and garabage collection. There are approximately 24.5 miles of paved streets, excluding state and federal highways. These streets are completely maintained by the city’s public works department.
East Dublin completed the Governor’s All-Star Program in 1983 with credit received in the following areas: Community Services, Community Facilities, Community Administration and Community Enrichment.
In 1982, the City of East Dublin acquired a state and federal grant for the construction of a recreation park. With the assistance of the Georgia National Guard of Sandersville, Georgia, Laurens County, and local private contractors, Buckeye Park was created. This park offers a public boat ramp, two fish ponds, a Little League softball and football field along with picnic facilities and a community house to provide enjoyment for the public. Its shady, relaxed atmosphere completes the success of this project.
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Posted by Jordan Rowley on September 25, 2014 in: Prayer Updates, Pray for the Persecuted Church, Project Prayer, Mission: Nepal 2013, Nepal
Top of the world: 29,035-foot/8,848-meter Mount Everest, left, and 25,850-foot/7,879-meter Nuptse. (Photo by Jim Nowlin, Mission: Nepal 2008)
Nepal is home to some of the world's most breathtaking and awe-inspiring mountains. In fact, Nepal claims a staggering eight of the world’s 10 highest peaks. It’s no wonder why climbers from every corner of the planet come to make a bid for many of this nation’s Himalayan summits.
In addition to the majestic mountains that make up much of Nepal, the history and culture of this nation are also something very unique to behold.
Nepal was once the world’s only Hindu Kingdom, where Christianity was illegal. However, in 1951 a cabinet form of government was adopted into the monarchy. Further reforms in 1990 established a multi-party democratic system of government within the monarchy. This progress, however, seemed to be short lived, as six years later an insurgency led by Maoist extremists broke out. This gave way to a 10-year civil war between the Maoist insurgents and government militaries resulting in the dissolution of the cabinet and parliament.
In 2006 absolute power was once again assumed by the king. Several weeks of mass protests were followed by months of peace talks between the Maoists and government officials. Finally, in November 2006, a temporary constitution was established. Following an election in April 2008, Nepal declared itself a federal democratic republic. At this time, they are still awaiting a final constitution.
In spite of these recent positive political changes, geographical isolation, difficult terrain and poor infrastructure have been major contributing factors of Nepal’s status as an impoverished nation. It is actually considered one of the world’s poorest. In fact, the average income in Nepal is approximately 1 percent of the average income in the United States. Approximately one-third of the people of Nepal live below the poverty level, surviving on less than the equivalent of US$1 a day.
Nepal faces other challenges as well: Illiteracy is widespread because most children are deprived of schooling opportunities. This makes them vulnerable to a host of evil, including sex trafficking, drug abuse, and even joining radical political or religious groups. The caste system and emphasis on one’s ethnicity adds further challenges to many of Nepal’s citizens. Many different groups comprise the Nepali people. According to Operation World, there are 100 different ethnic groups, consisting of 300 peoples, sub-groups and castes.
In spite of the fact that Nepal is a “secular democracy,” Christians and those interested in converting to Christianity often face opposition and oppression. This comes not only from individual family members, neighbors, employers, and so on, but from the government itself. In fact, it is currently illegal for non-Hindu’s to proselytize. However, many Christians still boldly share the Gospel despite risk of fines, imprisonment or (for expatriates) expulsion.
Location: South Asia. Leader: President Ram Baran Yadav has been president since July 2008. Baburam Bhattarai has been Prime Minister since August 2011. Population: 29,890,686 (2012 CIA World Factbook). Primary Religions: Hindu at 75 percent. Buddhism is a distant second at sixteen percent. Currently, Christians only make up about 2 percent of Nepal’s population.
Nepal (shaded, above) is located in South Asia bordering India and China. (World Factbook)
For the many Nepali people who have still not even heard of Jesus Christ. Please pray that God would send more laborers into the field and that He would prepare the hearts of those who are still walking in darkness to hear and receive the Gospel.
For those Nepalese believers who are presently doing the work for the growth of God's kingdom. May they be bold even in the face of persecution. Please pray that the Lord would give them strength to continue to shine His light, show His love and share His Good News with all the people of Nepal.
For increased government tolerance and protection of minorities like Christians. Pray that the Lord would raise up leaders who would defend the Christian minority against all types of persecution.
For the Lord's continued blessing on the work that Climbing For Christ is doing in Nepal with partner ministry SARA (Savior Alone Reaches Asians) Church on the Rock and other church leaders. Please lift up the construction of church buildings and the building of the church body. Also, please pray that God would guard and guide His precious little lambs currently living in the SARA orphanages.
“And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.”
— Psalm 9:10
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Posted By: btadmin July 6, 2019
Blood Tribe signed a $150 million agreement to settle the historic claim.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and Chief Roy Fox Blood Tribe signed a $150 million agreement to settling the historic Mismanagement of Assets claim in Calgary Thurs. July 4/19.
The claim, called the Mismanagement of Assets settlement agreement, deals with Crown mismanagement of the reserve’s cattle ranching assets from 1894 to 1923.
This was one of many wrongs that were done, and an attempt to right this wrong as we continue to work together on a better path in reconciliation,” Bennett said. “There’s a lot more work to do but I think we’re on a good path of actually just recognizing harm was done, that we are sorry and how we put in place the measures to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Chief Fox stated “We need to ensure that we correct the wrongs that were done to our people and we appreciate the work you have done on this matter,” Fox said to Bennett. “In that spirit we hope to have the same success with other land claims and initiatives that are in progress now.”
Chief Fox was referring to a recent ruling by a Federal Court judge that found Ottawa underestimated the number of Blood Tribe members in southwestern Alberta when their reserve was created in the 1870s.
The ruling could add up to 421 square kilometres to the band’s reserve, already more than 1,400 square kilometres in size. The court said the band may also seek compensation in lieu of land.
Bennett said her government will continue to work toward settling outstanding claims and it’s something that all Canadians should be aware of.
“Settling claims is the right thing to do.”
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HIPAA and HITECH Detailed Analysis
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HITECH is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. These are Federal Laws in the United States that requires, among other things, to protect individual’s health care information. Below is a detailed analysis of the laws and the regulation with relation to Oracle database auditing, and how this translates to practical requirements.
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Title 42 of the United States Code is the Public Health and Welfare. Chapter 156 is Health Information Technology. Subchapter III is Privacy. Part A (§17931 – §17940) is Improved Privacy Provisions and Security Provisions.
§17931 (c) Annual guidance
...the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall... annually issue guidance on the most effective and appropriate technical safeguards for use in carrying out the sections referred to in subsection (a) and the security standards in subpart C of part 164 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations...
§17940. Audits
The Secretary shall provide for periodic audits to ensure that covered entities and business associates that are subject to the requirements of this subchapter and subparts C and E of part 164 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations...
In other words, we need to look at the regulation to see how HIPAA and HITECH should be implemented.
The Regulation
Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations is the Public Welfare and Human Services. Part 164 deals with Security and Privacy.
The interesting subparts are:
Subpart C — Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information
Subpart E — Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
To help you understand how HIPAA relates to Oracle database auditing, we’ve included relevant portions of the regulations, with our interpretation of the requirements in practical technical terms.
A good place to start is by reading the beginning:
§ 164.306 Security standards: General rules
(a) General requirements. Covered entities must do the following:
(1) Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information the covered entity creates, receives, maintains, or transmits.
(2) Protect against any reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such information.
(3) Protect against any reasonably anticipated uses or disclosures of such information that are not permitted or required under subpart E of this part.
(4)Ensure compliance with this subpart by its workforce.”
The “General Rules” are important as they explain the intention of the regulation. Don’t be dismayed by the generality of these paragraphs as HIPAA provides a lot more detail later on.
§ 164.308 (a)(1)(i) Standard: Security management process.
Implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain, and correct security violations.
(ii) Implementation specifications:
(A) Risk analysis (Required). Conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information held by the covered entity.
(B) Risk management (Required). Implement security measures sufficient to reduce risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level to comply with §164.306(a).
(C) Sanction policy (Required). Apply appropriate sanctions against workforce members who fail to comply with the security policies and procedures of the covered entity.
(D) Information system activity review (Required). Implement procedures to regularly review records of information system activity, such as audit logs, access reports, and security incident tracking reports.
This means that HIPAA follows the same basic principals as most compliance regulations:
Evaluate Risk
Implement Controls to reduce the risk
Audit activity on a regular basis
While the risks and controls tend to be similar in many environments, this article focuses on Oracle database auditing and, therefore, on the last point – audit the activity [164.308 (a)(1)(ii)(D)]
Since the regulation was not written specifically for the Oracle database, it does not mention sessions or SQLs. It does however mention access reports which translate into two things in Oracle databases:
Sessions – Anyone accessing Oracle databases that contain PHI (Protected Health Information)
SQLs – Any SQL that is accessing Oracle tables that contain PHI (Protected Health Information)
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Champion Wingman John Chick Dies
Author: Tony de Bolfo - Published Fri 15 of Mar, 2013 05:44 AEDT - (14661 Reads)
First published: March 2013
John Chick, the talented former Carlton wingman of the 1950s, has died peacefully in his native Tasmania at the age of 80 after bravely battling Alzheimer’s disease.
The oldest of six children, each of whom survive him, Chick first came to the attention of Carlton recruiting officers when he turned on a clinic for New Town (later Glenorchy) in its 1951 TANFL Grand Final demolition of North Hobart.
“It was a chance thing,” Chick’s daughter Sue Saunders said this week. “Somebody from Carlton came to Newtown to look at another player, but saw Dad and picked him up.
“He was always the sporting type, and as a young boy he was a very good tennis player. I’m pretty sure that when he came to Carlton he also played cricket for them and when he was told he had to give it up for football he was quite disappointed.”
Wearing the No.23 made famous by Bert Deacon and now worn by Lachie Henderson, Chick was 19 when he completed his senior debut for the Blues in the opening round of 1952 against North Melbourne at Arden Street. Twice finding the big sticks from half-forward, Chick contributed handsomely to the team’s creditable 23-point victory over the “Shinboners” that day, in what was the first of 119 matches over nine seasons in Carlton teams coached by Perc Bentley, Jim Francis and Ken Hands.
Chick’s on-field showings, marked for their durability and consistency throughout the 1950s, were duly acknowledged. He finished in the top five placegetters for the Robert Reynolds Trophy (now the John Nicholls Medal) in four consecutive seasons from 1954 and in 1956 was recognised with All-Australian honors after featuring prominently for Victoria through the ANFC Championship in Perth.
In the 17th round of 1957, against Fitzroy at Princes Park, Chick was reported for an incident involving the Lions’ Wally Clark. A subsequent eight-match suspension would rob him of a place in Carlton’s first finals appearance in five seasons, but he would be there when the Blues met Melbourne and Essendon in the ’59 first semi and preliminary finals respectively.
That year, 1959, Chick was named vice-captain in succession to Laurie Kerr. According to the club’s ’59 Annual Report, Chick “fully justified the committee’s action with many valuable games on the wing, distinguished by good kicking, clever ball handling and elusiveness on the move”.
“Dad loved his years at Carlton,” Sue said. “We tended to get the party stories because Carlton was very social back then and he liked a beer - but then they all did.
“We were all Carlton members and he would often take the family over to Melbourne to watch the team play. He followed Carlton all the way through, and he was there with John James and John Nicholls for the last game at Princes Park.”
Nicholls, generally regarded as Carlton’s greatest ever footballer, caught the tail-end of Chick’s on-field career.
“I played with John for two or three years and my brother Don was good friends with him. There was ‘Chicky’ on one wing and Graham Gilchrist on the other,” Nicholls said.
“He wasn’t nuggety, but he had thick, strong upper legs which did cause him a bit of trouble with hamstrings. In saying that he was a good footballer who earned All-Australian selection and he was a lovely bloke.”
Gilchrist concurred with Nicholls’ assessment of Chick the footballer.
“The only time I really spent with John Chick was out on the ground because he wasn’t a really outgoing bloke, but he was a very good player, a good thinker and he was very close to his family,” Gilchrist said.
“He played on one side of the wing and me on the other, which is bloody ridiculous when you think about it now because nobody moved around much and you tended to stay in your set positions.”
In 1961, Chick returned to Tasmania to accept the role of captain-coach of New Town (by then renamed Glenorchy) and led the Tasmanian Magpies from last to a Grand Final in his first year. According to his daughter, “we were always assured that what happened at Glenorchy was due to his astute guidance”.
Chick later coached Huonville in the Tasmanian country league, before accepting the role of Assistant Coach to Ray Giblett at Sandy Bay and later to Ian Bremner at North Hobart. He assumed senior coaching duties from Bremner for two seasons from 1979 before relinquishing the position to John Devine, and he even dabbled in athletics as coach.
“Football was very much a part of Dad’s life,” Sue said, “but he always moved on”.
“He was very private, but he was also very competitive . . . and he never lived in the past.”
Chick, who died last Sunday night, is survived by his wife of 61 years Margaret, daughters Sue and Gaylee, son Darren and grandchildren Sam, Ned, Georgina and Megan.
His funeral will be held in Hobart on Thursday, with the Carlton players to wear black armbands into Thursday week’s opening round match with Richmond at the MCG as a mark of respect.
Chick's Blueseum Biography
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1987 GF - Dean, Dermott & Dorotich.
2005 Northern Bullants
Breakdowns: Quinn to Ryan
1983 Reserves
AFLW List Manager
Laurie Kerr
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Danielle Henderson is a TV writer (Maniac, Divorce, Difficult People), retired freelance writer, and a former editor for Rookie. A book based on her popular website, Feminist Ryan Gosling, was released by Running Press in August 2012; you can still buy it, and you probably should. Her memoir, The Ugly Cry, will be published in 2019.
Danielle grew up in Warwick, New York, a town ensconced in beautiful fall foliage, rolling farms, festivals dedicated to fruit–and mild class warfare and explicit racism that was never openly discussed or acknowledged. She was absolutely shaped by these factors, as well as the town's blessedly close proximity to Manhattan, the city where she came of age. Instead of doing drugs or drinking, Danielle taught herself how to read a bus schedule and skipped many days of school in an effort to mitigate her desire to live in a more temperate place with the reality that she would be stuck in Warwick for quite some time. As a result, she has sat through more live tapings of The Late Show with Conan O'Brien than any earth science or chemistry class, a retrospectively wise choice.
In the past 20 years she has parked her full, wild life in Alaska, California, New York City, Boston, England, Rhode Island, and Seattle. She once drove from New York to Alaska by herself, and has survived a bear chase, four Alaskan winters, junior high school, working in a convent, Aquanet hairspray, acid wash jeans, and the entirety of the Mets' 1987 season. Elle parle un peu de français, but mostly ordering food and the type of colloquial cursing you would use on the Metro, like hoping your dick falls off or a vulture eats your eyes.
She is very tall and often forgets that she has freckles; strangers take every opportunity to remind her of both.
Danielle believes in the motivating power of jerks, and updates her list of enemies annually on New Year's Day. She limits it to five people, and you are probably not on it.
Her hair looks like that on purpose.
Danielle likes to make things with her bare hands.
She talked to her friend Julie Klausner about all of this on an episode of How Was Your Week?
Danielle went back to college in 2008 after a 12-year, uh, let's call it a hiatus, and graduated summa cum laude in 2011, earning degrees in both English Literature and Women's Studies; in 2013, she earned her Master's degree in Gender and Women's Studies. She dropped out of her Ph.D. program after one semester, no longer able to withstand constantly being asked to use the word axiological, which, despite having a dictionary definition, doesn't actually mean anything. She likes to watch old episodes of Doctor Who when she is on deadline, one of her tattoos is based on the movie Rocky, and she will never stop using the Oxford comma.
Danielle is 42 years old and reluctantly lives in Los Angeles.
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Jeff Sessions travels to El Salvador while Trump intensifies his war against immigrants
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to El Salvador on July 27th as President Trump escalated his rhetorical and material attacks against immigrants. His visit appeared intended to stoke fears around the presence of Central American gangs in the US, especially MS-13, which has become central to the Administration´s xenophobic fear mongering. This sensationalized, dehumanizing discourse around Central American gang violence serves several purposes: it justifies the mass criminalization and deportation of undocumented immigrants in the US; additionally, it promotes further militarization in Central America; finally, it strengthens the destabilizing narrative that the region is ungovernable, thus favoring right-wing political elites.
President Trump has made the demonization of immigrants a center piece of his campaign as well as his presidency, notoriously calling Mexicans "rapists" at his campaign launch. Lately, he has fixated on theMS-13 gang, which was formed by Salvadoran refugees in Los Angeles and made its way to El Salvador by way of punitive US deportation policies in the 1990s. In a recent speech, Trump declared “war” on the gang and promised to deport its members.
Attorney General Sessions´ trip to El Salvador was the latest in the Administration’s effort to paint immigrants as criminals, associating irregular migration with gang violence in order to advance harsher immigration policies. Sessions, a notorious racist, has been eager to enforce Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, threatening to go after “sanctuary cities”, local jurisdictions which refuse to cooperate with officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
During his visit, Sessions met with President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and the Attorney Generals from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to discuss the controversial Alliance for Prosperity and gang violence in the region. The program purportedly seeks to address mass migration’s root causes of poverty and insecurity in the region, but it centers on neoliberal economic reforms and megaprojects, along with increased militarization of borders and police. US influence in the Alliance suggests it is another means of imposing US economic and military hegemony in the region in exchange for much-needed development aid. As if to demonstrate El Salvador’s commitment, days before Sessions arrival security forces carried out a massive operation in which more than 1,000 suspected gang members were captured. While in El Salvador, Sessions continued to stoke fears around the gang threat, saying “MS-13 is based here in El Salvador, but its tentacles reach across Central America, Europe, and through 40 U.S. States, and to within yards of the U.S. Capitol. With more than 40,000 members worldwide-including 10,000 in the United States-MS-13 threatens the lives and wellbeing of each and every family anywhere they exist and everywhere they infest.”
Under the FMLN, the Salvadoran government has tried to approach gang violence as not just a policing issue, but in a comprehensive way that engages marginalized youth, promotes education, and creates better economic conditions for vulnerable communities. In practice, however, law enforcement has received more funding than violence prevention, due largely to the severe lack of resources for long-term, structurally-minded economic and social programs. Through the Legislative Assembly and the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, the right-wing opposition has blocked government finances destined for violence prevention. Most recently, the Supreme Court declared the 2017 budget unconstitutional, forcing even further austerity upon government agencies. With mid-term elections in 2018 and presidential elections in 2019, insecurity and struggling state institutions serve the opposition’s political interests.
Session’s visit was further proof that the Trump administration is happy to use the bogeyman of gang violence to push militarization and demonize immigrants, but unwilling to support the FMLN government’s efforts to deal with the root causes of violence, many of which lie at the feet of US imperialism.
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Academic submissions (CHuSS)
Access to sexual and reproductive health services by teenage mothers at Naguru Teenage Information and Health Centre
Undergraduate Dissertation (1.487Mb)
Kandole, Daisy
Despite the efforts that have been made to improve the access to sexual and reproductive health services, teenage mothers still have an unmet need for these services and access still remains limited. This study therefore analysed the access to sexual and reproductive health services by teenage mothers at Naguru Teenage Information and Health Centre. The centre was chosen because it offers sexual and reproductive health services to young people and has over the years registered an increase in teenagers who test positive for pregnancy. The specific objectives of the study were to find out the level of knowledge and awareness of sexual and reproductive health services of teenage mothers at NTHIC, to examine the factors influencing the access to sexual and reproductive health services by teenage mothers at NTHIC, and suggest ways of improving the access to sexual and reproductive health services from the teenage mothers point of view. The study had a sample of 25 teenage mothers who were between 14-19 years, selected using purposive sampling and from whom data was collected using in depth face to face interviews guided by unstructured questionnaires. After data was qualitatively analysed, it was found that the access to sexual and reproductive health services by teenage mothers still left a lot to be desired. The results showed that there is a still a knowledge gap when it comes to the level of knowledge and awareness of sexual and reproductive health services, which is exposed due the fact that teenage mothers are misinformed and have so many misconceptions about SRHS. Despite the little they know about the services, there are factors that can negatively influence their access to sexual and reproductive health services. However, it was noted that these teenage mothers recognise the need for improvement in access to these services, given they could point out a few credible suggestions in order to achieve this. The study was concluded by making recommendations that can improve the access to sexual and reproductive health services by teenage mothers.
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A Farewell To Sigi Schmid, A Legend Of American Soccer
Brad Homeyer December 27, 2018
Schmid passed away in LA on Tuesday. His legacy will never be forgotten.
In an unexpected announcement, Sigi Schmid, an incredibly important figure in American soccer, passed away at the age of 65 on Tuesday. It was reported that he was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center due to a heart-related condition.
The German-born American was a popular figure as a player and coach for UCLA. After his career in college soccer, he had two stints with the U.S. U-20 team, two stints with the LA Galaxy, a three-year stint with the Columbus Crew and a seven-year stint with the Seattle Sounders.
PRO are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Sigi Schmid.
One of the most influential and respected figures in American soccer, he will be sorely missed by everybody in the game.
Our thoughts are with your family. RIP Sigi. pic.twitter.com/iP2HgSQU7H
— PRO (@PROreferees) December 27, 2018
Schmid’s influence on American soccer cannot be emphasized enough. During his time at UCLA, he led his side to three College Cups. He coached future national team players such as Brad Friedel and Cobi Jones at the university. His notoriety at UCLA got him the job of managing the U-20 USMNT. While working with the national team, he was called up as an assistant to Bora Milutinovic for the 1994 World Cup, where several of his players at UCLA were a part of the squad.
Schmid then made the transition to MLS with the LA Galaxy, where he won MLS Manager of the Year in his first season, and also led the team to the MLS Cup final. The next year, he guided the Galaxy to the CONCACAF Champions League final, where they beat Olimpia 3-2.
In 2002, he took the Galaxy to the MLS Cup final once again, where they defeated the New England Revolution 1-0 in extra time. His side also won the Supporters' Shield that same season. Schmid left the club after five years in 2004, but he would return in 2017. He also managed the U.S U-20 side again in 2005, but only for a year.
Always part of our family.
Full #LAGalaxy statement on the passing of Sigi Schmid: https://t.co/i3TusMZEa6 pic.twitter.com/CInXXUcuzW
— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) December 27, 2018
His return to MLS came in 2006 with the Columbus Crew. His time with the Crew had its ups and downs. During his first season, his side struggled a lot, especially with injuries. The Crew’s struggles in the 2006 season had many wondering if Schmid would be fired. He kept his job and rebuilt his squad. In 2008, the Crew paved their way to the MLS Cup final, beating the New York Red Bulls 3-1. They also won the 2008 Supporters' Shield.
Family Thank you for everything, Sigi.
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— Columbus Crew SC (@ColumbusCrewSC) December 27, 2018
After the Crew’s triumph in the MLS Cup final, Schmid moved to expansion side Seattle Sounders. During his time with the Sounders, Schmid brought in some exciting players like Osvaldo Alonso, Eddie Johnson, Clint Dempsey and Obafemi Martins. He led the Sounders to four different U.S Open Cup titles (2009, 2010, 2011, 2014), and a Supporters' Shield in 2014. As the first coach in the club’s history, he quickly created the expectation that the Sounders had to challenge for the MLS Cup and other trophies every season.
After a stretch of poor performances in 2016, Schmid and Seattle parted ways by mutual consent.
An American soccer icon. pic.twitter.com/B5JHanXj5Y
— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) December 27, 2018
Returning to the Galaxy in 2017, Schmid signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The most memorable match from Sigi’s last tenure was the opening day match against league newcomers LAFC. Zlatan came on for the last 20 minutes, scoring two goals to win the match. Schmid’s side struggled midway through the season and the 65-year-old ultimately resigned in September.
Schmid’s legacy at UCLA and in MLS is unprecedented. He spent 19 years managing UCLA, and he won 266 games in his 18-season tenure as manager for the LA Galaxy, Columbus Crew and Seattle Sounders. The number of national team players and MLS coaches he has influenced is something to be noted as well: Greg Vanney (manager of Toronto FC), Greg Schmetzer (manager of the Seattle Sounders) and Brad Friedel (former EPL, MLS, and U.S. national team goalkeeper and current manager of the New England Revolution) to name a few.
Sigi Schmid will always be remembered as a fiery, passionate and organized manager. His impact on American soccer is massive, and his induction into the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in 2015 is evidence of that. His love for the game and his experienced will be greatly missed.
Thank you, Sigi.
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The Niagara Movement is often described as the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons, NAACP, which is not untrue. However, the 1905 gathering began as in response to another movement launched a decade earlier.
The July 11 inaugural meeting was held in Fort Erie, Ontario, near the famous falls for which the movement takes its name. The participants were all men, notable African-American professionals from the United States. While the group met in response to Jim Crow, perhaps the driving reason for the meeting was to counter another African-American philosophy promulgated a decade earlier. Teaching about these two movements is particularly helpful for curbing the myth that African-Americans – or any population – embraces monolithic world views.
Much has been made of the motivation behind W.E.B. Du Bois and his fellow intellectual’s choice of the Canadian location for the meeting, opposite Buffalo, New York. Segregation in public transportation and accommodations were commonplace in northern cities, but no definitive evidence is known to cite this as the reason for meeting in Ontario.
Competing titans with sympathetic intentions
A dozen years Du Bois’s senior, Booker T. Washington was arguably the dominant figure if not voice of America’s African-American community. At the turn of the 20th century, ninety percent of African-Americans lived in the South, three-quarters of these in rural settings. Washington, among the last generation born into slavery, was intimately aware of the issues facing southern African-Americans. His background almost certainly shaped his views when he founded Tuskeegee University in 1881, (largely by his own force of will).
In 1895, Washington was asked to speak at the Cotton States and International Exposition, held in Atlanta, Georgia. To a mostly white audience, Washington outlined his vision of racial equality without committing the unpardonable faux pas of mentioning by name that end. His address spelled out a South in which African-Americans continue to bear the humiliating conditions of Jim Crow, all the while improving themselves in the technical skills of the day. His views of what the U.S. Supreme Court would describe a year later as a separate but equal society was widely applauded by Southern whites, still resentful for the injuries they perceived as having suffered during Reconstruction. To a large degree, Washington believed that Reconstruction was a failure for seeking too much too soon for African-Americans.
In the North, however, African-American intellectuals were aghast at the very idea that American citizens of color accept second-class status in favor of the prejudice culture that truly had meted out real injuries for nearly 300 years. Chief among Washinton’s critics was W.E.B. DuBois who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard the same year in which the Atlanta Exposition speech was given.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Massachusetts only three years after passage of the 13th Amendment. He grew up without the presence of his father and his mother died during his late teens. Though not affluent, Du Bois was recognized by others for his intellect and received support for his first undergraduate degree which he earned at Tennessee’s Fisk University.
W.E.B. Du Bois traveled to Berlin for continued studies, earning his second bachelor’s degree, this time from Harvard University. He also traveled to the Deep South where he experienced Jim Crow firsthand. Still, his experiences were those of an academic which may explain some of his views that were antithetical to those of Booker T. Washington.
Intolerable racial violence continues unabated
Not surprisingly, racial violence against African-Americans increased and became quite common following the end of Reconstruction. However, the 1890s is recorded in history as the height of lynching. It was during this infamous decade that Washington offered his controversial vision of harmony, albeit one dependent upon African-Americans accepting an institutional denial of civil rights.
Other Southerners of color were already agitating for immediate protection of civil rights for African-Americans. Like Washington, Memphis journalist Ida B. Wells was born into slavery during the first full year of the American Civil War. In 1892, white mob violence prompted by her writings on racial violence led to Wells’ permanent relocation to Chicago. There she crusaded against lynchings.
If Washington’s 1895 speech was truly intended, even indirectly, to curb lynching, it did not. Though prior to the Niagara Movement’s beginning, Du Bois and others had already criticized the Atlanta Exposition Speech, effectively painting it as the Atlanta Compromise Speech, a bloody race riot in the Georgia capital the following year had the effect of mocking Washington’s views.
Although there were many such acts of lethal violence against African-Americans, one is recognized as fraught with a particularly dark irony as to prompt DuBois and white reformers to launch the NAACP, thus ending the brief period of the Niagara Movement.
Springfield Race Riot of 1908
It was not lost on most that racially motivated murder and widespread destruction of property in Lincoln’s adult hometown was beyond shocking. As was so often the case, accusations of rape committed by African-American men enraged segregationists in both the north and south. When two men were accused of sexually assaulting a white woman, a mob descended upon the local jail. There the would-be vigilantes discovered that the suspects had been moved to a secret location. Their blood lust unsatisfied, the lynch mob murdered to innocent men, one allegedly selected due to his thirty-year marriage to a white woman.
Other African-Americans were murdered, though the rage only grew among the reactionary whites. Homes and businesses belonging to formerly enslaved Americans and their descendants were burned, forcing what is estimated as two thousand African-Americans to flee the state capital, many never to return.
Accounts of the Springfield Race Riot stirred reformers such as Jane Addams and African-American crusaders against violence such as Du Bois and Wells to form the NAACP.
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Dr Donda West, Kanye West's Mom, Passes After Surgery
Kanye's mother dies after surgery
Kanye West often spoke about his close relationship with his mother
The mother of rap star Kanye West has died at the age of 58 after cosmetic surgery developed complications.
Dr Donda West, who managed the star's businesses and educational foundation and was the subject of his song Hey Mama, died in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Her publicist Patricia Green said she passed away "as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure", but gave no more details.
West's spokesman said the family "asks for privacy during this time of grief".
The 30-year-old often spoke publicly of his close relationship with his mother. She raised him alone after her husband left when West was three.
'Inspirational'
In Hey Mama, on West's 2005 album Late Registration, he sang: "Hey Mama, I wanna scream so loud for you, cuz I'm so proud of you. I appreciate what you allowed for me, I just want you to be proud of me."
In May, she published the book Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Star, in which she paid homage to her famous son.
She was chairwoman of the Kanye West Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to improve literacy and stop people dropping out of school.
Ms Green said: "May Donda's work and deeds be an inspiration to each of us, may we start each day knowing that support of family and community are central to purpose."
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Top Undergraduate Marketing Degree Programs
Higher Education Articles May 8, 2014
Students will be prepared for careers in advertising, consulting, or market research, as well as other professional fields, in a Bachelor of Marketing degree program. Marketing students typically will be taught about demographic trends, product development, and consumer behavior for the purpose of increasing capital by broadening the customer base of businesses. Marketing degree program graduates will be given several career opportunities.
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
The U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school, fourth in the 2010 edition of its survey of America’s best colleges. The magazine also gave the top rank to the university’s marketing undergraduate degree program, offered through the Wharton School, on its list of the Best College Specialty Rankings.
Their four-year coursework is begun by Wharton marketing students when they undertake the basic academic tenets of marketing, including economics, statistics, and psychology. Apart from dense coursework, the students are taught practical experience through mini-courses in product development, retailing, and advertising that span half-semesters, in addition to a capstone course.
Required coursework is provided in sub-fields, including consumer behavior and marketing research. Careers and entrepreneurial work in advertising, brand management, and market research have been embarked by Wharton marketing department alums.
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University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
The U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Michigan 27th in the 2010 edition of its survey of America’s best colleges. The magazine also gave the number two rank to Michigan for its Business Marketing undergraduate program on its list of the Best College Specialty Rankings.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing program, offered through Michigan’s Ross School of Business, are provided with hands-on training in core coursework that includes concepts including sales team management, brand equity, pricing structures and distribution systems, and customer relations. Additionally, advertisement training and research methodology is covered in both elective and core courses, thereby giving graduates of the program numerous career choices.
Collaborative effort among its undergraduates is emphasized through the Marketing BBA program at Michigan, and group presentations or team projects are planned by students. Case-based learning is sought to be incorporated through almost all programs, ensuring that actual examples of marketing strategy are studied by students, apart from hypothetical textbook cases.
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List of Schools Offering Marketing Degree Programs
School Name Student Enrollment Address Phone Number
Indiana University 42,347 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-4848
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10,384 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-1000
Michigan State University 47,071 101 Angell Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 (517) 355-1855
New York University 43,404 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-1212
Ohio State University 55,014 190 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-6446
Rutgers University 37,366 83 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-1766
Temple University 36,507 1801 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 204-7000
University of Alabama 28,699 739 University Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 (205) 348-6010
University of Arizona 38,767 1401 E University Street, Tucson, AZ 85721 (520) 621-2211
University of California-Berkeley 35,830 Gayley Road and Stadium Rim Way, Berkeley CA 94720 (510) 642-6000
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 41,674 503 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (734) 764-1817
University of Minnesota 51,659 100 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-5000
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 28,916 910 Raleigh Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 962-2211
University of Pennsylvania 24,599 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 898-5000
University of Southern California 34,824 3501 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 740-2311
University of St. Thomas 10,185 2115 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105 (651) 962-5000
University of Texas-Austin 50,995 2100 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-3434
University of Virginia 24,355 219 Bryan Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (434) 924-3721
University of Wisconsin-Madison 41,654 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-1234
Western Illinois University 12,679 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 (309) 295-1414
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Meetings with Remarkable Sheep
By longstanding custom, the origins of which are murky, part of every New Year's Eve is devoted to paying social calls on local livestock. A brief proclamation is read, a few hasty carols sung, and the sheep tolerate the proceedings with benign indifference.
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Blegvadiana
For a guy who has been making records for something like forty-five years and has a long and complicated discography, Peter Blegvad manages to maintain a fairly low profile. His new CD, Go Figure, has been released by ReR in anticipation of a full bells-and-whistles Blegvad retrospective boxed set promised for early 2018. By my count a little shy of half of the 17 tracks on Go Figure are new songs, the others being new versions of tunes that originally appeared on earlier Blegvad or Slapp Happy records or that were premiered on the Radio Free Song Club. The band is made up of usual Blegvad confederates Chris Cutler, John Greaves, Bob Drake, and Karen Mantler, the CD package features various Blegvad doodles, and the whole thing was produced and engineered by Drake in the south of France, though not on the Côte d'Azur, a locale that prompts these typically frivolous Blegvadesque lines:
We're so rich
we're out of reach.
We're at the top of the heap
at the bottom of which
people sleep on the beach.
The new version of "God Detector" doesn't seem like an evident improvement on the one included on Choices under Pressure, and nothing here strikes me as on a par with Blegvad compositions like "King Strut," "Hangman's Hill," or "How Beautiful You Are," but it's all tuneful and fun and it might grow on you. In the meantime there's that boxed set to look forward to.
Go Figure by Peter Blegvad
Update (March 2018): After living with Go Figure for a few months, I think my favorites here are "Had To Be Bad," "Simon at the Stone" (a tribute to Blegvad's late friend, the photographer Simon Marsden), and the cheeky "Way To Play The Blues." The boxed set is still in the offing.
Thomas Pynchon:
Rachel and Roony sat on a bench in Sheridan Square, talking about Mafia and Paola. It was one in the morning, a wind had risen and something curious too had happened; as if everyone in the city, simultaneously, had become sick of news of any kind; for thousands of newspaper pages blew through the small park on the way crosstown, blundered like pale bats against the trees, tangled themselves around the feet of Roony and Rachel, and of a bum sleeping across the way. Millions of unread and useless words had come to a kind of life in Sheridan Square; while the two on the bench wove cross-talk of their own, oblivious, among them.
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World of Wonders
I read this book by the late Stephen Jay Gould shortly after it was published in 1989, and more or less randomly grabbed it off the shelf and re-read it recently. I'm not a scientist, let alone an invertebrate paleontologist, so the impressions that follow are strictly those of a layperson.
To be as brief as possible (and with no pretense of doing justice to a rich and intricately argued book), Gould's immediate subject was the rare assemblage of soft-bodied fauna discovered, a century ago, by Charles Doolittle Walcott in the geological formation known as the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. Walcott, a geologist who was the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at the time, classified (Gould's word is "shoehorned") his new discoveries into existing taxa (mostly of arthropods), but subsequent work by Harry Whittington, Simon Conway Morris, Derek Briggs, and others revealed that many of the creatures properly belonged in previously unknown classes or even phylla that later become extinct. These Cambrian fossils, Gould reasoned, provided evidence that in the aftermath of the Cambrian explosion that produced the ancestors of the metazoan animals with which we are familiar (e.g. crustaceans, molluscs, vertebrates — and of course us) there was a wide diversity or disparity of body plans, many of which ultimately proved to be evolutionary dead ends. Instead of a steady progress of expanding diversity from a small number of original phylla, the analysis of the Burgess Shale fauna suggested a winnowing over time of possible avenues for evolutionary development. There may be more species now, but the roster of higher-level taxa was greater during the Cambrian than now. (Or so it seemed.)
Gould's broader argument, which he used the Burgess Shale reclassification to support, centered on the importance of contingency to the evolutionary history of life on earth. The lineages that became extinct were not necessarily essentially inferior to the lineages that survived; they perished because of circumstances that were equivalent, at least in part, to a roll of the dice. Climates changed, continents moved around, asteroids impacted the earth, etc. The fact that these lineages no longer exist (while others do) proves, in a certain sense, that they were less fitted to the challenges that followed, but since the challenges themselves were contingent and not predictable we can't say that a different roll of the dice might not have produced an entirely different outcome. A minor shift might well have led to the premature extinction of the chordates and hence precluded our own existence. (Gould's title alludes explicitly to Frank Capra's film It's a Wonderful Life, in which one small change holds the possibility of triggering a cascade of altered consequences.)
In the past thirty years continuing analysis of the Burgess fauna has, inevitably, complicated the picture considerably. It's no longer as clear as it seemed in 1989 that all of the re-classified species are true "weird wonders" that can't be contained within the familiar major phyla and classes. That process is highly technical and well beyond my ken, but although Gould, had he lived, might have been disappointed by the implications of more recent developments for his thesis, he was well aware of (and specifically notes) the fact that science proceeds by a grinding process of error and rectification. ("One cannot hope to do anything significant or original in science unless one accepts the inevitability of substantial error along the way.") His larger point, reading the role of contingency, remains open.
Ironically, one of Gould's main sources (fully credited and repeatedly praised in the book), Simon Conway Morris, has been one of Wonderful Life's most vigorous detractors. For Conway Morris, who has made a particular study of convergent evolution, the logic of evolution imposes such constraints that certain outcomes can be said to be predictable or even inevitable; one of them, in his opinion, is higher intelligence of the kind that we possess. Even if the chain of contingent events had been modified, for instance, so as to extinguish the primate lineage, "humanoid" intelligence would have been highly likely to evolve (or would eventually evolve) in another. Underlying Conway Morris's argument are his Christian beliefs and his philosophical antimaterialism (although criticism of Gould's book is not limited to those who hold such beliefs).
Though both scientists — Gould and Conway Morris — have used specific paleontological evidence to buttress their positions, the broader logical and philosophical arguments are fairly resistant to easy resolution by mere fact, and one suspects that if and when the classification of the Burgess fauna is finally settled, the debate will simply be continued in another venue. Regardless, Wonderful Life seems to me to hold up as a landmark of intelligent science writing for a general audience.
Labels: Evolution, Natural history, Stephen Jay Gould
One year when I was a kid we took a family camping trip to Quebec. I don't remember much about the trip except that we stayed at least a night or two in both Montreal and Quebec City; by now whatever specific memories of those cities I obtained at the time have long since merged with those of earlier trips and a later one I made as an adult. But I know that we headed north out of Quebec City, probably traveling through the Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier, stopping at campgrounds that I remember as being sparsely occupied, and here and there fishing meandering streams and ponds with cobbled shores. The road snaked through swamps and forests, and there were probably beaver lodges and maybe a moose or two. It was a Francophone area, and one morning when I was dispatched to fetch water from the campground's well a boy a year or so younger than me (he was the son of the couple who ran the campground) ran ahead of me, took my bucket, and worked the well-pump for me. When he was done I said merci — probably the only French word I knew — and he responded merci beaucoup, distinctly emphasizing the second word. Was he correcting my manners, or simply acknowledging that I had respected his assigned domain? For a long time I puzzled over the significance of this trivial exchange.
We continued north, heading for a small city that is today simply a borough of the larger city of Sanguenay, which stands on the river of the same name. I don't know why we had chosen that destination — possibly it was just mere curiosity — but as we entered the city we could see the river ahead of us, or at least that's how I remember it now. As we passed through an intersection a car ran a red light and collided with the front bumper of our truck. No one was hurt. When the police arrived they spoke to the young woman who was at the wheel of the car. Permis?, they asked. She didn't have one. She was barely older than I was, and had taken her parent's car without their knowledge.
Calls were made to insurance companies and, language barriers having been overcome, a local body shop was found. We probably spent a night in Chicoutimi, but if so I remember nothing about it. As soon as the damage was set to rights we headed south for home.
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Fallen leaves
Above, and following: headstones in a burial ground on a former estate, now a public park.
Below: the deceased are not sent into the other world unprovided for.
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Valley Forge Alumnae Chapter, in partnership with Valley Forge National Historical Park, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the historic Patriots of African Descent Monument at Valley Forge National Historical Park on June 16 with a wreath-laying ceremony. This is the first monument on federal ground to honor Black soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Following the ceremony, the sorority and invited guests gathered at the Radisson Hotel for a celebratory luncheon. The keynote address was given by retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell.
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This essay by Henry Rollins was originally published in Details Magazine in 1994.
By Henry Rollins
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.
When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me "garbage can" and telling me I'd be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn't run home crying, wondering why.
I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.
I hated myself all the time.
As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn't going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known. Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you'll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time. I didn't think much of them either.
Then came Mr. Pepperman, my advisor. He was a powerfully built Vietnam veteran, and he was scary. No one ever talked out of turn in his class. Once one kid did and Mr. P. lifted him off the ground and pinned him to the blackboard. Mr. P. could see that I was in bad shape, and one Friday in October he asked me if I had ever worked out with weights. I told him no.
He told me that I was going to take some of the money that I had saved and buy a hundred-pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I would say to him on Monday when he asked about the weights that I was not going to buy. Still, it made me feel special. My father never really got that close to caring. On Saturday I bought the weights, but I couldn't even drag them to my mom's car. An attendant laughed at me as he put them on a dolly.
Monday came and I was called into Mr. P.'s office after school. He said that he was going to show me how to work out. He was going to put me on a program and start hitting me in the solar plexus in the hallway when I wasn't looking. When I could take the punch we would know that we were getting somewhere. At no time was I to look at myself in the mirror or tell anyone at school what I was doing. In the gym he showed me ten basic exercises. I paid more attention than I ever did in any of my classes. I didn't want to blow it. I went home that night and started right in.
Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn't know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar. I could sense the power inside my body growing. I could feel it.
Right before Christmas break I was walking to class, and from out of nowhere Mr. Pepperman appeared and gave me a shot in the chest. I laughed and kept going. He said I could look at myself now. I got home and ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt. I saw a body, not just the shell that housed my stomach and my heart. My biceps bulged. My chest had definition. I felt strong. It was the first time I can remember having a sense of myself. I had done something and no one could ever take it away. You couldn't say s--t to me.
It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. That's the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you.
It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.
I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn't ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you're not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.
I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone's shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself through character. It is the difference between bouncers who get off strong-arming people and Mr.Pepperman.
Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.
Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn't see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness. To this day, when I work out I usually listen to ballads.
I prefer to work out alone.
It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you're made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it's some kind of miracle if you're not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.
I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.
This article originally appeared in Details Magazine
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Appreciation for Movement
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Explorer Homes(Inc) was in business from 2008-2013 building some of the most recognizable homes in Sussex County, Delaware, with one having the distinction of being featured on the “Beach to Bay Cottage Tour”, and others being certified “Green” by the NAHB. As one of the original Builder members of the Green Building Council for Delaware we sought to find a balance efficient design and cost.
Now with over 20 years experience in home building we are bringing back the best option for our customers. The Owner – Mike Kwiecien is a lifelong Builder. Starting as a jobsite gofer at 13 picking up trash and fetching tools for contractors in the Family he literally learned building from the ground up. From 17-22 he worked for three brothers at the Jersey Shore learning how to build a home from the ground up and became skilled labor. After completing a Bachelor’s Degree, from Rowan University in History, he joined the US Army. He earned the rank of Sergeant and became a successful heavyweight boxer finishing with a career record of 7-1 taking 2nd place in the 1st Infantry Division tournament. During this time he also got married, completed a deployment to Kosovo, and completed his Master’s Degree with the University of Oklahoma. It is this academic approach and work ethic that Mike brings his best everyday to Explorer Homes. After moving to Delaware in 2001 he spent time with three National Builders and two Regional Builders studying best practices for construction and business. While with these Builders Mike got valuable experience as a General Contractor, Carpenter, Purchaser/Estimator, Site Superintendent, REALTOR, New Home Salesperson, and Division Manager. Over his career he has built and sold over 200 homes. Now a Family man married for 22yrs with three wonderful children his main mission in life is to build the best home possible for as many people as he can.
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Effective Inventory Management
“That’s just right” is what we always want to hear when it comes to inventories. It doesn’t happen often but these FedEx Small Business Grant Contest winners managed to nail it with their own approaches
Inventory management’s ideal state sounds a lot like Goldilocks seeking out the perfect chair: Having too much or too little is a problem. The goal is getting it “just right.”
That’s a goal that isn’t met overnight.
For most small businesses, effective inventory management is an evolutionary process, one that moves from a physical count and documentation to a more automated system over time. But, how do you get from “point A” to “point B”?
We spoke to three FedEx Small Business Grant Contest winners about their own experience with inventory management; what they’ve learned, and how they manage inventory today. What we got was some excellent, candid advice, each delivered from a different perspective.
Making Sense Of All The Pieces and Parts
Ari Hoffman is an owner of GOBIE h2o, a company that makes environmentally friendly water filtration products. When the business was new, it offered one product — the now-iconic GOBIE water bottle.
“Each water bottle was made up of three main parts that needed FDA approved colorant added to them: the mouthpiece, the plastic container (body) and the FlexFlo® pad, and offered the bottle in six different colors. That means we had 18 color combos we had to buy,” Hoffman explained. “There was a 50-pound, minimum order for each colorant, and at the 50-pound minimum, one pound was $24. If I bumped that up to a 100-pound order, I could drop the per-pound price to $14. If I went with a 1,000-pound order, I could drop that price to $3.50 a pound.”
So, why not just go with the larger order at a much better price?
“One pound of material made 11,000 mouthpieces,” Hoffman said. “If we would have gone with the larger order, we would have tied up our much-needed capital in inventory. So, we paid the maximum price to get only what we needed.”
Initially, everything was handled internally; including packaging, shipping and a very rudimentary, highly manual approach to inventory management.
“In the early days, we did it all ourselves. We’d pull the product from inventory, adjust our spreadsheets, hand-cut our FedEx labels, box our shipments up and drive them to FedEx,” Hoffman said. “Eventually, we grew big enough to justify moving to a fulfillment center. Then, we were able to hook up our shopping cart to the fulfillment center’s back-end operation so we could take/ship orders in real time. This way we always knew what inventory we had, what was ordered and what was shipping out. Our sales were growing continuously, so we had to get more sophisticated. “
Through it all, he stuck with the conservative approach on inventory.
“If you have too little, you can do things to create demand. You can turn it into an opportunity,” Hoffman said. “But, if you have too much inventory, you’re tying up money that you need to grow and run your business. That’s never a good move.”
Managing Flavors, Sizes and Goats
Judith Irving, founder and partner of Fat Toad Farms, has a unique inventory management challenge: using the finite amount of milk produced by the goats on the farm for the right mix of goat’s milk caramel flavors.
“Caramel has a shelf life of about a year. We sell our caramel year round, although the bulk of our sales come during the holiday season,” Irving said. “We have to make sure we have enough caramel, in the right mix of flavors and sizes in stock to fill our wholesale and retail orders year round. However, the trick is, because of the natural cycles of our goats, we can only milk from March through December, and therefore, we can only make caramel March through December. Especially from October through December, when the goats are making less and less milk, we have to be as accurate as possible about what we are making so we don’t have too little of one kind of caramel or way too much of another.
Like most small, family businesses, Irving didn’t invest a lot of money in integrated accounting and inventory management systems early on.
“We used spreadsheets and Quickbooks™ and add capability incrementally. Now, as a business, we’re ‘growing up,’ so, our next step is to integrate the systems we have and put in a more automated inventory management system,” Irving said. “We want bar codes on boxes so we know exactly how many jars of each flavor we have in stock without counting. As a food producer, we also need traceability. Although we’ve never had a recall, as a responsible business, we want to know where every jar of caramel made on a certain day was shipped. The bigger you grow, the more aware you have to be; the more you have to run your business with eyes wide open. “
It’s not only about knowing what’s happening now, but instant access to historical data.
“We have a limited number of production days and we have to use those wisely. We can’t go in blindly creating flavors because ‘Today, I’m in the mood for Salted Bourbon caramel.’ We have to be able to pull up what flavors, in what sizes, we sold during x timeframe the prior year, so we can project demand this year. And we need to have that information now, not five hours later,” Irving said. “The difference between success and failure is so very small — particularly when you start to hit a certain momentum. I think it’s important to be on top of your business enough to know when you’re entering another level, and to respond in kind. That’s what Fat Toad Farms is doing with our inventory system this year. It now makes sense to make the investment.”
The Fine Art Of Managing 1,300 SKUs
When Nicole Snow started recycled yarn and textile company Darn Good Yarn, inventory management was simple.
“When I started the business, I had one product. So, inventory management was a matter of going down to the basement, looking at an empty shelf and saying, ‘It’s time to reorder,” Snow said. “Now, I have around 1,300 SKUs. That changes everything.”
When she created the company, there weren’t a lot of affordable inventory management options for small business owners. Today, the proliferation of cloud and mobility have leveled the technological playing field.
“At the time, ‘cloud’ was something in the sky. Today, there are plug-and-play, software-as-a-service inventory management systems that you don’t have to manage yourself,” Snow said. “Yes, you’re going to spend some money on these systems, but if you spend the money, you’re not going to miss out on opportunities. For me, it’s all about shopping cart integration, because no one — trust me on this — can reconcile this information manually. No one.”
Snow lives in a world of texture and color; a business filled with subjective choices.
“My inventory system helps me forecast. I know when I sell a lot of blue and when I don’t sell orange,” Snow said. “But, it’s really more than that. If you have too much inventory, you’re freezing up money. Too little, and you’re going to miss opportunities. I sell to both wholesale and retail, which are two very different channels. If I get a big wholesale order for 50 or 100 pieces of a specific color, if I don’t have it in stock, I’m going to miss the sale. If I’m not ready for the pre-holiday crafter rush, or if I’m not prepared for the artists who buy from me in April, I will lose that business.”
At the same time, like our other entrepreneurs, Snow is adamant about not overstocking.
“I can make four times the amount of every dollar frozen in inventory, so I can’t have excess,” Snow said. “What we’ve learned to do is work with our suppliers to drop our minimum orders so we decrease our volumes and increase the frequency of our orders. We do three times the orders for the same number of SKUs, but we have less frozen money in the process.”
According to Snow, inventory management is a lot like social media: you have to know why you’re doing it to succeed.
“Social media is not about selling, but connecting with your customers. Inventory management isn’t about documentation, it’s about business insight,” she said. “It’s like doing a spreadsheet. You still have to know the equation that drives the numbers. With inventory management, you have to know how to apply the numbers to help you run your business more profitably and make better choices. You’ve got to know what you’re looking for.”
Note: The information provided in this website does not constitute legal, tax, finance, accounting or trade advice, but is designed to provide general information relating to business and commerce. The FedEx Small Business Center’s content, information and services are not a substitute for obtaining the advice of a competent professional, for example a licensed attorney, law firm, accountant or financial adviser.
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Thursday, Jul, 18, 2019
BIZ&TECH
China may take part in end-of-war declaration
President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification and decided to declare an end to the Korean War as soon as possible within this year, after their inter-Korean summit meeting held at the Peace House at Panmunjom on April 27, 2018./ Source: Yonhap News
By AsiaToday reporter Joo Sung-sik
China may join the trilateral talks that have been held among the two Koreas and the United States to declare the end of the Korean War. In particular, it has been revealed that the head of South Korea's National Security Office, Chung Eui-yong, secretly met Yang Jiechi, a Political Bureau member of China's Communist Party, suggesting that Seoul and Beijing have discussed the issue to a substantial degree.
Besides, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, who headed to Singapore to engage in a round of meetings at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), is likely to hold a tripartite meeting with North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss China's involvement in declaring a formal end to the Korean War.
During a regular media briefing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang revealed that Yang Jiechi recently met with Chung Eui-yong during his secretive visit to South Korea. The spokesman said that the two exchanged opinions on issues of mutual interest and Seoul-Beijing relations. Cheong Wa Dae also confirmed Yang's visit to South Korea in mid-July, but declined to comment on the nature of the meeting.
Both sides did not elaborate on the details of the discussions, but media reports suggest that Yang and Chung discussed the possibility of China's involvement in declaring a formal end to the Korean War. "It remains to be seen whether the discussion of an end to the war will be trilateral or quadrilateral, but a four-way declaration has not been ruled out," a senior Cheong Wa Dae official said. "A four-way declaration remains possible depending on the discussions," he said.
"It's natural for all parties in hostile relations to declare the end to a war, so it is natural for China to take part in it," the official said. "Rather than the format of the declaration, it is more important whether or not it will be done," he added.
It is also of great interest to see whether the discussions on declaring a formal end to the Korean War will take place at the ASEAN-related meetings in Singapore. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha will be seeking to discuss the issue with her North Korean and American counterparts in Singapore.
"As the declaration is our diplomatic task, we will push for it if there is an opportunity," Kang told reporters at the airport before heading to Singapore. "But there isn't anything concrete yet that has been fixed."
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Enabling Engineering
List of projects undertaken in the year 2016. This includes volunteer, capstone, and class projects.
Filtering by Tag: Volunteer
Hospital Sleep Tracker
September 18, 2016 Enabling Engineering
Caregivers and nurses often have to watch over several patients at once. When patients are asleep, nurses have to wake them to administer medications and prevent bed sores. Patients, like many people, are often difficult to wake and become grumpy or groggy if forced out of a deep sleep. If patients' sleep is tracked, caretakers can identify and take advantage of light sleep cycles to wake patients. Studies have shown that sleep quality is closely linked to immune system function, susceptibility to diabetes and a host of cardiac diseases, and mental function.There are currently no cost-effective sleep tracking devices on the market for healthcare environments like hospitals and nursing homes. Integrating a means of sleep tracking would empower care providers to consider sleep duration and quality as an additional patient metric to improve the quality of care they deliver.
The group developed a sleep tracking system composed of a 3-axis accelerometer that reports motion data to a wireless microcontroller. The system is designed to be secured permanently to a mattress, where it monitors a patient’s body movements, reports whether or not the patient is sleeping, and if they are, estimates the stage of sleep. Designed for permanence, the tracker requires no setup between patients after it is initially installed.
The hardware is complete and the group is developing software algorithms that make sense of the raw data they are now collecting. They have begun working with Northeastern’s IDEA entrepreneurship organization to understand the market, gauge interest in the product, and plan next steps.
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User-Operated Hoyer Lift
Hoyer Lifts are used in hospitals, homes, and nursing homes to move people with low mobility between positions (bed to wheelchair, chair to toilet, etc.). Conventional hoyer lifts require a second person who can manually operate the machine to assist. When a person requires assistance to operate the device that places their body where they want it, their sense of independence suffers—particularly when the bathroom is involved and privacy is a concern. In home health environments where patients have to hire assistance, there is also an additional cost concern.
This team seeks to provide a more affordable method for paraplegic patients to exercise autonomy over their bodies. They have designed the User-Operated Hoyer Lift, which features easy to use, joystick style controls that allow the user to operate the device independently. The reduced cost and increased independence afforded by an autonomous Hoyer lift will increase users’ quality of life. The prototype consists of a standard Hoyer Lift retrofitted with motors to provide translational motion and a linear actuator to provide lift. The group designed and machined custom fasteners for these new parts.
An initial prototype has been completed, and the group plans to allow end users to test the device to guide the revision process.
Parkinson’s Cup
Parkinson's Disease affects muscle control, and when it extends to the epiglottis, it causes difficulty swallowing—also known as dysphagia. When it causes someone to inhale their food or liquid accidentally, dysphagia can cause aspiration pneumonia, a life-threatening condition characterized by inflamed or infected airways and lungs. When people tip their heads backwards to drink, the probability of accidentally inhaling liquid increases dramatically. This holds true for patients with dysphagia, where the chances of inhalation are already higher than normal. Aspiration pneumonia is the leading cause of death for patients with Parkinson’s Disease, which is why there is a need for a drinking system designed specifically to prevent aspiration pneumonia.
The Parkinson’s Cup is designed to make every sip like the first sip out of a normal cup—by keeping the liquid level high, the cup ensures that patients don’t have to tip their heads farther back and raise their chances of inhalation as they work through a drink. The design features a 3D printed cup with a plastic lining, which is pushed up by a moveable platform to lift the liquid inside as it’s consumed. The result is reduced risk of liquid entering the airway and traveling to the lungs. Considering the prevalence of hand tremors in patients with Parkinson’s, the cup also features a lid, which protects from spills and regulates the liquid flow to ensure that sips never become accidental gulps.
The prototype is complete and was successfully tested by end users at the Peterborough Senior Center.
Sensory Cube
Children with disabilities often have limited opportunities to experience sensory stimulation. As a result, they develop more slowly than other children. Clinicians at the For His Children orphanage in Ecuador requested a device that would enhance the sensory experience of children with disabilities at the center. They wanted it to enable the children to participate in activities that engage their auditory, vestibular, tactile, and visual senses, and also to encourage them to interact with other children.
The team built two sensory cubes. The first cube was designed to provide exciting stimulation for children with low tone, who need the positive stimulation and sensory system development. This cube was comprised of bright colors, bumpy/rough textures, percussion instruments, and more. The second cube was designed be calming for children with high muscle tone and high levels of stress and anxiety. The calming cube was designed with muted colors, soft/ smooth textures, calming instruments like a rain stick, and more.
Both cubes were delivered to the orphanage in March, 2016. They were used successfully in therapies for the children and suggested modifications were recorded for future iterations.
WHAM Activity Monitor
Virtual reality active videogames (AVGs) are popular physical therapy interventions for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy because they motivate children to engage in repetitive arm movements. However, adherence to homebased AVG exercise programs is low and therapists require a way of monitoring children’s game play to adjust game difficulty and provide motivating feedback.
The team developed the Wireless Home Activity Monitor, or WHAM for short. The device uses an Arduino microcontroller, a 3-axis accelerometer, and an optical heart rate monitor to measure and report heart rate and movement data. An iOS app calibrates the sensors, detects movement, and cues the player to record game information and respond to survey questions. The measurements are sent to an online database that has a web interface to display the data in readable form for therapists, who use the information to make decisions about exercise progression. The data is also used to give users positive reinforcement during game play.
The current prototype won the RISE 2016 award for innovation in undergraduate engineering and technology. The team is iterating on their work to improve the prototype.
Large Lite Brite
Kids with severe developmental delays are not able to use the same toys that kids without disabilities are able to use. Most of their limitations are so severe that they have very little motor control, verbal communication skills, and vision. These children have few opportunities to affect their environment and receive stimulus in response. The children at the Carter School of Boston are the one percent of disabled kids with most severe needs. The Carter School students need a toy that meets them at their cognitive abilities, stimulates them, encourages interaction, and rewards them for manipulating their environment.
The team built a large version of the popular Lite Brite toy that caters specifically to the needs of the Carter School students, providing a way to enhance their environmental awareness more effectively than other toys available on the market. The pegs are big enough to comfortably fit in their hands, which suits the students' reduced motor control. Since most of the students are visually impaired to some degree, the Lite Brite blocks the light coming from inside until a peg is inserted into one of the holes, ensuring a clear link between the action and reward stimulus.
The design is complete and has been delivered to the Carter School, where it was tested by several end users. A second generation prototype featuring textured pegs and a sound element is under consideration.
Walking Assistant
Diana, a 17-year-old girl with spastic cerebral palsy, spends most of her time in a wheelchair. Wheelchair users experience muscle atrophy if they are unable to exercise and bear weight on their limbs. Doctors recommend an hour of exercise daily to prevent muscle degradation; however, traditional walkers have painful pressure points, which discourage Diana from walking. Diana also disliked the attention that traditional walkers call to themselves, so she asked for an alternative that attracts as little attention as possible and offers increased maneuverability. She wanted a sense of security and control while using her walker.
The goal was to design a walking system that keeps Diana stable and secure while bearing part of her body weight and walking. The prototype is based on a modified gait trainer that Diana had tried out in the past. To provide maximum comfort and functionality, the team substituted the gait trainer’s default support mechanisms with a custom vest and harness. The design is mobile, can be used outdoors, and is less expensive than existing devices.
The prototype is in development, and the team is receiving feedback from Diana and her father, Carry.
Wheelchair Backup
Wheelchair users can find it challenging to control their wheelchairs in narrow areas or when backing up. In particular this can be a problem when backing out of transportation vans onto ramps or lifts. Current wheelchair technology does not provide wheelchair users spacial awareness, which can lead to falls, collisions, and serious injury.
This project uses a set of sensors, a camera, and a display that attach to a wheelchair. The device lets the user see the area behind them while backing up to increase spatial awareness, much like a rear-view backup camera in newer cars. To minimize battery usage and reduce distractions caused by the device, the camera and display are programmed to turn on only when the motion sensors detect an object within a certain distance.
The prototype is in development.
X-MAX Gaming System
Max, an 18-year old boy has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to move around. He has limited upper body movement, and speaks with the help of assistive technology. He enjoys playing video games, but currently can only play with the help of an adult. The goal of this project is to develop a system that allows him to play video games independently.
The selected design mimics an Xbox controller with an adjustable button system. There are left and right joysticks that are separate from the rest of the controller, each large enough to be easily used without fine motor control in the fingers. A switch mechanism, located on the wheelchair’s head support, replaces the four main controller buttons. He controls it with his head. This design is much cheaper to produce than existing solutions and more comfortable for users.
An initial prototype was completed and tested, and the team is revising it based on feedback.
Positioning Pads
The kids at the For His Children Orphanage in Ecuador spend most of their time in wheelchairs. When NU Physical Therapy professors looked at pictures of the children from the previous visit, they noticed that they weren’t being positioned properly, which causes poor posture. Children who develop poor posture are particularly vulnerable to a host of health problems. Chief among them are muscle fatigue, a result of compensating for an inefficient skeleton, and increased strain on the spine, neck, hips, and knees that cascades into structural problems as children grow. Downstream effects include joint pain, reduced flexibility, asymmetrical muscle tightness, and deformity. Beyond the skeletal system, poor posture leads to uneven pressure on skin. Excess pressure, combined with shear and moisture from spending the day in a wheelchair, leaves the children at significantly higher risk of forming decubitus ulcers (bed sores).
The team designed and fabricated a set of foam supports. When the children at the For His Children Orphanage use their wheelchairs, the caretakers use the supports to position them properly and maintain good posture throughout the day. The supports are adjustable to accommodate the children as they grow.
The Positioning Pads were delivered to and tested at the orphanage in March, 2016.
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Tracks, by Louise Erdrich
First things first: this review isn't meant to stand alone. For a summary of the book and Chris's thoughts, please check out his fantastic review. It's been too long since I read Tracks for me to write anything really in-depth about it, but I wanted to mention a few thoughts here since I recommended it to Chris and it's a great book.
As Chris mentions, Native American authors just aren't a well-known segment, so reading Tracks, and Erdrich's other work, can be a bracing experience. It's one thing to hear about something like the Trail of Tears or the various ways the American government has gone about stealing native land; it's another entirely to read a cycle of novels that looks at the U.S. as entirely unsympathetic, and sees not just the commercial aspect, but also the religious aspect, of what happened to the Native Americans as tragic.
I'll get to the point: I've never read a book that wasn't flat out hostile to all religion that is as hostile toward Christianity, and especially Catholicism, as Tracks is. Or actually, I take that back--the closest analogue for me is Things Fall Apart, which was similarly bracing and hostile toward Christianity destroying an indigenous culture. However, Things Fall Apart is a little different in that the Christians that ultimately destroy the village are villainous. In Tracks, there's no such buffer--the nuns that appear in the story aren't evil. They even try to help. But their religion can really be nothing but hostile or impotent to the natives who've watched as Christians overrun everything they've ever known.
There's also just the general humanization of the various Native American characters that occurs as the story progresses. Nanapush initially reads as a cipher, maybe even a caricature; Fleur seems like The (Wo)man with No Name; Pauline, like your standard sheltered teenager. But as the story progresses, they all reveal vulnerabilities as they are acted on by forces outside their control, and are gradually revealed to be as human and fallible as anyone else.
I'm looking forward to reading The Bingo Palace, which is the next book in the cycle, and continues the story of Pauline and the various families introduced in Tracks. Hopefully that review will be a little better.
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Tracks by Louise Erdrich
The Captain and then the lumber president, the Agent and at last many of our own, spoke long and hard about a cash agreement. But nothing changed my mind. I've seen too much go by--unturned grass below my feet, and overhead, the great white cranes flung south forever. I know this. Land is the only thing that lasts life to life. Money burns like tinder, flows off like water. And as for government promises, the wind is steadier.
The people of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in Dakota have been in the news lately for protesting the construction of a pipeline which they say endangers the source of their water in the Missouri River, as well as sacred burial grounds. They have been attacked by private security workers, and set on by dogs.
Reading these stories made me think of Louise Erdrich's terrific novel Tracks, which is about the ways in which, in the early twentieth century, white business and government interests managed to consolidate their hold on already-scarce Native lands. The Ojibwe characters of the novel are constantly threatened with the loss of their homes, pressured in lean times to sell to government agents forever. Old, protective spirits seem to have become powerless:
It was clear that Indians were not protected by the thing in the lake or by the other Manitous who lived in trees, the bush, or spirits of animals that were hunted so scarce they became discouraged and did not mate. There would have to come a turning, a gathering, another door.
But these problems lurk mostly in the background, as a kind of constant threatening hum. The main story centers around Fleur Pillager, a headstrong Ojibwe girl in the town of Argus, North Dakota. Fleur is beautiful and mysterious, and menacingly independent. She lives way out in the woods, and people speculate about her close relationship with the monster-spirit living at the bottom of the lake.
The novel has two narrators: Nanapush, an old and sly man who rescued Fleur from dying in the snow as a child, and Pauline, an outcast Ojibwe woman who gravitates toward blood-and-doom Catholicism. Nanapush is witty, crass, and full of practical jokes; Pauline is joyless and too severe in her faith, even for the mother of her convent. In them, Erdrich contrasts two ways of responding to the weakening of Native communities: Nanapush refuses to deal with the Agents, consoling himself with black humor; Pauline embraces the grim mythos of the white man's religion.
How can a people respond in the face of near-extinction? I thought Nanapush's response to powerlessness was very profound:
Power dies, power goes under and gutters out, ungraspable. It is momentary, quick of flight and liable to deceive. As soon as you rely on the possession it is gone. Forget that it ever existed, and it returns. I never made the mistake of thinking that I owned my own strength, that was my secret. And so I never was alone in my failures. I was never to blame entirely when all was lost, when my desperate cures had no effect on the suffering of those I loved. For who can blame a man waiting, the doors open, the windows open, food offered, arms stretched wide? Who can blame him if the visitor does not arrive?
What would the Standing Rock Sioux say about that, I wonder? Perhaps they have more power than the Native Americans of the early 20th century did: the federal government just recently declared that they would halt production on the pipeline, at least temporarily. But in many ways Native Americans remain impoverished and marginalized, and will probably remain so for a very long time. That's true in literature, too: how many Native American authors can you name? (Along with Erdrich, I can only think of one: Sherman Alexie.) It's not quite fair to ask Erdrich to shoulder the burden of being the literary representation of Native American life in the United States, but you could do far worse than Tracks, which is funny, accomplished, and frequently beautiful.
Brent read this, too. Maybe he'll write a review about it?
Labels: Louise Erdrich, native americans, Tracks
A Kiss Before Dying, by Ira Levin
I was looking for something fast and fun to read when I stumbled across Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying. I knew him primarily from Rosemary's Baby (which, full disclosure I've never seen or read, but c'mon--Rosemary's Baby) and Stepford Wives, and was somehow unaware he'd done any crime writing.
A Kiss Before Dying has a really interesting structure that makes it work. There are several viewpoint characters, and a sequence of deaths that are about as unexpected as anything I've read. There's a lot of fun 70s atmosphere and some nice hard-boiled dialog, and the writing is very clean--it doesn't knock you out of your seat, but read some bad crime fiction and you see what a neat trick it is.
The plot, well, I don't really want to talk about it much, because even naming all the characters is probably a spoiler of sorts. It's murder mystery that takes place on a college campus, and involves three sisters and their rich dad, and a murderous schemer who wants to get his hands on the money. There's a mid-book twist that brings to mind Psycho, in a positive way, and the killer, whose identity isn't revealed until near the end of the book--a neat trick, since he pops up throughout--isn't exactly charming, but he's so pragmatic that it's hard to really hate him.
It also has a rather nasty little ending, and keeps moving clear through. So if this super-vague review makes it sound interesting, check it out. It's a quick read and a lot of fun, even if it does have a lot less Satan than his best known work.
Labels: a kiss beofre dying, crime fiction, ira levin, psycho
The Headmaster's Wife, by Thomas Christopher Greene
Here we are again. I haven't written a review since sometime in 2015. I didn't even make a top 10 list last year, although I did read 50 books, and now I'm writing about a book I didn't even like that much--but it's good to be writing something.
So, this book, The Headmaster's Wife. I'd never heard of it, and I bought it for my Kindle based on a jacket blurb that compared it to Lolita, but with some sort of twist. Now, you might say that buying a book you've never heard of because it's compared to one of the greatest works of literature of the 20th century is some pretty hopeful thinking. You'd be right. But I can't say that it wasn't accurate to some extent.
The book opens with the protagonist, Arthur Winthrop, disrobing in the park, and the book is framed by his interrogation by the police. No time is wasted getting to the meat of the story though--Arthur flashes back to his time as headmaster of a prestigious school and his torrid affair with his student, Betsy.
The first part of the novel really does feel like an extended riff on Lolita, as Arthur moves from distant longing, to bribery, to eventual blackmail and sexual extortion. Arthur narrates this section, and it's genuinely uncomfortable to see his manipulation and naked need for this seventeen year old girl, and the way he goes about getting what he wants. His pursuit culminates in blackmailing Betsy to go with him for a weekend in Chicago, telling her that he'll stop her boyfriend's explusion--one caused by liquor Arthur himself planted--and then, after their torrid getaway, reneging and expelling Arthur anyway. In the background of all this skullduggary is Arthur's wife, Elizabeth, who puts the pieces together as their marriage dissolves.
I can't really discuss the second half of the book without substantial spoilers, so be warned: MAJOR SPOILERS.
The first half ends with Arthur confronting Betsy, suffocating her to death, and throwing her body in the river. So it would seem there's nowhere else for the story to go--but clever readers might have noticed the linguistic connection between the names Betsy and Elizabeth, and the fact that the titular wife has hardly appeared, and so we start the second half with a major, potentially novel-ruining twist: that the entire first half of the novel has been Arthur's way of dealing with his wife leaving him. Betsy is Elizabeth is Betsy.
The second half of the novel follows Elizabeth from the time she meets Arthur until she finally decides to end their slowly rotting relationship. The parallels in the second half are interestingly ambiguous and it's not entirely clear why Arthur cast his wife as a seducer-cum-victim. Characters recur in different roles and contexts, and there's a somewhat interesting story to be put together, dealing with themes of love and, especially, loss.
Unfortunately, the second half has to deal with two significant issues, which it navigates with mixed success. The first is that I couldn't help but feel a little cheated after the effectively disturbing first half of the book. Finding out it was all, basically, a dream, was disappointing and started the second half out on a bad foot. But more importantly, Elizabeth is never as compelling a character as Arthur or even the enigmatic Betsy. Her story is naturally less propulsive, since wer can be fairly certain we know how it ends--most men don't cope with a marriage that's getting better by fantasizing about killing their wife.
Still, I'm hesitant to ding The Headmaster's Wife too badly. The writing is often very beautiful and the first half of the book flies by. It reads like an airport novel in the best way, and Thomas' unique methods of writing about such well-trodden themes is admirable. It never quite comes together, but I think I could still recommend it with those caveats.
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Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions. Instead, they are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.
I had to read Swtich over the summer for grad school and was not inclined to enjoy myself. Books written by business school professors about how to Business School your way through life are not my favorite genre, and this one wasn't really an exception to that rule.
The Heath brothers have come up with a metaphor which they stretch so that it applies to basically every change related success story ever. The basic gist is that every person has an Elephant, a Rider, and a Path. The Elephant is your emotional, gut reaction, deeply held beliefs side, the Rider your intellectual, analytical side, and the Path is the change you want to make (or that your supervisor wants you to make). In order to make any kind of significant change, you must motivate the Elephant (appeal to emotion), appeal to the Rider (convince using facts and data), and shape the Path (make the change process as seamless and uncomplicated as possible). Since that is basically all the aspects of how to convince people to do things, the book is fairly convincing, but I found it frustratingly simplistic.
One thing the Heath brothers do well is give examples. They tell lots and lots of one off anecdotes (some incredibly impressive, others fairly shrug worthy) about people making big changes in their businesses, communities, and personal lives, using some aspect of their Elephant/Rider/Path metaphor. None of these people were aware they were using the Switch ideology; most of them were just good leaders who understood how people work, but they did illustrate each aspect of the metaphor nicely.
My primary frustration with the book came when it touched on educational examples. I'm in grad school for educational leadership, so those examples were the only ones directly related to my field, and also the only ones I knew enough about to raise an eyebrow. In one, a struggling student is constantly getting suspended and kicked out of class until a kindly guidance counselor is able to figure out what it is he likes about the only class he's doing well in and gets all his teachers on board and the kid's life and behavior are changed forever. This was an illustration of the "bright spot" strategy which the book describes as tackling problems by looking at where things are working instead of where they aren't. A good idea in theory, but the example was so overly simplified (and such a stereotype of the guidance counselor/teacher dynamic) that it put my teeth on edge.
Overall, Switch articulates some interesting truths about human behavior and offers a few helpful, concrete strategies. That being said, the basis for the whole book is something that I would hope most basically competent people have figured out about humanity by their late 20's, and it didn't seem to make any groundbreaking claims that haven't been articulated before.
But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice. There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that an sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.
This. Book. I just loved this book. Hanya Yanagihara, who wrote The People in the Trees (which was very different, and almost as hauntingly excellent), chronicles the lives of four college friends as they move through college and adulthood. We follow them through the ups and downs of their (improbably successful) careers and (improbably unsuccessful) relationships and watch as they move in and out of each other's lives.
Yanagihara expertly lends depth and nuance to each of the four men, but her focus is on Jude, the most broken of the group. Just as each of the character's professional lives seems unbelievably impressive, Jude's life before he came to college is shockingly grim. The violence and abuse unleashed upon him is so brutal that was sometimes impossible for me to read. Yanagihara spreads the story out across the entire novel; you know his past is dark, but she unspools the saga over the entire span, so you don't have to wade through the despair all at once. That being said, the descriptions of Jude's past (and even some of the descriptions of the troubled parts of his adult life) are some of the more graphic and gruesome I have ever read. I'm not sure that these moments of extreme violence added much to the novel; they certainly were shocking--to the point of being physically affecting--but Yanagihara could have built a similarly fraught character with a few fewer unfathomable acts of cruelty.
That being said, one of the more beautiful parts of the book is the support system that Jude slowly and unwittingly builds up around himself as an adult. His friends, teachers and mentors form a foundation that Jude never wants to rely on, but slowly comes to realizes he has. He is not particularly good at using it, but it's existence--the pure and transparent love that all of these people feel for him--is enough to counter some of the gut wrenching aspects of his past (for the reader if not for Jude).
Yanagihara writes beautifully about adult friendship, especially abiding, lifelong relationships. I was struck by how accurately she hit on the things that I appreciate most about my longtime friendships with the people who have known me since long before I became the person I am now. In one passage, told from the point of view of Willem, now a famous actor, she writes:
"But to Jude, he wasn't an actor; he was his friend, and that identify supplanted everything else. It was a role he had inhabited for so long that it had become, indelibly, who he was. To Jude, he was no more primarily an actor than Jude was primarily a lawyer--it was never the first or second or third way that either of them would describe the other. It was Jude who remembered who he had been before he had made a life pretending to be other people: someone with a brother, someone with parents, someone to whom everyone seemed so impressive and beguiling [...] He wanted to be reminded of who he was; he wanted to be around someone for whom his career would never be the most interesting thing about him."
There are many sweeping descriptions like this one, many of which burrowed its way into my consciousness to the point where I found myself rolling them over in the back of mind as I've spent time with friends in the last few weeks. One of my other favorites came from a scene where she describes a long, mundane phone conversation about small, day to day nuances: "It had seemed to him the ideal expression of an adult relationship, to have someone with whom you could discuss the mechanics of a shared existence."
This book is hard to read. It's long and gruesome and there aren't as many moments of redemption as I've gotten used to in my summer of reading fluff, but it's totally worth the effort. It's beautifully written (even in its more violent moments), and taught me more about my own relationships than a book has in a long time.
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Time for me had always been measured in terms of the rising sun, its setting sister, and the dependable cycle of the moon. But at sea, I learned that time can also be measured in terms of water, in terms of the distance traveled while drifting on it. When measured in this way, nearer and farther are the path of time's movement, not continuously forward along a fast straight line. When measured in this way, time loops and curlicues, and at any given moment it can spiral me away and then bring me rushing home again.
Monique Truong's The Book of Salt is the story of Binh, a chef who travels from Vietnam to Paris where he becomes Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas' cook. It's told from Binh's perspective and weaves between his life in Vietnam, his time at sea, and his new life in France. The writing vacillates between gorgeous and overwrought; some sentences are perfect, but others are so packed with adjectives and adverbs that they trigger some serious eye rolls.
One of the central sadnesses of the books is Binh's intense loneliness. He is a servant in a home where he barely speaks the language, alone in a city that rushes around him in yet another language, and he's gay at a time where there don't even seem to be words to describe such a thing. Several passages in the book are directed at other people-- his mother (who has died), his lover (who has left)--and they make his isolation that much more palpable.
I was a little disappointed that Stein didn't feature more prominently. I'm fascinated with her, and every time she appears in a novel, it's always as a secondary caricature of herself. This book was no exception; Stein is dictatorial, aloof, and uninterested in the goings on in the kitchen. There are little windows into her life: She writes in illegible longhand and Toklas spends hours typing up her work; before a return to the States Stein agonizes over whether honeydew and oysters will be available before her speaking engagements, and Toklas writes to each hotel in turn to reassure her that they will. Their relationship, even though it appears only in small vignettes is touching and left me wanting more.
I enjoyed this one less than I thought I would. It had many of the pieces I usually love: Paris, food, lilting prose, but they didn't quite fit together for me. Maybe with some editing from Stein it would have held up a little better.
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Queen presents Maundy money on service's 800th anniversary
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#1 Apr 1st, 2010
Britain is awash with many unique and ancient ceremonies which, put together, make the nation great.
And one of them is the issuing of Maundy Money.
Every Maundy Thursday - the last Thursday before Easter - the British monarch hands out specially minted coins, known as Maundy Money, to the same number of both male and female pensioners as she is years old.
This year's ceremony took place at Derby Cathedral, where Elizabeth II, aged 84, handed out 84 pence each to 84 men and 84 women. All the recipients have done a generous amount of charity or religious work.
This year's ceremony was also extra significant as this year is the ceremony's 800th anniversary. The first recorded ceremony was held by King John in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, in 1210.
For centuries, it was also traditional for the monarch to wash the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday. But the joint monarchs of William III and Mary II refused to perform the act (they also refused to carry out the tradition of a monarch touching scrofula victims to cure them). It was stopped in 1736 not long after their reign ended.
Times Online
The Queen dropped her order of service
...But a girl stooped to pick it up
...and handed it back to her
The Queen presented pensioners with Maundy money today in what is believed to be the 800th anniversary of the Easter ceremony.
She was wearing a matching duck-egg blue jacket and hat with a diamond brooch as she attended the service at Derby Cathedral with the Duke of Edinburgh. She was helped by a young girl who picked up her service paper when she dropped it outside the cathedral.
More than 2,000 well-wishers waving Union flags waited in the streets around the cathedral, which was full to its capacity for the hour-long service, during which the Duke of Edinburgh read a passage from the book of St John.
The specially minted Maundy Coins
The Queen smiled and exchanged a few words as she presented the pensioners, recommended for their work in local churches, with traditional red purses containing specially minted coins.
Eighty-four men and 84 women - as many of each as the Sovereign is in years - received 84 pence in the specially minted money.
The traditional act of an English monarch washing the feet of the poor lasted for centuries until the reign of the double monarchy of William III (reigned 1689-1702) and Mary II (reigned 1689-1694). The two monarchs (who ruled jointly following an argument over who should be monarch. William's wife Mary was heir to the Throne after her father James II, but James II was ousted in 1689 by Mary's Dutch husband - and cousin - William, during the Glorious Revolution. William thought that as he had rescued the English from a tyrranical Catholic monarch, that HE, and not his wife, should reign. Therefore a compromise was reached in which they would both be monarchs) thought that such acts were nonsense and refused to perform them. The tradition of a monarch washing the feet of the poor was abandoned in 1736. William and Mary also refused to carry out the act of "Touching for the King's Evil", an event which meant the monarch touching a scrofula victim to, as it was believed, cure them. William and Mary's successor, Queen Anne, brought back the ceremony of Touching the King's Evil (including touching the infant Samuel Johnson in 1712) but her successor, King George I, banned the ceremony, deeming it "too Catholic."
The tradition of royalty washing the feet of the poor ended in the 18th century, but the Queen has given out "Maundy money" most years of her reign.
The tradition of the monarch handing out money to subjects dates to the 13th century with the first recorded ceremony held by King John in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, in 1210. "Maundy" comes from the word "mandatum", Christ's commandment to love one another.
Among those receiving Maundy money today was Bill Attenborough, 91, from Derby, an RAF photographer entrusted to take pictures when the Queen made her coronation state visit to Northern Ireland in 1953.
He said: "It’s quite an honour and it was a surprise as well. I have never met the Queen but I have photographed her so today brings back a lot of memories."
Sam Beswick, 80, from Littleover, Derbyshire, was put forward because of his work looking after Derby Cathedral.
He said: "I feel very honoured to be receiving the money. You don’t usually express it but it’s a feeling of self-satisfaction.
Penny Daley-Yates was nominated to receive the gift by her local vicar for work at her church.
She said: “It’s almost like I cannot believe it is happening. I don’t know why it happened to be me because I’m just an ordinary person but it was wonderful to see all the pageantry and to hear the choir singing.”
John Barke, 73, from Derby, also received Maundy money. He said: “The Queen didn’t say anything. She just gave me the Maundy money but she has a lovely smile and beautiful eyes. I just said ’Thank you, your Majesty’. It was absolutely marvellous.”
Maundy Money
Today's recipients of Royal Maundy, as many elderly men and women as there are years in the sovereign's age, are chosen because of the Christian service they have given to the Church and community. At the ceremony which takes place annually on Maundy Thursday, the sovereign hands to each recipient two small leather string purses. One, a red purse, contains - in ordinary coinage - money in lieu of food and clothing; the other, a white purse, contains silver Maundy coins consisting of the same number of pence as the years of the sovereign's age.
The ceremony started exactly 800 years ago, in the reign of King John, but it was King Henry IV (reigned 1399-1413) who began the practice of relating the number of recipients of gifts to the sovereign's age, and as it became the custom of the sovereign to perform the ceremony, the event became known as the Royal Maundy.
Maundy money has remained in much the same form since 1670, and the coins used for the Maundy ceremony have traditionally been struck in sterling silver save for the brief interruptions of Henry's Vlll's debasement of the coinage and the general change to 50% silver coins in 1920.
The sterling silver standard (92.5%) was resumed following the Coinage Act of 1946 and in 1971, when decimalisation took place, the face values of the coins were increased from old to new pence.
The effigy of The Queen on ordinary circulating coinage has undergone three changes, but Maundy coins still bear the same portrait of Her Majesty prepared by Mary Gillick for the first coins issued in the year of her coronation in 1953.
timesonline.co.uk
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Re: Queen presents Maundy money on service's 800th anniversary
It's basically a token of appreaciation from the Queen to the people in her way of saying, "Thank you for letting me be your queen."
The queen does alot for the people and this is her special way of saying thanks for playing with me.
For example: I once went to jail on an uttering threats charge and I called legislative and asked for a pardon when she was in Canada and lo and behold she heard my plee and sent me a written message to my jail cell, which they let me out.
So, she is definately a people person willing to play Queen with you if you are willing to recognize her as such.
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Reply #35 on: June 14, 2012, 10:29:29 AM
Quote from: Paelos on June 14, 2012, 10:09:43 AM
When you can't keep the participants from rampantly cheating, I think that makes it pretty silly. Your solution to just let them dope is even sillier.
Well baseball and football must be clownshoes silly, too.
Because for one thing it's not impossible to keep people from doping. MLB, despite the problems with the steroid era, has dramatically cleaned up the sport.
You have no way of proving that. Cycling is the most highly tested of all the sports and has some of the highest penalties. Doping is still rampant. To assume that just because MLB stepped up testing that the problem has been taken care of is just absurd. Hell, even the MVP of the national league was doping last year, he just got the charges dropped because of a technicality.
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Doping creates a gap between the common fan and the athelete. We want to believe that these people are great at what they do, and that we could do what they do if we had such talent. We don't need to have the inherent knowledge that the only way to be great is through drugs. Not only is that a terrible message for the next generation, but it's a terrible message about the human condition that we aren't good enough on our own merits anymore. It's the type of drug culture with prescriptions crap we're already falling into, and we don't need to just throw our hands up in sport.
Actually, I hadn't thought about it from that angle. We want athletes to be superhuman, but in a reachable sort of way. I have to say that you've changed my perspective a bit and I appreciate it.
I'm glad, as I do really enjoy sport as a whole, in all it's forms. It sorta makes me sad when I hear about the doping thing.
Yeah, but there's already a gigantic gap between the athlete and fan. I'm not sure how doping changes that. I know I'll never be able to hit a 90 MPH fastball no matter how many steroids I take.
What misses on this point is that if you believe the reports that are out there and as many as 75-90% of players are doping to some level then testing is a complete sham. If it doesn't work then you're simply having a random cull of the unlucky or getting rid of those too stupid to cheat correctly. It's just another part of a big lie.
Addendum- I just wanted to add that I don't advocate doping and would love to see it out of our sports. The big issue is that the testing doesn't work (for whatever reason) and I, as a fan, feel that I am owed a little honesty from what I am following. I personally love cycling and I know that they are all doping. It doesn't really change my perspective too much because I know that it's a level playing field. I suspect that its the same thing with baseball.
To a point though. Taking the NFL as an example, there are very few people in the nation that have the physical attributes to even be considered a potential. When I was at Miami, there was no doubt who were the football players in my class - they are built significantly differently from the general population. Seeing Kellen Winslow sit down in his seat and eclipse the kids sitting behind him... and he wasn't even my biggest student. Some people are just genetically constructed in ways the general population will never reach, even with drugs... unless they are hallucinogenics.
Testing's not a sham. RANDOM testing is the sham. The processes involved with some of the organizations and their testing methods can be the sham.
Test em all, I say. We're talking about trillions of dollars in sports revenues for professional sports all over the world. If you want to commit to cleaning up the sport, it's not hard.
They essentially test them all in cycling. It's still random, meaning that you don't know when you'll be tested, but they all get tested. It doesn't work. There's a limit to how much you can actually do testing. You can't reasonably draw blood or take pee every single day from every single player in every single sport. There are biological and monetary limits to make it reasonable.
The example of cycling is an interesting one, in a lot of ways, because it shows exactly how bad a testing situation can get without solving any problems at all. It's probably as comprehensive of a system as you'll ever see in sports. So why does it fail? Who knows? Designer drugs are probably part of the issue, but knowing the tests and the limitations of those tests is also a large part. I also suspect that the administrative folks in charge of the TdF and world cycling don't want to lose their star cyclists to doping charges. It's bad for the sport. I fully expect corruption to be rife in these types of testing protocols. Do you really think that MLB wants Barry Bonds nailed for doping? Not a bit. Baseball was probably at its post Vietnam war pinnacle of popularity during the McGwire/Bonds/Sosa days. I, as a fan, would almost prefer not to know.
Testing fails because those that make the drugs have to know how to detect them/what to look for.
ghost do you really want me to go over the history lesson of what happened in the Tour de France prior to the 1960s when they just allowed doping? Because you probably already know it, and frankly, it's horrifying.
There's a reason they put in testing.
It's not really all that different from what you see today. Racing is an inherently dangerous sport. And are you on about trying to protect the athlete from personal harm now? I thought it was about making the fan think they can do what Roger Clemens can do.
Fans don't want to see a horse die on the track either, ghost.
They don't, but they still go to the horse races. That's why they put up the little barrier when they shoot the horse in the head. Horse racing is also extremely dangerous (and, in a not completely unrelated fashion, full of doping as well). There we have yet another example of how testing doesn't work.
Reply #47 on: June 14, 2012, 10:59:57 PM
I followed Lance Armstrong's comeback very closely. I work for a media organisation that covers cycling, I attended his first comeback race at the Tour Down Under (he actually said hello when he passed me while training one morning, and I rode back among his team from one of the stages), and I followed his Twitter account that whole year.
What was most revealing is that their lives can be interrupted at any moment by a doping control. He tweeted about every single one. He would wake up in the morning and they'd be at his door. He'd be getting on a team bus and they'd turn up wanting blood. He'd go to the store and they'd be there and test him. It happened on many, many days. He also deliberately spent the whole comeback year on camera, with very little privacy.
So if the allegations are true, masking agents would have to be 100% effective for every drug involved, in 499-odd out of the 500-odd tests. And the doping operation and masking would have to be managed perfectly using only his private moments.
I've read his autobiography and he's an asshole. A wonderfully motivating asshole, but the kind of driven individual who is difficult to be around (see his multiple marriages). Through sheer force of arrogant words, he increased my motivation, made me a better climber and improved my pedalling technique.
That kind of guy does attract intense haters. Just saying.
I don't think most people understand how thorough the cycling doping control tests are. If Armstrong was doping and passed 500 some odd tests clean (ish ) then he either had some inside help (see the suggested bribes) or a damned good masking agent. I would bet on the inside help. The sport of cycling loved Lance Armstrong because it got US money involved.
Beyond all of this, he's medically extraordinary. As most people already know, he had a near-terminal case of testicular cancer that metastasised in his brain and lungs, which means he lost a testicle and had the most intensive chemotherapy.
He had some sperm frozen before the chemo, which is how the three kids with his first wife were conceived. But the most recent two kids were conceived naturally... Totally unexpected, as it was presumed impossible for his remaining testicle to produce healthy sperm after the chemo. This could lend weight to the allegations of testosterone use, but even if that's what made it happen, it's quite amazing (as is winning seven TdFs, with or without drugs).
For my part, since I was the first one who called it a "silly bike ride" or whatever, here is what I meant:
It is a sport. By it's very nature, it is silly and unimportant. I don't say this to belittle it or other sports (I fucking LOVE sports), I say it because I could fucking care less if they are doping, because nothing that comes from the outcome of any sporting event should really be that important to anybody. I could care less if they are smoking pot and drinking beer in the clubhouse of a baseball game. I don't care if your Power Forward is jacked on cocaine while he is playing. I don't care if Lance's team car pulls up behind him during his climbing session and injects HGH in his right buttock. I still consider Ben Johnson the second fastest man to ever live. You know, because he ran faster than anybody else until Bolt came along. Don't care, don't care, don't care. Just the thought of having someone like Clemens or Bonds testify to congress makes me stabby. What the fuck? The government is spending how much money to go after people who are doping? For the love of Christ, why?
It isn't important. Cycling is being ruined because of the investigations into doping, not because of the actual doping. Like many, many, many others, I no longer watch it because I no longer want to here the bullshit drama. I don't care what these guys are doing to their own bodies, and obviously they don't either, so why not let them all do it and just shut up already?
(these comments not directed any poster, my anger is at the issue in general)
Lastly, let's get this one out of the way: baseball statistics and records, when comparing era to era, are the dumbest in all of sports. Quite aside from the differences in athletic sciences, training, genetics, etc....you have the problem that they are quite literally not playing on a level playing field. The fields themselves are in different proportions, the weather and altitude have a significant effect on the flight of the ball, equipment advances, the type of grass is probably even way different then what they used "back then". Hell, you cannot even fairly compare statistics between the NL and AL in the same year. Different strike zones. DLs and pitchers. Baseball statistics are bullshit, more so than probably any other sport I can think of.
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True events: many, many years ago when I was a regular track & field competitor, I volunteered to run 400m Hurdles for my club at a competition. I ran my heart out, got a pb, got the 3rd fastest time in my country for that year and still came last in that race. As I was lying on the ground near the finish, trying my best not to pass out, an official came over to me and told me I had to take a drugs test. I said "Do I fucking look like I'm on drugs?" He laughed and told me that they randomly selected the lanes before the race of people who would be tested rather than base it on the athelete.
Yeah, cool story bro.
Point is that the governing body for some sports covers athletes/sportspeople of all levels. Even these days I have an athletics competiton license and am subject to the same competition rules as elite athletes. Under UK Athletics rules - and I quote -
If you are competing in the UK, no matter what level you are, you can be tested in-competition and out-of-competition... in essence, any time, any place.
It doesn't matter that these days I plod around long distance races rather than sprint or jump at national/international level. It doesn't matter that I don't get paid or that the events I do attract no media or crowds or make big revenues. In theory, I - and many other amateur athletes - are eligible to be randomly tested.
In practice it's never going to happen.
But either we test everyone every time, all the time or we segregate "elite" athletes from "normal" people (which would cause a bureaucratic and logistical nightmare) but again, where do you draw the line? Prevent "elite" athletes from competing against "normal" athletes? Have different competitions? Do you implicitly allow doping at amateur level beause there will never be any testing? Shit - how do you determine who's an elite athlete anyway? Or do we stick with random testing in and out of competition because that's the best compromise?
I passed my drugs test btw. I was always clean (apart from this one time when I did have about 10 cups of strong black coffee before an event...)
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Quote from: Cyrrex on June 15, 2012, 06:24:40 AM
I still consider Ben Johnson the second fastest man to ever live. You know, because he ran faster than anybody else until Bolt came along. Don't care, don't care, don't care.
You posted while I was still writing.
I do care. I absolutely do care. Johnson cheated. I don't care that he was on drugs (stupid fuck - how many times did he get caught?) but he cheated. He could have jumped the gun and gotten away with it or could have had more than 6 spikes on his shoes (which was in the rules back then I recall) or could have had his fingers over the line by an inch - he cheated.
Lowest common denominator is that sports (games) have rules and changing those rules can change the game (pick up the ball in soccer and suddenly you've got rugby). Do you give the guy who took a bus during a marathon a medal because he got there before the next guy or do you disqualify him for cheating? You can debate the merits of doping or not forever but it essentially boils down to one immutable fact - doping in many sports is against the rules. It's cheating.
Quote from: DraconianOne on June 15, 2012, 06:56:13 AM
I'm not arguing that it isn't against the rules. It is, and while such rules are in place then I guess they should be punished according to those rules. To me, it's the rules that should change.
The Ben Johnson case is a good one to use. The difference for me is that he achieved that result using his own physical person. He did not jump the gun, he was not over the line, he didn't pay off the timekeeper. The combination of meat, muscles, nerves, training, technique, stamina, etc., are what did it for him. That he used chemicals in his body that helped him to build muscle better doesn't change much in my mind...he still did a shitload of work. I don't seeing it much different than Carl Lewis winning the genetic lottery. Can I call it unfair that he was born with certain genetic attributes that give him an unfair advantage over me? That's not a level playing field!
That's fine - I don't share your opinion. I always was and always will be anti-drugs in track and field. If they ever changed the rules then I'd either only take part in drug-free events or stop being interested. As for the genetic lottery - is it unfair? Yeah, maybe - so what? This isn't Harrison Bergeron.
I am also against the use of drugs in all sports, but you have to consider the big picture here. We use random or systematic drug testing to catch people who are using drugs and therefore are cheating. So the purpose of the drug testing is to catch those that are cheating. Any medical test, to be truly effective, should have few false positives and provide true positives for a very high level of persons. There are clearly incidents in the past 10 years in which you would consider the testing that is currently done in sport to not be effective. What happened with all the prior tests that Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton took? Floyd just didn't start on the stage of the TdF during which he failed his test. Ryan Braun suddenly wasn't doping because of a chain of custody error? Riiiiiight. Even if these drug tests, when performed under proper laboratory conditions, can detect a high level of cheaters without providing a high level of false positives, there still isn't a high rate of detection in reality. Why is this? Well, you have masking agents, cleaning regimens and probably collusion/corruption between the competitors and those being tested. The end result is that the test isn't doing its true job which is to provide a level playing field by preventing cheating.
Why is the level playing field important? It has been estimated in some cycling articles that I've read that a cyclist gets an approximately 5% increase in their ability to ride. Cutting 5% off of your time is the difference between being on the podium and being the guy running up Alpe D'huez in his underwear, wearing the crazy football helmet with the longhorns jutting out of the sides while wildly waving a UT flag. A 1-5% difference in performance at these high levels can be the winning difference. But when you look at cycling you have so much doping going on that it's impossible to win unless you dope. I have come to the conclusion that Armstrong doped by simply looking at the circumstantial evidence. His biggest competitors in prior TdF? Vinokourov- Doped. Ulrich- Doped. Basso- Doped. Contador- Doped. Jalabert- Probably Doped. Beloki- Probably Doped. Pantani- Doped. Riis- Doped (and was the team manager for Ulrich, who also doped). Ulrich- Doped. Indurain- Who knows? Probably? Do we have any clue what is going on in baseball or football? I know that the use of PEDs has been suggested to be rampant in the USA.
What you're creating with current testing is a series of winners that have doped in order to win, and the second and third place folks are almost undoubtedly doping to be able to keep up. That means that the winners are simply the lucky ones that didn't fail the tests and the testing is doing anything but the target goal of creating a level playing field. In essence (particularly in cycling) you are creating an uneven playing field by the very testing that is supposed to be keeping everything "fair" by culling out those that are stupid enough to get caught, unlucky or not in tune with cutting edge designer drugs. The population has already created a more level playing field by itself. Each and every one of the TdF races from Indurain on have contained a Doper on the podium, and they have all been spectacularly entertaining despite that fact.
When you look at American sports (primarily baseball and football) you see testing regimens that are much less thorough. We've seen some positives, yes, but their rate of catching folks is pretty low (and the deal with Braun was the result of spectacular incompetence). I think it's logical to suspect that the use of PEDs didn't just drop off of a cliff when McGwire and Bonds and Sosa dropped out of the league. It's also logical to suspect that many football players use PEDs simply because of their unnatural speed and strength. It's not like people didn't lift weights like crazy 25 or even 50 years ago to train for football.
Paelos (and others that support rampant testing in sport) want to have that warm fuzzy feeling that if an athlete doesn't test positive that he/she wasn't doping and that this somehow makes it more "real". You can't trust the tests and therefore you can't get that security blanket that you're looking for. This is why testing is a sham.
This is a fantastic article on this point, the steroid issue in baseball, the impact of testing and penalties, and the overall increase in pitching talent.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8048897/the-age-pitcher-how-got-here-mlb
Want to guess how many fewer runs will be scored this season than were scored in the 2000 season, if teams continue sputtering along at their current pace? How about nearly 4,000. Right. We said FOUR THOUSAND runs. Want to guess how many fewer home runs will be hit this season, at this pace, than were hit in 2000? How about almost 900. Yessir, NINE HUNDRED. In that 2000 season, there were 571 times when a team scored at least 10 runs in a game. At the moment, we're on pace for a mere 248* -- a plummet of more than 56 percent. And just last season, Matt Kemp led the National League in home runs with 39. In 2001, you might recall, Barry Bonds also hit 39 home runs -- by the All-Star break.
Run totals have dropped in every full season since 2006. Home runs have dropped in every full season but one (2009). And we've seen a massive plummet in homers of 450 feet or more, from 144 in 2006 to just 89 last year. Is anyone surprised by any of this?
Or it just means that the current designer drugs of choice tend to more beneficial for pitchers than for hitters. The article suggests that the numbers are good evidence that they've gotten the doping problem under control. I don't think you can make that leap.
Quote from: ghost on June 15, 2012, 09:51:23 AM
I think you are intentionally burying your head in the sand. Were it a smaller sample size I'd agree with you. Over the course of 6 seasons? I'm less likely to believe it's coincidence, or simply BETTER pitching, or a better cocktail of drugs just for pitching.
Besides, did you read that article? He goes on to say that the information age of statistics we have on hitters now completely favor the pitching.
I read it. If you were trying to use that as evidence that they've really cleaned all the PEDs out of baseball it doesn't hold water. It's essentially correlation data which doesn't prove cause and effect.
There's no way to PROVE a negative like that. That's my point. All you can do is take a look at the evidence and draw your own conclusions.
I'm simply saying that taken at face value those numbers show a case where I'm more likely to believe that steroid use is down in baseball. I also think that if you weren't taking the devil's advocate POV, you'd agree.
Steroid use very well may be down, but we have no idea how far down it is. Maybe it's still rampant and folks are just using it at levels that don't provide the boost that we were seeing in the early 2000s. Maybe they are using other drugs. Who knows? I know that in the past baseball has had pretty clear evidence of rampant use (meaning not just the star players were using, it was more like 80%). Numbers are now more at a baseline of mid 90's levels maybe? Was there no use during the era that we're comparing our current numbers to? Was there no PED use in the 50s, 60s, 70s? We know that amphetamines were heavily used in sports in the past and are currently to some extent. We also know that the reigning MVP of the NL was essentially caught for PED use only to get off by a technicality.
I agree. Also
But it isn't just steroid testing that has transformed baseball. Without amphetamines, position players these days are wondering, by the Fourth of July, whether they're going to have the strength to make it through the season.
"You can definitely see it in the second half," says one NL executive. "These guys are cooked. They're OK through June. But then the weather starts to get hot, they've played 80-90 games, and then the grind, the travel, the schedule starts to get to them."
But as players often point out to us, it wasn't only the hitters who were juicing or popping greenies. Just check out how many pitchers have been suspended for PED use since 2005. Clearly, there's more going on here than just chemistry. So read on.
He doesn't give the stats on the page so I looked some up. (Although forgive me because I have no idea who does what. However, suspensions seem to have gone down considerably since the 12 in 2005) http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/steroids_baseball.shtml
To go a little further, runs per game stats over the years in the NL have moved around a good bit. 1999 and 2000 were the high water marks with teams averaging 5.00 runs a game.
Right now, the R/G are 4.20, and last year it was 4.13 in the NL. Those numbers mark the lowest it's been since 1992. The average from 1969 to 1992 for teams in the NL was 4.10 runs a game. The average from 1993-2006 was 4.66 runs a game.
Again, your assumption is that there were no PEDs being used between 1969-1992. Your statement that steroid use has gone down may be true. It may have gone down from 90% prevalence to 75% or whatever the baseline was in the 1970s and 80s. The idea that PED use started in the 1990s is simply absurd.
Here's a nice article for you from a former player that used steroids back in the 60s.
House, a former pitching coach with the Texas Rangers and co-founder of the National Pitching Association near San Diego, is one of the first players to describe steroid use as far back as the 1960s.
He was drafted in 1967 by the Braves and pitched eight seasons for Atlanta, Boston and Seattle, finishing his career with a 29-23 record and 3.79 ERA.
House, 58, estimated that six or seven pitchers per team were at least experimenting with steroids or human growth hormone. He said players talked about losing to opponents using more effective drugs.
I used 69-92 because it was the 12 team marker in the NL.
The R/G in 1938 to 1950 was 4.32 in the NL. My point is that the only instance in baseball in the last century that happened to have R/G at a 4.6+ level for that long a period of time was during 1993-2006.
I mean we are talking 100 years of baseball. At some point you're being obtuse about the issue, demanding some sort of beyond the shadow of a doubt evidence that isn't necessary to prove the point.
Hey, guess what was more exciting back in 2000? Baseball was. Now, it is light watching a hernia operation on TLC.
There are some other significant factors, though. Basically all of the post-steroid-era ballparks in the NL are significant pitcher's parks:
Petco Park (2004): 2011 park factor of .819 (Replaced the Q which was a pitcher's park as well but not as extreme as Petco)
Busch Stadium (2006): .896 (Replaced the prior Busch Stadium which was an extreme hitters park)
Citi Field (2006): .908 (Replaced Shea which was a very mild pitcher's park, not as extreme as Citi)
Nationals park (2008): .955 (RFK where they were temporarily housed after moving from Montreal was an even more extreme pitcher's park, but for the purposes of this discussion Olympic in Montreal is what we should be talking about, and it varied from neutral to extreme hitter's park during the steroid era (1.382 in 2003!))\
Marlins Park (new this year) is showing signs of being an extreme hitter's park so that's the first one to buck the trend I can think of.
Basically while Stark makes a reasonable argument he missed a *huge* chunk of what affects the numbers he's using to make his point and so we really can't draw any conclusions from it. The pitching environment in the NL specifically has become much friendlier since the so-called 'steroid era'.
EDIT: I looked a little more and it looks like the new NL parks that opened at or around the *beginning* of the steroid era (late 90s) were mostly big hitters parks, which exaggerates the numbers in the other direction. Coors Field, Miller Park, Chase Field... Probably some Baseball Prospectus dude with time on his hands will figure this out eventually but I'd bet a very significant chunk of the numbers being tossed around - maybe even the majority? - are due to park effects.
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More than 3,100 guns collected in latest buyback: Toronto police
The latest gun amnesty by Toronto police yielded more than 3,000 firearms, making it the most successful in the service’s history.
Guns laid on display at TPS headquarters on Thursday included an Uzi submachine gun, an Ingram MAC-10 submachine gun, three semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifles, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a number of semi-automatic handguns in differing states of repair.
Saunders said officers are about half-way through verifying all of the guns seized and seeing whether any were used in any unsolved crimes.
Long guns, including two AR-15 assault rifles and an SKS rifle, are shown in Toronto Police Headquarters on June 20, 2019. (TPS)
Police said 2,200 long guns and 900 handguns were seized during the buyback, which ended on May 17.
“What we heard when we got to the doors is that many people had no use for them anymore or had inherited them and had no idea how to get rid of them,” Saunders said.
He said the buyback was part of a wider plan to reduce the number of guns that could fall into the hands of criminals through break-ins or illicit sale.
“We had police officers attend about 1,000 addresses throughout the city to retrieve these firearms,” Insp. Chris Boddy said.
Boddy said that a number of people also handed in air rifles during the buyback, despite knowing they would not receive any money in exchange.
“Even though they knew they weren’t going to get compensation, parents and grandparents recognized that they can be dangerous, fall into the wrong hands and can also be used in criminality,” Boddy said.
He added that others called in to hand in unwanted ammunition that they had in their homes.
Saunders said the fact that officers brought in nearly 1,000 handguns, some of them with illegally short barrels, easily concealed in a pocket or purse, meant the buyback did positively impact public safety.
“Some of these guns were designed primarily for a criminal use,” he said. “When we have a sawed-off shotgun, when we have two Uzis sitting at the table, when we have those types of weapons, firearms with serial numbers removed, these are guns for criminal purposes.”
Ninety per cent of the shooting occurrences in Toronto involve handguns.
The city will spend $750,000 verifying and destroying the guns, and also paying former owners $200 per rifle or shotgun and $350 per handgun.
Saunders said the compensation will be doled out in the coming weeks.
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The ET-Plus has faced criticism and banning from nearly all 50 of the United States. With malfunction claims against the product stating that it causes more dangerous crash situations, safety experts across the country have been carefully inspecting the guardrail’s role on their state’s highways. Indeed, 46 states have banned the installation of the ET-Plus pending further investigation into the potential malfunction.
North Carolina, however, is one of the four states that have not banned the controversial guardrail. Despite knowledge of six North Carolina ET-Plus crashes – two of which resulted in deaths – the North Carolina Department of Transportation does not feel there is enough evidence to remove the devices from roads. One North Carolina man lost his leg in an accident involving the ET-Plus. He recently told WRAL.com that he still struggles to stand, even with a prothesis. Nationwide, there have been more than 40 deaths and 100 injuries associated with ET-Plus guardrail crashes.
The company behind the ET-Plus, Trinity Industries, insists their product is safe. Trinity is currently conducting a series of federally mandated crash tests to prove the value of their product and to determine the future of its role on our country’s roads. The National Highway Administration announced that the ET-Plus has officially passed four of the eight tests, with other results still pending. If the tests indeed find the guardrail unsafe for our streets, North Carolina and the other three states will have no choice but to ban the use of the ET-Plus.
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This article examines the League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Trafficking of Women and Children (CTW) to assess the impact of international feminists on the interwar anti-sex trafficking movement. It argues that women who were firmly embedded in the transnational and international women's rights movement built a coalition on the CTW to ensure the prominence of the feminist abolitionist position of sex trafficking in the 1920s. This position was defined by calls for equal standards of morality between the sexes, resistance to laws that treated prostitutes as a group and infringed on their human rights, and unwavering demands for the abolition of state-regulated prostitution. Changes in the personnel and bureaucratic structure of the CTW and the rising tide of nationalism served to undermine the feminist abolitionists' position in the League in the 1930s.
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बुधवार, 4 सितंबर 2013
at 3:58 pm | 0 comments | A.B.Bardhan, Chidambaram, Gurudas Dasgupta, insolvency, RBI, Subarao
Indian Economic Crisis – the Root and the Effect- A.B.Bardhan
Something akin to that has indeed occurred in the last few days. Sensex figure has plunged precipitately shedding more than a couple of thousand points. Rupee, the national currency of India, the symbol of its sovereignty and stability has collapsed. It fell head over heels in relation to the dollar. At the time of writing it has come down to
Rs 68.80 a dollar. Then it appreciated a bit, but there is no knowing what new depths it will plumb. Managers of the economy are hoping that it will find an ‘appropriate level’ at an ‘appropriate time’.
Indian economy is in deep crisis. Nobody can now deny or ignore this fact, hoping that the ominous signs will disappear and things will be back to normal.
The rate of growth which touched 8.5 for some time and which the government touted as the second highest in the world has come down to less than 5 per cent. It is in fact hovering between 4 and 5 during the year 2012-2013, and in the quarter April to June 2013, it came down to 4.4 per cent, the lowest in 4 years.
Communist Party of India (CPI) MP Gurudas Dasgupta poured out figures in Parliament to underline the depth of the economic crisis. The Index of Industrial production which is key to economic growth was 1.1 per cent in 2012-13 but it declined to – 1.6 per cent in May 2013 and then went down further to – 2.2 in June 2013. The decline continues unabated. In the service sector this is only 6.6 which is the lowest in last 11 years. In agriculture, the mainstay of our economy the rate of growth is only 1.1 per cent while the population continues to grow at 2 per cent. Consumption has gone down by 3.3 per cent since people don’t have money even to eat.
The foreign exchange reserve, which was 300 billion dollars, has now come down to 275 million dollars. This is sufficient only for a few weeks or so. India is on the brink of insolvency. The shadow of 1991 hangs over the country. The prime minister has assured us that it is not so. After all India of 2013 is not the India of 1991.
For people of his thinking–i.e. the bourgeois elite, even the Food Security Bill, which has just gone through the Lok Sabha, is to be blamed. They consider every measure that is orientated to bring a modicum of relief to the poor as “populist”, an act of financial profligacy, as something that throws the country’s finances out of gear and spells disaster. They do not think so when a “package” is announced to bail out big business and corporates or when concession, are handed out to them. That according to them are necessary steps to stimulate the economy.
Yet, in 2010-11 alone the corporate tax foregone was nearly Rs. 58,000 crore. In 2012-13 the estimated tax gone is Rs. 68,000 crore.
It is true that the currency was devalued also in Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey among the newly emerging economies. But the rupee is the front-runner in a race to the bottom.
The men who run our economy have no clue to the crisis that has overwhelmed them. Finance Minister Chidambaram is out to find alibis when he shifts the blame on others. He has also blamed his ‘predecessor’ for the financial mess knowing that his predecessor is in no position to reply. Now that the American economy is on the recovery trail, he cites that as a reason for our disaster since capital is flowing out there for investment.
The country is witnessing a bout of sparring between the Finance Minister and the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Mr Subarao, RBI Governor, has in a recent remark observed, “I do hope Chidambaram will one day say: I am often frustrated by RBI, so frustrated that I want to go for a walk, even if I have to walk alone. But thank God, the RBI exists.”
In the process of this economic tsunami the Indian people have suffered a loss of more than 2 lakh crores.
The present crisis in India is not an isolated phenomenon. Capitalism is in crisis. The world capitalist system is going through a prolonged recession. The European Union has been passing through a recession for over three years. Countries like Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy are the main scapegoats of this downturn. The rate of unemployment in Greece has already reached the astounding figure of 27.6 and even three or four bailout packages have not been able to restore normalcy.
America itself had been going through a crisis beginning with the sub-prime loan crisis four year back, which witnessed the collapse of a number of American banks and financial institutions. The U.S. market shrunk putting pressure on exports from emerging economies like India. With the current signs of recovery in the U.S. the financial liquidity that has been set in motion by the U.S. Federal Reserve has led to a sudden out load of billions of dollars from countries like India, Indonesia and so forth, depreciating their currencies. The US pushes the effect of both its recession and its recovery on to the countries of the capitalist periphery.
Each country suffers the effect in its own specific way following from the economic policies that its government has been pursuing. In India the fiscal deficit and the current account deficit which coincided caused the precipitate fall in the stock exchange and the decline and volatility in the value of the rupee. It further unleashed speculative pressure on the prices of commodities in the market, both of gold on the one hand and vegetables on the other.
Even Ratan Tata, who is close to the Indian ruling circles, was forced to remark that India has lost the confidence of the world. He also said that the Government was ‘swayed’ by vested interests in the private sector and policies had been changed, delayed and manufactured. Since Tata himself is ‘a vested interest in the private sector’ it will be interesting to know from him who is the vested interests he is pointing at.
The CPI had initiated a debate on the economic crisis in Parliament on August 7, 2013. Gurudas Dasgupta charged, the country is facing an economic tsunami because of the reckless policies of the government. Non- performing government has generated a dangerous crisis, which is almost an economic disaster thanks to their incapacity and inability….. The livelihood of millions have been affected and crores of jobs have disappeared, while farmers were also in grave distress.”
What solution does the Finance Minister have to overcome the present crisis? Chidambaram begins by asserting, what we need now is not less reforms, but more reforms, not more restrictions but less restrictions, not a closed economy but a more open economy.” The 10-point plan that he has proposed to drag the economy out of the mess is a reflection of this resolve.
The first step in this direction is to stabilize the rupee about which there seems to be no positive proposal.
The crisis is not a sudden development. It is not a bolt from the blue. We from the Left have been pointing towards all the portends that have eventually brought on the crisis. We have drawn attention. We suggested measures and campaigned for them so as to bring down inflation. The government persisted in taking steps which further fuelled inflation. Repeated hikes in the prices of diesel and other petroleum products were allowed to be taken. There is even talk of a further hefty rise in these prices. They are only kept pending because the crisis overtook any such step.
How did Chidambaram react to the devaluation of the rupee? While acknowledging that some government steps have contributed to the devaluation of rupee, he went on to blame the judiciary for barring or putting an elaborate process for mining, environmental clearance and land acquisition. He admitted that the government had allowed the fiscal deficit to be breached and current deficit to swell because of certain decisions. They were allowed to be taken.
We demanded that measures should be taken against closure of many industries and manufacturing units which was causing tremendous job losses. Unemployment figures including lack of jobs for educated and qualified youth were soaring.
The government talks of reforms. But what kind of reforms? The Left has been demanding land reforms, which should mean distribution of land to the landless that helps restoring the agrarian economy. The bourgeois landlord dispensation has baulked taking any such basic reforms. Our aim should be to create a people- friendly socio- economic order in the country.
It necessary to curb imports, particularly of luxury goods, and such goods that are manufactured in the country. At the same time all efforts have to be made to increase India’s exports with a view to ease the balance of payments in the country. The outflow of dollars has to be substantially reduced.
A spate of investments whether public or private has to take place in industries which contribute to job creation, and in the education and health spheres. The emphasis has to be on mobilizing domestic resources (which we do not lack) and domestic capital. Foreign capital is welcome, but it can play only a supplementary role. The objective is to improve the livelihood of our people which alone can be the basis of our future development. Development strategy borrowed from abroad, neo-liberal or any other, cannot help.
A decline in the basic parameters of the economy may be followed by occasional signs of recovery, which will no doubt be hailed by the beleaguered government spokesmen. But the main thing is the stabilization of the economy at some time in the future.
It is important to invest in people. At a time when it is essential to add to the purchasing power of our people, the government is engaged in further restricting the people’s capacity in the name of cutting down on expenditure. This always affects the poorer and toiling sections since what is curtailed is the social security outgo and the subsidies In fact the Left is pressing for fixing the minimum wage at a reasonably higher figure. At the same time Left is demanding pension to all elderly citizens at the rate of Rs.3000 per month.
The crying need is to reverse the neo- liberal policies pursued at present, which only maximizes the profit of Big Business and Corporate houses, while condemning the majority to poverty and deprivation. Today a situation has emerged where the economic policies are dictated by the corporates for the benefit of the corporates. As long as that persists there may be marginal and occasional recovery while the general downturn and depression continues.
The fall in the value of the rupee, the chaos in the stock-market, the general decline in the economy, and the uncertainty and instability that prevails in the country has its political fall-out that threatens the democratic polity of our country. This requires a separate treatment.
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Congress Overview
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ICOH Congress Dublin 2018 – a great success!
It is pleasing to announce that the Congress in Dublin, which closed on Friday 4th May, was a great success! Over 2200 delegates attended and participated in:
42 keynote presentations
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In addition, there was a lively exhibition area and we are grateful to all of our sponsors including IOSH and Cardinus Risk Management. The conference app proved to be a valuable tool for delegates allowing them to interact with speakers using the Q & A and polling functions. It also facilitated the planning of personal programmes and provided daily updates to complement the Congress daily newsletter.
The global policy forum was very well received and facilitated the development of a Dublin Statement on Occupational Health: New Avenues for Prevention of Occupational Cancer and Other Severe Occupational Health Hazards. This was signed off at the closing ceremony. All submitted abstracts were published as a supplement to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal and this is available online.
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Meet the Plenary Speakers
Hans-Horst Konkolewsky
The Organising Committee are pleased to announce that Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, Secretary General of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) based in Geneva, Switzerland as a plenary speaker. His area of expertise is in the area of governance, performance and service quality of social security administrations. Hans-Horst has previously been Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, located in Bilbao, Spain. We look forward to hearing him present on: Vision Zero: A World of Work Without Fatal and Serious Accidents and Diseases.
Professor Alison Reid
We are delighted that Professor Alison Reid has agreed to be a plenary speaker at ICOH 2018. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, Curtin University, Western Australia. Her background is in anthropology and demography and as an occupational epidemiologist she has a specific interest in the occupational causes of disease and risks in migrant workers. We look forward to hearing Professor Reid’s presentation on: Migration, Work and Occupational Health and Safety.
Professor John Gallagher
We are excited to have Professor John Gallagher from Cork as one of our plenary speakers. John is a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is also Past Dean of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. He is a Consultant and Head of Department at the Occupational Health Department, HSE South. He is an Associate Professor in University College Cork. Professor Gallagher will bring plenty of practical experience in his presentation: Connected Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing in an Irish Context.
Antonio Mutti
Antonio Mutti is Professor of Occupational Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine & Surgery at the University of Parma (Italy). It is a great honour for us to have Professor Mutti give one of our plenary keynote presentations on the topic of: Gene-Environment Interaction: Promises and Pitfalls of Molecular Epidemiology and Toxicology in Occupational Health. He is a leading expert and widely published in the fields of occupational toxicology, biomarkers, and gene-environment interactions in chronic degenerative diseases.
Kurt Straif
The Organising Committee for ICOH 2018 is honoured that Kurt Straif will be delivering the opening scientific keynote address on Sunday 29th April in the main auditorium of the Convention Centre Dublin. Dr Straif is Head of the IARC monographs program and the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon. He is a globally recognised expert in oncology, public health, epidemiology and the influences of occupation and the environment on cancer development. We are looking forward to hearing him talk about: The IARC Monographs and the Burden of Occupational Cancer.
Stefana Broadbent
We are pleased that Stefana Broadbent has accepted our invitation to give a plenary keynote presentation at the 2018 Congress. She is an expert digital anthropologist and social scientist who studies people's use of digital technology at home and at work. Dr Broadbent has a background in psychology and cognitive science and is a Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. Important work has included a sentinel publication on the use of digital communication channels to maintain intimate relationships and the impact of these emerging practices on the workplace. Stefana has chosen the following topic for the keynote: Fighting Climate Change with Collective Intelligence
Dr Gerry Eijkemans
Dr Gerry Eijkemans will be joining us in Dublin next year. She is a Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Representative based in Mexico. Her interests include the development and implementation of public health initiatives and strengthening health systems and services. Gerry has wide global experience in the area of workers health, environmental health, child labour, gender and sustainable development, and health systems strengthening in the context of universal health. Dr Eijkeman’s plenary presentation will be delivered using this wide ranging experience: The Importance of Workers’ Health to Advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda.
Yue Leon Guo
We are honoured to have Yue Leon Guo (Leon) to participate in ICOH 2018 as plenary speaker. He is Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, and distinguished professor, National Taiwan University (NTU). His main area of interest is in promoting diagnosis and reporting of occupational diseases. We look forward to hearing Professor Leon Guo’s presentation on: Psychosocial Conditions After Occupational Injury.
Dr Bonnie Rogers
We are delighted that Dr Bonnie Rogers will be joining us in Dublin next year as a Congress plenary speaker on the topic: Total Worker Health: From Concept to Reality. Bonnie is Professor of Public Health and Nursing and Director of the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center at the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, USA. Dr Rogers is a recognised expert in occupational and public health nursing and has published widely in that field. She has also served on many international and national organisations encompassing issues relating to: nursing; health and the environment; training for OSH; and, personal protective equipment.
Professor Vidhya Venugopal
We look forward to welcoming Professor Vidhya Venugopal to the Congress as a plenary speaker at ICOH 2018. With a background in Industrial Hygiene and Climate Change Science she is currently based in the Department of Environmental Health Engineering at Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai, India. Her main area of expertise is in the area of Occupational Heat Stress and Health & productivity in formal and informal sectors. Professor Venugopal will deliver the following presentation: Climate Variability Impacts on Occupational Health – Research Evidence and Future Steps.
Rodney Ehrlich
We are delighted that Rodney Ehrlich, Emeritus Professor in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa, has agreed to join us at ICOH 2018 as plenary speaker. He is also a co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. His interests include mining lung disease particularly those caused by silica dust, including tuberculosis, their epidemiology in miners, and workers’ compensation more broadly. Professor Ehrlich will be drawing on this experience to deliver his presentation: When Occupational Health Becomes Public Health: Occupational Lung Disease in Miners
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2014 College Football Preview: The Big 12
A Visit to the 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention
The Sound and Fury of the NFL Preseason
Attention, NFL fans: Don't get excited if your team rules the month of August. (And don't be sad if they stink.)
by Bill Barnwell on August 20, 2014
The preseason doesn’t matter. We run through the same stuff every year, only with different faces. There’s the bad team that looks great in meaningless action. The reclamation project at quarterback who looks revitalized and new. The unknown prospect who runs through third-team defenses for big plays. Occasionally, those teams and players do turn out to deliver on their promise, but there are so many washouts and false positives to go with those success stories that it’s impossible to figure out who is for real until the meaningful football starts in September. Let’s put the preseason in some context to understand how it’s not worth taking too seriously.
How is preseason football different from the real thing? Well, there are the starters, ramping up to Week 3 before mostly sitting out in Week 4. Coaches try to optimize their decision-making to avoid getting players injured. Effort levels vary from team to team; bettors notably prefer some coaches (Mike Shanahan is a classic example) to others (hi, Ken Whisenhunt) by virtue of how their teams have performed in the past.1 Somewhat surprisingly, though, the half-full stadiums and modest energy levels of preseason crowds have little impact on home-field advantage. Since 2006,2 the home team has won 56.5 percent of preseason games; that’s virtually identical to the regular-season win rate over that time frame, 56.8 percent.
Checking the statistical record, preseason football is different from the real thing in more subtle ways. According to the NFL’s numbers, here’s what August football is lacking (and why):
1. Scoring goes down. While preseason scoring has risen over the past several seasons, that has been met with a simultaneous increase in scoring during the regular seasons. Since 2006, the scoring in a typical preseason game is down about 14 percent from the scoring level during the subsequent regular season. Last year, while teams averaged 41.3 points per game during the preseason, the league then produced 46.8 points per game during the regular season, the largest per-game average since 1948. Peyton Manning barely knew what he was doing back then. Preseason scoring in 2013, then, was down 11.8 percent from where it would land during the season to come.
In 2014? That’s holding true. Penalties are up dramatically, with the emphasis on illegal contact and defensive holding extending drives, but scoring is basically holding still with where it was one year ago. Teams have averaged 41.4 points per game during the preseason through the Monday Night Finger Football tilt between Washington and Cleveland, just one-tenth of one point higher than last year’s average.
Why does scoring go down? Well, as you might expect …
2. Teams aren’t as efficient on offense. Big surprise, right? There’s no smoking gun for offenses in the preseason, but numbers drop across the board a tiny bit. For one, teams run the ball more frequently during the preseason; 55.5 percent of all offensive snaps during the preseason are pass plays,3 a figure that rises to 56.6 percent during the regular season. There’s also about one less play from scrimmage per game versus the regular season.
When teams do throw the ball, they’re less efficient, with passer rating declining by nearly five points:
Y/Att
Preseason 17,464 29,453 59.3% 180,086 6.1 992 773 77.3
Regular Season 73,192 120,563 60.7% 792,855 6.6 5,071 3,506 81.9
Five points doesn’t seem like all that many, but it’s roughly the difference between the passer ratings of Ryan Fitzpatrick (82.0) and Jason Campbell (76.9) from a year ago. What? It still doesn’t seem that different? OK, fair enough. But you can see that preseason passers aren’t quite as impressive with the ball in their hands. Passers are also sacked less frequently, with their sack rate rising from 6.3 percent in the preseason to 6.8 percent during the subsequent regular season.
Perhaps most notably, teams are far worse at running the ball in the preseason than they are during the regular season. Over those weird 2006-08 and 2010-13 time frames, offenses averaged 4.2 yards per carry on the ground during the regular season. In the preseason, they mustered up only 3.9 yards per rushing attempt. That adds up; teams average about 28 rushing plays each per game, so you’re looking at a difference of just less than 17 yards between the two teams per game.4
3. Quarterbacks aren’t as good as they are during the regular season. The typical preseason player at a given position on a given snap is obviously worse than his counterpart at the same position during the regular season, but great quarterbacks are more scarce than great players at any other position. The drop-off between Aaron Rodgers and Scott Tolzien is larger than the drop-off between, say, A.J. Hawk and Andy Mulumba at linebacker. You can see the decline in the numbers.
4. The preseason is schematically bland. The NFL doesn’t offer the All-22 coaching tape to the public during the preseason, but it’s a well-known fact that teams will run a shell of their typical offensive and defensive schemes during the preseason. It’s not as simple as suggesting that each team has money plays they don’t want to show the opposition, just more that offenses and defenses are drilling fundamentals and keeping their more specific schematic choices to themselves until the games count. Players still improvise and make plays — it’s still football, and a lot of players out there are trying to win jobs — but you’re seeing very vanilla versions of the West Coast offense going up against very simple Cover 2 looks from the defense. Washington, famously, didn’t feature the zone-read during the 2012 preseason, instead waiting until its opening game of the year to foist it upon an unsuspecting, overwhelmed Saints defense.
How Doesn’t It Matter?
The preseason vaguely approximates real football — it’s just enough of the real thing to fool you into getting excited for the Hall of Fame Game — but history also tells us that its breakout teams and players are often flashes in the pan. Obviously, the preseason is an incredibly small sample, with players who aren’t likely to make it in the NFL competing against one another. A lot of strange things can (and do) happen.
It’s easy to find anecdotal examples of the preseason telling us very little about a team’s record; Detroit, for one, went 4-0 during the 2008 preseason, outscoring the opposition by a league-high 48 points. It promptly went 0-16 during the regular season. Last year, Houston had more wins in the preseason (three) than it did during the regular season (two). I could do this all day, but then again, there are teams like the 2003 Patriots, who went 4-0 during the preseason before winning 14 games and their second Super Bowl in three years.
Studies have suggested there is no meaningful relationship between a team’s performance in the preseason and their subsequent record in the regular season since 1994. But what about the extremes? Does it mean anything if a team goes undefeated or can’t win even a single game during the preseason? I went back through 2000 and split out the 22 teams that went 4-0 and the 31 teams that went 0-4.5 If there’s some meaning to the preseason, the 4-0 teams should play way better in the regular season than the teams that got off to the 0-4 exhibition start, right?
The difference, as it turns out, is negligible. Those 4-0 teams won an average of 8.0 games during their subsequent regular seasons, while the winless teams won an average of 7.3 games. The teams that are undefeated in the preseason aren’t getting any sort of boost from their hot “start,” and they’re barely better off than the teams that are terrible in August. Setting our sights narrower, a 2006 study suggested that teams that beat opponents in the first half of a preseason game did well against that same opposition in the regular season.
What about the breakout passer of the preseason? Blake Bortles was expected to be a project even after the Jaguars took him with the third overall pick in the 2014 draft, but he’s looked brilliant and decisive during Jacksonville’s first two games, posting a passer rating of 96.9 while inspiring calls for the Jags to start him over Chad Henne. Does his hot start suggest he’s ready to play earlier than just about anybody expected?
There’s never anything wrong with playing well, but the evidence that it means something for Bortles’s future isn’t especially strong. Since 2000, quarterbacks selected with one of the first five picks in the draft haven’t especially done well during their rookie preseason. Combined,6 they’ve completed just 55.0 percent of their passes, thrown nearly as many interceptions (26) as touchdowns (27), and posted a passer rating of just 73.4.
Bortles has played much better than the group’s cumulative performance, but even that’s not a feat. The highest passer rating in that group during their rookie preseason belonged to Mark Sanchez, who had a 111.0 preseason passer rating as a rookie. Robert Griffin (103.3) was second. Sam Bradford (95.9) was third. Not great. (To be fair, Andrew Luck is fourth.) Players like Philip Rivers (46.4) and Eli Manning (53.7) were far below the likes of Joey Harrington (74.5). You get the idea.
The most painful anecdote was dug up a couple of years ago by Chase Stuart, who noted that Ryan Leaf received plenty of plaudits for his work during the 1999 preseason, including an exhibition game in the critical Week 3 in which Leaf went 15-of-24 for 172 yards with both a passing and–– rushing touchdown. The opposing starter went 11-of-21 for 123 yards with two picks, showing that he — rookie Peyton Manning — wasn’t the real McCoy.
It’s not necessarily a surprise that Bortles would do better in the preseason than he might in the regular season. Athleticism and raw ability play up during the preseason, while schematic comfort and the ability to digest more complex coverages in real time — Bortles’s weaknesses heading into the NFL — are less likely to be exposed. It’s no surprise, for example, that a player like Sanchez might look better in the preseason than he would during the regular season, given that he can rely on his instincts. Indeed, Sanchez posted a passer rating of 88.0 during his five preseasons with the Jets, a figure that fell to 71.7 during his time on the field in the regular season. Just as is the case with Bortles, Sanchez’s hot start to the 2014 preseason means nothing in terms of divining his professional future.
We’re cursed to care about this stuff because there’s nothing more interesting to distract us. It’s the same reason why we were talking about Jadeveon Clowney’s “first NFL sack” this past weekend, even though we’ll refer to his first sack during the 2014 regular season as Clowney’s first professional sack from that point forward. Likewise, regardless of what Bortles does as a pro, nobody will ever use his preseason performance as proof that he wasn’t ready or a star in the making. The preseason, at best, is a summer fling.
Of course, you’re flabbergasted and a little worried that people actually bet on preseason football, but you shouldn’t be. When I lived in Vegas, a sportsbook manager told me the typical amount bet on his book for a preseason NFL game exceeded that of all but the most notable regular-season baseball matchups.
You’ll note during this column that there are different endpoints used for some of the comparisons. That’s almost entirely because preseason data is hard to come by and isn’t always available to the same extent from year-to-year or site-to-site. In this first case, NFL.com has preseason standings pages stretching back through 2006, with a gap in the data in 2009 for reasons unknown. The NFL’s private press site has individual data and standings going back to 2000, but lacks useful team data. Don’t ask me why. As a result, the team numbers for this piece are from the 2006-08 and 2010-13 preseasons and are compared to regular seasons from the same years.
Likely more, since those numbers include quarterback scrambles as running plays.
You would think turnovers would be relevant here, too, and I bet they are, but I wasn’t able to find reliable data on turnovers in the preseason. The NFL, as an example, doesn’t list any players with turnovers during the 2006 preseason, which seems unlikely.
I also threw in the 2000 Cowboys, who actually went 0-5.
These numbers don’t include JaMarcus Russell, who held out after being taken with the first overall pick of the 2007 NFL draft and missed the entire preseason.
Filed Under: NFL, 2014 NFL Preview, Blake Bortles, Jacksonville Jaguars, Mark Sanchez, Philadelphia Eagles
Bill Barnwell is a staff writer for Grantland.
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Bois D’Arc man charged in neighbor’s cattle theft, pleads not guilty
Published by notices on Fri, 03/01/2019 - 10:13am
A Bois D’Arc man has been charged with theft of livestock and illegal branding after an investigation showed he was allegedly in possession of six head of cattle belonging to his neighbor.
Greene County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Dawn Diel filed a criminal complaint on Wed., Feb. 13, alleging Joseph Tummons, of Bois D’Arc, stole the cows between Dec. 30, 2018 and Jan. 18, 2019, and then branded them illegally.
According to a probable cause statement in the case, Tummons’ neighbor contacted the Greene County Sheriff’s Department on Jan. 18 and said he’d located six head of cattle he’d been missing since Dec. 31, 2018. A deputy came out to the location, photographed the cattle and took an initial report.
The next day, an investigator contacted the neighbor by phone. The neighbor said he’d turned out 80 head of weaned calves 40 days earlier.
That evening, he found a hole in the fence, which he repaired. The next day, however, he checked the fence again. The hole he’d repaired was still in good repair, but then he found a new hole in the fence. The neighbor then counted his calves and found six were missing. He then ran his siren that he uses to call his cattle, but never found them.
The cattle owner then said he called Tummons and another man, both of whom owned property adjoining his. Both said they hadn’t seen his calves. The neighbor said Tummons had been fixing several areas on the fence line between their property, so he knew his cattle had been getting into Tummons’ property. He said he checked every group of cattle where his calves could have gone, but couldn’t find them.
The neighbor also said calves wouldn’t just wander around; they would find another herd to join, and if they had gotten out onto a roadway, someone would have called and reported them. He sold all of his calves running on his pasture on Jan. 14, with the six still missing.
On Jan. 18, the neighbor said he drove westbound past 8247 W. Farm Road 94 and didn’t see anything, but then turned down a backroad and saw six calves which looked like the ones he was missing. He had the siren he used to call his calves in his truck, so he ran it again, and said the calves came running up to the fence line like all his cattle do.
The neighbor said he brands his calves with his brand on the right hip also ear tags them; steers in the right ear and heifers in the left. He took a closer look at the calves and said he saw where tags had been removed from their right ears and numeric tags had been placed in their left ears. The neighbor also said the cattle had been freshly branded on the right hip over where he brands his. He believed the cattle were his and had been moved and rebranded, but couldn’t get close enough to inspect them himself, so he called 911.
A deputy contacted Tummons and asked him to put the six calves in a corral so he could inspect them closer; Tummons agreed to this. The deputy, himself in the cattle business, came out to inspect the calves and photographed them to include their brands. He said the brands were “smeared” due to the branding iron not being held in one spot. He also counted four heifers and two steers, and said the two steers had holes in their right ears consistent with a tag being removed.
The neighbor said he thought it was “odd” that Tummons didn’t want him present when the cattle were put in the corral. Two hours after speaking with the deputy, he hadn’t heard from anyone, so he drove by the farm. No one was there, but he saw the cattle in the corral. He walked up to the corral and looked at one of them, a heifer. He said he saw the bottom part of the “W” on his brand under Tummons brand, and saw where the ear tag had been replaced. He described the brand over his as being at least two weeks old.
After getting permission from Tummons, the investigator inspected four of the calves with the assistance of a veterinarian and a member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Jan. 19. The calves were run into a squeeze chute and their winter hair was clipped off to reveal their brands. The inspector reported that Tummons’ brand is registered to be on the left hip while the neighbor’s is registered on the right hip, but Tummons brand was found to be on the right hip on four of the calves. The neighbor’s brand was also clearly shown to be on the calves’ right hips; they were seized and released to the neighbor.
Two other calves were found on property Tummons rents from the Springfield Airport on Jan. 20. They were inspected the same way as the other four, and found to have the neighbor’s brand on them. The calves were likewise seized and released to the neighbor.
In a post Miranda interview on Jan. 20, Tummons admitted to moving the two cattle after they had originally been photographed on the 18th; he also admitted during the interview that he could see the other brand and knew the calves weren’t his. He also admitted to branding the calves with his brand.
The deputy arrested Tummons on Jan. 21 for felony stealing of livestock and booked him into the Greene County Jail; Tummons was later released.
After the complaint against Tummons was filed, a warrant was issued for his arrest. He appeared in court on Friday, Feb. 22, where he pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for April 22, and Tummons was released on his own recognizance.
When the warrant for Tummons was issued, one of the conditions for his release at that time was that he would not own livestock while out on bail. During the hearing on Friday, that condition was changed; Tummons is allowed to own livestock, but he is not to have any contact with the neighbor or the neighbor’s livestock.
In Missouri, stealing livestock is a Class C felony, punishable by a sentence of three to 10 years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine. Illegal branding is an unclassified felony, punishable by a sentence of up to five years imprisonment.
Tummons, a former agriculture instructor at Republic High School, has a past criminal conviction. He pleaded guilty to first-degree trespass in January of 2014. In that case, which was preceded by multiple restraining orders against Tummons, he received a suspended execution of sentence of 180 days in the Greene County Jail and two years of unsupervised probation. The Commonwealth contacted the office of Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Patterson to see if he thought Tummons’ past conviction would have any impact on his sentence if he is convicted. No reply was received as of press time.
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Matt Shane’s Habitat Drawings
by Jane KenoyerPosted on January 7, 2013
Quagmire By Matt Shane & Jim Holyoak, 2011. Photo by Yannick Grandmont
Montreal-based artist Matt Shane is an artist who appreciates the unique diversity found in natural landscapes. He creates stunning grayscale drawings of habitats out of ink, paint, gesso, and graphite on paper that depict growth and decay. Shane is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Concordia University in Montreal, Québec where he’s specializing in painting and drawing. Shane is known for working with other artists to create larger than life installations. He has been collaborating with artist Jim Holyoak for many years. In 2011 the Québec Triennale at the Museed’Art Contemporain de Montréal commissioned a large-scale drawing installation by the two artists. For three months Shane and Holyoak drew for six days a week in a paper covered room at the museum. The work was entitled Quagmire and had a central drawing that featured a dead sperm whale with cities growing out of it.
Quagmire By Matt Shane & Jim Holyoak, 2011.
Collaborative drawing by Matt Shane, Jim Holyoak and Scott Lewis
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Alfred Uihlein House, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Date added: November 29, 2009 Categories: Wisconsin House
This excellent, late nineteenth-century mansion was built for an executive of the nearby Schlitz Brewing Co. and was at the time it was demolished one of the last surviving homes in the once affluent German residential area popularly known as Uihlein Hill. Alfred Eugene Uihlein, the mansion's first owner, left the house to his three surviving children, who donated it to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in December, 1935. It became the property of the City of Milwaukee in 1970.
The original owner of this house was a prominent member of an illustrious Milwaukee family. Alfred E. Uihlein (1852-1935) came to the United States from Germany in 1867; and after working for a few years in breweries at St. Louis, Missouri, and Leavenworth, Kansas, he settled in Milwaukee, where he joined the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. One of Milwaukee's early breweries, this company was founded in the late 1840s by August Krug, Uihlein's uncle. On Krug's death in 1856 his business manager, Joseph Schlitz, took charge of the firm; and after Schlitz died nineteen years later, Alfred Uihlein and his brothers operated the brewery. Alfred served as superintendent until 1917, when he succeeded Henry Uihlein as president. Under the Uihleins' leadership Schlitz became one of the nation's leading breweries. (in 1969 it was the second largest brewer in the country.)
During the late nineteenth century the area just north and west of the Schlitz Brewing Co. was one of Milwaukee's finest residential areas. The Uihlein brothers had begun building houses there in the early 1870s, and the neighborhood soon came to be known as Uihlein Hill. As time went by, second generation members of the family elected to live elsewhere, but the first generation stayed on, even after the neighborhood had changed radically. The last of them, Charles Uihlein's widow Emma, died in 1946. Of the many splendid homes that once lined North Fourth to Seventh streets. West Walnut, West Galena, and West Cherry streets, only two remained in 1969 -- this building and the former Henry Uihlein house, 437 West Galena Street, similar in style, dating from the same period, and also the property of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The area was rezoned for light industry, and the two mansions were acquired by the city and razed in 1970.
Status: Demolished
Demolished: 1970
Architect: Henry C. Koch and Co.
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Temples Emerge from the Jungle
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There were images of gods and goddesses, warriors and musicians, animals and birds. It could have been a scene from any temple in India. She was sexually assaulted over five days before being battered around the head with a rock. Campaigners say traditional views on the role of women, the rise of social media, as well as class and religious conflict could all be contributing to the horrific wave of attacks. In contrast with many other cultures, particularly the Islamic one that took over the region shortly after the Khajuraho temples were built, the Hindu and Jain cultures did not frown upon women for enjoying sex. This is more than two every hour. One policeman allegedly demanded to rape the girl one last time before the murder was carried out, Al Jazeera reported. Perhaps the art is unobjectionable when crouched within a religious context — but I came away believing that Khajuraho holds within its walls a larger lesson on tolerance for India. Khajuraho, India. More recently, in August , the Indian government imposed a ban , lifted conditionally a few days later, on more than websites deemed pornographic, in an ostensible bid to curb child pornography and sexual violence. But India was not always like this. They were dedicated to two Indian religions, Hinduism and Jainism, suggesting a culture of acceptance and respect for differing religious traditions. An eighth person, who was underage, faces a separate trial. Follow BBC Travel. Built by the Chandela dynasty between and , only 22 of the 85 original temples remain. India Travel Tips, The Erotic Sculptures of the Khajuraho Temples. Its elegantly carved Hindu temples were declared a Unesco World Heritage site in Two of the men were police officers. Her body was found dumped in a forest and the case in Indian-controlled Kashmir sparked outrage across the country. Charukesi Ramadurai India's most graphic example of erotic temple art However, the best-preserved and most graphic example of erotic temple art can be found in the small town of Khajuraho in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Many of these carvings were of an intensely erotic nature, featuring men, women and animals. No eyebrows were raised, no embarrassed looks were exchanged, no giggles escaped young lips. One of the more exotic ones propounds that since Chandela kings were followers of Tantric principles, which dictate the balance between the male and female forces, they promoted their faith in the temples they created. Top image:
Charukesi Ramadurai There are various theories about the existence of such graphic erotic motifs. Yet even these suffered as the forests and vegetation slowly overgrew the neglected buildings. However, upon the arrival of the Muslim Delhi Sultanate, the temples were desecrated or destroyed. Sexual norms were far more liberal before the 13th Century, giving equal importance to the secular and the spiritual. Charukesi Ramadurai That apart, Hinduism has traditionally considered sex an essential part of life, which could be why the carvings are casually interspersed between others that portray activities as varied as prayer and war. View image of A visitor stops to admire the carvings Credit: In contrast with many other cultures, particularly the Islamic one that took over the region shortly after the Khajuraho temples were built, the Hindu and Jain cultures did not frown upon women for enjoying sex. Its elegantly carved Hindu temples were declared a Unesco World Heritage site in Ramadurai, Charukesi. View image of A woman offers prayers at the temple Credit: Her body was found dumped in a forest and the case in Indian-controlled Kashmir sparked outrage across the country. An eighth person, who was underage, faces a separate trial. South West News Service 9 Sanji Ram, a retired public servant and a custodian of the temple, arrives for a court appearanceCredit: It could have been a scene from any temple in India. India Travel Tips, Forensic reports found that she had been drugged with anti-anxiety medication, repeatedly raped, burned, bludgeoned with a rock and strangled. Some 54 children across the country are raped every day. The Erotic Sculptures of the Khajuraho Temples. Perhaps the art is unobjectionable when crouched within a religious context — but I came away believing that Khajuraho holds within its walls a larger lesson on tolerance for India. Shunya, Aug. Khajuraho, India. But on closer inspection, many of these carvings were of an intensely erotic nature, featuring men, women and animals. Sexual norms were far more liberal before the 13th Century.
But on closer inspection, many of these carvings were of an intensely erotic nature, featuring men, women and animals. India Travel Tips, She was sexually assaulted over five days before being battered around the head with a rock. It came to an abrupt end at the start of the 13 th century when the Sultanate of Delhi invaded the Chandela Kingdom and seized the capital city Mahoba located about 35 miles 56 kilometers from Khajuraho. One policeman allegedly demanded to rape the girl one last time before the murder was carried out, Al Jazeera reported. Yet even these suffered as the forests and vegetation slowly overgrew the neglected buildings. Another three men were found to be complicit in the girls' torture by taking bribes and destroying evidence and have been jailed for five years, a district court ruled today. This is more than two every hour. Forensic reports found that she had been drugged with anti-anxiety medication, repeatedly raped, burned, bludgeoned with a rock and strangled. Sexual pleasure was considered an art form, the Kama Sutra, to be practiced and perfected by both genders. Charukesi Ramadurai There are various theories about the existence of such graphic erotic motifs. View image of Sculptures of a sexual nature Credit: In a space of about 20 square kilometers 7. Some 54 children across the country are raped every day. Sexual norms were far more liberal before the 13th Century.
Yet what really sets Khajuraho apart from other temples is the numerous erotic carvings, both inside and outside the temple, that depict men, women, and even animals engaging in lovemaking, orgies, and bestiality under the benign smiles of divinities. One of the more exotic ones propounds that since Chandela kings were followers of Tantric principles, which dictate the balance between the male and female forces, they promoted their faith in the temples they created. Yet, human figures are the ones engaged in the mithunas a Sanskrit term used in Tantra to describe the ritual context of sexual unions. It was not until that Khajuraho temples were made known to the world. India Travel Tips, British explore T. EPA Asifa Bano was drugged, held captive in a Hindu temple and repeatedly sexually violated for a week before she was strangled and battered to death with a stone in India in January last year. View image of Carvings cover every inch of the outer walls Credit: A seventh man - Vishal Jangotra - was acquitted of all charges. She was sexually assaulted over five days before being battered around the head with a rock. There were images of gods and goddesses, warriors and musicians, animals and birds. Erotic temple art at Khajuraho. View image of Of the original 85 temples, just more than 20 remain Credit: This was a golden age for Central India. However, upon the arrival of the Muslim Delhi Sultanate, the temples were desecrated or destroyed. South West News Service 9 Sanji Ram, a retired public servant and a custodian of the temple, arrives for a court appearanceCredit: The temples depict the many different manifestations of Shakti and Shiva, the female and male divine principles. Stone carved erotic bas relief in Hindu temple in Khajuraho, India. Yet even these suffered as the forests and vegetation slowly overgrew the neglected buildings. But on closer inspection, many of these carvings were of an intensely erotic nature, featuring men, women and animals. Temples Emerge from the Jungle It was only the relatively isolated temples that managed to survive the various Islamic dynasties that ruled the area from the 13 th to the 18 th century. The Erotic Sculptures of the Khajuraho Temples. Campaigners say traditional views on the role of women, the rise of social media, as well as class and religious conflict could all be contributing to the horrific wave of attacks.
Charukesi Ramadurai There are various theories about the existence of such graphic erotic motifs. Built by the Chandela dynasty between and , only 22 of the 85 original temples remain. The Erotic Sculptures of the Khajuraho Temples. When I entered the 6sqkm site late one winter afternoon, the sandstone glowed a burnished gold. No eyebrows were raised, no embarrassed looks were exchanged, no giggles escaped young lips. The temples depict the many different manifestations of Shakti and Shiva, the female and male divine principles. Forensic reports found that she had been drugged with anti-anxiety medication, repeatedly raped, burned, bludgeoned with a rock and strangled. Charukesi Ramadurai India's most graphic example of erotic temple art However, the best-preserved and most graphic example of erotic temple art can be found in the small town of Khajuraho in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. View image of Of the original 85 temples, just more than 20 remain Credit: South West News Service 9 Sanji Ram, a retired public servant and a custodian of the temple, arrives for a court appearanceCredit: Yet what really sets Khajuraho apart from other temples is the numerous erotic carvings, both inside and outside the temple, that depict men, women, and even animals engaging in lovemaking, orgies, and bestiality under the benign smiles of divinities. Sexual norms were far more liberal before the 13th Century. View image of A visitor stops to admire the carvings Credit: It came to an abrupt end at the start of the 13 th century when the Sultanate of Delhi invaded the Chandela Kingdom and seized the capital city Mahoba located about 35 miles 56 kilometers from Khajuraho. There were images of gods and goddesses, warriors and musicians, animals and birds. Temples Emerge from the Jungle It was only the relatively isolated temples that managed to survive the various Islamic dynasties that ruled the area from the 13 th to the 18 th century. Up until the invasion, the Khajuraho temples were actively worshipped. Campaigners say traditional views on the role of women, the rise of social media, as well as class and religious conflict could all be contributing to the horrific wave of attacks. India Travel Tips,
Charukesi Ramadurai There are various theories about the existence of such graphic erotic motifs. Sexual pleasure was considered an art form, the Kama Sutra, to be practiced and perfected by both genders. It came to an abrupt end at the start of the 13 th century when the Sultanate of Delhi invaded the Chandela Kingdom and seized the capital city Mahoba located about 35 miles 56 kilometers from Khajuraho. Jammu and Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority state, but the southern Jammu region - where the rape and murder took place - is Hindu-dominated. View image of A woman offers prayers at the temple Credit: When I entered the 6sqkm site late one winter afternoon, the sandstone glowed a burnished gold. One of the more exotic ones propounds that since Chandela kings were followers of Tantric principles, which dictate the balance between the male and female forces, they promoted their faith in the temples they created. Asifa belonged to a nomadic Muslim tribe and reports indicated that Ram saw her as a soft target to frighten the group into leaving. In addition, some believe that the depiction of sexual activities in temples was considered a good omen because it represented new beginnings and new life. Two of the men were police officers. Her body was found dumped in a forest and the case in Indian-controlled Kashmir sparked outrage across the country. Yet what really sets Khajuraho apart from other temples is the numerous erotic carvings, both inside and outside the temple, that depict men, women, and even animals engaging in lovemaking, orgies, and bestiality under the benign smiles of divinities. British explore T. Up until the invasion, the Khajuraho temples were actively worshipped. In contrast with many other cultures, particularly the Islamic one that took over the region shortly after the Khajuraho temples were built, the Hindu and Jain cultures did not frown upon women for enjoying sex. Many of these carvings were of an intensely erotic nature, featuring men, women and animals. They were dedicated to two Indian religions, Hinduism and Jainism, suggesting a culture of acceptance and respect for differing religious traditions. Although I knew what to expect, I was still taken aback by shapely maidens and virile men contorting their bodies in impossible sexual positions, right next to sculptures of divine beings smiling blissfully at the devout. An eighth person, who was underage, faces a separate trial. Built by the Chandela dynasty between and , only 22 of the 85 original temples remain. But India was not always like this. No eyebrows were raised, no embarrassed looks were exchanged, no giggles escaped young lips. However, upon the arrival of the Muslim Delhi Sultanate, the temples were desecrated or destroyed. More recently, in August , the Indian government imposed a ban , lifted conditionally a few days later, on more than websites deemed pornographic, in an ostensible bid to curb child pornography and sexual violence. The fact that they are set in plain view and not tucked away in an obscure corner seems to suggest that their creators meant for them to be seen by all. The fact that they are set in plain view and not tucked away in an obscure corner seems to suggest that their creators meant for them to be seen by all.
Stone carved erotic bas relief in Hindu temple in Khajuraho, India. Perhaps the art is unobjectionable when crouched within a religious context — but I came away believing that Khajuraho holds within its walls a larger lesson on tolerance for India. Two of the men were police officers. Culture Trip, No eyebrows were raised, no embarrassed looks were exchanged, no giggles escaped young lips. Charukesi Ramadurai There are various theories about the existence of such graphic erotic motifs. View image of Carvings cover every inch of the outer walls Credit: View image of Sculptures of a sexual nature Credit: A seventh man - Vishal Jangotra - was acquitted of all charges. The Erotic Sculptures of the Khajuraho Temples. There were images of gods and goddesses, warriors and musicians, animals and birds. Top image: Local women carried fresh flowers and incense sticks for their prayers, while visitors perambulated the outer corridors, gawking at the profuse and intricate sculptures that covered every inch of the walls. BBC, 7 Oct. Cunningham, Eleanor. Another three men were found to be complicit in the girls' torture by taking bribes and destroying evidence and have been jailed for five years, a district court ruled today. The temples depict the many different manifestations of Shakti and Shiva, the female and male divine principles. Her body was found dumped in a forest and the case in Indian-controlled Kashmir sparked outrage across the country. In a space of about 20 square kilometers 7. Some 54 children across the country are raped every day. Some believe the depiction of sexual activities was considered a good omen.
This was a golden age for Central India. Sexual norms were far more liberal before the 13th Century, giving equal importance to the secular and the spiritual. It was not until that Khajuraho temples were made known to the world. Asifa belonged to a nomadic Muslim tribe and reports indicated that Ram saw her as a soft target to frighten the group into leaving. India Travel Tips, Charukesi Ramadurai There are various theories about the existence of such graphic erotic motifs. Ram was a retired public servant and a custodian of the temple where the girl was attacked. There were depictions of threesomes, orgies and bestiality. Stone carved erotic bas relief in Hindu temple in Khajuraho, India. One of the more exotic ones propounds that since Chandela kings were followers of Tantric principles, which dictate the balance between the male and female forces, they promoted their faith in the temples they created. Indeed, the temples portray women so openly and so freely enjoying sexual pleasures that some scholars believe that the temples are meant as a celebration of the female power: Forensic reports found that she had been drugged with anti-anxiety medication, repeatedly raped, burned, bludgeoned with a rock and strangled. It could have been a scene from any temple in India. Top image: Little is known for certain about the intent of the sexual imagery but it is widely believed that the temples were meant to celebrate all aspects of human life, including sex. Ramadurai, Charukesi. But on closer inspection, many of these carvings were of an intensely erotic nature, featuring men, women and animals. But India was not always like this.
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In a space of about 20 square kilometers 7. No eyebrows were raised, no embarrassed looks were exchanged, no giggles escaped young lips. One policeman allegedly demanded to rape the girl one last time before the murder was carried out, Al Jazeera reported.
It could have been a scene from any temple in India. Little is known for certain about the intent of the sexual imagery but it is widely believed that the temples were meant to celebrate all aspects of human life, including sex.
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But India was not always like this.
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Her body was found dumped in a forest and the case in Indian-controlled Kashmir sparked outrage across the country. Shunya, Aug. Jammu and Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority state, but the southern Jammu region - where the rape and murder took place - is Hindu-dominated.
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Pope Alexander VII
Fabio Chigi, born at Sienna, 13 February, 1599; elected 7 April, 1655; died at Rome, 22 May, 1667. The Chigi of Sienna were among the most illustrious and powerful of Italian families. In the Rome of Renaissance times, an ancestor of Alexander VII was known as the "Magnificent". The future Pope's father, Flavio Chigi, nephew of Pope Paul V, though not as prosperous as his forebears, gave his son a suitable training. The latter owed much also to his mother, a woman of singular power and skill in the formation of youth. The youth of Fabio was marked by continued ill-health, consequent upon an attack of apoplexy in infancy. Unable to attend school, he was taught first by his mother, and later by able tutors, and displayed remarkable precocity and love of reading. In his twenty-seventh year, he obtained the doctorates of philosophy, law, and theology in the University of Sienna, and in December, 1626, he entered upon his ecclesiastical career at Rome. In 1627 he was appointed by Urban VIII Vice-Legate of Ferrara, and he served five years under the Cardinals Sacchetti and Pallotta, whose commendations won for him the important post of Inquisitor of Malta, together with the episcopal consecration. In 1639 he was promoted to the nunciature of Cologne; and in 1644 was made envoy extraordinary of Innocent X to the conference of Münster, in which post he energetically defended papal interests during the negotiations that led, in 1648, to the Peace of Westphalia. (See THIRTY-YEARS WAR.) Innocent X called him to Rome in 1651 to be his secretary of state, and in February, 1652, made him Cardinal. In the conclave of 1655, famous for its duration of eighty days, and for the clash of national and factional interests, Cardinal Chigi was unanimously elected Pope. The choice was considered providential. At a time when churchmen were being forced to realize the deplorable consequences, moral and financial, of nepotism, there was needed a pope who would rule without the aid of relatives. For a year the hopes of Christendom seemed to be realized. Alexander forbade his relatives to come to Rome. His own sanctity of life, severity of morals, and aversion to luxury made more resplendent his virtues and talents. But in the consistory of 24 April, 1656, influenced by those who feared the weakness of a papal court unsustained by ties of family interest, he proposed to bring his brother and nephews to assist him. With their advent came a marked change in the manner of life of the pontiff. The administration was given largely into the hands of his relatives, and nepotic abuses came to weigh as heavily as ever upon the papacy. The endeavours of the Chigi to enrich their family were too indulgently regarded by the Pope; but, ever pious and devout, he was far from having a share in the excesses of his luxury-loving nephews. His burden being in this way lightened, he passed much of his time in literary pursuits and in the society of the learned; but the friends whom he favoured were those who could be best relied on as counsellors.
The pontificate of Alexander VII was shadowed by continual difficulties with the young and ill-advised Louis XIV of France, whose representatives were a constant source of annoyance to the Pope. The French prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, had not forgiven the legate who resolutely opposed him at the conferences of Munster and Osnabrück, or the papal secretary of state who stood in the way of his anti-Roman policy. During the conclave he had been bitterly hostile to Chigi, but was in the end compelled to accept his election as a compromise. However, he prevented Louis XIV from sending the usual embassy of obedience to Alexander VII, and, while he lived, hindered the appointment of a French ambassador to Rome, diplomatic affairs being meantime conducted by cardinal protectors, generally personal enemies of the Pope. In 1662 the equally hostile Duc de Crequi was made ambassador. By his high-handed abuse of the traditional right of asylum granted to ambassadorial precincts in Rome, he precipitated a quarrel between France and the papacy, which resulted in the Pope's temporary loss of Avignon and his forced acceptance of the humiliating treaty of Pisa in 1664. (See LOUIS XIV.) Emboldened by these triumphs, the French Jansenists, who recognized in Alexander an old enemy, became insolently assertive, professing that the propositions condemned in 1653 were not to be found in the "Augustinus" of Cornelius Jansen. (See JANSENIUS.) Alexander VII, who as adviser of Innocent X had vigorously advocated the condemnation, confirmed it in 1665 by the Bull "Ad Sacram" declaring that it applied to the aforesaid work of Jansen and to the very meaning intended by him; he also sent to France his famous "formulary", to be signed by all the clergy as a means of detecting and extirpating Jansenism. His reign is memorable in the annals of moral theology for the condemnation of a number of erroneous propositions. Cardinal Hergenröther praises (Kirchengesch. III,414) his moderation in the heated dogmatic controversies of the period. During his reign occurred the conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden, who, after her abdication, came to reside in Rome, where on Christmas Day, 1655, she was confirmed by the Pope, in whom she found a generous friend and benefactor. He assisted the Venetians in combating the Turks who had gained a foothold in Crete, and obtained in return the restoration of the Jesuits, exiled from Venice since 1606. (See SARPI, VENICE.) The inimical relations between Spain and Portugal occasioned by the latter's establishment of independence (1640) were a source of grave trials for Alexander, as for other popes before and after him. Alexander VII did much to beautify Rome. Houses were levelled to make way for straighter streets and broad piazzas, the Collegio Romano. The decorations of the church of Sta. Maria del Popolo, titular church of more than one of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica, and the great colonnade before that edifice bespeak alike the genius of Bernini and the munificence of his papal patron. He was also a patron of learning, modernized the Roman University, known as Sapienza, and enriched it with a magnificent library. He also made extensive additions to the Vatican Library. His tomb by Bernini is one of the most beautiful monuments in St. Peter's.
APA citation. Peterson, J.B. (1907). Pope Alexander VII. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01294a.htm
MLA citation. Peterson, John Bertram. "Pope Alexander VII." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01294a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerard Haffner.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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by Chef Scotty
photo: The Hollywood Reporter
“Not you too.”
That caption under a photograph of Chef Anthony Bourdain was the first thing I saw on my Instagram feed Friday morning… and my heart sank.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly, Bourdain’s first book from 2000, directed my budding bulldozing path as a new restaurant owner and chef. The first few pages give a glimpse, for someone who is not in the “business”, on how we as food service professionals exist. It almost grants immunity to the weirdness that is a cook and chef. From our addictions ( and we all have addictions of some sort), forgiveness for failed or nonexistent relationships, the immunity for not being able to function in public outside of a restaurant’s kitchen, along with the kinsman mentality only found and coveted in our respective kitchens.
Chefs all have that story of how or why we fell into the mad-cap world of culinary arts and threw away any notion (even if there was one) that our days would be filled with suits and ties, corporate meetings, and European ski vacations filled with après ski meals and hot encounters in hot tubs with hot nameless-faceless-many. Tony told the story of traveling to France as a kid and trying Vichyssoise for the first time and how that first taste opened his eyes to the wonder that is food and the joy in cooking.
For many American chefs and cooks, especially those of us not in New York or Los Angelas, those words and that introduction to Bourdain and his tales of thriving and failing in the “culinary underbelly”, rang true. Even if we were in Oklahoma City or Tulsa, Wichita and Dallas. We did not have to work in the one-word-non descript -75 seat- boutique-cafes. Those experiences of Bourdain’s, for the tried and true cook, were the same experiences we were having in chain restaurants and hotel banqueting centers. We knew and understood the passion that is cooking and sometimes Gypsy way of life Bourdain reveled (and the ultimate disdain) in his years cooking in New York. We understood the personal failures. We saw either in ourselves or in others the rabbit hole of substance abuse and ultimately the struggle to crawl out and get back to what we love… the kitchen.
Bourdain’s continued success as an author and TV personality expanded his role outside of the kitchen and introduced him to even more people… those people who have a love for cooking and dining. The role of “Chef” has never been subjugated to being the lead person in a kitchen, in a restaurant, creating menus, and knocking out fantastic meals. When you are chef you are also an educator. You teach the young and eager minds under your “toque” about the history of food, the geography of a spice, the scientific method of baking. Bourdain did that in his years of filming Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, The Layover, and CNN’s Parts Unknown. He took us to places and locals that many would never see in a lifetime. A kid in Creek County Oklahoma, who loves baking bread, got to experience the wonders of former Soviet Republic of Georgia’s Kachapuri. One of Bourdain’s many episodes exploring Viet Nam, and his undying love for the people and street food vendors, opened our eyes and palates to trying
Bánh Cuốn (steamed rice rolled cakes) or sour crab soup Bún Riêu. These episodes and far off locals also opened our eyes to the rich histories and cultures of people, even when our only impression of them were politically influenced as being intimidating and “evil”, as with his coverage of Iran. That particular episode holds a special place in my heart, and it gave viewers and whole new understanding of the country and the people.
When Chef Paul Bocuse, the “father of modern cuisine”, died earlier this year at the age of 91 the outpouring of love and respect from culinary giants around the world was immeasurable. Bocuse was hands down “Toque d’Or” or Golden Toque. He was the brilliant, respected, romanticized ideal of what most think chefs are. We knew he was aging and we knew he was battling cancer, so his transition was eventually expected and the entire culinary community was prepared. But we were not prepared for Bourdain. He was that American Chef, that rough and outspoken New Yorker, who never sold out and who earned his kitchen stripes through years of hustling and often personal peril. Bourdain’s end was a sucker punch to many of us Friday morning. The social media posts from those chefs in the spotlight to those of us “no-one-knows”, all resounded the same emotional feeling of loss… and respect.
A respected Elder in the American culinary world who I am sure would cringe at the title. A man who probably never wanted the spotlight, as many chefs do not, but whose internal wiring to teach, to lead, to cook, outweighs anything else in life.
Bourdain was ours, and he taught us how to cook, how to live, and how to explore the world. He showed us that food does bring people together despite the politics of any one country. Yes, Bourdain was ours, and I hope we can all focus not on how he left us, but how he lived. In that lies his legacy.
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Progressive Care Inc. Announces Month-End Sales Figures Showing Increase in Year-Over-Year Prescriptions Filled in June 2018
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MIAMI – July 17, 2018 – Progressive Care Inc. (OTCQB: RXMD), a personalized healthcare services and technology company, today announced further growth year-over-year in both revenue and number of prescriptions filled for June 2018.
Progressive Care’s wholly owned subsidiary PharmCo, LLC has seen an 18.75% increase in prescriptions filled over the same month last year, totaling approximately 22,500 prescriptions.
June brought a total revenue of roughly $1.65 million in net revenues, a slight decrease from last year in the same month. This is due to reimbursement compression and insurance coverage contraction. Insurance carriers have significantly compressed reimbursement rates, especially regarding compounded medications. In addition to decreasing reimbursement rates, many medications (pain treatment alternatives in particular) have been removed from formularies leading to medications not being covered in their entirety or covered for severely restricted doses. However, increasing numbers of filled prescriptions serve as a strong indication of growth among Progressive Care’s core services.
“This year has been momentous for Progressive Care. We anticipated many of the current industry trends and devoted efforts to ensure revenue diversification and service innovation to promote company longevity,” said S. Parikh Mars, CEO of Progressive Care. “Our new DischargeRx program, adherence packaging, and 340B suite of services are already generating avenues for revenue generation. As we continue to develop new products and services, we will also keep advocating for patients whose needs are more complex and who are negatively impacted by coverage contraction.”
The release of June sales figures follows the company’s recent launch of DischargeRX, a new program designed to increase and improve engagement between patients and hospitals. The company also made other major announcements during the month of June including the installation of a TCGRx Automated Pouch Packaging System at its Miami-Dade County PharmCo location; and the launch of a campaign designed to educate patients and providers on treatment alternatives to opioids.
The company also released an update on the remaining balance with Chicago Venture Partners that stands at approximately $75,000, representing a conversion to an estimated 1.5 million shares.
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Progressive Care Inc. (OTCQB:RXMD), through its PharmCo, LLC, is a South Florida health services organization and provider of prescription pharmaceuticals, compounded medications, provider of tele-pharmacy services, the sale of anti-retroviral medications, medication therapy management (MTM), the supply of prescription medications to long term care facilities, and health practice risk management.
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Essays & Other Writing
Joanne B. Mulcahy grew up near Philadelphia, then ventured to the Arctic, Europe, Australia, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America. Her travels and study of anthropology and folklore inspired Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (with Peter Chilson). Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island and Remedios: The Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz each chronicles the life of a traditional healer. Mulcahy’s essays appear in varied anthologies and journals, including The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West, Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods, Women Writing Women: A Frontiers Reader, and These United States. (See “Essays and Other Writing”).
Numerous organizations and fellowships have supported her work, including The Alaska Humanities Forum, The British Council, the New Letters Nonfiction prize, Oregon’s Literary Arts Nonfiction fellowship, and Fulbright-García Robles. She’s been a resident at Caldera, Hedgebrook, The Mesa Refuge, The Millay Colony, Playa, and UCross, among other artists’ retreats.
For nearly thirty years, Mulcahy has been based at the NW Writing Institute of Lewis and Clark College, where she also taught anthropology and gender studies. Additionally, she taught classes for The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and in libraries, prisons, and varied community settings. In 2013, she taught at La Universidad Latina de América in Morelia, Mexico (See “Workshops and Events” for notice of upcoming workshops).
photo courtesy of Judy Blankenship
Copyright © 2017 Joanne B. Mulcahy
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The Adventures of Tintin Full Comic Books Collection PDF Download
The Adventures Of Tintin Comics
Stories to Change Your Life. The English-language Adventures of Tintin books were originally published with handwritten lettering created by cartographer Neil Hyslop. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Mystery of the Blue Diamond Mr. If they were, they would respect his wishes that no one but him draw Tintin's adventures.
Public prosecutors investigated, and a criminal case was initiated, although the matter was transferred to a civil court. Casterman Le Lombard Egmont Group. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. The Adventures of Tintin at Sea.
Tintin (Comic Collection) (1930-2007)
The Crab with the Golden Claws Le crabe aux pinces d'or was the first successful attempt to adapt one of the comics into a feature film. This article is about the comics. Nous sommes les petits qui ne se laissent pas avoir par les grands. Re-published in colour and in a fixed page format. The series adhered closely to the albums to such an extent that panels from the original were often transposed directly to the screen.
Tintin has become a symbol of Belgium and so was used in a variety of visual responses to the Brussels bombings. Tintin books, films, and media. She was first introduced in King Ottokar's Sceptre and seems to appear wherever the protagonists travel, along with her maid Irma and pianist Igor Wagner.
As a result, the colourful supporting cast was developed during this period. Jacobs Josette Baujot Fanny Rodwell all uncredited. The Mystery of the Blue Diamond covers much of the second half of Cigars of the Pharaoh as Tintin attempts to rescue a stolen blue diamond. If he's now recognised as a modern artist, that's very important.
As Harry Thompson noted, Tintin's role as a reporter came to an end, to be replaced by his new role as an explorer. Stanford University Press. He already had experience creating comic strips. The movie's reception was positive.
Other comic creators have chosen to create artistic stories that are more like fan fiction than parody. Following are the twenty-four canonical Tintin comic albums, with their English titles.
The Adventures may feature Tintin hard at work in his investigative journalism, but seldom is he seen actually turning in a story. Tintin et les Secrets de Famille. Tintin memorabilia and merchandise has allowed a chain of stores based solely on the character to become viable. Whilst in the city however, Tintin and Haddock discover that a group of villains also want possession of the ship, believing that it would lead them to a hidden treasure.
For the film, see The Adventures of Tintin film. For other uses, lagu the beatles mp3 see The Adventures of Tintin disambiguation.
Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip. She is comically foolish, whimsical, absent-minded, and talkative, and seems unaware that her voice is shrill and appallingly loud. International Campaign for Tibet.
The albums were translated from French into American English with some artwork panels blanked except for the speech balloons. Foundation Charles-de-Gaulle. The Crab with the Golden Claws. Tintin and the Secret of Literature.
The Pocket Essential Tintin. Tintin's image has been used to sell a wide variety of products, from alarm clocks to underpants. We are the small ones, who do not let themselves be had by the great ones. Liverpool University Press.
The Metamorphoses of Tintin, or Tintin for Adults. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The work was subsequently published with the correct translation of the title. To further the realism and continuity, characters would recur throughout the series.
Is he a French hero or a fascist propaganda tool? Bianca Castafiore is an opera singer of whom Haddock is terrified. Het Laatste Nieuws in Dutch.
John Murray Publishers Ltd. These serialisations served to increase Tintin's popularity, introducing him to many thousands of new readers in the United States. The settings within Tintin have also added depth to the strips. While the look of the film is richer, the story is less convincing.
Jacobs Jacques Martin Roger Leloup. This is especially noticeable in the seascapes, which are reminiscent of works by Hokusai and Hiroshige.
The success of the series saw the serialised strips published in Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir The Evening and spun into a successful Tintin magazine. Tintin has also been commemorated by coin several times. Dupont et Dupond and the opera diva Bianca Castafiore. Tintin character and Snowy character.
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Anatomy, Head and Neck, Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve
Elizabeth Swezey
Bruno Bordoni
Susan Jeno
Sarah Fabiano
Many nerves of the lumbar plexus provide sensation to the thigh, including the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN). The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is usually derived from the dorsal branches of the L2 and L3 ventral rami. It appears from under the lateral border of the psoas major and travels towards the notch on the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS), exiting the lesser pelvis by passing under the inguinal ligament. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve branches into anterior and posterior divisions and provides sensation to the anterolateral and lateral thigh, respectively. The pathology associated with the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is meralgia paresthetica, also known as Bernhardt-Roth syndrome, which is characterized by loss of sensation on the anterolateral and lateral thigh and has numerous etiologies, including obesity, diabetes, and tight clothing.[1]
The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve exclusively carries afferent sensory fibers. Most commonly, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is formed from the L2 and L3 nerve roots. It first appears at the lateral border of the psoas major, then moves parallel to the iliac crest and in an oblique fashion across the iliacus muscle toward the anterior superior iliac spine. Here, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve branches into a left and a right nerve. The left branch of the LFCN dives behind the lower descending colon and provides sensation to the parietal peritoneum in the iliac fossa. The right branch passes posterolateral to the cecum behind the fascia iliaca, outside the peritoneum. The left and right branches both run underneath the inguinal ligament, anterior to, through, or posterior to the sartorius muscle and 10 mm medial to ASIS and into the thigh. Once distal to the inguinal ligament, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve branches into anterior and posterior divisions. The anterior branch exits the fascia lata more distally than the posterior branch and provides sensation to the anterolateral thigh as distally as the knee. It also forms part of the peripatellar plexus along with the anterior division of the femoral nerve and the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve. The posterior division provides sensation to the skin of the lateral thigh, covering the area from the greater trochanter (and sometimes the gluteal skin) to half-way down the thigh. Meralgia paresthetica is more commonly seen in the distribution of the anterior division than the posterior division, although both may be affected.[2][3]
The anatomy of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is commonly variable. The nerve has been noted exiting the pelvis in seven different locations in relation to the inguinal ligament and ASIS. It most commonly exits medial to ASIS and under the inguinal ligament but has also been seen exiting the pelvis medial to ASIS and superior to the inguinal ligament. The LFCN may also exit superior to ASIS itself or even lateral to ASIS. Occasionally, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve passes through ASIS, the inguinal ligament, or sartorius; however, it can be found medial to the sartorius 86% of the time. The distance from the nerve to ASIS is also highly variable, creating a zone in which the LFCN might be found, ranging from 10 mm (most common) to 46 mm medially. The bifurcation pattern of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is also highly variable. The nerve may bifurcate in the thigh (most common), in the pelvis, near the exit to the pelvis, or the LFCN may trifurcate or quadrificate.[4]
Most commonly, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve originates directly from L2-L3 nerve roots in the lumbar plexus, but it has also been noted to arise from L1 and L2, or L3 and L4. It may form as a collateral branch of the femoral nerve, or it might be absent altogether, and sensation to the anterolateral thigh is replaced by the ilioinguinal nerve, a branch of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve, or a branch of the genitofemoral nerve.[3][2]
Many surgical procedures can lead to iatrogenic nerve injury, especially for anatomical variants involving early bifurcation, as this can lead to more nerve divisions of which to be mindful. Inguinal hernia repair is one such surgery where the variations in the anatomy of the LFCN can lead to iatrogenic injury. During laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, the incidence of nerve injury is approximately 2%. This nerve is also at risk of injury during aesthetic abdominoplasties, and it is suggested to approach the 4 cm area surround ASIS with careful dissection to avoid iatrogenic injury of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. During bone graft harvesting, the LFCN is also at potential risk, as the size of the bone graft and incision can increase the likelihood of nerve injury and lead to the recommendation to keep incisions at least 3 cm away from ASIS.
Another procedure where the location of the LFCN is of particular interest is bone graft harvesting. Factors such as the size of the graft and size of the incision can greatly influence the risk of injury. The current suggestions are that the grafts should be less than 3 cm in size and that the incisions should be at least 3 cm or more away from the palpable point of the ASIS. The anterior approach in hip arthroplasty is superior to the posterior approach, as it lowers the risk of dislocation and provides less risk to the hip adductors; however, the risk to the LFCN is greater, with 81% of patients undergoing an anterior hip arthroplasty report new onset neurapraxia in the distribution of the LFCN. The current standard of practice to avoid LFCN damage suggests that incisions are made parallel to the LCFN.[1] One method to avoid lateral femoral cutaneous nerve damage is to use ultrasound guidance as a tool to visualize the nerve and ensure its safety during these surgical procedures.[5]
The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is subject to injury from many sources, and this injury leads to meralgia paresthetica, the loss of sensation in the distribution of the LFCN, often accompanied by swelling and neuroma formation. In patients with diabetes mellitus, the incidence of meralgia paresthetica has been reported as 247 out of 100,000 people, which is five times the incidence of the general population.[6]
Injury is usually the result of external compression or trauma near ASIS, the nerve’s most vulnerable point. The most common culprit of impingement is underneath the inguinal ligament, which can develop both spontaneously or after injury.[7] Some common mechanisms of external compression include wearing a seatbelt or wearing pants that are too tight. Carrying a cell phone, wallet, or gun on the hip has also been implicated.(8) Obesity and pregnancy can also cause external compression due to pannus formation.[6] In dancers, the Sartorius is often the culprit of compression during positions requiring the leg to be turned out. Scar formation may also result in nerve compression.[7]
Anatomy, Head and Neck, Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve - Questions
Where is the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve most often injured?
Lateral aspect of thigh
Over the anterior iliac spine
Inguinal ligament
Over the psoas muscle
When the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is damaged, the patient will complain of which of the following symptoms?
Radicular pain at the back of the thigh
Numbness over the lateral aspect of the thigh
Pain at the knee joint
During surgery on the groin, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is accidentally transected. What could the patient likely experience as a result?
Numbness in medial thigh
Inability to walk
Paresthesias and numbness in upper lateral thigh
Pain in scrotum
From which spinal nerve does the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve originate?
Which nerve arises from L2-L3 roots, enters the thigh in a fibrous canal within the fascia lata and changes its position from horizontal to vertical, and it innervates the skin of the lateral part of the thigh?
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Lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh
Posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh
Genitofemoral
Anatomy, Head and Neck, Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve - References
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Fusion: The T20 of Indian music
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Lakshminarayana Subramaniam left this country as a dispossessed child, too small to fully comprehend the disaster that befell his family in 1958 as racist mobs torched their home and chased them away.
But the frightened little boy was already a violin prodigy. Music has wonderful healing powers, and whatever scars he suffered from that terrifying experience were overcome under the guidance of his musician parents V. Lakshminarayana Iyer and Seethalakshmi. He was already giving public performances at age six. Today, at seventy, he is India’s best known violinist, a composer whose work has been performed in the United States and Russia. He has collaborated with musicians the calibre of violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grapelli and singer Stevie Wonder. He has been called ‘the Paganini of Indian classical music.’
Sri Lankans had the rare chance of watching a live performance by this diminutive musical dynamo last week at the BMICH, as the Indian High Commission invited him, his wife singer Kavitha Krishnamurti Subramaniam and daughter Bindu Subramaniam, who is a singer and composer in her own right.
They were accompanied by an ensemble of eight musicians – Tannoy Bose (tabla), Sanjay Marathe (keyboards), Alwyn Fernandes (electric guitar, lead and rhythm), S. Satya Sai (percussion), Frijo Francis (jazz pianist and keyboardist), Keith Peters (bass guitar), Prasad Kulkarni (multi percussionist), and a solitary Sri Lankan — Sarangan Sri Renganathan (sitar).
The world’s top musicians devise their own techniques no matter what instrument they play. French jazz violinist Stephane Grapelli devised his own unconventional playing methods and his partner, gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt amazed the world with his virtuoso guitar playing though the fingers of his left hand were badly mangled by an accidental fire at home.
The damage caused to Subramaniam by fire was principally psychological. But his virtuosity too, may be in direct co-relation to that. When he plays, you can see something burning in him. But fire is an all-consuming entity which cannot be calculated, spreading out of control very quickly. This inner fire is a creatively calculated one. It’s the energizer of Subramaniam’s technique, through which one musical tradition morphs into another, eastern into western, and this classical mix into something with folk origins, the tone colour sometimes fiery like the bluest of flames, with the awesome hues of a furnace blast, and then ebbing to tiny slivers of microtones. And it goes on and on.
"Today, many Indians would be surprised to hear that"
Could the flames of childhood fan the fires of maturity? Each creative artist is a mystery, but in this case, one can draw a connection between the two. Dr. Subramaniam’s creative universe has a uniquely Indian feel to it, as if he was a deity of music with his singing muse by his side. Into this familial pantheon, even his tiny granddaughter is drawn, as she entertained the audience with a flawless version of a Sinhala baila song, accompanied by her grandmother.
Kaveetha Subramaniam is a Bollywood playback singer in the high tradition of Latha and Usha Mangeskar, Asha Bhosle and Suman Kalyanapur. Both husband and wife are products of rigorous classical training. But Kaveetha Subramaniam reached her present pinnacle as a playback singer under the tutelage of the great film music composer duo Lakshmikanth Pyarelal, and her gratitude to them was evident in the homage she paid to them that evening on stage.
In India, just as all other rivers seem to be dwarfed by the Ganges and the Jumna, all music is dominated overwhelmingly by two massive streams – the classical tradition and its flooded deltas of film music. Till the 1960s, the latter was scorned by the authorities, so much so that film music was banned on All India Radio (forcing Indian film makers to air their songs via Radio Ceylon). When Ravi Shankar was in charge of the AIR orchestra, he initially followed the steps of his elder brother Uday Shankar and frowned upon the use of western musical instruments, though later his name became indelibly associated with fusion experiments with the Beatles and Philip Glass.
"Sri Lankans had the rare chance of watching a live performance by this diminutive musical dynamo last week at the BMICH, as the Indian High Commission invited him, his wife singer Kavitha Krishnamurti Subramaniam and daughter Bindu Subramaniam, who is a singer and composer in her own right"
Today, many Indians would be surprised to hear that. The tide is overwhelmingly in favour of popular music – be it film music or fusion. Just as innovative, far sighted film composers such as Naushad, Lakshmikanth Pyarelal, Shankar Jaikishan, S.D. Burman and his son Rahul Dev took film music away from its Bengali roots to a ‘bastardised’ Western-eastern mixture, catering to a huge fan base hypnotized by the new sound, western musicians such as George Harrison, John McLaughlin, composer Philip Glass and violinist Yehudi Menuhin began experimenting with their Indian counterparts such as Ravi Shankar. The resulting ‘fusion’ displeased many purists and was seen as a fad. But numbers count, and officialdom could no longer afford to ignore the new-fangled sound.
Today, its dominance of India’s music seems to be far out of proportion to the number of its proponents in India. Last year, percussionist and composer Bikram Ghosh was invited here by the Indian High Commission. Like Subramaniam, he too, played fusion. Officialdom has been bowled over by the new sound. It is ‘dynamic’ compared to classical music, and politicians are quickly to see the potential of whatever moves the masses. Fusion has become the T20 of Indian music.
I am all for experimentation, but in this part of the world we are in danger of losing art forms, rhythms and literatures thousands of years old in the scramble for the new. In the West, despite all dire predictions that classical music is dying, there is a loyal fan base supporting a new generation of musicians interpreting Romantic, Baroque and other period music in ever more subtle ways. Over here, there was a time when one could find people who knew that the theme music of the radio drama Muwan Pelessa is derived from an Indian raga. But no one knows that any more.
"This music is incomparably rich in melody"
Despite this scramble to market new forms of music which match the frenetic rhythms of the economic powerhouse that modern India has become, the old India still exists underneath. India isn’t just the film industry, and all Indian music isn’t just film music. The ragas of both the north and south have been created out of the rhythms and pulse of ancient Indians and the soil they lived on. This is the music which powered the ancient India of Ajanta, Ellora and Mahaballipuram, created visually for us in films such as Herman Wouk’s Siddhartha or Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha.
This music is incomparably rich in melody. India’s modern film composers dip into this inexhaustible treasury when they create their hits. Harmony is what they borrow from the West, as India’s musical tradition is weak in harmony. Fusion is both melody and harmony.
Congratulations to Subramaniam and other modern composers for bringing more vitality into that ancient musical idiom. But, after going home after the concert, I listened to a CD of Karnatic violin music by him, Kala Ramnath and Dr. N. Rajam (the latter two are female musicians) where the wailing violins sound uncannily like the human voice. It sounds like a concise emotional history of India’s past ages in notational form. Listening to this, and with that fusion reverberating inside my head, I am truly caught between two worlds.
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Kathak Evening by Rangara Kathak Dance Academy
Mob-style leopard killing in Kilinochchi PTSD AND WOUNDS OF THE WAR MAY STILL NOT BE HEALED
SRI LANKAN SCHOOL MUSCAT – Walking for Little Hearts
Sixth Guitar Festival of the SL Guitar Association Savoring music with a difference
Odissi Dance Recital
‘Muzikaaale’
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Bye Bye Westeros
It's been way too long since I’ve written one of these blogs. I have no excuse. Well, that’s not true. I have multiple excuses, but simply none that are any good. I think my sails lost some wind when I couldn't get to the movies to see Captain Marvel or SHAZAM!
While I’ve been gone, the world of geekdom has seen several major developments. I’m not going to address them all, but I want to touch on two of them.
SPOILER WARNINGS FOR AVENGERS/AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D & GAME OF THRONES
I'm not going to address the events of End Game, it's been analyzed by a good portion of blogosphere has already picked it apart. That being said, I feel the need to address a plot hole regarding Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The show was synced with the Avengers’ timeline at the end of last season. This season picked up one year later, which should put it a year after the snap. Yet, the show completely ignores the fact that half the people on Earth are gone. It's just lazy writing. Grrrrrrrrrr……. Enough said about that.
I’d rather spend time giving my impressions of the Game of Thrones’ finale. I know that’s been picked apart too, but I’ve been hashing it over with my friend Kyle, so I thought it'd be fun to post my thoughts here too. Kyle, you can take a nap, I’ve told you all this.
I liked the way the story ended, for the most part. Although, I wanted Sam to kill Daenerys to avenge his father and brother. Jon doing it though was powerful, but having Daenerys inadvertently create her own worst enemy would have been so much more epic.
In a similar vain, I REALLY WANTED Jaime to kill Sersi. It would have been a great moment of redemption for his character. Going from an incestuous sleaze who pushes boys out of windows to a knight who kills his lover for the good of the kingdom would have made a complete hero’s journey. Still dying in each other's arms, while Bran came out on top was poetic justice.
When I watched it, I groaned at Bran becoming king. I thought they did it just for the sake of the big twist. I thought about it though, and given all the people who struggled to protect him, it made sense. Hodor died holding the door to protect the one who would be king. We live for the one, we die for the one. Oh wait, that’s from a different saga.
I think Arya served her purpose. Some people think she should've killed Sersi, but given that she had already killed the Night King and saved humanity from the White Walkers, it seems like a lot to ask. Just saying. There is a rumor she may get her own spin-off showing us what's west of Westeros. We’ll see.
Right now, I’m gearing up for The Dark Phoenix Saga. I know going in that they have to combine The Phoenix Saga with The Dark Phoenix Saga, so that won't bother me. I just hope they do better with The Dark Phoenix Saga than they did with Apocalypse.
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Enjoying War Of The Realms
Enjoying War Of The Realms:
When Odin of Midgard, Thor’s father, is, supposedly, murdered by Malekith’s forces, the Ten Realms are drawn into a war which will determine the fate of all existence.
After reading issue #1, this is my non-spoilery synopsis of Marvel’s latest mega event, War Of The Realms. Like all mega events, since the original Secret Wars, the story consists of a main title, several tie-in titles, and relevant issues of ongoing titles.
Act 1: The World at War - April Books
War of the Realms #1 |
Asgardians of the Galaxy #8 |
Avengers #18 |
Thor #12 |
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #43 |
Venom #13 |
War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery #1 |
War of the Realms: Punisher #1 |
War of the Realms: War Scrolls #1 |
War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men #1 |
Act 2: (Title Unknown) - May Books
War of the Realms Strikeforce: The Dark Elf Realm #1 |
War of the Realms Strikeforce: The War Avengers #1 |
War of the Realms Strikeforce: The Land of Giants #1 |
War of the Realms: Spider-Man and the League of Realms #1 |
War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1 |
Fantastic Four #10 |
Giant Man #1 |
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #43 |
Champions #5 |
Tony Stark: Iron Man #12 |
Act 3: (Title Unknown) - June Books
Captain Marvel #6 |
Deadpool #13 |
Asgardians of the Galaxy #10 |
War Of The Realms: Omega #1
Make no mistake, I DO NOT plan to collect every single tie-in. Not only would it eat up way too much of my bank account, I learned long ago (in 1991 with DC’s Armageddon 2001 and War Of The Gods) that many tie-in issues don't add much to the over all story.
As for me, I’m going to collect the main title, War Of The Realms: Punisher, War Of The Realms: Uncanny X-Men, War Of The Realms: Scrolls (because Captain America is in it), and the tie-in issues of the titles I normally collect. I recommend you do the same; find a few tie-in titles featuring heroes you really like, and don't knock yourself out trying to collect every single skirmish.
To make these blogs easier to post on social media, I'm moving the Spotlight section back to the end of each entry.
Happy!, arguably one of most bizarre shows on TV, has returned to SyFy for a second season. The show, based on the graphic novel of the same name, tells the story of, alcoholic ex-detective, Nick Sax being guided by his daughter's imaginary blue unicorn.
The first season was about rescuing his daughter from a sadistic Santa. This season revolves around a sado-masochistic Easter Bunny and a plot to control the Easter holiday by scamming the Pope. Happy! is a show jam packed with graphic violence, adult language, and sexually suggestive content. While the show is crude, violent, and COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, adults will find a hilarious exciting series.
Happy! airs Wednesday nights at 10pm on SyFy.
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Labels: Comic Books, TV
SHAZAM Is Just The Magic Word!
Based on Neil Gaiman’s book of the same name, American Gods has returned to Starz for a second season.
Starring Ian McShane as “Mr. Wednesday," the show tells the story of the old Gods (Odin, Belquis, Czernobog, Anansi, etc…) trying to find their place in a world which worships Technology, Media, and similar new Gods. If such an array of characters wasn’t eclectic enough, Gaiman throws a zombie, a six foot tall leprechaun, and an excon named Shadow into the mix for good measure.
Stir the pot and the result is an exciting, mind bending tale filled with violence, dark humor, and profoundly thought provoking ideas about why we believe what we believe.
Due to the use of graphic violence and adult language, this is not a show for the little ones. Yet, adults, who tune into Starz on Sunday nights, will find new episodes of an intelligent entertaining series.
The movie Captain Marvel opened on March 8th, and has been breaking box office records. SHAZAM opens in theatres on April 5th. Bizarrely, at least to us old farts, the two movies are about two completely different characters.
When I was growing up, Billy Batson shouted SHAZAM (Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury) in order to transform into the world’s mightiest mortal Captain Marvel. Now SHAZAM is the name of the hero Billy Batson turns into, and Captain Marvel is a female heroin in a different universe. So, WTF happened ?
Fawcett Comics, the original publishers of Captain Marvel/SHAZAM comics, cancelled the title in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Marvel Comics trademarked the name Captain Marvel for their own Kree alien superhero, which meant when DC licensed the Fawcett characters in 1972, they had the Fawcett character named Captain Marvel, but couldn’t call the comic Captain Marvel, so they used his magic word “SHAZAM!” for the title.
The rule applied to non-print media as well. When Billy Batson made his TV debut in 1974, his show was titled The SHAZAM/Isis Hour, which I looked forward to every Saturday morning. Eventually, DC grew tired of making the distinction, and renamed the character SHAZAM when they rebooted their line of comics as “The New 52.”
In my mind, SHAZAM will always be Captain Marvel, mainly out of tradition. Plus, if you think about it, it just makes more sense. If his name and magic word are the same, how can the hero tell someone his name without reverting to Billy Batson?
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Labels: Comic Books, Movies, TV
The Umbrella Academy Graduates To Netflix
In 1975, the Justice League of America hit ABC’s Saturday morning air waves as the Super Friends. The first, kid friendly, season saw Wendy, Marvin, and their Scooby-Doo-esc pet Wonder Dog serving as the Super Friends’ interns. The second season saw the interns suddenly replace with the shape shifting Wonder Twins; Zan, Jayna, and their pet space-monkey Gleek.
Unless you were fortunate enough to have read Super Friends #7, you had no idea the original interns had gone to Ivy University (Ray Palmer’s fictional university) and Paradise Island to further their educations, and the Wonder Twins had been sent from their planet, Exxor, to learn how to be super heroes. You only knew that when they touched hands, to activate their powers, he could turn into any water construct and she could turn into any animal.
Since the end of the Saturday morning series, in 1984, the twins have made occasional appearances in Extreme Justice, Teen Titans, Young Justice, and Smallville Season 11. Now, written by Mark Russell, with art by Stephen Byrne, DC has finally given the siblings their own title.
The new incarnation depicts the twins as exiles, rather than exchange students. Yet, like their TV predecessors, they're again being shepherded by Superman, and interning in the Hall of Justice, as they try to adapt to their new planet.
Wonder Twins is a light hearted comic book geared toward kids and teens, with plenty of super hero cameos and high school hijinks. Think Archie meets the Justice League.
The Umbrella Academy Graduates To Netflix:
On October 1, 1989, 43 women around the world give birth simultaneously, despite none of them showing any sign of pregnancy until labor began. Seven of the children are adopted by eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves. This is the first bit of information the audience is given as the Netflix series, based on the Dark Horse comic book series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, begins.
What follows is a majestically off beat super hero drama. Seeing a loosely knit team of super powered individuals who don't all get along invites comparisons to the X-Men. Yet, the grand mansion and non-human staff reminded me of SyFy’s Sanctuary.
Without revealing spoilers, it’s safe to say we meet our characters just as their lives change and they're thrust into a mystery. As soon as we start to get into the mystery, another, more ominous threat rears its head.
I’m only three episodes into the series, and so far I'm having a lot of fun with it. Not only is their plenty of high powered action, but the characters are written with layers of complexity, making them come across as believable despite their powers.
Although this is a superhero show, I’d recommend watching it when the little ones are in the other room. Violence and use of adult language makes this a show for adults and mature teens.
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As a result of Flashpoint, during which Barry came to know Bruce’s father, the two heroes formed a bond. Batman and The Flash reunited in 2017’s The Button (Batman 21 & 22 and The Flash 21 & 22), which laid the foundation for the maxi-series Doomsday Clock.
The two detectives are together again in The Price (Batman 64 & 65 and The Flash 64 & 65). Without spoiling any significant plot points, Batman 64 opens in the middle of an exciting Justice League battle with a classic foe. From there our heroes are immediately thrust into a mystery, the result of which may have as great an impact on the DC Universe as Flashpoint and The Button. We’ll see.
Reading Comics In The 21st Century:
When I was a kid, I’d pick up the odd comic book at 7-11 to kill time. I didn't start regularly reading and collecting comic books until I was 19, in 1989. Through the decades I’ve amassed a sizeable collection.
I have jam packed boxes of comic books in my bedroom, the garage, and in a rented storage space in town. That’s right, I’m paying to store comics which I’ll probably never read again. It’d be one thing if I had loads of rare collector items worth loads of cash, but that’s not the case.
Back when the medium was in its infancy, most kids bought, read, and traded comics as though they were toys (which is how they were intended to be used and enjoyed). If the occasional copy was found in mint condition, decades later, it was worth something.
Then news of a Captain America Comics #1 selling for $343,000, or an Action Comics #1 selling for $3,200,000 circulated through Nerdtopia and became folklore. Pretty soon everyone with a copy of Batman in their attic thought they had a golden ticket to Easy Street.
Comic book companies caught wind of this mania and began labeling certain issues as “Collector Items.” Savvy collectors began buying up, and carefully storing, these gems as investments. Of course since the things were mass produced, they'll never be rare enough to be valuable. Thus, I’m storing thousands of books for no reason.
I still enjoy reading new stories, but have nowhere to put them. While I will miss the gang at my local comic book shop, I’ve decided to read my stories on ComiXology.com from now on. They get all issues every Wednesday, just like the brick and mortar shops.
I'm not sure what the future of comic books is. The romantic in me hopes the physical shops don't go away completely. However, for me, until I have a mansion with unlimited storage space, digital comics are the way to go. -
The Best Star Trek May Be Non-Canonical
Planetary Union Captain Ed Mercer commands the Starship Orville as he, and his eclectic crew, explores the galaxy.
Show creator, and star, Seth MacFarlane brilliantly straddles the line between literary allusion and plagiarism with this hit Fox series. While the alien races, ship designs, and technical babble are different from those of Gene Roddenberry’s well established universe, The Orville throws an obvious nod toward Star Trek: The Next Generation. The color coded uniforms, pristine well-lit ship, and bridge layout all remind one of televised tales of Picard’s heroic crew.
Sure, this show focuses much more on comedy than its predecessor, but between the jokes one will find well written science fiction stories filled with excitement, intelligence, and heart.
Technically it’s not Star Trek, but Thursday nights, at 9pm, it’s a fun way for fans to get their Trekkie fix.
The Best Star Trek May Be Non-Canonical:
I've been watching Star Trek since 1977, and attending conventions since 1985. I'm a Trekkie in every sense of the word.
Subject: This image is a promotional poster for the Star Trek: New Voyages series
Star Trek fans, in general, are known for being... exuberant. Most of us get our "Trek on" by dressing up and attending conventions once or twice a year. However, a hand full of zealous fans, apparently, weren't satisfied with this level if fantasy, so they've taken it to the next level. They've written and produced their own episodes.
The first of these fan-run production companies, I was aware of, was James Cawley's Star Trek: New Voyages.
With himself in the starring role of Captain James T. Kirk, Cawley & company produced 10 episodes of Star Trek, complete with authentic looking sets and costumes.
If the quality of the production wasn’t impressive enough, somehow they were able to pay Trek stars, including; George Takei, Walter Koenig, Denise Crosby, William Windom, and others; to do guest spots in episodes. Keep in mind, since they don’t hold the copyright to Star Trek, they’re not allowed to make ANY money from these episodes. These are purely products of the love of Star Trek.
Star Trek was always at its best when it used stories to talk about contemporary issues. The writers of this series didn’t forget that simple truth. One story arch, beginning with episode 4, involved Kirk’s gay nephew coming out to his womanizing uncle. Seeing Captain Kirk officiate a same sex wedding was marvelous.
Sadly, after ten episodes production ceased in 2015 and their website came down. However, the web series can still be found on YouTube.
I thought Cawley’s series was the only game in town. Not so, Number One Son. As it turns out, YouTube is peppered with such productions. The makers of the movie, Starfleet Academy, hired William Shatner, George Takei, and Christopher Plummer to star in their story. Walter Koenig stars as Admiral Chekov in Star Trek: Renegades, while the crews of the Farragut and Exeter explore space with entirely original casts of characters.
Of course the quality of the special effects, sets, acting ability, and wardrobe varies from production to production. Yet, motivated by love for the show, they've each captured the spirit of Star Trek in a way CBS’s current offering hasn’t.
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The Punisher Returns
I haven't posted here for a while, partly because of a busy holiday, and partly because it's been hard to care about writing about nerdcentric pop culture when our country is self-destructing. Yet, it could be argued that diversion, via comics & scifi, may be the only thing keeping some of us sane.
I'm still polishing my piece on fan-made Star Trek productions, but I wanted to get this spotlight up ASAP. I think I'm going to post a "Spotlight" each week, whether, or not, I have a main feature ready.
This Friday, 01/18/2019, Netflix will be dropping season 2 of Marvel's Punisher. Being a long time fan of the character, I devoured season 2 of Dare Devil (where Jon Bernthal debuted as The Punisher) and season 1 of Punisher.
While I liked Bernthal's portrayal of the psychotic brooding hero, Frank Castle, season 1 wasn't without its problems. It's not a spoiler to reveal that the story involves Frank befriending a single parent family. Seeing Frank visit a family in the burbs didn't feel like the Punisher to me. Frank works best in either an urban downtown, or jungle combat, setting. If he'd watched out for a poor, but honest, single parent family in Hell's Kitchen it might have been a better fit.
Nevertheless, the writing & urban combat action scenes were good enough to make me look forward to season 2 this week. Plus, like I told my friend, Kyle, Jigsaw looks awesome in the trailer! It looks like they're making him a hands-on criminal thug instead of a mob boss. Can't wait!
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LAHS HISTORICAL SYNOPSIS
Written by Buddy Sullivan
The Lower Altamaha Historical Society was established in 1979 by a group of McIntosh County citizens interested in preserving and promoting the history and culture of the Altamaha River basin of coastal Georgia.
Two of the early motivating forces behind the creation and growth of LAHS were William G. (Bill) Haynes of Ashantilly and Will Dean of Pine Harbor. Others who worked to promote the early efforts of the Society were citizens who, like Haynes and Dean, had been involved in the research and preservation of local history for many years, including Miss Bessie Lewis, Bill and Honey Fanning, Doris Rabb, Mattie Gladstone and Lillian Schaitberger.
LAHS has undertaken a number of worthy projects in its 25 years of existence. Among the most prominent are the cataloging and documentation of all the cemetery sites in McIntosh County, some 80 in all. This effort, which began in 1990, culminated in the publication of a comprehensive volume of county cemetery records in 2000, edited by Mrs. Gladstone who had spearheaded the cemetery project from its inception.
One of the primary missions of the Lower Altamaha Historical Society from its inception was, and continues to be, the support of the Fort King George State Historic Site near Darien, scene of the earliest English fortification in Georgia, actually predating the 1733 founding of the colony by 12 years. In this regard, LAHS assumed the lead role in fund-raising efforts to assist the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in the construction of an exact replica of the 1721 blockhouse from the original specifications. This project was successfully completed in 1989, followed by subsequent LAHS support in the development of other reconstructed facilities at the Fort.
LAHS played an integral role in the 250th anniversary observance of the founding of Darien in 1986 and has for several years, coordinated the observance of Georgia Founders Day activities locally in February of each year.
Out of the rolls of the Lower Altamaha Historical Society over the years has come a long line of historians and promoters of the McIntosh County cultural legacy. Among these are the late Bill Haynes, author, preservationist, historian and proprietor of the nationally-famous Ashantilly Press; Bessie Mary Lewis, long-time county historian, educator, journalist and researcher of many of the records and papers that led to the eventual establishment of the Fort King George Historic Site; and Buddy Sullivan, current county historian, and author of over a dozen books on local, coastal and Georgia history, including the definitive local history Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater, now in its sixth printing.
LAHS, utilizing grant funds provided by the City of Darien, has expedited the preparation and installation of several state historic markers in the community, with support provided by the Georgia Historical Society, of which LAHS has been an affiliate chapter since 1996. These markers commemorate such aspects of local history as the 1895 railroad depot at Columbus Square, the Darien waterfront, the burning of Darien by Union forces in 1863 and Sapelo Island.
Another successful outreach of LAHS is its publication program, begun in 1998 with the Society’s publishing of an account of the 1898 hurricane and tidal wave which struck McIntosh County. Other publications sponsored by the Society are a history of the Darien waterfront, the book of county cemetery records and a reprint of They Called Their Town Darien, first issued in 1975 by the late Bessie Lewis.
Following is a list of past presidents of the Society:
Past Presidents of LAHS—Bill Haynes (1980-1984); Will Dean (1984-1986); Rundle Cook (1986-1988); Marion Ricker (1988-1990); Carolyn Hodges (1990-1992); Mattie Gladstone (1992-1994); Lloyd Flanders (1994-1996); Buddy Sullivan (1996-2000); Ed Meyer (2000-2003); Dinah Jackson (2003-2004); Peyton Lingle (2004-06), Harriet Roberson (2006-10), Lloyd Flanders (2010-11), Jack Godfrey (2011-14), Buddy Sullivan (2014-16).
Bill Haynes, Will Dean, Bessie Lewis, Mattie Gladstone, Annie Gill, Marion Ricker, Lillian Schaitberger, Honey Fanning, Bill Fanning and Doris Rabb.
> Documentation of all the cemetery sites in McIntosh County, some 80 in all. Cemeteries of McIntosh County, Georgia is available on our Book page.
> LAHS assumed the lead role in fund-raising efforts to assist the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in the construction of an exact replica of the 1721 blockhouse from the original specifications.
> Integral role in the 250th anniversary observance of the founding of Darien in 1986 and has for several years, coordinated the observance of Georgia Founders Day activities locally in February of each year.
> Utilizing grant funds provided by the City of Darien, has expedited the preparation and installation of several state historic markers in the community, with support provided by the Georgia Historical Society
> Publication program (See our Book offerings)
The Buddy Sullivan Scholarship Award, $1000, is given yearly to a McIntosh County student by Lower Altamaha Historical Society.
Book sales is an important financial income for LAHS and a convenience for members. A detailed historical account of McIntosh County can be found in the book offering.
Houses (have done 4)
The Lower Altamaha Historical Society has been the interior paint crew for the first three Habitat for Humanity houses to be built in McIntosh County.
LAHS painting crew for Habitat for Humanity home
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USA Junior Hockey: Kings excited about playoff spot
Courtesy of USA Junior Hockey Magazine
With less than 10 games left in the NA3EHL regular season, the Skylands Kings were looking to improve on an already impressive first season.
The Kings have locked down the last playoff spot in the Eastern Division and were making their preparations for the playoffs, which begin in mid-March.
Depending on how the final standings shake out after the first full weekend of March, the Kings will make the trip up Interstate 95 to take on either the Cape Cod Islanders or the New England Stars in their first round series.
As of late February, the Kings were above .500 on the road and have beaten both the Stars and the Islanders once this year.
“We are staying focused on the task at hand. [With few regular season games remaining], each one is more important than the last,” said head coach Alex Shindelman. “We will worry about our first round opponent when we finish off the regular season. Until then, we have a lot of work to do.”
The Kings’ veterans have played a big factor in the success of the team, and they will be relied on heavily in order for the team to have success in the playoffs. Cory Decosta?, a ’95 forward, led the offense as he has all season with 68 points after 36 games.
Two other ’95’s – Alec Sanchez and Tim Vant – came into this season with prior junior experience. They showed that, with Sanchez posting 27 points in 21 NA3EHL games, and Vant adding 25 points in 37 games with the Kings.
Yet another ’95, defenseman Matt Sinatra “has been a steady addition on the back end and has displayed some much needed leadership for the Kings young defensive corps,” said Shindelman. He and 19-year-old Cole Skelly have led the defensive corps and have played big minutes in all situations.
The Kings have a lot to prove as their season winds down. The upcoming playoff experience will benefit the new franchise over the long term.
“We have a lot of younger guys that are able to come back and play again next year. The playoffs will give them their first taste of what it takes to be successful in junior hockey,” said Shindelman. “Each game is a learning experience that they can take with them into next season.”
Out of their final three weekend series, Wilkes-Barre was their only remaining opponent that will not participate in the playoffs. The Kings have their work cut out for them, but if this year has been any indication, you cannot count them out.
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"ORIENT. The New East in Central Eastern European Art" installation view at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, 2018
Photo: Studio FILMLOVE
“ORIENT. The New East in Central Eastern European Art” at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow
The “Orient” in the title refers not only to the occident of Europe but also to the views of Edward Said, who claimed that a region which becomes the subject of reflection is a mere projection, an arrangement which has never existed in the shape we imagine.
In an ironic way, the exhibition deflates the heavy-handed, oversimplified and homogenous depiction of Central and Eastern Europe. It encourages the audience to abandon obvious distinctions and simplistic thinking and to reassess the Central Eastern European experience. It presents the works of contemporary artists who have ties to the region that up until recently was largely marginalized in the Western-centred history of art.
This exhibition is a performance, which scenography is comprised of the works that touch upon the themes permeating our mentality and culture. It presents scenes from a subjective history of Central and Eastern Europe from the late 1980s onwards. The exhibition rooms—Waiting Room, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go, Carpathian Digital Meadows, The Devil in the Machine, Shadows of the Past Futures—lead us across the common experiences, which have shaped the social and cultural identity of our generations. The Orient touches upon motifs, which have always concerned the region’s inhabitants but which are only now becoming more appealing—and for a Western audience as well.
These motifs have come a long way, journeying from the experience of communism and through the beginnings of capitalism and the fascination with Western culture. Through contestation, they have finally reached the point where the 1990s, hailed as “poor but sexy,” are making a comeback, and the iconosphere of the “missing decade,” built around the political transformation, is becoming a source of inspiration and a sign of our times.
The exhibition curated by Michal Novotný has been designed as an itinerant one. It was presented at two European cultural institutions: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (Latvia) and the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Belgium). The final exhibition show at the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery has been co-curated by Anna Bargiel.
The exhibition is part of the Trauma & Revival. The Post-War Era in the Art of Eastern and Western Europe international project supported by the European Commission’s Creative Europe framework programme.
The Orient is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from Fund for the Promotion of Culture.
at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow
until 9 December 2018
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Navies -- United States
The concept Navies -- United States represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in University of San Diego Libraries.
The Resource Navies -- United States
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A plan for a naval peace establishment of the United States
A plan proposed for equalizing the pay of the officers of the Army and Navy according to their relative rank
Absentee voting in time of war by members of the land and naval forces serving in the United States
Abuses -- naval service
Accompanying documents
Accounts of officers of the Army and Navy
Additional appropriations for naval service
Additional appropriations for the Navy for the Year 1805
Additional appropriations for the naval service for the year 1807
Additional naval force, and the establishment of a public foundry
Air Force Grade Extension, And Extensions of Certain Other Current Military Personnel Practices
Alterations in the Naval Rules and Regulations
Amend Title 10, United States Code, by repealing section 7475, which restricts the increasing of forces at naval activities prior to national elections : report (to accompany H.R. 4068)
Amend act permitting service in the National Naval Volunteers to be counted for purposes of promotion
Amend section 12 of the act approved May 18, 1920 (41 Stat. 604; U.S.C., title 34, sec. 896), as amended
Amend title 10, United States Code, by repealing section 7475, which restricts the increasing of forces at naval activities prior to national elections
Amending Chapter 5, Title 37, U.S. Code, to Extend the Authority for Special Pay for Nuclear-Qualified Officers And to Extend the Special Pay Provisions for Veterinarians and Optometrists
Amending Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, relating to Women's Reserve
Amending Public Law No. 783
Amending act making appropriations for naval service, fiscal year 1912
Amending act permitting service in the National Naval Volunteers to be counted for purposes of promotion
Amending act so as to authorize the President to appoint 100 acting assistant surgeons for temporary service
Amending an act entitled "An act to allow credit in connection with certain homestead entries for military or naval service rendered during World War II"
Amending laws relating to length of military and naval tours of duty in the tropics
Amending section 1700 (a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code
Amending the Army-Navy Medical Services Corps Act of 1947 relating to the percent of colonels in the Medical Service Corps, Regular Army
Amending the Nationality Act of 1940
Amending the provision of the act authorizing payment of 6 months' death gratuity to widow, child, or dependent relative of officers, enlisted men, or nurses of the Navy or Marine Corps
Amendment to Budget : Department of Defense, Military, Communication from the President
Amendments Request for FY88 Appropriations, Message from the President
Amendments to Appropriations Request, FY88, Communication from the President
Amendments to the 1977 Appropriations Requested for the Department of Defense, Communication from the President
American merchant marine
American republics
Annual report in relation to the Navy Pension Fund
Annual report in relation to the Navy Pension Fund for 1826
Annual report on the Navy Pension Fund for 1829
Annual report on the Navy Pension Fund, for 1830
Annual statement of pay, etc., of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of June 14, 1848, requiring annual statement of pay and allowances of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Application for an increase of the pay of lieutenants in the Navy
Application of appropriations made for Navy service and Marine Corps
Application of sailingmasters of the Navy for increase of compensation
Application of the Chaplains of the Navy for an increase of pay
Appropriations and expenditures for the naval service. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the appropriations and expenditures for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1864
Appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service
Appropriations for the naval service
Army and Navy officers as military instructors in public schools
Assimilated rank in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy in answer to a resolution of the House of 14th December, 1869, inclosing the record of proceedings of the Board of Officers appointed to take into consideration the subject of assimilated rank in the Navy
Assimilated rank of surgeons in the Army and Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the American Medical Association, transmitting preambles and resolutions in reference to assimilated rank of surgeons in the Army and Navy
Assimilated rank. Letter from the Secretary of the American Medical Association, transmitting the report of a committee of that association, on the subject of assimilated rank
Assistant engineers in the Navy
Authorizing Production from Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, Also Known as Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve
Authorizing Special Pay For Nuclear-Qualified Naval Surface Officers And Enlisted Members Who Agree to Reenlist
Authorizing Strength of the Naval Reserve In Officers in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in the Grade of Rear Admiral
Authorizing Travel Expenses for Certain Crew-Members Whose Ships Are Being Inactivated Away from the Home Port
Authorizing Travel Expenses for Certain Crewmembers Whose Ships are Being Inactivated Away from the Home Port
Authorizing advancement of certain lieutenants on retired list of the Navy
Authorizing certain construction at military and naval installations
Authorizing military and naval construction, and the Alaska communication system
Authorizing military and naval intelligence officers to administer oaths in certain cases
Authorizing the Extension of Naval Vessel Loans
Authorizing the President to Appoint to the Active List of the Navy and Marine Corps Certain Reserves and Temporary Officers
Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to provide an escort for the bodies of deceased officers, enlisted men, and nurses
Authorizing the advancement of certain lieutenants on the retired list of the Navy
Authorizing the permanent appointment in the Regular Army of one officer in the grade of general and to authorize the permanent appointment in the Regular Air Force of one officer in the grade of general
Auxiliary naval force for coast defense
Board of Naval Officers. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the House, reports of the board of officers ordered to examine into the condition of the navy yards
Board of Trade, Philadelphia. Communication from the Board of Trade of Philadelphia, in relation to Maritime defences
Captain Andrew H. Foote. Message from the President of the United States, recommending a vote of thanks to Captain A.H. Foote, of the United States Navy, for his eminent services in organizing the western flotilla and conducting operations in the western waters
Changes in law relating to the Hospital Corps of the Navy
Chaplains in Congress and in the Army and Navy
Charles L. Green, United States Navy. Message from the President of the United States in answer to a resolution of the House of the 9th instant, transmitting the charges, testimony, findings, and sentence in the case of passed Assistant Surgeon Charles L. Green, United States Navy
Claim for pay. prize-money. and pension
Claim for prize money for vessels captured and destroyed by the Argus, and the number captured and destroyed by the vessels of the Navy during the late war
Claim of John S. Stiles to Indemnity for losses sustained by him in the performance of a contract for the supply of navy bread
College details from the active list of the Army
Commander J.H. Upshur. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy transmitting copy of the proceedings of the naval general court-martial in the case of Commander J.H. Upshur, United States Navy
Commissioned officers in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of January 7, 1920, a communication submitting lists of names of commissioned officers in the War Department assigned to duty in other than combat or line organizations and showing their rank, pay, commutation, et cetera
Commissioning of female physicians and surgeons
Communication from the President of the United States transmitting an amendment to the budget for the fiscal year 1929, for the Navy Department so as to authorize the commencement of the construction of two rigid airships instead of one
Comparative statement showing the amount of salaries paid to the line officers in the Navy, under the present organization, and under the provisions of Senate bill no. 656, introduced by Hon. George E. Spencer, of Alabama, in the United States Senate, March 11, 1870
Compensation of certain military and naval officers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the compensation of military and naval officers detailed for duty at the Paris Exposition
Concerning appointments, promotions, duties, and compensation of the Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the Navy
Condition and disposition of the Navy
Condition and disposition of the naval force
Condition of the Navy
Context of Navies -- United States
Condition of the Navy and Marine Corps
Condition of the Navy and its expenses
Condition of the naval force, and an increase of gunboats
Condition of the naval force, and the application of appropriations made for the Naval service and Marine Corps
Condition of the naval hospital fund on the 31st december, 1826
Conference report on the bill (H.R. 20975) making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, and for other purposes
Conferring power of arrest without warrant on military and naval intelligence officers in certain cases
Construction of an airplane carrier for the Navy
Contingent expenses -- Naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of expenditures under the head of contingencies, &c
Contingent expenses -- Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the contingent expenses of the Navy, for the year ending September 30, 1843
Contingent expenses Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements showing the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for the contingent expenses of the Navy, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1829
Contingent expenses of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the expenditures under the head of "contingent expenses" of the Navy, as allowed at the office of the Fourth Auditor, &c
Contracts with Mr. Abecassis. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy relative to contracts with Mr. Abecassis
Correction of status of certain enlisted men
Correspondence on the course pursued by Commodore David Porter, in command of the squadron for the suppression of piracy in the West Indies, and Matters Incidental Thereto
Cost of, and expenditures at, the several navy yards, from 1819 to 1826
Crediting of Certain Service for Purposes of Reserve Retirement
Defence of the seacoast
Defense Officer Personnel Management Act
Deficiencies for war expenses
Department of Defense : Military Budget Amendment, Communication from the President
Department of Defense Supplemental Appropriation Authorization Act, 1978
Destruction of the Frigate Philadelphia
Details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions
Difficulties in obtaining seamen for the Navy--their cause, and measures for their removal
Directing the Secretary of the Navy to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives
Disapproving Construction Projects on the Island of Diego Garcia
Disbursements at Navy Yards; purchase of timber; increase of the Navy; Navy hospitals; dock-yards; register of the Navy and Marine Corps
Disbursing officers of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to designate deputies
Disposition of a sword received, as a present, by Captain Biddle from the Vice-King of Peru; and the transportation of passengers, money, or effects, in the public vessels
Disposition of effects of deceased persons in the naval service
Distribution of prize money to the captors of the Frigate Guerriere
Distribution of swords to the officers of the squadron at the Attacks on Tripoli
Effects of deceased persons in the naval service
Enlistment of seamen for the United States Navy. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the instructions issued to the officers of the several depots for the enlistment of seamen for the United States Navy
Equalization of pay of officers of the line, etc
Estimate of the annual expense of supporting, in actual service, the whole naval force
Estimates -- Naval service. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 500.) Sundry communications from the Secretary of the Navy, in reference to and in explanation of estimates of appropriation for the naval service
Estimates, &c. -- Naval service. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 189.) Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, transmitting estimates and other papers in connexion with the naval service
Examination of sites for the establishment of a dry dock for the Navy
Exercises by U.S. Forces in the Eastern Mediterranean, Communication from the President
Expenditures of the Navy and Navy Yards, for eight years
Expenditures of the naval service in the Philippines. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in response to the resolution of the House relating to the expenditures of the naval service in the Philippines
Explanations of the estimates for the support of the Navy and Marine Corps, for the Year 1815
Expressive of the sense of congress of the callant conduct of Lieutenant Silas Duncan, of the Navy, in the engagement on Lake Champlain in 1814
Extending the time for examination of quarterly accounts covering expenditures by disbursing officers of the United States Navy
Extension of Authority for Special Pay for Nuclear Qualified Naval Officers
Extension of the Privateer Pension Fund
Extra pay to officers and enlisted men of the temporary force of the Navy
Family allowance, indemnity, and insurance for officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy. Correspondence between President Wilson and Hon. W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the bill providing for family allowances, indemnification, reeducation, and insurance in behalf of officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the United States
Further report of the Secretary of the Navy, enclosing the copy of a letter from the Bureau of Yards and Docks, relative to articles furnished, for the year ending June 30, 1854, coming under the cognizance of that Bureau
Grade of line officers of the United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 4th instant, transmitting the report of the Advisory Board in relation to grade of line officers, &c., of the Navy
Great Britain -- naval armament on the Lakes
Gunboats
Gunboats, pay of officers, and commissions to Navy Agents
Hayti. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 26th instant, a communication from the Secretary of the Navy relative to a naval force at Hayti
Historical dictionary of the United States Navy
Hospital Corps of the Navy
Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting propositions relating to the organization of the Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy
In the senate of the United States. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 300.) Letter of the Chief of Bureau of provisions and clothing, to Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, relative to the classification of the clerks to paymasters in the Navy, and graduating their pay
Increase of a gunboats
Increase of the Marine Corps
Increase of the Navy
Increase of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, explanatory of the recommendation contained in his annual report, for the increase of the Navy
Increasing the statutory limit of expenditure for repairs or changes to naval vessels
Indemnification for the illegal seizure of a vessel
Indemnity for the illegal capture and subsequent loss of a ship and cargo by a naval officer
Indemnity for the illegal capture and the subsequent loss of a ship and cargo, by a naval officer
Indemnity for the illegal capture, and subsequent loss of a vessel and cargo, by a naval officer
Indemnity for the illegal seizure of a vessel
Indemnity to an officer of the Navy against certain judicial proceedings
Instructions for the encouragement of vaccination in the Navy
Investigations of the progress of the war effort
Iron-clad ships, ordnance, &c., &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to the Committee on Naval Affairs, in relation to iron-clad ships, ordnance, &c
Letter from Admiral David D. Porter, on the subject of Senate bill no. 848, entitled A bill for the reduction of the number and grades of officers of the Navy, and for other purposes
Letter from Commodore David Porter Relative to Charges of Thomas Randall and John Mountain against the Officers of the West India Squadron
Letter from the Attorney General, in reply to a resolution of the 8th instant, transmitting copies of official opinions given by him relative to the pay of retired and reserved officers of the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to a decoration proposed to be conferred by the King of Italy on Commodore Radford, United States Navy
Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information relative to the proposed national military and naval museum
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in further response to the House of Representatives, a supplemental report of articles suitable for the proposed national military and naval museum
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy transmitting a statement giving the prices paid by vessels of the United States Navy for all kinds of subsistence supplies purchased at foreign ports during the calendar years 1900 to 1909, inclusive
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy transmitting list of names and addresses of men between the ages of 21 and 31 years who have been commissioned or enlisted in the Navy since June 5, 1918, and assigned to clerical positions in the naval establishment
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, and other papers having reference to the estimates of appropriation for the naval service
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the board of officers organized to examine into the cases of such officers as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotions made in conformity with the act of Congress approved July 25, 1866
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a Resolution of the House calling for information in reference to chaplains in the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House calling for the number and names of pursers in the Navy not actively employed, &c
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 13th instant, relative to the retention in service of certain officers of the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 27th ultimo, relative to the number of vessels in the Navy January 1, 1861, number of officers, expense of the Navy, &c
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information relative to the proposed establishment of a military and naval museum in the City of Washington
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to House bill 3400, to regulate and establish the grade of certain officers in the United States Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, transmitting a copy of the report of the Board of Officers appointed under the resolution approved July 1, 1870, to examine the cases of such officers as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotion made in conformity with the act of Congress approved July 25, 1866
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting [pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th of January last,] statements, shewing the situation of the Navy Hospital Fund
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a reply to the inquiry of the House as to the prices paid for certain supplies
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report exhibiting the pay and allowance of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report from the fourth Auditor of the Treasury, of the amount paid each person on the Navy Register, &c., in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 14th June, 1848
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the expenditures on account of the contingent expenses of the Navy, for the year ending September 30, 1825
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of appropriations for the service of the Navy Department for the year 1824, and the application of the same, &c
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of expenditures on account of the Navy, from the 1st October, 1818, to the 30th September, 1819. and of the unexpended balances of former appropriations, remaining in the Treasury on the 1st of October, 1819
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of expenditures, under the head of contingent expenses, from 1st October, 1821, to 30th September, 1822, as settled at the office of the Fourth Auditor
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the expenditures and application of the moneys drawn from the Treasury on account of the Navy, from the 1st of Oct. 1819, to the 30th Sept. 1820, inclusive, and of the unexpended balances of former appropriations
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the quantity of coal used since the introduction of it into the Navy; names of the agents for the purchase of the coal, and the amount paid them as commissions
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing the appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year 1828 and the expenditure thereof under each specific head
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing the pay and allowances of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps for the year 1856-'57
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting abstract of the contingent expenses of the Navy during the year ending on the 30th September, 1824
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of expenditures on account of the contingent expenses of the Navy; during the fiscal year, ending with the 30th September, 1820
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of the expenditures of the appropriations for the contingent expenses of the Navy from 1st October, 1826, to 30th September, 1827
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of the expenditures on account of the contingent expenses of the Navy during the year ending September 30, 1826
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of the expenditures on account of the contingent expenses of the Navy, during the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth September, 1819
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the Navy Register
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the Official Navy Register
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting draft of a [illegible] bill to regulate the relative rank and precedence of permanent and temporary officers of the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting revised draft of a proposed bill to regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the Naval Service
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers on active duty
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the annual statement of the several sums appropriated for the naval establishment, for the year 1821, and the unexpended balance of each appropriation on the 1st day of January, 1822, &c
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting three hundred copies of the Navy Register, for the use of the House of Representatives
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with the resolution of June 14, 1848, a statement of the pay and allowances of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps for the year ending June 30, 1858
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the United States, of 1st of May, 1820, the rules and regulations for the naval service, prepared and reported under the authority of an act of Congress of February 7, 1815, with a schedule of such alterations and additions as have been deemed necessary
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for increase of the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for publication of regulations for Government of the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation for the Naval Establishment
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting with a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimates for increase of the Navy
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 6, 1873, information regarding allowances made to disbursing officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, information in regard to officers of the Navy residing permanently or temporarily in Washington City; of officers of the Navy on duty in Washington at the date of the meeting of the present Congress; of officers of the Navy who have been ordered to report for special duty in Washington since that date; and of officers and members of the senior class of midshipmen attached to the Naval Academy at Annapolis who have visited Washington under orders or leave of absence since the date aforesaid
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate of the United States, in relation to the construction of iron-clad steamers, &c
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January, a copy of the record of the proceedings of the advisory board appointed under the act of July 16, 1862, entitled "An act to establish and equalize the grade of line officers of the United States Navy."
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th of March last, information in relation to the transfer of seamen from the Army to the Navy, and the number of vessels-of-war now awaiting complements of men
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, relative to the employment of George D. Morgan, of New York, to purchase vessels for the government
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, in regard to defining the number of officers in the Navy and regulating their appointment
Lieutenant M.F. Maury
Lieutenants of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a list of lieutenants of the Navy and an account of the sea service performed by each since his promotion, made in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of 23d February, 1832
Lieutenants of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d instant, in relation to lieutenants in the Navy
Line and staff rank. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 14, 1869, relative to proceedings before a board of Naval officers on the subject of line and staff rank
List of Naval Officers
List of officers in naval service, with their rank, pay, and employment, 1814
Location of the several navy yards and naval stations, with the number and grade of the officers attached to each
Making certain revisions in titles I and II of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended
Marriage of persons in military or naval forces of the United States in foreign countries
Maryland in favor of the Navy and internal improvements
Material, etc., for the service of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, adderessed to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs relative to expenses for material, officers, and men for the naval service
Medals of honor to officers and men of the Navy
Memorial of Lawrence Kearny, a Captain in the United States Navy, praying compensation for certain expenses incurred and services rendered
Memorial of the Union Merchants' Exchange, of Saint Louis, remonstrating against the transfer of the control of the Light-House Board from the Navy to the Army
Message from the President of the United States, communicating the correspondence of Mr. Wise, late minister to Brazil, in relation to the imprisonment of Lieutenant Davis, of the Navy, and three American seamen, by the police authority at Rio de Janiero
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Menschenrechte für Priesterkinder
Human Rights for Children of Priests
Cases / Methods
Comply with the recommendation of the UN regarding children of priests
Both the mothers of now younger children of priests, and children of priests, that are older now, themselves, can contact the law offices of attorneys Klingner, Mücher and Nerlinger in Hamburg, Germany, or of attorneys Baxevanis and Franz in Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
Methods of discrimination
Hush-money agreements
With the hush-money agreements that are often submitted to mothers of children of priests by catholic orders or dioceses, the mothers are being coerced to never name the father of their child. The church does not definitely commit itself to anything concrete in return, but only holds out the prospect of "assistance" to the child's education (the word child support is being avoided).
Apart from the fact that child support (as well as later inheritance) is every child's right and should be not rendered as part of a deal in return for an obligation the mothers assumes, the hush-money agreements are, as they are virtually blackmail, certainly contra bonos mores. Often, they are also formally unethical, as in many cases only the church keeps the "contract", while the mother receives no copy of it.
The method forced marriage
The forced marriage of apparently in particular catholic priests in senior positions, who have become fathers, to other women than the mother of the child, is a at first seemingly bizarre, but within the logic of the church quite conclusive method, to keep the priest's real family separated from him, to deny the child and the mother child support and inheritance, and to also emotionally wound them. The ex-Priests "wife" is apparently always widowed or divorced, has several children of her own that are already older, and is in an age in which she cannot become pregnant again. The "marriages" are arranged in a way, that any money and any possessions belong to the "wife", who also retains anything the ex-priests potentially earns, in order to make it maximally impossible to the child and the mother to receive anything, or to even just get in contact with the father, while the order or diocese officially don't know of anything and can on demand always pretend not to be involved, as the Priests has "left the priesthood". As the child and it's mother, if they overcome their first shock about the strange disappearance of the father, will be to busy making ends meet or just surviving, and as they probably also will doubt their own perception of the father, they will not have the strength to go to the public, enabling the church to reach its primary goal: keeping secret that a senior catholic priest has a child of his own. This construct of a marriage with a woman, who will permanently remind her "husband" that everything belongs to her, however, also very much increases the chance to meet the illegal inner church rule (introduced at the council of Pavia 1022) that children of priests must never receive or inherit anything from their fathers. Sadly, the church's pervert wish to "punish" and "wound" the child and its mother, also seems to be a reason for the "forced marriage". The mother of the child in particular will suffer much more from the sudden appearance of another woman, than she would have if the father has just returned to the church.
The former priest in turn will show his renewed submission by obeying the churches order not to support his own child, accepts the "punishment" for the child's birth, and will never again speak critically about the church.
We have for a long time confronted the order of the Jesuits with the analyses of the forced marriage, which the order never denied, and we also know about two cases in Germany in which the method seems to have been used. However, it is particularly the many parallels between the biographies of Kevin Whibley, son of the former bishop Roddy Wright, and David Weber, son of the former Jesuit provincial Francis Peter Kelly, that can be seen as evidence for the method "forced marriage". A comparison :
Kevin Whibley, son of Roddy Wright, bishop of Argyll and the Isles, Scotland (in office from 1991-1996) and Joanna Whibley. After Kevins's birth, his mother keeps the name of his father secret, following Roddy Wright's wish (He repeatedly tells Joanna Whibley that if she was to make his identity known, he'd be sent to South America by the church and could never meet his son again). Apparently after Wright's superior learns of his fatherhood, Wright "disappears" for a couple of days, together with the separated Kathleen MacPhee, a woman with three elderly children of her own, after having tendered his resignation to his cardinal in the latter's office, which is very rapidly accepted by the Pope then, even while on a trip abroad. After a few days, Wright and MacPhee shortly reappear to give an interview to a newspaper. Allegedly on Wright's "wish", the fee for the interview goes to MacPhees children, not his own son (Apparently following the church's directive that the priest's own child must never receive anything). After that,Wright disappears again (a temporary neighbour tells us that one morning he was just gone, without advance notice), until in 1998 it becomes known that he has married MacPhee on Antigua (Caribbean). In 1999, Wright publishes his autobiography, in which he assures the church of his renewed obedience, stating: The fact that I have broken it does not mean I disagree with the law and the teaching of the church.
Wright dies in New Zealand in 2005, maximally far away from his son.
David Weber (born 1975), son of Francis Peter Kelly, former provincial of the Australian Jesuits (in office 1968-1973) and Wiltrud Weber. Kelly takes a sabbatical year in 1973, and, in France, meets Wiltrud Weber, with whom he lives in a permanent relationship for the following two years. During this period they have long discussions about Kelly's possible resignation from the order, and also particularly Kelly's doubts about the church's teachings. Kelly is also working on the script of a book, of which he thinks that it will "upset" Rome very much. 1975, in the months before and after David Weber's birth in November, Kelly disappears. In 1976, Wiltrud Weber suddenly receives a letter from him, in which he declares that he is now "married" to Carmel Eire (an elderly widow with four children of her own) and that he has "no own money". In one of the few open discussions his son will later be able to have with him, he states not to have known Carmel Eire until a few days before the "wedding". In 1978 he self-publishes a very obedient, submissive book, without any critical word about the catholic church. In 1979, together with his acknowledgement of paternity that he obviously doesn't tell the order about, he sends Wiltrud Weber a small sum of money, after that there is no contact until 1989. Several attempts from 1989 onward, to invite the son to Australia to go to school there, are thwarted in the last minute, Kelly is being given a secret telephone number. During the son's visits to Australia in 1994 and 1995, for which Wiltrud and David Weber go into debt, it isn't possible for the son to speak with his father openly.
Kelly dies in 2004, his son receives no inheritance.
The question: "Still: Why did the father take part in all this ?" (It is frequently being asked, although those who put it often don't really want to be informed, but intent to fend off a realising of the church's criminal practises) can be answered thus:
In the case of all organisations, that not only demand obedience, but absolute obedience from their senior ranks (Mafia etc.), it is indisputable, that any enquiry and prosecution of their criminal deeds must not only focus on the individual but also the entire structures and the superiors within this structure. It is also undisputed, that, apart from a lifelong drill of obedience, and certain oaths that senior clergy take, there really also is something like brainwashing. We are still examining the exact way in which such brainwashing is being applied in this particular case, but it can certainly be said that while the individual former priest and then father can not be excused in any case, the church is the principal offender here, and has a bigger stake in the crime that is being committed.
It is also noteworthy, that those who doubt the church's role are mostly strict catholic, while people who are not, particularly if they are used to methodical thinking, often quickly understand the practices used.
1. The lawyer’s office of attorneys Karen Mücher, Martin Klingner and Mark Nerlinger - Budapester Straße 49, 20359 Hamburg, Germany, Tel.:0049-(0) 40 -4396001, e-mail:
info@kanzlei49.de - is prepared to evaluate and potentially enforce claims and possible titles, of people whose father either was a catholic priest at the time of their birth,or still is a catholic priest, toward the church.
Claims/titles for child support, visitation rights and inheritance, probably also claims for compensation and damages, will be taken into consideration.
The lawyer’s office is specialized in family – and inheritance law, as well as indemnity law, and has experience in dealing with politically charged issues.
The evaluation of claims and possible titles principally requires a personal meeting for which an appointment needs to be arranged, in individual instances consultation by telephone or mail is also possible.
2. The lawyer’s office of attorneys Alexios Baxevanis und Thomas Franz - Leipziger Straße 47, 60487 Frankfurt am Main,Germany,Tel.: 0049-(069)-46096889-0, e-mail:anwalt@bf-recht.de - also offers to assess and where applicable enforce potential claims and titles of children of priests and their mothers. The lawyer’s office has its main focus on family law, inheritance law and in matters of social law.
We also want to particularly encourage the mothers of now small children, whose father is a catholic priest, to contact the two lawyer’s offices.
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Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia – A Marathon of Academic Incompetence
by Hanzi Freinacht|Published 26 October, 2017 |152 comments
REASONED CRITICISM OF JORDAN PETERSON AND CAMILLE PAGLIA
HANZI GOES THROUGH THEIR 1h:40m LONG YOUTUBE TALK ABOUT FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM, BEGINNING TO END
MERCY LEVEL SET TO: 0.00%
So when the Prophet was asked about what the most sacred of struggles is, he responded that a word of truth in the face of an unjust ruler is the highest form of Jihad (Musnad Aḥmad 18449)
Ladies and gentlemen, somebody needs to speak out against the emperor. He is naked. And so is the empress.
And another prophet, the one we call Jacques Lacan, pointed out that the street bum madman who thinks he is emperor isn’t necessarily any more mad than the emperor who thinks he’s emperor. The only difference is that other people share the latter’s belief.
If you’re a follower and worshipper of Jordan Peterson on his anti-postmodern anti-feminism, shared by Camille Paglia, you have been worshipping a false god, an idol. You have been sold a golden bull. But Moses is here to cast it into the fire.
Gifted but Highly Over-rated
In my opinion, nobody is more over-valued than the great internet phenomenon Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor. As a psychologist and university teacher he is pretty good, even great. As a political commentator and interpreter of our time, he is simply not. Camille Paglia, who joins him for this talk, is also talented and interesting, but ultimately a poor and unreliable guide to understanding culture, politics and society of today.
So here’s the talk I want to comment upon, where JP and CP discuss for about 1h 40m. They talk mostly about postmodernism, social justice warriors, political correctness, feminism and university life.
Here is the talk in text if you don’t have the time to watch the video.
I’ll comment and show you they’re wrong about most things they are saying – including almost all of their central arguments. Some good stuff is in there, but most of it is just plain wrong, incoherent, and very poorly argued.
I’m going to use a somewhat mean method to get my message across here: machine-gunning a recorded talk with text. I realize that this isn’t 100% fair, and it can come across as overly antagonistic or even caustic. They get to talk and I get to think and write before I comment.
But since these thinkers have gained great influence, becoming some of the most dominant intellectual voices on the internet, they should be able to take it. If they want, they are free to respond in text with clarifications or counter-arguments, as can others who might want to rush to their defense.
My Main Point
So before we go, here’s my claim in four points:
Both JP and CP misdiagnose the current social justice and postmodern movements, describing the key insights and social dynamics of these incorrectly.
Both fail to take the perspectives from which these social, cultural, and political currents emerge, and thus they also fail to present solutions to very real problems. In effect, they deny very real problems.
Both fall into the exact same traps that they accuse their adversaries of: collective blame, essentialism – and here and there you can even find clear cases of misogyny, exactly corresponding to the bitter, antagonistic feminism they try to critique. There is essentially good feminism (smart, balanced, science-based) and bad feminism (antagonistic, bitter, sloppy, male-bashing), just as there is good anti-feminism (seeing men’s interests, looking at things more psychologically, checking facts) and bad anti-feminism (antagonistic, bitter, sloppy, female-bashing). JP and CP represent bad anti-feminism. They think that if you just remove the evil and inexplicable abomination of postmodern neomarxist politically correct feminism, all will be well.
Both make clearly false and incoherent statements, many times, and in general – which shows that the high claims to intellectual authority of these two figures should not be taken seriously. In some cases, they reveal outrageous incompetence. At the risk of being tedious, I’ve gone through many of their mistakes, 47 to be precise. This is because I have been asked to be specific about my refusal to share in the choir of praise.
One thing I do like about JP is that he urges people – and men in particular – to toughen up and speak their truth, clearly and directly. A sound advice.
A pro-JP friend, who I told about some of the arguments I’m going to present, actually asked me to have some mercy and not criticize without also lifting Peterson’s strong points. And of course, there are strong points. I have positively referenced JP in this earlier post, where I bash some of the sicknesses of political correctness and feminism.
But if JP and CP are flat out wrong about most of what they’re saying, should I refrain from pointing it out, in order to protect the frailty of their message? No. That’s not how this works. Their stuff should be robust enough to survive a critical listening. If it’s not, it’s not.
When someone is on the wrong side of the truth, when someone is deep into falsehood and distortion, as Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia manifestly are, the truth can show no mercy.
Here’s my truth about Peterson.
Alright, are you ready?
Marathon of Academic Incompetence
Let’s start here: poorly concealed misogyny. Listen through the whole talk and count the negative statements about women as a collective, and the negative statements about men. The results are staggering and terrifying – and this can hardly be a coincidence. There are many more negative statements about women.
Now, I’ll go through the talk in sequence. It’s going to be a marathon, so keep up. The reason it’s long is simply that they make so many mistakes. Just saying, I had to skip about half of my objections just to keep the text from swelling.
In the first part, they make mistakes, but it’s more about pomo (postmodernism) and the universities than about gender issues. If you want the juiciest stuff, where they talk more gender and reveal their misogyny, you can scroll down to Part 2 two directly.
Paglia, 4-6 min. She tells us that a “foreign French import” of poststructuralist thinking came into American campuses, and that this had nothing to do with the “authentic” 1960’s revolution, which was closer to the movement known as “New Age”. “Careerists” became the poststructuralist university professors.
If the original movement didn’t last, there may be a reason for it. If it devolved into New Age madness, maybe it wasn’t such a good legacy. And if the ideas first expressed by French intellectuals caught on among the post-war generations, it probably was because these ideas resonated with the social and cultural currents of the 1960s and beyond.
Argument of authority, and false inference: if pomo is not 1960’s revolution, and the latter is good, then the former must be bad.
This is also a “bad-guy theory” about a foreign invader, not a sociological explanation.
Besides, it’s simply incorrect; there are many real connections, in Europe especially, between e.g. Foucault and the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Wiki: “Lectures began at the university in January 1969, and straight away its students and staff, including Foucault, were involved in occupations and clashes with police, resulting in arrests. In February, Foucault gave a speech denouncing police provocation to protesters at the Latin Quarter of the Mutualité”. Eribon 1991, p. 201 and 206.
She says: “It was elitist, not progressive” – These are not opposites. False inference.
So: false authority, false inference, false facts. Low quality stuff.
Paglia: 9:20-10:00. She tells us that because she teaches at art schools, she knows that not all of cognitive reality is linguistically mediated as the postmodernists claim, for instance ceramics isn’t, it’s more bodily and visceral. This is used as an argument against the postmodern position that language is fundamental to human activity and understanding.
If you look at the new research presented in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made, you see that “concept formation” is more primary and neurologically generalized than formerly assumed. In other words, even deep inside our brains, even at level of emotions and sensations, we are linguistic creatures. True story, empirically speaking.
She needs to read up.
(Some due credit: Paglia is right about “the end of oppositional art”. And about bureaucratization of academia. And about fragmentation of teaching, to some extent. These are commonly held positions, which I also share.)
Peterson: 15-16 min. He suggests that pomo is a radical relativism and interpretationalism and the only thing that is real to pomos (postmoderns) is power. He wonders what the connection between pomo and neomarxism really is, given that pomo is relativist and neomarxism has some rather absolute values.
Roughly correct, but a bit of a strawman. Pomo is not really about relativism, but about the fact that all knowledge shows up in a context, and that you may uncover hidden or implicit structures to that knowledge. The structure of the knowledge claim tends to follower cruder rules that have to do more with power relations than what is presented at surface level.
By the way, the connection he is looking for between pomo and neomarxism, and which Paglia fails to provide, is that both are moral-critical projects which speak to a fairness-seeking mind: one looks at cultural injustices and inequalities, the other at economic ones. To the pomos, the point is that we should be suspicious of modernist narratives and if we demask and criticize them, there may be new emancipations – cultural, economic or both.
Paglia goes on to say these people are poorly educated, but obviously these are the folks with degrees in history and anthropology, and these people are often very well read. I dare you to try me on this one: we can find many very well educated academic pomos.
Paglia: 21:00. She claims that one must understand neoclassicism and classical theory in order to write about Western society (which she says Foucault didn’t).
No argument is made for why this is the case. There are always a thousand categories of knowledge that can be claimed as “necessary”.
So this is Bildung snobbism, which would be OK if it weren’t for the fact that this is her own main charge against the pomos.
Also, it would exclude her interlocutor, Jordan Peterson, who isn’t so big on neoclassicism – correct me if I’m wrong.
Peterson: 21:30-22:30. He tells us that psychology is science-based and thus protected from the madness of pomo and neomarxism, which makes no quality distinctions.
It should be noted that sociological, critical, and analytical understanding are not simply reducible to scientific methods. These categories involve critical re-evaluations of everyday life, social ontology, and so forth. They have a spiritual or existential undercurrent.
Hence, he is measuring a distinct social category by the standards of another field. The sociological imagination includes some deeply counter-intuitive understandings that are easy to grasp conceptually, but difficult to follow in practice.
Peterson: 24:30. He tells us he learned from Robert Zapolsky (the Stanford primatologist and behavioral biologist) that zebras are black and white, mainly using camouflage stripes to hide in the herd, not hiding in grass (being visible from miles away). He means that pomos are like these zebras; they hide in the herd from lions like himself.
He fails to point out that lions, the main predator of zebras, are colorblind, which makes the example less relevant. Lions cannot see the difference between the whiteness of the zebras and the pale grass.
Also, he gets the pomo logic exactly wrong: pomo is about trying to claim uniqueness, to stand out, which is one of the main reasons why it’s linked to narcissism. To quote the über proto-pomo of all time, Rousseau: “I may be no better, but at least I am different.”
Paglia: 27:40. She says that you shouldn’t do French Lacan in English, because English doesn’t need it, it being a richer language than French.
Contradicts her former (manifestly incorrect) statement that language doesn’t need to structure the contents of experience.
English doesn’t need to look at its underlying structures and assumptions? Why ever not?
Paglia: 28:00. She says that the US universities should be more like the British departments and that separate departments are “totalitarian”.
Totalitarianism means something else. She’s making some inference here she needs to clarify. Sloppy.
British faculties are also pomo and PC (politically correct), so her proposed solution does not solve her supposed problem.
Peterson: 32:00. He says he doesn’t understand the hatred from which pomo critique stems and why they just want to “demolish” patriarchy, etc.
This isn’t hard to answer. It’s from experienced racism, sexism, social degradation, unfairly stacked games, and other developmental cluster-fucks that wound people, hold people back, and create resentment. In their experience, pomo critique offers a tool for resistance and self-empowerment.
The fact that he doesn’t understand this shows that he fails to see the fundamental source of social movements, described in so many social theorists, notably Jürgen Habermas.
He also fails to understand the positive “punk” current to this culture, how these ideas and perspectives soothe aching hearts and give hope and a sense of strength, meaning, and rebellion to the people who feel society is too harsh and unfair.
As I argue in The Listening Society, people often tend towards simplistic bad-guy models to channel our resentment if we’re not sufficiently cognitively complex, and if we lack access to sufficiently correct explanatory mental models of the injustices. So hurt feelings, plus insufficient cognitive stage, plus flattened or over-simplified theories explain the pomo critique and its pathologies.
Hence, he misreads the social forces in play, which causes him to misdiagnose the pomo critique of society, its genesis, and its pathologies.
The PC leftwing pomos are indirect followers of Rousseau; they believe that if life isn’t good, it’s because there is something that stops people from the natural state of being good: capitalism, patriarchy, etc. which is why they want to tear these structures down.
On a side note, I agree with him that resentment is a bad place to start if you want to change the world for the better, or to know the truth for that matter. But to counter resentment, you must understand what causes it and keeps it going, and offer other options. Simply telling the resenting party to stop being wounded doesn’t help. Evidently.
Peterson: 33:30. He tells us there is no sense of bad motherhood and no sense of good fatherhood in today’s society (referring to generalized, abstracted archetypes), which means that we’re stuck with overprotective institutions.
Google the phrase – in quotation marks – “nanny state”. You get lots of hits. Read the wiki article if you like.
Google a corresponding popular term for bad fatherhood on a political level, one used all the time.
What? Why aren’t you doing it? How come you cannot find a term like that?
Because he’s plain wrong: the current dominant discourse is one against the nanny state (the bad mother in his own theory of archetypes), not against the paternalistic, strict society.
He also claims that this explains why boys do poorly in school, but the line of reasoning is very unclear. A more down-to-earth explanation may be that boys on average have a harder time sitting still and concentrating.
Sloppy reasoning. Incorrect inference.
Paglia: 35:50. She thinks there’s no cure for the culture’s ills, except if men start demanding respect as men.
Unclear what this means in practical terms. Maybe it means something clever, but we’re not let in on it.
She’s being a poor sociologist here: saying that a collective group’s (“men”) ascribed agency (which is fictional) can be transposed to the illness of “culture”, and that they can salvage it. This is collective messianism, nothing more.
This is an exact inversion of the bad kind of feminism. This is bad anti-feminism.
Peterson: 36:15. He and others have shown that pomo PC values correspond with both femininity (high agreeableness), negative emotions, and personality disorders, and goes on to note that women with harmful relations to men may dislike all masculinity because they can’t distinguish between its positive and negative types.
Yes, feminism is often a trojan horse for good old bitterness.
But then again, he fails to point out that the majority of PC is explained by high agreeableness and higher social concern, also being linked to higher stages of personal development and post-conventional moral development.
He wants to pin an “evil essence” to pomo, but fails to see that it’s a broad phenomenon where many different psychological mechanisms are gathered under one banner.
There are other bodies of research which show unflattering traits in other collective categories of people as well. The folks who are authoritarian have higher level of psychopathy and sadism, meat eaters have lower empathy, people of the Christian faith (like Peterson) have lower IQ (even if he happens to have a high IQ). Suddenly, a few negative traits in feminist social justice warriors don’t seem so spectacular in comparison.
And then they start to talk more about women and gender – this will be the main focus of the comments from here on. There’s lots of other preposterous stuff going on, but let’s skip past most of it for the sake of brevity. After all, you get the picture from Part 1.
Peterson: 39:10. He says he feels helpless because he cannot hit women, or implicitly threaten to hit them.
Yes, really, this is what your hero says. Go listen to it again a few times and let it sink in. And then go get yourself a new hero, if you still need one.
But to get at his underlying argument, that physical threats between men temper discourse and makes it flow more naturally, this is a completely incorrect claim. If it were the case, then discourse would be most functional where violence is most present, like in criminal gangs.
Peterson: 39:30. He says it’s the responsibility of the collective category “women” to tell off their “crazy harpy sisters”. These purportedly undermine the masculinity of culture, which “really is fatal”.
Doesn’t make sense to give collective responsibility to broad categories.
How exactly is “the masculinity of culture” undermined? Are there any ways to measure this variable and can he show this is happening?
Fatal? That’s a pretty strong claim, on pretty weak basis. Aren’t we owed a better explanation? After all, the modern hypermasculine cultures, like Nazi Germany or ISIS, seem pretty short-lived.
Peterson sounds like… a fanatic – of the kind he accuses pomos of being.
Paglia: 40:15. She says that the fall of masculinity leads to the decline of Western culture.
Are there other cultures that are doing much better? By what measures exactly? It is clear that this is vague and empty speculation. She mentions ISIS but I don’t think she means it as a positive example in this regard.
Paglia: 43:40. She says women of today are unhappier because of lacking traditional roles.
In statistical terms, this isn’t true. Men and women are both happier today than before, even if the increase is bigger in men.
It goes for a developmental axis as well, more modern countries having happier women.
More gender-equal countries have happier women. Japan and Korea’s keeping of traditional gender roles under modern circumstances have proven extremely detrimental to mental health, gender relations, and family relations.
She may still be right that women are unhappy about this part of their lives, but she owes us better evidence, or at least better reasoning.
We shouldn’t do guilt-by-association, but it should be pointed out that her argument is identical to that of Nazis. That doesn’t make her a Nazi; it just means she reasons like one on this topic, which might make us think twice about where following this line of reasoning might lead us. See here for (almost) identical structure of argument, an essay called “Women and National Socialism“.
Peterson: 46:20. He says that gender differences, according to research, are maximized in the Scandinavian countries, where equality has progressed the farthest.
So basically, he just killed their whole argument that PC gender equality means that masculinity is undermined. The most feminist countries get more masculine guys and more feminine women, who are freed from oppressive norms.
Seriously, he just ignored the fact that his and Paglia’s main argument against feminism is wrong.
Also, he should point out that men and women in Scandinavian countries are also more androgynous in their expressions and demeanors; it’s just the character traits that diverge.
Also, he should point out that the increased gender gaps have to do primarily with statistical measures of which jobs people choose, and that Scandinavian countries are full of initiatives for women engineers and tech startups, which is very good for the economy.
(Due credit: The thing Peterson says about male and female dominance hierarchies and the differences between them is true and important.)
Paglia: 49:00. She says she likes a TV show where women have toxic arguments and guys settle the matter with a good fistfight and then they’re friends.
No, physical violence creates toxic, pathological, and sad relationships between men.
She was probably never in a fistfight, which is likely why she references what she saw on TV. I was in a lot of fistfights when I was a kid and I saw a lot of them and I can tell you that 99% of them happen when bigger guys pick on smaller or younger ones, or when robbers smack people in the head to grab their cell phone and wallet.
And then there’s night-life violence, in which very drunk, very hurt people get in pathetic and sad situations and have to be dragged off by security guards. I’ve studied police interactions in nightclubs, and all I can say is that violence isn’t very pretty and only rarely catharsis-inducing.
If a grown man actually hits another seriously, the risks of severe injuries or even death are very tangible. Her violence romance is deluded. And it is, unfortunately, another clear link to Nazism.
Besides, this is an overtly misogynous and sexist remark. It says she prefers guys to girls.
Peterson: 49:35. He says that girls are mean bullies because they go after the reputation of the victim, as happened to his daughter.
First of all, most bullying among guys follows a similar pattern: teasing, freeze-out, etc.
Secondly, he implies that he would have preferred a physical male bullying treatment of his daughter, to the “annoying” female one.
I’m not saying he prefers his daughter to be hit with fists and physically abused. I’m just saying he might not have thought this through.
And here he joins Paglia in overt misogyny.
Paglia: 50:40. She says that men tease one another and this toughens them, so they don’t take things so seriously, whereas women are over-sensitive.
Might be true to some extent, but again, a generalized, loaded, misogynist remark.
Fails to point out that men tease each other less if they have healthier relations. Insecure 13-year-olds tease the most and pretend they think it’s fun, as do gang members. Mature, well-developed, functioning guys tease only a tad, and only in sensitive, good-spirited ways. And they apologize if anything is taken the wrong way.
She clearly has a false, romanticized view of male ball-busting. Most of it is insecure and insincere.
Paglia: 52:10. She says that everybody should be better educated and learn about the Stone Age, etc., in which case we’d come closer to her conclusions.
First of all: People with in-depth knowledge about our Paleolithic ancestors, historians, archaeologists, anthropologist etc., generally don’t share her ideas.
Secondly: We should always be suspicious when someone says that everybody should learn something. Why this particular thing, instead of say physics, complexity, self-knowledge, social intelligence, mindfulness, or basic computer programming?
Of course, this is a game played by many or even most academics. If the particular knowledge they possess is what constitutes the definition of “education”, this means that they are also the “most educated” person, and thus that everyone should learn from them, and thus that they are at the top of the hierarchy. I’ve seen too much such academic bullshit.
But if she wants to make an argument that “everyone” must learn something, she needs a very strong, generalizable argument, and a falsifiable theory for why this is the case. Otherwise, she’s just saying that if people read what she read they would think more like she does (tautological), effectively telling the world to be more like herself.
… the pathology of which is self-evident: it’s narcissistic to force one’s own truth down everybody’s throats. Another claim for power.
Paglia & Peterson: 54:20-55:50. She says that we should appreciate the development that has happened throughout history, and the sacrifices made by men. Peterson joins her and says men’s sacrifices made progress possible and that we have a great society.
This is classical conservatism. Nothing wrong with that, but it should be called for what it is.
If she wanted to balance the argument out, she might also have mentioned the other side of the argument, the radical side; that there is no logically conceivable reason to believe that today’s society cannot be improved upon.
But she doesn’t.
Peterson fails to mention that women make many sacrifices corresponding to those of men. He goes on to restate the classical conservative argument: the unlikely wonder of society not falling apart.
It’s simply an invalid argument that we should stop making further changes to our society, which has been characterized by constant change, out of fear that it will fall apart. Historically, societies have more often collapsed from the reluctance to change than the opposite.
Paglia: 56:15. She says our culture is falling apart because a strength or spirit has been lost.
First of all, this is poor social science: Talking about spirit or strength without reference to the exact societal mechanisms, discourses, or any other observable factors to affect human behaviors, leaves us with nothing but invisible free-floating ghosts that can neither be verified nor falsified.
Secondly, this is just more classical conservatism. Compare to fin de siècle, the “spirit” around the late 1800s, where writers such as Oswald Spengler inspired the far right.
This flow of classical conservatism goes on for a while on both sides…
Let’s call these two what they are; classical conservatives. Clever ones, updated ones, but still.
Peterson: 01:01:55. He says that most people who were abused as children don’t spread the abuse to their children. This proves, he says, that patriarchy doesn’t exist, because if it did it would spread exponentially until all people were abused by bad fathers and men.
Basic logics fail. His conclusion doesn’t in any way follow from his stated facts.
I also think “patriarchy” is a pretty weak theory, but his reasoning doesn’t touch upon it at all. No one has claimed that child abuse and patriarchy are synonymous.
And even if patriarchy was reducible to child abuse, which no one has ever claimed to my knowledge, his line of reasoning is entirely illogical. Just because child abuse isn’t inherited in most cases, this doesn’t mean that new child abuse can’t show up for other reasons and thus be reproduced.
The fact that child abuse has declined is of course due to the many social and cultural advances of society, and not an inherent tendency for it do peter out – in which case it should have petered out when humans had already been around for over 15 000 years at the onset of the Neolithic Age.
I think he just managed a triple non-sequitur, which may be a record in academic incompetence. He made an argument that doesn’t compute, about a topic that doesn’t relate to what he’s trying to prove, through an analogy that doesn’t hold.
Not sloppy. This is incompetent. Painfully, inexcusably incompetent.
Paglia: 01:02:50. She says that it’s important to examine the transfer from the traditional extended family structure to the modern nuclear family. She thinks Freud is a good place to start.
No, no. This is a common Marxist mainstream cliché, but it has been more or less disproven for decades.
Historians like Peter Laslett and Alan MacFarlane have proven that the nuclear family – a mother, father and child(ren) in a “simple house,” as Laslett put it – was the dominant arrangement in England stretching back to the thirteenth century.
It’s not a grave mistake, if it weren’t for her own insistence on historical knowledge and her claim that the transition from collective household to nuclear family is so central.
In addition, the sociologist Birgitte Berger has argued in her 2002 book that the nuclear family is actually psychologically superior for the development of children, turning a lot of the Freudian critique on its head.
Paglia: 01:03:55. She says that contemporary therapeutic psychology doesn’t talk enough about childhood, as psychoanalysts used to back in the good old days.
She fails to point out that talk therapy has dramatically increased its evidence-based effectiveness since people stopped talking about their childhoods and began focusing on the here and now.
Therapeutic psychology of today is also more science-based and effective than during the mid-20th This is largely because Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and other related therapies don’t over-complicate things and focus on what can be done here and now. They are also easier to learn, repeat, and make reliable tests upon.
If some issue is deeper and you need to talk about your childhood, that’s a large investment in time and energy. It’s smarter not to make that investment into a default, but to calibrate when to talk about childhood and when not to.
… and why doesn’t Peterson point out this obvious mistake, seeing as this is his field of expertise?
Paglia: 01:04:35. She says that it’s taboo today to ask about how childhood experiences may play a part in causing homosexuality.
It is widely accepted praxis within the sciences to investigate the ways that sexuality may be formed by an interplay of genetic and environmental factors.
Peterson & Paglia: 01:05:30. He says that he opposed a legislation which said you had to call transgender people by their preferred pronoun, which he thinks is “compelled speech”. Paglia thinks that is “absolutely Orwellian”.
We have many other forms of “compelled speech” that JP does not oppose. For instance, we’re not allowed to call one another bitch, nigger, “it”, and legally we’re not allowed to tell somebody to commit murder. And we can be compelled to speak when asked about our earnings by the tax authorities.
Besides, we are still allowed to say what we want about the gender pronoun if we don’t like it. We just need to respect transgender persons’ wishes, or refrain from talking to them in pronouns, opting for using their name, etc. So it’s not actually compelled speech. That’s just his exaggerated misnomer.
If asking people to show common courtesy and mildly penalize failure to do so is “absolutely Orwellian” to Paglia, I don’t think she has read George Orwell’s 1984.
Will they mind if we call Peterson a girl and Paglia a boy?
Paglia: 01:05:55. She says that her own writing of a book was “the greatest sex change in history” and that this justifies that there should be no regulations on uses of the English language. True story, that’s what she says. Go back and listen.
No, that wasn’t the biggest sex change in history.
She means that because it meant so much to her to use the English language in her book, she thinks it is “evil” for someone to tell her how to use it.
She fails to point out that nobody would stop her from writing her book however she wants, using the beauty of the English language (with as many “okaaay?s” as she likes), but that she’s simply expected to show common courtesy.
What about grammar; grammar does tell her how to use language? Does she hate that too?
What about all the language academies in other countries, institutions regulating spelling and grammar, are all of these “pure evil” and their populations stuck in purely evil and Orwellian states?
Let’s be clear: Peterson and Paglia find reasons to feel terribly affronted, but it simply doesn’t make sense and they have nothing to be upset about, and they are hysterically focusing on details. Sounds a lot like… bad feminism. Except this is bad anti-feminism.
Paglia’s statement is an affront not only to the very real struggle of transgender people, but also to the legacy of George Orwell. Which is just sad, for a literature professor who claims to defend the English heritage and being transgender.
Peterson: 01:07:30. He says that having older parents with more resources makes people spoiled, which is psychologically harmful.
This may be true in part, but the research consensus is that having parents with more resources is better in so many ways.
So all in all, even if he’s right about something in part, he is still wrong overall.
Paglia: 01:09:15. She says that it’s the upper middle class who institute hyper-sensitivity and inject it into universities.
Working class people aren’t as sensitive? She probably doesn’t hang out very much with working class folks. I grew up working-class, without a dad who was college professor by the time he was 35 (which is her idea of a working-class background, her own). Two of my brothers were so hurt in life they both died early from drinking and smoking. People are always in minor family feuds, always conflicts about who did or didn’t do what, who owes who, who was insulted, etc.
Such family feuds between neighbors and cousins simply aren’t as prevalent in the “yoga bourgeoise” (you know, folks who are rich and meditate and have higher class) where people are sometimes annoyingly sensitive towards one another, yes, but more socially apt and functional, and thus in a much less emotionally precarious position.
Working class are just bourgeois waiting to be born. Bourgeois are just upper middle class waiting to be born. So the increased sensitivity she describes is simply what dialectically emerges as people have more of their wants and needs met.
A smarter way ahead is to deal with this sensitivity, rather than to mock people for it and say it isn’t allowed (and to deny it in ourselves), as Paglia does.
(Intermezzo: they say smart and good things about child development).
Peterson: 01:13:30. He says that women are bitter about the role they have in modern life and jumps to remembering that many cultures have had bride abduction as part of the marriage ritual.
Bride abduction still goes on in some places, like Kyrgyzstan, watch this short Vice documentary.
It leads to women killing themselves in misery. It’s a huge problem over there.
If Peterson is to suggest women secretly long for this, that “this fundamental feminine role is being denied to them” he might have to sharpen his argument.
Paglia: 1:15:00. She argues for “the freedom to risk rape”.
This shows a basic lack of understanding of rights and liberties. There are negative freedoms (freedom from) and positive freedoms (freedom to). The freedom to risk rape isn’t a concept that makes sense.
You can be free from rape, and free from excessive control – but freedom to be raped, now that’s Orwell’s 1984 (“Freedom is slavery”).
Paglia: 01:17:00. She argues that men hunt women and want sex, which she says women do not understand.
Misogynistic comment that says women are stupid. I’ve never met a woman who didn’t understand what she’s saying.
I think she means to say that it’s difficult for women to take the male perspective, as men are simply more immediate and visual in their sexuality.
Paglia: 01:19:00. Paglia says American society has a chaos in the sexual realm.
Meanwhile, rape statistics have slumped, and a very large portion of the women who are raped are students, which says that the counter-measures with on-campus support mechanisms of universities – which Paglia is against – may be effective after all. This is in an era where many more of the occurring rapes are reported as taboos are lessened, so the fall of sexual violence is actually much greater than the fall in statistics.
She’s wrong.
By M Tracy Hunter – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Paglia & Peterson: 01h 19-21 min. They talk about consent and emphasize the responsibility of women to understand that men may want to rape them.
This of course puts the responsibility of men’s actions on women’s shoulders.
In a fair society, wouldn’t it make more sense to put the responsibility of one’s own actions on each person?
Here, they are mixing up sociology and behavioral science with ideas about personal responsibility. It’s true that we cannot have poor social institutions and then say that “it’s up to the individual” to not make mistakes. So we cannot put the sociological issue of sexual violence on the shoulders of an individual young man; we have to figure out ways to make it less prevalent in society at large. But Peterson and Paglia are taking the burden off the man’s shoulder and putting it on the woman’s: “the right to risk being raped”.
The recent #metoo social media campaign and its massive response around the world serves to underscore that women have too often carried the responsibility for the actions of men and for their transgressions.
Paglia: 01:21:50. She want to stop all interference of universities into what students do with one another. That, she adds, is “fascism of the worst kind”.
It should be pointed out that Peterson and Paglia both viewed comparisons between themselves and fascism as unacceptable, and that Peterson said that he would physically threaten any male who said such things about him.
Apparently, they don’t hold themselves to the same standards.
Besides, having a system for investigating sexual misconduct is “fascism of the worst kind”? I guess mass-murdering people of differing opinion gets second place?
Peterson agrees to this phrasing, “fascism of the worst kind” specifically, arguing that it is a new kind of fascism.
From dictionary definition of fascism: “Fascism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and control of industry and commerce that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries. Opposed to liberalism, Marxism and anarchism, fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.”
Neofascism, from dictionary: “Neofascism is the practice of university administrations to offer supportive structures for the psychological and social wellbeing and health of their students, such as investigations in cases of sexual violence or misconduct, as well as working against excessive partying at fraternity clubs by means of information, counselling, and giving condoms.”
I’m not going to tell you which one of these two I made up. You will have to guess.
Peterson: 1:23:00. He wonders how anyone could be naive enough to create parallel “legal systems” at the universities, because it obviously wouldn’t work.
Social work, it works the same way.
Psychiatric care, it works the same way.
Union rights, it works the same way.
Civil society committees, it works the same way.
In churches and major corporations, it works the same way.
On a more serious note, when Peterson repeatedly returns to claiming that present-day society is “naïve”, he aims to critique what I have earlier called “game denial”, which is a core feature of classical conservative sentiments.
Both he and Paglia fail to make the analytical synthesis and offer a path towards “game change”, hence they end up de facto defending the status quo of women being sexually abused. They go against “game denial” but end up in the position of “game acceptance”, which means to implicitly defend injustice.
The correct answer is to refute “game denial” as well as “game acceptance” and to offer paths towards transformations of everyday life, taking the perspectives of all parties seriously.
We hear very little such alternatives.
Peterson: 1:23:25. He says the legal system is awesome because it evolved over a long time.
There are many things that evolved over a long time that aren’t very good.
The legal system is one of them. The way it deals with sexual violence is catastrophic, and it is a too heavy weight system for these matters, dealing in too binary terms.
That’s why sexual misconduct is being transposed to other realms than the strictly legal one.
You can read this article on how the justice system fails rape victims, if you like.
Paglia: 1:24:10. She says that it’s taboo to say that women should be responsible for their own choices.
Implying, then, choices that lead up to someone else raping them.
Implying, then, that she wants women to be responsible for the choices of male rapists.
It doesn’t make sense.
Paglia & Peterson: 1:24:10. They agree that the refusal to hold women responsible for risking being raped is “such a betrayal of authentic feminism”.
The right to being raped is not authentic feminism.
Paglia & Peterson: 1:25:00. They argue against verbal consent because sex is not a verbal thing.
Would it be so bad if people talked a little more about it? Might avoid some misunderstandings.
If people have verbal consent – more of the kind in the BDSM community, which is hardly known for lacking spice – then the responsibility is shared more equally.
With a light-weight consent policy, you are still free to have sex with someone without asking, but then you risk that they will flip out and raise charges. So you have responsibility for your own sexual actions, not those of another.
Can Peterson and Paglia offer another venue for legal protection for rape victims? Do they at all recognize the fact that the vast majority of all rape cases are never dealt with, the victims never vindicated?
Peterson: 01:32:00. He says that, for feminists, the patriarchy is evil and so is traditional motherhood, which leaves women only with the professional role, which then is patriarchy, just run by women.
Reveals lack of basic understanding of feminism.
The idea with “patriarchy” is that women become the bitches of guys in different aspects of life and thus less free to live their life as they want.
Patriarchy in this sense doesn’t have anything to do with guys being bad, just with the persistence of norms, habits, and prejudices that no longer make sense in modern society.
Almost no feminists argue that women should run society, only that they should have a more equal share in its power.
Paglia: 01:34:15. She argues that the West is like ancient Rome, which she claims fell to bureaucratic control and multiculturalism.
The Roman Empire fell because of its inability to sustain bureaucratic control. Imperial overstretch, poor fiscal policies, military challengers, growing inequalities in a largely socially unsustainable system, and long-standing ecological crises brought the Roman Empire to its knees – not too much bureaucratic control or the fact that the Roman Empire consisted of different ethnicities (as was the case in all of the large agrarian empires of the time).
This wouldn’t be an issue if it weren’t for her bragging and insistence upon historical understanding as mandatory. Apparently, she miserably fails at it herself.
Peterson: 01:39:30. He says that victimization of groups may cause them to commit genocide. This is said in the context that pomo PC culture creates new venues of victimization and blaming.
He fails to point out that pomo culture also creates venues for expressing shame, resentment, and frustrations in non-violent ways, allowing for cultural struggle to take the place of violent struggle.
Does he really mean to say that the places in the world that have most ethnic conflicts also have the most pomo feminists? I think the opposite case can be made rather easily.
On the closing note Paglia calls out: “We agreed on everything! I knew it!”
They may have nodded and agreed, but this shows only lacking rigor. Upon closer inspection, they don’t agree on everything.
And that, my friend, closes this marathon of harrowing academic incompetence. All in all, these were 47 points pf critique, a handful of which would have shot dead an academic discussion of normal standards. (13 + 37 points, but three were interludes with due credits).
Forty-seven points of severe, fundamental faults. That’s either incompetence, dishonesty or the tunnel vision of the fanatic. You decide which one, or which combination of the three.
If you’re one of the many people who have been unable to see through the thin veneer, unable to see these people for what they are – standard conservatives, misogynists, hysterical anti-feminists – this means that your critical thinking has also been curtailed.
So do the right thing and say a painful goodbye to your YouTube father figure, Jordan Peterson. He told you to speak the truth. But he doesn’t tell you the truth, not even close. And neither does Paglia.
By the way, the correct answer to their question, what comes next, after this wave of pomo?
It’s that you accept good feminism, make sure none of it is driven by blame or hatred, and then add another layer to it: masculinism. Then you proceed with a both-and perspective. And you use developmental psychology to get at the core of the issues, reducing the gender antagonism in society, as discussed in my upcoming book, Nordic Ideology.
The core failure of the intellectual projects of Peterson and Paglia comes from a lack of understanding of developmental sociology. They have both failed to see the simple and fundamental progression: from traditional, to modern, to postmodern, to metamodern.
None of these positions (modern, pomo, etc.) are perfect. They all have pathologies and sicknesses of their own. Pomo has sicknesses. But Peterson and Paglia think that pomo itself is a sickness. To them, if people just “stop doing it”, stop being pomo, everything is going to be fine. But that’s not going to happen, as society developmentally generates a huge onslaught of pomo in late modernity. You can’t tell someone to stop being at a certain developmental stage.
So basically, Peterson and Paglia offer us no path ahead.
What’s next? Metamodernism is next.
Hanzi Freinacht is a political philosopher, historian and sociologist, author of ‘The Listening Society’, and the upcoming books ‘Nordic Ideology’ and ‘The 6 Hidden Patterns of World History’. Much of his time is spent alone in the Swiss Alps. You can follow Hanzi on his Facebook profile here.
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152 thoughts on “Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia – A Marathon of Academic Incompetence”
Generatilon_man
26 October, 2017, 12:11 PM
“…count the negative collective statements about women as a collective…” Dumb non-argument. Misogyny is a buzzword. Stopped reading after that. Challenge him for a debate.
Dayne Hutchinson
27 October, 2017, 09:26 AM
Stephen Sharper
It never occurred to him that women having their asses kissed since the day they were born (if they were born after the 2nd wave) is cause for them to be more full of shit in general and maybe that’s why they got criticized more
Hanzi Freinacht Post author
I’m sorry, Stephen, that is simply a sexist remark.
AenSiddhe
5 November, 2017, 07:49 AM
How so? In my country for example, that’s how it is. Back in school, girls would commit various acts of adulation to achieve higher grades which, if done by guys, would hardly ever lead to a similar result. The way I see it, that’s how we raise them — to lie and cheat and use your looks to achieve your goals regardless of the circumstances. And I’m not saying that men don’t have that (some clearly do), but when it comes to women, for some reason it’s not viewed as a pathology like with the latter. Although it seems like postmodern culture seems to be doing pretty well on eradicating that.
Flakmusic
6 December, 2017, 01:24 AM
@Generatilon_man
“Dumb non-argument”
I kept reading though, but after a five minutes I had enough. Not just poor, but terribly boring.
“Challenge him for debate”? Ha, ha. I can’t believe he could be SO dumb and not see Peterson is intellectually two classes beyond him. But one never knows – the left is packed with individuals under the delusion of grandeur and invincibility.
cha see
24 January, 2018, 01:43 AM
Flakmusic, perhaps you were bored because you didn’t understand. After all, you haven’t pointed to any point or criticism with an analysis of its merit (which is what this article that you despise actually does), but instead, you just provide ad hominems. Generatilon_man is even more ridiculous: he admits to not actually reading, so his dismissal is rather meaningless. Peterson actually asks to be corrected or shown his mistakes. This is an attempt to do just that, so maybe he’s not “so dumb” after all.
Why is it that Noam Chomsky shares a very similar opinion to Peterson and Paglia about Postmodernism and its effects on academia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjQA0e0UYzI
“..It has served as a way to isolate sectors of an elite radical intelligentsia from popular struggle and it has served as an instrument of power, that’s why it’s so tolerated in universities…”
“..What it seems to me is a bunch of people talking to each other in very obscure ways, and most of the time I can’t understand what they’re talking about, and I’m not sure if anyone else can..”
“..Postmodern views of science are very embarrassing..”
Extremely different.
This article is pure garbage and lies, created just to slander a man who stands against leftist lies and stupidity.
Your news outlet has just plummeted in credibility, and proven you are just one more FAKE NEWS OUTLET. Just one more leftist stooge.
Better luck next time bucko!
I would respectfully recommend the article author (Hanzi) delete comments like this one. The “fake news” moniker clearly marks this comment as pure rhetoric. It is dismissive and discrediting without providing a single shred of actual, substantial critique. I applaud the author (Hanzi) for being willing to include critical comments. I agree with this policy. However, the entire discourse is helped by separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to actual critiques vs. rhetorical propaganda.
Hi Darren.
We generally let everything but pure abuse through, in order to give people’s honest responses their place. This one was on the fence.
11 November, 2017, 11:44 PM
Well he put FAKE NEWS in all caps, can’t really argue with that.
Daibhi
24 February, 2018, 10:57 PM
He just did a point by point analysis of these two blow hards and exposed them for the sloppy reality stars that they are or aim to be. I am not especially attached to pomo and I appreciate immensely mythical and narrative understanding of things but this hyperbolic rhetoric about the emasculated West and and fetishising violence by Paglia is garbage. This author exposes it beautifully.
Jack Blau
6 March, 2018, 04:00 AM
He did no such thing.
This is an embarrassingly poor rebuttal that frequently doesn’t even address the actual points Peterson or Paglia make in the discusssion. Now, I do not consider myself a Peterson fan, and I don’t agree with everything either one says here, but I agree with the author of this critique even less. Many of his assertions are incorrect, and are just straight up false, like the ludicrous claim that the criminal justice system is biased against women, and that’s why these deplorable kangaroo courts have sprung up on campus.
I intend to write my own rebuttal of this rebuttal, but it would take a long time, unfortunately. I’m sorely tempted to do so, so atrocious and lacking in good faith is this piece of dishonest hackery. Not that I really want to, as I’m not a Peterson acolyte. Surely no one could be so dumb as to believe that women can’t get a fair shake in the criminal justice system, however, when there exists plenty of evidence that the system is enormously biased TOWARDS women, in all respects. Instead, the author lamely argues (without evidence) that these witch hunt tribunals are somehow a necessary corrective to our ostensibly misogynist judicial system. This is so laughable as to defy belief. There is overwhelming evidence that the legal system as it exists is MISANDRIST, not misogynist. And by the way, every serious and experienced police officer knows what you say here is horseshit, and that false accusations of rape and sexual assault by women are exetremely common, not rare at all, and that is why rape accusations rarely result in a charge or conviction. Because the vast majority of accusations are false to begin with. Paglia’s astute point is that this parallel system of justice within the colleges is staffed with people with no training and no qualifications whatsoever for investigating crimes. By the way, many many men found guilty by the kangaroo courts (NOT by the cops, who were never called) have been expelled by the colleges and seen their reputation in tatters, and have successfully sued the universities. They’re winning their lawsuits and PROVING Paglia’s contention about their lack of legitimacy.
22 May, 2018, 04:12 AM
Can you post some links to your “overwhelming evidence that the legal system as it exists is MISANDRIST”? And I can’t find any reputable source to back your statement that the “vast majority of [rape] accusations are false”. Everything I’ve read says it’s actually very low due to the barriers involved in proving a case such as rape.
And if you want to dig deeper, I would check out the book ‘Missoula’, it’s a very readable and pretty devastating take on the subject.
I do not even agree with Peterson on usage of Young’s psychology as a bases. But this leftist garbage, counting words to determine non-existent misogyny, is an exceptional example of stupidity.
LMFAO that’s ‘Jung’ not ‘Young.’ Better know who the hell you’re talking about before critiquing someone’s use of their ideas.
Generation_man
LMFAO? If you gave it a thought for a second, you would’ve guest, that i am not an English speaking person and writing his family name in a phonetic way, how it sounds in my language. I have a degree in psychology and know pretty well what I am talking about. Take care of your ass, it is the most important part of your body, apparently.
Eipa
2 November, 2017, 12:19 PM
How on earth would you have a degree in psychology and not know how to spell Jung?
Wow. Jung is his Swiss name. Most people encounter him in print. So it would be well known as Jung, especially to a non English speaker. Young was the spelling in the closed captioning, which was a spell check error. Are the St. Petersburg bot farms posting in here?
Jung*
I think you tried to tackle too many points, and showed shallowness in your arguments, which makes me quickly dismiss your objections. It makes you feel untrustworthy.
I feel as though you made objections before really considering the claim and giving it some charity.
You don’t see to be offering a lot of charity yourself, or seeking it from JB/CP? This request for consideration and generosity feels arbitrary .
Read beginning section for summary and end section for conclusion and there is some more in-depth thinking. Some of the points are also more in-depth.
I feel? Ironic….no?
K. M.
1. I see where you’re going with this, but it really is not an argument. If you can “tear down” Peterson and Paglia for their supposedly poorly phrased or incomplete arguments, then guess what can be done to arguments like yours? You didn’t consider that your arguments also have to be solid and COMPLETE, did you? No, you just assumed the role of the critic, didn’t you haha
2. You’re assuming Peterson’s context. You don’t know the angle from which he’s reporting.
See, being able to write well-thought out responses with a lot of time on your hands also has its downsides — in this scenario you don’t get to ask Peterson to clarify his position.
No, you’re stuck with assuming in which context he sees this unfolding and decides to criticize it. That makes you play a guessing game, and that weakens your position immensely — and this I am saying in your defense. It is harder to work with fragments of an idea instead of having a clear representation of what x and y stands for in given context.
Also… you’re offering a COUNTER-ARGUMENT not a CRITIQUE…. So as a counter-argument, while still not irrefutable, it’s okay. As a critique it’s so-so. As a statement itself – it’s bullshit.
You’re not dumb but the lines you draw in order to decide what’s solid and what’s not — in regards to their, but also your own argumentation — seem arbitrary and therefore also very weak. I don’t think this this was a bad job, but I don’t think you achieved what you’ve set out to do.
This makes it transparent what kind of mindset you had while doing this. I already gave you more attention than I should have, seeing as we’re from different ends of this spectrum. I hope your school of thought fails so fucking hard in the face of people like Peterson. Or, rather individually than collectively, that some of you come to find the empowerment in Peterson’s message — one that doesn’t shy away from societal problems but instead chooses TO NOT PLAY YOUR VICTIM GAMES. Because, my friend, this is what your side of the aisle, and by extension you, are enabling.
Filippo Medas
This criticism is partly well and partly badly written in my view. Hanzi in some instances focused more on what they said “literally” and not what they actually meant, which was cleared up by the context of what they were taking about, in other cases he clearly didn’t understand what was said in certain sections of the talk. For example he wrote…
“She claims that one must understand neoclassicism and classical theory in order to write about Western society (which she says Foucault didn’t)”
…but what I got is something entirely different: her point is that Foucault doesn’t seem to go beyond neoclassicism in his historical analysis and her accusation is that he “knew nothing of ancient history”, and that if he knew he wouldn’t have held certain positions. She said this repeatedly multiple times and this critique can be found pretty much anywhere on the web. The confusion might have arisen because of Paglia’s gasping style of conversation, but yet, this is one of those examples in which looking at a single source doesn’t give you a well rounded idea of what the thoughts of a certain thinker actually are.
Mainly, I agree that both JP and CP are too aggressive against post modernism. Their critique works against low-level activists but not very much for high-level thinkers/activists/scientists. They both tend towards dramatization which doesn’t help the conversation. Overall I tended to like that talk, although I disagreed with the tone and certain specific points.
Lastly, I disagree that Jordan Peterson is overrated. Just as Hanzi wrote about the point Paglia did with the “New Age” currents…
“If the original movement didn’t last, there may be a reason for it. If it devolved into New Age madness, maybe it wasn’t such a good legacy.
(this in particular): And if the ideas first expressed by French intellectuals caught on among the post-war generations, it probably was because these ideas resonated with the social and cultural currents of the 1960s and beyond.”
Exactly the same goes for Dr Jordan B Peterson. If his ideas catch the attention of a portion of millennials and Zers, probably it’s because his ideas resonate with the social and cultural currents of our age. He is bringing out a lot of good from many people, he transformed many lives in just a 1 year timespan. How many others can say the same?
The last part of the article, which I didn’t read yesterday, is probably the only part that I think undermines this already impulsive critique.
Makes the whole article sound like a self-serving character assassination. “Don’t buy his set of knives, buy MY set of knives for your kitchen”. I think it kind of goes against the principles of metamodernism itself, if I truly got where its spirit lies.
Hello Filippo.
We already had some exchange on Facebook. Here I’d just like to say: Yes, being self-serving is the whole point. If by self, we mean the intellectual project I work with; I think that JP is influential in a way that is sure to backfire as it fails to include and transcend the pomo perspectives and the social tensions that feed them.
7 December, 2018, 11:53 PM
“That’s either incompetence, dishonesty or the tunnel vision of the fanatic. You decide which one, or which combination of the three.”
The author is presenting a incomplete false or negative selection of choices. Another choice could be that the author is straw manning or caricaturing what is said by only focusing on one literal interpretation perception of what is said. Ignoring context and/or having confirmation bias and a negative framework cloud his perception of the conversation. This is clearly a chat between two people who’ve looked at each other’s work and are speaking in a shorthand they both understand. And therefore doesn’t need the lengthy explanations and qualifications that slow conversations down. It’s efficient communication to be concise rather than cover every possible misperception that a small % of the audience may make. This is not a confrontational or investigational interview so both of them are not being pushed to give more elaborate explanations that may have satisfied the author.
This is something that was posted on Jordan’s channel and it’s extremely unlikely that the viewers watching are interpreting the conversation without not just the contextual cues within the conversation – but also without contextual cues from the other material they’ve read/viewed/listened featuring Camille and Jordan. So for the majority of people watching they know what Camille and Jordan may be discussing in shorthand just like Camille and Jordan do.
The author doesn’t seem to be seeking first to understand or steel man their viewpoints.
It came across as quite immature and an attempt at name calling shaming with the above quote where the author was basically saying people are somewhat stupid and guillable if they disagree with him. Like the victimhood name calling shaming of the form “you’re a racist/sexist/privileged/transphobe if you disagree with me”. On one level it’s a slur, on another it’s encouraging fear of disagreement because we might be automatically labelled something negative, and on another it’s an attempt to shut down debate.
It’s not very cool and says a lot more about the author than Camille and Jordan.
Bernard Brandt
1. TL:DR
2. Actually, I did read it: verbose, jejune, and replete with fallacies such as begging the question. It reminded me of a sophomore philosophy student’s attempts to tear down, say, Plato’s ‘Republic’, because it was ‘fascist’.
3. Next time, consider replacing the potshots with writing a precis of your opponents’ statements into one or several theses, with a few examples from their actual statements. Then critique the theses. It would save you, and your three or four readers, a great deal of time and trouble.
Jejeune huh?
JP followers are slippery lot. If you don’t pin down the criticism very specifically, they dodge. For a summary, read the beginning and end of the article.
PS. I think you mean 10 000 readers, which this post has.
I agree with these critiques of your piece. I also found it very hard to read with your clear disdain for Dr. Peterson. The fact that I could hear your angry typing as I read and your use of “pomo” made it extremely distracting and difficult to take you seriously.
Also, I think this post has 10k readers because you invoked the name of Dr Peterson. I came here to try and see arguments to his points to understand his ideas better because I disagree with some of his latest actions but you just reaffirmed my love for his arguments and strengthened them.
18 June, 2018, 12:08 AM
I thought it said porno at first, I had no idea people spoke like that.
The basic flaw of your critique is that you constantly paraphrase them instead of quoting them verbatim. This makes your Crotc aye very hard to read and it’s hard to even know what position you are attempting to refute. Certainly when I consulted the talk itself, I found you guilty at many points of simply misunderstanding what Peterson and Paglia were even driving at. And sometimes you simply argued in bad faith. For instance Paglia certainly chose her words poorly when she called the college committees “fascist.” However, that doesn’t change the reality that they are corrupt, illegitimate, and a violation of male students rights.
About as sound and fair an evisceration of these two dangerous public intellectuals as it’s possible to be. I’ve had some doubts about some of your earlier writings but this is superb and necessary. Thank you.
Thank you Giulio. I do suspect we will disagree on more things in the future, however.
In part 2, point 5, section 4, you don’t realise part of his argument is that those Nordic countries have the lowest number of female engineers, in spite if all of those initiatives. Just some context , doesn’t detract from your argument other than it’s probably doing nothing for the economy as it doesn’t work
This is true. I do mention it, a bit vaguely.
Sam Hallett
I felt like most of these points were refutable (or at least contestable) with a few seconds musing.I think this has been picked up by others. Especially the counting – very silly.
The counting is a bad idea? What is someone makes many negative comments about an ethnic group — isn’t that racism?
Rich Seera
Overall this article repeatedly shape the context to fit a preconcieved critique.
Stop abusing the word racism. If it is relevant to the discussion and is backed by facts it is not racism. But using your own POMO methods i’m sure you can invent contexts which make any claim racist and sexist.
On the other hand, if somebody *is* being a bit sexist or racist, we need to have ways of calling it out.
sdenheyer
“Patriarchy” and “strict, paternal” are terms which refer to the negative masculine archetype.
You said: “I also think “patriarchy” is a pretty weak theory, but his reasoning doesn’t touch upon it at all. No one has claimed that child abuse and patriarchy are synonymous.”
The Duluth Model pretty much says exactly that. From it’s wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth_model):
“The feminist theory underlying the Duluth Model is that men use violence within relationships to exercise power and control. This is illustrated by the “Power and Control Wheel,” a graphic typically displayed as a poster in participating locations.[5][6] According to the Duluth Model, “women and children are vulnerable to violence because of their unequal social, economic, and political status in society.”[7] Treatment of abusive men is focused on re-education, as “we do not see men’s violence against women as stemming from individual pathology, but rather from a socially reinforced sense of entitlement.” [8] The program’s philosophy is intended to help batterers work to change their attitudes and personal behavior so they would learn to be nonviolent in any relationship.”
OK, I’ll have to back down on this one. There are fringe crazy folks who have made claims that are roughly corresponding to this claim.
The Duluth Model is not a fringe theory. It is the central theory influencing how domestic violence cases are investigated today. It has been entrenched within the criminal justice system for decades – which completely invalidates your nonsense assertion that women can’t get a fair shake from the system – it’s actually men who are frequently discriminated against when it comes to law and order.
As a fan of both Paglia and Peterson, this was one of the best reads I have come across in a long while.
Thanks, glad to be useful.
Great critique, thank you deeply for the time you took to do this. It’s nice to read a moderate, thinking person’s views on these topics.
Also, I’ll buy your book.
Thank you. At your service.
I wonder if you are familiar with Ken Wilber’s ideas? Your framing of human evolution from premodern to modern to meta modern sounds very much like Wilber’s integral evolutionary approach. If you are indebted to him you should acknowledge that debt. He is, like JP and CP, a staunch critic of PoMo. All three recognise the serious challenge PoMo represents: language is fundamental (though not quite as fundamental as you claim – ethnomusicologists have tied themselves in knots trying to find a linguistic basis for music, for example); all truths are context bound and contingent; we should examine the structures that benefit from contemporary truth claims because these claims can be used merely to defend unjust structures. This is a perfectly coherent critique. But PoMo goes beyond this to claim that, therefore, nothing has value, nothing is true, it’s all just power games to serve elite interests. This ignores it’s own truth claim: “all truths are context bound and contingent”. PoMo fails on its own grounds. “Everyone else’s truth claims are corrupt, except ours, which are true.” You misrepresent these two titans of contemporary thought trying to pretend otherwise. You make some good points. And you are clever and apparently well-read. But you overreach yourself and come off like a self-satisfied postgrad tearing down his master’s house for the pure glee of it – classic PoMo deconstructionist intellectual vandalism. There’s a reason JP and CP are world famous and no-one has heard of you. Try building your own house instead of inflating yourself by trying (and failing) to tear down others.
Hasn’t JP inflated himself by tearing down others?
“PoMo fails on its own grounds.”
Yes, sure – that’s why it’s best done with a certain level of irony, and why there’s a need for a response: metamodernism. That doesn’t render it incapable of critiquing modernity tho. You’re guilty of exactly what you accuse Heinz of: he’s more famous than you. See my point about irony.
I want to attempt a better response to the whole ‘saying ‘there are no facts’ is a performative contradiction’ contradiction argument.
Saying ‘there are no facts’ in a post-modern context is not equivalent to saying ‘it is a fact that there are no facts’. It is saying something much closer to ‘calling something a fact implies a finality that can never really be there, and yeah you can apply that to what I’m saying too if you want’. It’s true that some people are doing applied post-modernism without much/any grasp of subtlety/nuance/irony required i.e. the classic SJW figure of fun. But to think that such a statement blows away postmodernism in its entirety is an act of intellectual arrogance, Wilber or no Wilber – though I think his critique of Po-Mo is likely subtler than you imply. tl:dr – Postmodernism doesn’t make truth claims even when it’s making truth claims. And that’s a fact 😉
Or to put it yet another way, your use of formal argument misses the point that post-modernism is systematic i.e. transformal.
Yes, I am very familiar with Ken Wilber’s work. It is significantly critiqued and updated in my first book, The Listening Society.
I don’t think JP and CP are on the right track, which is why I criticize them.
30 January, 2018, 03:37 PM
“Criticise them”? That is hardly a fair description. You set out to denigrate them. Your unjustified references to “misogyny” are merely the topping on a slew of, sometimes subtle, misrepresentations. Like many others, I suspect, I came here having googled “Peterson/Paglia”. I did so because Peterson’s thoughts in particular have caught my imagination and I was looking for a space where they might be properly critiqued. I shall leave disappointed. I confess I had never previously heard of Hanzi Freinacht. Who he?
Grant Munro
The broad strokes of Integral Theory and Metamodernism are interchangeable in my view. Both approaches are effective and necessary in attempting to minimise bias. Still MM invariably comes with its own set of biases and is thus simply yet another lens on reality.
The person that wrote this article has a shallow understanding of what they were talking about. Example: When Paglia said that society was in chaos in the sexual realm and the author thought that using declining rape accusations as a rebuttal they played themselves, she in no way insinuated that the confusion had to do with crime or violence, but about having so much sexual liberty we don’t know what to do with it. The author makes a lot of false equivalencies like that or many arguments that change the subject, not to be rude, but it’s a pretty bad rebuttal.
I do agree with how hard they go against post-modernism, I look towards the United States from Mexico and see that entire fields have been completely beaten or hijacked, especially structuralist ones, I hear no mention of semiotics in the debate, despite the fact that it should be the center of many fields to do with linguistics and art
If there is truly “chaos in the sexual realm” it should be visible in statistics. If not, she’s wrong.
We have no right to change the game. Do not try.
I profoundly disagree. It is an ethical imperative to change the games of live in a sustainable manner.
It seems like the author of this critique has not read Nietzsche or any of the existentialists… Peterson and Paglia primarily went over topics in existentialism that the author completely glanced over or misinterpreted. Peterson and Paglia do misrepresent certain postmodernist points, but not the overall cultural results of it. Postmodernism stemmed from existentialism, but lost the practicality and introduced obfuscation. The rejection of postmodernism is actually a defense of earlier existentialist thought.
Interesting point — but I think that pomo is much more than degenerated existentialism. I view it as a metameme.
Simon Kielczewski
So essentially the author is upset that other people’s ideas don’t fit into their victim-olympic world, and he is having a literary tantrum because people he doesn’t like are doing better at life than him?….
Or I just disagree with their positions.
I like JP and I thought this talk was great.
He has a lot of fans so it’s nice to hear someone criticizing his arguments. You make a lot of good points, though i think they also do.
Thanks for pulling this apart and showing a different side.
At your service.
Jeanne d'fart
Among all the ranting critical comments on this artcile there is one that stands out. I’ll it your intelligence to figure out which.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/795eo6/a_critique_of_jordan_peterson_and_camille_paglia/
I’ll take a look at reddit. Thanks.
Jeanne d'tart
But most important of all – you’re really leaning in and taking risk brotha. Inspiring and I for one salute your for that. Keep it up!
Wow there is a lot to dispute here. Well I’m particularly curious how the answer would answer/counterpoint [Part 2 point 1] if they understood it properly.
This was supposed to be an article logically debunking Peterson’s ideas. Instead here they strawman his point implying that he is suggesting violence is an acceptable problem solving method. That’s totally missing the point. Perhaps Peterson phrased himself badly in this particular video. I don’t remember. The point he was going for is that when civil discourse breaks down violence is eagerly waiting to take its place. Look at antifa for example: look what happens when two sides of a political spectrum reach an impasse and begin to revile each other, just look how gleefully eager they are to “punch nazis”. Because those nazis are acting beyond unreasonably. (Assuming antifa isn’t misjudging its targets in the field, which is not a safe assumption)
Knowing this, most of us try to be at least a little bit reasonable, because most of us don’t want to resolve problems violently. It’s a last resort. But what happens when a woman acts beyond unreasonably? There exists some small vocal minority of toxic females, who when disagreeing face to face, especially in informal social spaces, will physically challenge men by violating their personal space, pushing, slapping, etc. them in an attempt to provoke a response, knowing if the man touches her back, she instantly wins all sympathy. More commonly unreasonable women will intentionally seek to push a man’s buttons in every way possible that does not cross over any physical boundaries, but is beyond infuriating by design. How the hell is a man supposed to deal with that?
Do you understand the point properly now?
I understand it, and it still boils down to a complaint about not being able to hit women.
Yeah exactly. If a man is a threat to your life or your property, or to your loved ones, you have the right to initiate force against them.
The problem is that if a woman is acting in the same way, you can’t, because the law will end up blaming you.
So they end up being able to go around doing whatever they want, and you can’t throw them out if they become unreasonable.
Liselotte Jetzinger
My reply below, Matthew, should show up here…..
Steven Denheyer
Respectfully, I think that’s a principle of charity fail on your part.
A wish to hit women would look more like: “There are some cultures in which it’s acceptable to hit women – in limited contexts. And women are quite civil to men in those culture! I think we should adopt those norms.”
Here’s my attempt at a charitable interpretation: “We have a strict prohibition on hitting women in our culture. And that’s good! But it has the knock-on effect of giving women carte blanche to act aggressively. This is not so good. What’s the solution? Well, maybe good women should be obligated to stick up for men…” He pretty much says exactly that.
You’re right, he doesn’t want to hit women, of course. But he does say that he feels powerless about not being able to use physical and dominance intimidation, which is a kind of complaint about the fact. The obvious answer is that he should be able to reasonably argue against the accusations that others make, and that the problem is that people (like far-left students) *are* reducing discourse to violent conflicts.
small-dose-of-pain
8 January, 2018, 04:53 PM
Hanzi, you entirely missed the point.
He is not complaining about not being able to use force.
He believes, evolutionary speaking He doesnt know how to act in useful manner in those situations.
which is quite different dont you think?
Read maps of meaning.
He doesnt consider him self as an intellectual. JP consider him self a romantic and in a sense he fight post modernism with his romanticism which is quite a meta-modern stance.
Meta truth, or evolutionary abstractions, his hero worship cult, are all aspect of a metamodern narrative.
I actually I think JBP is quite aligned with metamodernism,
The people that not getting are metamodernist or post-modernist.
you seem to be not getting it.
in his works, new sincerity, meet transcendence and abstraction. Thats why it resonates with people inhabiting the zeitgeist.
I think you are the person that still live with post modern era of cynicism. Iam sorry for you. really.
I think you are totally missing out or you are old and dont get it.
How is anybody supposed to respond, when someone pushes his/ her buttons…..well hitting doesn´t seem to be the solution, strange, that we have to discuss that here….
maybe look, why there is a button, that can be pushed ?….and if the argument really is nonsense , address it in a reasonable way?
But as there are still so many men with the hitting option, I think it´s true, what I use to say about being taken serious as a woman:
As long as men think they are in any case superior in a physical fight with a woman, we can study as much as we want, they wont take us seriously (on a very basic, existential level ).
Great point, Liselotte — this is, if we take off the edges of what I wrote perhaps too provocatively, the real point I was making.
Buford T. Justice
Freinacht writes “Paglia: 21:00. She claims that one must understand neoclassicism and classical theory in order to write about Western society (which she says Foucault didn’t).”
Paglia actually says “Foucault is absolutely a joke before the Enlightenment. Perhaps he might be useful to talk about what happened after neoclassicism which, by the way, he failed to notice… he knew absolutely nothing about antiquity. How can you make any sort of large structure to analyse western culture without knowing about classical antiquity? This is a person who had no business making large theoretical statements about anything.”
So her criticism of Foucault is both vastly larger and more damning. To dismiss it as “Bildung snobbism”, as Freinacht does, is rather silly.
So correction: she thinks you must know about neoclassicism *and* antiquity in order to analyze society.
Decreasing Entropy
Hanzi, I like your writing a lot and I plan to buy your book eventually, but I have to take issue with this article, it’s petty, and a waste of your time. I agree with some of your criticisms of Peterson, he’s got a huge conservative bias, and is irrationally afraid of society changing. I also disagree with a lot of your criticisms. You are very uncharitable with your interpretations of their points, and sometimes manage to completely misunderstand their context and meaning, as is demonstrated in some of the other comments. Regardless, this kind of attack isn’t going to change anyone’s mind; it’s too antagonistic and sloppy. This whole article feels decidedly postmodern, not metamodern.
I’m very glad to hear.
I admit to making some mistakes and would be happy to back on points that people show are misunderstandings. I still think it’s important, however, to see that JP and CP are getting pomo wrong and throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Cameron Rogers
Thanks a lot for this. I have been pretty opposed to Peterson for awhile and this more or less reiterates my justification for opposing him on multiple issues.
I have serious questions regarding your motivation for this article – which is, let’s be honest, poorly written, especially by academic standards.
I would advise you to see a psychologist.
May I recommend Jordan Peterson?
Jasper, asking questions about motivation is likely a way of dodging having to face the content and truth value of my claims.
Let’s make a deal and treat the content of what we’re saying, rather than making guesses about one another.
Honestly, it’s like midnight here in India as I started reading this piece of yours. I had like only just started when I saw this,
“Lions cannot see the difference between the whiteness of the zebras and the pale grass.”
And then I reflected, “didn’t this guy read this thing through once again before posting it..?” And the answer was a conclusive “No” in my mind.
So well, I will try to adress all of your critique tomorrow once I’m back from office. Also proof read things before posting them. It would help you avoid such glaring mistakes alluding to simple old ‘common sense’ next time around. Thanks
Vishal, your message isn’t very well written either. Maybe tomorrow you will do better. Welcome back.
Anyway, here’s a little info on zebras and lions:
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question454.htm
1. His point about zebras was about camouflage against the herd not the grass.
2. The negative masculine political term is patriarchy, and it’s used way more than nanny state. Nanny state was more something people said a lot in the 80s and 90s.
3. Pomos behave in weird (unique, I suppose) ways but they all think exactly the same, and shame and shutdown people who think differently. On hair color, they are not a herd. But in terms of ideas, they are. Remember when Occupy had everyone repeating exactly what the speaker said? Terrifying.
4. English does need to look at it’s underlying structure and assumptions. In fact, Paglia does this all the time in her own work. But translating a French deconstructionist into English is meaningless because French and English are not the same and don’t have have the same structure and assumptions. It just turns into gibberish.
5. Regarding happiness and CBT. It is my opinion that CBT is very shallow and makes people tell themselves they are happy and put on a facade of happiness. I think our current culture convinces people to do that in general and that explains the statistics of happiness going up more than people actually becoming happier. CBT is vapid compared to something enthralling like Jung or Freud. Even if we all become mindless, well-functioning consumerist robots through CBT, I would not trade choose it because it’s beneath human dignity.
6. The point about sexual chaos is not specific to rape. She’s saying that there’s a breakdown of how men and women relate to each other. Without defined norms, there is chaos and confusion, and lots of misunderstanding.
7. The freedom to risk rape bit. I think you’re misunderstanding. Paglia’s point is that the threat of risk is real and transcends society or culture. Their point is not that men in general are dangerous rapists, but rather that a small percentage of men are ruthless or deranged rapists, and will be no matter what the sexual culture of a society is like. Even if this is a small percentage, which it is, they can still go out and rape, say, 5 women each, and all of a sudden a lot of women are raped. Knowing this, it makes sense to either do the safe thing and stay home — or take responsibility for the risk you are taking, if you so choose, just like if you choose to ride a motorcycle. Her point is like, “hey man/woman, I respect your choice to take this risk, but know that there is a risk, and that that risk exists not because of a patriarchical culture, but because there are a few psychopaths around.”
Steph Tohill
On point 7 – isn’t this misunderstanding the nature of most men who commit sexual assault. The “stranger in the park” is a tiny minority of the whole. Most women know their attackers – including friends / acquaintances/romantic partners etc.
Obviously on the whole everybody needs to be aware of the risks of any situation they place themselves in. But in our society’s desire to always hold women to account for the choices made by men – the level of responsibility we place on women to avoid attack becomes excessive. How are women to have platonic friendships with me if the assumption is to treat them all as potential attackers. And at what point do we understand that those who commit sexual assaults aren’t just your ‘weird psychopaths” but your everyday Joes who refuse to accept bodily autonomy. This also includes the kind of men who would hurl abuse at a woman for refusing to give them her number.
11 June, 2018, 06:53 PM
“stranger in the park” being the bulk of rapes is indeed a myth
using UK data on rape (male & female, inc. attempted rapes)
: 82% of rapes are carried out by someone known to the victim (current or ex-partner, acquaintance, or other intimate)
: 11% are date-rapes
: 8% stranger rapes
(errors due to rounding)
source: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rape-a-lack-of-conviction/
Ubermensch in Training
Hanzi,
I wanted to thank you for this. You’re the first person I have read in quite a long time with a well-reasoned “left” perspective. I’ve been riding on the Peterson train for quite a long time: I’ve watched almost all of his biblical lectures and a substantial portion of his other work. I know his worldview pretty damn well, and you’ve done a good job pointing out the faults in this collaboration Peterson did with Paglia. Peterson’s understanding of how human beings create meaning in their lives has been intellectually invaluable to me, but you’re correct in that many of his social criticisms are sometimes not as well thought out as they could be. I think this comes from how quickly he has been thrust into the public sphere and how rapidly every social issue is accelerating and feeding on itself and morphing; it’s hard for anyone to keep up and analyze it all, particularly someone who is branching quite a bit beyond his field. I don’t think everything he says is completely off base, though; I think it’s probably something like partly-true: a viewpoint that needs to be held in dialectic with others in order to gain a full perspective.
But the reason I’m thanking you for this is that the left as a whole has yet to truly respond to Peterson. They’ve adopted the strategy of shutting down in discourse and just throwing out accusations of racism and bigotry, so all you’re left with is the conservative part of the conversation. There’s been no dialectic, just a complete refusal to engage on the part of the left. Maybe Peterson is grasping and fumbling like an idiot trying to figure out society’s problems (he’s self-aware enough to know that he probably is doing that just like everyone else!), but it’s better to make mistakes working towards solutions than just taking the ball and going home. I see that lack of engagement on the left slowly changing and it’s encouraging. I used to be quite a lefty; Peterson might say that’s because of my extremely high levels of Openness. But that openness led me to nihilism. I needed to sort myself out, and hard, conservative-leaning perspectives like Peterson or, even more extreme, The Red Pill helped me do that. So I looked at a lot of that stuff for a while, but now I’m trying to find a more balanced approach to my intellectual consumption. You’re giving people a reasonable other side to look at, and I commend you for it. I’ll definitely be reading your other articles; your post-Marxist economic ideas are very intriguing.
Thanks for your comment. I feel the same about how the Left has largely failed to respond to the rise of Jordan Peterson, and perhaps I should have emphasized this in the article. Good point.
Hanzi, I cant really comment on many of your critiques because, quite frankly, its past my pay grade. 🙂
I will say this though, many of the thoughts expressed by the duo are felt by a large part of the men in the western world. I will agree they worded it poorly in many instances but the essence of what they were trying to express is quite accurate for myself and others. I think the reason why the left is silent is because a large part of them only see one side of the victimization going on in our culture. We seem to have forgotten that it is Fathers and Mothers creating this society we live in.
“Peterson’s understanding of how human beings create meaning in their lives has been intellectually invaluable to me, but you’re correct in that many of his social criticisms are sometimes not as well thought out as they could be. I think this comes from how quickly he has been thrust into the public sphere and how rapidly every social issue is accelerating and feeding on itself and morphing; it’s hard for anyone to keep up and analyze it all, particularly someone who is branching quite a bit beyond his field.”
My thoughts exactly
Interesting, Matthew, in witch country do you live?
In Austria -and I would assume in Europe generally- we have equality in front of the law for everybody and that includes gender …..so no woman can go around and do things -threaten your life or family, BTW what is she doing e.g. ?- and will be treated differently than a man doing the same things……
the problem with both sexes and everybody who is a threat is that it´s difficult for the police to intervene before anything happened , but vigilantism is not tolerated anyway, be it against man or woman.
Different where you live?
Yes de facto it’s different in Canada, where I live, and in the USA.
how, Matthew , if you can tell in a few lines?
Liselotte, there are laws like that in Canada too but that isnt the issue. It is how they are applied and presently they do seem to be applied harsher to men in many regards. The pendulum swings both ways, it will be nice when it slows to the middle.
JT……so there IS equality in front of the law, but of course there is always some interpretation possible, at the moment to the disadvantage of men, do I get you right ?
Yes, it is enshrined in our laws. Interpretations are a concern sometimes. I would say women, on average, get the benefit of the doubt before men. As in, viewed as the victim rather than the perp.
thanks, JT, find it rather disconcerting , that it is put by JBP and some men in the discussion, as if it was the law, that women were preferred…and I certainly am for equality, but must say, that situation gives men a faint impression of what women have endured since millennia and are enduring in may countries until today!! Would be great, if this sensitivity would spill over and make men help women e.g. in Arabia to gain equal rights.
Lisolette. What is disconcerting for me is the reality that there has been suffering on both sides. Though that reality seems to get lost when we have these discussions.
…..no doubt about suffering from both sides JT…and I wasn´t addressing you BTW…..
I was referring to the inequality in front of the law, that was and partly still is the case. In parts of Arabia women never get the status of a grown up , lifelong under custodianship and no decision can be made without the consent of a male family member …to name some of the worst examples.
But also in Europe / the West , as we know , many of the basic female rights were achieved only within the last century.
I don´t think though it is about who is the poorer one, I just would like to discuss on basis of reality as you suggest, and not disinformation.
I explained already that if a man and woman get into a confrontation, even if the woman initiates it, the man gets charged. So it basicaly allows women to do whatever they want to men.
On another note, yes, in North America we are a bit more rough-and-tumble and individualistic than in Europe — and we often do opt to take things into our own hands in a vigilante way. And the law and society generally support you if you protect yourself against a violent or unreasonable person. We prefer not to depend as much on the police because we tend to value individualistic freedom and integrity more than conformity and harmony. Just a difference in culture that goes back hundreds of years.
The problem, though, is that the courts always take the side of the woman in violent disputes, leaving men with no protection. This is what Jordan Peterson is talking about.
well, you said that , I couldn´t imagine anyway….:-) and never herd about it, that the man gets charged , no matter what….. ; and yes I know there is the different culture of historical reasons….I prefer our´s 🙂 , and the fact, that there are less guns out there , but depends on personal taste and probably conditioning. Thanks for Info!
A harsh example but guess who got charged with assault. If that was two men in the video we, as a culture,would have just passed it off as ‘boys being boys’. Or just another drunken bar fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T7AqYSxZi0
I have some interest in Peterson and Paglia. Paglia mainly for her rough, inapologetic yet researched works on aesthetics and sexuality. Peterson for his outspoken trend of conservatism, in an age where conservative movements are structured like countercultures. I don’t always agree on their statements, but they feel refreshing and insightful, which is reason enough for a well thought-out critique of their thought. Though there were some spot-on arguments in your analysis, though at times painfully politically correct rhetoric seemed miles away from the existential and mythic roots of JP and CP. Especially the right to risk and the preference for one archetypal gender-related way of dealing with to another could not be further away from the misogyny you claim it to be.
I don’t think I canprovide the kind of response this blog post deserves. Partly I don’t want to, partly nothing matters on the internet and it isn’t worth my effort.
I definite disagree with your stereotypical political correctness but I also very much agree with your rejection of JP/CP inherent reactionary conservatism. I admire your drive and your marathon level stamina to post something this long as just anohter post among many on this blog.
Early in the article you state that “”””tually linguistic thinking is the basis of our mind” or something to that efffet. And you cite a recent book on the topic. I’m sorry, thisi s more than vaguely authrotiy based. Furrrther, nobody is going to bother “reading up” on that book and you know it. If you found it so convincing (no, we know you learned and took unquestioningly that words and concepts are the basis of our brains), then you should have shared some of the evidence anywhere that you espouse it.
As Gore Vidal said, “nobody but your mother cares about your opinion….just tell us what you experienced”.
If you are going to pretend to be evidence based, and pedantically “I am a social SCIENTIST” too, then you should live up to it.
This would be one reason why conservatives and normal people reject post modernism. But let’s e honest, this concern is so rarefied that it has no effect either way. It is really a truly internal battle on campuses. And that is the primary appeal from these kinds of conservative commentators to more elite intellectual dissident liberals: shit that doesn’t matter to anyone else but us nerds.
The reason I find Peterson so disgusting, and to a lesser extent Paglia, si because they lie and strawmen their opponents. I don’t know why you said Jordan Peterson is a talented etc kind of guy. He has no significant achievement to his name. A totally generrrrri psychology professor in a pretty reactionary pseudo science field.
His fame today is entirely based on appeals to the deplorable conservatives, in the manner of a Stefan Molyneux or Mike Cernovich or the much more successful Alex Jones. Seething resentment of racists and reactionaries who for some reason enjoy having unpleasant nerds be their voice.
II think paglia has some very libertine, anarchist, freedom embracing views on sex in some ways, and so it is odd that she also embraces th “men will just rape you if you don’t watch it” ultra conservative misandry and misogyny.
I erally don’t understand why every voice against these conservatives tends to be victim centered and fixated on the perfection of third wave feminism, which was a itself a reactionary mess in many ways. Dworkin is both too hated and too beloved, as are other icons of the time. There is no critical attitude towards them of any balance. They either have cultish followers or deranged haters.
I would love to say and believe that CP/JP and their ilk only have a following because there is no well balanced voice to dsicuss modern gender politics and art politics. But that would be deluded. Many people have a balanced view and they have no audience. You have to be extreme today to capture an audience and tell them what they want to hear.
A lot of what these conservatives say, especially Paglia, is also slanted just to make a point.
We don’t need word play like the Frenhc post modernists use, is very much such a point. Really stupid. What aboutt poets then, don’t they use wordplay?
Peterson has the distinction of being such a repulsive liar as to suggest that the new Canadian law that recommends sensitivity to all identities including ender, is a law that will fine or jail you for not using someone’s chosen pronouns. Get it? The TRANS ARE COMING FOR YOUR FREEDOMS!!! He is especially repulsive because he lies like this after researching an issue. Paglia just makes up shit like this when asked, without having full information.
There is also no denying that mmmmmoleft wing activists sharethe generally conservative view of everything that JP and that whole constituency espouse. Trump type conservatives hypocr. But they have some issue or other that puts them on “the left”. Any serious post modernist would see that these categories are ripe for deconstrution and dismissal.
Much of the appeal of Paglia’s critique of academia is also, or used to be, based on the idea that most opst modern academics are phnies who are simply not interested in anything ahnd have learned to walk the walk and talk the talk of some precious word play and jargon, in the worst tradition of conttttteporary PhD office politics. The idea of an intolerant jargon juggling professor dismissing well reasoned arguments from students because they didn’t pass a jargon litmus test comes to mind.
My experience of university was that either you had post modern professors who forcedou to dance a jargon without any real knowledge, oooor ery conservative professors who ha helf a very limited country bumpkin view of social sciences and humanities. THOSE ones could have used a good dose of post modernist jargon to open their minds. Or they should have been never hired.
I don’t think aglia or Peterson are even slightly influential today. The internet is dominated by much more than them and they are marginal voices. I think you will only finid Paglia a presence at book tours for middle class clueless folk who go to see whatever is presented at that membership series or event. She is a content filler as well for libertarian outlets like Breitbart and AEI.
The same conservaates who link to her on Twitter saying “this is really great, you learn a lot”, will also link to to some Fox news article and say the exact same thing.
Peterson is basically a non-entity even at that level. What tours does he attend?
The conservative criticism of post modern academia is not based on such sophisticated conserdation even. They just see some intellectuals who make a good livign (the tenured professors) and they resent . It actually lends respectability and authority to so many lightweight neoliberal academics as subversive post modern leftist warriors, to be hated by such scuuuuuzzy types. They all deserve each other.
I could write much much more but it makes me tired. Maybe some day I will do a real take down of Paglia and all the current alt right, dissident feminist, dissident conservatives. They are just careerists like a lot of leftists, who found a niche. If you look a bit more deeply into any of them, you find they are all hypocrites and ignorant and self serving. It’s prety bad all around.
I think the kind of post modernism you should be defending would be something like Fassbinder. But I suspect you are more keen to take the side of a bore like Foucault or even more likely, one your many post modern professors. IIIIon’t know. Life is pretty depressing. That’s why I’m so impressed with your detailed effort here.
Dear Judas, there’s a lot here and I am not sure I understand all of your twists and turns. Just to note: I wouldn’t actually suggest that Peterson and Paglia are liars, only that they have gotten stuck in limited perspectives of allergy. But I do agree it’s disconcerting that Peterson has talks with e.g. Stefan Molyneux.
I am not sure how you link Metamodernism to Fassbinder (do you mean the movie director?) but you are welcome to expand a bit.
Big Ramifications
Great comment. Because of its size, I started with a general “look around” of this post and was impressed by how clearly it was set out. It appeared to be a very clinical take down…. But this was quickly followed by “where are the cites for all these criticisms?”
Again, just broadly speaking, it didn’t take long to note the obvious PC flavour of the whole thing. Why describe something Camille said as MISOGYNIST? Just say it is WRONG and why.
There might be some absolute gold in this post, but it rang too many warning bells too quickly. Not gonna give it a shot.
“A marxist cliche” on the advent of the nuclear family. That is awful, man. Marxists aren’t even interested in that. Or anything else.
You cite books as authorities, which are awful books of no objective value. Nuclear family is good. Nuclear family was the norm.
The point was not that you had multiple generations and extended family under one roof but that a child had access to the extended family. Other members of the extended family would have an influence on the child and look after them, taking pressure off the parents.
This is still true today for families that don’t migrate.
Your faith in psychology for a post modernist is admirable and puzzling. One suspects you have not yet read Deleuze and Guattari.
I could also say that this take down of Paglia and JP, exposing them as classical conservaitves, is music to the ears of their remaining fans.
Paglia USED TO be a tolerant hippie libertarian but she became a far right conservative in past years. Today you will not find anyone who likes her except people who haven’t followed the news or out and out far right who discovered her now, in her far right voice.
That’s why all the haters in comments are all calling you a Marxist, lefttist social justice warrior. Those are the only kind of fans these two have today. Paglia’s comments are partly distorted without the context of her past. Jordan Peterson’s comments are perfectly reflective of who he is today, a bigot and an authoritarian.
I’ve been a big fan of Peterson and in the name of moderation I have been looking for criticism against his ideas. Some things he says gets me really scratching my head. There seems to be a lot of gaps in his otherwise very moving talks. I feel as if he makes points that leave much to be explained, but due to his amazing conviction and sincere belief in what he is saying, he and his audience nod in approval, especially because he is often dropping many interesting gems around the point which takes attention away.
Some of your points had me scratching my head too and a little bit critical, but some were very spot on. A few points were worded in a way that made me assume for a moment you have an annoying, smug tone. I hope I am wrong.
Thanks anyways, I was looking for something like this.
13 November, 2017, 01:54 AM
This discussion is surely one his lesser good videos. Yes, some things he says are badly articulated and in 1-2 examples somewhat cringy.
If you go however critical through the criticism, you will find that it is in many aspects wrong or even tries to put wrong words in his mouth.
I did an review of that below.
I agree that it is good to get critical input and some here is justified.
But it is highly subjective and I would say quite resentful. Read the last part. I would say it sounds very spiteful and jealous. And he tries to promote his book here. If someone wants to sell you something, be alert. I would be careful to take any of it at face value.
As always, form your own opinion!
Good luck with that my friend.
Somewhere in the middle of the discussion Camille and Jordan seems to agree that there’s only existed patriarchy maybe once or twice in history (might be wrong on the frequency since I haven’t gone back and re-watched the entire video again so correct me if I’m wrong).
I’d love to understand more where they’re coming from – anyone with an idea of what they mean and the logic behind it?
Well first, I was like some others here looking for a good criticism of Peterson.
To be honest, I have found that only in some bits.
I will not go into everything as your argumentation is at least as much of a marathon as the video itself.
And I am not that much interested in Paglia, so I focused more on arguments about JP.
Some of your points
To1.7: Peterson is right here that camouflage does not help against lions. They might be colour blind, but it does not help nevertheless as this study shows: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145679
To 1.10: You are right that it would be nice if he would name what alternatives you have to decrease the suffering. On the other hand, only because they have not discussed it, does not mean that he does not think that this is a problem that should be solved. In other videos he named for example Capitalism a bad system (but one that at least works). He is not blind to the problems. He just points out that just going on a blind physical or intellectual rampage is unlikely to make anything better.
To 1.13: “he fails to point out that the majority of PC is explained by high agreeableness and higher social concern, also being linked to higher stages of personal development and post-conventional moral development.” Well that is your opinion. Fair enough. But as with many other aspects, it gives no prove whatsoever. Especially after you do not explain why PC should be a higher a stage of personal development. A statement I would strongly contradict at least as in its general claim. Being seriously hurt by statements which are harmless to other people with the same background seems to me hardly a higher stage, but simply at least on the first level an increased sensitivity. And those PC persons who call for violence because of Micro Aggressions seems to me pretty close to a hatred filled mob.
To 2.1: “He says he feels helpless because he cannot hit women, or implicitly threaten to hit them.”
I do agree that the way Peterson is stating is argument here is cringy. I do think his choice of words is not good. Which is something that can happen in a spoken argument as you pointed out in the beginning (not that it mattered later).
You are however warp what he is saying. Stating YOUR interpretation as a pseudo quote: “Yes, really, this is what your hero says.” is really off, if not manipulatory. And adding a smirk that shows quite some resentment here. Which makes it even harder to believe that this is in any way an objective review.
What he said is: “When man are talking to each other that UNDERLYING threat of physicality is always there.”
As he stated often enough the importance of communicating in a civilized manner, I do not think that he is so much missing the chance to actual threaten somebody. What he means is as far as I understand it a general aggressiveness when it comes to argumentation. He is not lamenting that he cannot be violent against woman, but that he cannot answer in such an aggressive manner as he is verbally attacked. And that is at least to some degree true. A man screaming at a woman is far less tolerated as the other way around. I really don’t think this is about actual violence or the threat of it. It is about defending yourself against some when with the same means he or she attacks. The concept of violence is just the background. And just to mention this, he has stated often enough that real violence is something that should be avoided at all costs. And especially violence against woman.
To 2.5: “So basically, he just killed their whole argument that PC gender equality means that masculinity is undermined.”
Well, not really. His point was never that “men are not men anymore”, but that men are more and more giving up their role as caretakers in society. He sees the positive role models of man and woman in danger (yes, he is conservative. buhu). By the way, he is also seeing hyper-masculinity as a problem. Therefore, a stronger trait diversity is not the point he is worry about. He is worried about people losing their faith in acting out positive roles.
To 2.7: Point taken. What she says is taken at face value absolutely stupid. Fist fights are almost always stupid. I do believe both meant probably a more direct communication, because seriously, how often will have those two observed fist fights, being okay with it. But it is a poor intellectual argument. Sure.
To 2.8: He is NOT stating to prefer a physical bullying. He is stating that his daughter has observed that her brother has more direct confrontations with his friends. DO you really believe they beat each other up constantly? Seriously… That means that you TALK to the face of the other person, instead of behind their backs. Sure, Paglia was mentioning stupid fist fights before, but that does not mean that when JP talks about arguments between men, this automatically involves bloodshed. Who do you think he is? Attila? Conan the barbarian?
To 2.17: Regarding compelled speech: “We have many other forms of “compelled speech” that JP does not oppose. For instance, we’re not allowed to call one another bitch, nigger, “it”, and legally we’re not allowed to tell somebody to commit murder. And we can be compelled to speak when asked about our earnings by the tax authorities.”
Sorry, but all these examples are off. First, it is a difference if you are forbidden to do something or forced to do something. He is only against enforced usage of words. In a liberal democracy there are things you are always forbidden to do, in a tyranny there are things you are always forced to do. Think about the difference of military service as a job and being forced by the threat of death to go to war. Therefore, your first two are off. And regarding the last, when are you forced to tell a random person about your earnings? This only happens when you have a job and profit from society. It is a deal. The moment you are entitled to profit from tax money and have a job, you agreed to pay taxes. You can leave society if you dont agree with its very basic rules.
“If asking people to show common courtesy and mildly penalize failure” Mildly penalizing? Jordan was threatened to lose his job and his licence. Which can easily destroy a persons live. If this is mildly to you, I don’t want to know what something harsh would be… Concentration camp?
To 2.22: You are right there. Stupid point of him.
Overall, at least for Peterson standards, this was not a very good discussion. I wonder if he was really satisfied with it. And yes, they agreed too much to each other. And some of JPs points were not very well argued. But, it is a discussion. As you mentioned, it is much harder to get things straigt in such as when writing something.
And yes. Peterson is conservative. I still dont see why this is a problem or why he should be in any way far right or racist or really sexist. Some of his views on woman are borderline. Ok. But in no way extreme.
He is not the Messia. But who but some fanboys have said that? He surely not.
He is not without faults, but overall he still seems to me genuine in his attempt to be truthful and compassionate.
If you listen to him without hate, you should be able to realize that he is compassionate about people and that what he wants is to prevent harm. You don’t have to agree with him. But looking at everything through a lens of resentment and spite is not helpful. And that is what I get out your comments.
To sum up. You are in no way fair to what they say.
You have some points, yes. But most are coming from what you want to understand and some are simply wrong. You lose yourself in your subjective interpretation. Such as criticizing Paglia for saying that PMs are “poorly educated”, pointing out that “these are the folks with degrees in history and anthropology”. Well, you can understand poorly educated either as someone had little education or that the education was bad. She surely meant the second. Not understanding what the person you criticize means is not a legit basis for deconstructing them.
And what kind of self-promotion is the end?
So what has to be done? All in your book? You are the big prophet who knows everything? (Except regarding zebras)
How humble… And all you say in between. Sorry, but that means basically “something between the extremes…” Oh wow. We never thought about a “both-and perspective”! O.O (actually Jordan points out that conservatives and liberals have both their merits and that you should take both their opinions into account, but whatever…)
To be honest, your arguments seem to me in their sum a marathon of self-righteous profiling.
You go in harsh and praise yourself at the end. At the same time you make a lot of mistakes yourself.
This seems narcissistic and hypocritical to me. If you are harsh with others, you should at least be harsh to yourself.
Regarding the amount of stuff you get wrong (at least with the zebras there is a clear publication, so no argumentation there 😉 ) you should be really critical about yourself. If you want to be a real intelectual, correct some errors or at least consider things again more sober…
Hello Ivan,
Thanks for engaging closely with the post. I don’t agree with all of your counter-arguments, but some of them would make me reconsider what I have written. Take care
Well, despite my counter-criticisim, I have to say that it is honourable that you allow it and seem to actually consider it.
This is for sure nothing granted. So my respect for that.
As said. I think you have some true points there and you made me rethink some of Peterson arguments.
I do still agree with most of what he is saying (not in this discussion though). And I do think he is a genuine and smart person. More conservative than I will probably ever be, but that does not mean he is wrong. I like to match his ideas with my more liberal mindset and see where what seems more useful.
And if you think he is overated, I would recommend his maps of meaning lecture, which is way better material than this discussion.
Further, I countered maybe a bit too gleeful myself, because I felt the same in your criticism. I have to admit that.
I wish you good luck with finding truth. Take care as well!
“He says he feels helpless because he cannot hit women, or implicitly threaten to hit them.”
No, he doesn’t say that or even suggest that he wants to hit women.
Rather, he explains how there is a dynamic between men where a healthy civility is maintained *because* there is an implicit assumption that the disagreement could escalate to violence. And then he says no such dynamic exists between women and men (without passing judgement on it, contrary to your smear) and says that *women* must hold other women accountable.
Andrew Cone
Yeah, I have to say Hanzi, that was a pretty slanderous misreading of what JP was saying. Saying he longs for a more full-contact style of argumentation, in which an implicit sense of “we could get into a fight” regulates the discourse, is not at all the same as saying “I want to hit women.”
This proclivity in your article to ferret out and prove that JP and CP are misogynist really weakens the piece as a whole. Like, I’m a reader of both CP and JP (thought not 100% a fan), and I really appreciate your meatier critiques of their crazier claims. It’s really important that people like you take the time to hold them to account. But it is super stupid to engage in this sort of character assassination. It really discredits your overall project here, at least it does to me.
I honestly don’t give a rat’s ass who is a misogynist or a classical conservative or whatever. I care whether what people say is true and useful. I think you should too.
And Hanzi is *not* saying that JP says he wants to hit women. So you made a straw a argument, Eric and Andrew. Your words “smear” and “ferret out” and also maybe you ought to care who is a misogynist in actions or words, as not doing so really shows a thing or two about you Andrew.
I thought this was a quite dishonest read of the conversation.
You made several large, inferential leaps based on a casual conversation and a poor understanding of the two speakers. Then, you repeatedly criticized it because it doesn’t live up to your invented, arbitrary, ever-changing standard of academic rigor.
It’s like looking at a large, vast forest from afar and calling it ugly because you found a couple funny looking trees. These sorts of sneering “nits” are *not* substantive or rigorous.
Next time, attack the strong version of their arguments (rather than the artificially weak versions you keep conjuring up).
You couldn’t even be bothered giving a single example of these “several large inferential leaps”, yet you complain about dishonesty and a lack of rigor. It’s fairly obvious that you are also intellectually lazy and you would have said the exact same thing to anyone who wrote a critical piece on Peterson because you’re a blind little devotee. You strike me as one of those people who give 5 stars to Peterson’s book newest book which hasn’t even come out yet.
I’d agree that Peterson is much more impressive in the class room. He seems incapable of being a public intellectual (although strong argument could be made that everybody is). Right now I have the feeling that he will repeat his major talking points so often that he will evaporate soon in some kind of joke-cloud. He had something very helpful to say in my opinion but he’s done that now and I cant see how he is gonna add to that. However, some of the points you made are a bit off…and IVAN has addressed some of them. But I take issue with your confident dismissal of certain aspects of what they say with regard to highly controversial subjects. It is for example very much unclear how the roman empire met its demise. If multiculturalism was a factor, how are you gonna measure that? If it had something to do with bureaucracy, why could you not connect that to multiculturalism? For example: As you know, the roman army (maybe) incorporated earlier a famous german officer to their ranks who chose to switch sides and kill them all. What does overstretch really mean? How are statistics to be taken seriously where people claim that they are “happy”? Just asking them is as convincing as asking me whether or not i could feel worse. Look, all that stuff is interesting but in no way conclusively analyzed, and probably never will be. What I concluded from this tape is that Peterson made a mistake by talking to Paglia. She is obviously sort of nuts. And as you pointed out yourself, he kept agreeing with her in order not to offend. The wohle thing was boring and in part stupid, I agree. But as Ivan and maybe your JP-friend pointed out, it didn’t really reflect Petersons views properly. Now thats his fault. No doubt. But I wish people would restrain themselves more from the delusion that they could back up their arguments by data. Because unless this stuff is bullet-proofed it will not give anyone permission to speak in terms of right and wrong. Ironically, some of what I say sounds “postmodern”. Most political opinion goes by gut and experience, as it seems. The latter seems to be lacking in Paglia (who also says some true things sometimes) with her extremely dumb fantasy about fist fights and hunt-pursuit. Anyhow, I enjoyed your marathon.
John Tangney
10 December, 2017, 06:37 PM
A lot of tendentious logic in your criticism of Paglia and Peterson. You forget that they’re people who have been forced to fight in the trenches because they’ve been vilified by their own communities for asking reasonable questions about dominant ideological frameworks, and they deserve to be cut some slack if they’re not always measured in their judgements. Your own critique of them has no such excuse and seemed less than honest to me. For example Paglia doesn’t contrast the 1960s and Pomo in order to argue from the authority of the 1960s, but because the Pomo crowd tend to trace their ancestry back to the hippies, and her point is that they betrayed the legacy of the hippies. Peterson is somewhat crude in his characterisation of Pomo and Neomarxism, but he’s not an insider to the world in which the finer points of these philosophies are discussed, and is often fighting fire with fire in his use of them as blunt instruments against people who are accusing him of being on the far right or of being a white nationalist. I think his broad strokes are basically right in a way that’s not true of his adversaries’ characterisation of him and his allies: pomo is relativistic and marxism does see the world in terms of power relations in a way that’s quite reductive. He’s also correct about the lack of bad examples of motherhood and the vilification of fatherhood in our society: in the phrase ‘Nanny state’, a Nanny is precisely not a mother, while “Paternalistic’ behaviour on the part of states is routinely condemned by the political commentariat. A quick google search will confirm as much for you. I stopped reading at the beginning of part two when I read your invidious interpretation of his point about men in modern democracies no longer being allowed to use the weapons that might give them the advantage in the war of the sexes, ie their muscular strength. He’s not suggesting that it’s bad thing that this is so, but that it’s a cause of frustration given that we still have these impulses when our back is to the wall, and that women’s weapons – ie. the manipulation of the social environment – are given free reign in the same context.
This was a little embarrassing to read: for the authors, because they write with such confidence; and for myself, because I almost bought it.
Have either of you two (“Hanzi”) ever studied informal logic or critical thinking? This post was loaded with (at least) ad hominem arguments (e.g. calling JP and CP misogynists, sexists, Nazis, etc. without arguments), straw man arguments (or at least deliberating interpreting their arguments in the most uncharitable way, e.g. JP allegedly wanting to hit women), and non-sequiturs (see below).
For the sake of yourselves and your readers, let me point out some of the most glaring mistakes:
2.4. The data cited does not support your contention. First, it doesn’t specify reported happiness along sex lines. Second, the increase of reported happiness in the developing countries listed can be pretty easily explained by poverty reduction and decommunization (except Zimbabwe). Third, there is virtually no change in one of the two developed countries listed (Sweden). Finally, there is substantial evidence to the contrary. For the USA, see e.g.: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969
2.11. Feeling or expressing gratitude for the luxuries of modern Western life is not “classical conservatism.” (As an aside, this reveals your Eurocentrism.) That conservatives tend to feel and express more gratitude is probably better explained by their Christianity. That one ought to feel or express such gratitude is a view endorsed by nearly every major religious tradition and anyone who believes in a pragmatist (i.e. therapeutic) epistemology (e.g. JP).
2.14. Laslett and MacFarlane explicitly focus on England to the exclusion of the rest of Europe–not to mention the rest of the world! Theirs are also a minority view among historians.
2.16. This is a non-sequitur. You are correct that it is “widely accepted praxis within the sciences to investigate the ways that sexuality may be formed by an interplay of genetic and environmental factors,” but it is nonetheless taboo. Totally credible evolutionary biology and personality psychology research are routinely demonized on university campuses and in the press throughout the English-speaking world.
2.17. In what democratic country is one person not legally allowed to call another person “bitch,” “nigger,” or “it”? Also, again, non-sequiturs: That there is legislation enforcing certain forms of speech does not imply those laws are justified, nor does it justify other forms of enforced speech. We can draw principled distinctions between categories. As well, the particular legislation that JP references actually does prohibit (in some situations) “say[ing] what we want about the gender pronoun if we don’t like it.”
2.20. Again, non-sequitur. Claiming that “the upper middle class … institute hyper-sensitivity and inject it into universities” does not logically imply working class people are not sensitive. Your personal anecdotes obviously do not support the claim that there are no average differences in the frequency and degree of sensitivity (however we might define that) across class lines.
2.23. A charitable (and even reasonable) listener understands she is being tongue-in-cheek. What she says is akin to calling freedom of mobility the “freedom to get into car accidents.” Obviously no one wants to get into a car accident. But freedom of mobility implies having the opportunities that could result in car accidents.
2.29. As you point out, a number of professions and institutions are granted delegated authority by the state. But this system of administrative tribunals differs significantly from the Title IX hearings operating at US colleges. For starters, administrative tribunals are explicitly created by statute wherein procedures, evidentiary burdens, and appeal mechanisms are clearly specified. Such legislation is also subject to judicial review. By contrast, Title IX hearings were enforced (through threat of financial punishment) by a unilateral directive of the Obama White House (i.e. executive, not legislature) with none of the above mentioned specifications. Essentially, each college was given free rein to establish its own system. As it happened, these tribunals were held in private; accused persons were not entitled to know the case against them or retain legal representation; and there was no right of appeal.
2.30. Again, non-sequitur. Common law systems (i.e. those that evolve gradually over time) actually are better legal systems (probably by any metric you or your readers would consider relevant). They don’t (currently) handle sexual violence well (or, for that matter, virtually any kind of domestic matter) because they weren’t designed for that purpose. Despite the cries of the impatient, it is the merit of such systems that they find ways to adapt–the history of every common law regime attests to that.
2.31. Well, no. What CP says does not imply what you claim. She is also referring to sexual harassment and abortion, and probably other choices that don’t result in these unfortunate outcomes, e.g. choice of dress, choice of educational or career pursuit, choice of partners, etc.
2.36. Again, a particularly brutal non-sequitur. Obviously it is not the case that most ethnic conflicts are caused by postmodern feminists. That’s not what JP says. He says victimization, which is what the postmodern feminists–among many others–do. Just read up on the history of virtually any well-documented genocide (e.g. the Nazis obsessively claimed they were victims of Jews and communists) and this becomes overwhelmingly apparent. There is also strong psychological evidence to support this claim, e.g. Paul Bloom.
The icing on the cake (“They have both failed to see the simple and fundamental progression: from traditional, to modern, to postmodern, to metamodern”) is a teleological, unfalsifiable claim with no supporting historical or psychological evidence. No wonder they “failed” to see it.
This is sloppy stuff. I, too, hoped that Hanzi was the ubermensch, but he’s not even a regular mensch.
Hello Eddie,
Thanks for engaging with details of the text. I especially appreciate your reference to the paper 2.4 — these is indeed a relevant counterpoint. I won’t engage closer with the majority of your points, suffice to say that we disagree on most of them but I think you’ve also made relevant corrections.
When it comes to analysis of misogyny and parallels to classical conservatism and Nazism, I believe that the case I make is clear enough: there are certainly common themes. And indeed, this is the main problem with these two. As they claim to be critics of postmodern pathologies, they end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater and affirming what can only be seen as reactionary positions. The point isn’t to discredit them as persons, but to show where these thoughts and mistakes lead us.
On the progression modern-pomo-memo, this isn’t teleological but dialectical, as I explain in the book “The Listening Society”. As such it follows a clear and empirically verifiable progression.
9 January, 2018, 08:10 AM
Thank you for your reply, though I think it does little to address the counterarguments I raised. To respond to your additional points:
First, that there are “common themes” between misogyny, classical conservatism, and Nazism is, at face value, an empty claim. Find any two political or social ideologies where this is not the case. Manipulated the right way, you can find a statistically significant relationship between any two variables. That this would be the case in comparing political or social movements is hardly surprising in light of the fact that, as it turns out, we’re biological creatures with a particular set of evolved capacities and dispositions. The relevant questions are whether and to what extent these “common themes” are linked–logically, psychologically, or however else. It’s not enough to merely assert that this is the case, as you have done.
Second, characterizing any ideology as “reactionary” is not an argument. Any theory can be claimed to be “reactionary” from the perspective of someone who disagrees. It’s also ambiguous. If interpreted in a strictly causal sense (i.e. value-neutral), it’s trivially true; that is simply the nature of cause and effect. If interpreted in a normative sense (which is how I think you, and most people who employ the term, mean it), it is not an argument. It’s clearly pejorative, smuggling in a normative or moral assertion without support.
Third, I will concede I have not read your book (though if the quality of the argumentation here is any indication, I am not hopeful it has much of value to offer). Still, I find it highly suspicious to simply recast teleological claims as “dialectical”. Too many people were fooled when Marx said it; I think enough of us have learned from these (rather straightforward) logical errors.
But isn’t that the very point Hanzi is making – the fact that we continue to hold women to account for the choices made by men? And the question is why the focus on what women should be doing to reduce the chance of men harassing them etc, instead of how we can educate men to be better in that regard? It’s also an interesting comment as when men are sexually assaulted by men we rarely ask those male victims to look at their behaviour which may have resulted in that. I think it’s the use of “responsibility” – ultimately aren’t we all directly personal responsible for our own behaviour?
Thanks for your comment! I’ll do my best to respond.
This is what Hanzi says:
My point is that CP’s comments do not imply what he claims they do. In the first instance of his using “imply”, I think he means to say “assume”. My point was that CP is not assuming only those choices that result in rape, but indeed all choices. It is not merely taboo to suggest that women are responsible for being raped (see below for more on this point), but even to suggest, for example, that women are responsible for their incomes (e.g. “It’s always only sexism and never educational choices or career goals”). I think this is a fair representation of her view in light of the fact that this talk, and her work in general, emphasizes the centrality of defending and affirming women’s agency/autonomy (i.e. ability to make choices); I think her concern is that if the dominant view is that women are not responsible for their choices, that would seem to imply that they didn’t choose freely (i.e. they lack autonomy) in the first place.
In the second instance of his using “imply”, what he claims is just inaccurate because he’s equivocating on the word “responsible”. Most philosophers distinguish between causal responsibility (i.e. taking actions that lead to a certain outcome) and moral responsibility (i.e. having done something morally wrong). No one seriously thinks (at least I hope not) that a woman is morally responsible for being raped–just as no one seriously thinks a victim of armed robbery is responsible for that. I think what CP is referring to is causal responsibility. And she is correct to say that it is taboo to even attribute causal responsibility to women, e.g. telling female college students to avoid getting too drunk at parties. But this is odd because it’s so widespread to acknowledge causal responsibility in other domains, e.g. wearing a seatbelt to minimize injury from car accidents, checking the expiry date of foods before eating them, avoiding dangerous neighbourhoods at night, etc.
So to more directly address your questions:
“But isn’t that the very point Hanzi is making – the fact that we continue to hold women to account for the choices made by men?” Respectfully, no, I don’t think CP, or really anyone (aside from some ultra-religious folks) is saying that. I think CP is saying that women should acknowledge their causal responsibility. You could, if you were really concerned, live your whole life indoors and always be safe from the world. But once you go out there, there are dangers. That’s not to say those dangers should exist, but if they do, you should be aware of them and conduct yourself accordingly. Everybody does this all day long. I don’t see why this, on its own, is controversial.
“And the question is why the focus on what women should be doing to reduce the chance of men harassing them etc, instead of how we can educate men to be better in that regard?” I think this is a false dichotomy. It’s not either/or, but both. So I said above that there are dangers in the world. As with all dangers, we should both 1) empower individuals to minimize their exposure and have the ability to cope with and recover from them and also 2) do as much as we can to minimize those dangers in the first place. I’m a careful driver and I wear a seatbelt, but I also believe firmly in maintaining and improving the system of traffic laws and driver education/training.
Admittedly, CP focuses more on point (1), but that, I think, is because she is a professor and is constantly surrounded by people who only focus on point (2), so I think she thinks she’s trying to restore some balance. But you’re right, she should have said both. But, I think part of the reason she focused more on point (1) is because point (2) raises some really tricky moral/legal issues. In particular, who is responsible for “educat[ing] men to be better in that regard” and how do they go about doing that? If it’s a matter of parenting and early education, I think most people wouldn’t have a problem in that regard. But more invasive measures get tricky. JP and CP have both expressed concern (if not in this video, then elsewhere) about anti-bias education (because it’s actually been shown to be either ineffective or even counterproductive). So it’s not clear what the best approach to education is. I think that’s why CP, as a matter of public policy, leans more heavily toward empowering women to exercise autonomy (rather than various authorities/institutions, which, historically, tend to badly abuse their power, and usually to the detriment of women).
It’s also not obvious that a lack of education is the problem–it’s already extremely taboo in the West for men to hit women, and most boys learn that very early in life. I think a bigger issue, if we’re talking about sexual assault, in particular, is the role of alcohol. (Almost all the cases on US college campuses involve alcohol, and a large majority of all violent crimes involve alcohol, and there is an overwhelming amount of neurobiological and psychological research on how alcohol increases impulsiveness and decreases concern with the consequences of one’s behaviours.) There is obviously very poor education about this, e.g. men think that it will improve their sexual performance (even though the opposite is true) and women think they can consume as much as men (which is just not true, on average, physiologically speaking). If that’s the sort of thing you have in mind, then yes, I think that kind of education would be extremely valuable.
“It’s also an interesting comment as when men are sexually assaulted by men we rarely ask those male victims to look at their behaviour which may have resulted in that.” Very true. I don’t know the statistics, but it seems like a huge percentage of male victims of sexual assault are either boys (in which case they’re almost never even causally responsible, since there’s almost nothing they can do) or in prison (in which case, generally speaking, nobody cares). So while I definitely agree that it’s important to discuss, I’m not sure if the appropriate social response to these cases would be the same as with most female victims.
“I think it’s the use of “responsibility” – ultimately aren’t we all directly personal responsible for our own behaviour?” Yes! 🙂
10 February, 2018, 12:30 AM
Hi Hanzi,
I love this. I couldn’t really explain or really understand why I disliked Peterson, I think it mainly was that pop psychology he seems to spew which is merely taken more seriously because he is an academic and he throws in some psychological terminology. He hides behind this facade and if he wouldn’t have it, he would be doing the exact same thing as a lifestyle coach. Jordan Peterson really frustrates me because he is smart and does make sense at some moments, that is what ropes people in, but then he starts saying stuff that only an ideologue could say, by being almost intentionally shortsighted and factually incorrect. Sadly, people already drank the kool-aid, he is revered like a saint on the internet.
Thanks for taking the time writing this it really helps me understanding how to tackle Peterson.
Spaceboy
Peterson believes in the importance of personal responsibility and is of the view that social movements based on resentment will cause more harm than good. I have a feeling he’d be more of a fan of MLK than of Malcolm X; however, his demeanor and even some his language, when speaking about pomo, is often highly suggestive of the very form of resentment he criticizes…seems hypocritical.
We’re off to a flying start. People “worshipping” JBP just simply need to realize he’s a false god and stop doing it. And here I thought it was going to be a fair and balanced critique of his views. So much for that.
“They think that if you just remove the evil and inexplicable abomination of postmodern neomarxist politically correct feminism, all will be well.”
No, they don’t think that, certainly not JBP. Clearly, you’ve never listened to anything he’s said in the past about life being suffering and that on of the things that create purpose in life is to try and reduce it as much as possible. Stand up straight, stop being a whiny victim, take some responsibility for your actions, tell the truth. Nowhere, has JBP ever said that if you just get rid of Po-Mo and NeoMarxism and PC feminism, that the whole world will magically fall into a lull of enduring peace and happiness. This is reduction ad-absurdum. It’s getting almost impossible to take you seriously now.
You have confused the word opinion with the word truth. It is not your “truth”, it is your opinion
You claim that since that there are “more negative statements about women than about men”, this is objective proof that there is “thinly concealed misogyny”. I submit that your methodology for determining this is flawed. By your own logic, the article you’ve written is either misogynistic (criticizes Paglia more than JBP) or misandrinistic (criticizes JBP more than Paglia) depending on who you’ve criticized more. I didn’t count on my first run through and I won’t be going back to check. As a matter of fact, any article written critical of anyone will fall into that category by definition. I don’t think you’ve thought this through very well.
I’m skipping through and pointing out some of the more ridiculous claims of yours. Point 29 – Hate to tell you this old chap, but social work, civic committees, union rights and psychiatric care are not, nor have they ever been, parallel legal systems.
I will stop here and state that it is at this point that I sincerely question your ability to understand the world around you. It would appear that you have constructed an alternate reality in your own head, one in which you seriously consider what you’ve written here as a serious critique on what JBP and Paglia have said in that interview. If I had the time, which I don’t, I am sure I could point out many, many, many more flaws in your reasoning. Just let me state this for the record. If you think this nonsense is going to sway any honest person’s opinion of JBP, you’re more delusional that this response has already shown you to be
Erez Shinan
11 April, 2018, 08:36 PM
This is a fair critique Peterson, although as others have pointed out, it misses on several counts, by misunderstanding some of his arguments, and failing to prove him wrong on several others.
However, is it a good critique? There are so many recorded hours of that man speaking (I’ve already listened to a few dense hours, and I probably haven’t covered even 5% of his public appearances), he is bound to make mistakes. He is also very aware of this fact. The fact that you only catch him on mild and subtle points, or cling on to mistakes of phrasing (and to point out the obvious: This is a live recording, he didn’t get a chance to rethink and revise his sentences as you do), is somewhat telling.
To clarify, I like Peterson, but I’m aware of his flaws. I don’t think Peterson is the hero we deserve, but he’s the hero we have. And to me, it’s refreshing to finally see a smart, thoughtful, knowledgeable and mostly humble man gaining popularity and getting front stage. Sure, he’s more of a psychotherapist than a philosopher, but he has a much better than average grasp of philosophy, and his oration skills are fantastic. We should be glad that he’s getting the spotlight treatment, especially in the age of “alternative facts” and “fake news”, and hope for more and better people to follow his lead.
Because of that, I’m confused that you’re so eager to reject Peterson’s role as a spokesperson of rationality. Especially when you yourself admit that he’s correct and insightful on a wide range of issues. If I understand Metamodernism correctly, the whole point of it is to take the good parts or rationalism and the good parts of postmodernism and use them together to build a holistic structure of thought that transcends both. In my eyes, this is exactly what Peterson is aiming for, but he’s not sure how to get there. And yes, he’s wrong on many things, but perhaps instead of treating him as an enemy, you should treat him as an ally that needs some guidance and collaboration. If that’s not a Metamodernist would do, then I guess I’m not one.
Ulysses Alvarez
I find valuable Hanzi critique but somehow felt to me short and even pyrrhic in his overall result. There are some fundamental flaws in Jordan Peterson historical and philosophical approach to pots-structuralism as a cultural and philosophical movement which could invalidate as much some of his premises as his corresponding conclusions.
However, it is my belief that to attempt to criticise Peterson ideas with such level of details, even when it might be accurate (it is not of my interest to discuss it this time here ) it just distracts from what is relevant allowing others to get distracted by tangential issues.
Paterson not only refuses to recognise post-structuralism as a real historical movement, but also wrongly insist not only in reducing it to a mere Neo-Marxist ideology, but he is actively blind to testify for post-structuralism impacts in Art, literature, architecture and in general its ubiquitous spreading in many other fields of competence and cultural life across western societies.
It would suffice to focus on these shortcomings to actually assess the overall validity of Peterson ideas and patterns of thinking.
Peterson, in my view, is not only partially right about many of his views regarding postmodernism, but also about the current toxicity of identity politics movements. I won’t go into details about my points since I am just making short comments.
However, in my view, Peterson’s approach is overtly sensationalistic and alarmist. Such approach obviously is not doing any favour to his own intellectual and political agenda, but I found lacking Hanzi neglect on highlighting enough through his critical approach to Peterson not only the shortcomings of postmodernism but also the shortcomings of each of the current identity politics movements. In my upcoming book, Mercenary Spirituality – The Left, the Right and the Alt-Right I deal with this topic in more details.
https://www.facebook.com/1147967928681143/posts/1148013812009888/
I’m a bit sad after reading this by Hanzai.
Whatever comes after postmodernism, if it is going to stick, then from a gender perspective, it absolutely has to integrate the perspectives first introduced by Warren Farrell. He is someone who is clearly post postmodern feminism. Including the ability to frame the issues in many ways from various perspectives, and then include and transcend them.
I don’t get the impression Hanzai’s blog post here demonstrates sufficient integration to be at the leading edge, especially regarding gender.
For example. Hanzai said:
“11 Peterson: 33:30. He tells us there is no sense of bad motherhood and no sense of good fatherhood in today’s society (referring to generalized, abstracted archetypes), which means that we’re stuck with overprotective institutions.”
Peterson’s exact words were:
“In the postmodern world, and this seems to be something that is increasingly seeping out into the culture at large. You have nothing but the tyrannical father, nothing but the destructive force of masculine consciousness. And nothing but the benevolent great mother.”
Hanzai seemed to ignore the qualifiers “postmodern” world and “increasingly seeping into the culture at large”.
He seemed to interpret it as “there is no sense” … “in today’s society”, rather than just in Peterson’s qualified locations.
Hanzi then said:
Nanny state is not a term that is part of the postmodern world. It is used in the conservative world. Even more so than “Big Brother” regrading mass surveillance.
Hanzai’s reference to Wikipedia supports this:
“Nanny state is a conservative term of British origin that conveys a view that a government or its policies are overprotective or interfering unduly with personal choice.[1] The term “nanny state” likens government to the role that a nanny has in child rearing. An early usage of the term comes from Conservative British Member of Parliament Iain Macleod who referred to “what I like to call the nanny state” in the 3 December 1965 edition of The Spectator.”
Hanzai then said:
“1. Google a corresponding popular term for bad fatherhood on a political level, one used all the time.”
Again, “Big brother” references Peterson’s “Tyrannical father”and is used in various paradigms of discourse.
Wikipedia says: “In modern culture, the term “Big Brother” has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.”
But Peterson wasn’t talking about just anywhere in society, he specifically referenced the postmodern world.
“Patriarchy” definitely IS used in the post modern world, as is “toxic masculinity”, as is “mansplain”, as is “misogynist”, as is “oppressor”.
Even the Google’s definition of “Sexist” references gender.
The “benevolent father” is framed as “benevolent sexism”. Often suggesting that in the premodern context, it was a form of sexism by men against women for women to be shielded from things like war while men died in battle over scarce resources.
The “tyrannical mother” is framed as “internalized misogyny” or “reverse sexism”, both as a reflection of the tyrannical father.
The “benevolent mother” is framed as “feminism”.
Who is Hanzai talking to? He acts like this is a “mic drop” moment, as if he has some sort of slam dunk victory. How much humility does he have in thinking “I wonder if a term like that exists?” or even “I wonder what my blind spots regarding Peterson might be?”
Surely he is not unaware of the terms above, and other paradigm frameworks for viewing the same facts vastly different way? Does Hanzai see the postmodern gender frameworks as “The Truth”, rather than a perspective that is to be included and transcended into a meta framework?
The current dominant discourse? There are different discourses in different paradigms. What country is he even talking about? The US? Denmark? China? Somewhere in Europe or Asia? Globally? Where specifically? In churches? In universities? On Twitter?
Either way, “Nanny state” has about 800,000 Google results. “patriarchy” has about 37,000,000. That is over 40x as much “dominant discourse” in that measure of the online world.
Also, “plain wrong”? Really? No qualifiers?
“Plain wrong” is a huge assertion to make about a fairly core point in the views of a pubic intellectual who has exploded in popularity to become world famous, especially when Hanzai seemingly misses a bunch of distinctions he makes.
My view of what comes after postmodernism doesn’t involve calling someone with Peterson’s global cultural momentum a “hysterical anti-feminist” who is “on the wrong side of the truth”.
As an update to my comment above.
I initially reacted to Hanzai’s rejection of what I consider to be valid truth’s by Peterson, by myself lowering my opinion of Hanzai’s position.
I had also earlier read a different post on feminism by Hanzai, and on that page I clearly read something which seemed to definitively show a lack of integration of gender post the postmodern perspective. That “evidence” compounded my suspicion. (Though I was thinking “Really? Surely I’m missing something.”)
I now reread that other post, and it turns out what I had noticed as “definitely limited” had been made by a commentator, not by Hanzai.
So to give the “devil his due”, I don’t know Hanzai’s position or understanding on the topic. I don’t know to what degree he is blind to various legitimate issues in postmodern feminism that Peterson (among others) point to, or to what degree Hanzai is aware but minimizing them to give strong support to a limited by sufficiently functional metamodernism via feminism as The Vehicle for gender liberation with the aim of creating a growth path for self identifying feminists and the culture to become more inclusive and integrated.
I’ll chalk blind spots in Hanzai’s post, down to his own self acknowledged “caustic”ness, due to having rapidly taken notes and perhaps not really thinking about it. And perhaps also, initially being somewhat surprised by Peterson’s popularity, while not appreciating Peterson’s support for Christianity as a vehicle for growth and meaning. For example Peterson’s contribution to freeing Christianity as a vehicle for over 2 billion Christians around the world to grow from premodern, into modern science, into postmodern Jung and beyond, while they can stay in the tradition and keeping in contact with spirituality. Right now that is jammed up for many people, they either leave the tradition or remain at premodern.
It isn’t just one growth path which needs to be created, and there isn’t just one transitional blockage point in growth at “postmodern to meta modern”. There are dozens (or hundreds) of growth paths which need to be created, and there are blockages at many points in the system.
Come to think of it, perhaps there is some connection between Christianity being jammed up at the premodern to modern growth transition, and society powering on with a need for modern and postmodern compatible stories and myths, which results in the popularity of feminism to fill the void.
Perhaps the two frameworks are not so much oppositional, as they telling different sides of a story of humanity. Perhaps there is a beautiful order and symmetry in all the chaos.
Hello Hanzai.
Any thoughts or response to my above posts? I believe they challenge some of the views on gender which are common in much of post modern and metamodern discourse.
I’ve learned a fair amount from your various posts and insights, so if you can spare a little time, any refutation/clarification etc would be much appreciated.
13 August, 2018, 04:35 AM
This is interesting and I share some criticisms of Paglia and Peterson. Nonetheless, I still think that they are very interesting and provocative in many respects. In all fairness, I am not sure if the author is extremely well acquainted with Paglia’s writings or Peterson’s work outside that because they are coming from a distinct ideological bent. It also must be added that they are both using provocative language and, yes, they are guilty of the essentialist and over-generalising rhetoric deployed by the woke left. Nonetheless, a failure to understand the ideological and philosophical points, as well as the history and character, lessens the critique of both thinkers. I think some of the points made a bit of: I think Paglia’s comment on the extended family is correct – if one looks at the subsequent decline of the extended family and its links to increased family breakdown. Moreover, during the 13th century, families lived increasingly near each other in rural communities. Now families live further and further away. It is important to remember that human beings live in tribes. Second, I think the comments on rape and gender were essentialist. Nonetheless, Paglia’s “freedom to risk rape” was not a literal calling for the freedom to be raped (no such thing). Rather she was saying that women and men should have the same ability to control themselves in the public, private and personal spheres without any control from universities – it is at the core of her libertarian feminism. That means the ability to risk danger if necessary. Moreover, invoking rape stats is messy because we have little information about how much rape is reported – so it is unclear whether Paglia’s claim that the sexual realm in chaos has been invalidated. Third, I don’t think Paglia’s point about the creation of civilisation is a “classic conservative” one – she’s not a conservative but a libertarian. Her point is that civilisations have been made to control men and give them meaning their lives (armed with the high levels of testosterone) whereas women are given a role from nature (childbirth and nurturing). Which is true and partly why Peterson’s focus on male and female archetypes fall down, these archetypes were developed in order to give men a sense of meaning. Something to fight for, die for, live for etc. It’s much more of an observation. Fourth, the point about postmodernism is correct but Paglia is right to say it was not linked to the 60s countercultural revolution is correct insofar as postmodernism did not cause it. It really came to the fore in the 1980s with the critical theories that were created. The author is wrong to say that pomos are linked to Rousseau. That’s rubbish. They are linked to Nietzsche through Foucault. Paglia is also correct about deconstructionism because languages are different and come from different cultures. To import a tradition in French into English may not work because the tenses, grammar, linguistics are different. She is also correct about linguistics and I think you misrepresented her point. It is true that we are linguistic creatures BUT knowledge is not mediated by language in the way postmodernists say. It is that language allows human beings to express and compartmentalise universals that exist in the world and humanity. Nonetheless, people who look at the physical world do not see truth as constructs of power relations but through their relationship with the objective world (another intellectual blow to postmodernism). Fifth, the author is completely wrong about male and female bullying patterns. I am sorry. Guys are able to resolve fights a lot easier than girls (even physical fights). I went to a boys’ boarding school for seven years. However, there are criticisms of both Paglia and Peterson in their provocative language and their essentialism which i share. Some of the way they express their ideas make them sound extremely dodgy.
25 September, 2018, 02:46 PM
I’ve heard of Jordan Peterson, and of Camille Paglia, but I have never heard of Hanzi Freinacht.
I was just wondering what you meant by:
Would you please offer some examples? Do you mean like from day to day momentary exchanges between people? As a swede i’m curious.
James Dean Hickman
You certainly have a lot to say which is good but it is very rough. I looks like you started to build an outline from your notes and and started to flesh out a first draft.
I would drop the prologue it is pretty self-indulgent and weird and doesn’t add anything. In fact I would drop all of your emotive shading.
One easy first step is to pull the quotes you are responding to, you already have a transcript of the conversation so it is really just a matter of copy-paste. When you respond to your own summarizations it is unclear whether you are refuteing their point or refuting your faulty interpretation of their point (strawman.)
You should substantiate your claims. For instance in your first point say that they are that they are “misdiagnosing” SJ and Pomo movements and “describing” key insights and social dynamic incorrectly. That’s not really an argument. How are they misdiagnosing those movements? What are they describing incorrectly? How would you diagnose and describe those things correctly?
Anyway those are a few tips. it’s a good start keep at it and maybe find a professional editor 😀
Peter Grayheld
Came here for a good critique of JP arguments, as many others before. Didn’t find them, but do appreciate the attempt. It’s hard afterall.
I was somewhat amused as I read Hanzi’s other article right before, which warns against intellectual allergies. Seems that this article here had some slight allergic origins.
https://metamoderna.org/5-things-that-make-you-metamodern
Nick Jankel
1 February, 2019, 08:15 PM
I have long said I am a feminist and manist… 😉
Peter Schaeffer
This is what people call a “testable hypothesis”. Measure government social spending (in the US or any Western country) as a percentage of GDP from 1900 to present. The number has soared. The notion that “the current dominant discourse is one against the nanny state” is either ignorance or a lie.
2 May, 2019, 01:41 PM
Hey Hanzi, I was surprised to find this article criticising Jordan Peterson. It’s rare to find a detailed critique in any form of JP. There is much nit-picking but I do find some of your commentary useful. Here’s my critique of your critique (sorry that it’s a bit long):
“JP and CP represent bad anti-feminism. They think that if you just remove the evil and inexplicable abomination of postmodern neomarxist politically correct feminism, all will be well.”
It may be “inexplicable” to you, but I would suggest that’s because you’re not perceiving the control system (and, further, what incarnating on Earth is really about). JP and CP clearly represent good anti-feminism, accurately describing bad feminism. However, you do offer some good criticism and add some depth to the discussion, so bravo on the good part.
“In some cases, they reveal outrageous incompetence.”
As I will show below, you reveal that about your research skills. But so do most people, and I know I have myself as well, even after “waking up”, owing to the tremendous amount of information and over-abundance of sources of information.
Agreed, so I hope you take this rebuttal to heart.
No real disagreements on points 1 to 7.1.
“7.2. Also, he gets the pomo logic exactly wrong: pomo is about trying to claim uniqueness, to stand out, which is one of the main reasons why it’s linked to narcissism.”
The pomo literature and leading figures may say that, but the agenda is to make everyone collectivized hive-minded identical NPCs (proto-Greys) who think of the State as their parent. As Stefan Molyneux put it, “postmodernism is a way of generating, and lighting up with horrible calls of prejudice and rage, anger towards rationality. It’s a way of weaponizing people to attack the rational, so that the irrational can do their dirty work.” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBvMcNKbDNU @ ~37min]
“10. Peterson: 32:00. He says he doesn’t understand the hatred from which pomo critique stems and why they just want to “demolish” patriarchy, etc.
The ideas presented may draw upon such experiences, but it brings up such ideas that were already largely extinguished in the West. The most obvious example is (bad) feminists complaining about contrived statistics or otherwise naturally-ocurring male/female biological differences while ignoring Islamic oppression of women because they’re told Muslims are an oppressed minority like women are.
“10.2. The fact that he doesn’t understand this shows that he fails to see the fundamental source of social movements, described in so many social theorists, notably Jürgen Habermas.”
I think the fact that you don’t factor in the malevolent agendas of the control system makes you perceive this social movement excessively idealistically from your ivory tower in the Alps. Guess what, people in (Western) cities hardly experience racism or sexism either, except anti-white racism and anti-male sexism by deranged NPCs programmed by the corporate legacy media to believe there are neo-Nazis all over the place and that “microaggressions” are a real issue.
“10.4. As I argue in The Listening Society, people often tend towards simplistic bad-guy models to channel our resentment if we’re not sufficiently cognitively complex, and if we lack access to sufficiently correct explanatory mental models of the injustices. So hurt feelings, plus insufficient cognitive stage, plus flattened or over-simplified theories explain the pomo critique and its pathologies.”
Ignoring bad-guys in your model can leave you vulnerable to advanced subtle methods of mind control, unless you fully know yourself as All That Is and are aware of the bad-guys but don’t make yourself a vibrational match to their energies.
“10.6. The PC leftwing pomos are indirect followers of Rousseau; they believe that if life isn’t good, it’s because there is something that stops people from the natural state of being good: capitalism, patriarchy, etc. which is why they want to tear these structures down.”
That’s an oversimplified description of what PC leftwing pomos are. What they more significantly are is people who have been exposing themselves to particular kinds of (dis)information via the corporate legacy media which is part of mind control agendas/programs, having thus allowed themselves to be brainwashed or manipulated to the extent of behaving like a hive mind or “NPCs” of highly predictable patterns of decadence and irrationality, who are unable and even unwilling to participate in dialogue while promoting the very worst form of government (the Marxist collectivist nightmare that has already repeatedly “failed” everywhere it was implemented while leaving millions dead), under the hopes of getting “free stuff” from their owners.
“10.7. On a side note, I agree with him that resentment is a bad place to start if you want to change the world for the better, or to know the truth for that matter. But to counter resentment, you must understand what causes it and keeps it going, and offer other options. Simply telling the resenting party to stop being wounded doesn’t help. Evidently.”
What causes resentment is the beliefs/definitions one is holding, or buying into, about previous experiences. Any ideas of external factors are ultimately inaccurate, but when considering that idea, I don’t think anyone is saying “stop being wounded”, but rather that their wounds are being exacerbated and glorified by the control system (MSM/DS) by feeding them a neomarxist victimhood narrative, and then manipulating their emotional weakness to justify imposing authoritarian insanity on the rest of us.
They won’t heal by believing the corporate legacy “mainstream” official narrative who want to pit them against those who are awake to and accurately perceiving their nature (alternative/truth media), because they are being lied to and subjected to advanced mind control. As Stefan Molyneux recently put it, “The purpose of pain is to prevent recurrence. The purpose of pain is not history. The purpose of pain is the future. If you have psychological pain about the past it’s not about the past, it’s trying to teach you to avoid the same situation in the future, while of course people who harm you, people who want to exploit you, wish you to think that your psychological pain is only about the past, so that they can continue to exploit you, because you are undefended focusing only on the past. No, your past pain is to prevent you from being exploited and harmed and abused again – that’s the purpose of pain.” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phg5LTEIx_o at ~4min]
“13.2. But then again, he fails to point out that the majority of PC is explained by high agreeableness and higher social concern, also being linked to higher stages of personal development and post-conventional moral development.”
Again you leave out the existence of the control system, so you’re going by the idea that there aren’t people out there with ill-will who are pulling the strings behind the PC agenda for nefarious purposes. You wouldn’t know this if you’ve been paying attention only to the corporate legacy media (and/or the leftist Internet media who get their information from them). PCness is presented as being about “higher social concern”, but its real design and purpose is one you can read about in 1984 and Brave New World.
“13.3. He wants to pin an “evil essence” to pomo, but fails to see that it’s a broad phenomenon where many different psychological mechanisms are gathered under one banner.”
Right, and there are no malevolence-oriented people out there ill-intent on doing evil things for control and “power”. That kind of thing, doing that and experiencing the results (limitations) of that, is actually what Earth incarnational experiences have been about for a very long time.
“13.4. There are other bodies of research which show unflattering traits in other collective categories of people as well. The folks who are authoritarian have higher level of psychopathy and sadism, meat eaters have lower empathy, people of the Christian faith (like Peterson) have lower IQ (even if he happens to have a high IQ). Suddenly, a few negative traits in feminist social justice warriors don’t seem so spectacular in comparison.”
A “few” negative traits? Separating “feminist SJWs” from “authoritarians” as if they weren’t? Is this blinders or relativism speaking? Or lack of information? Open your eyes to look at what’s happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbqQD-Xx2vw
“1. Peterson: 39:10. He says he feels helpless because he cannot hit women, or implicitly threaten to hit them.
1.1. Yes, really, this is what your hero says. Go listen to it again a few times and let it sink in. And then go get yourself a new hero, if you still need one.
1.2. But to get at his underlying argument, that physical threats between men temper discourse and makes it flow more naturally, this is a completely incorrect claim. If it were the case, then discourse would be most functional where violence is most present, like in criminal gangs.”
That’s a rather dishonest distortion. He simply points out the difference in the way men treat men and women. The idea is that lying should carry a punishment (which btw may happen in non-government criminal gangs but rarely happens in government). He says “enough pathology”, but you don’t see any of that, do you? He’s hardly anyone’s hero, btw. He’s just one of many researchers pointing out the criminality and criminal agendas of your would-be owners.
“2. Peterson: 39:30. He says it’s the responsibility of the collective category “women” to tell off their “crazy harpy sisters”. These purportedly undermine the masculinity of culture, which “really is fatal”.
2.1. Doesn’t make sense to give collective responsibility to broad categories.”
Yet, this is what is being done to white males (by your mind controllers) but you’re not noticing (because you’re paying attention to the wrong sources of information).
“4.1. In statistical terms, this isn’t true. Men and women are both happier today than before, even if the increase is bigger in men.”
If you weren’t a lousy researcher (so far), one of the things you’d be wondering from looking at that “happiness by country” chart is “So is that why they targeted Sweden so strongly?”
“4.5. We shouldn’t do guilt-by-association, but it should be pointed out that her argument is identical to that of Nazis. That doesn’t make her a Nazi; it just means she reasons like one on this topic, which might make us think twice about where following this line of reasoning might lead us. See here for (almost) identical structure of argument, an essay called “Women and National Socialism“.”
We shouldn’t do guilt-by-association, but it should be pointed out that your argument is identical to that of Nazis. That doesn’t make you a Nazi; it just means you reason like one on this topic, which might make us think twice about where following this line of reasoning might lead us. I’m not just poking fun at you; this is more literal than you suspect. Want a real “you think like Nazis [want you to think]” argument? Some of the techniques used by the people who are to some degree successfully controlling your mind were first developed by the Nazis, and continued by the CIA and fully deployed through corporate media (chiefly television) some decades later.
“5. Peterson: 46:20. He says that gender differences, according to research, are maximized in the Scandinavian countries, where equality has progressed the farthest.
5.1 So basically, he just killed their whole argument that PC gender equality means that masculinity is undermined. The most feminist countries get more masculine guys and more feminine women, who are freed from oppressive norms.”
You’re conflating ideas here, and taking happenings out of chronological order. The original (1st wave) feminist movement is what led to equality. Then came PC mind-control (3rd wave) authoritarian misandrist feminazism, preying on ideas of inequality. You’re so unaware of the dark side that you’re living in an artificial/false light construct.
“7.4. If a grown man actually hits another seriously, the risks of severe injuries or even death are very tangible. Her violence romance is deluded. And it is, unfortunately, another clear link to Nazism.”
You’re not wrong about violence, but do you know what is a clear link to Nazism? Your belief, or default assumption, that the corporate legacy media is in the business of keeping you informed about what’s going on. Only the most disinformed (and it was quite a few) Germans believed that their mainstream media was telling truth rather than lies to get them to support political agendas.
“12.1. First of all, this is poor social science: Talking about spirit or strength without reference to the exact societal mechanisms, discourses, or any other observable factors to affect human behaviors, leaves us with nothing but invisible free-floating ghosts that can neither be verified nor falsified.”
She doesn’t see the need to provide such details because all of us who haven’t allowed ourselves to be mind-controlled can see the obvious. You in your glass castle in the Alps may not have noticed how people are behaving due to the relentless mind-control propaganda coming from the TV, but the main audience they’re speaking to aren’t as in the dark.
“13.5. I think he just managed a triple non-sequitur, which may be a record in academic incompetence. He made an argument that doesn’t compute, about a topic that doesn’t relate to what he’s trying to prove, through an analogy that doesn’t hold.”
You know, I thought maybe you aren’t as smart or well-researched as you think you are, but this seems like a dishonest assessment, because what clearly happened is that CP interrupted him so he couldn’t finish his point.
“17.1. We have many other forms of “compelled speech” that JP does not oppose. For instance, we’re not allowed to call one another bitch, nigger, “it”, and legally we’re not allowed to tell somebody to commit murder. And we can be compelled to speak when asked about our earnings by the tax authorities.”
That’s nonsense. You’re mixing one legitimate idea (forbidding encouraging someone to commit murder) with authoritarian ideas that aren’t even implemented.
“17.4. Will they mind if we call Peterson a girl and Paglia a boy?”
Irrelevant, because your right to say it supersedes their feelings about it. Only in the authoritarian PC (sold as “common courtesy”) tyranny you seem to be OK with would their feelings, or someone pretending to act on behalf of their feelings, be allowed to censor someone’s right to free speech.
“18.6. Let’s be clear: Peterson and Paglia find reasons to feel terribly affronted, but it simply doesn’t make sense and they have nothing to be upset about, and they are hysterically focusing on details. Sounds a lot like… bad feminism. Except this is bad anti-feminism.”
These are the words of someone who doesn’t have the first clue about what’s been going on on this planet. Yeah, it’s no wonder “it simply doesn’t make sense” to you, when you’ve been paying attention only to self-referential confirmatory sources of information that are disseminating/parroting mind control programs.
“27.3. Besides, having a system for investigating sexual misconduct is “fascism of the worst kind”? I guess mass-murdering people of differing opinion gets second place?”
Here they are of course referring to the extreme double-standards of feminazism generated by government grants and corporate media hysteria, where males are considered guilty until proven innocent (even if on paper the presumption of innocence still exists), having incentivized women to make false accusations of rape. But of course you wouldn’t have noticed that up in your ivory tower watching “the [fake] news”. Also, “mass-murdering people of differing opinion” has been done by, and is the desire of, the very globalist elites you are unknowingly defending.
“28. Peterson agrees to this phrasing, “fascism of the worst kind” specifically, arguing that it is a new kind of fascism.
28.1. From dictionary definition of fascism: “Fascism /’fæ??z?m/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and control of industry and commerce that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries. Opposed to liberalism, Marxism and anarchism, fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.””
This is yet another lie, that fascism is on the “Right”, when it started on the “Left” and is almost indistinguishable from other “Left” movements (Communism, National Socialism) in its beliefs and actions. This particular lie is best explained (thoroughly deconstructed) by Dinesh D’Souza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrytSEyUoY (I challenge you to challenge these facts!).
“30. Peterson: 1:23:25. He says the legal system is awesome because it evolved over a long time.
30.1. There are many things that evolved over a long time that aren’t very good.
30.2. The legal system is one of them. The way it deals with sexual violence is catastrophic, and it is a too heavy weight system for these matters, dealing in too binary terms.”
Not to mention how there’s a class above the legal system (DS operatives), or who have been for quite some time, who are the very same people pushing all these false narratives that are turning people quite literally insane, whom you are believing, presumably due to a lack of consulting alternative sources of information.
“33.3. With a light-weight consent policy, you are still free to have sex with someone without asking, but then you risk that they will flip out and raise charges. So you have responsibility for your own sexual actions, not those of another.”
Again you fail to hit the real nails. The problem is the incentivization of false accusations, the glorification of victimhood, and the dehumanization of white males, promoted by the corporate legacy media and embodied by modern “feminists”.
“34.3. Patriarchy in this sense doesn’t have anything to do with guys being bad, just with the persistence of norms, habits, and prejudices that no longer make sense in modern society.”
That’s not what the MSM says! You’re a heretic! Everyone knows the patriarchy is about evil white cisgender heterosexual MEN! Get with the program Hanzi!
“36. Peterson: 01:39:30. He says that victimization of groups may cause them to commit genocide. This is said in the context that pomo PC culture creates new venues of victimization and blaming.
36.1. He fails to point out that pomo culture also creates venues for expressing shame, resentment, and frustrations in non-violent ways, allowing for cultural struggle to take the place of violent struggle.”
Pomo PC culture is ALL about victimization and blaming, the idea of perceiving the world through a lens of “oppressors and oppressed [and government is the answer]”, in short cultural marxism. The “venues for expressing shame, resentment, and frustrations” are manipulated and in fact weaponized by the mind-control programs to target the strongest link of the culture, the aspects of Western civilization that have the highest chance of opposing and dismantling their control system. The one you seem blissfully unaware of. Also, they aren’t being expressed “in non-violent ways”, but rather increasingly the opposite, but the corporate legacy media of course covers it up. Only violence that serves their agenda is reported and condemned, and sometimes it’s not even what they say, it’s instead a false flag or hate crime hoax.
I say the same thing about you. But I’m pretty sure it’s incompetence, not dishonesty or purposeful fanaticism, because you just aren’t aware of the dark side of this planet. Like us all, you were born and forgot everything, and now you think you’ve gotten to the point of knowing well-enough what’s going on, but in a certain sense you don’t have the first clue.
That is quite insane to say. Again, changing the terms, it’s exactly as accurate as saying that you are a “standard libtard, misandrist, hysterical feminist”. In truth, you are both centrists, because you aren’t insane. You aren’t noticing how polarized our shared reality has become at this point. They are perceiving aspects of the control system, not even close to the full thing if you ask me, but much more than you are. Maybe your incarnational telos is going deeper into the dark side within yourself, and that’s respectable and valuable, but in terms of what you are contributing to battlefield Earth, it’s more shit than shinola.
That sounds like a very emotional argument, doesn’t it? Are you sure your left-brain rationality and logic circuits aren’t being to a significant degree bypassed by certain kinds of information designed to unconsciously steer you in a certain direction? After such a long slumber, the divine feminine is easily manipulated in her return if not assisted and balanced by your divine masculine counterpart — and this imbalance is what we’re seeing on the most astounding of scales.
Thumbs up on that.
Without taking into account agendas born out of evil (which again remains a major theme of this planet), you won’t arrive at a non-enslaving model within physicalist and scientistic parameters.
How about TRUTH (discerning lies)? You have far less of it than you currently suspect.
I suppose it’s easy to call yourself a “metamodern” thinker when you’ve isolated yourself from people. Then it entirely becomes a matter of what sources of information you pay attention to and choose then to believe.
So what is this control system I’m talking about? A good start might be this video by Jake Morphonios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXWtsfuwYKA
If you’re interested in discussion, perhaps we can exchange sources of information. Some first sources I’d like to throw your way are:
Tim Pool
Styxhexenhammer666
A primary characteristic they share is that they recognize and expose the lies of the corporate media. To believe the MSM in 2019 could be thought of as the definition of insanity.
But you’re a thinker, which is beginning to become rare, so keep it up! Have fun.
PS: Is it a coincidence (a non-significant synchronicity) that your surname alludes to freeing/helping the dark side?
CZYJANE
Both Paglia and Petersen strike me as academic performance artists – the pose is important…the meme critical…the foil essential. Making a name for oneself job one.
JPs Rules for living are basically a badly gendered set of things mom told us. Really *basic* stuff. I don’t know why he is considered so important…except that he likes to kick the same people the froggy crew kicks.
He seems not to understand for instance that the rise of child disappearances is not something his parents really had to contend with – and why possibly parents are more protective now. Also the *impossibly* messed up barrage of testing and sorting which makes it hard to give kids what they actually need in life to thrive – Parents trying to protect their kids from being wrongly sorted (which is what always happens) – are accused of being “helicopter” parents in a society which wages war on actual children and childhood. The US is imprisoning children for profit day in day out. But, JP is concerned that privileged parents are too involved with their kids…
Anyway… I will continue to the end. I appreciate you deflating the hagiography around these two. Paglia wasn’t all that impressive the first go around…
I do wonder who gets on these stages and why certain people are lifted up – while other more serious competent people roundly ignored. Sapolsky for instance. I would trade both of them if everyone stopped paying them attention and sat down and read Behave with the seriousness it deserves. It also has the benefit of being both scientifically valid and very very funny.
Thanks for this. I always like to see good critiques of Peterson. If there were one thing I would choose to defend that you looked at quite negatively, I would talk about the role of physical violence, or the threat of physical violence, in male/female relationships. When it comes to men dealing with men, there is an implicit understanding of ‘going to far’, behavior that will get you your ass kicked, and the implied potential for physical altercation ever present underneath the social interaction. Women, on the other hand, have been made immune to this, because modern men simply cannot go there with them without massive social consequences. Some women are more than happy to take advantage of this immunity, and the normal and natural consequences for out-of-line behavior have been frozen, so it never gets checked. As the comedian Chris Rock put it: “Of course there’s a reason to hit women. There’s a reason to hit everybody. Ain’t nobody above an ass whopping.”
These are natural dynamics that I think anyone who has lived has experienced, and developed some level of understanding about. Just as there are male/female relationships where the man is abusive, there are also male/female relationships where the man is artificially cowed because he is unwilling and unable to check any of the woman’s behavior, or even to assert the potential threat of checking it in any situation, and she walks all over him. This isn’t entirely about size or strength, either. Anyone who has seen a tiny Terrier make a big German Shepard cower behind it’s master understands that it’s not the size of the dog that barks, it’s the size of the bark in the dog. Simply being an animal that communicates your willingness to defend yourself, or take things up a level under certain circumstances, is enough to make most other animals back off. If you never do that, you communicate that it’s okay for people to do whatever they want to you.
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Michele Rone Cooper
Michele Rone Cooper is executive director of McAuley Ministries Foundation, the grantmaking arm of the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System. McAuley Ministries was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 2008. Michele was responsible for the start-up of the foundation, including establishing the strategic plan for McAuley Ministries and developing its governance and grantmaking processes.
McAuley Ministries focuses on the Hill District, Uptown and West Oakland neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, and on initiatives that address health and wellness, community and economic development, education, and nonprofit capacity. McAuley Ministries’ vision is to be known as a “good neighbor” whose support has contributed to neighborhoods that are safe, vibrant, and celebrated, and where residents are healthy and enabled to reach their full potential.
Michele manages an annual grantmaking budget of $3.0 million. Since its inception, McAuley Ministries has awarded more than 350 grants with awards totaling more than $15 million. In 2013, the Pittsburgh chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals selected McAuley Ministries as the Outstanding Foundation.
Michele earned bachelor and master’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Her professional career includes positions at Magee-Women’s Hospital, the Health Systems Agency of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, where she served as Vice-President of Planning and Marketing, responsible for strategic planning, marketing, advertising, corporate communications, community relations, government relations/advocacy, and physician referral services.
She has served on numerous community boards. Currently, Michele is also a member of the board of the Falk Foundation. Michele is passionate about education and currently volunteers with the Hill District Education Council and Everybody Wins!, a Reading is FUNdamental lunchtime literacy and mentoring program at Pittsburgh Weil PreK-5 in the Hill District.
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Johnny Cash has for decades been considered a living legend, an American icon and one of country music's greatest stars. But it took director Mark Romanek's powerful video for Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" to introduce the "Man in Black" to the current MTV crowd, and revive his career.
Since the "Hurt" clip debuted in February, the 71-year-old singer has enjoyed a long-overdue resurgence in popularity. In heavy rotation on MTV, VH1 and CMT for months, the video helped to make Cash's latest album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, his most popular in years. The surprisingly strong reaction is even more miraculous considering Romanek was "pretty certain that it wouldn't see the light of day on any music video channels."
The video seamlessly blends old and new footage of the country legend to great effect. "There was never a real concept for the video," Romanek said. "It fell together in a very organic and almost accidental way."
After begging producer Rick Rubin to let him make the video, Romanek set out to direct a clip that lived up to Cash's impassioned, stripped-down performance of the song. "I had an instinct that the video was about the truth of an older person's experience," he said. "The original concept was going to be more stylized and metaphoric. It was going to be this Samuel Beckett piece that I was going to shoot in a soundstage in Los Angeles. But because it took us so long to hammer out a budget and schedule, Johnny became unavailable and I had this narrow window to make the video. And the only way I could do it was to get on a red-eye to Nashville on a Wednesday night, meet Mr. Cash, take a look around his house and the House of Cash museum, and whip up some stuff to shoot, not fully knowing how it would come together."
The footage of Cash is dark, foreboding and unforgiving. Cash, who has suffered through several bouts of pneumonia and other debilitating maladies over the last few years, is portrayed as an old man a relic of days past. The present-day footage alone is moving, but the emotional weight of the video lies in the juxtaposition of Romanek's images and snippets of archived footage of Cash.
"Mr. Cash gave us four huge boxes of tapes and film," Romanek said. "I wasn't even sure if any of the archival material would even be in the video because I hadn't seen any of it before we got back to Los Angeles. We pulled titles that sounded intriguing and we started going through the archives and experimented with dropping the old material in with the new. It quickly became obvious that that blend of old and new was very powerful, and we realized that the archival material was going to be the spine of the piece."
By combining such a stark song with images of Cash throughout his career, the video can be seen as a tribute to an astonishing life or a premature obituary. But Romanek is quick to point out Cash's ongoing tenacity. "I think the video gives a false impression that this is some sort of swan song, which I don't get the sense that it's the case at all," he said. "It's important to note that he's a lot more vital and funny and full of life than he appears in the video when we yelled cut he was telling a lot of jokes, and he plans to make a lot more records."
Despite the artistry of his "Hurt" clip, Romanek has a difficult time rationalizing the ever-fickle medium of music videos. "I don't know if I would use the 'A' word about videos," said the Chicago-born director, who has also directed clips for Madonna ("Bedtime Stories") and Michael Jackson ("Scream"). "They are marketing tools, but I found that they work as marketing tools when you try to make a sophisticated and interesting thing that stands out."
Last year it looked like the man behind striking videos for Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" and Lenny Kravitz' "Are You Gonna Go My Way" was finally moving on to the more prestigious world of feature-length films. Romanek wrote and directed the Robin Williams thriller "One Hour Photo," which garnered modest critical and commercial success. But unlike video-visionary-cum-film-rebel directors Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich") and David Fincher ("Fight Club"), whose music-video output decreased as their movie-making careers picked up momentum, Romanek continues to make high-quality clips on a regular basis.
"They're fun to do," he said regarding his decision to return to videos. "The lack of any rules makes videos attractive. One could argue that there are no rules for movies either, but if you're going to make a film that costs millions of dollars that is expected to have a coherent narrative that will engage audiences in some way, there are inherent rules one must follow. But in music videos it's more like freeform poetry, and experimentation is actually considered a plus."
In the past year, in addition to "Hurt," Romanek shot videos for No Doubt ("Hella Good"), Audioslave ("Cochise") and the Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Can't Stop"). Most of Romanek's video work is interpretive and complex. At the end of the "Hurt" clip, for instance, scenes from a re-created Crucifixion are spliced together with a crowd at a Cash concert. The images volley back and forth as the nails are hit onto the cross. That scene could be interpreted in many ways, and that's exactly how the director likes it; instead of giving the viewer a confining, concrete image-based association with the music, he tries to make his videos as mentally malleable as the music they accompany.
"One could also argue that the greatest, most inspired and beautifully crafted and evocative music video ever made is worse than no video at all because of the fact of depriving the listener of their own mental images," he admitted. "I generally try to have the videos remain interpretive in some fashion. Even though I'm imagining images for the listener, the way those images fit together with the music, along with hints of narrative or symbolism, allows the viewer a place to enter into and engage with the music and the video in an interpretive way. That's why I don't really like videos with linear narratives, because they don't allow for that interpretation. I also try to cram a lot into my videos so one is forced to watch them many times, which makes it fresh and keeps the video from killing the song on one viewing."
Watch the video for "Hurt," as well as many other Romanek clips, in high-quality QuickTime at his Web site. Ryan Dombal [Wednesday, May 21, 2003]
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When you start finishing each other's sentences, you know it's meant to be. For Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Neva Dinova's vocalist/guitarist Jake Bellows who recently collaborated on a six-song split CD/10-inch, which will be available on Crank! January 20 it was love at first sight.
"I think it was 1996 when we met for the first time," Bellows was quoted as saying in a recent press release. "We played a show with Commander Venus [Oberst's former band] and I forgot the words to one of our songs. Conor was in the audience and hollered out the next line of the song I couldn't believe that someone in town knew our music."
Consisting of all new tracks, the upcoming release features three Neva Dinova songs, with guitar and backup vocal contributions from Oberst, and three Bright Eyes songs, with additional instrumentation and backup singing from brooding Radiohead-inspired rockers Neva Dinova.
"This was our first time collaborating with anyone and we wanted to see if we could make some music with our friends," Bellows explained in the press release. "We think Conor is a great songwriter and we were honored to work with him. Also, we had a shit-ton of fun."
An Omaha, Neb. native, Oberst began writing songs at the age of 14 in 1994 with his then band Commander Venus, which broke up when his focus turned to his solo project Bright Eyes a few years later. Garnering attention for sounding shockingly ahead of his time, Oberst was lauded as a prodigious songwriter when he released his first two gut-wrenching albums A Collection of Songs and Letting Off the Happiness on his own Saddle Creek label in 1998. He has since released 2000's Fever and Mirrors and Wichita, 2002's There Is No Beginning to the Story and Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground.
Oberst's popularity helped launch Saddle Creek bands, such as Cursive, The Faint and Rilo Kiley, into the national spotlight, shining it down on the Midwest as the new breeding ground for immensely touching, emotionally-driven music, sometimes dubbed "emo."
Neva Dinova bassist Heath Koontz, guitarists Mike Kratky and Tim Haes, drummer Bo Anderson and Bellows are also from Omaha. The at once haunting and dreamlike quintet formed in 1992 but did not solidify its current lineup until 1998. The band released a self-titled debut on Crank! Records in September 2002. Jenny Tatone [Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003]
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The Catholic Citizen in America Today-George Weigel
On Wednesday, November 4th, the Gospel of Life Group at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish hosted Mr. George Weigel as part of the Dignity of Life Speaker Series. Mr. Weigel, a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and a renowned author. Mr. Weigel spoke on the topic The Catholic Citizen in America Today: Why Bother...Does My Voice Really Matter?. Additional biographical information on Mr. Weigel is available on the Ethics and Public Policy Center website.
Direct download: DLSS-Weigel.m4a
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12 Awesome Movies Like The Longest Ride
By Kenny L Entertainment
Here are my favorite picks for similar movies The Longest Ride. I have compiled the best of the best and this list is in no particular order. Enjoy!
Nights in Rodanthe(2008)
When Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane) arrives at the coastal town of Rodanthe, N.C., her life is in chaos. There, she hopes to sort through the trouble surrounding her, while tending a friend’s inn for the weekend. The only guest at the inn is Dr. Paul Flanner (Richard Gere), a man tormented by a crisis of conscience. As a storm approaches the coast, Paul and Adrienne find comfort and a life-changing romance.
A Walk to Remember(2002)
Set in North Carolina, “A Walk To Remember” follows the rite of passage of a jaded, aimless high school senior (Shane West) who falls in love with a guileless young woman (Mandy Moore) he and his friends once scorned. The two develop a powerful and inspirational relationship in which they discover truths that take most people a lifetime to learn.
Safe Haven(2013)
Katie Feldman (Julianne Hough) moves to a small town on the North Carolina coast, determined to make a new life for herself. She takes a job as a waitress and keeps a low profile, but she is soon won over by the warmth and caring of the close-knit community, especially that of widower Alex (Josh Duhamel). With the help of Alex and his children, Katie learns to love and trust again — but when a mysterious stranger arrives and starts asking questions, Katie’s dark past threatens to reclaim her.
The Age of Adaline(2015)
Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) has miraculously remained a youthful 29 years of age for nearly eight decades, never allowing herself to get close to anyone lest they discover her secret. However, a chance encounter with a charismatic philanthropist named Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman) reawakens Adaline’s long-suppressed passion for life and romance. When a weekend with Ellis’ parents threatens to expose the truth, Adaline makes a decision that changes her life forever.
Endless Love(2014)
Following their high-school graduation, Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde), a sheltered but privileged teen, becomes enthralled with David Elliot (Alex Pettyfer), a working-class youth with a troubled past. Though Jade and David quickly fall in love, Jade’s father (Bruce Greenwood) strongly disapproves of the relationship, while David’s father (Robert Patrick) advises caution. However, their parents’ disapproval only makes the love-struck teens more determined to pursue the intense affair.
The Lifeguard(2013)
A reporter (Kristen Bell) quits her job, returns to her old lifeguard duties, and has an affair with a teenager.
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The Maine Coon Cat
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Tori Houle, Lifestyle Contributor and Junior Editor
Although the Maine Coon’s origins are a bit obscure, there are a lot of interesting stories surrounding its history. One story goes like this: Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, attempted to escape to America before her 1793 execution with the help of a ship captain. She never made the voyage, but her belongings did, including her longhaired Turkish Angora cats. When they landed in Wiscasset, Maine, the cats promptly bred with existing shorthaired breeds and evolved into the Maine Coon.
Another tale involves Charles Coon, a British sea captain who sailed New England coasts in the 19th century and brought some of his seafaring cats into port with him. His sailor cats mated with local cats, and their offspring were called “Coon’s cats.”
Whatever you choose to believe, the Maine Coon has been around for a long time. His popularity has waxed and waned over the years, and he wasn’t an officially recognized breed in the United States until 1975, but today the Maine Coon is the second most popular breed of cat in America.
The Maine Coon is a pretty neat breed, and here’s why:
Yet another tale about the Maine Coon’s origin suggests that the breed arose from the mating of domestic cats with wild bobcats, which could explain the tufts on the ears of the Maine Coon.
There is a strong possibility that the Maine Coon is a descendant or relative of the Norwegian Forest Cat – a favorite of the Vikings – because they bear a strong resemblance.
The Maine Coon is one of the largest cat breeds, weighing an average of 10-25 pounds and reaching up to 40 inches in length
Lifespan: 12-15 years
What are they like?
Like the Great Dane in the dog world, the Maine Coon is the gentle giant of the cat world.
The Maine Coon loves his people, but he’s not needy. He loves to hang out on the periphery of family events and take affection as it comes. While not a lap cat, the Maine Coon still enjoys a good snuggle.
An easy-going breed of cat, the Maine Coon can also be lively and playful, and they’re incredibly intelligent. He’ll play fetch, walk on a leash (with some dedicated training), and is a good traveler. He gets along well with kids, dogs, and other cats.
The Maine Coon evolved to survive in harsh northern alpine climates, and he is hardy in appearance like a weathered mountain man. His coat is long, thick, and water-resistant, but that doesn’t mean it’s difficult to groom. A weekly combing session will keep him happy.
The Maine Coon cat is a very hardy breed of cat, prone only to a few medical conditions:
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease
Hairballs, because of his long, thick coat
The Maine Coon is a pretty incredible cat. But, as with all pets, there are always a few things to consider when welcoming a furry friend into your home. Here are some things to consider about the Maine Coon:
Maine Coons can be huge cats, plain and simple. Keep this in mind if you’re uncertain about the idea of a huge cat walking along the tops of your cabinets, refrigerators, and rafters.
Grooming is easy, but they do shed heavily at times. Not only will you be dealing with some fur around the house, the Maine Coon is also known to produce some pretty large hairballs.
They mature slowly. It takes Maine Coons 4-5 years to mature, so you’ll have a kitten on your hands for longer than many other breeds.
While the Maine Coon isn’t needy, he also doesn’t love to be alone all the time. If you work a lot, it’s a good idea to get a companion for a Maine Coon in the form of another cat or cat-friendly dog.
Maine Coon Cat
Tori has more than 2 years of experience in the pet health industry and is junior editor of IDEXX’s Pet Health Network team.
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