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► Weather Forecast for Korat
Weather Forecast for Korat
Started by Johnnie F., Feb 23, 2019, 02:17 pm
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During 23 - 24 Feb 2019, morning cool in the upper part. Hot during day time. Isolated light rain mostly in the lower part. Minimum temperature 19-25°C. Maximum temperature 36-39°C. Southeasterly wind 10-20 km/hr. During 25 Feb-1 Mar 2019, hot during day time. Isolated thunderstorm with gusty winds. Minimum temperature 22-25 °C. Maximum temperature 35-37 °C. Southeasterly wind 15-30 km/hr.
Re: Weather Forecast for Korat
Feb 25, 2019, 11:01 am #1
From 12:00 A.M. Today - 12:00 A.M. Tomorrow
Day hot. Isolated thundershowers with gusty winds mostly in Loei, Khon Kaen, Udon Thani, Nong Bua Lam Phu, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buri Ram, Surin, Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani. Minimum temperature 19-25 °C. Maximum temperature 35-38 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Day hot. Isolated light rain. Minimum temperature 22-25 °C. Maximum temperature 35-37 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Partly cloudy with day hot. Isolated thundershowers mostly in Mukdahan, Roi Et, Yaso Thon, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buri Ram, Surin, Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani. Minimum temperature 19-24 °C. Maximum temperature 35-38 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Mar 06, 2019, 03:25 pm #4
Partly cloudy with day hot. Isolated thundershowers mostly in Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima and Buri Ram. Minimum temperature 18-25 °C. Maximum temperature 37-38 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Partly cloudy with day hot. Isolated thundershowers. Minimum temperature 18-25 °C. Maximum temperature 36-38 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Partly cloudy with hot to very hot. Isolated thundershowers mostly in the lower part. Minimum temperature 24-25 °C. Maximum temperature 37-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Partly cloudy with hot to very hot and isolated thundershowers mostly in Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen and Ubon Ratchathani. Minimum temperature 22-25 °C. Maximum temperature 37-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Mar 12, 2019, 07:18 am #10
Partly cloudy with day hot. Isolated thundershowers mostly in Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima and Khon Kaen. Minimum temperature 17-23 °C. Maximum temperature 37-39 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-15 km/hr.
Partly cloudy with day hot to very hot. Isolated thundershowers. Minimum temperature 17-23 °C. Maximum temperature 37-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr
Partly cloudy with day hot to very hot. Isolated thundersorms with gusty winds and hail mostly in Bueng Kan, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Si Sa Ket, Surin, Buriram and Nakhon Ratchasima. Minimum temperature 18-24 °C. Maximum temperature 35-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot to very hot. Isolated thundersorms with gusty winds and hail mostly in Bueng Kan, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Si Sa Ket, Surin, Buri Ram and Nakhon Ratchasima. Minimum temperature 17-24 °C. Maximum temperature 37-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot. Isolated thunderstorms with gusty winds and hail mostly in Bueng Kan, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Si Sa Ket, Surin, Buri Ram, Nakhon Ratchasima and Chaiyaphum. Minimum temperature 18-24 °C. Maximum temperature 34-39 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot with isolated thundershowers mostly in Loei, Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima, Surin and Buriram. Minimum temperature 23-25 °C. Maximum temperature 34-36 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot with isolated thundershowers mostly in Loei, Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima and Buriram. Minimum temperature 23-25 °C. Maximum temperature 35-38 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot. Isolated thunderstorms with gusty winds and hail mostly in Chaiyaphum, Loei, Khon Kaen, Nong Bua Lam Phu, Udon Thani and Nong Khai. Minimum temperature 23-26 °C. Maximum temperature 35-39 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot to very hot. Isolated thundershowers with gusty winds and hail mostly in Khon Kaen, Kalasin, Sakon Nakhon, and Nakhon Ratchasima. Minimum temperature 20-25 °C. Maximum temperature 37-39 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot. Isolated thundershowers with gusty winds mostly in Nong Khai, Bueng Kan, Udon Thani, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Chaiyaphum and Nakhon Ratchasima. Minimum temperature 23-25 °C. Maximum temperature 37-39 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot to very hot. Isolated thundershowers with gusty winds mostly in Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buri Ram and Surin. Minimum temperature 18-26 °C. Maximum temperature 38-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot to very hot. Isolated thundershowers with gusty winds mostly in Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buri Ram, Surin, Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani. Minimum temperature 23-26 °C. Maximum temperature 37-40 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Day hot. Isolated thunderstorms with gusty winds and hail mostly in Bueng Kan, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Si Sa Ket, Surin and Buri Ram. Minimum temperature 17-27 °C. Maximum temperature 34-38 °C. Southeasterly winds 10-20 km/hr.
Isolated thunderstorms with gusty winds and hail mostly in Loei, Nong Bua Lam Phu, Udon Thani, Nong Khai Chaiyaphum, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima and Buri Ram. Minimum temperature 22-26 °C. Maximum temperature 27-35 °C. Southeasterly winds 15-30 km/hr.
Scattered thunderstorms with gusty winds mostly in Loei, Nong Bua Lam Phu, Chaiyaphum, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buri Ram and Surin. Minimum temperature 22-26 °C. Maximum temperature 33-36 °C. Southeasterly winds 15-30 km/hr.
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Moon urges public companies to reform
A ‘fair economy’ can start at the top of the industrial hierarchy
President Moon Jae-in makes opening remarks in a meeting at the Blue House on Tuesday. Moon said public companies can help reduce unfair trade among private companies. [YONHAP]
President Moon Jae-in urged public companies to be examples of his administration’s “fair economy” policy.
“Business dealings of public institutions and companies serve as important standards for deals between private companies,” Moon said in a meeting he hosted at the Blue House. Moon said public companies are responsible for reducing unfair trade among private companies.
A fair economy was one of the three main economic campaign promises of the administration, along with so-called income-led growth and greater innovation. The fair economy policy aimed at rooting out corporate malpractices to create a level playing field.
In his opening remarks for the meeting, attended by about 30 heads of state-invested companies, ruling party lawmakers and top officials, Moon said public enterprises are an important part of the economy because their total budget is over 600 trillion won ($506.9 billion), about 35 to 40 percent of the gross domestic product. “Countless contractors and subcontractors are dealing with public companies directly and indirectly,” Moon said.
He said public enterprises can play a crucial role in promoting fair trade because they are at the top of industrial hierarchies that require massive investments. “They can be rule makers,” Moon said, “to reshape business practices.”
Moon listed his own government’s accomplishments in creating a fairer economy over the past two years. The National Pension Service, Korea’s largest institutional investor, adopted a stewardship code that will allow it to engage in management decisions of the companies it invests in, and Moon listed that as one of the key accomplishments.
He said the government used the policy flexibly, rather than using uniform standards or restrictions to over-regulate the market. Moon said fair trade models set by public companies will be expanded to private companies. The fair trade performance of public companies will be reflected in the performance evaluations of their executives, Moon said.
Tuesday’s event was the third meeting devoted to the fair economy campaign since Moon took office in May 2017. An initial strategy session took place last November and a follow-up meeting took place last January.
The event demonstrated Moon’s special trust in Chief of Staff Noh Young-min and Policy Chief Kim Sang-jo. Tuesday’s event took place only 20 days after Kim was appointed to his post after heading the Fair Trade Commission. Observers said his appointment showed Moon’s satisfaction with Kim’s performance in the previous job.
It was also the first time the Blue House hosted an event devoted to actual accomplishments of an economic policy, as apposed to strategic planning. “Of the three policies, I think the fair economy policy has received the most positive evaluations so far,” Moon said during the January meeting.
The Blue House held a strategy meeting for innovation-led growth in November 2017. Only one follow-up meeting to check on its progress took place in May 2018. The Blue House has never held an event exclusively devoted to its income-led growth campaign, although it is a signature program of the administration.
During the first years of Moon’s presidency, the income-led growth program was led by Jang Ha-sung, Blue House policy chief at the time, and the innovation-led growth by Kim Dong-yeon, deputy prime minister for economy. Moon sacked both of them last November.
Jang’s successor Kim Soo-hyun promoted harmony between the two programs rather than just pushing income-led growth.
While Kim’s successor Hong Nam-ki is less involved in the innovation-led growth program, Blue House Chief of Staff Noh is the driving force behind it. The Blue House selected system semiconductors, bio-health and future automotive industries in April as the core investment fields for the innovation policy, three months after Noh’s appointment. Noh, a former three-term lawmaker, is also an entrepreneur. “As his presidency enters its midterm, Moon is emphasizing outcomes that the people can actually feel,” a presidential aide said. “It is no surprise that presidential aides who brought about such accomplishments are encouraged.”
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Book Review: F**k It Is the Answer by John C Parkin
Think of a question – any question! (okay, maybe not a question like “what was the name of my physics teacher?”). Then turn to a page, and experience the magic… the magic of F**k It. We all have questions. And the bestselling F**k It books have provided answers to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The F**k It philosophy – of not worrying so much, of letting go more, of caring less what others think and doing your own thing – has provided answers that work in real life, every day.
In F**k It Is the Answer, John C. Parkin adds another element to the F**k It mix: by inviting you to ask your question, and then turn randomly to a page that offers you a F**k It-style answer, he recruits the magical powers of your own unconscious… or ‘fate’… or ‘spirit’… or whatever it is that seems to guide us to the correct answers when we allow it. So this book is about ‘allowing it’. Just as F**k It is about ‘allowing it’ – relaxing, trusting, going with the flow, and allowing the magic to happen. This book is F**k It Squared: taking the powerful wisdom of F**k It, and then recruiting whatever worldly or unworldly magic it is that makes this work.
Make no mistake though: work it does.
So… ask your question, and turn to a page
Hardcover, 248 pages
Published November 10th 2014 by Hay House, Inc.
John & Gaia have had a huge amount of press coverage over the last few years: mainly for their F**k It books and F**k It Weeks, but also for setting up The Hill That Breathes retreat centre in Italy, which won 'Best European Retreat' in 2011.
More about them here
"As a guide, say, you ask any question, and open up a random page for the answer, it can be a great resource indeed."
Our generation takes pride in the fact that they couldn't care less. Like, we have become so accustomed to hearing these ubiquitous phrases: so what?, big deal! what have I got to do with it? or the classic, "F**k it"
And this book provides us a way to channel all our energy into f**cking it, not giving a damn, but on a spiritual level. It does not make you feel guilty about being so carefree, instead this particular book tells you how f**k it is the answer to all your problems, questions, nagging doubts.
As it turns out, this is a book in a series of such books where the authors have brought forward the f**k it therapy.
I did not know about it before, and now upon seeing how successfully the whole mechanism is going on, the book begins to make sense.
The first read made me feel all nauseous and I doubted if it was all just a parody. Sooner rather than later did I realize that this book was in fact re-iterating a strategy so that it becomes a chant for the reader.
Certainly, the book helped me chant the apparently magical words to get through all questions: whether it be lack of focus, or lack of perspective. F**k it is the answer to all situations according to the book.
Although I haven't be able to comprehend in entirety what logical difference this strategy makes in times of difficulties or dilemmas, I will admit that it is at least a vent to the pent-up emotions.
As a guide, say, you ask any question, and open up a random page for the answer, it can be a great resource indeed.
Disclaimer: I received the review ebook from NetGalley
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Book review: A girl's guide to life
A Thought Catalog Book
A Girl's Guide to Life is a timeless book of warm and sensible advice for young girls, originally written by a mother for her own eight-year-old daughter. From compassion and empathy through self-expression and creativity, from thoughtfulness and helpfulness and good deeds through gratitude and heartfelt apology, from the incomparable joys of friendship to the importance of learning how and when to say no, this little book offers wise counsel that will be of use for many years to come.
Age Range: 7 - 11 years
Grade Level: 1 - 6
Hardcover: 80 pages
Publisher: Prospecta Press (January 6, 2015)
Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 7 inches
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Michelle has lived for many years in Columbus, Ohio, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing and lives in a century-old house with her husband, the painter Glen Holland, and their good dog, Molly. Their daughter used to live there too, but she is all grown up now.
"Your life is the reason you should read this book"
This book is simply put, a piece of advice from a mother to a daughter, and although it has been recommended to lower age groups, the relevance of these thoughts never fails to catch you off-guard. The author herself writes in the introduction, "Because here's the thing: even as you grow older, you are going to be the very same person you are now. And no matter how grown-up you become, it never hurts to be reminded of the things that are really important in life."
When I decided to read this book from NetGalley, I had surmised it to be a didactic sermon on how we should live our lives. I couldn't have gone any more wrong. This is the most heart-warming, comforting string of words ever pulled together that I have read. It is a Thought Catalog Book after all, I should have known better!
The language is lucid, effortless and endearing. Even if you are all grown -up and happy in your zone, the reader is bound to be moved by the rules of the book. It is a book for life. I myself am surprised that a simple writing, adorned with simple illustrations and written in the most simple manner could make me revisit all life lessons I have learnt.
What makes this book special and worthy of your time is that these are rules to living a fulfilled and more fruitful life, and this book works at the learning stage as well as at the reminder level. We need to be reminded that more than anything in this world, we need to hold on to the inherent goodness in us.
I especially liked the fourth part: All Play and no Work. And how in a precise, succinct two-pages, it reminds us how good it feels to help someone without being asked to.
Since I am always pondering a lot about friendship and the like, I was curious to read what was contained in that section, the last one of all.
And I did get my answers.
I will wait for other books by the author too.
Last words:
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!
Review copy: Netgalley ebook
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Book Review: Surrogate Author
Who is Authdas? I wondered how difficult it is for a woman to be a surrogate mother irrespective of the objective. Writing few books have taught – true Devdas are authors. If authors’ adopt similar concept of surrogacy than book can evolve. We have many examples to quote, Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and others that symbolise the surrogacy of continue doing movie irrespective of critics, and box office result. Authdas is Author das! Authdas (booklorn -book sick) as Devdas (lovelorn -love sick), whose love is to write a novel, ‘Paro.’ Authdas needs some inspiration to write Paro and if that inspiration was Chandramukhi, how the story would be?
A writer can certainly be Devdas. And a book, his creation, his art, can certainly be Paro. It is a delightful concept. A great imagination in this plot has been a source of hope. But alas marred by grammatical and other language related drawbacks, reader fails to relish it. It is a potentially humorous plot, and improvisations by the right person equipped with correct knowledge can do so much good for the book.
The intention with which it has been written is evidently noble, what with the introduction telling us to respect authors, because no author 'gets up one morning and says, 'Let me write a bad novel.'
The analogies and comparisons and similes drawn between the relationship of an author with his book and that of the story of Devdas-Paro-Chandramukhi, were interesting only as long as one could endure the lack of any substantial plot. which is perhaps, in the absence of grammatical accuracy was only aggravated.
One part I liked was where the writer mourns when self-publishing houses screw my life with no editing, proofreading and price it high..." this monologue made me empathize with authors though.
Labels: author, santosh avvannavar, shilpa patil, surrogate author
Author Interview: Shilpa Suraj
Shilpa is an Indian Mills & Boon author. She has written two books: The girl he left behind, and Rescued by Love., and is currently working on her third.
Well, first things first: How does it feel to be called a Mills & Boon author? How was the journey to becoming one?
It is quite literally a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to write but somehow life kept getting in the way and I never got around to it until I got married and my then new-husband announced that he needed to be based out of Chennai for six months. I decided to take a sabbatical from work and tag along. Finding myself with an unexpected block of free time, I started writing and haven’t stopped since. It’s been an incredible, soul-satisfying journey so far and I fully expect to be typing away even when I’m old and gray and squinting at my laptop.
The novel, Rescued By Love begins with the following sentence; "I'd rather die than marry him", doesn't it sound like an epic start to a romance novel?
From the moment the idea of Rescued by Love took form in my mind, I knew Naina, my heroine, was going to be feisty, scrappy and full of life despite the fact that her life was going to be very hard and full of hurdles. So the opening line perfectly encapsulates the drama that is her life and the start of the roller coaster ride that is the rest of the story.
What about the plot? Is it completely a figment of your imagination or have you witnessed perhaps one or more of the characters of the book?
The plot, characters and events of the novel are completely a figment of my imagination. Although, I wouldn’t mind meeting Arjun in real life :)
In my review, I have specially mentioned how I loved the wordplay and the creation of dialogues. How do you manage to keep it all spruced up with puns, and witty replies?
I’m so glad you enjoyed the dialogue and wordplay of the book. Most of it is instinctive and comes naturally to me. I guess to some extent my personality comes into play while I’m writing.
Who better person to answer this: what part do stories play in our lives?
I can’t imagine a world without books and the stories they tell. Nothing gives me more pleasure than turning the page on a good book in eager anticipation of what comes next. Stories open up our imagination, let us explore new worlds, and teach us new lessons, all without having to move from the comfort of our favourite reading spot.
Tell us in less than 20 words, why should people read this book?
Strong protagonists, livewire supporting characters, infectious humour, complex plot twists and soul searing passion. It’s romance at its best!
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Labels: author interview, india, indian author, kritika narula, mills and boon, rescued by love, shilpa suraj, the girl he left behind
Author Spotlight and Interview: Saurabh Garg
Saurabh Garg has authored a murder-mystery with a twist. It has Bollywood, it has pets, it has police at work, it has an investigative journalist, it has life, it has strife. This is how we review it:
A lot of thought, research and plotting has gone into scripting this masterpiece. Honestly, coming from a debut author, this is an expert writing.
(Read full review here)
Congratulations on getting published. So, tell our readers about that moment of epiphany when you realized that you are going to write this book?
There was no epiphany per se. But, there was this inkling that I had for almost ten years that I want to write a book. And rather than just one blinding flash of lightening striking my head from up above, a lot of things came together to make this book possible.
One was my hectic job. Even though it was as exciting as they come, it was sapping. Two was this short story that I had written that I thought I could extend into a book. Three was this friend who told me that he's starting a business and needs my help. Four was my then-girlfriend who was in Mumbai and wanted me to move to Mumbai. Five was the eternal question, "if not now, then when!"
So these things came together, conspired (as Coelho would say) and made me work on the book!
It has been an observation that everything in the book was quite thoroughly researched: the descriptions of Mumbai, the details about legal system so on and so forth. How tedious was this part?
But most it was done using two tools - Google and Wikipedia. And it took a lot of time and effort to do so. Plus a lot of bandwidth and coffee. Good to see that people are appreciating it.
Even though it was tedious, I enjoyed it. Probably because I am very curious as an individual. The research for book helped me feed my curiosity.
For my next book, I am currently reading about Navrasa - the nine emotions. And I am reading the Geeta. And about the Bombay of the 70s! Let's see what comes out of this concoction.
How difficult was the writing process? And what was the most exciting part- etching the plot, sketching the characters or proofreading it?
Proofreading. Definitely.
Because while I was sketching the characters, I was, sort of, playing God. I could give all sorts of shades and hues to the characters. I could create good, evil, interesting, boring, funny, drab and all other sort of people. I know there are a lot of things that I can't do in real life. But I could get my characters to do those.
Talking of the plot, t I don't really work on a plot per se. I start with a theme. I work on characters. I think about locations. And then I throw them all together in a blender. And then I let fate decide the outcome. I could get lucky with things and get a pot boiler that everyone wants to read. Or may be get something that even I would be ashamed to put my name to. I work hard and then hope like hell that I get lucky.
Proofreading is boring because you know the story. You can't make changes. You can't add things. You can't twist the story again. You can't play God. All you can do is find your mistakes and cringe over those. You can spot inconsistencies and whine about those. And the mistakes, the typos, the inconsistencies don't seem to end ever. Even after 8943 revisions!
Was there any instance in the novel where you made the story an outlet for your repressed feelings: good or bad?
Haha :) Tough question. You expect me to be honest with this one?
Few things did come from my real experiences. Most characters are inspired by real people - just that I don't really know more of them. For example, Nishant Kapoor is loosely inspired on one of the leading actors of the yesteryears. Rujuta is inspired by a friend's girlfriend. Prakash's bald head is inspired by mine. So on and so forth.
The story, the plot however is original. As they say, correlation to any person dead or alive is purely coincidental.
This one is an off-beat question: Rujuta and Prakash both had a personal story of their own, but the stories were left incomplete. Why the cliffhanger? We get it that the end of the story doesn't mean the end of their lives, but leaving your readers pondering about these facts, you seem to have acquired the status of John Green already!
Jokes apart, will characters from the book ever make a comeback and reprise their role for a sequel of sorts?
Thanks for mentioning John Green and me in the same line. You made my day!
And yeah, a sequel, a reprise may happen. But the characters have to get a case worthy of their time and attention.
I am toying with the idea because a lot of people who've read the book have told me that they want to read more about the characters. So, along with Navrasa, Mumbai in the 70s, I may throw in characters from #tnks back in the blender. Let's see how the story writes itself.
How does it feel in the post-published phase? where do plan to go from here: probably experimenting with genres or churning more racy reads?
Despite the cliché, trust me, life is still the same. No one has sent me love letters. Or hate mails for that matter. I dont get stopped to ask for autographs. That million-dollar movie deal is still a distant dream. I haven't been invited to give motivational talks. My mother can't remember the name of my first book. #sgMS hasn't responded to my rather public proposal. I haven't been sued by anyone for throwing mud at their legacy.
So, life is still the same.
However a lot of good things have happened. People seem to have liked the book. Lot more than what I had expected. Most readers have been tolerant of typos and grammatical errors. Some have sent letters and I have made few new friends. So, life has been good.
In terms of writing, I am trying to convert the book in to a screenplay. A friend recommended that I write a love story - only because it sells! I may give it a shot. You think I must?
Apart from that I am working on my next. Hope to release it in Nov of 2015. But then, I cant really predict the future. Lets see what's in store in 2015. I am really looking forward to it.
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Book Review: The Nidhi Kapoor Story by Saurabh Garg
Two dogs and a cat are butchered at the home of Nidhi Kapoor, a leading Bollywood actress. Left behind is a mysterious letter threatening Nidhi and her family.
Nishant Kapoor, Nidhi’s father and a superstar of the yesteryears is confined to a retirement facility in the hills. Tormenting him are his recurring dreams of someone trying to hurt him and his family.
A film set where Nidhi Kapoor is shooting for her much anticipated film goes up in flames. Trapped inside are Nidhi and her sister, Payal.
ACP Prakash Mohile is forced to take up the investigation. Rujuta Singh, a photojournalist chronicling the lives of policemen in Mumbai and shadowing Prakash, gets embroiled in the case.
Unwarranted incidents continue to happen and in absence of any real clues or motive, Prakash and Rujuta are forced to dig deeper in the past of the Kapoors. They unknowingly stumble onto a violent tale of lies, betrayal, treachery, infidelity and murder.
Time is running out fast and the unknown assailant is adamant on taking away from Nidhi everything that she holds dear - her career, her home, her reputation, her family and her life. With each move, he seems to be getting close. The answers however continue to elude Prakash and Rujuta.
What is it in their past that Kapoors are hiding from the world?
What grudge does the assailant hold against the Kapoors?
And, can they save Nidhi?
Curious marketeer by the day, Saurabh Garg is a storyteller by the night. The Nidhi Kapoor story is his first full-length story.
Apart from writing, Saurabh is passionate about startups, travel and poker. When he is not working on creating characters and plots for his upcoming stories, he likes to meet and talk to other interesting people and ask them stupid questions that often don't have answers.
Saurabh maintains a very elaborate bucket list. The item on top of his list is to visit every country in the world. So far, he's been to 15.
Originally from Delhi and based out of Mumbai, he went to Delhi university and MDI Gurgaon for his undergrad and postgrad respectively.
Without any circumlocution, let me tell the prospective readers: this is the most well-crafted story of the contemporary times. The mystery is huge, yet palatable, the thrill is unvarying and consistent, the plot line is well thought-out. There have been so many points to admire about this book, I am compelled to enumerate them, so not to leave out any.
The characters have been etched with a precision such that their idiosyncrasies and behaviours are believable. Every character has a story. Right from the photojournalist Rujuta to the startlet Nidhi Kapoor.
The descriptions- of the city Mumbai, of the police and journalism profession- have been thoroughly entertaining and so apt. Add to it a cherry on top in the form of spicy bites of Bollywood, and you have the perfect entertaining read.
And then, there's more to it: the pace is so correct, it is a page turner. What else makes it a page-turner? The manner in which it unfolds. It is not a typical chronological sequence that the events follow, rather it unravels pivotal pints at the crucial time. Timing again is apparently a forte of the author. This works to intensify and amplify the thrill with which the reader reads, and then remains glued.
I don't know if it is just me, but I really could not find anything in the book that made it seem like the first book of an author: it could give John Grisham a run for his readers. No, seriously. This novel, only re-instates that the thrillers scene has finally arrived in India.
My Judgement:
It is a page-turner, an entertainer, and a well-crafted plot: all packed in one. Revel in its completeness, go grab your copy now, because you definitely don't want to miss the next bestseller on the block.
I thank the author for providing me with a review copy!
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Book Discussion: The Diary of a Young Girl
Guest blogger: Kanika Narula
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death.
In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short
The Diary of a Young Girl is the story of a 13 year old Jewish girl and her family who were forced into hiding by the Nazis during the World War II. Anne Frank’s world famous diary charts the two years of her life from 1942 to1944, when her family was hiding in Amsterdam to remain protected from German Nazis. The diary begins just before the family retreated into their “Secret Annexe”. Anne Frank recorded mostly her hopes, frustrations, clashes with her parents, and observation of her companions. Its first version, which appeared in 1947, was edited by Anne’s father, Otto Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into more than 60 languages. After the Bible, it is the most widely read non-fiction book in the world.
On to the discussion:
The beginning pages of Anne’s diary are fresh and carry in them the obvious thoughts of a girl who has recently acquired teenage. Her entries from 9 July,1942 (Probably the time period they shifted to the hiding) show a complete despair as far as achieving freedom in the future is concerned.
For instance, in her entry of 29 October, 1943, the reader finds her writing, “Go outside, laugh, and take a breath of fresh air, a voice cries within me, but I don’t even feel a response any more…..”
Poignant. Heart-breaking.
On 24 December 1943, she writes : “Believe me, if you have been shut up for a year and a half , it can get too much for you some days... Inspite of all justice and thankfulness, you can't crush your feelings. Cycling, dancing, whistling, looking into the world, feeling young.... That’s what I long for...I couldn’t talk about it to anyone, because then I know I should cry. Crying can bring such relief… Then on 3 February, 1944, she words out her anxiety by writing: “I have now reached the stage that I don’t care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on running without me; what is going to happen will happen, and anyway its no good trying to resist.” Similar expressions could be noticed in her entries of 12 Feb, 1944 when she writes, “The sun is shining, the sky is a deep blue, there is a lovely breeze and I’m longing- so longing – for everything.” Her ability to still hope for an appropriate ending could be seen as almost vanished with her write-up of 26 May, 1944 which says: “Again and again, I ask myself, would it not have been better for us all if we had not gone into hiding, and if we were dead now and not going through all this misery……..”
Anne’s unease due to her confinement in the secret annexe was also accompanied by her gradual detachment from her family members. Her entries in her diary on certain dates was a testimony to this. For instance, her entry for 7 November, 1942 stated that “ Mummy is frightfully irritable and that always seems to herald unpleasantness for me……I cling to Daddy because it is only through him that I am able to retain the remnant of family feeling…….Mummy and her failings are something I find harder to bear than anything else……. I don’t know how to keep it all to myself…….I can’t always to drawing attention to her untidiness, her sarcasm, and her lack of sweetness, neither can I believe that I’m always in the wrong.
While reading the pages of Anne’s diary, one makes incredible discoveries about the various aspects of her personality. Sometimes she appears to be a confused teenager bewildered over the nature of sexual problems and failing to understand why people are secretive and tiresome when they talk about such things, while sometimes she declares herself a young girl turning into a strong woman and claims that she has developed more courage than ever, her feeling for justice is immovable and she is slowly turning into a woman with inward strength and plenty of bravery, while sometimes she takes over the responsibility of delivering political lectures and expresses her feelings against the deeds of big men, the politicians….. when she writes: “ I don’t believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of war……The little man is just as guilty…. There’s an urge in people simply to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up , cultivate, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.”
Anne seemed to have realized somehow that she will be a well-known name in years to come and will always be remembered through her literary talent even if she will not be able to escape the Nazi torture or successfully survive till the liberation. Her diary that was created with the intention of giving expressions to various types of feelings she was developing during her stay in the “secret annexe”, not only provides an authentic and explicit picture of what all the Jews must have gone through during Hitler’ rule in Germany but also helps the reader visualize the psychological ups and downs that the Jewish kids must have undergone, millions of kids who were hardly in a position to comprehend the reason for the racial discrimination they were suffering.
Few ending words:
“The Diary of a Young Girl” is also a piece of literary work that has great historic value, particularly for those who are eager supporters of “History from Below”, that is, who believe that general literary works that largely talk about political leaders, super-rich commercial classes, major political, social and economic forces behind the occurrence of some historic events are incapable of supplying a clear and authentic picture of the impact any act creates upon the most underrated but at the same time most crucial element of the society-“ the ordinary many who together constitute a society.”
We all have read some or the other literary works related to the Impact of Nazism on Germany but these works cover nothing more than the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany, the atrocities faced by the “Undesirable communities”, particularly the “Jews” of whom Hitler was highly insecure and so made them suffer the most. Most of these works discuss the political history of Germany and restrict their writings to the activities of some major leaders but it was this diary written by a young Jewish girl that brought us close to the miseries faced by the numerous Jews when the hunt against them started in Germany and the extent to which almost the entire Jewish population including millions of children were moved psychologically by the inhuman atrocities committed upon them.
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Book Review: Womens and Lemons By Janice Walker
YOUR TIME IS NOW!! With this book, you will begin YOUR ADVENTURE to live YOUR DREAM... This book was specifically written for YOU, the Quintastic Woman. You are the fantastic woman in your 50s (although it may apply to women in their 40s as well) who has been a trailblazer on life's path up until now. Reading this book will lead you down a path to dig deep inside and bring to your consciousness those long-abandoned passions, ideas, and desires that you have voluntarily relinquished and sacrificed in order to be everything to everybody. You have lived for everyone else up until now. Perhaps for the first time in the 21st Century, this book encourages the Quintastic Woman to give herself permission to feel hope about her future and the unlimited possibilities; she can finally appreciate who she is now, which should motivate her to pursue her dream. As a Quintastic Woman, are you thinking: What's next for me? What am I going to do at this stage in my life? What do I want? What will fulfill me? What can I do now? If you want to enjoy life like you never thought possible at this mature stage, Womens & LemonsTM is for you. Reading this book will affirm you, show you how to appreciate you, and help you to realize how much potential you have at this Quintastic Stage to live your dream; IT'S NOT TOO LATE, YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE! You've made enough lemonade with the lemons that life has thrown at you. Now it's time for you to squeeze the life out of those lemons and enjoy all that life has to offer you, and you deserve that!! Strap on your seatbelt because with Womens & LemonsTM you are in for the ride of your life! (less)
This book is an optimistic book. It talks to you. It is meant for the Quintastic woman. Telling you how even after crossing a particular age, you can still be who you want to be.
The book intends to bring in hope to your life. To help you embrace the real you, and to facilitate in a journey of self-exploration. Because, you know, age is just a number. You cannot be confined by the stereotypes. et cetera.
Well, here's the thing: the book scores so well in its intention that the execution is thoroughly unsatisfying in the way it has been presented.
But, even so, the book serves as the perfect coffee-table companion.
Let me enumerate the good parts for you:
1) The interviews: The author has taken a few interviews of real women. Now, that doesn't seem like a feat, but those interviews do a great deal for the matter of the book.
2) The graphics: These ae what make it better as a coffee table book, rather than a non-fiction read.
However, the nerdy injections in the form of explanations for using the gramatically wrong word 'womens' and the derivation of Quintastic were a major turn-off.
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Book Review: Rescued by Love by Shilpa Suraj
Harlequin India: Mills & Boon
MRP: Rs 150
When Naina Ahuja is kidnapped as hostage days before her father, a Supreme Court Chief Justice, must sentence a terrorist, the stakes are very high. Lt Col Arjun Rathore and his team are the only ones who can be trusted with the mission of saving her.
During their arduous trek back through the hostile terrain of Ladakh, Arjun and Naina spend days in danger of losing their lives - and their hearts. Back in safety, the real world and its very real problems threaten – as do their own perceptions of the differences between them.
They must separate – but will life rescue their love?
Shilpa was a year and a half when she was first introduced to the world of books. Her mother would park her with a picture book on the floor of the kitchen while she finished her cooking for the day. While it’s no longer the kitchen floor, you can still find her tucked away in a cosy nook somewhere with her nose buried in a book. While books in all genres interest her, it was romance that captured her heart. While racing through every romantic fiction book she could beg, borrow or buy, her over active imagination started to work overtime and weave its own stories. Years in the corporate world followed by a stint of entrepreneurship crystallised her belief that all she really wanted to do was give life to the stories bubbling inside of her. She briefly managed to tear herself away from the world of fiction to find her own personal happily ever after and now spends her time happily focusing on the two loves of her life – family and writing romances.
The first thing that comes to mind in the aftermath of reading the book is that we just read a sweet feel-good story.
This is the story, a quintessential Mills and Boon, with a twist.
Naina, daughter of the Chief Justice of India and Col. Arjun fall in love with each ither during a rescue mission. The girl is betrothed to a Fatty politician who she obviously didn't want to marry even before this mission in the first place, the love gives her an added excuse. She says, "Marrying a man you didn't want was bad enough but marrying him when you wanted another would be torture"
But this is dear life, and nothing is less than twisted. There are other problems to look after: a servile mother, a domineering sonavabitch father, principles, the crooked, intricate concept of honour.
A leap of 6 months and fates will be decided. This is where you need to pick up the novel and see for yourselves what happens in the story next. Which means that I am asking you to read it. Which further means that this is a novel worth reading.
Character sketches are impeccable: the incorrigible father who would rather not go back on his words lest they backfire than break a marriage. Just like that. This character is crafted meticulously, because sad though it be, such people exist in flesh and bones and arrogance and much more. And such a character and its obstinacy makes the ending of the novel believable, and satisfying.
M&B novels are supposed to entertain you with romantic descriptions and a surreal boy-meets-girl-falls-in-love plot. This book manages to honour this image so well.
That said, it comes with its set of flaws. For one, it is a quick, fast-paced read. I, who can savour books for hours at stretch finished this book in a couple of hours. Because reader can be kept longing for more. Not more plot, the plot has been done right. Great even. The timings. The setting. The characters. Everything flows seamlessly into the plot. What reader seeks more of, is the description. Maybe a third person narration can be cited as the culprit but then the reader certainly has a right to know in detail the feelings and emotions of a character s/he has associated himself with for more than a 100 pages. So, we know Naina is getting a roller coaster of emotions, but which ones? THAT is a big question.
I also adore the wordplay within the dialogues, which were, in addition, succinct too. A great effort has gone into them.
This is where the characters lack. This is where everything gets neutral. The characters' actions will have you nodding in appreciation and not knowing their emotions would have you creasing your lips and forehead, both the things cancelling out to make it a great read, if not a brilliant one.
When all is said and done, such a novel's gotta be read.
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Labels: 2014, book review, harlequin, india, indian authors, kritika, mills and boon, rescued by love, review, romance, romance novels 2014, shilpa suraj
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November 18, 2013 John 'Spartan' Nguyen
Sony sells 1 million PS4 units on launch day
It’s a good time to be a gamer. With the addition of smartphones and tablets entering the market for your attention, it’s nice to see that people’s interest in console gaming is still strong.
Sony has announced that it has sold over one million PlayStation 4 units in the first 24 hours from launch at retail in North America and Canada. We still have other countries waiting to release the console, with Europe on November 29th and Japan on February 22, 2014.
This is a huge difference when comparing to the sales of the PS3 during launch. The PS3 only sold 197,000 PS3 units in the U.S. for its first two weeks according to NPD. Sony said that sales weren’t as high due to shortages. As for the Wii U’s first two weeks, it sold 425,000 units.
SCEA President and CEO Jack Tretton was predicting that the PS4 will reach 3 million in sales by the end of the year.
For those who didn’t pre-order the PS4 (like me), it’s going to be a tough time trying to acquire one. Almost every store is sold out, and the next shipment is expected to come out on Black Friday. If I was Sony, I’d try to release more consoles this week, since it’d be wise for them to capitalize on the release of the Xbox One.
Source: Joystiq
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Tuck received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he played for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team from 2001 to 2004. After redshirting his 2001 freshman year, Tuck played sparingly in his sophomore season. Playing only 180 minutes for the season, Tuck recorded his first collegiate sack against Michigan State. And despite his limited playing time and solo start (vs. Rutgers), Tuck was named a third-team freshman All-American by The Sporting News. Tuck increased his production in his final two seasons at Notre Dame. In 2003, he finished the season with 13.5 sacks, 19 tackles for a loss and three forced fumbles before suffering a knee injury against Syracuse. Tuck frequently encountered double-team coverage in 2004. Despite a lingering knee problem from the previous season and not playing in Notre Dame's Insight.com Bowl loss to Oregon State, Tuck still finished the season with 47 tackles, six sacks and 14 stops for losses.
Nicknamed The Freak by his teammates for his raw athleticism, Tuck holds several defensive records at Notre Dame. Topping the previous record mark of 22.5 sacks by Kory Minor, Tuck finished his Notre Dame career with 24.5 sacks. His career 43 tackles for loss and 13.5 sacks in a single season are also school records. He graduated from Notre Dame in May 2005 with a degree in management from the Mendoza College of Business. In the run-up to the 2005 NFL Draft Tuck also recorded a wind-aided 4.56 in the 40-yard dash as well as a 380-pound bench press, 560-pound squat and a 336-pound power clean. Pre-draft reports contended that the knee injury would keep teams from taking Tuck in the 1st round. He was known as "terrific athlete who is a disruptive force up the field. Breaks down well playing with leverage, rarely off his feet and tough to move from his angle of attack," and "an extremely quick and agile player who possesses very good strength for a player of his size.
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Oak Grove High School
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Mike Howell is beginning his first year as the band director at Oak Grove High School. Oak Grove represents the first new high school built in Davidson County in over 30 years. Before being given the opportunity to start the band program at OGHS, he served as the first director at Oak Grove Middle School. Since opening in the fall of 2012, the band has grown from 140 students to over 280! Before coming to Oak Grove, Mike was the band director at Ledford High School (2004-2011), Ledford Middle School (2002-2004) and Lexington Middle School (1996-2002) all of which received numerous awards under his leadership.
Mike is a native of “Eastern North Carolina” (Martin County) and graduated from Jamesville High School in 1992. He attended the University of North Carolina – Greensboro where he was a member of the Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Trumpet Ensemble, having studied trumpet with Dr. Ed Bach and conducting with Dr. John Locke. He completed his student teaching at Ledford Middle and High School with Phillip Riggs and Charles Simpson. Mike earned his Bachelor of Music in Education in 1996.
A North Carolina Teaching Fellow, Mike is also a member of the National Band Association, the Northwest District Bandmasters Association, the National Association for Music Education, the North Carolina Association of Educators and has been a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certified teacher since 2004. Mike has conducted honor bands in Rowan, Alamance, Stokes, and Surry Counties. He also served on the staff of UNCG Summer Music Camp from 1993 – 1997 as a rehearsal assistant and as a band conductor from 1998 until 2005. He currently serves as treasurer and past chairman of the Northwest District Bandmasters Association.
Mike lives in Huntsville (Yadkin County) with his wife Shannon, daughter Lauren, and son Jason, and two crazy dogs, Lady and Tracker.
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Alex Larsen is currently the Band Director at Oak Grove Middle School in Winston-Salem, NC. Since opening in 2012, the middle school band program has grown considerably, and currently consists of over 250 students in grades 6-8. Ensembles include the 7th grade Concert Band, 8th grade Symphonic Band, percussion ensemble, and jazz band. The band has appeared consistently at the Northwest District MPA, and has consistent student representation in All-County and All-District honor bands.
Mr. Larsen also currently serves as the Assistant Music Director for Midas Winds, a WGI Winds ensemble based out of Raleigh, NC. He has been on staff with the group since its founding three years ago. Midas Winds participates in competitions at the local, regional, and national level. The group has earned back-to-back silver medals in Open Class World Championship competition.
Mr. Larsen graduated cum laude from Western Carolina University with a Bachelors of Science degree in music education. While at WCU, he served in a variety of instructional roles with the "Pride of the Mountains" Marching Band, a prestigious outdoor ensemble that performs regionally and nationally in venues across the country. He also served as principal clarinetist of the WCU Wind Ensemble and conductor of the university's clarinet choir.
As a performer, Mr. Larsen has played with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in the Artist-in-Residence concert series. He has also participated in the InterHarmony International Music Festival, a two-week program that takes place in Arcidosso, Italy. This opportunity allowed for collaboration with performers from around the world in both a performance and educational setting. His professional affiliations include NAfME, NCMEA, NCBA, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
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Family Congress confronts new challenges
by Peter Westmore
News Weekly, April 24, 2004
The largest-ever international gathering of pro-family leaders, activists and thinkers, including representatives from Australia, took place in Mexico at the end of March, to address the challenges which face the intact family in the contemporary world.
The World Congress of Families III was convened by the Howard Center, the pro-family think-tank led by Dr Allan Carlson in the US, Professor Richard Wilkins, and Red Familia (The Family Network), a coalition of pro-family organisations from Mexico.
Its theme was "The Natural Family and the Future of Mankind".
The three-day Congress, attended by around 3,200 people from over 70 countries, was opened by the First Lady of Mexico, Martha Fox, who said that the future of society depended on the health and vitality of the family, and its capacity to fulfil its unique role in providing an environment of love and care for all its members.
Dr Carlson, who organised the World Congress, said that in the United States, "even our own legal system is being pressured by changes and developments at the international level. I'm hoping that we can move this international, informal alliance of pro-family and pro-life groups forward."
The Congress served to bring together many of the world's best thinkers on family policy issues, examining the impact of radical feminism, the media, government policy and poverty as particular challenges to the intact family.
Additionally, it identified family breakdown and anti-family policies of governments, the UN and business, as contributing to the grave problem of depopulation, which threatens the survival of many countries, particularly in Western Europe, but also in parts of Asia (China, Russia and Japan) and Africa, where the HIV-AIDS crisis is particularly acute.
In its concluding declaration, the Congress affirmed that since the previous congress five years ago, "new issues have arisen that threaten the well-being of the family, including a proposed redefinition of marriage, euthanasia, reproductive technology, and bioethical issues (such as cloning)."
Responding to the push to legalise homosexual marriage, the Congress made an appeal "to the authorities of our respective countries and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan" to declare themselves "against the initiative presented a few days ago by several countries to promote the sexual orientation of homosexuals and lesbians as a human right."
It said such a step would contradict "human nature and dignity and the basic institutions of society: the family and marriage."
The congress described marriage as "the cornerstone of healthy family life."
It added, "In marriage, both husband and wife commit to a life of mutual love, respect, support, and compassion. Steadfast commitment in marriage provides the security in family life that is needed by children. Children are entitled to the complementary parental love and attention of both father and mother, which marriage bestows.
"Due to the importance of a child being raised by a mother and a father, social policies should not encourage cohabitation or single parenting."
The Congress also affirmed that the natural family provides "the optimal environment for the healthy development of children. Healthy family life fulfills the basic human need to belong, and satisfies the longings of the human heart to give and receive love.
"The family shapes the human person's attitude towards such fundamental matters as identity, security, responsibility, love, morality, and religion. In personal and intimate ways, the natural family cares for its children and provides for their spiritual, physical, intellectual, social, psychological and ethical growth.
It called on governments and other institutions to encourage and support mothers in their essential role in caring for their children, and to recognise the vital role of fathers in child rearing.
To address the problem of declining fertility, the Congress pointed out that "procreation is the key to the survival of the human race."
It said, "Demographic growth is an indication of the expansion of human resources that represent challenges and opportunities, not burdens. Poverty, hunger, and disease have other causes, including a lack of good will and misuse of governmental resources.
"These problems can be solved by education, creative social policies, economic development, and promotion of family integrity, regardless of geographical boundaries, cultural practices, and religious affiliation."
The Congress was a ringing endorsement of the importance of the intact family to the functioning of society, as well as to parents and children; but it emphasised that without greater community support, the family was unable to perform its vital role in the nurturing and education of children.
It will strengthen the commitment of those who are working to ensure that the family continues to play a pivotal role in society.
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Mussar: P. Korach - the Symbol behind the Drash
Rashi quotes a Midrash or Aggadah about how Korach belittled Mosheh Rabbenu using
1 the Tallit shekulo T'echeilet
2 the room filled with Sifrei Torah
Korah makes Moshe's reasoning seem silly to require one more thread of T'cheilet for the Tallit - And to require 2 more Parshiyot for the room already filled with Sifrei Torah
While the story reads fine as is - many may notice the underlying symbolism and others may tend to overlook it.
The point of Korach's rebellion was madua titnas'u on K'hal Hashem? Meaning he advocated anarchy in order to dispose of the leadership whom he grew to resent due to the appointment of Elizaphan ben Uziel as per Hazal
Thus, the M'zuzah and the P'til T'cheilet are symbolic that EVEN a fully holy garment or room STILL needs a special symbolic "leader". And so, too, a K'hal Hashem - no matter how holy - needed a specific "p'til t'cheileit" or a "m'zuzah" anyway, in this case Moshe and Aharon.
This "chap" is not originally mine, but it is imho the key to reading between the lines of this Midrash for a further tremendous psychological insight of WHY Korach davqa picked these items to underscore his K'tatah.
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Shelach - When It Comes To Israel G-D Tells It Like It Is
Rabbi Eliyahu Safran on the parsha -- hope you enjoy
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20 Years of JWR
Guest Blogger: Rabbi Gil Student
I just realized that I missed the twentieth anniversary of Jewish World Review, run by Binyamin Jolkovksy. [Below is the link to] his opening editorial from December 10, 1997. The internet was different back then. It was still experimental and mostly text-based, with no revenue model. I have no idea how he has survived financially but he has gained national exposure in right wing circles.
Rabbi Gil Student
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/121097/war.html
Nishma-Parshah: Shelach
Take a look at what's on
for Parshat Shelach
Parsha: Shelach, "Meraglim - the Parsha and Haftarah"
http://nishma-parshah.blogspot.ca/2016/06/parsha-shelach-meraglim-parsha-and.html
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Elevators On Shabbat
Frpm RRW
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Memorial for Jewish Community of Argentina that was attacked 25 years ago in the UN- Sponsored by Mission of Argentina to the UN, the AMIA, and WJC
This year, we mark the 25th anniversary of the horrific attack on the Jewish community organization of Argentina, the AMIA, in Buenos Aires. As you know, it was the deadliest attack on Argentina’s Jewish community to date, occurring on July 18, 1994, with 85 people murdered and hundreds injured.
Over the years, the perpetrators of this vicious crime have never been brought to justice. This case has been dogged by unresolved questions and by accusations of ineptitude and cover-ups on the part of authorities. On 25 October 2006, Argentine prosecutors Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martínez Burgos formally accused the government of Iran of directing the bombing, and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out.
In 2015 Alberto Nisman filed a 300-page document accusing the government of covering up Iran's role in the incident. Alberto Nisman was murdered hours before he was due to testify, and those responsible for the terrorist attack on the Jewish community center still remain at large. This, despite the fact that INTERPOL has issued Red Notices, which are international wanted persons notices, for the suspects.
We will remember the Jewish community members who were the victims of this horrendous terrorist attack on the AMIA on Monday, June 24th, at 12:00 noon at a special ceremony co-sponsored by the Argentinian Mission to the UN and the World Jewish Congress. It will take place in the UN, in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.
Betty Ehrenberg
WJC North America
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Parshas Behaalotecha -Which Voice is Your True Voice
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Book Review: The Biblical Maimonides
Guest Blogger: Mitchell First
“The Biblical Maimonides: Exodus” by Alec Goldstein (2019)
Let us assume you are a lover of Rambam. What do you do each parsha when you want to give a devar torah? Despite his voluminous writings, Rambam never wrote a commentary on the Torah.
Now, however, a new genre of literature has arisen. People collect Rambam’s writings from elsewhere, i.e., commentary on the Mishnah, Sefer Ha-Mitzvot, Mishneh Torah, Guide to the Perplexed, and numerous responsum, and present them in the order of the Torah verses. There are several works like this in Hebrew. But to my knowledge, this work by Alec Goldstein is the first work of this genre in English. This work only covers the book of Exodus, but it is still 488 pages (plus useful indices).
(With regard to the books of Genesis and Exodus, we have a surviving commentary on these books by the son of Rambam. Sometimes he records interpretations of his father and some of these interpretations are included by the author as well.)
The best part of this work is that the author does not just collect Rambam’s comments on the verses. He then tells you how this interpretation differs from that of Rashi. Then he will quote Nachmanides and tell you whose side he is on. By doing this, the book makes a major contribution to Rambam and parsha studies.
The author quotes dozens of other sources as well. When you buy this book, you think you will be learning mainly the interpretations of Rambam. But you will be amazed how much you will learn about the views of other Rishonim, Acharonim, and modern-day rabbinic scholars.
Let us go through a sample of the hundreds of interpretations included in this work:
1. At Exodus 2:14, Moses intercedes between two Hebrews fighting and is asked by one of them: ”ha-le-hargeini ata omer”? Here the author quotes from Rambam’s statements in the Guide that the roots A-M-R and D-B-R are synonymous, and that they have three different meanings: 1) speech, 2) thought, and 3) will (=desire). In the Guide, Rambam had cited examples for each of the meanings, and for the last, Rambam had cited our verse.
Then the author points out that this view of Rambam differs from that of Rashi. Rashi had written that the root D-B-R is always “lashon kashe,” while the root A-M-R is always “lashon tachanunim.” See, e.g., Rashi on Num. 12:1.
The author explains further that Rambam would understand our phrase at Ex. 2:14 as meaning: “Do you desire to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” In contrast, Rashi (based on a midrash) assumes a very literal understanding of the verse: “will you say something that will kill me, in the same manner that you killed the Egyptian, i.e., by uttering the ‘shem ha-meforash’?”
(The widespread view today is that Rambam never saw any of Rashi’s commentaries, as he never cites him. But it has been suggested in recent years that Rambam may have become aware of some of Rashi’s commentaries later in life.)
2. At Exodus 4:2-4, God turns Moses’ rod into a serpent and then turns it back into a rod. Why would the second stage be necessary when Moses showed this sign to others? Here the author quotes from a responsum of Rambam’s: “ [If a miracle persists, it opens] the way to suspicion. If the rod remained a serpent, the uncertainty would be entertained that it had originally been a serpent, so that the miracle is achieved by its return to the rod… If, in the incident of the followers of Korah, the ground had burst asunder, and stayed open for good, the miracle would be challenged. In fact, the miracle was completed when the ground returned to its former condition…”
3. Exodus 6:18 mentions Amram. Here the author quotes a passage from the Mishneh Torah (Melakhim 9:1) where Rambam states that some commandments were given to Amram before the Torah was given. The author raises the question of where Rambam learned this. He quotes Meshekh Chokhmah, Yad Eitan, and Rabbi Israel Eliezer Rubin for some suggestions.
4. Exodus 12:8 tells us that the Passover meat had to be eaten with merorim. The Torah does not give us any reason for this. Of course, in the Haggadah we explain that the merorim reflect the bitterness of the slavery, citing verse 1:14: “va-ye-mareru et chayeyhem….” (I find this explanation compelling.) The author first quotes Rambam’s Haggadah, which matches ours. But then the author adds an interesting suggestion by the Hizzekuni. The Passover offering was a symbolic slaying of an Egyptian deity and eating the lamb with merorim (as opposed to something important and sweet) was a further way to show contempt for it.
In the introduction to the work, the author raises questions such as what sense of “peshat” the Rambam had, and whether it is legitimate to take statements from scattered works and other contexts and turn them into a running commentary. The author also quips that if Rambam had wanted to write a commentary on the Torah, perhaps he would have!
In this connection it is interesting to mention some other works that Rambam mentions that he hoped to author. In one letter he mentions that he hoped to write a work where he lists the sources for his statements in the Mishneh Torah. But he never had time to do this. In a different letter he complains that he wished he had the time to translate his Arabic writings into Hebrew. A famous letter (quoted in the Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:757) describes his daily life as a physician to the sultan and how busy and tired he was at that time.
Obviously, the author could not include every statement or allusion of Rambam that was relevant to a verse in Exodus. The author explains his methodology in the introduction.
The author writes that he has been studying Rambam for most of his adult life. He mentions an old joke that men know where a verse is in the Gemara and women know where it is in Tanach. He jokes that he knew neither but knew where Rambam quoted it!
The author has semikhah from Y.U. He also has an excellent knowledge of ancient languages and nuances of words. This makes him an excellent writer and translator. Hopefully, he will continue with the other four books of the Torah!
One can collect Mitchell First’s Link articles and make them into a book as well. (Actually, he already did that! But only for the first two years of his columns; another book is necessary for the columns of years three and four.) Full disclosure: Alec Goldstein runs Kodesh Press which has published two of my books.
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Nishmah-Parshah: Beha’alotkha
for Parshat Beha’alotkha
Parsha: Beha’alotkha, "The Whispering Campaign"
http://nishma-parshah.blogspot.ca/2016/06/parsha-behaalotkha-whispering-campaign.html
Making Hate Solely Generic -- and Thereby Avoiding the Issue
The Nazis yms"z not only were virulent anti-Semites but they hated across the board -- although their view of Jews was especially vile. It is not by coincidence that we can speak of Anti-Semitism as the 'canary in the coal mine' in regard to a society's view of others -- for how a society treats Jews can often indicate how it will, in general, treat others. Hate can be a generic response to any other. The challenge, though, is that it also may not be -- and there can be a problem if we see hate as solely generic.
One group’s hatred towards another emerges either from a perceived perception of the group being hated or of the group expressing the hate. In the former case, the explanation of the hatred flows from a presumed fault in those being hated which is deemed deserving of this response. In the latter case, though, the focus of the hate does not emerge from a perceived fault in those being hated but, rather, a presumed superiority in those hating. This type of self-perception can then lead to a generic hate of all others. It is not simply that my group is better than the other group because of a fault in the other group. The argument is that my group is inherently better than the other group. This can then be extended to a generic argument that my group is better than all other groups.
In recent times, we seem to be seeing a movement towards defining hate much more in this manner, as a generic expression of superiority of one over all others. This is not to say that this person of generic hate does not also make distinctions between the individual others that this person may hate. It might still be that this person will still define certain people as more deserving of hate than the others. This was clearly the case with the Nazis. They hated Jews more than they hated the other 'others' but the essence of their hate was in their perceived superiority over all others. They had generic hate that then broke down into different degrees of hate depending upon an other's specific grouping. Their hate, though, was generic; its essence was the hate of all others. It emerged from a bloated sense of self-worth. This form of hate obviously still demands our concern. There is, however, a problem if we see hate only in such generic terms, as reflecting solely this type of motivation. Hate emerging from the specific attack on a particular group through the demonization of that group can then be ignored.
This problem was reflected in various statements made in response to the tragic shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway. The gunman, upon being arrested, was also charged with attempting to set fire to a mosque a month earlier. He obviously not only had hatred toward Jews but also possessed hatred toward Muslims -- and that is something which clearly should not to be ignored. But rather than describing him as someone who had negative emotions toward these two distinct groups of the other, his hatred for Jews and Muslims became one. There were those who were trying to define his hate as solely generic; Antisemitism and Islamophobia became one and the same. The pathology of the gunman was defined by his feelings of superiority. He was a White Supremacist. There was, of course, some truth in this assertion. What was lost, though, is that people could thereby ignore the Anti-Semitism - the perceived perception of specifically Jews as negative -- in what happened. By highlighting generic hate, people could avoid addressing the problem of the specific negativity towards Jews.
We saw this in the recent Congressional statement on racism which began as a specific rebuke of Anti-Semitism. The argument was made that it should be a rebuke of all forms of racism -- and, on the surface, there would seem to be merit in such a demand. We should be against any type of such hatred. What is lost, though, in this development is the recognition of these different motivations for hatred. By grouping all hate together, by focusing on generic hatred, we are actually thereby only focusing on one motivation of hatred -- the feeling of superiority. This is not just a quantitative distinction: let's join all the victims of hate in the resolution. A qualitative distinction is also thereby enunciated; we lose sight of the specific roots of hate towards a particular community. The full problem of Anti-Semitism is, thereby, not addressed. It is being swept away with the effort to define any problem of hate as generic.
A further example of this issue also surfaced more recently. Members of the U.S. Congress recently formed a Black-Jewish caucus to deal with issues in the relationship between the Black and Jewish community. I saw this as a positive development. My understanding was that the purpose was to address negative emotions that exist between the two groups. The attainable goal was to find a solution, to deal with the root causes of these negative emotions. Then we heard someone stating that the purpose of this new caucus was to deal with hatred towards Blacks and Jews. The argument was again being made to make the issue generic hatred and, thereby, avoid the real issues facing the relationship between these two communities. This person was, perhaps, afraid of the findings if these issues were actually investigated. My hope is that this caucus does not fall prey to such an argument. I am not saying that it should not deal with the issue of generic hate. It should not, however, allow those who wish to promote this issue of generic hate to prevent any investigation and discussion of the other issues.
All hatred -- or tensions -- between groups are not the same. There may be, indeed, a generic factor but not every problem of hatred necessarily shares the same roots. There are those who are attempting to avoid the specific problems of Anti-Semitism by defining any act of Anti-Semitism as a reflection of generic hatred. This creates its own problems including the creation of a shelter for the specific Anti-Semite. We cannot just ignore the problem of generic hatred. We also cannot accept the created attempt to define all hatred as generic to thereby allow for specific forms of hatred to be ignored.
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The battle of superfoods: Buckwheat vs Quinoa
https://www.vita4you.gr/blog-vita4you/en/item/the-battle-of-superfoods-buckwheat-vs-quinoa.html
Are both both buckwheat and quinoa deemed to be Qitniyyos?
If not, how do we distinguish the 2 Halachically speaking?
Mussar: Blaming
"Blaming is often an excuse to avoid the effort of making necessary changes in oneself..."
~ FORGIVENESS p. 166
By Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski
Parshas Naso - Love & Blessing
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The Early History of the Torah Reading Cycle
Today, all synagogues throughout the world read the same parshah every week. (Of course, there are brief periods where the Jews in Israel get ahead of us for a few weeks because of a second day Yom Tov which falls on Shabbat. But after a few weeks, Diaspora Jewry catches up.)
But this uniformity was not always the norm. A passage in the Babylonian Talmud at Megillah 29b refers to “the people of the west [=Palestinian Jewry] who conclude the Torah every three years.” From many post-Talmudic sources, we learn that when the Babylonian Talmud refers to the Palestinian practice of “3 years,” they were oversimplifying. The Torah reading cycle in Palestine actually spanned about 3 ½ years. Moreover, there was no uniform start and finish date there. The different communities would start and finish their 3 ½ year cycle at different times. The ancient practice in Palestine is referred to today, in an oversimplified way, as the “triennial cycle.”
In this column, I am not going to focus on the details of the triennial cycle and the division of the Torah into 153, 155, or 167 sections (and the many extra haftarot!). Rather, I would like to focus on the 1 year cycle in Babylonia at the time of the Talmud and try to determine when and why this cycle arose.
We can infer from the above passage at Megillah 29b that Babylonian Jewry was completing their cycle in something other than 3 years. Of course, from later sources we know that they must have been alluding to their own one year cycle. But this one year cycle is not explicit anywhere in the Babylonian Talmud. Nor is there any reference to “54 parshiyyot” in the Talmud. There are almost no references to parshiyyot by name. (An exception is Meg. 29b-30a; three parshiyyot are named there.)
If we look at the Mishnah (Meg. chapter 3), it does refer to readings for special Sabbaths (e.g., Shekalim, Zachor, etc.) and for the festivals. But there is nothing to indicate what was read on regular Shabbatot. Also, at Megillah 31b there is reference to a disagreement between two Tannaim about certain details of the reading process. But still we do not know what the basic reading cycle was at the time of the Tannaim.
But there is one passage that sheds much light on the cycle in Babylonia at the time of the Talmud. It is a passage at Megillah 31a where the readings for all the holidays are listed and briefly discussed. The passage seems to be a Tannaitic passage, but the Talmud includes additional comments by Babylonian Sages on the passage. After describing the reading for the 8th day of Sukkot, the Babylonian Sages comment: On the next day [in the Diaspora], the reading is “ve-zot ha-berakhah.”
Let us analyze this choice of Torah reading. The passage is one which is giving readings connected to the holidays. This means there must be a connection between “ve-zot ha-berakhah” and Shemini Atzeret. What could this connection be? Anyone who learns about Shemini Atzeret in the Talmud will know this answer. The Talmud tells us (Suk. 48a) that one of the unique themes of Shemini Atzeret is “berakhah.” This is based on I Kings 8:65 that records that on the eighth day of Sukkot, the people blessed Shelomo. See Rashi to Suk. 48a, and Tosefta, fourth chapter. (If one looks at the Siddur of R. Saadiah Gaon, pp. 365 and 373, he does not even call the holiday “Simchat Torah.” He calls it “the day of blessing.” See the Arabic term he used.)
So “ve-zot ha-berakha” was chosen as a Shemini Atzeret reading because of a reason related to this holiday. It is at least theoretically possible that we had the above holiday readings in Babylonia and then the yearly cycle was constructed in a later period to fit with this. But I think this is not what happened. Rather, it was realized that by setting up “ve-zot ha-berakhah” as the reading for the second day of Shemini Atzeret, the Babylonian Sages could accomplish two things at once. They would have a reading that matched a holiday theme and they could also end the yearly cycle. If I am correct, then this passage at Megillah 31a implies that the Babylonian Sages were on a one year cycle at this time that ended on the second day of Shemini Atzeret. Whenever the time was in Babylonia that the reading for the second days was established was likely the same time that the one year cycle that ends with the second day of Shemini Atzeret was established. Could there have been a one year cycle in Babylonia that ended at some other time, prior to this? No one knows.
There is a passage at Megillah 31b that states that Ezra enacted that the curses in Leviticus (=the ones found in Bechukotai) must be read before Shavuot and that the curses in Devarim (=the ones found in Ki Tavo) must be read before Rosh Ha-Shanah. The Talmud explains that in this way “tekhaleh shanah u-kelaloteha.” This does not mean that the curses must be read immediately before these holidays, but that they should at least be completed at some time before them. (Shavuot is when “peirot ha-ilan” are judged. Mishna Rosh Ha-Shanah 1:2.) It seems from this passage that at the time of Ezra, mid-5th century B.C.E., there was a yearly cycle in Palestine. But sometime later, no one knows when, Palestinian Jewry started to develop their triennial cycles, even though some communities in Palestine still maintained a one year cycle. (For example, it seems that the paytan R. Eleazar Ha-Kallir, c. 600, lived in a community in Palestine that still maintained a one year cycle!)
Rambam, writing in Egypt at the end of the 12th century, observed that in his time the triennial cycle was not widespread (Hilkhot Tefilah 13:1). Perhaps the immigration of Babylonian Jews to Palestine led to its decline.
Finally, there is a famous passage from the traveler Benjamin of Tudela that describes what he saw on his visit to Cairo around the year 1170. There were two synagogues there, one with their members from Israel, and the other with their members from Babylonia. In the synagogue of the Babylonians, they read one portion every week, and finished the Torah every year. In the synagogue of the men from Israel, they divided each portion into three sections and finished the Torah at the end of three years. But he continues: “They have a custom… to join together and pray in unison on the day of Simchat Torah….” (The passage is quoted in the Encyclopaedia Judaica, 15:1247). (I presume that the men from the Israel-type synagogue traveled to the Babylonian-type synagogue. That was likely where the kiddush was!)
Mitchell First can be reached at MFirstAtty@aol.com. Even though I wrote that nowadays all synagogues throughout the world read the same parshah every week, I have heard that there are a handful of obscure synagogues somewhere that still follow the triennial cycle!
P.S. The above is the article that will be published in the Link. But the story of the reading cycle in the several centuries of B.C.E. years is more complex than I presented it. Many questions arise. For example:
-When the 2nd century C.E. Tanna at Megillah 31b attributes an enactment to Ezra (5th century B.C.E.), do we have to accept this attribution?
-When did batei midrashot and batei kneisiyot arise in Palestine and Babylonia? What went on inside them? Was there Tefillah be-Tzibur prior to 70 C.E.? How much time was available for Torah and Haftarah readings?
For interesting speculation on all these topics, see the article by Ezra Fleischer in Tarbitz 61, pp. 25-43. (This article is found in the Tarbitz Tefillah essay collection, edited by H. Mack.) I would like to thank Sam Borodach for reminding me of this article.
Among Fleischer’s points:
-When the second century C.E. Palestinian Tanna at Megillah 31b makes his statement which essentially attributes a one year cycle to Ezra (5th century B.C.E.), perhaps he was responding, in a polemical and exaggerated way, to the fact that the triennial cycle was just starting to develop in parts of Palestine.
- Both in Palestine and in Babylonia the Torah reading was translated into Aramaic when it was read. But the service was even longer in Palestine. They had a derashah in a long form. This perhaps motivated them to limit the amount of verses read. In Babylonia, they did not have this type of derashah.
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Eastern forests not adapting quickly to climate change
Many Eastern tree species aren't migrating northward as climate change models say they will, says a new study led by Duke University researchers. That could be bad news for the trees' long-term survival.
The ranges of 59 percent of the 92 species analyzed appear to be contracting on both their northern and southern ends, while 16 percent seemed to move to the south. More concerning to researchers was that only 21 percent are shifting northward.
That raises the prospect of climate change stranding some species in increasingly inhospitable surroundings. "It's kind of like pulling the climate out from from under it," said ecologist James Clark of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
Models show that, as the climate warms, many tree species would lose ground on the southern end of their ranges as adults die and seeds fail to sprout. Their northern boundaries would expand as dispersed seeds find happier conditions. See some examples at this U.S. Forest Service site.
But that's not happening for many species, despite warm zones in parts of the East shifting up to 60 miles north. The researchers found no evidence that tree ranges are changing fastest where climate has changed the most. They don't believe differences in seed sizes or their ability to be dispersed account for their findings.
The study did find evidence that some species are migrating to higher elevations, as models also predict.
Clark and his colleagues, funded by the National Science Foundation, based their work on decades of data from the U.S. Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis program. They compared tree distributions in more than 43,000 plots in 31 states.
Kai Zhu, a doctoral student of Clark, was lead author of the study with co-authors Christopher Woodall, a Forest Service researcher in St. Paul, Minn., and Clark. The article was published in the current issue of the journal Global Change Biology.
Huntersville teen petitions for solar White House
Thomas Greenough, 14, thinks it pretty neat that former President Jimmy Carter preached green energy decades ago, installing solar panels on the White House during the oil-embargo days of the 1970s. (Ronald Reagan later took them down.)
So when Thomas learned that President Obama's administration had failed its commitment to reinstall solar panels by last summer, he took to his computer.
"That time has come and gone," he says, "so I want to hold him to his promise."
Two weeks later, the petition Thomas posted on a White House site is slowly climbing in the online ranks. By late Tuesday afternoon, the petition had 772 signatures -- and a long hill to climb. The administration's new "We the People" initiative guarantees a written response to petitions that draw at least 25,000 signatures within 30 days.
The ninth grader at Mooresville's Pine Lake Preparatory says the exercise combines his love of science and politics. He's still hopeful the petition will earn a response.
"I'm optimistic," says Thomas, who's been featured in local news articles. "Word of mouth is very powerful."
Winter bills will be smaller, gas company says
Residential customers are likely to see smaller heating bills this winter, Charlotte-based Piedmont Natural Gas says.
Winter bills could fall up to 10 percent, compared to last year, in Piedmont's territory in the Carolinas and Tennessee. Piedmont serves about 1 million customers.
ypical residential customers are expected to pay about $4 to $10 less a month than they did last winter, reflecting falling wholesale gas prices. Since 2008, Piedmont's billing rates have dropped 20 percent to 30 percent, shaving $100 to $200 off a winter's worth of bills.
Piedmont's Share the Warmth program, which rounds up monthly bills to the nearest dollar, helps low-income residents in its territory.
Wholesale prices are dropping as U.S. shale-gas production, and supply estimates, go up. The gas is extracted through a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, that blasts underground shale formations with high-pressure water and chemicals.
Fracking makes it possible to drill into gas deposits that were too expensive to tap before. It's also excited worries that the chemicals may contaminate groundwater, and that the process uses too much water.
The technique is illegal in North Carolina, which is believed to hold large deposits of shale gas southwest of Raleigh, but the N.C Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beginning a study of the issue.
Duke filed rate hearing notices late
Duke Energy was a month late in notifying customers of hearings, beginning in Charlotte on Tuesday night, on the 15 percent rate hike it's seeking.
Don Smith, a Duke customer who lives in Kannapolis, got his notice in the mail at 3 p.m. Tuesday -- four hours before the Charlotte hearing began before an overflow crowd. Smith said he and several friends would have attended if given earlier notice.
"If they had that many people show up, how many would they have had if they'd given more than two or three hours' notice?" he said later.
The rate case, filed July 1, was hardly a secret. The Observer published the list of six hearings on July 30 and ran a story on the Charlotte hearing Tuesday morning.
But the N.C. Utilities Commission told Duke to do more, publishing legal notices in local newspapers and mail notices to each customer 45 days before the hearings. That didn't happen.
Duke told the commission in late September that notices hadn't gone out as planned on Aug. 27. Mailings to customers would instead be sent out starting Sept. 28, Duke said. Ads about the hearings ran in the Observer on Sept. 22 and 26.
Staff mistakenly scheduled the notices to start 45 days before a Nov. 28 evidentiary hearing in Raleigh, not the Charlotte hearing on Tuesday, spokesman Jason Walls said this week. Walls said Duke tried to make up for the error by contacting local television stations before Tuesday's hearing. He noted that five more hearings are scheduled, none in the Charlotte area, and written comments may be sent to the commission.
Neither the commission nor its Public Staff, which represents customer interests, have filed a response to Duke's mea culpa.
"It's something that we don't like, but it does happen occasionally," said Tony Wike, the Public Staff's chief counsel. "We had no idea that the notices would arrive so late that a customer could not plan to be there. We would not like to see it happen again."
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Register today: Nor'easters' 2018 tryout registration now open
Tryout for the upcoming PDL season will be held March 31 at Total Turf Experience in Gloucester County
UPDATE (1/2/18): Due to extremely cold weather, the 2018 Ocean City Nor'easters tryout have been moved to Saturday, March 31 at Total Turf Experience in Gloucester County, N.J.
The Ocean City Nor'easters, one of the top Premier Development League (PDL) soccer clubs in North America, are building a championship team for the 2018 season and are looking for a few good men.
The Nor'easters will host an open tryout session on Saturday, March 31 at the Total Turf Experience indoor facility in Gloucester County, N.J. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Out of the more than 70 teams in North America, the Nor'easters have the sixth-best record in the PDL since 2003 and will challenge for a league title in 2018. The club is also expected to be a part of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a tournament where Ocean City has five professional team upsets on its resume. Second-year head coach John Thompson is looking for fresh talent to continue to grow the club's national reputation.
The Nor'easters are looking to fill roster spots for the 2018 PDL team, as well as the Under-23 and Under-20 teams.
"We are looking to bring in some players to help our 2018 team take the next step toward a championship," said Nor'easters general manager Giancarlo Granese Jr. "In 2017, we had a better record than the previous year's team that won the Eastern Conference championship, but due to a change in playoff format, we fell short of qualifying for the postseason. We are looking to take that next step and make it back into the playoffs this upcoming summer and bring the PDL trophy home to Ocean City. Over the past few years, our tryouts have always provided us with great talent. We look forward to all those who will attend this upcoming tryout and hope to find players that will help our team continue to be one of the best in North America."
"We have unearthed some tremendous talent over the years, like Ryan Richter (New York Cosmos), Tony Donatelli (Baltimore Blast), Chevy Walsh (Pittsburgh Riverhounds) and Tyler Miller (Seattle Sounders FC) who are all playing professionally," said Nor'easters head coach John Thompson. "We are looking to add some new faces to the roster to compliment our returning players from the 2017 season."
There are also some roster spots that have opened up due to college seniors moving on to play professionally. Players who are interested in trying out should fill out the online form HERE. For any additional questions, please contact the Ocean City Nor'easters team office at (609) 432-8371, or send an email to tryout@oceancityfc.com.
Check back to the Ocean City Nor'easters official website and social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook) for updates.
All student-athletes must confirm eligibility to participate with their respective college, university or the NCAA.
Founded in 1997, the Nor'easters joined the Premier Development League in 2003, and since then have seen more than 60 players move on to play the game professionally, including Tyler Miller of the Seattle Sounders FC, John McCarthy of the Philadelphia Union, and Ryan Richter of the New York Cosmos. You can see a comprehensive list of #OCN alums currently playing professionally here.
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Fredstocks: The Anti Festival
TOPICS:Fred Eaglesmith
Fred Eaglesmith by Tweten Photography
Posted By: admin July 14, 2009
Alt. country singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith has quietly pioneered his own underground festival scene
GRAMMY.com
Who needs Deadheads when you have Fredheads?
With 16 albums and two DVDs to his credit, Canadian alternative country singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith has built a particularly devoted following in North America, Australia and the Netherlands.
Fred Eaglesmith
And while his notoriety and album sales may not rival that of a Bruce Springsteen or a Bob Dylan, Eaglesmith has also managed to create something of an independent underground festival scene, of which he is the central figure.
There are nearly half a dozen Eaglesmith-branded events located in various U.S. and Canada communities on tap for 2009, including the 10th Annual Roots On The River Festival in Bellows Falls, Vt., which took place June 11–14 and featured artist such as slide guitar maestro Sonny Landreth, folk/country artist Hayes Carll, country/rock artist Junior Brown, and female folkies Red Molly, among others, plus three performances by Eaglesmith and his Flying Squirrels band.
Upcoming on the calendar is the 15th Annual Fred Eaglesmith Charity Picnic Aug. 14–16 in Aylmer, Ontario, and the Fred Eaglesmith Winter Weekend Dec. 18–20 in Port Dover, Ontario. Additionally, 2010 will see the resumption of such Fredcentric events as the Fred Texas Weekend in Gruene, Texas, and the train concert excursion Roots On The Rails. (Last year’s “Polar Bear Train” excursion featuring Eaglesmith and friends traveled to Churchill, Manitoba, to observe polar bears.) Eaglesmith has also hosted three Downeast Picnics in Muniac, New Brunswick.
The reason for his appeal is twofold, says former manager Charlie Hunter.
“Fred is a true songwriter, on the par of a John Prine or a Bruce Springsteen or a Woody Guthrie,” says Hunter, who cofounded the Roots On the River Festival in 2000 and ran it until 2007.
“But he is more approachable than artists who came up through the major label system. Fred’s background is as a small businessman and farmer, so he inherently understands the idea of constructing a small festival.”
Hunter says Fredheads display the same allegiance to their muse as Prine and Springsteen fans. “Fred inspires that kind of devotion and excitement among people who have been turned onto him. He’s just more accessible than they are.”
Tracie Ferguson, who has promoted the Fred Texas Weekend events for five years running, says Eaglesmith’s close bond with his fans is key to the success of these gatherings.
“He gets along so well with his fans, and he likes being around them, so the camaraderie is there,” Ferguson explains. “And as much as he’s a songwriter, he’s a comedian as well. All the shows are a lot of fun and they’re all different.
“It just works — it’s a particular group of people that all kind of think alike, and there’s a whole bunch of them.”
The actual attendance for these gatherings is modest — anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people — although that figure can double over an entire three- or four-day weekend.
But that’s the way Eaglesmith himself says he prefers it: informal.
“I started them as anti-festivals,” Eaglesmith reveals. “I wanted a festival that didn’t have a lot of rules, that was just fun and had just a couple people running them. They just grew from that.
“Some festivals draw 1,000. Some have less than that. It just depends where it is and what it is.”
Eaglesmith says one of the most important aspects of his Fredfests is accessibility.
“I didn’t like those festivals where there was all this snow fence around, where there were musicians’ areas and places the crowd couldn’t go — all this security, and no dancing.
“So a lot of this started from [wanting] festivals that weren’t like that. I just wanted to make it like a family picnic, where you would just take your family and say, ‘I had a really good time there.’ It’s really low key.”
With more than 100 songs culled from nearly 30 years worth of material and such acclaimed albums as Milly’s Cafe, Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline and 2008’s Tinderbox, Eaglesmith has the catalog depth to divvy up his sets between solo and group performances, and acoustic and electric shows.
And at least one of the festivals — his annual Aylmer charity picnic — is tied to an ecological cause with all proceeds of the show going to two conservation areas: the Long Point Basin Land Trust and the Catfish Creek Conservation Authority.
“It’s a really beautiful park with old growth forestry,” says Eaglesmith. “We raised $5,000 a year between the two of them, although the festival is more of a thing where musicians get to hang out with each other. I started that one years ago because I didn’t see my friends.”
Ferguson notes that other singer/songwriters have organized similar events in the wake of these various Fredstocks.
“After we started it, a bunch of people started picking up on having their own festival,” notes Ferguson. “Hayes Carll was one of them. Randy Rogers was another. It’s kind of a fad right now — having your own festival.
“Fred was probably the pioneer in that.”
(Nick Krewen is a Toronto-based journalist who has written for The Toronto Star, TV Guide, Billboard, Country Music and was a consultant for the National Film Board’s music industry documentary Dream Machine.)
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George Soros – The Real Man Who Broke the Bank in England
November 7, 2017 / waseem / 0 Comments
Born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, famous investor, George Soros, who is now known as ‘The Man Who Broke the Bank in England,’ survived WWII at age seven, and somehow managed to escape communism in 1947. At 17 years old, he attended the London School of Economics, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Philosophy. Soros even found great success on Wall Street. He has committed his life, his work, and his personal fortune to several human rights organizations, such as the Open Society Foundation, which he launched in Africa the year of 1979. Although his recent $18 billion dollar donation to the Open Society Foundation knocked the generous philanthropist down 39 spaces on the Forbes list, it has also awarded him a very prominent title in charity work. George Soros has given one of the largest donations to a single charity, and has received much criticism from the right wing because of it.
Why did he make such a dent in his fortune for Open Society? The answer is simple. Who would understand a closed society better than someone who survived a war escaped communism? His focus has been on his philanthropy work for many years. Even in a university, he worked as a railway porter and a waiter.
As well as an investor, a business magnate, and a philanthropist, George Soros strongly believes in building more “vibrant and tolerant democracies,” and therefore, has created a foundation to do just that.
Soros thinks that America needs to be focused on now more than ever before, but according to Forbes, his generous donation was intended to help shape Asia’s human rights groups for many years to come. With the available programs focusing on emergency short-term relief, George Soros prefers to focus on giving Human Rights to those who will benefit from Open Society Foundation for long-term. George Soros points out that there are many definitions for human rights. It can range from gender equality, to communities negatively effected by pollution, higher crime rates, and tainted water. Many countries don’t have access to the tools, management, resources, and knowledge to protect even the most basic human rights, such as clean water. George Soros points out that it isn’t all about politics, but about making sure that every person has the most basic and fundamental resources for freedom of expression, accountable government, and societies promoting justice and equality.
As well as the Open Society Foundation, George Soros has also founded many other organizations, such as the Quantum Group of Funds, the Soros Fund Management, J Street, Democracy Alliance, the Soros Foundation, and many, many more. As well as his own organizations, Soros supports numerous projects around the world. Some of them include Human Rights Watch, End Citizens United, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Based on his history and the life George Soros has lived, he has donated a total of $32 billion dollars in the Open Society Foundation alone and Follow him Twitter.com.
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Faith vs Religion: Ecclesiolatry, Scribes and Pharisees.
February 6, 2012 Terence Leave a comment
There is an important distinction between “faith”, which refers to belief and a relationship with the divine, and “religion”, which refers primarily to the human structures which support it, with their rules, rituals, and clerical castes. They are obviously linked, interdependent, and ideally, support each other. There are grave dangers though, when we lose sight of the importance of balance, for example by exaggerating the importance of religious structures, over authentic faith itself.
In recent weeks, I have found two important passages on this theme, by two very different authors, that I have wanted to write about – but have struggled to make the time to add my own response. Instead, I simply share with you the passages, and leave you to ponder the import yourselves.
The first is by the Catholic theologian James Alison, taken from a recent post at his website “The Portal and the Half-Way House: Spacious imagination and aristocratic belonging “, in which he refers to the way in which some Catholics use “the Church” as a weapon with which to coerce others into their own way of thinking. In a striking turn of phrase, he describes this as “Ecclesiolatry” – a form of idolatry, with “the Church” used as an idol to replace God:
You will probably have heard many different ways of talking about what “the Church” is, many of them quite frightening (in just the same way that many ways of talking about the Bible are frightening). You get the impression that you are hearing a discourse about power, or a discourse emerging from ownership of “position”, or a justification and defense of traditional and historical prerogatives. It is not necessarily the clerical caste in the Church who talk in these ways, though we are particularly susceptible to it. Often enough lay people, politicians and others, will also wield “The Church” as a weapon in cultural wars in much the same way as others wield “The Bible”. Indeed typically, while the default Protestant error is “Bibliolatry” – making an idol of the Bible, – the default Catholic error is “Ecclesiolatry” – making an idol of the Church. The idol worship to which each of our groups is prone is slightly culturally different, even if the underlying pattern is the same.
When we worship an idol, our love, which is in principle a good thing, is trapped into grasping onto something made in our own image. This “something”, which we of course do not perceive as an idol, then becomes the repository for all the security and certainty which we idolaters need in order to survive in the world. We are unaware that the tighter we grasp it, the more insecure and uncertain we in fact become, and the more we empty the object which we idolize of any potential for truth and meaning. And of course because love is in principle a good thing, for us to get untangled from its distorted form is very painful. Nevertheless, against any tendency we might have to blame the idol for being an idol, it is really the pattern of desire in us, the grasping, that is the problem, not the object. For just as the Bible is not an act of communication that we can lay hold of, but the written monuments to an act of communication that takes hold of us, so the Church is not an object that we can grasp, but a sign of our being grasped and held; not something that any of us owns, but the first hints, difficult to perceive, of Another’s ownership of us.
-from James Alison Website.
The second is by Toby Johnson, a writer and former Catholic seminarian, in his book “Gay Spirituality “, writing about “Scribes and the Pharisees”. Note the impact of replacing the familiar, but antiquated words we commonly meet in bibles and Catholic lectionaries, with modern terms we can more easily understand:
The only people Jesus specifically condemned in any way were the “Scribes and the Pharisees.” And it is telling that Bible translations generally keep these words as antiquated terms instead of translating them into modern idiom. For “Scribes and Pharisees” translates directly to “Church officials and conservative religious leaders.”
As the word suggests, the Scribes were the temple bureaucrats and the lawyers who could read and write and who, therefore, kept the records and managed the business of the Temple. The Pharisees were members of a lay reform movement in Judaism that called for a return to the old ways–to the “fundamentals”–insisting on literal interpretation of the Torah. They believed in angels and supernatural interventions and were always preaching that the end of the world was imminent.
All Jewish men dressed for prayer by strapping phylacteries (little wooden boxes containing the written text of the prayer Shema Israel) to their forehead and left arm in literal obedience to the text which said to keep these words as a sign for the hand and a pendant on the forehead, and by covering their heads with a prayer shawl with fringes, knotted to signify the 613 rules of the Mishnah (the oral tradition extrapolated out of the Ten Commandments).
The Pharisees were ostentatiously religious: they wore elaborate phylacteries with broad straps and oversized shawls with extra long fringe to demonstrate how obedient they were to the letter of the law. The Pharisees were clearly the predecessors of our modern day conservative evangelists and TV preachers who bemoan the present state of the world, predict that according to Bible prophecies the end of the world is nigh, and proclaim how saved they are.
“Woe unto you,” Jesus said, “Church officials and conservative religious leaders, hypocrites. Because you close the gates of heaven to those who are going in, you won’t go in yourselves.”
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newswire article reposts united states 27.Aug.2016 14:09
The Clinton and Powell War Criminal Charade
author: Margaret Kimberley
Clinton says that Powell dispensed his sage advice at a dinner party hosted by Madeleine Albright. Not only were Albright, Powell and Clinton in attendance but so were Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger. It was a reunion of war criminals past and present. The gathering is proof that there is always foreign policy continuity from president to president, whether Democrat or Republican.
Hillary Clinton, with help from her collaborators in corporate media, is trying to shift the blame for her email crimes to her predecessor, Colin Powell. The two exchanged private server notes at a "reunion of war criminals," including Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger. Clinton's sycophants scurry to her defense, since she is the meal ticket for those "beholden to Democratic Party success to stay on the gravy train."
Freedom Rider: The Clinton and Powell War Criminal Charade
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
"Colin Powell's history of his own lies makes it hard for him to be the object of sympathy."
Despite her best efforts and those of her friends in the corporate media, Hillary Clinton cannot escape her email scandal. In an attempt to comingle her responsibilities as secretary of state with her influence peddling at the Clinton Foundation, she used a private server to conduct all of her official, classified government duties.
Hillary Clinton is quite a liar but she was never a very good one. It was only a matter of time before her use of the private email server came to light. She was fortunate to have Barack Obama let her off the hook. Her only punishment was public criticism from the FBI director who nonetheless said that he would prosecute anyone else who did the same thing.
Yet the story is still highly problematic at this stage in her presidential campaign. So much so that damage control was in order. Clintonite courtier and author Joe Conason volunteered to help by shoving former secretary of state Colin Powell [3] under a bus. Conason coincidentally released excerpts from his soon to be published biography of Bill Clinton at just the right moment. It is interesting that the New York Times [4] uses the passive voice in discussing its role in the saga, "The New York Times received an advance copy." In the nick of time Conason gave his friends an advance copy of the book to repeat Clinton's claim that Powell made her do wrong.
"Her only punishment was public criticism from the FBI director who nonetheless said that he would prosecute anyone else who did the same thing."
The gangsterish "no honor among war criminals" back stabbing shouldn't make anyone feel badly for Powell. As secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration Powell kidnapped Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and sent him into exile. Colin Powell made the most important public case for invading Iraq and the subsequent killing of one million people.
At a now infamous United Nations presentation he lied to the entire world about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Using nothing but aerial photographs and a laboratory vial as a dramatic prop he claimed to have proof of chemical weapons production. United Nations inspectors had discovered nothing of the kind despite numerous visits to Iraq, but no matter. Powell was the public face of regime change and mass death.
The Conason version of events is also telling in a way that the author may not have intended. Conason and Clinton say that Powell dispensed his sage advice at a dinner party hosted by Madeleine Albright. Not only were Albright, Powell and Clinton in attendance but so were Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger. It was a reunion of war criminals past and present. The gathering is proof that there is always foreign policy continuity from president to president, whether Democrat or Republican.
While millions of people agonize over presidential campaigns and stridently make the case for their choice, foreign policy decisions differ very little no matter which party is in the White House. That much is obvious to anyone who pays attention but the gathering of the in-crowd at Albright's house ought to get as much attention as Clinton using Powell for cover.
"Powell was the public face of regime change and mass death."
When the story first broke Powell said he had "no recollection" of the conversation. But he is a "made" man in the foreign policy/ruling class mafia and realized he had to stick with the rest of the gang. So he had a different response 24 hours later. He conceded that he told Clinton his limited personal email use "transformed communications" in the State Department. It doesn't matter because rules became far more strict by the time Clinton took office. Her actions were clearly a violation of the law. The last gasp effort to put Powell's name in her mess is obviously borne of desperation.
Of course Powell is human and the Clintonian lies still rankle. He was somewhat peevish even after seeming to make peace with the rest of the gangsters. "Her people have been trying to pin it on me," he whined [5]. "The truth is she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo and telling her what I did." When asked to explain why he was the subject of Hillary's finger pointing, Powell made an obvious point. "Why do you think?" He then added a lie of his own. "It doesn't bother me. But it's ok. I'm free."
Obviously the blame Colin game does bother him. How could it not? But Colin Powell's history of his own lies makes it hard for him to be the object of sympathy. Even in giving his version of events he lets his co-criminal off the hook with "her people" pinning the blame. The underlings get Colin's wrath but the rules of omerta prevent him from mentioning the true culprit by name.
The back and forth between Clinton and Powell is misdirection for the naïve. None of these people are worthy of trust and none of them can ever come out looking very good. The two mass murderers are behaving true to form and Conason represents the corporate media lackeys who always find a powerful person to latch onto. They make connections and money with their high profile patrons and present their collusion as if it were truly journalism.
"The last gasp effort to put Powell's name in her mess is obviously borne of desperation."
The public have to thank a right wing organization, Judicial Watch [6], for keeping Hillary on the hot seat. Their lawsuit resulted in a federal judge ordering Clinton to respond to their questions in writing and the last minute repeat of blaming Powell had to be resurrected.
The fact that a right wing group is bringing the dirt to light shouldn't dissuade anyone else from using it against Hillary Clinton. If progressives were truly progressive they would have dumped her long ago. Instead she is the meal ticket du jour for NGOs, the black misleadership class of politicians and civil rights organizations and others beholden to Democratic Party success to stay on the gravy train.
To a person, the guests at Albright's soiree are among the worst people on the planet. All have a horrendous body count on their ledgers. Kissinger killed millions of people in raining destruction upon Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Madeleine Albright said it was "worth it" to kill thousands of Iraqi children through the use of sanctions, Powell has Haiti and Iraq on his bloody resume, Rice was always a true believer in regime change and Hillary Clinton made the case for destroying Libya and then moving on to do the same to Syria.
Of course any of them would use the other to get out of jail free. None of them are worthy of respect or should be thought of in any positive light. The people in charge of American foreign policy are, to a person, killers for hire and should be thought of in the same vein as mob hit men and women. No one should cry for Colin Powell or vote for Hillary Clinton either. The two criminals certainly deserve one another.
Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere. She maintains a frequently updated blog as well as at http://freedomrider.blogspot.com. [7] Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.
Source URL: http://blackagendareport.com/clinton_powell_war_crimes_charade
[1] http://blackagendareport.com/clinton_powell_war_crimes_charade
[2] http://blackagendareport.com/taxonomy/term/6941
[3] link to www.mcclatchydc.com
[4] link to www.nytimes.com
[5] link to www.people.com
[6] link to bigstory.ap.org
[7] http://freedomrider.blogspot.com/
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A government-led economic development policy during the 1960s was necessary because the less experienced and capital-poor private entrepreneurs lacked the wherewithal to develop several critical industries that were necessary to the nation's economic growth. The government determined that establishing public corporations to develop and manage these highly strategic industries was the fastest and most efficient way to foster growth in a variety of key areas.
During the 1960s, public enterprises were concentrated in such areas as electrification, banking, communications, and manufacturing. In 1990 these enterprises were, in many cases, efficient revenue-producing concerns that produced essential goods and services at low costs, but which also produced profits that were used for new capital investments or to produce funds for public use elsewhere. In the 1980s, Seoul was slowly privatizing a number of these firms by selling stocks, but the government remained the principal stockholder in each company. In the 1980s, an important function of public enterprises was the introduction of new and expensive technology ventures.
In 1985 the public enterprise sector consisted of about 90 enterprises employing 305,000 workers, or 2.7 percent of total employment in the nonagricultural sector. There were four categories of public enterprises: government enterprises (staffed and run by government officials), government-invested enterprises (with at least 50 percent government ownership), subsidiaries of government-invested enterprises (usually having indirect government funding), and other government-backed enterprises. Government-invested public enterprises, such as the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and the Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), represented the core of the new enterprises established during Park's regime. In the late 1980s, roughly 30 percent of the revenues produced by public enterprises came from the manufacturing sector and the other 70 percent from such service sectors as the electrical, communications, and financial industries.
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Elijah Wood Joins THE LAST WITCH HUNTER
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Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) has signed on to join the Breck Eisner directed sci-fi thriller The Last Witch Hunter, a present day New York-set film about an immortal witch hunter.
Accodring to THR, Wood joins already cast Vin Diesel (who will be playing the title witch hunter), Game of Thrones alum Rose Leslie, and Michael Caine. With such a strong and amazing cast, we’ll be keeping a close eye on this one.
We’ll keep you posted on the latest The Last Witch Hunter starring Elijah Wood, Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie and Michael Caine.
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About Fund
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Just Do Not Give Up!
Categories: Legal consultation, News and announcements, Rights of Roma people Published: 06.11.2015
Subject of the absence of birth certificates and passports is not new. But, do we ever reflect on the consequences of a lack of documents? For the Roma they are devastating, if not worse. You are nobody and your name is no one. Almost every day, the representatives of the Roma community suffer from blatant discrimination everywhere. This situation can be modeled, even if a person has the documents. And what about those who do not have them?
The lack of identifying documents puts in the position of … emptiness. Indifference of authority and discriminatory attitude – this is just the tip of the iceberg. A person without a passport cannot realize both: his own natural and constitutional rights. He or she is not able to get an education that put the way for an alternative life. Lack of opportunity to get an education has a negative loop: the increasing gender inequality, economic decline, and the growth of crime and in general degradation of society. The person who is abandoned in the so-called illegality plane will survive according to the traditions, and the government continues to be silent, in contrast to the growing consciousness of its citizens.
The inability to get even a basic education closes both the doors to a better life and the human eyes to the ways of self-realization. Unhappy people will never build a happy country. The state, its citizens have to realize how many preferences can get available due to the inclusion of human in social development.
Sometimes, you need only to issue a passport to a person.
One day, in Mukachevo Human Rights Center, a tearful disabled woman appealed with the question, on the solution of which depended the fate of her daughter – the inability to obtain identifying documents for her minor child.
This is not the first reference to our center with the problems of this nature. Many Roma from the Transcarpathian region do not have birth certificates and, accordingly, passports. And those who are trying to get an identity card face exceptional challenges. For Roma it is extremely difficult to obtain identifying documents by civilized and legal way without professional help of lawyers. The problem lies in two areas:
• First, the imperfection of the legislation of Ukraine, which makes the process of obtaining the passports for those who do not have the birth certificates impossible
• Secondly, discriminatory attitudes from government agencies, and their employees up to the Roma community
After all the state institutions simply shut the doors before a woman without a clear explanation of the nature of failure, without any advice, she decided to apply to our center. It hurts, to hear stories of people who lost faith in the existence of at least some crumbs of justice. Usually, when they see Roma representative anywhere, they just try to distance themselves from them, hanging them on a different kind of cliché, about Roma second-rate. Of course, it is much easier to “disown” from the client “advising” that the other authority will help. And representatives of the Roma community usually cannot defend their legal rights in the legal field.
Fortunately, there are a number of centers which provide legal aid as our center, which for four years has been providing professional primary and secondary legal aid that helps people realize their human rights.
Already lost faith in the performance of government agencies, tired of the daily failures and contempt of workers of various kinds of instances, Piklush Maria (name changed for ethical reasons) desperate, tired and with fear that here she would be again refused help, appealed to our center and told her story.
She became a mother on October 1, 1999 at her home. Yes, she gave birth at home, and this was her karma of scorn and neglect, which is passed on to her daughter. Ms. Mary didn’t address to any public institution to establish the birth of her baby and obtain further identifying document. However, she realized that without the documents her daughter cannot fully function as a citizen of Ukraine. Therefore, in summer 2015, Maria appealed to the registry office in Mukachevo. But she got refused and “was advised to” go to court. But the heroine of our story did not fully understand why and with what she did need to appeal to the court. Why did she have to go there if these cases involved the registry office?
The lawyer of our centre Iryna Lysnychka has provided complete and accurate information on the subject as well as the way out of this situation: According to the Law “About state registration”, the ground for the state registration of a birth of a child are the state documents in the sphere of health care, that confirm the fact of a birth of a child. In case of a birth of child outside the health care institution, the document establishing the fact of birth of a child is issued by a health care institution that held the examination of a mother and a baby. In case, if such examination was not held, the document confirming the fact of childbirth is issued by the medical consulting commission in the order, established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The medical consulting commission issues a document confirming the fact of childbirth in case of establishing the fact of childbirth. In case of absence of a document of health care institution or medical consulting commission, confirming the fact of childbirth, the ground for holding the civil registration is court decision of establishing the fact of childbirth”.
Considering the above mentioned, the child’s birth registration can be made by a court decision establishing the fact of birth.
Iryna Lysnychka assured Ms. Mary, that actions in a legal field may solve almost all issues and problems. Together, they prepared a statement on the finding, which has legal significance. In conclusion, Ms. Mary won the case, and her daughter received a birth certificate. Now, the girl can study, work.
It is very important that treatment for such egregious problems should change. In order to people haven’t appealed to legal aid centers with emotions that border between helplessness and aggression in the world. We are all people and never know which problem can encounter and whose help we need.
The press center of the Charitable Fund “Progress”
PS: The centers of legal information and advice that provide free legal aid to Roma people working with the support of the “Roma of Ukraine“, International “Renaissance” Foundation. To learn more about the activities of a network of centers, foundations and principles of work visit the website www.legalspace.org under “Legal Empowerment of Roma communities.” The views in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the International “Renaissance” Foundation and other civil, religious and political organizations and individuals.
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RFS Perekop Makes First Visit to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
August 21, 2018 August 21, 2018 seawaves
August 17, 2018 (Google Translation) – Within the unique long-distance campaign, the training ship of the Russian Navy “Perekop”, sporting new hull number 310, today for the first time will make a call Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. On board the ship are about 150 cadets of the Pacific Higher Naval School. Admiral S.O. Makarov, 60 pupils of the Vladivostok branch of the Nakhimov Naval School, as well as a group of young officers of Primorye. The senior hike on board the training ship is the head of the Pacific Higher Naval School. Admiral S.O. Makarova Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlyov.
The ship’s arrival to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky will last until August 23, after which the Perekop MC will continue its long-distance march and for the first time with cadets on board will pass the Northern Sea Route. It is planned that on September 12 the ship will arrive at the Main Base of the Northern Fleet in Severomorsk, where there will be a change of cadets who are navigating in the sea. On the Severomorsk-Sevastopol route, about 300 cadets of the Naval Polytechnic Institute (Pushkin) and the Baltic Naval Institute (Kaliningrad) will practice on board the training ship Perekop.
The trip of the training ship Perekop, organized by the Russian Navy High Command, is aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the task of maritime practice of cadets of naval educational institutions. A distinctive feature of the hike is the opportunity for students to acquire practical skills in the specialty in different latitudes of the World Ocean, taking into account their navigational characteristics.
Perekop left Vladivostok on August 9 and from 12 to 14 August made a call at the port of Korsakov.
Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Vladimir Korolyov set the task for the leadership of the Naval Educational and Scientific Center of the Navy to comprehensively analyze the results of all stages of the Perekop training ship’s journey along the Sevastopol route-Vladivostok-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-Severomorsk-Sevastopol and subsequently disseminate the results of this analysis to the military- maritime educational institutions for registration in the work on the organization of marine practice of cadets “.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy also ordered managers of all degrees during the parking lot of the Perekop Peninsula in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to carefully prepare the ship, its radio-technical arms, life support systems, its staff equipment for swimming in the Arctic zone.
The stage of the long-range march of the Perekop Peninsula, with the aim of maritime training of cadets of naval educational institutions from the Black Sea to the Pacific Fleet, began April 1 in the framework of the first in the history of navigational training in terms of the geography of the training ship Perekop (Sevastopol-Vladivostok-Northern Maritime way – Severomorsk – Sevastopol).
August 2018Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RFS Perekop
ESPS Centinella Deploys to Gulf of Guinea Patrol
13th MEU Marine Lost at Sea Identified
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Coast Guard Cutter Thetis Returns to Key West From Africa
May 23, 2019 – Coast Guard Cutter Thetis (WMEC-910) returned to their homeport in Key West, Florida, Thursday after a three-month U.S. Africa Command patrol. The Thetis crew concluded their patrol, in which they conducted multiple joint law enforcement exercises and operations with West African countries with U.S. Africa Command and U.S. 6th Fleet to maintain and strengthen international partnerships, and maritime security. “By conducting joint maritime law enforcement operations, we were able to establish best practices providing the West African navies and coast guards with the tools to enforce…
May 2019Africa, Florida, Key West, USCGC Thetis
USCG Conducts Joint Law Enforcement Operations with African Partners in Gulf of Guinea
May 10, 2019 – The U.S. Coast Guard, Nigerian Navy, and Cabo Verdean Coast Guard conducted joint maritime law enforcement operations as part of Africa Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership (AMLEP) 2019 in the Gulf of Guinea, April 9-May 2, 2019. AMPLEP is a U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet-facilitated initiative that aims to enhance the maritime enforcement capabilities of African partners in order to improve management and security of the maritime domain. A safe and secure maritime environment is necessary for local economies to flourish and is essential to the…
May 2019AMLEP 2019, Gulf of Guinea, USCGC Thetis
Coast Guard Cutter Thetis Rescues Sea Turtles in Gulf of Guinea
March 29, 2019 seawaves
March 27, 2019 – Coast Guard Cutter Thetis (WMEC 910) rescued two loggerhead sea turtles in the Gulf of Guinea while conducting routine training in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations, March 23, 2019. A Coast Guarsdman standing watch spotted the sea turtles tangled in a commercial fishing net. The officer of the deck instructed crew members to deploy a small boat crew to safely cut the distressed turtles free of the net. “I was able to work with my fellow crew members to help save not one but…
March 2019Gulf of Guinea, Justin Hartfiel, turtle, USCGC Thetis
Thetis Returns to Key West After Illegal Immigrant Patrol
December 19, 2018 seawaves
December 19, 2018 – Coast Guard Cutter Thetis (WMEC-910) returned Wednesday to Key West after a 90-day patrol in support of Operations Southeast Watch and Unified Resolve in the Caribbean Sea in support of alien migrant interdiction operations. The Thetis crew, along with other Coast Guard units, worked alongside the Puerto Rico Joint Forces of Rapid Action (FURA) to interdict and repatriate 219 migrants from the Dominican Republic and Haiti attempting to illegally enter the United States. While off the coast of Haiti, the cutter crew rescued six Jamaicans who…
December 2018illegal immigrants, Key West, USCGC Thetis
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Seizes Nearly 7 Tons of Cocaine and Rescues Ocean Wildlife
The Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returned to homeport in Key West Sunday following a 68-day Eastern Pacific counter drug patrol. The cutter Thetis crew worked alongside the Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team, an aviation detachment from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron and a Royal Canadian Navy maritime coastal defense vessel in support of Operation Martillo seizing 6,755 kilograms of cocaine and 14 pounds of marijuana during eight separate interdictions that resulted in the apprehension of 24 suspected smugglers. While on patrol Nov. 19, the cutter launched its Over the Horizon…
2017 DecemberHMCS Nanaimo, Key West, Narcotics, RCN, USCG, USCGC Thetis
Coast Guard offloads more than 12 tons of cocaine in Port Everglades
December 7, 2017 seawaves
Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba offloaded approximately 12.4 tons of cocaine Thursday in Port Everglades. The drugs, worth an estimated $378-million, were interdicted in international waters off the Eastern Pacific Ocean between mid-October and late November. The contraband is from suspected smuggling vessels interdicted in drug-transit zones off the coast of Central and South America by three U.S. Coast Guard cutters and a Royal Canadian Navy ship patrolling with an embarked Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) team. The bulk offload represents: Five interdictions by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba, approximately…
2017 Decembercocaine, HMCS Nanaimo, LEDET, Port Everglades, USCGC Escanaba, USCGC Spencer, USCGC Thetis
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Open to question
By Pavel Podvig
In "Nuclear Exchange: Does Washington Really Have (or Want) Nuclear Primacy?" Peter C. W. Flory, Keith Payne, Pavel Podvig, Alexei Arbatov, Keir A. Lieber, and Daryl G. Press, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006
In arguing that the United States has achieved nuclear primacy and thereby made mutual assured destruction obsolete, Lieber and Press rely on some questionable assumptions about the status of Russia's strategic forces.
To make their case that the Russian strategic nuclear arsenal "has sharply deteriorated," Lieber and Press quote statistics showing that Russia today has "39 percent fewer long-range bombers, 58 percent fewer ICBMs, and 80 percent fewer SSBNs [ballistic-missile-launching submarines] than the Soviet Union fielded during its last days." These numbers are generally correct, but a similarly one-sided examination of U.S. forces would have painted a similarly dire portrait; after all, the U.S. nuclear arsenal today has 66 percent fewer strategic bombers, 50 percent fewer ICBMs, and more than 50 percent fewer ballistic missile submarines than it possessed during the Cold War.
Lieber and Press claim that Russia's strategic bombers "rarely conduct training exercises," implying that Russia's military is neglecting strategic aviation. Yet Russia's strategic air forces participated in four major exercises in 2005 alone. Similarly, Lieber and Press refer to a number of failures during launches of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) in 2004 to illustrate the decline of the Russian navy. But they do not mention the much larger number of successful launches or the Bulava SLBM development program, which has been quite successful so far.
It may be true, as Lieber and Press write, that "over 80 percent of Russia's silo-based ICBMs have exceeded their original service lives," but regular and successful tests of ICBMs that have been kept in silos for 25 years or longer suggest that this has not affected the missiles' reliability. Russia is decommissioning its ICBMs not because they are unreliable but because it does not need them. Lieber and Press claim that the development of the next-generation Russian ICBM, the Topol-M, has been "stymied by failed tests." But of 15 flight tests conducted to date, only one has failed -- a remarkable achievement for any missile-development program. It is true that the production rate of new Topol-Ms is low, but that may be because Russia has decided to concentrate on producing the mobile version of the missile, which it will begin deploying this year.
Lieber and Press are right to state that Russia may end up having as few as 150 land-based missiles by the end of the decade. But about half of those ICBMs would probably be road-mobile Topols and Topol-Ms, which, if operated properly, would have a good chance of surviving a first strike. Lieber and Press dismiss Russia's mobile missiles by saying that they "rarely patrol." In reality, very little is known about Russia's mobile-missile patrol rates, and although it is quite plausible that they are low, it is a stretch to assume that they are zero.
Lieber and Press describe Russia's early warning system as "a mess." In fact, although the system is past its prime, it has lost surprisingly little of its effectiveness. It may seem counterintuitive, but Russia would gain very little were its early warning system to be deployed to the fullest extent. Adding the capability to detect SLBM launches would not dramatically increase the time available to the Russian leadership for assessing attacks. The much-discussed "gaping hole" in the radar coverage east of Russia also should be put in context. Missiles launched from the Pacific could not cover the entire range of Russian targets that would need to be destroyed in a first strike. The scenario that Lieber and Press postulate, in which "Russian leaders probably would not know of the attack until the warheads detonated" because of flaws in their early warning system, is simply impossible.
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Chief Justice approached for taking note of PCB irregularities
Posted by Syed Khalid Mahmood at 2:48 PM .
Labels: Pakistan Cricket
The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary, has been approached for taking suo motto action against the former officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) having been found guilty of massive financial irregularities by the Auditor General of Pakistan.
Razaullah Khan, the longest serving council member of the PCB, who has been known and feared for calling a spade a spade, has once more taken the initiative of bringing to book the people having been engaged in malpractices of the highest order.
“Yes I have submitted a request to the Chief Justice for taking a suo motto action against Dr Nasim Ashraf, Shafqat Naghmi and others who have been found involved in the embezzlement of funds to the tune of Rupees seven billion,” Razaullah Khan remarked in an interview recently.
“Alongwith my application to the Chief Justice I have submitted a copy of the report of the Auditor General of Pakistan that details the corrupt practices of the PCB officials. I have also brought the matter to the notice of Chaudhary Nisar Ali, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, by sending him a copy of the same report,” he added.
Razaullah Khan, who has been associated with the game of cricket in various capacities for nearly half a century now, did not mince words in stating that he has had to approach the Chief Justice after having failed to get any response from the government agencies.
“I have communicated to the Chief Justice that I have approached him after having knocked at the various doors without any response. The people in the government have their own reasons of not initiating action against the former PCB officials even though the report of the Auditor General of Pakistan has found them guilty,” Razaullah Khan said.
“The Auditor General of Pakistan has compiled the report after they had been assigned the task by the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the Patron of the Pakistan Cricket Board,” the former PCB Council member revealed.
“Now when the report has come out and it has been very clearly pointed out that the former officials of the PCB were guilty of financial embezzlement there is no reason why they should not taken to task. I have appealed to the Chief Justice to take suo motto action and register a case against them,” Razaullah Khan stated.
“Exemplary punishment must be given to the PCB officials for having misused the public money and having derived huge personal benefits besides having obliged their near and dear ones,” he pleaded.
“It was a common belief that Dr Nasim Ashraf and Shafqat Naghmi were running the affairs of the PCB at their whims. The recent report by the Auditor General of Pakistan has only confirmed that they have deprived the nation of billions of rupees,” Razaullah Khan believed.
He didn’t expect the present officials of the PCB to move against their predecessors because in his opinion there still were quite a few employees in the Board having sympathy with their former masters.
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Mark received his masters in International Development and his doctorate in agronomy at UC Davis. He began working for UC Cooperative Extension as an Area Agronomy Advisor in the Sacramento Valley in 2013. On October 1, 2015 he began as Assistant CE Specialist in Grain Cropping Systems at UC Davis. His research and extension efforts attempt to: 1) leverage existing knowledge and emerging technology to solve practical problems; 2) produce outcomes that inform both production and environmental concerns; and 3) communicate these outcomes in farmer-accessible formats as well as to the broader scientific community.
Ph.D. Agronomy, University of California, Davis. 2013
M.S. International Agricultural Development, University of California, Davis. 2010
B.A. English, University of Arizona. 2002
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Lundy, M. E.; Parrella, M.P. (2015). "Crickets Are Not a Free Lunch: Protein Capture from Scalable Organic Side-Streams via High-Density Populations of Acheta domesticus." PLOS ONE
Lundy, M.E.; Pittelkow, C.M., et al.; Linquist, B.A.; Liang, X.; van Groenigen, K.J.; Lee, J.; Six, J.; Venterea, R.T.; van Kessel, C. (2015). "Nitrogen fertilization reduces yield declines following no-till adoption." Field Crops Research 183: 204-210.
Pittelkow, C.M.; Linquist, B.A., et al.; Lundy, M.E.; Liang, X.; van Groenigen, K.J.; Lee, J.; van Gestel, N.; Six, J.; Venterea, R.T.; van Kessel, C. (2015). "When does no-till yield more? A global meta-analysis." Field Crops Research 183: 156-168.
Pittelkow, C. M.; Liang, X. Q., et al.; Linquist, B. A.; van Groenigen, K. J.; Lee, J.; Lundy, M. E.; van Gestel, N.; Six, J.; Venterea, R. T.; van Kessel, C. (2014). "Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture." Nature
Lundy, M. E.; Hill, J. E., et al.; Kessel, C. van Kessel; Owen, D. A.; Pedroso, R. M.; Boddy, L. G.; Fischer, A. J.; Linquist, B. A. (2014). "Site-specific, real-time temperatures improve the accuracy of weed emergence predictions in direct-seeded rice systems." Agricultural Systems 123: 12-21.
Liang, X. Q.; Li, L., et al.; Chen, Y. X.; Li, H.; Liu, J.; He, M. M.; Ye, Y. S.; Tian, G. M.; Lundy, M. E. (2013). "Dissolved phosphorus losses by lateral seepage from swine manure amendments for organic rice production." Soil Science Society of America Journal 77: 765-773.
Lundy, M. E.; Spencer, D.F., et al.; van Kessel, C; Hill, J.; Linquist, B. (2012). "Managing phosphorus fertilizer to reduce algae, maintain water quality, and sustain yields in water-seeded rice." Field Crops Research 131: 81-87.
Lundy, M. E.; Fischer, A.J., et al.; van Kessel, C.; Hill, J.; Ruark, M.; Linquist, B. (2010). "Surface applied calcium phosphate stimulates weed growth in flooded rice." Weed Technology 24: 295-302.
Lundy, M. E.; Wright, S. D., et al.; Orloff, S. B.; Hutmacher, R. (2014). Calibrating In-Field Diagnostic Tools for Improved Nitrogen Management in Spring Wheat. ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting.
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SYTRIECI, Rwanda
Recently, StreetNet spoke with its members—street vendors who are in their turn affiliated members of Rwanda’s Trade Union for Domestic and Independent Workers in the Informal Economy (SYTRIECI)—in order to understand how StreetNet and SYTRIECI’s joint efforts concretely impact their lives.
In the stories below, the vendors describe just how much StreetNet and SYTRIECI’S work helps them and their families access education, improve their economic conditions, and contribute in meaningful leadership roles within their organization.
Martha Nyirabambogo
Anathalie Iamubonye
Fatouma Mukamugenzi
Rafiki Ntakirutimana
Just as she has done for almost four decades, Martha Nyirabambogo, a 67-year-old street vendor, begins the long day in silent darkness. Martha must get to the Bweramvura Cell produce warehouse early to purchase deep red tomatoes, large grapefruits, sweet figs, and ripe mangos. Walking on foot, she’ll transport this heavy load on her head to the Nyabugogo Market, a trading hub outside of a busy bus station where she’ll organize and display it in time for the market’s opening at six. Here, amid the chorus of voices negotiating prices and the smell of fruit and vegetable skins mixed with that of tall lilies, she’ll stay until eight at night. In 14 hours, she’ll hope to earn the equivalent of five US dollars.
This five dollars, while still not enough to lift Martha and her family completely out of poverty, is five times the amount she earned just four years ago. Before that, she says, “I had been vending for forty years without success. I was suffering alone.”
Martha began street vending in 1973 when she became a 33-year-old widow with children—five in all—to support. “Life was very bad,” she says. “I started street vending to be able to raise my children … I had to carry all of them with me all along the day. We were chased from the house we slept in front of. We didn’t have enough food to eat.” This hardship and isolation was made infinitely worse by the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsis, when all of her close relatives—brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles—were murdered.
Like so many other survivors, Martha not only continued to live with the trauma of what she’d experienced, but she was further entrenched in poverty that the country had no ability to help her overcome. More and more people became jobless and turned to informal work like street vending, so even if Martha could have afforded a stall’s taxes and rent, competition made it difficult to get a market space. At the same time, government law prohibited (and still prohibits) vending on sidewalks or streets. As Martha says, “There is insecurity vending on the street—you can have car accidents, and your children can be out in bad weather. And we were chased on the road.” Like other street vendors, if Martha and her children were apprehended by police or security guards for vending illegally, they could be confined in “rehabilitation centres” for up to three days before release.
I had been vending for forty years without success. I was suffering alone.
Insecurity in vending sites and the constant threat of police harassment and confiscation of goods leads to insecure income, which means parents like Martha often cannot provide adequate food or housing for their children or pay their school fees. Illiteracy and a lack of knowledge of the laws and rights affecting street vendors exacerbate the difficulties. Both can lead to a feeling of powerlessness and a lack of hope in ever being able to change the situation.
But in 2014, Martha’s life and livelihood did begin to change when she decided to join a newly-founded trade union for domestic and independent workers in the informal economy: the Syndicat des Travailleurs Independants de L’Economie Informelle (SYTRIECI). SYTRIECI is committed to protecting and promoting the rights of workers in the informal economy by improving their living and working conditions through education, collective action, and the increased representation of informal workers in decision-making bodies.
After joining SYTRIECI, Martha began attending its monthly meetings. She learned about saving and joined an SSF group, which allowed her to increase the quality of her products and take out interest-free loans. With this help, she was able to afford the market stall SYTRIECI helped her advocate for. Working in the market has increased her daily income and her income security. Now, she is able to save, manage microcredit, and make rental payments on her house each month.
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Even amidst all the vibrancy of the Nyabugogo Market, vegetable and fruit vendor Anathalie Iamubonye is hard to miss. In a deep blue and yellow dress with matching headscarf, she stands confidently behind a stall heaped with high-quality onions, garlic, bananas, long green beans, thick carrots, and ripe tomatoes. Though she is now 50 years old, this confidence is newly found.
Anathalie began vending as a young mother of five children when her husband, a gardener, couldn’t make enough money to support the family. Anathalie herself couldn’t find work because she hadn’t gone to school and because, as she says, “I was raised to be a housewife.” Every day was a struggle with hunger and housing. Though Anathalie eventually found work as a domestic worker, her income was not enough to pay for rental housing, let alone for school fees. Soon, her children were forced to drop out.
Street vending became Anathalie’s only option. “It was really hard with all the dangers that it implies,” she says. “I had to do vending on the road, walking with my two last babies all along the day—one on my back and one walking beside me. Sometimes we got imprisoned because, in my country, vending on the street is prohibited. Another big problem was that I had to carry the fruit on my head under an overwhelming sun, which decreased their quality. This affected the price, and at the end of the day the income problems were still there.”
She recalls “Our lives were vulnerable and permanently in danger.”
Anathalie believes her family would still be facing this level of vulnerability and hardship had she not joined SYTRIECI three years ago. “I joined,” she says, “because I understood it would help me find a solution to my problems.”
I can ensure the future.
She began attending monthly meetings, which helped her learn about saving. After joining an SSF, she was able to take out and manage interest-free microcredit. Because she was able to increase her capital in these ways, she could afford the market stall SYTRIECI helped her secure. This success has had a cascade effect—now not only can she feed her children and pay their school fees, but she has also bought a house.
Anathalie has also learned about diversifying her income sources. Because it’s part of StreetNet International and its global network of street vendor organizations, SYTRIECI was able to host a learning exchange visit with trade unions from Kenya and Uganda. The visit introduced Anathalie and 70 other women to handcraft making as income generation. Now, as Anathalie says, “I have two options to earn income. When the market is not going well, I can sell handcrafts and continue to take care of my family.”
Anathalie says trainings like this have opened her mind to new possibilities, and she hopes to receive more advanced training on how to manage a business and even develop a small enterprise. “This way,” she says, “I can ensure the future.”
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Thirty-five-year old Fatouma Mukamugenzi is another Kigali vendor who is casting her gaze to the future. Even in the heat of mid-day, she shows no sign of wilting as she sits behind her stall, laden as it is with limes, mangos, bananas, and oranges Instead, she’s thinking through the skills and trainings she needs to become an international trader.
“I need education on business management and planning,” she says. “Training on negotiation skills, leadership, and loans.” She also wants to benefit from the experience of others through exchange visits, so she can improve her business.
It’s hard to imagine that just four years ago, this savvy business woman was struggling to feed her family. “My family was poor,” she says. “I was married when I was 16 years old only. As a too-young lady, it was really difficult to take care of my family since my husband was jobless. We couldn’t get enough food, shelter, medical insurance, or school fees for our children.”
Street vending proved the only occupation open to Fatouma. “I used to sell fruits, but the vending conditions on the street were hopeless. I had to carry products on my head the whole day, whether the weather was bad or good. Sometimes, we might encounter car accidents or robbers.”
I know how to negotiate to get favourable solutions around big challenges in my working conditions
Like so many other street vendors, Fatouma felt alone. But when she joined SYTRIECI, she began to meet others in the same situation. They started to share experiences, she says, and then began working together. Fatouma joined others to form an SSF and to take trainings on rights and negotiation skills, both of which have helped her acquire a market stall and navigate around the challenges of working with market management.
Now, Fatouma says, “I know how to negotiate to get favourable solutions around big challenges in my working conditions.” She also uses her negotiation skills for the benefit of others after being elected to the national negotiation committee SYTRIECI has created.
Her income is further stabilized through working collaboratively with other market vendors. “For now,” Fatouma says, “I can be sure to vend even when I am not at my vending place because my colleagues can sell my products for me, which was not the same when I had to carry products on my head everywhere I went.”
I can now pay school fees for my children, feed them, and pay their medical insurance.
Not only do Fatouma’s new skills in negotiation and collaboration have a ripple effect, benefitting others in the community, but they have also had a dramatic impact in her own family’s life.
“There are things that I can do that I couldn’t do before joining SYTRIECI,” she says, “I can now pay school fees for my children, feed them, and pay their medical insurance. I have a house, where before I had to pay monthly rent. I can manage a big amount of money and invest it correctly.”
With this security, grounded in learning, skills, and community, Fatouma can now afford to dream.
Twenty-four-year-old Rafiki Ntakirutimana, tall, athletic, and distinguishable among other market vendors for his youth, is packing away the grocery bags and envelopes he sells from his stall at the vegetable market’s edge. Soon, he will head home to his improvised family of three children—former street children he now provides for.
Not long ago, Rafiki himself was a child living hardscrabble on the street. As he recounts, “my mother chased me from home, and thereafter I was forced to leave the school. During several nights, I had nothing to eat. Many times, I got sick and had no possibility to get medical services. I used to carry bags for people coming for shopping. I was often beaten because there is no security on the road, especially when you are young, walking and struggling day and night.”
In order to try to support himself, Rafiki decided to invest the one dollar he had to his name in envelopes and shopping bags he could sell on the street. He believes he would still be selling on the street, sleeping outside, eating nothing, and continuing to carry shoppers’ bags had he not encountered SYTRIECI two years ago.
After learning about the benefits membership could bring, he decided to join, attending monthly meetings and participating in trainings around savings, negotiations, and job creation for youth.
In fact, SYTRIECI has a specific Youth Program that concentrates on organizing youth vendors into small groups and youth social solidarity funds so that they can contribute to their own development.
I no longer live on the street. I can pay rental money for my house, and I can buy food for me and the other children I live with
This focus reflects StreetNet International’s focus on improving the lives and livelihoods of future generations of street vendors. By sharing experiences, developing common strategies, and strengthening organizational structures within unions like SYTRIECI, youth can generate a culture of empowerment and solidarity.
Rafiki feels both this sense of solidarity and a sense of responsibility keenly. As he says, he’s now the leader of other children selling envelopes. He’s part of an SSF, so he’s been able to take out microcredit to raise his capital. As a result, he says, “I no longer live on the street. I can pay rental money for my house, and I can buy food for me and the other children I live with.”
Rafiki says this is not yet enough. He would like training on more advanced business management, so he can continue to improve his income. “I need a permanent house,” he says, “so that I can offer a home to more street children who were suffering like I was.”
But for now, as day settles into night, Rafiki heads towards the home where three children already count on his continuing triumph over hardship.
Read more on how our work impacts street vendors in stories from Cambodia, India, and Liberia.
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SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN SEASON 4!!!!!
When I told my husband I was writing a post about John Winchester, he asked, “Can’t you just write that in your sleep?” Yes, I love Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and may be more forgiving on John Winchester because of it. But as I wrote on, I found little to love about John.
Now we know John was a normal guy who loved his wife Mary above all, and whose life was turned upside down by forces he didn’t understand when she died. We get most of our clues from the boys’ relationship with him-Dean’s immediate obedience and Sam’s rebellion.
We presume he drank to dull the pain. Sam talks about it on more than one occasion. At first, in the pilot when he tells Jessica that his dad is hanging out with Jack, Jim and Jose, I thought he might be covering up, but he’s mentioned it again. (Of course, I can’t think of any off hand, and no time to go through the DVDs, drat it.)
We know he searched everywhere for answers of why his wife died PINNED TO THE CEILING. We know he took his sons and left Lawrence in search of those answers. I’m not sure why he kept the boys with him. At first, I argued that he did it to keep them safe, but then he left them defenseless in motel rooms time and again. Why didn’t he leave them with family? So I started to wonder how long he knew about Sam. He told the Yellow-Eyed Demon in In My Time of Dying that he knew about it for awhile. How long is awhile? Did he keep Sam with him to protect him or to keep an eye on him?
Another question…did he keep the boys with him because Mary’s family and friends were being killed? Again, if this was the case, why did he leave the boys alone again and again?
He did teach the boys how to fight when they were old enough. I wonder how he felt about that. He believed it was necessary, but he had to know what he was doing would scar them forever. He had to know that asking Sam to shoot him when he was possessed by the YED would tear up his son. In trying to protect his sons, he lost the chance to love them the way he wanted.
What did John think would happen once the YED was dead? Surely he didn’t think his sons would return to a normal life, knowing what they knew. He might have hoped it, but he couldn’t have believed it.
Even his last act, giving up his revenge on the demon, had heartbreaking consequences. Dean, who already had the self-esteem of a beaten dog, blamed himself for his father’s sacrifice (which made his bartering his soul for Sam’s life less believable for me.)
Wow, as I wrote this, I came up with more questions than answers. What are your feelings about John?
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AuthorM said...
Great post...one of the things I thought most about John Winchester was always...how could he do that to his kids? How? That's not being a good dad.
Unless, as we've since learned, that he had reason to believe his children would be targets if he left them with family. Knowing Mary's family were hunters changes that a little bit, but it doesn't change the fact he left little boys alone in hotel rooms while he went out, knowing each time he might not come back.
Maybe he felt they were safer with him than away from him?
...ultimately, of course, we have to remember that he's not real and him leaving the boys alone so often was useful for setting up the world we now know and love as DeanandSamlandia -- so whatever motivation the writers gave him, it works.
I don't think it's necessary to like a character to love him. I don't like John Winchester. I think he was a terrible father who ruined his sons. But I love the character.
I think John was caught between a rock and a hard place. He couldn't leave the boys behind in Kansas because he knew they'd likely be in danger, but then when he was on the road with them and he had to go fight something nasty, he probably felt like he couldn't yet put them in the direct line of fire either. So leaving them in the hotels was perhaps the lesser of two evils.
And as for teaching them about hunting -- I think he probably figured prepared and armed was better than that "normal" life where they would be totally oblivious and unprepared for the evil forces that might find them one day.
Trish, I think you nailed it on the head.
John HAD to teach his sons how to hunt. How to protect themselves. That makes perfect sense. He'd seen what goes bump in the night and wanted his sons to be able to fight back against attack.
But there's just no getting around the fact that John was not a good dad. The responsibilities he laid off on Dean were incredible.
Yeah, I know he's not real, but I like getting into the motivation. You can understand John's scarred soul and I do believe he didn't have much choice other than to take the kids with him when he ran.
But jeez. He couldn't even make an effort to be with them on Christmas??
Now I wonder when he realized all of Mary's friends and family were dying.
Author M...he's not real??? LOL! It's hard to remember that, sometimes.
Trish, I think you nailed it, too, but I agree with Maureen. Christmas? Yeesh, John! They were just kids. And poor Dean, so damaged.
My least favorite John moment was when he berated Dean for not taking care of the Impala. He sounded Just Like my dad.
I think part of it was control. Leaving the kids with someone else would have completely removed control from his own hands. Even leaving them alone but nearby would have given him some illusion of being able to protect them.
I also think he was conflicted and twisted by his obsession. He hardly had a chance to learn to be a dad before he was thrust into this other, horrifying world where nothing normal could exist.
The comics delve a lot into this backstory, and yes, Sam's otherness was a huge factor. Dean being the only person he could trust was another, and why Dean wound up with so much responsibility on his head. And again with control--John's military background probably was a fallback for him, something he understood and could apply even though it wasn't properly parental.
The reason I can love John so much is because despite all the damage he did, I really believe he loved his boys and tried to do what he thought was right, given the realities they lived in. That's 99% attributable to JDM and his performance. :)
I've read all but the last comic. Not sure if I have it.
His military background makes sense, though I think the John in "In the Beginning" diluted that a bit.
I knew you were going to say that. :) Since many years passed between "In the Beginning" and Mary's death, my theory is that he went back in. (I can't remember if they indicated he was done or just on leave.) Dean wouldn't know his platoon (apologies to the Marines out there if I'm using the wrong word) just from a short stint during the war. John had to have been long-term military.
phouse1964 said...
The more I think about it the more I think John knew about Sam and the YED thing for quite awhile. I think Mary had a journal and he found and read it. Will we ever get to see it? Probably not. But I think John had it all figured out and was just trying to make sur knew how to handle themsleves.
Natalie, it makes sense that he might have gone back in. He wouldn't have been in too long, if he ended up owning that garage.
phouse, I love the idea that Mary had a journal. I do wish we'd get to know, but you're probably right, we won't.
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June 13, 2014 by Karl Stevens
Learning to Be a New Kind of Artist: A Week at the “Art as a Spiritual Connection” Summer Camp
We’re sitting in the sanctuary of All Saints Church, in a circle of dim light. It’s morning and we’ve finished doing yoga and put the mats away, and now Fabricia is talking. There is a theme for this first day, as there will be for most of the days of the camp – connection and community. How do we set our egos and need for attention aside, and become truly attentive to the people around us? Artists are famous for their temperaments, their fragile egos. The permission to even engage in art is hard won, the talents that can make a person an artist are extolled as individual and unique. Most people observe and understand the world without feeling a compelling need for expression, but for artists the world isn’t quite real unless its been filtered through their imaginations. As I listen to Fabricia, I feel a touch of fear and a great deal of wonder. Is it really possible to make art in a community, art that surrenders individual vision to an interpersonal ethic? Art that imitates the self-sacrificing love of Christ? The first thing we need to learn, Fab tells us, is that an artist who loves is an artist who gives away her best work to other people.
There are thirteen of us sitting on the sanctuary carpet, nine girls and four adults. I’m here with my daughter, who has just finished fifth grade. On this first morning we’re shy of each other. Some of us know each other, but we’re not a community yet. We move from the sanctuary to the social hall, which has been transformed into our studio for the week. Fab gathers us around her and shows us how to make prints with an array of wooden stamps that she’s constructed and collected. There are trays with colored printer’s ink laid out at eight tables, and we take white or black pieces of paper, roll the ink onto the stamps, and print patterns, moving from table to table, color to color, building up images. We are aware of each other’s movements, we often have to stop and wait for someone to finish with the color we need, but our primary focus is on our own work, the vibrant, stamped images on the page. We make multiple prints, setting them out to dry and cleaning the stamps with baby wipes, which we also set-out to dry. These look like tie-dyes, with myriad colors smeared across them. When we have finished with this hour of print-making, Fab provides the object lesson. We will pick our two favorite prints, she tells us. One of them we will give away, and one of them we will display in the art show at the end of the week. The print we give away will be cut into 2” x 2” squares, distributed throughout the community, and used to make mosaics at the end of the week. An artist who loves, she reminds us, is an artist who gives away her best work to other people.
It’s early afternoon on the next day, and we’re in the sanctuary again. We’ve spent the morning creating designs of the tree of life and then cutting them into linoleum blocks. We will print these designs onto the tie-dyed baby wipes from the day before, because in Fab’s artistic process nothing is lost and any object can be transformed into art. Now we are singing, and Brianna is leading us. The day before she taught us to sing in a round, and then asked us to improvise within our parts. Today she’s spread us throughout the church, and as we sing we move from our separate places to form a circle around a candle that’s set in the center of the carpet. Some of the children have followed the sound of their own voices into wild disharmonies, and Brianna calls us all back to the center, to the simplicity of the song. We have to listen to each other, she tells us. If we each pursue our own melodies, the music’s beauty is lost. This balance between individuality and community, between improvisation and harmony, is hard for all of us. But singing together gives us a chance to practice it.
Fab tells me that we are engaging in spiritual direction through art, that art is a means of attaining wisdom, and not an end in itself. We are all talented, smart, and clever. But are we wise? I am the only man in the group, and I find myself wondering about the kind of wisdom that Fab is extolling. Much of it is other-directed, founded on the idea that wisdom comes from surrendering some part of oneself for the good of a community. A large part of me agrees with this, and I am enjoying the way that we practice this idea as we make art. But I also have a strong distrust of communities. I’ve felt manipulated by communities in the past. Worse, I’ve felt that many of the communities I’ve been a part of have had little interest in me as an artist, or, if interested, have wanted me to use my talents to further some community goal that’s based in needs and traditions that I don’t share. I’ve rarely experienced a community that simply rejoiced in the gifts and talents of its members, and was willing to be shaped by those gifts and talents. Is this distrust a male attitude, part of my socialization since boyhood? Or is it a cultural attitude that effects both genders?
I think about this on the third day, as we paint portraits. The lesson this morning is about Jesus as the Soul Friend. If we are to love one another, Fab tells us, we must first learn to love ourselves. She breaks us into pairs and tells us that we should paint our own portrait, and then the portrait of a friend. She’s taken photographs of us, and we work from them, staring into our own faces and then the faces of our partners. I find it easier to paint my partner, and I wonder if this is because I’m less invested in her face than I am in my own. I squander time and thought on my portrait, trying to bring out my own sense of who I am. I decorate her portrait with tiny clay mosaic tiles that I made earlier in the week, prettifying it. I want to honor her, but she doesn’t present a question to me in the way that my own portrait does. I’ve made three self-portraits in my lifetime and in a way this is the hardest. I’m not permitting myself the same ironic detachment that I usually bring to the effort. I’m trying to love myself through daubs of paint, and wondering why I look dour, sulky, a little defensive. I keep working, slowly painting over these expressions, until a pleasant face emerges. This is the face I’d like to present to the world, the wise face offered for community consumption. But under it lies the individual face, the first portrait that I put on the canvas, the wary face. I wonder which face Jesus loves best, and I suppose that Jesus loves both equally, the selves that give gladly to the good of a community and the selves that seek isolation and have difficulty trusting. But which self do I love more?
On Thursday we stand opposite each other at a table where Fab has placed a large, square canvas with concentric circles painted on it. We have squeeze bottles of colored sand standing ready. We join hands and pray together for a moment. Then she takes a bottle and makes a pattern of white sand on the canvas. I add to her pattern with blue sand. We go back and forth, changing each other’s work, making a mandala that spirals out from the center of the canvas to its edges. When the design feels finish, we look at each other and nod. We begin to smear it with our hands, rake it with our fingers, making new patterns as the lines of color are blended together. This is a movement of trust and surrender. We’re interested in the process of making the mandalas, not in the mandalas themselves. At this point in the week we’ve become so sure of each other within the community that our thoughts can go outwards. I find myself meditating on an old friend whom I’ve become estranged from. He’s written to me earlier in the week, and I’ve been wondering how to respond. As we make and unmake the mandala, it becomes clear to me that I have to let go of the hurt I feel because of the estrangement. I phrase and rephrase how I’ll respond to him. When we’re done with the mandalas, I slip off and write a message to him. And I realize that I trust this small community of artists. Our work together has pushed my concerns beyond myself, and beyond our little circle of thirteen, out into the wider world. Anyone can make art, Fab says, whether they’re an artist or not. And any artist can learn to make art with a new spirit and a new ethic, art that frees those who practice it and moves them beyond the narrow concerns of self, moves them towards something that feels preciously close to a state of grace.
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One Response to Learning to Be a New Kind of Artist: A Week at the “Art as a Spiritual Connection” Summer Camp
Lisa O'Rear says:
What a beautiful dream of the community of faith-I live the multi-generational aspect of the endeavor. Thank you for sharing this!
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Toni Polson Ashton and Andrew Ngo
As of October 6, 2017, Bill S-228 (the Child Health Protection Act in short) has passed through the Canadian Senate and awaits its second reading in the House. The bill recognizes that the marketing of unhealthy foods has a negative impact on childhood obesity, and enacts laws that restrict the marketing of such foods to children.
The bill in its present form has few provisions, the most material of which is the provision adding section 7.1 to the Food and Drugs Act:
7.1. Subject to the regulations, no person shall advertise unhealthy food in a manner that is directed primarily at children.
The term “unhealthy food” is not explicitly defined by the bill; rather, the bill contains a provision that allows the Governor in Council to make regulations setting out the criteria for determining whether a food is unhealthy. A similar provision also allows the Governor in Council to make regulations determining what it means for advertising to be “primarily directed at children”.
Marks in Limbo
Concerned trademark owners may recognize provisions in Bill S-228 that are also used in, e.g., Bill S-5 (i.e. the Senate bill proposing plain packaging laws for tobacco and vaping products, also presently on its way through the House) and Bill C-45 (i.e. the House bill proposing a Cannabis Act to legalize and regulate recreational cannabis).
These provisions effectively excuse the non-use of a trademark as a result of compliance with the respective advertising prohibitions.
A potentially undesirable consequence of these provisions is the creation of a class of trademarks in limbo, ie. – trademarks not in use, yet seemingly immune to expungement for non-use. In theory, such trademarks could exist on the register indefinitely – sure to be frustrating to some applicants of new marks who have such marks cited against them.
It remains to be seen how Bill S-228 will evolve as it passes through the House, and whether the regulations ultimately made under the Child Health Protection Act will amount to, e.g., a de facto set of plain packaging laws. On the one hand, these regulations could, for instance, take inspiration from the proposed Cannabis Act and restrict the use of “the depiction of a person, character or animal, whether real or fictional”. On the other hand, it is possible that several options for use will be left open to affected trademark owners, rendering the consequence of trademarks in limbo as a merely academic one.
Legislative Treatment
For the curious reader – and for what hints of the future can be drawn from the debates surrounding Bill S-228 – the following passage is quoted from the Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, spoken by the sponsoring senator, the Honourable Nancy Greene Raine:
I had an email from somebody who said, “You’re going to do away with Tony the Tiger — and I remember him from childhood — and that’s terrible.”
I said to myself: You’re a living example of how powerful the emotional connection is with children when Tony the Tiger is remembered fondly when you’re aged 50. There’s no doubt that if you capture brand loyalty below a certain age, you’ve got a customer for life. But we’re opening up our children to this, and I don’t think it’s good for them. That’s what this bill is all about, trying to dial back that side.
Yes, you’ll still have trademarks out there. Yes, you’ll still have packaging, I’m sure. This will be decided in the development of regulations. There will still be characters on packaging, but it won’t be targeted. You won’t be perhaps putting those cartoon characters at eye level for a 3-year-old in the grocery stores.
I also understand that a country can limit, through their laws, how those rights are used for the purpose of marketing. We’ve certainly seen that be put in place through the tobacco laws. We’re going to have to really look at that with regard to the cannabis legislation that’s coming before us eventually. In tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, we have broad laws against marketing to all Canadians, and some laws are age-related. I would say that trademarks would likely be used in other ways, in other venues, so they would be able to keep their trademark. (Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology Issue No 25, 42nd Parl, 1st Sess, June 1 2017
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7th July 2019 6th July 2019 / Nicola Naessens / Leave a comment
Following fantastic success with her debut, December Girl, Nicola Cassidy is back with her second historical novel.
Wanted, a respectable woman to care for a motherless child.
A young family are excited to be leaving tenement life behind. They are taking up residence in a cottage in the countryside. Whilst they embark on plans, they make a gruesome discovery. As the good life they envisioned is put to one side, investigations lead to a most horrific tale.
Bereaved William D. Thomas places an advertisement in his local paper for a nanny to care for his newborn daughter. When a young woman with appropriate experience arrives at his door, 43, Laurence Street, he hires her. Her presence will relieve housekeeper Mrs McHugh of the extra duties she’s been carrying out and perhaps bring a sense of calm to the household.
Mrs McHugh is very wary of the new Nanny. Something isn’t right, though she can’t quite put her finger on it. She visits her dear friend Betty, where she can confidentially air her grievances about The Nanny. Betty is bed bound by her window which overlooks Laurence Street. She can keep an eye on the comings and goings at number 43. Betty begins her own investigation into the Nanny. She reminds her of someone and before long she may well have discovered what has brought her into the life of her friend.
The Nanny, a quiet unassuming character one may initially think. She comes with experience and has settled the baby so well. As we learn of her past, it’s not difficult to comprehend why she has arrived at her current situation. Despite her coldness, there were times where I felt some empathy for the young girl she was. The Nanny harbours dark secrets and has arrived on Laurence Street with a determined purpose.
When blogger and author, Nicola took a local history tour of her home town in Drogheda, Co. Louth, she had no idea that her second novel would be borne from a passing tale. The guide spoke about a case of infanticide, where a young mother had hidden her newborn baby in a suitcase under her bed at the turn of the 19th century. Deciding to research the issue, Nicola discovered that infanticide and abandonment of babies was common throughout the 1800s in Ireland as women struggled to conceal unwanted pregnancies and deal with the stigma of illegitimacy.
It was the suitcase story and the finding of a newspaper advert from 1880 that formed the plot for The Nanny at No. 43, which follows the case of a mysterious woman arriving to take up a job as a nanny for a newborn baby in Drogheda. “I was very touched by that advert”, says Nicola. “It read; Wanted, Respectable Woman for Motherless Child. Three Weeks Old to Bottle Feed It. I thought……What if the woman turning up wasn’t respectable at all…..”
While the novel is fiction, Nicola has set her book at No.43 in Laurence Street, Drogheda, where the original advert was placed.
The Nanny at No.43 is another gem from Nicola Cassidy. She has perfected her craft and writes historical fiction with extensive knowledge of her subject matter.
It’s a pleasure to be part of the blog tour for The Nanny at Number 43, please visit the other reviewers and read their thoughts on the book.
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of The Nanny at Number 43 in exchange for this review, which is my own honest opinion.
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New school dedicated
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by Bill Boyle
These are remarks I made at the dedication of the new school in Monticello on September 9.
If you want to know what is important to a community, just look around a little. It becomes obvious. Monticello is no different.
Just drive around this little town and look and listen.
One of the first things you realize, if you’re here long enough, is that bells are important in this community.
There are few other towns that ring a community-wide siren three times a day. What a great tradition.
I’m excited that a bell sits prominently at the entrance to the new Monticello Elementary School, which was dedicated at a community celebration on September 9.
This is no ordinary bell. It was cast in 1897 and has served the schools in this community for more than 100 years.
Bells are important in education. They mark not only the passage of time, but also signal when it’s time to celebrate and to commiserate.
The bell in front of the new school was also in the bell tower of an earlier school, which still stands behind the Four Corners Meat Processing Plant.
The bell served as the fire alarm to the community. One night, in the middle of the night, the bell started to ring.
The townspeople came running, wondering what tragedy they may face. What they found was that someone had tied an old mule to the rope for the bell and it was the mule that was ringing the bell.
Bells also mark the time to celebrate. I was recently reading old newspapers about the end of World War II. That event was marked in Monticello by the ringing of the bell.
I hope everyone can take the opportunity to celebrate the opening of the beautiful new school by ringing the old school bell.
There are many other signs, in Monticello, about what is important to the town.
We value our public buildings, our beautiful park and museum, a library and more. In the very center of town, we honor our veterans, which I think tells a lot about a community.
From a beautiful new Catholic Church under construction on the south end of town to the wonderful LDS Temple on the north end of town, it is clear that we value spirituality and service.
Of course, it becomes clear that Monticello values its schools. Through the schools, the community signals that it values children, it values education, and it values the future.
A beautiful new school honors the heritage and traditions of the past, while working in the present to prepare for the future.
Through the art and architecture of the school, the students, teachers, staff, and visitors will be reminded every day that what goes on there is of tremendous importance. The school teaches our youth who they are and what they can become.
The greatest thing that this community does is raise kids. And I’m glad that this building, in the actual bricks and mortar and art and architecture, will be part of the education. The school is solid and well-built. It is not ostentatious or gaudy, but it is built to last, for the future.
I personally am delighted about the art in the building. Bryce Pettit is the sculptor of the beautiful statue out front, Flights of Learning, which symbolizes the purpose and mission of the school.
Flights of Learning was made possible by a community-wide effort, coordinated by the Monticello Elementary School Community Council.
Teachers, parents, alumni, service organizations, and community members contributed to the fundraising effort, including the collection of 50,000 Monticello nickels by the school students.
Richard Lance Russell painted six beautiful murals, which will sit at the entry to the school for years to come.
The “Always an Adventure” series features the landscapes, seasons, and people of Monticello. They illustrate the aims of an elementary education and give those who enter Monticello Elementary School a sense of belonging, a connection to their heritage, and an idea of what their education makes possible for them
The six paintings highlight creativity, adventure, teamwork, discovery, connection and play.
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Cultural Studies: The Basics
Subject: Cultural Studies (general)
Online Publication Date: December 20, 2013
This fully revised edition of the best selling introduction to cultural studies offers students an authoritative, comprehensive guide to Cultural Studies. Clearly written and accessibly organized the book provides a major resource for lecturers and students. Each chapter has been extensively revised and new material covers globalization, the post 9/11 world and the new language wars. The emphasis upon demonstrating the philosophical and sociological roots of Cultural Studies has been retained along with boxed entries on key concepts and issues. Particular attention is paid to demonstrating how Cultural Studies clarifies issues in Media and Communication Studies. There are chapters on the global mediasphere and new media cultures.
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Part One: Forming Culture/Informing Cultural Theory
Chapter 1: Contemporary Culture, Cultural Studies and the Global Mediasphere
Introduction: The Contemporary Setting
Case Study 1: Defining Di
Culture and Cultural Studies
Case Study 2: Terrorism: A Postmodern Attack on America
Methodologies and Methods
Advantages of the Cultural Studies Approach
Chapter 2: Social Theory and the Foundations of Cultural Studies
Introduction: Foundations of ‘Culture’
Phenomenology and Cultural Studies
Chapter 3: Marxism and the Formation of Cultural Ideology
Marx and Hegel
Symbolic Control
Criticisms of Marx and Marxist Assumptions
Walter Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction
Louis Althusser and Structuralist Marxism
Science, Language and Critical Theory
Chapter 4: From British Cultural Studies to International Cultural Studies
Literary Foundations of Cultural Studies
Culturalism and the Formation of a New Cultural Studies
The Internationalization of British Cultural Studies
Chapter 5: Language and Culture: From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
Structuralist Language Theory
Early Roland Barthes and the Semiological Moment
The Poststructuralist Critique of Structuralism
The Later Barthes
Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida
Psychoanalytic Theory: Jacques Lacan
Politics and Difference: Deleuze and Guattari
Part Two: Cultural Locations
Chapter 6: Feminism: From Femininity to Fragmentation
Feminism and Modernism
Sexual and Political Emancipation
Poststructuralism and Feminism
Magazines and Cultural Feminism
Feminism in Contemporary Politics
Contemporary Feminist Cultural Politics
The Imagining of the Female Body
Chapter 7: Postmodernism and beyond
Literary and Aesthetic Derivations of Postmodernism
Jean-François Lyotard: From French Poststructuralism to French Postmodernism
Frederic Jameson
Postmodern Architecture
Postmodern Politics, New Democracy and the Invisible Ethic
Chapter 8: Popular Consumption and Youth Culture
Early Audience Theories
David Morley's Audience Ethnography
Pierre Bourdieu and Symbolic Consumption
Michel de Certeau
Transgressive Pleasures: Popular Media Consumption
Youth Culture
Popular Politics
Modernism and the Body
The Body as Discourse
Alternative Sexualities
Beautiful and Healthy Bodies
Commodification and Sport
Shaping Masculinities
Posthuman Bodies
Chapter 10: Globalization and Global Spaces: Local Transformations
Locating Globalization
Globalization, Race and Historical Imperialism
Global Imperialism - US Media Hegemony
Internationalism
Global Spaces
Uneven Global Distributions
Chapter 11: New Media Cultures
Communication and Technology
Electronic Democracy
Postmodern Computer Politics
Cyber-Sex and Electronic Eros
Chapter 12: Global Terror and the New Language Wars
The Meaning of Terrorism and Acts of Terror
America and the War on Terror
Media and Political Violence in Iraq
Freedom of Expression and the Imagining of Domestic Security
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[Page v]To Jay and Sian
List of Tables, Figures and Plates
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1.1 The modern/The Postmodern 23
5.1 Structuralism and Poststructuralism 119
7.1 Modern and Postmodern Literature 183
10.1 GNP per capita as % of OECD-Developed World regions' GNP 323
1.1 Culture, the media and meaning-making 5
3.1 The dialectics of Hegel and Marx 58
3.2 Marx's base-superstructure model 62
4.1 Leavis's culture 86
4.2 Stuart Hall's culture 102
1.1 Six Months after the Tsunami in Arugambay, Sri Lanka 13
1.2 The 2006 World Cup Football, Germany 25
1.3 Cremation Ritual on Nusa Lembongan 25
3.1 Slum Tourism in India 74
4.1 The Beauty Economy 105
6.1 The Slums of Mumbai in India where Women and Children are the Poorest of the Poor 170
7.1 Terry Batt, Forthcoming Attractions (oil and wax on canvas, 6′ × 7′) 206
8.1 Girl Power for Sale 244
9.1 Busting Air 283
10.1 Gugenheim Art Museum at Bilbao 313
10.2 Real-estate sale on Nusa Lembongan 318
10.3 The Shot Tower 318
10.4 The Harbourfront, Montreal 318
10.5 The London Eye 321
12.1 Abu Ghraib 384
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Together, we weave what we can from the warp and woof of one another's experience. For the scholar, I suspect that he had unburdened himself … He left here knowing that he had contributed important information to the map I had in mind. (James Cowan, A Mapmaker's Dream)
I introduced the first edition of this book through a reference to James Cowan's novel, A Mapmaker's Dream. The mapmaker is attempting to conceptualize his vastly expanding horizons; his cartography, however, is perpetually frustrated by the exquisite, even miraculous, vitality and detail of the world. Even so, the frustration of the cartographer, as with his servant scholars, is ennobled by the splendour of the journey - that expedition of knowing which is both transient and endless, and which is ultimately the expression of our singular and collective dreaming.
My aim in writing the first edition of Cultural Studies was to make a similar contribution to this journey of knowing. I attempted to create a textual cartography which drew together the rich and complex intellectual genealogy that marks the formation of the cultural studies discipline and our understandings of contemporary culture. Since completing the first edition, however, I have found my own horizons expanding, eliciting new insights into the nature of meaning-making in a globalizing cultural setting. Internationally significant events like 9/11, along with the seemingly intractable momentum of globalization, have contributed to a distinct shift in the consciousness and formative modes of cultural meaning-making. This second edition of Cultural Studies, therefore, is once again attempting to map the dynamic state of the world, bringing forward my own dynamic understandings and apprehensions of this miraculous cultural sphere.
As in the first edition, I have sought in this new edition to present and critique the major modes of cultural analysis; I have used this critique to develop a specific theory of culture which is then applied to the study of specific cultural sites and spaces. However, I have attempted in this new edition to account for changes in the discipline itself, as well as in the significance of the sites being analyzed. I have added an entirely new chapter on the culture of terrorism. This has proved an essential addition, not only because of the preoccupations of contemporary global cultures, but because these changes have stimulated some compelling revisions within the discipline itself. In particular, events like 9/11, the ‘war on terror’, the oil wars and conditions of global warming, are all stimulating a revival of cultural studies' deep roots in cultural politics.
To some extent, the interest in political violence and global terrorism is part of a broader cultural and disciplinary development, most particularly associated with globalization. As I outline in Chapter 1 of this new edition, globalization has numerous effects, and [Page xii]cultural studies is extremely well-placed among the social sciences and humanities to account for these ‘expanding horizons’. To this end, this new edition of Cultural Studies is projecting a more globally focused interrogation of culture(s). This broader focus on globalism and the conditions of global insecurity is a critical part of my own scholarly journey.
This new edition of Cultural Studies represents another dimension of this expedition and of our shared project of contemporary cultural mapping.
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My particular thanks are due to the School of Applied Communication, the Globalism Institute and the office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor Research at RMIT University. All these bodies have provided resources for the completion of this text.
I would also like to thank the following people - Belinda Lewis, Jay Lewis, Sian Lewis, Sonya DeMasi, Kirsty Best, Alice Sherlock, Diana Bossio, Jessica Raschke, Kristen Sharp and Louise Refalo. These people have made an absolutely invaluable contribution to the Cultural Studies genealogy and to my own personal and intellectual life.
Thanks to a range of colleagues who have supported my work - John Handmer, Paul James, Damian Grenfell, Jack Clancy, Sheldon Harsel, Christine Hudson, Alan Cumming, Tony Dalton and Brian Henderson.
My thanks to Terry Batt for allowing me to use Forthcoming Attractions (Cover and Plate 7.1). Thanks to Thea Linke (Plate 1.2), Pia Interlandi and Devika Bilmoria (Plate 4.1), Pia Interlandi and Optic Photography (Plate 8.1), and Michael Cresswell (Plate 1.1).
I'd also like to acknowledge the support and guidance provided by the Sage team, most particularly Chris Rojek, Jai Seaman and Mila Steele.
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Glossary of Key Terms
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Agency (individual agency): Studies of society and culture often debate the degree to which individuals have control of their own destiny. This capacity for self-determination is called ‘agency’. It is contrasted to the power of society to control the actions, attitudes and free thinking of individuals.
Bricolage: The rearrangement of cultural elements and styles in order to produce new meanings and styles. For example, the reassignment of denim cloth, originally used in the US prison system, into a teenage fashion style; the reworking of African rhythms, Caribbean music, rhyming couplet poetry and talking blues to form rap music (rhythm and poetry).
Capitalism: The economic system based on trade and private ownership that begins in Europe in the Middle Ages and flourishes during the modern period (from the seventeenth century).
Class (social class): Capitalism inevitably produces differentials in power and financial success. Karl Marx argued that there are two principal classes of people in a modern, industrial society: the bourgeoisie (middle class who own capital and property); and the proletariat (who have nothing to sell except their labour). While Marx was describing the developed societies of the nineteenth century, recent commentators argue that class is more diffuse and complex. Even so, in most modern societies there exists a very small group of people who are extremely wealthy, and a much larger group who are quite poor. Between these extremes is a broad social group often called the middle class.
Codes: A code is a meaning system which may be based on language, images, colour, sounds, music, etc. Coded meanings may be clear, broadly shared and understood, and literal (e.g. an English language statement such as ‘I am hungry’, or the red light in a traffic signal). A code may also be subtle, restricted and abstruse (e.g. the metaphoric coding in Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man).
Commodification: The idea that capitalism is taking over all aspects of social life, converting everything into a form of commercial product or commodity. Thus, we can talk about the commodification of love, women or ‘the body’ inasmuch as advertising and other commercial codes present human experience as a sellable commodity.
Cultural imperialism: Powerful social groups have historically invaded and occupied the territory of other social groups. In the modern period this form of territorial expansion by one nation over another has been called ‘colonialism’ and ‘imperialism’ (the creation of empires). Colonial administration was supported by a symbolic conquest through which the invaders imposed their culture over the invaded group. While the direct colonization of other national territories is no longer regarded as politically legitimate (with some exceptions), the symbolic ‘control’ of other national groups' cultural consumption practices is regarded as a legitimate part of capitalism and cultural trade. The concept of cultural imperialism suggests that powerful nations like the US are able to dominate global cultural markets with their information, news, media, fashion and styles. Through these products, cultural imperialists are able to influence disproportionately the ideas, ideology, belief systems and overall culture of other nations.
Cultural materialism: A theory of culture that draws on Marxism and anthropology to explain social inequality. In particular, cultural materialism suggests that the uneven distribution of cultural materials (products and artefacts) in a society is directly linked to differences in social power and access to the resources of meaning-making. Cultural materialists seek to understand the mechanisms used by powerful groups in a society (e.g. media owners and governments) to exploit and control more vulnerable groups. This theory is often associated with Raymond Williams and his followers.
Culture: An assemblage of meanings which are generated and consumed by a given social group.
Deconstruction: An analytical strategy pioneered by French philosopher Jacques Derrida which focuses on the historical and cultural assumptions that inform a belief system and its discourses (language). For Derrida and his disciples, the core of every belief system is ultimately constructed around these assumptions. In Western civilization such assumptions are formed in a language that is fundamentally binary in structure(e.g. present/absent, truth/untruth, culture/nature). Deconstruction exposes and deconstructs these binaries and their correlative assumptions in order to present a new mode of thinking which liberates a broader spectrum of social ‘difference’.
Diaspora: Originally referring to the dispersal of Jews across Europe, diaspora now refers to any human group that has no clearly defined homeland. Many of today's refugees, for example, may be seen as part of a new global diaspora.
Digitopia: A utopia formed around digital technology. Digitopians are those individuals and communities who believe that digital, computer based technologies will provide the answer to the world's political and social problems.
Discourse (discursive): This term was popularized by Michel Foucault, who used it to describe the interdependence of meaning systems (such as language), social power and knowledge. Foucault argues that meaning systems or ‘discourse’ shape knowledge and vice-versa. Both knowledge and the meaning system are formed through relationships of power. Therefore, the term discourse is usually deployed in order to indicate that meanings are always shaped in relation to what Foucault calls power/knowledge.
Emancipatory Politics (liberational politics): Since its inception, cultural studies has been interested in issues of power, hierarchy and social inequality. In its recent incarnations, some areas of cultural studies have been focusing on individual subject's potential for personal emancipation through new expressive modes of pleasure, creativity and self-actualization. This approach to emancipation believes that freedom is only possible through the liberation of subjects from all fixed structural forms. Thus, a ‘collective’ freedom is only possible through the liberation of each individual, rather than by replacing one oppressive system with another (as in the communist revolutions of the twentieth century).
Epistemology: The study of knowledge - what it is and how we acquire it. This was a central focus of philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From this period, however, epistemology has been supplemented by an interest in the way knowledge is shaped by language.
Essentialism (see ontology below)
Globalization: Process of increasing contact between people from different nations and cultural backgrounds. It is usually identified as a modern process which has been accelerating over the past fifty years as a result of increased volumes of trade and new forms of global communication.
Governmentality: A concept established by Michel Foucault and used by a number of more recent cultural analysts. Governmentality describes the broadly distributed strategies and techniques that modern societies employ to manage complex relationships and material conditions. While recent analysts often use the term in relation to government and policy processes, Foucault refers to a much broader expanse of bureaucratic processes, material management and hierarchical systems in a society.
Hegemony: This term was popularized by Antonio Gramsci. It refers to the forms of ‘leadership’ which are infused in significant social institutions - political, economic, educational and religious. As it has been more broadly applied in cultural studies, hegemony refers to an authority which is expressed through institutionally sanctioned meaning systems. This authority is not entirely closed, and people have the opportunity to [Page 398]influence their leaders and their authority in a modern society. Thus, meanings may be generated by powerful groups (governments and mass media corporations), but individuals are able to rework or ‘negotiate’ how these meanings are to be deployed in terms of their own personal life circumstances.
Hybridization (hybridity): Globalization has brought different peoples and cultural elements into greater interaction and contiguity. Some theorists argue that this process is leading to greater global homogeneity, particularly as it is dominated by cultural superpowers like the United States. However, others believe that this contiguity transforms older cultural elements, creating new and hybrid forms of culture. At the ‘local’ level individuals and communities absorb and transform dominant cultural modes (music, film, clothing styles, food chains), adapting them to their own customs and practices: the mix of the internal and external creates a ‘hybrid’ cultural form (e.g. Bollywood, Asian Rap, vegetarian McDonalds).
Hyperreality: A concept popularized by Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard, ‘hyperreality’ suggests that contemporary culture is shaped around a new form of mediated reality. That is, contemporary culture is so dense with media texts and competing meanings that reality itself has been utterly transformed. For Baudrillard, in particular, a hyperreality is characterized by meaninglessness, or at least an agitated and dynamic process whereby everything is merely an imitation (simulacrum) of everything else.
Identity: The way an individual sees him- or her-self, and projects that self into the world. This concept marks a key debate in contemporary cultural studies. An individual's ‘identity’ is shaped by biological, social and personal factors. Some theorists believe that identity is rooted in deep history, culture and ethnicity; others believe that identity is almost entirely constructed in culture and discourse. The first of these positions is essentialist in that ‘identity’ is seen as something fixed and largely immutable. The second suggests that individuals have a degree of choice about who they are and which cultural elements they wish to mobilize in order to express their identity. In effect, our individual identity is both conditioned by external forces, and by our own choices and sense of expressive agency. Identity has become a critical part of contemporary cultural politics - for example, in the notional ‘war on terror’ a great deal of popular, governmental and academic debate surrounds the condition of ‘being Muslim’ and the ways in which identity is being mobilized in cultural agonisms.
Ideology: This is an extremely complex term which is frequently debated in cultural studies. At the simplest level it is a system of beliefs and attitudes which are formed politically by a given social group. Adapting the ideas of Karl Marx, however, Louis Althusser argues that ideology is really the mechanism by which powerful elites impose their own interests and beliefs over the masses in a given society. It is the difference between [Page 399]the things people believe about themselves and the real conditions of their lives. These powerful groups infuse their self-interest over the masses through the manipulation of a symbolic order. Media texts, government discourses, laws, education, information - all contribute to the formation of a dominant ideology.
Intertextuality: According to Jacques Derrida, all texts are necessarily related to all other texts through the process of meaning deferral. This simply means that the words that comprise a text are dependent upon prior (and future) meanings that are contained in other words. In order to understand the meaning of a statement like ‘the dog is black’, a reader will be tracking back to prior readings of each of these words and their formulation in grammar. If the reader goes to the dictionary, s/he will find a whole new set of words whose meanings must also be tracked to other texts and meanings. Thus, all meanings are subject to a process of ‘supplementarity’, where any given word supplements the meaning of any other.
Marxism (neo-Marxism): This is a set of ideas derived from the nineteenth century German philosopher and social theorist Karl Marx. Marxist theory focuses on the means of production, historical materialism, political economy and various forms of social inequality. Marxian studies focus on the man himself, as opposed to his theories.
Mediasphere: The notion of a ‘public sphere’ refers to citizenship (belonging to a nation state) and participation in democratic institutional processes. In its original form, the public sphere was seen as the physical and cultural spaces in which citizens engage in political discussion, information sharing, decision making and electoral processes. It is not about private profit or pleasure, but public duty and democratic participation. With the emergence of mass media, the public sphere has been transformed through a new merging of private and public cultural spaces. Political participation is now formed in relation to mediated texts, entertainments and information. The mediasphere represents the convergence of the public sphere with new forms of mass mediation.
Myth: According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, myths are stories and legends developed by cultures in order to resolve underlying community tensions. While Lévi-Strauss focuses on traditional and tribal societies, the same process of myth-making (as meaning-making) is evident in modern societies. Roland Barthes argues that myths are ‘naturalised’ (formed as a natural or inevitable truth) by a modern society in order to make sense of things and provide an historical density to their meaning-making. At this level, myths are not necessarily ‘untruths’ or fallacious narratives; they are an essential part of a social group's identity and sense of belonging.
Ontology (essentialism): This is a philosophical idea about the true and essential nature of things. Often the concept is applied to explain the essence of human nature, human spirit, [Page 400]the cosmos, nature, identity or history. Cultural studies is often seen as ‘anti-essentialist’ as it treats culture as constructed meanings, rather than as some mysterious or nefarious essence.
Patriarchy: Feminists argue that social history is marked by a significant gender hierarchy by which males have dominated females. This patriarchal system is shaped by material divisions, law and cultural meanings which insist that women are inferior to men; the world has been shaped by this fundamental belief system and the interests and ideology of males.
Performativity: The focus on social performance (action) which has been determined by culturally embedded discourses and laws. For example, men will perform as men because they are obeying specific social rules and expectations that are continually confirmed through repetition in movies, sports programmes, television and social interactions, etc.
Phallocentrism: A phallus is a symbolic penis. It represents the belief system that surrounds patriarchy and male political and cultural power. Phallocentricism refers to the subconscious male ego.
Political economy: This concept is drawn from Karl Marx and usually refers to a critical framework for studying society. This framework focuses on the interdependence of politics and economics as the core of social relationships and inequality.
Polysemy: This concept was developed through semiotics (see below). It is the idea that a sign (unit of meaning) may carry many potential meanings. However, the selection of a dominant meaning is generally shaped by dominant social groups. For example, the word ‘democracy’ is politically charged and subject to considerable debate between national, ethnic and religious groups across the globe. This potential for multiple meanings is nevertheless subject to the dominant interests of, for example, the United States government and its cultural power.
Position (to): A number of cultural studies scholars argue that a text and its ideology ‘position’ readers and their meaning-making. Thus, some feminists might argue that fashion magazines position teenage female readers, creating the urge to imitate thin, heavily made up, high consuming models. The text positions or situates the reader in terms of specific identities and ideologies (capitalism, patriarchy) and behaviours (consuming, wearing make-up, dieting).
Postcolonialism: An analytical framework designed to explain the cultural and political experiences of peoples in formerly colonized territories. Such analyses usually point to the evolution of complex power relationships in countries that were once directly [Page 401]administered by colonialists such as Britain, the US, France, Spain and Germany. They will study, for example, the contemporary experiences of indigenous people in countries like Australia and Canada. The ethnic, racial and political disharmonies associated with colonization, foreign settlement and de-colonization in Africa, India and the Middle East are also common sites for postcolonial analysis.
Post-Fordism: Henry Ford perfected the system of mass, assembly-line, industrial production (Ford motor cars). Many historians believe that we have entered a new economic phase in which mass production has been replaced by flexible, low scale and creative industry (typified by tourism, hospitality, media and information industries). It is argued that this post-industrial society is characterized by flat management styles and a flexible, highly trained workforce. The major OECD countries are seen as post-Fordist, while emerging economies like China remain in a typically Fordist phase.
Postmodernism (Postmodernity): Usually refers to a set of texts and ideas that are characterized by multiplicity of meanings and forms that are self-challenging and self-reflexive. In particular, postmodernism challenges the notion of an integrated, modernist, unified and absolute truth. To this end, we might think of ‘postmodern’ films like David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, literature such as Joseph Heller's Catch-22, paintings like Andy Warhol's Green Coca Cola Bottles, and architecture such as the Sydney Opera House. Postmodernity describes the historical phase in which postmodern ideas and texts are pre-eminent. A number of scholars argue that we have entered such a phase, claiming that time and space have been compressed and there is no overriding truth or reality in a globalized cultural context.
Poststructuralism: A philosophical idea which focuses on the way language shapes knowledge and power. It is ‘post’ structuralism because it challenges the idea that language, society and history are constructed around durable, fixed and powerful ‘structures’. Poststructuralism claims that meanings are dynamic, elusive and often unstable. Power is treated as a contingency of relationships, rather than as something that is historically fixed, as Marx claims.
Reflexive (reflexivity): This concept is associated with postmodernism. It refers generally to a social or aesthetic perspective which reflects upon and challenges itself. Thus, in a multiple irony, reflexive text such as Mulholland Drive, the storytelling reflects on the processes of storytelling, narrative and creating film.
Representation: The re-presentation of experience or phenomena in discourse and text. In cultural studies ‘representation’ is not merely the reproduction or mirror reflection of reality in text; rather, the process of representation is ultimately one of engagement between the self and all other cultural elements. Reality (or more precisely meaning) is [Page 402]created through representation. This is why many cultural studies scholars treat everything as a potential text, including lived experience, bodies and nature as well as recognizable media texts in film, literature and television.
Semiotics (semiology): The study of ‘signs’ as meaning systems. Semiology has a more scientific demeanour and is centred in French scholarship.
Signification (signifiers, signifieds): Signification is the process of making meaning through sign systems. Signs are formed in any meaning system such as language, colour schemes like traffic lights and so on. A sign is divided into the signifier (the material sign such as a word or traffic light), and signifieds (the mental concept or potential meaning to the signifier). Thus, in a sign such as red light on a traffic signal, the signifier is the bulb and colour red, while the signified is linked to the meaning of stop.
Simulacra: Literally refers to simulations or imitations. Jean Baudrillard uses the concept to explain his hyperreality in which everything is an imitation of everything else; thus, there is no distinct or valid meaning within a hyperreal cultural context.
Society (social formation): Society is the assemblage of people into a mass organizational unit, most often constituted in modern history around the nation-state. A ‘social formation’ is also an assemblage of people with a distinct organizational and/or ideological purpose (not necessarily the nation-state). Thus, the workers in a multi-national corporation, global Islam, or an intra-state ethnic community may be seen as a specific social formation.
Structuralism: This concept most often refers to the idea that invisible social structures provide the essential framework of a society. Such structures are carried through history by durable institutions and their belief systems, ideology and fixed meanings. Karl Marx, most famously, refers to social class as the primary and defining social structure of modern society. Many other social theorists have also seen society as being based upon social structures (such as patriarchy) and related institutions (such as the family). A number of language theorists (e.g. C.S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure) believe that society is largely determined by the structures and recurring patterns that are inherent in all language.
Subculture: For theorists who believed that culture was a relatively fixed system of meanings attached to a relatively fixed and stable social group, ‘subculture’ denotes a social sub-section which deviates from the majority or dominant group and its ‘norms’ (sense of normality and values). Subcultures are usually seen as a distinctive and separate group with their own norms, beliefs, rules, clothing styles and cultural practices. Thus, analysts might append the notion of subculture to drug-user groups, motor cycle gangs, [Page 403]criminals and so on. Scholars who believe that the concept of ‘culture’ implicates difference and multi-forming constituencies are less inclined to use the concept of subculture because it suggests that there is a fixed main culture and deviant appendices.
Subject (subjectivity): An individual member of a social group is called a ‘subject’. Subjects pertain to a culturally formed ‘identity’ or ‘subjectivity’ (sense of self) over which they have a degree of control or choice. Subjectivity is thus formed in discourse and culture. It is the new focus of an emancipatory politics which encourages choice and the liberation of subjectivity from socially determined rules and prescribed beliefs and practices.
Televisualization (televisual culture): As meaning production, dissemination and consumption are the central processes of culture, different cultures may thus be characterized in terms of their dominant communications technologies. The notion of a televisual culture refers to the pre-eminence of image-based mass mediation. Televisualization clearly affects the consciousness of individuals and hence their shared meaning-making and sense of reality.
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Laird said:
stake out my position on the many issues
Well put. I concur almost entirely. The only place I'd differ is that I believe a land should belong to all who live it (minorities and majorities, settlers and indigenous). Also, I can't see cultural/ethnic wagon circling as a step forward for humanity..... because, I suppose, I ultimately don't believe in the nation state (while admitting it's ability to do good).
But again, thanks for being more articulate than I would have managed.
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dpdownsouth said:
The only place I'd differ is that I believe a land should belong to all who live it (minorities and majorities, settlers and indigenous).
Clichéd as it may be to say, indigenous people - at least here in Australia - tend to take the view not so much that the land belongs to them as that they belong to the land. In any case, I think they prefer the term "custodianship" to "ownership". Like it or not, they have been here for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years; non-indigenous people for a comparative blink of an eye (two hundred and thirty years). Even by a purely numerical approach based upon historical presence (which I do not anyway endorse), that gives each of us non-indigenous folk a comparative right to the land of at most 230 years divided by, say, 50,000 years. You can do the maths...
Of course, it is totally understandable that a person born in a colonised land, and especially a person ignorant of the historical context in which they came to be in that country (not saying that this is you), would argue for their joint ownership of that land. Look at it from the other side of the fence though: is this fair to a person whose ancestors have lived there for millennia, and into whose midst the strangers have imposed themselves only recently, in the process attempting to commit genocide against that person's people?
In any case, indigenous folk are a forgiving people. I suspect that, when we return their land and its sovereignty to them, they might be willing to teach us how to live with respect for and on their land. But I do not think that we should expect or rely on it.
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Of course, it is totally understandable that a person born in a colonised land, and especially a person ignorant of the historical context in which they came to be in that country, would argue for their joint ownership of that land. Look at it from the other side of the fence though: is this fair to a person whose ancestors have lived there for millennia, and into whose midst the strangers have imposed themselves only recently, in the process attempting to commit genocide against that person's people?
In any case, indigenous folk are a forgiving people. I suspect that, when we return their land and its sovereignty to them, they might be willing to teach us how to live with respect for and on their land.
I think the mistake here is to think that there exists a fair answer! There simply isn't one, just as some equations have no solution.
The very best you can do, is to try to help people to live as fulfilled lives as possible.
Suppose your ancestors came from the UK. If they did, those ancestors may have suffered by being forced to become soldiers to fight those colonial wars, or indeed to "keep the natives down" after the war was over. Many must have died, and I'll bet many that did come back were broken by the experience.
The best political approach now, is to try to find politicians that won't make similar mistakes (they won't call it colonisation), it just isn't to try to heap guilt on people who didn't have any part themselves, and whose ancestors probably suffered badly as well.
I disagree, but perhaps you will at least accept that there is a fairest answer: this is at the very least analytically true. And even if I grant (purely for the sake of argument) that I have outlined only a fairest answer, then you still need to be a lot more specific about why it is not the fairest answer.
How can indigenous Australians live genuinely fulfilled lives when they are denied effective sovereignty of their own land, which they have occupied for millennia? Can't non-indigenous Australians live maximally fulfilled lives without the (sometimes unknown to or unrecognised by them) avoidable injustice to indigenous Australians of being illegitimately denied effective sovereignty of their own land?
OK, let's suppose that for the sake of argument. How does it affect the imperative based on natural justice of restoring effective sovereignty to the indigenous custodians of this land, who have never ceded that sovereignty?
The best political approach now, is to try to find politicians that won't make similar mistakes (they won't call it colonisation)
Do you mean that colonisation can be excused so long as we use a different word for it? I'm trying to apply the principle of charity, but it's hard to understand you in any other way. I hope that I'm misinterpreting you and that you'll clarify.
it just isn't to try to heap guilt on people who didn't have any part themselves, and whose ancestors probably suffered badly as well.
Guilt is optional albeit understandable and reasonable, and nobody's denying that some of the colonisers were forced into it and may have suffered, but (1) at the group level, the colonisers benefitted from the exploitation and dispossession of the colonised, who were commensurately harmed by that exploitation and dispossession, (2) both the historical, and current and ongoing suffering and injustice at the group and systemic level is very one-sided, and (3) most importantly, suffering on the part of the invader doesn't excuse the invasion, nor alter what needs to be done to right that wrong.
Charlie Primero
Vortex said:
So, Charlie, if you and your Alt-Right friends are going to claim a sizeable territory for whites-only, how are you going to deal with non-whites who live there?
I think the most peaceful way is something similar to the practical strategy of the Free State Project where Libertarians gradually move to an area and take it over politically.
We will eventually have to divorce from the U.S. as we cannot share a Polity with people whose culture and ideals we do not share.
Over a long period of time Non-Whites will leave to avoid discrimination the same way people move every day in the U.S. after job loss, for better opportunities, etc.
Jim_Smith said:
The Alt-Right is a new political movement among young people.
To be Alt-Right, a person must basically be:
Pro-White
Anti-Degeneracy
Counter-Semitic
The rest is details.
Jim_Smith
Charlie Primero said:
That is something I haven't heard of before. I looked it up but still don't know what it means. Can you explain it?
I think it is odd that any group would define themselves in relation to some other group. Why depend on them for your identity?
Can you explain how does it differ (if it does...) from the bad old Anti-Semitism?
An Anti-Semite is someone who dislikes Semites for no reason.
The Alt-Right opposes invasion of Semites from Muslim lands into European countries and America.
The Alt-Right opposes Israeli influence on the governments of Europe and the Americas.
The Alt-Right is basically:
LetsEat
What do you think about the Alt-Right actually helping to legitimize modern neo-liberalism? Specifically the tactic of parading the worst members of the Alt-Right (which isn't hard to do since they don't believe in self policing to avoid purity spiraling) to then turn around and say 'Well neo-liberalism/capitalism may be pretty shit but at least we aren't literal Nazis! Keep voting for us to keep these guys out of power!'
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Notice how he can never give a real answer.
So what makes a counter-semite different from an anti-semite?
A 'counter-semite' is an anti-semite that identifies with the alt-right.
But if you're 'anti-degeneracy' but use half-truths and psuedo-science aren't you really defeating your own purpose?
'Muslim lands?' Really?
Reading these kind of statements makes me glad I don't have to use any mind-numbing pretzel logic to express my simple political opinions
Guilt is optional albeit understandable and reasonable, and nobody's denying that some of the colonisers were forced into it and may have suffered, but (1) at the group level, the colonisers benefitted from the exploitation and dispossession of the colonised, who were commensurately harmed by that exploitation and dispossession, (2) both the historical, and current and ongoing suffering and injustice at the group and systemic level is very one-sided, and (3) most importantly, suffering on the part of the invader doesn't excuse the invasion, nor alter what needs to be done to right that wrong
1) The law explicitly disallows group punishments, and that is for a reason.
2) It is, I think, hard to know if anyone gained from colonisation other than the very wealthy. Sure people in the West got a few things - sugar for instance - that they wouldn't have had otherwise, but people were worked to the bone here, and sent out against their will to fight for the profits of the colonisers.
3) I'm not trying to excuse the invasion, if it were possible to convict those responsible - fine! What I am objecting to, is a totally spurious concept of white guilt, because it is simply daft. Peoples have been shifting across the planet since history began, the concept that a certain race is entitled to a particular piece of land because of history, is basically stupid - you would never exhaust claim and counter claim!
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What do you think about the Alt-Right actually helping to legitimize modern neo-liberalism? Specifically the tactic of parading the worst members of the Alt-Right
I don't understand. Who are the "worst members of the Alt-Right" you are referring to?
I don't know what "modern neo-liberalism" is. Is that something different than Cultural Marxism?
I feel the more we learn about "evidence based spirituality" ie-NDE's, the medium data, OBE accounts, the re-incarnation data, and even the nature of consciousness with regards to Quantum Physics, the less important race becomes. And I do feel that science and spirituality will one day be intimate friends. The day that WE ALL TRULY understand that we are just pure consciousness operating through a variety of other avatars over potentially several life times and that we are all of the same source and are truly brothers and sisters in a spiritual sense (a stronger sense than a material brother or sister) and that what we do to others has an affect on yourself and what you do to yourself has an affect on others, When(if) that day comes maybe we can finally put all this nonsense to rest and get on living as people.
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How am I not giving an honest, real answer?
The Alt-Right opposes Semites having any presence or political influence in our Polity.
I don't know how I could be more plain.
Patrick327
I am an American citizen. When it comes to heredity I suggest people look into actual family history. Stories involving parents and grandparents and the actual genealogy. What sort of work they did and talents they had. Lumping us all into white, black, red, yellow, and brown is way too simplistic.
We don't have to participate in the dialectic manufactured by the schools and the media. The schools and mainstream media want to lump everyone with white skin into a single category and then create a white versus people of color dichotomy. Participating in this whatever ones race is would neglect the actual stories of ones ancestors that made them unique as individuals.
I do think that people who are classified as white do have a right to speak against anti-white speech. However I don't think that doing this means one has to participate in far right politics. Regardless ones personal feelings on various ethnic groups(such as Russians, Jews, African Americans, Jamaicans, Levantine people, or Arabs) I don't think it would be wise for a person who is speaking out against anti-white speech to also speak against other racial groups or to advocate for segregation.
The main time I encounter this hard white/non-white understanding of the world is in response to media and school propaganda or internet propaganda, stuff that can generally be classified as either far right or far left. If society is just left alone to develop naturally then these racial issues sort of work themselves out naturally.
I am not saying race is meaningless or that one should totally ignore race when looking at the world but at some point Americans do have to start promoting the concept of an American ethnic identity. The idea that we are Americans.
Neo-Liberalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism, it's free market capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=P54sP0Nlngg
Christopher Cantwell, Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer.
Oh. Ok. Thanks. Most people in the Alt-Right are former Libertarians/Ron Paul types, so they would probably support your Neo-Liberal economic policies over Marxism. Another smaller, but significant faction are actual National Socialists.
Cantwell and Anglin are the part of the Alt-Right that's specifically designed to appeal to young kids by being vulgar and counter-culture.
I think there's a bit of miscommunication happening, David. Some of the things to which you seem to be objecting are not things I'm advocating for anyway. That's fine, you can express objections to whatever you want - presumably you've seen somebody advocate for them. I'll simply clarify those which I'm not advocating for.
I'm not sure why you're bringing up group punishment. Is it because you think it's what I'm advocating for? If so: I'm not.
Almost everything that every non-indigenous person has here in Australia was gained from colonisation. Of course, it took a lot of hard work on top of that, but without the theft of the land and its resources in the first place - including the effective slave labour of many of its indigenous people up until as late as 1970 - the colonisers, immigrants, and their descendants would have had nothing.
What I am objecting to, is a totally spurious concept of white guilt, because it is simply daft.
The reaction against guilt seems to be very defensive (where "I" stands for the generic member of an occupying group): "I have done nothing wrong; the original crimes were committed by dead people; why should I be blamed for them and feel guilt for them?"
It looks different from another perspective: that of the people whose land has been stolen from them and is still occupied by a foreign people. The injustice is ongoing; those of us non-indigenous people living on indigenous land are each complicit in its perpetuation to some extent. Since you (David) are living in your (presumably) native land, the degree to which you (David) are personally complicit in the occupation of colonised lands is of course minimal.
I'm not expecting or advocating for guilt - I think the support of restorative justice is more important than how one feels - but I do think it's an understandable and appropriate emotion to feel under the circumstances (at least, to the extent that guilt is ever an appropriate emotion to feel - some people argue that it is totally unconstructive and never appropriate, but that's a whole other discussion).
One final question (in general, not necessarily based on any position you, David, take): if "pride in the achievements of one's culture" is a legitimate emotion to feel, then why would "shame for the injustices committed by one's culture" not be?
Peoples have been shifting across the planet since history began, the concept that a certain race is entitled to a particular piece of land because of history, is basically stupid - you would never exhaust claim and counter claim!
Some claims might be more tenuous than others, but many are clear-cut, including the case of Australia: there is no known occupying group on this land prior to the indigenous Australians (that's why we refer to them as "indigenous"), who have lived here for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. They continue to live here. The colonisers and immigrants have been here for a mere 230 years - that's roughly three lifetimes back-to-back.
Laird,
I think you should consider some other possible examples of guilt by colour/race, and tell me which you would approve of:
Should Spaniards feel deep guilt over what happened in South America, and pay the countries reparations? Should they perhaps
repatriate all the gold they stole?
Should Japan pay reparations to China - or maybe vice versa for what happened in WWII?
Which European countries should be feeling guilt and paying money to the others?
Should France feel guilt for the Normandy invasion of Britain, or Napoleon's invasion of Russia? Maybe the French should pay money to Russia
in recompense - at today's prices, that would be a tidy sum!
Can you offset the injustice created by one war by the injustice created by another if the other side starts it?
How about 'white' Australians who can claim that one of their ancestors was indigenous - should they be part of the largesse? If that person happens to
be much better off than another 'pure white' Australian, how do you explain that you are taking resources from the latter to give to the former?
I am not saying that we should conceal our past, but it is daft to claim that that can be reduced to a requirement that one country pay reparations (a form of punishment) to another because of what a tiny number of corrupt leaders have forced or tricked their own populations into doing in a bygone age.
I also feel that money passed over supposedly "by right", tends not to be used well (we don't have the right to interfere in how this money is used, because it is rightfully 'theirs'). The best thing that any government can do is to help the people alive now, to live as fulfilling lives as possible.
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The accelerating decline of French nuclear power
Greenworld, 14 May 2015
For most people with any interest in energy issues, France is synonymous with nuclear power. With 78% of its electricity generated by the atom, it is by far the most nuclear-dependent country in the world. It’s state-owned flagship Electricite de France is the world’s largest nuclear utility. State-owned Areva is one of the largest nuclear reactor manufacturers in the world. Rather, France, whose nuclear industry is in speedy and accelerating decline, today exemplifies the failure of nuclear power. Moreover, a closer look at France reveals where the world is headed: to a clean and surprisingly affordable nuclear-free and carbon-free energy system.
When nuclear industry lobbyists–anywhere in the world–try to find a success story for their technology, they invariably point to France.
But more rapidly than could have been imagined even five years ago, pointing a finger at France doesn’t evoke nuclear success.
If that kind of energy future can come to France–and it increasingly appears that it will and sooner than might be expected–then it can come everywhere.
Yves Marignac of WISE-Paris, whose expose of the current serious safety issues of Areva’s EPR reactors was published in GreenWorld a month ago, stopped by NIRS’ office this week and gave a presentation on recent developments in the French nuclear industry. This piece is based on that presentation and our ensuing discussion on the issues raised.
To understand just how far the French nuclear industry has fallen in recent years, look no further than the value of EDF and Areva. Since 2007, EDF’s stock price has fallen more than 70%; Areva’s by more than 85%. EDF is 34.2 Billion Euros in debt. Areva’s debt is much smaller, at 5.8 Billion Euros, but Areva is valued at only 3 Billion Euros (less than a third of the cost of the Flamanville or Finland’s Okiliuoto-3 EPRs now under construction). Last year, it lost 4.8 Billion Euros. If Areva weren’t 83% government-owned, it almost certainly would have declared bankruptcy by now.
Not only has Areva lost billions on the Finnish reactor–it is building the facility under a 3.3 Billion Euro fixed-price contract although the plant is now near the 9 Billion Euro mark, and counting–it is also losing money in its once lucrative reprocessing business and can’t find any new customers, and somehow even screwed up a radioactive waste storage contract at Chernobyl (link in French).
Areva’s problems appear to stem from a combination of incompetence and overreach–the EPR reactor is much larger than all but a very few potential customers can possibly use and so complex that it is proving nearly impossible–and hugely expensive–to build. Add to that the reality that much of the world is turning away from nuclear in the wake of Fukushima and the future seems dim for Areva as a reactor manufacturer. The company does have some potential viable businesses in uranium enrichment, radioactive waste management and nuclear services, but little else. And, if one wants to take a full measure of Areva’s incompetence, consider that it recently dropped, as a cost-cutting measure, its wind power business–probably the only potential growth area for the company.
EDF’s problems, although not as severe as Areva’s–mostly because it is much larger and as the main electric utility in France at least has cash flow–may be structurally even greater.
The basic issue is, as is the case for U.S. nuclear utilities like Exelon and Entergy, that EDF can no longer sell electricity for as much as its aging fleet of reactors cost to generate that electricity. As in the U.S., EDF’s operating and maintenance costs for its reactors are increasing at about 5% per year–and its electricity rates aren’t. Nor can it easily raise its rates: there are legal issues involved for its regulated business and if it raises rates in its deregulated markets it won’t be able to compete.
But the worst may be yet to come. Unlike in the U.S., where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been inclined to abandon nearly all of its originally-proposed post-Fukushima safety upgrades under industry pressure, French regulators have taken Fukushima seriously, and EDF will have to make major upgrades to its reactors if it wants to keep operating them. Add to that the fact that EDF’s reactors will begin reaching the end of their 40-year license period at the end of this decade, and the utility is looking at a cost estimated at about $110 Billion just to keep its existing reactors operating.
That’s money that will be nearly impossible for EDF to recover from ratepayers. Despite these existing and upcoming financial pressures, the French government’s only solution to Areva’s more immediate problems seems to be to have EDF buy out and take over Areva’s reactor business. That would leave Areva a shadow of its former self, relegated to the uranium enrichment, radioactive waste, and nuclear services businesses. It would leave EDF with potential exposure to even greater losses, especially if it turns out–as seems increasingly possible–that the EPR design is simply unbuildable at any rational cost.
There is now much more to the story of the current EPR problems than we published last month. The problem started when Areva recently reported that an “anomaly” was recently found in the upper and lower heads of the EPR pressure vessel for France’s Flamanville reactor now under construction by EDF.
First, check the slides to the right (numbers 23 and 24 in the full presentation): two full pages of other problems that have occurred with the EPR design and its construction at Flamanville. It’s little wonder that Flamanville is now 2 1/2 times over budget and five years behind schedule–and is likely to fall further behind, if it can even be completed at all, because of the “anomaly.”
Unlike the main part of the pressure vessel, which was forged at Japan Steel Works, the upper and lower heads of the Flamanville EPR were forged at Areva’s facility at Le Creusot, France. This was done back in 2006, even before the construction license was granted, but a year after Areva agreed to meet new regulations from the French nuclear regulator, ASN, about testing the vessel would have to undergo.
In September 2012, Areva proposed to ASN that the tests include a destructive testing program, which would entail taking pieces out of a separate vessel to determine whether the forging had been done properly. The Flamanville vessel was welded into place beginning in January 2014. The destructive testing was conducted in October 2014.
As a side note, for those of us in the U.S. and especially those involved (as we were) in fighting the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 EPR reactor in Maryland, it appears that the destructive tests Areva conducted were done on the heads of the vessel originally manufactured for that site–certainly the final nail in that long-buried coffin.
The tests confirmed that the fabrication of the vessel heads, presumably both upper and lower heads, was flawed. The upper head, for which access is still possible, potentially could be replaced if further tests find that is required. But replacing the lower head, which has been welded to the bottom of the emplaced vessel, would be just about impossible. It likely would be cheaper to simply replace the entire vessel than try to undertake such an operation–and that would be an extraordinary cost.
Areva and EDF will certainly try to convince French regulators to allow the reactor to be licensed despite the problems with the vessel heads. If they are unsuccessful, it is nearly certain that the Flamanville project will be abandoned. Even if ultimately successful in that plea, it will be many months–possibly a year or more–before there is a resolution to the issue, and in the meantime the costs, and cost overruns and schedule delays, just keep mounting.
When first proposed, EDF said the reactor would provide power at 28.4 Euros per Megawatt/hour of electricity generated. That figure is now up to 90 Euros per Megawatt/hour, and still growing–well above any rate EDF could actually charge for power from the reactor.
Flamanville (and Calvert Cliffs-3) are likely not the only reactors affected, however. China’s two Taishan EPRs, which are nearly complete and supposedly just about ready for hot testing, may suffer from the anamoly too. Given their more advanced stage of construction, replacement of the heads would almost certainly be impossible. Either the Chinese would have to let the reactors operate anyway, perhaps by giving them some sort of exception from the regulations, or they would have to abandon the project. Given the lack of transparency in Chinese nuclear matters, it is impossible to know what is most likely to happen, although news reports have indicated start-up will not be allowed until more testing information from Areva is available.
The other, highly controversial, reactor that may be affected because its vessel heads already have been manufactured at Le Creusot, is the proposed Hinkley Point C reactors in the U.K. Although that project has not even begun, and EDF has not yet found sufficient foreign (read: Chinese) investors to make the project feasible despite the British government’s promise of taxpayer subsidies so that EDF will receive an incredible 110 Euros per Megawatt/hour generated. Those promised subsidies are being taken to court by Austria and Luxembourg as violations of European Union law–a case that could further delay Hinkley Point in any case. Already, even before official groundbreaking, the Hinkley Point project is projected to cost as much as $25 Billion.
The Fukushima disaster may not have done much to change U.S. government policy on nuclear power, but across the rest of the world it was taken seriously. Germany, of course, accelerated its Energiewende energy transition program, which will lead to the shutdown of all of its reactors by 2022 and their replacement by clean renewable energy and energy efficiency.
What has gone less noticed is that France is beginning its own energy transition that is, in absolute terms, just as aggressive as Germany’s.
The transition began when Francois Hollande was elected President in May 2012 and not long afterward called for a goal of reducing French reliance on nuclear power to 50% by 2025. In terms of numbers of reactors, getting France down to 50% from 78% means closing about the same number of reactors–perhaps even a couple more–as Germany will in getting its nuclear generation from 19% to zero.
As in Germany, the idea is that France should replace these reactors with clean energy and efficiency, not more fossil fuels. As Hollande said during the presidential campaign, it is time for France to end its “double dependency” on both oil and nuclear power. In the past, nuclear had been held up as the answer to dependency on oil. No longer.
But in France, unlike in Germany where a strong anti-nuclear consensus already existed, nuclear power has historically had a lot of public, and trade union, support. So the government didn’t simply decree its goals on reducing reliance on nuclear. Instead, it set up a national debate on the energy transition, bringing together energy experts, unions, utility officials and lobbyists, environmentalists and clean energy activists, and the general public to try to come up with an energy policy that both works and will help address the climate crisis.
While the “national debate” wasn’t perfect–some say the government could have done more and spent more on advertising and outreach to ensure the broadest possible public involvement and understanding of the issues–the outcome, which is now in a draft bill before the French Parliament–appears to have broad support.
It calls, as Hollande proposed, for reducing French reliance on nuclear to 50% by 2025. Fossil fuels would be cut by 30% by 2030. Renewables would increase by 32% and overall energy use would drop by 20% (and drop by 50% by mid-century), achieved primarily by increasing energy efficiency. The Parliament is expected to approve the policy next month.
There remain major questions about implementation of the transition. So far, the only nuclear shutdown commitment is for two old reactors at Fessenheim next year. And there is no legally-enforceable means for the government to force additional shutdowns (although there is a cap on the amount of nuclear generation set at the current level, meaning that if EDF wants to add a reactor, like Flamanville, to the grid it will have to close an equal megawattage of existing reactors). But clean energy activists did succeed in assuring legal intervention possibilities for all proposed license extensions. And the intent of the transition is clear even if the mechanics are not.
What is almost unimaginable to us in the U.S. is the entire idea of a “national debate on the energy transition.” Even if it weren’t done perfectly, and it wasn’t, the idea of bringing in the public to help set a national policy on energy and climate would be groundbreaking and breathtaking. After all, as we’ve pointed out here repeatedly, the U.S. public wants more solar, wind and efficiency and less nuclear, oil and coal. The idea of putting the public in the driver’s seat is just wistful fantasy here, unfortunately. One can only look overseas with envy.
After the French debate was completed and put into legislative form, however, a new report leaked out. The government tried briefly to prevent its release, but that didn’t work. The report shows that France–like just about every other nation in the world–can get to 100% renewables by 2050, and can do so affordably. Indeed, it would cost virtually no more, and perhaps even less, than keeping nuclear at 50% of French generation. The study, which still isn’t “officially” released pending more government review, is so far available only in French, although slide 12 of Yves Marignac’s presentation gives a basic summary of its findings: going to the 100% renewable mix described would cost about 120 Euros/megawatt hour in 2050; only slightly more than keeping renewables at 40%, which would cost about 118 Euros megawatt/hour. Given that renewables are expected to further drop in cost, and back-up storage prices are dropping rapidly (as the recent Tesla announcements indicate) there is good reason to believe that costs for the 100% renewable option are somewhat overstated and that they would in reality be lower.
France is at a crossroads. Its nuclear flagships EDF and Areva are in shambles and facing decades of ever-rising costs. Public concern about nuclear accidents remains high in the wake of Fukushima and dealing with radioactive waste is a problem as intractable in France as it is in the U.S. Meanwhile, the energy path to the future is becoming clearer and clearer. If France can successfully manage the first phase of their transition–the part that reduces nuclear to 50% of French generation–it will have shown the world an accomplishment as meaningful as Germany’s transition and demonstrated that every country can move to a clean energy system.
It may not be long before the people pointing at the French energy system are clean energy advocates, not nuclear industry lobbyists who will have lost their last role model.
http://safeenergy.org/2015/05/14/the-accelerating-decline-of-french-nuclear-power/
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FEST Guide: Recommendations
I could say that conferences and festivals are very important forms for diffusion of knowledge, culture and art, since they give as insights into regional or global achievements in one period of time. Belgrade is the city of a great festival culture. Some festivals were founded in the era of socialism as October salon, International film festival (FEST), Belgrade jazz festival, BEMUS, BITEF, while others originated in the end of the 90’s and beginning of the new millennium, such as Belgrade Fashion Week, Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA), Mikser festival, Resonate festival, Free Zone movie festival, etc. FEST represents one of the oldest intercultural projects that made one step forward in the process of festivalisation of Belgrade.
42nd edition of International Film Festival, known as FEST is taking place in Belgrade from the 28th of February until the 9th of March, in the premises of Dom Omladine, Sava Centar, DKC and Fontana cinema. Various movies are on the menu. So, let’s check out some good ones.
Adam (‘Tom Hiddleston (I)’), an underground musician reunites with his lover for centuries (Tilda Swinton) after he becomes depressed and tired with the direction human society has taken. Their love is interrupted and tested by her wild and uncontrollable little sister (Mia Wasikowska). New movie directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Venus in Fur (French: La Vénus à la fourrure) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the play of the same name by American playwright David Ives. The play itself was inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novel Venus in Furs.The film premiered in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 25 May. In January 2014 the film received five nominations at the 39th César Awards. In September 2012, it was announced that Roman Polanski would direct an adaptation of David Ives’ 2010 play entitled Venus in Fur. At that time,Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel were attached in the lead roles.While filming was scheduled to begin in November 2012, production was delayed until January 2013 and Garrel was replaced by Mathieu Amalric.
Thomas is a writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Alone in aParisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the lead character, Wanda von Dunayev, Thomas laments on the phone of the poor performances to come through. As he is preparing to leave the theatre, an actress named Vanda arrives disheveled. In a whirlwind of energy and unrestrained aggression, Vanda convinces the director to let her read for the part. To Thomas’s amazement, Vanda shows great understanding of the character and knows every line by heart. As the audition progresses, the intensity is redoubled and the attraction of Thomas turns into obsession.
BLUE JASMIN
New movie directed by Woody Allen. Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ignored, she tries to recover in her present. Unfortunately, it all proves a losing battle as Jasmine’s narcissistic hangups and their consequences begin to overwhelm her. In doing so, her old pretensions and new deceits begin to foul up everyone’s lives, especially her own. Stars: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
Blue Is the Warmest Colour is based on the 2010 French graphic novel of the same name by Julie Maroh, which was published in North America in 2013. The film had its North American première at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. It has received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language. Many critics have declared it to be the best film of 2013.
Adèle is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. She dreams of something more. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adèle’s friends reject due to her sexuality, and by association most begin to reject Adèle. Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself openly. Together, Adèle and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality, and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauccYYhQk4
THE GRATE BEAUTY
New movie directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Nymphomaniac is a 2013 two-part drama film, written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Uma Thurman, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, and Connie Nielsen.The world premiere of the first part of the five-and-half-hour-long uncut version premiered on February 16, 2014 at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
Nymphomaniac is a wild, poetic drama about a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe. On a cold winter’s evening, the old, charming bachelor Seligman finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe, over the next eight chapters, recounts the lustful story of her highly erotic life. Seligman reads a lot of books, from which he has acquired various general knowledge. He connects the stories told with what he has read about.
The story is divided in two volumes and eight chapters, Volume I follows young Joe as portrayed by Stacy Martin, while the older Joe in Seligman’s apartment is played by Gainsbourg, and Volume II follows Joe as portrayed by Gainsbourg.
Dragana Kostica
Dragana Kostica is the Belgrade-based editor in chief and founder of Still in Belgrade art, culture and club scene magazine. She holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Policy and Management in Arts (MA of Arts) and a Bachelor degree in Archaeology.
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Testimony on Hit & Runs and Street Design Manual Updates
Testimony of Juan Martinez, General Counsel, Transportation Alternatives
Good morning. Thank you, Chair Vacca and members of the Committee for the opportunity to testify. My name is Juan Martinez and I’m Transportation Alternatives’ General Counsel. We are a 40-year old non-profit, with over 100,000 activists in our network, dedicated to improving the safety of New York City’s streets.
These bills, like much of the other legislation that has been supported by this committee, will advance safety by improving the design of our city streets and targeting our enforcement resources with safety in mind. Accordingly, I am here today to voice Transportation Alternatives’ strong support for both bills.
Hit and Run Reporting
Drivers who cause serious injuries or kill, and then flee the scene, commit a low and callous act. Not only do they fail to exercise their duty to responsibly manage their one-ton of piece of machinery, but they also leave their victim lying, exposed, in the street, and likely delay the provision of life-saving help by fleeing. Their absence further compounds the injury by leaving victims severely under-compensated, because the State programs for hit and run victims are woefully insufficient.
The most effective method to eliminate the hit and run scourge is to increase enforcement, which increases the likelihood that a perpetrator will be caught, and thereby deters drivers from fleeing the scene. And of course, the best method to encourage the Department to prioritize these investigations is through Council oversight and public pressure – methods which will be made far more effective by Int. 1055.
As a data-driven traffic safety organization, we have found that government can only manage what it can measure, and real-time data on hit-and-runs is hard to find. Currently our best data comes from state agencies, which take nearly a full calendar year to process and compile the data that they collect from the NYPD. Indeed, it’s only because the Department responded to a question posed at an oversight hearing earlier this year that we know that in 2012, the Collision Investigation Squad responded to 58 hit and run fatal and critical injury crashes, and arrested 15 suspects in connection with those investigations. Whether that 1 in 4 conversion rate goes up, or goes down, is again a function of the Council’s continued oversight and public engagement, which is enabled through this important legislation.
Street Design Manual
New York is home to the most densely populated urban streets in the country — 46 of the 50 nation’s most dense zip codes are within the five boroughs. More pedestrians call New York City home than anywhere else in the country. We are a walking city.
Yet until our NYC DOT published the first Street Design Manual in 2009, our traffic engineers were obligated to design streets using decades-old national guidelines, designed to work equally well in Cheyenne and Juneau, and not optimized for New York. To deviate from the accepted national guidelines was strongly discouraged, and each attempt to do something that wasn’t “by the book” took herculean effort and pressure from Council Members and community members.
This is particularly important because the national guidelines prioritize motor vehicle throughput over safety, and encourage pedestrian-unfriendly designs such as wide travel lanes.
The Manual’s focus on safety has led to the widespread adoption of safety innovations, including bulb-outs and neckdowns, protected bike lanes and pedestrian plazas. We know that were it not for these designs, our streets would be less safe; and without the Manual, we would never have the widespread implementation of these street designs.
The Manual made streets designed for New York City, by New York City, the rule and not the exception. The release of the Manual sparked dramatic changes in our street redesign, and put us on the cutting edge. By requiring the Manual to be periodically updated, the Council will ensure that we will maintain our leadership role for years to come.
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Was Anne Frank a 'belieber'? Justin Bieber hopes so
On the Facebook Anne Frank page, museum curators wrote the following today,
"Yesterday night Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, together with his friends and guards. Fans were waiting outside to see a glimpse of him. He stayed more than an hour in the museum. In our guestbook he wrote: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber." Tonight Bieber will give a concert in Arnhem in the Netherlands."
The newspaper The Scotsman reported,
Justin Bieber pays bizarre tribute to Anne Frank
Published on Sunday 14 April 2013 14:19
TENNAGE pop singer Justin Bieber has sparked controversy after writing a message in the Anne Frank house guestbook saying that he hoped she would have been a fan of his music. The 19-year-old is due to perform tonight in Arnhem, around an hour from Amsterdam, where the Anne Frank House is situated, and visited the museum on Saturday night. Staff from the museum wrote on their Facebook page: “Yesterday night Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, together with his friends and guards. “Fans were waiting outside to see a glimpse of him. He stayed more than an hour in the museum. “In our guestbook he wrote: ‘Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.’” A ‘Belieber’ is the name given to the singer’s fans.
Facebook comment responses were negative. Some wrote,
"Glad he went, but, the last sentence is VERY self serving. he missed the lessons of Anne totally."
"Way to turn an inspiring moment into something about yourself."
"Here I thought it was nice of him to go and see the history of her until I read what he wrote. Have some respect Mr. Bieber for she will be famous long after your fame fizzles."
"I agree with Christel and Meghan, his comments were shallow and self-serving. He obviously has no clue what a solemn opportunity he had in visiting The House."
As a believer in Jesus Christ we cannot condemn the behavior of those who do not believe. That is the way they act. However I would think that in any solemn occasion that even non-believers would behave with a modicum of maturity the situation is due.
However the bigger issue is the co-opting of the word believer from Christianity to draw people to himself as an object of adoration. Only Jesus is worthy of adoration, and I am truly sorry on behalf of Jesus and His name that the world is more often turning into a pit of self-serving adoration among the carnally-minded.
I wrote in part yesterday about the flatteries that satan puts forth, and biggest one at present being the notion that we are like God. (Genesis 3:5). Lying prophets are constantly telling us that we have rights, (we're slaves, we don't) we can make demands of God, (really?! Did that work out for Korah?) we can expect carnal prosperity (tell that to all the believers in India) and that we have power in our words to declare realities, even declaring ourselves clean and can stop God's plans. They tell us that our words can a bind God and that means what they are telling us is that we are equal to or more powerful than God. The lies are amazing in their monumental falsity and evil.
The modicum of civility is fast disappearing. The veneer over civilization has always been thin thanks to the thick layer of sin that totally saturates unbelievers and permeates even the believers.
Proverbs 16:18 says Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.. I can't imagine how empty Mr Bieber must feel, so self-absorbed he could not even connect for a moment with the plight of a girl from another era who now stands as a symbol of courage under persecution. Always remember, our unsaved neighbors need prayer. Mr Bieber's comment was reprehensible, but it also indicates an empty spirit devoid of meaning. He needs Jesus, as do all who are apart from Him.
anne frank belieber justin bieber
First - let me say, with all honesty, that I enjoy your blog. You have taught me a great deal, and I read it on a daily basis. I enjoy it and have been enriched through it. I hope you continue it for many years to come.
The reason I am posting is because this post honestly confuses me. I feel like there is some fact that I have overlooked. Is there any reason to believe that Anne Frank was a Christian? Aside from the hope that she came to know the Lord before she was murdered, is there anything in her writings that would indicate that she trusted Christ?
According to Wikipedia, she was 16 when she died. Even if you believe in the age of accountability it is hard to argue that she was still just a child.
I don't really know much about Justin Bieber or where he is coming from. I also agree that the Holocaust was a horrifying sin against God, and those who carried it out and did not repent will face the wrath of God for what they have done. But do we have any reason to believe that we will see Anne in Heaven?
Elizabeth Prata April 14, 2013 at 12:45 PM
I'm svery orry to have confused you. I will look to see where i can be more clear. To answer your question: No. There is no reason to think Anne Frank was a believer in Jesus.
The article I pasted from The Scotsman explained that a "A ‘Belieber’ is the name given to the singer’s fans."
The point of my article was to remark that after spending an hour inside the museum learning about Anne Frank, the only thing the singer Justin Bieber could think of to say when commenting in the guest book is that he hoped if Frank had been alive today she would have enjoyed HIS music, as a 'beleiber'.
That's all.
Hakam Adam said
I had to chuckle. I can sympathize with your mistake. The addition of slang terminology to the national vocabulary is a sort of fad, now, what with the proliferation of "internet memes," only really possible since the mid-2000s. Things change fast, and you can really miss a lot of stuff in one sense, but in another sense, you didn't really miss much. :)
Never mind - I see now that he said "belieber", and that is apparently not a misspelling of "believer". (I told you I'm not familiar with pop culture.) My mistake. I completely misunderstood the point he was making.
"Mr Bieber's comment was reprehensible, but it also indicates an empty spirit devoid of meaning. He needs Jesus, as do all who are apart from Him."
Do you know anything about Justin? Have you done research into his life at all? From that comment, it really seems like you are judging him and you are determining if he is saved or not, which is not something Christians should do or have the right to do.
Justin has come out and said he is a Christian, has a relationship with his God and is the reason he is here. Have you seen his movie? I have so much more respect for him after watching that.
Elizabeth Prata April 15, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Anonymous, you're absolutely right. I was too hasty and utterly wrong to write that. I am suitably chastised.
I went on and looked up Mr Bieber's Christian credentials. It IS a reprehensible comment that he made regarding Anne Frank, and this is the third such kind of comment/controversy in as many months. His pastor is Judah Smith, who holds to some some unbiblical teachings. The outlook is not good.
A Rev. Huckins write this in a Canadian paper (Bieber is Canadian) regarding the yet another controversy with Bieber,
"Justin Bieber, once squeaky clean, is accumulating some tarnish on his star. Allegations of loud parties at his mansion, video seeming to show him smoking marijuana, showing up hours late for shows and other problems are making some think twice about his faith credentials.
"Born into a devoutly religious home in the Canadian province of Ontario, Bieber, 19, accepted Christ early in life. “I’m a Christian, I believe in God, I believe that Jesus died on a cross for my sins,” Bieber told the Associated Press in 2010. “I believe that I have a relationship and I’m able to talk to him and really, he’s the reason I’m here, so I definitely have to remember that. As soon as I start forgetting, I’ve got to click back and be like, you know, this is why I’m here.”
His behavior could be youthful indiscretion which will diminish as he matures and is sanctified further, or he is firmly in the Judah Smith cult and not saved. Time will tell.
As all people who are apart from Christ have a spirit devoid of meaning, the statement I made would be accurate if he had not said he is a Christian. Though his credentials and behavior are suspect, I retract my statement until further fruit is evidenced or not evidenced. Thank you again for reminding me not to be too fast with the publish button.
Matt April 16, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Thank you for this reply! Actions do speak louder than words, especially for celebrities when every move they make can be showcased, exploited and/or fabricated. I, as a believer and follower of Jesus, often jump to conclusions about someone's Christianity. It's hard not to, but we have to remember, we cannot judge as we do not the person's heart and if they are saved or not. At the same time we can see their fruits and make an educated guess, but that is all it is, a guess. I sincerely hope Justin is a strong believer and amid controversy, gets his life in order as we need some positive role models in this world. Thanks again for the reply!
you're quite welcome! thanks for sharpening my iron :)
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Donald Trump America’s 45th President
November 9, 2016 - News, Uncategorized - no comments
Usually we do not discuss politics here but this time we will make an exception. America keeps amazing me. Every time they have to choose a president they never go for the save choice, that inspires me. After they had choosen the first black president in history, who performed exceptionally well in my opinion, I had expected that they would have choosen for the first female president in history. But that was probably to save. Because Clintin had been in the white house before and that probably would not have changed anything. Donald Trump was elected president today, as he pulled off a stunning upset by riding a wave of disaffection among working class white voters and resentment at political, social and media elites.
His victory — defying almost all predictions of Beltway pundits, pollsters and election watchers — came as he exceeded expectations in major Democratic states. His election has enormous implications for the direction of the country, particularly since it is expected that he will take office with Republican majorities in the Senate and the House.
Clinton’s election would have made history as the first woman president, but Trump also will come to office with a number of records. At 70, he is the oldest person elected to a first term. Ronald Reagan was 69 when he was elected in 1980. Trump is the first person elected to the White House with no government or military experience. He is the first New Yorker elected to office since Franklin Roosevelt.
And of course, he is the first reality show star elected to office, as his years spent on NBC’s “The Apprentice” are widely credited with establishing his image as a shrewd, no-nonsense businessman, even if the avalanche of stories about his business background painted a far different picture. Those “firsts,” however, are merely footnotes to what Trump’s campaign represented: a rebellion against insiders, whether they be in Washington, the media, Wall Street or Hollywood. He capitalized on issues that were simmering among the ranks of the working class: the loss of jobs to China, Mexico and other countries, globalization that seemed to only speed up with the help of massive trade pacts; immigration that had changed the ethnic makeup of not just cities but many rural areas, leading to the impression that uncontrolled flows of migrants across the border were costing valuable jobs; and the continued role of the United States in the Middle East, including Iraq and Afghanistan, where the situations show little sign of improvement after trillions of dollars spent.
Trump capitalized on those issues — trade, immigration, foreign entanglements — from the start. Even if he didn’t at times offer coherent solutions, or he offered all-too simplistic ones, his ability to draw attention through a mixture of insults and schtick allowed him to dominate media time and vault to the top of the Republican pack. So by making this choice they are sure to stir up the place. A fresh new face as president shall make a big difference for this country. Altough even Trump shall have to conform to the political lines of the country. He can make some unexpected decisions that will bring them a completly new perspective on things. We wish them luck
Because the news is just out we do not have much material to work with. I have found this clip from after the presidential debate. The Dutch lucky tv’s Sander made this funny filmclip:
One life, share it:
" A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer "
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Wodehouse on Golf and Other Tales
It may be a function of growing older, or simply wading into the wrong streams of literature, that I find myself these days rarely refreshed by one of life’s great pleasures: reading a book that makes you laugh out loud.
The Overlook Press has come to the rescue in splendid fashion, by putting two of P.G. Wodehouse’s collections of golf stories into a boxed set, simply called Golf and charging a mere $37.50 for it. If calculated at even a nickel per guffaw, this is still the bargain of the century.
Or last century, which is when Wodehouse (1881-1975) labored on his many comic works. Perhaps best known for his various tales of the buffoonish Bertie Wooster, who has to rely on his sagacious butler Jeeves to extricate him from endless entanglements, Wodehouse was a fairly prodigious scribbler.
Along with any number of plays, musical comedies and film scripts, he produced close to 100 books—novels and short story collections—and Overlook, along with Everyman’s Library of London, started in 2000 to republish every one of them. That work is now complete, 99 handsome volumes in the Collector’s Wodehouse in all (with spot-on jacket art by Andrzej Klimowski), for roughly $1,200 for those after the entire set.
(In a felicity that Wodehouse would surely have appreciated, the Overlook Press is located in New York City on Wooster Street.)
There are other golf tales scattered throughout the larger collection, but the two volumes here include 19 stories, many of them narrated by that Sage of the veranda, the Oldest Member, who has seen it all and intends to tell some hapless member wandering by every word of it. The readers are the richer for it.
Wodehouse’s clear love for the game, and his understanding of it in human terms, combine with his intricacies of plot and felicities of language to produce sublime little comedies of golf obsession, thwarted romances, dubious wagers, all a pure joy to read while everything somehow works out just dandy in the end.
Wodehouse at 48.
In the second volume, The Heart of a Goof, originally published in 1926 (and then in the U.S. as Divots), Wodehouse complained in a preface that some critics of his first, The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922, in the U.S. as Golf Without Tears) didn’t seem to know much about golf: “… one actually stated in cold print that he didn’t know what a niblick was.”
Wodehouse went on to suggest that only golfing peers should be allowed to review the books, and that they should append their handicaps in brackets so the sting of the critiques, “will be sensibly diminished by the figures (36) at the bottom of the paragraph.”
When he permanently moved to the U.S. from Great Britain after World War II, Wodehouse (18) set up shop on eastern Long Island, where he was known to frequently work on his handicap at the National Golf Links.
Though he lived longer in the U.S. than the U.K., his stories are invariably set in a benign English universe that bespeaks of a simpler time, and all his characters have to overcome are those difficulties in love and an untoward hitch in one’s downswing. Readers should have no difficulties at all, and are highly likely to laugh aloud.
I read David Hueber’s book, In the Rough: The Business Game of Golf (TCU Press, $32.50) after luxuriating in the Wodehouse works, which is surely unfair to Mr. Hueber.
But other than declaring that this volume is not the bargain of any century (pricey even for a paperback with flaps), I’ll tip my cap to Hueber for being able to spin some decent tales too, with the distinctive difference that his are nonfiction.
Hueber grew up in the golf business, his father a club pro in Indiana. He started out as a caddie, if an indifferent one, more eager to play than loop. And he played well enough to earn a college golf scholarship, if not well enough to make it on tour.
But the stories that Hueber relates grew out of the business side of golf, as he went to work in marketing for the PGA Tour in the Deane Beman days, before moving on to the National Golf Foundation as president and CEO. He segued into the president and CEO position of the Ben Hogan Company when it was owned by Cosmo World, the Japanese company which, for a time, owned Pebble Beach.
So there are a lot of fascinating backstage stories here with historical insight, obviously following Hueber’s working time-line. There are closeups of Beman (who contributes a forward); the men behind the equipment names—Karsten Solheim (Ping), Ely Callaway Jr., Gary Adams (TaylorMade), Tom Crow (Cobra); Mark McCormack; Jack Nicklaus and, most particularly, Hogan—including the famous Secret.
The book begins with a poignant scene of Hueber and Hogan getting quietly smashed at the Shady Oaks Country Club in the fall of 1992, shortly after the sale of the Ben Hogan Golf Company. Hueber’s respect and admiration for the golfing legend runs throughout the book and the feelings must have run both ways, as Hueber served as a pallbearer at Hogan’s funeral in 1997.
If not exactly a tell-all book, Hueber is fairly clear-eyed and self-deprecating when he needs to be. It was while under his leadership that the NGF came up with its now infamous Build-a-Course-a-Day from 1990 to 2000 strategy, which seemed like a good idea at the time, and for a time, was.
But when, in his sixties, Hueber went back to school to earn a PhD in sustainable golf course development, his research actually revealed that those courses—many too hard to play and too costly to maintain—actually contributed to the decline in golfers and rounds played.
Hueber comes clean: “In retrospect, we were wrong… that demand for the game is supply driven… [but] I can assure you the road to our current situation was paved with good intentions.”
There are plenty of good stories in this account, and if they don’t have you laughing out loud, settle for a few broad grins and nods of recognition.
This piece originally appeared in the October-November 2016 issue of Golf Oklahoma magazine, in slightly different form.
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Government runs 7 mega projects for improvement of livestock sector in Balochistan
QUETTA: Balochistan government is utilizing all available resources for promotion of livestock sector in the province and seven mega projects for improvement of livestock are being executed at a cost of 860 million rupees.
According to the official sources two point eight billion rupees have been allocated in the current fiscal year for livestock sector.
“They said seven mega projects for improvement of livestock are being executed at a cost of 860 million rupees. Similarly, veterinary services in twenty various districts of the province would be provided at a cost of 108 million rupees.” Sources added.
The sources said that more than 78 million rupees have been allocated for provision of treatment of various diseases of animals in Balochistan.
In the recent media talk the official of Provincial Livestock Department also added that veterinary hospitals were being constructed in various areas of the province at a cost of 500 million rupees to make province self-sufficient in production of meat and dairy products.
Officials maintained that construction of a research center for dairy development in Bela area of Lasbela district was in progress at a cost of more than 63 million rupees and construction of a camel research cum camel milk processing unit in Washuk District was also being carried out at a cost of 50 million rupees
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Olajuwon: A dream of faith, knowledge and learning
By Peter Scamardo August 16, 2017
Through his success in the NBA, Hakeem Olajuwon became an ambassador of Islam and helped the society grow in Houston | Courtesy of David Cooper/Toronto Star/Getty Images
Hakeem Olajuwon earned his place in the Basketball Hall of Fame for his unique quickness and defensive skill. But what all Houstonians remember about Olajuwon is his charm, a charm that earned him the nickname ‘The Dream.”
What made Olajuwon stand out was how he balanced being a devout Muslim with the career of a top level NBA athlete. He became an ambassador of Islam to Houston, helping create a positive image of Muslim people throughout his career. To this day Olajuwon has remained a strong figure in the Islamic community and has been instrumental in its growth.
“I think that is my position,” Olajuwon said when asked how he remains a figure in the Houston Islamic community. “I’m a Muslim, I’m a public figure. Whatever role I have to play, I’m still a public figure as a Muslim. I think it’s been the role I’ve been playing naturally without planning to play that role.”
Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Olajuwon grew up in a multicultural society. A place where Muslims, Christians and Idol worshipers, the indigenous faiths, interacted with one another; where their kids played in the soccer fields in between the homes.
In Lagos, being Muslim was part of culture and tradition. Olajuwon described how during Ramadan a change could be felt in the community and in the media. While not a devout Muslim at the time, he would fast with his neighbors as a form of competition, even when they were too young to fast. That competitive nature proved dividends for him in the future.
A journey of faith
Olajuwon faced his first test of faith when he came to Houston for university.
“Even at home I was practicing maybe at Ramadan, maybe every once and a while I followed my dad to the mosque to pray,” Olajuwon said. “But those Islamic principles are part of my culture. The respect, the honesty, all those qualities. So that was with me, but I wasn’t going to the mosque (because I didn’t know) where the mosque to pray was.”
For the better part of Olajuwon’s time with the Cougars he tried to live a normal college life. It was not until his time with the Houston Rockets that Olajuwon began to make that transformation into a devout Muslim.
The story goes that one day at The Summit after practice with the Rockets, a man approached Olajuwon and inquired why he was not at the mosque if he was a Muslim. Upon saying that he didn’t know there was a mosque, the man took Olajuwon five minutes from The Summit to Eastside on Richmond. This was the first mosque ever built in Houston. Today it is the sight of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston – Masjid.
What Olajuwon found was a multicultural group of people all together in prayer. Black Americans, White Americans, Indian and Pakistani, all coming together when they hear Adhan, the call to prayer. For Olajuwon, this was the first time he had heard the call in years.
“When I went to the mosque and heard that call, the goosebumps,” Olajuwon said. “Emotionally I was crying, because it gave me so many goosebumps, it reminded me of my background, my inner soul. The joy and the comfort that I can come every Friday now for my Friday prayer and I can come any other day. It’s like you discover the jewel, a diamond, that you lost and find again.”
Olajuwon’s reentry into the Islamic community kick-started a personal journey that resulted in him becoming the devout Islamic athlete the media knows today. Every day after practice Olajuwon would head straight to the mosque for prayer. And afterwords he would read books on Islamic history and culture in order to better understand his faith. Olajuwon said he became aware of what was permissible and what was not.
Ramadan Dominance
The ultimate moment of this journey was Olajuwon’s fasting during the months of Ramadan, which always fell during the NBA season. Olajuwon was past the point of making excuses for not fasting. He saw that he had an obligation to fulfill during Ramadan so he fasted.
Despite worries from his coaches, Olajuwon played without consuming any food or liquids from sunrise to sunset. Yet his performance level never dropped and often he dominated his opponents.
Once word spread that he was playing while fasting, Olajuwon become a model to Muslim and Non-Muslims alike. He became an inspiration for others not to give excuses in their workplace. His story is one that is shared around Houston to inspire people to this day.
“It’s uplifting to realize people noticed Hakeem and his high competitive nature,” Executive Director of the Islamic Da’wah Center Ameer Abuhalimeh said. “He always strives to do his best and give his best in any situation. He never compromised, never used it as an excuse. Fasting is supposed to free your spirit and let you focus.”
Redshirt junior Valentine Sangoyomi is one athlete on the Cougar men’s basketball team who has felt the influence of Olajuwon. Growing up in Lagos, Sangoyomi said it was impossible not to hear people talk about Olajuwon, even before Sangoyomi started playing basketball.
And even though Sangoyomi is a Christian, the way Olajuwon played and lived his life has remained a model to the 6’8 center.
“He’s just been a great role model for me,” Sangoyomi said. “Everyone talks about him so much back home. When I came to visit (Houston) I knew I wanted to play here because I see all the legacy Hakeem laid down. I’m looking up to him every single time.”
An institution of learning
Having experienced the rejuvenation that his faith brought him, Olajuwon’s next step in life was to create a place for others to worship and learn about their faith. With that in mind he set his eyes on the Houston National Bank.
Having sat abandoned in downtown since 1974, Olajuwon purchased the building in 1994 and after eight years of renovations reopened it as the Islamic Da’wah Center. The goal of the center was to create a place to advance and educate people about Islam and its culture and people.
In addition, by having the center in downtown it leaves itself open to the multinational business’ that come into Houston. Olajuwon sees it as just one more thing to help illustrate the multicultural nature of Houston.
One year ago the Library of Islamic Knowledge was opened at the center. Mayor Sylvester Turner was at the ribbon cutting ceremony, physically showing his support for Houston’s cultural identity. The Library opening is one more tool to create awareness of Islam in Houston.
Abuhalimeh said the library is the first of it’s kind in North America. A place to provide resources to Muslims and non-Muslims alike so that people may learn the history and culture of Islam.
And even though the Da’wah Center has dealt with protests in the past year they have always remained peaceful. Abuhalimeh said that it is because of those protests that the center exists. To inform the other side about what Islam is. The center is every bit a fulfillment of Olajuwon’s dream.
“We are very lucky to have someone like him,” Abuhalimeh said. “(Hakeem) is not just talk. He is someone that shows you how to live your faith in practical manners. He is helping his community be better through training, through education. These are all practical examples that we need in this day and age. (Olajuwon) realized this is what made him who he is today.”
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Soccer to use spring season to build toward future
By Yosting Chicas February 16, 2018
The soccer team struggled at times during the 2017 season, but with a young returning core and a talented coach in his second year, the team should only improve. | File photo/The Cougar
The women’s soccer team is a little over two weeks away from starting its spring season.
The Cougars will be going up against teams from schools such as UTSA, Texas A&M and Sam Houston State. After bringing the women’s team to its best overall record in seven years, with a 7-9-1 season, head coach Diego Bocanegra’s team should be looking to use the spring season to build toward the future.
Coach Bocanegra’s first year at the helm was a productive one, as the former Notre Dame Fighting Irish assistant coach instilled an offense that had its best scoring rate since 2010. The Cougars’ offense was explosive with 29 goals and 23 assists.
A huge part of the offense was freshman forward Jazmin Grant, who finished her debut season with five goals and five assists. Grant earned a spot on the AAC All-Rookie team and a call up to Jamaica’s U-20 National Team camp for her play.
“The experience was great, playing with international players, it really helped with my confidence,” Grant said.
Sophomore defender Julissa DePaoli was also an important part of the team, leading from the back in her 17 appearances, 14 as a starter. In a display of hard work, she went from playing only 45 minutes her freshman year to being a regular starter. DePaoli received the team’s Most Improved Player award for her efforts.
While the team had a good first season under a new coach, there is still room for improvement.
“One big thing is in games, always staying positive, not bringing each other down, instead of being negative being positive,” DePaoli said about the team’s mentality when facing adversity.
There are individual improvements to be made for these two. Grant said she is focusing on her first touch to get around defenders, while DePaoli noticed that her communication and talking on the field could use some work.
With forwards Selena Peters and Hannah Dauzat now graduated, the team will have to find ways to replace their offensive production. Peters and Dauzat combined for 13 goals and 4 assists in 2017. But the team isn’t too worried about the goals they will take with them.
“We have many good offensive players coming in, and Jazmin will also be important,” DePaoli said.
This team is on an upward trajectory. With coach Bocanegra having more time with the team and a whole year under his belt, it seems likely he will improve.
“I think we’re getting better, each year we’re improving, and this year will be our best yet,” DePaoli said.
The soccer team’s first game is on March 3 against Houston Baptist at the Carl Lewis Complex.
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Why Democracy is Indivisible from African Development
Greg Mills and Olusegun Obasanjo
Merely reducing the chronic poverty that African countries face today is a challenge that places high demands on government and necessitates very effective political institutions. In addition, over the next 35 years, African countries will also be faced with an extraordinary demographic challenge.
Most countries will double their population by 2050 and there is almost nothing that can be done to change this demographic reality. The continent’s population is expected to more than double to 2.6 billion by 2050 and account for 57% of the world’s growth in people.
Africa’s population growth will cause most countries to become younger, a trend that will occur at the same time that the rest of the world ages.
As The Economist has noted, ‘Africans will make up a bigger and bigger share of the world’s young people: by 2100, they will account for 48% of those aged 14 and under.’
Or, put differently, the world’s ten youngest countries will be in Africa. If properly planned for, Africa’s population increase and the resulting large number of young people present an enormous opportunity and asset. Young people are tremendous sources of entrepreneurship, energy and willingness to innovate as new technologies emerge. If young people are able to participate in their economies, being the world’s youngest continent would be a great advantage. The World Bank has estimated that the demographic dividend alone could generate 11% to 15% GDP growth between 2011 and 2030.
However, reaping the demographic dividend will be extremely challenging. China only managed to provide for its large and once impoverished population by growing its economy at 12% annually for 30 years. And the sheer scale is daunting. The IMF has estimated that, in order to maximise their booming population dividend, African countries will need to produce, on aggregate, an average of 18 million high-productivity jobs per year until 2035. The IMF also notes that over this period, policies are required to gradually transition jobs from the informal sector, which accounts for about 90% of the 400 million jobs in low-income sub-Saharan African countries, to the formal sector. To do so, the continent will have to radically change its current record of investment attraction.
To date, Africa’s job creation has not kept up with existing birth rates let alone what awaits the continent demographically. The African Economic Outlook 2015, for example, reported that only 7% of the continental population aged 15 to 24 in low-income countries had a ‘decent’ job. In Africa’s middle-income countries, this figure increased marginally, to 10%.
Increasing economic growth will demand creating the space for the private sector to operate, and the opportunities through which it can thrive. The African Development Bank observed that ‘the private sector is Africa’s primary engine of growth. It generates 70% of Africa’s output, two-thirds of its investment and 90% of employment. Creating private-sector jobs is the most effective and sustainable strategy for lifting more Africans out of poverty.’ The Bank also notes that ‘Africa continues to perform poorly on standard governance indicators, scoring 30% lower than the Asian average and 60% lower than industrialised countries’. This helps to explain why Africa performs so badly in attracting foreign direct investment, and thus driving diversified economic growth compared to other developing markets. Foreign direct investment flows to Africa were just $59 billion in 2016, according to the United Nations (UN) Conference on Trade and Development, of the $1.75 trillion made worldwide, or 3.4% of foreign direct investment for 16% of the world’s population.
If leaders are not successful in reforming their economies, their countries will face great peril. The risks stemming from large numbers of digitally connected young people concentrated in urban areas without jobs are high, as was clearly demonstrated in the early 2010s by the Arab Spring.
Young people who are pessimistic about their economic futures are unlikely to sit idly by waiting for change. They will demand it.
Democracy has a better long-term record in promoting economic growth. While a few authoritarians have accumulated some good years of growth in a small number of countries, there are many examples across Africa where those not held accountable to their citizens have made decisions that were directed at enriching the elite rather than elevating the masses.
The empirical record of economic performance over the last three decades shows that the freer the politics in Africa, the better the economic performance. It also indicates that democracies are more diversified and less dependent on one commodity for their development. As the prices of commodities have gone down, democracies have been less negatively affected, given their comparatively diversified nature. And, finally, it shows that the real advantage, in terms of stability and prosperity, comes in the achievement of free status.
When they work well, democratic regimes improve accountability through elections where leaders are required to demonstrate what they have delivered to voters in order to be returned to power.
Dr Mills and former president Obasanjo are with the Brenthurst Foundation. This is an excerpt from ‘Democracy Works: Rewiring Politics to Africa’s Advantage’ (Picador) which is being launched in Johannesburg on 27 March where Presidents Obasanjo and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf are among the speakers.
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Historical Roots of Modern Albanian Imperialism
Banjska monastery Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire from to , at first as part of the eyalet of Rumelia , and from as a separate province vilayet. During this time, Islam was introduced to the population. Serbs likely formed a majority of Kosovo’s from the 8th to the mid th century. Anscombe, believe that medieval and Ottoman Kosovo was ethnically heterogeneous, with Serbs and Albanians dominating at different times.
Kosovo was part of the wider Ottoman region to be occupied by Austrian forces during the Great War of —99, [48] but the Ottomans re-established their rule of the region.
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History[ edit ] Map showing percent of Islamic Faith in Kosovo, Until the sixteenth century the degree of Islamisation in Kosovo was minimal, and largely confined to urban centres. The pace of conversions to Islam only increased significantly in the second half of the sixteenth century, possibly because converts thus became exempt from the cizje , a protective tax levied only on non-Muslim males. But that was certainly not the only cause of the people turning and believing in Islam.
So far as Catholic Albanians were concerned, the Catholic church was less powerful and privileged within the Ottoman Empire than the Serbian Orthodox Church and less well staffed ; the Bektashi order of dervishes carried out a conversion campaign which stressed the similarities between their version of Islam and Christianity the Bektashis drank wine and had a quasi-Trinitarian doctrine.
From ecclesiastical decrees banned this practice and did not accept that crypto-Catholics could receive holy rites. Albanians in Kosovo who had been passing as Muslims were declaring themselves Catholics to avoid conscription as late as Kosovo War , War crimes in the Kosovo War , and Destruction of Albanian heritage in Kosovo Numerous Albanian cultural sites in Kosovo were destroyed during the Kosovo conflict which constituted a war crime violating the Hague and Geneva Conventions.
These attacks effectively ended after six weeks at the end of August , after appeals by Kosovo’s political leaders and by the Mufti. Bektashi tekkes are subject to the Bektashi order, and in some areas funding from Saudi Arabia or other countries has led to concern about possible Wahhabist attempts to influence Kosovo and its social habits, although such influences are very rarely visible. But for most of Kosovo’s history, there has been a rift between Christianity and Islam, as existing in the country.
Political influence[ edit ] While individual politicians may be influenced in their attitudes or decisions by Islamic beliefs, only one political party – the Justice Party Alb: It argued in for Islamic religious teaching in state schools for children from families with a Muslim family background:
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For further information on the cultures of those countries, see Albania: Cultural life and Serbia: Cultural milieu Traditional Kosovar society, for both Albanians and Serbs, has an important patriarchal tradition, with extended family members often living together in large groups. Family support networks remain very strong, even when some members live outside the country. Most business connections are made through these networks.
The practice resurfaced, however, amid the political instability following the —99 conflict.
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Further information During antiquity, the area which now makes up Kosovo was inhabited by various tribal ethnic groups, who were liable to move, enlarge, fuse and fissure with neighbouring groups. As such, it is difficult to locate any such group with precision. The Dardani, whose exact ethno-linguistic affiliation is difficult to determine, were a prominent group in the region during the late Hellenistic and early Roman eras.
Subsequently, it became part of Moesia Superior in AD The region was exposed to an increasing number of ‘barbarian’ raids from the 4th century AD onwards, culminating with the Slavic migrations of the 6th and 7th centuries. Archaeologically, the early Middle Ages represent a hiatus in the material record, [29] and whatever was left of the native provincial population fused into the Slavs. Main article The Battle of Kosovo Field in determined the future of central Balkans and marked the beginning of disintegration of the Serbian Empire The subsequent political and demographic history of Kosovo is not known with absolute certainty until the 13th century.
Archaeological findings suggest that there was steady population recovery and progression of the Slavic culture seen elsewhere throughout the Balkans.
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History[ edit ] Map showing percent of Islamic Faith in Kosovo, Until the sixteenth century the degree of Islamisation in Kosovo was minimal, and largely confined to urban centres. The pace of conversions to Islam only increased significantly in the second half of the sixteenth century, possibly because converts thus became exempt from the cizje , a tax levied only on non-Muslims; [3] the tax burden tended to go up as Ottoman power relative to foreign Christian powers came under challenge.
So far as Catholic Albanians were concerned, the Catholic church was less powerful and privileged within the Ottoman Empire than the Serbian Orthodox Church and less well staffed ; the Bektashi order of dervishes carried out a conversion campaign which stressed the similarities between their version of Islam and Christianity the Bektashis drank wine and had a quasi-Trinitarian doctrine. From ecclesiastical decrees banned this practice and did not accept that crypto-Catholics could receive holy rites.
Kosovo War , War crimes in the Kosovo War , and Destruction of Albanian heritage in Kosovo Numerous Albanian cultural sites in Kosovo were destroyed during the Kosovo conflict which constituted a war crime violating the Hague and Geneva Conventions. These attacks effectively ended after six weeks at the end of August , after appeals by Kosovo’s political leaders and by the Mufti. Bektashi tekkes are subject to the Bektashi order, and in some areas funding from Saudi Arabia or other countries has led to concern about possible Wahhabist attempts to influence Kosovo and its social habits, although such influences are very rarely visible.
Political influence[ edit ] While individual politicians may be influenced in their attitudes or decisions by Islamic beliefs, only one political party – the Justice Party Alb: It argued in for Islamic religious teaching in state schools for children from families with a Muslim family background: In the parliamentary elections in Kosovo it took part in an electoral coalition led by the AKR Alliance for a New Kosovo , together with firmly secular parties, presumably because it was unlikely to reach the threshold for parliamentary representation on its own.
The AKR coalition itself came in fourth place in the elections with 7. In the elections the Kosovo Christian Democratic Party, a Kosovo Albanian political entity, won one seat in the Assembly elections; its leadership included people with Muslim names.
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Yvette Alt Miller Albanians’ strong traditions inspired them to save their nation’s Jews during the Holocaust. Albania, the only Muslim-majority country in Europe, was also the only European nation to emerge from the Holocaust with a larger Jewish population. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial center in Israel, has recognized 75 Albanian righteous gentiles. Albanians also saved hundreds of Jewish refugees who fled to the country from Germany, Austria, Greece and elsewhere.
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Today, solid majorities of adults across much of the region say they believe in God, and most identify with a religion. Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism are the most prevalent religious affiliations, much as they were more than years ago in the twilight years of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.
In many Central and Eastern European countries, religion and national identity are closely entwined. Relatively few Orthodox or Catholic adults in Central and Eastern Europe say they regularly attend worship services, pray often or consider religion central to their lives. Around the world, different ways of being religious Believing. Do they believe in a higher power? Do they pray and perform rituals?
Do they feel part of a congregation, spiritual community or religious group? Research suggests that many people around the world engage with religion in at least one of these ways, but not necessarily all three. Nonetheless, the comeback of religion in a region once dominated by atheist regimes is striking — particularly in some historically Orthodox countries, where levels of religious affiliation have risen substantially in recent decades.
Whether the return to religion in Orthodox-majority countries began before the fall of the Berlin Wall in remains an open question.
Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans
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Altar area of the 16th century Church of St. Nicholas, which was looted, vandalized and seriously damaged by explosives. The initials carved into the picture are ‘UCK’. The UCK is, without any questions, a terrorist group,’ Gelbard said. That is not hyperbole. He had earlier said that he had been proud to be a member of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army Rexhepi also played down allegations of the former Kosovo Liberation Army having had a criminal or terrorist role Rexhepi claimed to be certain that no indictments had been raised by the Hague Tribunal against former KLA commanders now occupying senior government posts in the province.
Nor had Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte ever mentioned the names of leaders of Albanian parties in the province or asked for documents about them, he said. Those Serbs who have remained live under nightmare conditions.
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The ‘landmark’ Australian drama that’s been stunning critics worldwide The Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic has been shot dead, his lawyer has confirmed. Serbian media reported that unknown assailants opened fire on Mr Ivanovic in front of the offices of his Citizens’ Initiative Party in Mitrovica.
The year-old was one of the key politicians in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, a former Serbian province where tensions remain high a decade after it declared independence. That verdict was overturned and a retrial had been underway.
Jun 24, · PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – American and Kosovo students have cleared out debris out of the neglected Jewish cemetery, a lone remaining sign of the dwindling community in this predominantly Muslim.
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Partner violence: Know the signs of a harmful relationship
Natalie McGill
The Nation's Health March 2013, 43 (2) 20;
Relationships are important, and having a partner to share the ups and downs of life can be extremely rewarding. But not all relationships are healthy, especially those that involve intimate partner violence. That’s why it’s important to recognize the signs and know when to get help.
Intimate partner violence is a pattern of harmful behavior from someone you’re in a romantic or sexual relationship with, says Mikel Walters, a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Violence can take different forms, from physical and sexual abuse to stalking and psychological aggression. And the problem is more common than you might think.
A 2011 report from CDC found 12 million women and men were victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the prior 12 months. About 24 percent of female victims and 14 percent of male victims experienced severe physical violence at the hands of their partner.
“It affects so many people,” Walters says. “Violence is a crucial public health problem that has the potential for immediate lifetime health consequences. Sexual violence, stalking and intimate partner violence are widespread throughout the U.S. and affect millions of adults.”
If you’re a victim of intimate partner violence, it’s important to realize that it is not your fault. Always call 911 if you feel your life is in danger and go to an emergency room if you are hurt. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available any time at 1-800-799-7233 to talk to you and give advice. You can also talk to a school counselor or your doctor.
Sometimes people who are in abusive relationships are afraid or embarassed to seek help. Always keep your safety in mind. And know that the abuse may get worse.
Counseling may be an option, but in many cases, ending your relationship may be the best decision. Domestic violence counselors and shelters can give you advice on what steps to take, or how to leave your partner. Many services are available for free, so don’t let that be a barrier.
Photos and art courtesy iStockphoto. Couple by Izabela Habur
After you’ve left the relationship, it’s still important to think of your safety. Change your phone number and the locks at your home. If it’s not safe to stay there, stay with a friend or relative or call a shelter, says the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Never stay somewhere alone if you feel threatened.
If you leave a partner who you’re married to or are living with, make sure you take important papers such as your marriage license and police and medical reports that document your abuse. And if you end up meeting with your former partner, always make sure it’s in a public place.
While a victim of partner violence may not be able to prevent it, changing attitudes about what makes a healthy relationship is important for people at risk for partner violence. After you’ve left an abusive relationship, talking to a counselor or friends can help you work through the experience and develop future healthy relationships.
“Promoting healthy respectful relationships among adults is vitally important to preventing intimate partner violence and addressing messages that promote nonviolence,” Walters says.
Are you a victim of partner violence?
While some instances of intimate partner violence are obvious — such as being physically injured by a partner — others are more subtle. Sometimes people aren’t aware that they are being abused. But there are warning signs that can tell you whether you’re in an abusive relationship, says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health. According to the office, you may be abused if your partner:
Constantly monitors what you’re doing.
Repeatedly accuses you of being unfaithful without cause.
Gets very angry after drinking or using drugs.
Blames you for her or his violent outbursts.
Controls how you spend your money.
Decides things for you that you should be allowed to decide, such as what you should wear or eat.
Humiliates you in front of others.
Destroys your property or things that you care about.
Prevents or discourages you from seeing family and friends, or from going to work or school.
Threatens to harm himself or herself when upset with you.
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Beginning Teachers of the Year selected Chesterfield County Public Schools recognized three beginning teachers as the best among their peers during its recent seventh annual Beginning Teachers Awards banquet. This year’s award winners were noted being immediate game changers for their work within their respective schools. Nearly 40 beginning teachers were nominated by their principal… Full Article
Bellwood Elementary School, a National Title I Distinguished School, has been selected as a winner of the Virginia Board of Education’s 2019 Highest Achievement Award. Bellwood was one of 52 schools in Virginia to earn the honor, which is part of the Board of Education’s new Exemplar Performance School Awards. The Exemplar Performance School recognition… Full Article
Do you want to be a member of Team Chesterfield? Do you know someone who does? We’re still looking for great teachers, caring support staff members and dedicated operations team members. Join us … or share the opportunity with someone interested in working for one of Forbes’ top 100 best employers in Virginia!
Chesterfield County Public School Prekindergarten announces the sponsorship of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The same meals will be available at no separate charge to all participants at each CACFP facility without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any… Full Article
Chesterfield County Public Schools Food and Nutrition Services is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. … Full Article
Forbes taps school division as a top employer
Chesterfield County Public Schools has been named one of Virginia’s top employers, according to information released this week by Forbes. The school division was listed as the 57th best employer to work for in Virginia. The Virginia listing included other nationally known businesses such as Amazon, Fed Ex and Bank of America. According to information… Full Article
11 schools recognized for excellence in education
Eleven Chesterfield County schools were honored today with 2019 Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) awards recognizing advanced learning and achievement. The awards recognized Virginia’s public schools that exceeded minimum state and federal accountability standards and achieved excellence in education goals established by the Governor and state Board of Education. Eligible schools and school divisions earn… Full Article
Kindergarten registration day is April 11
Kindergarten registration for Chesterfield County Public Schools is April 11. Kindergarten is a full-day program offered in every Chesterfield County elementary school. A child must be 5 years old on or before Sept. 30, 2019, to attend kindergarten. Every Chesterfield County elementary school will register incoming kindergartners from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on April 11. Parents… Full Article
Approximately 300 school and school division partners were recognized last week at Chesterfield County Public Schools’ annual Business and Community Partners Appreciation Luncheon sponsored by the Virginia Credit Union. Conexus, Publix Super Markets and Chesterfield County Mental Health Support Services have been selected as 2019 Partners of the Year for their contributions in support of the school division’s students, schools and families.
“Strong partnerships are an integral component to any school division’s success,” School Board Chair Rob Thompson said. “Our Board is grateful to be part of a community that has been a strong supporter of Chesterfield County Public Schools. We are fortunate to have a number of partners willing to invest in our efforts to create a better tomorrow. Our partners are vital to helping us ignite passion in all of our students through authentic and captivating experiences.”
Chesterfield County Public Schools is hosting a recruitment event for teachers in critical needs areas
Anticipating openings in several critical needs areas during the 2019-20 school year, Chesterfield County Public Schools is searching for educators with a strong academic background and a passion for preparing students for success!Highly qualified candidates seeking to work with Team Chesterfield as teachers of special education, English as a Second Language, secondary mathematics, secondary science, world languages, career and technical education, and family and consumer science are encouraged to apply to be interviewed during a March 22 recruitment event. We’re also recruiting nurses, school counselors, psychologists and social workers.
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BOLT MONACO
March 4, 2011 175 comments
Monaco – Usain Bolt will run the 100m at Monaco’s Stade Louis II on 22 July 2011.
The triple World record holder, triple Olympic and World champion has accepted the personal invitation made by H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, President of the Fédération Monégasque d’Athlétisme which organises the meeting Herculis, 10th stage of the Samsung Diamond League 2011.
Over a year ago, while participating in France’s most popular TV Sport Programme H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco expressed the desire to see Usain Bolt run in the Principality and extended an official invitation to the Jamaican.
Finally the time has come for Usain Bolt to run in Monaco as the 2011 edition of the Herculis meeting is perfectly positioned on the international calendar, one month before the IAAF World Championships, Daegu 2011 (27 Aug – 4 Sep).
The 25th anniversary of the meeting will also take advantage of the new track of the Louis II stadium which proved its exceptional speed during last year’s edition.
As the champion says, “I am really looking forward to running for the first time in Monaco. I have been there several times at the IAAF Gala but have never actually competed there. Monaco is a beautiful place and when Prince Albert extended the invitation I could not say no. I like the warm weather and the fast track and hope to perform well in the Herculis meeting for its 25th anniversary.”
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Home » Racing » F1 » Mattia Binotto: Ferrari team principal on Vettel v Leclerc and the battle to catch Mercedes
Mattia Binotto: Ferrari team principal on Vettel v Leclerc and the battle to catch Mercedes
As he sits in his office at the Spanish Grand Prix, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is the personification of calm. Which is something of an achievement in the circumstances.
Binotto has just watched his cars get trounced by Mercedes in qualifying around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the Ferrari nearly a second off the pace despite design improvements the team hoped would allow them to compete for victory.
Twenty-four hours after our interview, as Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas disappeared into the distance in the race, Binotto and Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc were embroiled in yet another team orders situation – as they have been, almost unbelievably, at every single race this year.
As a race, it was a microcosm of Ferrari’s season. But Binotto – befitting his professorial, calm and considered character – is determined not to let Ferrari’s obvious disappointment hinder attempts at a revival.
Point out to him that this season is a step backwards after 2017 and 2018, which Ferrari started with arguably the strongest car, and he says: “If we look at the overall season so far, no doubt if you look at the overall classifications or results, you would be right.
“There have been races where we have been very strong, such as Bahrain or Baku, and we could have had a different result. Overall, yes, we are not where we would like to be. We are under our expectations. But that doesn’t mean that as an entire team we cannot progress and be competitive in the future.”
In an extensive and exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Binotto discusses:
Ferrari’s driver situation
Team orders
His management style
Why Ferrari are uncompetitive
Whether the season is effectively already a write-off
The quest for ‘clarity and serenity’
To understand the mentality with which Ferrari entered this year, one has to look back at 2018, which started so well, but ended in disappointment.
Vettel could – arguably should – have won the title, regardless of a slight dip in form by Ferrari at the end of the year, but for five significant driving errors from summer onwards.
The team’s operational management was also called into question, and former team boss Maurizio Arrivabene – perceived to be bullish and adversarial – appeared to fail to keep Ferrari on an even keel.
Arrivabene’s contract was not renewed and Binotto was promoted from technical director to replace him. The team continues to operate with what Binotto calls the “horizontal organisation” set up in 2016 by former Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne, who died last July, but the environment and approach from the top are very different.
Binotto says Ferrari are a “young team still building experience and in a very steep learning phase”, which in comparison with Mercedes and Red Bull, where the senior personnel have been together considerably longer, is true.
His methodology is to “make people feel accountable for what they are doing, support them and put them in the right conditions to deliver”. This, he says, “is a matter of clarity, serenity, stability and trust”.
He says: “To win, or to create a great group with winning mentality, you need first stability, but serenity as well. And it is only by creating an internal and mutual trust that you can achieve it.
“It is really a matter of trying to build the right spirit in the team, with the right objectives, which are to be ambitious. We are not here just trying to participate.”
This is the backdrop to the decision to prioritise Vettel over his talented but inexperienced new team-mate, in one of what Binotto has called “50-50 decisions” at the start of the season.
‘To perform, a driver needs to feel comfortable’
For many, Vettel’s errors in 2018 came in the context of the pressure created by the lack of exactly the kind of internal environment Binotto describes.
Binotto skirts the question of whether there was a direct link between the two by saying he “doesn’t want to judge it”, but adds: “It is my role to make sure it happens in the right way today. Certainly a driver, to perform to the maximum, needs to feel comfortable – within the team, with the car.”
His decision to favour Vettel, he says, was “based on the fact that I am pretty convinced that the team comes first”.
“So our first objective is to maximise the team points,” he says. “And to do that, knowing we have two fantastic drivers but with two different levels of experience, I think what we did was all right.
“If there are any decisions that need to be taken in some circumstances, they should be in the favour of the most experienced driver. That’s it.”
He admits he “may always make mistakes” in operating this policy, but says he is “pretty convinced that by the end of the season” the team will benefit.
It’s a decision based on the theory that Vettel, as a four-time champion with 52 wins and 13 years’ experience, was the more likely to put together a season consistent enough to challenge Mercedes.
Did Binotto not have any doubts, given the number of errors Vettel made last year?
“Because Seb is a fantastic driver. He has been four-times world champion. I believe that if he is comfortable and he has serenity in his mind, he can deliver well.”
Does Vettel’s contract dictate that he is number one driver?
“No,” Binotto says. “It is not a matter of being number one driver. It is team interest first.”
Ferrari’s policy is the reason Leclerc was told to hold station behind Vettel when he caught the German on fresher tyres at the end of the Australian Grand Prix.
The same request was made as Leclerc caught him in the early stages in Bahrain. Leclerc was ordered out of Vettel’s way in China. And in Baku. And again in Spain – where Ferrari also did the reverse, favouring Leclerc, in the first part of the race after Vettel had damaged a tyre at the first corner.
The decisions all made sense, in isolation and within the context of Ferrari’s approach, with perhaps the exception of Bahrain. There, Leclerc had been demonstrably superior to Vettel all weekend, and had dropped back only because of a bad start from pole.
He caught Vettel at half-a-second a lap, and asked over the radio what he should do. They asked him to hold station for two laps. Why, given that Binotto has also said that if one driver is clearly faster than the other, he will be allowed to race and pass?
“Simply because in those laps when Charles was catching up, Sebastian was managing his tyres and his fuel and he was not somehow pushing to the limit,” Binotto says. “So we said: ‘OK, give him a couple of laps, try to settle his pace and let’s see.’
“But Charles was fast enough without waiting to overtake him, and finally we are happy with what happened because, in the end, we would not have restrained Charles from overtaking if he had been faster in the following laps.”
Leclerc took matters into his own hands and passed Vettel a few corners later anyway. How did Ferrari handle the fact he had disobeyed a direct team order, even if it was the correct decision?
“We discussed that all together,” Binotto says. “Together with Charles, together with Seb. He disobeyed, yes, but he overtook with no risk.
“But more than that, he was quite disciplined because he first came on the radio when closing the gap on Seb and asked: ‘What should I do?’ I was happy about that.
“So he recognised the team interest, but also that at that specific moment he was faster on the straight and he had the opportunity. So it is fine. We understand these situations.
“In this circumstance, he was fast enough to overtake and maybe it was more the mistake on our side to [ask him to] wait to overtake for a couple of laps.”
The politics of the driver battle
Team policies, though, do not reduce the inherent pressure of the situation within Ferrari. Leclerc is clearly good enough to challenge Vettel, a situation which threatens the German’s status not only in the team, but also in Formula 1.
If Leclerc prevails, Vettel’s career is potentially in danger. If he wanted to leave Ferrari to remove himself from the threat of being the secondary driver – as his friend, the former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, has said he would – his options are limited.
On the other side, Leclerc is quick, ambitious and desperate to prove himself. In the five races so far this season, he has been demonstrably quicker than Vettel in two – Bahrain and Baku. In one of them, he lost victory to an engine problem. In the other, he threw away the potential himself with a crash in qualifying.
In the other three races, there has been nothing to choose between the two drivers, and they have been separated only by a series of small errors by Leclerc at crucial moments in qualifying.
Does Binotto think the pressure this situation creates is provoking these errors from Leclerc?
“For a driver in a Ferrari, anyway it is a lot of pressure,” he says, “especially if you are a rookie.
“The only thing we always tell Charles, and I think that is the way to approach it, is he has to be focused on himself first, because I think there is still much for him to experience and learn and I am pretty sure that this season in that respect will be very useful.
“So I would separate the two things. So my answer would be no.”
Assessing Leclerc, Binotto says: “He is very fast, even surprisingly very fast in the start of the season. But more than that, he is a very mature driver. He is a hard worker, he is really working very well with the engineers.
“He has got a lot of, let me say, desire to perform well and that is something on which we are very happy.”
What is he going to do if it transpires that Leclerc is quicker than Vettel?
“If there will be a time where Charles is consistently quicker, or is quicker, there will be no discussions, because he will simply be ahead,” Binotto says.
And how does he think Vettel would respond to that?
“Sebastian is an experienced driver,” Binotto says. “If that would be the case, I think he would put maximum effort himself to improve and understand where are his limitations.
“So in the end it’s a good benchmark for both of them. I would prefer to have such a problem than not.”
The car problem
Ferrari’s driver policy was formulated in the expectation of a season competing for the title with Mercedes, as had been the case in 2017 and 2018, and a desire to maximise points in the fight with Hamilton, who has proved to be a formidable rival.
But the car’s lack of performance is rapidly threatening to end any pretensions of being championship contenders. Mercedes have scored one-twos in all five races so far.
The car is quicker than the Mercedes on the straights but slower – by a greater margin – in the corners, where it is primarily troubled by understeer on entry – a lack of front-end grip.
As to why, and how to solve it, Binotto says: “We don’t have a clear picture at the moment.”
He says that “no doubt in slow corners, we are weak” and he believes “it could be a combination of various factors and not a single one”.
So why was the car competitive at Bahrain and Baku, which are predominantly made up of slow corners?
“We do not have an answer yet.”
Ferrari’s design philosophy – different from Mercedes’, especially in the way the front wing sets up the airflow over the rest of the car – has also been raised as a possible cause.
“Again, I think there is not a straightforward answer to that one,” Binotto says. “It is part of the things we need to analyse.
“Barcelona will make us only stronger in the future and to be strong means to go through that type of exercise on which we do not have an answer yet.”
Does he realistically believe Ferrari can catch Mercedes?
“I think sooner or later we will do it, yes.”
Can they do it in time to save this season?
“Er, difficult to answer. Certainly it is a lot of points at the moment.”
If not in the championship, in terms of performance?
“I think, yes, on the performance side there is still possibility.”
So you believe the potential is still in the car to win?
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Threesome Earn Distinguished Faculty Advising Awards
Gwen Goodmanlowe
As the undergraduate advisor for marine biology in the Department of Biological Sciences, Gwen Goodmanlowe has one goal in mind – facilitating the passage of students through the academically rigorous program in a timely fashion.
To that end, when Goodmanlowe became advisor in 2004, she created much-needed detailed records of the academic history and current situation of more than 200 students in her major. She maintains student records of courses taken and grades received for each of the majors, updating them with the most recent grades after each semester. She evaluates these records regularly, generates suggestions for each student on what they should enroll in to facilitate their progress and e-mails those suggestions to students. Goodmanlowe personally speaks with every active student, meeting with every incoming freshman and transfer student each year, and encourages all majors to see her whenever they need assistance.
Between 1997 and 2004, the average number of marine biology students who graduated yearly was 12.38, which has risen to an average of 26.8 students – a 117 percent increase. During that time, the number of years it took native marine biology majors to graduate decreased from an average of 6.4 to 5.1 years, while the rate for transfer majors decreased from 4.7 to 3.65 years. That’s accomplishing quite a lot in a very short time.
Kent Merryfield
Kent Merryfield’s service as an undergraduate advisor for Mathematics and Statistics has profoundly shaped his understanding of what it means to be a faculty member.
As an advisor, Merryfield is driven by data. Very early in his career as an advisor, he recognized the power of an electronic registration system, both for tracking enrollment and for advising individual students. Transcripts tell stories. He was a “power user” of the OASIS system when he was still connecting to the database through a dial-up modem. But it
taught him that when a student asks for some simple thing – a signature, perhaps – he ought to look up that student’s transcript to find the whole story and perhaps offer some advice that he or she didn’t know to ask for.
Merryfield joined the Department of Mathematics as a lecturer in 1985 and now is a full professor. At the department level, he has been an essentially permanent member of the Undergraduate Committee and of the Scholarship Committee. He was named Most Valuable professor twice by College of Natural Science and Mathematics’ Outstanding Graduates. He has been recognized with the Samuel L. Greitzer award for outstanding coaching by the American Regions Math League (ARML).
For the past eight years, Merryfield has served as coach and organizer of the Southern California ARML team composed of outstanding high school mathematical problem solvers who meet in a national competition at the end of the academic year.
Dawn Kelsey
Dawn Kelsey seemed to be the natural choice to become Communication Studies’ undergraduate advisor in 2002 for a lot of good reasons, not the least of which was her familiarity with K-16 education and the inadequacy of advising throughout the educational system. Additionally, Kelsey is a product of CSULB, where she earned both her bachelor of arts degree in 1997 and her master of arts in 2000.
Kelsey is one of the few advising planners advising on a daily basis, supporting students in their individual endeavors. Whether students need internships, academic advice, career information or social support, she is accessible and approachable.
Kelsey is an active member of the department’s busy Curriculum Committee and is the go-to person for any questions about the effects of proposed curriculum revision on the department’s majors and students’ progress toward graduation.
Kelsey’s experience is unique and clearly invaluable. She served for two years as a graduate teaching associate at CSULB before teaching part-time in 2001 and full-time in 2007. Kelsey not only fulfills service responsibilities in the department, she also owns a publishing company and writes children’s books (Flippy and Friends series) with her husband.
–Richard Manly
Photos by Robert Freligh
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Mountains and hills of Scotland
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Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Great Britain, located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of Scotland.
Scotland is the most mountainous country in the United Kingdom. The area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault is known as the Scottish Highlands (or simply Highlands), and contains the country's main mountain ranges. The southern and eastern parts of Scotland are usually referred to as the Scottish Lowlands, but these areas also have significant ranges of hills, although they are lower than the Highland mountains. Within the Lowlands are two regions: the Midland Valley (or Central Lowlands), and the Southern Uplands. The Midland Valley consists of rolling plains interrupted by volcanic outcroppings. The Southern Uplands form a continuous belt across southern Scotland from Galloway to the Borders and is divided into five local ranges.
The majority of the country's population resides in the Midland Valley, allowing the remote Highlands and Southern Uplands regions to remain unscathed by the advancements of civilization. Rugged and romantic, they are places of allure, places of dreams and escape.
1 Geography of Scotland
1.1 Faults
2.1 Scottish Highlands
2.1.1 Geology of the Highlands
2.2 Scottish Lowlands
2.2.1 Midland Valley
2.2.2 Southern Uplands
3 Ranges and highest peaks
However beautiful the environment, the history of these hills did not escape tragedy. Its long and complex history includes brutal battles and betrayals during the Wars of Scottish Independence, the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe and both the Highland and Lowland Clearances in which large segments of the population lost both their homes and their homeland. Nevertheless, these mountains and hills continue to offer both inspiration and relaxation to all who visit.
Geography of Scotland
Sunset on Goatfell, Isle of Arran. June 2005.
Scotland comprises the northern third of the island of Great Britain, off the coast of northwestern Europe. The total land mass is around 30,414 square miles. Scotland's only land border is with England, running for 60 miles between the River Tweed on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west.
The country consists of a mainland area plus several island groups. The mainland has three areas: the Highlands in the north; the Central Belt, and the Southern Uplands in the south. The Highlands are generally mountainous and are bisected by the Great Glen, which includes Loch Ness. The highest mountains in the British Isles are found there, including Ben Nevis, the highest peak at 4,409 feet. The Central Belt is generally flat and is where most of the population resides. This area is divided into the West Coast, which contains the areas around Glasgow; and the East Coast which includes the areas around the capital, Edinburgh.
The 'Highland Boundary Fault' is a geologic fault that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates two distinctly different physiographic regions: the Highlands from the Lowlands, but in most places it is only recognizable as a change in topography.
The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by as much as 4,000 meters, and there was subsequently vertical movement. This earlier vertical movement was later replaced by a horizontal shear. A complementary fault, the 'Southern Upland Fault', forms the southern boundary for the Central Lowlands region.
The Quirang, Trotternish peninsula, on the Island of Skye
The Scottish Highlands include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Highlands are popularly described as one of the most scenic regions of Europe.
The key highland ranges are:
The Grampians, the main belt of mountains across the center of Scotland. The Cairngorms form the eastern part of the Grampians.
The Northwest Highlands, lying to the north and west of the Great Glen.
Cuillin, on the Isle of Skye.
Geology of the Highlands
The Highlands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. This part of Scotland is largely composed of ancient rocks from the Cambrian and Precambrian periods which were uplifted during the later Caledonian Orogeny. Smaller formations of Lewisian gneiss in the northwest are up to three billion years old and among the oldest found anywhere on Earth. These foundations are interspersed with many igneous intrusions of a more recent age, the remnants of which have formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and Skye Cuillin. A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstones found principally along the Moray Firth coast. The Great Glen is a rift valley which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. [1] [2]
The entire region was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, save perhaps for a few nunataks. The complex geomorphology includes incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and ice, and a topography of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.
The southern and eastern parts of Scotland are usually referred to as the Scottish Lowlands, but these areas also have significant ranges of hills, although these are lower than the Highland mountains. In addition to the main ranges, there are numerous individual hills in the Lowlands, often volcanic in origin. Many are known by the Scots word Law, meaning hill.
Midland Valley
The Midland Valley lies between the Highlands and the Southern Uplands. Its northern boundary with the Highlands is formed by a wall-like escarpment, while the Southern Uplands boundary is sharp only near the coast. This vast area is filled by both plain and masses of volcanic rock. [3]
In the Southern Uplands
The Southern Uplands is the southernmost of Scotland's three major geographic areas. It is a range of of hills nearly 125 miles (200 km) long, interspersed with broad valleys. They lie South of the Southern Uplands fault line that runs from Girvan on the Ayrshire coast in the West to Dunbar in East Lothian on the North Sea coast. The Southern Uplands is the least populated of the three major Scottish geographic areas.
This continuous belt is divided into several local ranges; Carrick, Lowther Hills, Pentland Hills, Moorfoot Hills and Lammermuir Hills.
This region includes, among others, the cross border Cheviot Hills shared with the Pennines that form the "backbone of England." The Southern Uplands and Pennines are of a similar size both in terms of area covered and height. Although the summits are not as high as many in the Scottish Highlands or other famous mountain regions, the Southern Uplands is remote and mountainous, containing about 120 hills. Some of the more notable peaks in the Southern Uplands include:
Merrick (the highest in the South of Scotland at 843 m)
Broad Law (840 m)
White Coomb (822 m)
The Cheviot (815 m)
Corserine (814 m)
Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (797 m)
Lamachan Hill (717 m)
Cairnsmore of Fleet (711 m)
Tinto (711 m)
Ranges and highest peaks
Scottish peaks are categorized by means of the following hill lists. Note that any one peak may ‘qualify’ for inclusion in several lists.
The Munros comprise all hills in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m). The list was originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891, and is modified from time to time by the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC). It includes 284 peaks.
The Corbetts are hills in Scotland between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762 and 914.4 m), with a relative height of at least 500 feet (152.4 m). The list is maintained by the SMC, currently 219 peaks listed.
The Grahams are hills in Scotland between 2,000 and 2,500 feet (609.6 and 762 m), with a relative height of at least 500 feet (152.4 m). The list was first compiled by Fiona Graham. Currently 224 listed.
The Donalds are hills in the Scottish Lowlands over 2,000 feet (609.6 m). The list was originally compiled by Percy Donald, and is maintained by the SMC, 89 peaks are listed.
The Marilyns are hills in the British Isles that have a relative height of at least 150 m, regardless of distance, absolute height or merit. The list was compiled and is maintained by Alan Dawson. There are currently 1,214 Scottish peaks listed, see List of Marilyns in Scotland.
The ten highest mountains in Scotland are also the ten highest in the United Kingdom.
Ben Nevis 1,344 meters (4,409 feet)
Ben Macdhui 1,310 m (4,297 ft)
Braeriach 1296 m (4,251 ft)
Cairn Toul 1291 m (4,235 ft)
Sgor an Lochain Uaine 1,258 m (4,127 ft)
Cairn Gorm 1,244 m (4.081 ft)
Aonach Beag 1,234 m (4,048 ft)
Càrn Mòr Dearg 1,220 m (4,002 ft)
Aonach Mòr 1,218 m (3,996 ft)
Ben Lawers 1,214 m (3,982 ft)
Because of the geographical orientation of Scotland and its strong reliance on trade routes by sea, the nation has historically held close links in the south and east with the Baltic countries, and through Ireland with France and the continent of Europe.
This land of unspoiled beauty has a long and complex history, including the English military occupation during significant periods of the Wars of Scottish Independence (1300-1400s), the Massacre of Glencoe (1692) which occurred during the era of the Glorious Revolution and Jacobitism. In addition, the Highland Clearances were forced displacements of the population in the eighteenth century, leading to mass emigration to the coast, the Lowlands, and abroad. Part of the process of agricultural change throughout the United Kingdom, it was an abrupt change from the clan system with brutality occurring in many of the evictions.
Following the Scottish Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, Scotland became one of the commercial, intellectual, and industrial powerhouses of Europe, producing philosophers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, and inventors and entrepreneurs such as Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, and Andrew Carnegie.
Blaven
Loch Long
Lochan Stones, Rannoch Moor
Eilann Donan Castle
Kyle of Durness
Loch Gairloch
Interior of Smoo Cave
The Saddle
↑ Keay, J., and Keay, J. 1994. Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. (London. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780007103539)
↑ W.H. Murray, 1973. The Islands of Western Scotland. (London. Eyre Methuen. ISBN 9780413303806)
↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2008. Scotland Retrieved May 20, 2008.
Jim Willsher Website. Hills of Scotland Retrieved May 21, 2008.
Miller, Mary. 1978. From the hills and the heather of Scotland. Invercargill, N.Z.: M. Miller. ISBN 9780473000127
Steven, Campbell Rodger. 1975. The story of Scotland's hills. London: R. Hale. ISBN 9780709149750
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland. Mountaineering Council of Scotland Retrieved May 21, 2008.
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Sunday, 6 March 2016 | MYT 6:47 PM
Hello, my name is Abcde: How parents are creating tongue-twisting names for their children
Farah Tan with her husband Mohamed Nurizzat and their four-month-old son Mohamed Zyeaad. Zyeaad comes from the Arabic name Ziyad, which means abundance. PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG.
SINGAPORE: When 24-year-old Rachel Siu was looking for a name for her son, she went to Greek mythology for inspiration, searching through names of gods and emperors for something "bold and different".
The mass communications student's online search led her to the Greek god of flowers, Dianthus, whose spelling she modified to Dyanthus for a twist. She, her husband and son currently live in Perth, where she is studying.
The name is supposed to be pronounced Dee-an-thus.
"But most people mistakenly call him Die-an-thus," she says. "His grandparents and my husband's Chinese-speaking side of the family also prefer to call him Chengkai, which is his Chinese name."
The two-year-old boy is also having a little trouble saying his own name, but his mother has no regrets.
"His name is a conversation starter and I'm sure he will grow up to appreciate it. Rest assured, I'm going to name my future kids something unique as well," she says.
For many millennial parents, "unique" is the magic word when it comes to naming their children.
Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as the hit HBO fantasy series Game Of Thrones and popular celebrities, and freely mixing up the spelling to create tongue-twisting, phonetics- defying new words, these parents want a name that no other kid would share in the playground.
So goodbye to John and Jane, and hello to Matz, Ckash, Zoen, Zeremy and Abcde (pronounced Ab-si-dee) - which are not typographical errors, but the tricky names that Sherlyn Chan, 28, a teacher at enrichment centre The Learning Lab, has encountered in her young students.
Having worked for five years now, she is used to these creative new names.
"Some names are trickier to pronounce and I usually double- check with the child to make sure I get it right," she says. "But ulti- mately, these are also the names that leave an impression. I guess that's why parents give their kids such unique names in the first place - they want their children to stand out."
More people around the world are giving unconventional names to their babies. In a report about millennial mums released by Goldman Sachs last May, research showed that fewer babies are being given "popular" and "traditional" names.
In 1940, the top five male baby names accounted for 20 per cent of all male babies born in the United States. In 2014, that figure dropped to four per cent.
The report attributes the change to "greater diversity among parents" and an "appetite for more differentiated and unique brands".
Some parents adopt "special" names wholesale.
Rosemary Chiang, 31, a personal assistant, decided to name her son Rhaego (pronounced Rah-he-go) after a Game Of Thrones character because she was drawn to the warrior-like strength of Rhaego's mother, Daenerys Targaryen, on the show.
"Prince Rhaego does not survive long on the show, but that doesn't really matter to me because I'm not superstitious at all," she says. "I was more intrigued by how unique the name was and the fact that on the show, he was the son of my two favourite characters. That was quite special to me."
Other parents choose to modify a traditional name by changing a letter or two because, well, a Rozze by any other spelling would smell just as sweet.
For four-month-old Zyeaad (pronounced Zi-yad), his housewife mother Farah Tan says she was drawn to the Arabic name Ziyad, which means abundance.
"To keep things interesting, we changed the spelling to Zyeaad so that it looks unique," she says.
Despite a parent's best intentions though, children do not always love their special names.
University student Annastassha Evangelis Dodwell, 20, whose name was inspired by the name Anastasia and supermodel Linda Evangelista, remembers disliking her name immensely as a child and asking often to have it changed.
"I've grown to love my name now, but I really didn't when I was younger. Not only was it difficult for people to pronounce, I also thought it was just too long and troublesome to write," she says. Her father is Sinhalese and her mother is of Malay-Chinese parentage.
Digital marketer Ailsa Khee's name is of Scottish origins and is pronounced A-li-cia. She had schoolmates call her by her Chinese name, Hui Jia, so people would stop mispronouncing her name. “People still stumble over my name 99 per cent of the time - often calling me Elsa or Ali-sah. I’ve gotten so many variations of my name that I’ve lost count,” says the 28-year-old.
Still, some children have owned their stand-out names with pride.
Take musician and actor Zephyr Khambatta, 28, who says that his consonant-heavy name has given him a slight edge in the cut-throat entertainment industry. That said, his name is at least a real word: Zephyr (pronunced "zair-fur") means gentle breeze.
He says: "I am so used to correcting people's pronunciation of my name.
"But as a musician and actor, I see the benefits of having a unique name and surname. People remember me and my work, thanks to my name. It has become synonymous with my personal brand." – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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The Highway Traffic Amendment, Off-Road Vehicles Amendment and Consequential Amendments Act
If you need an official copy, contact Statutory Publications. Search this Act
S.M. 1999, c. 12
(Assented to July 14, 1999)
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT
C.C.S.M. c. H60 amended
1 The Highway Traffic Act is amended by this Part.
2 Section 28.3 is repealed and the following is substituted:
Reinstatement of impaired persons
28.3 The registrar may require a person making application for a licence or permit
(a) whose licence or permit to drive has been suspended, or who has been disqualified from
(i) driving a motor vehicle, or
(ii) operating an off-road vehicle,
under section 263.1 or 263.2; or
(b) who has been convicted of an offence under section 253, 254 or 255 of the Criminal Code (Canada);
to provide to the registrar an impaired driver's assessment from a recognized agency and, if that agency considers it advisable, to complete successfully an educational or treatment program offered by a recognized agency.
3 Section 28.4 is amended
(a) by adding "or off-road vehicle" after "motor vehicle" wherever it occurs; and
(b) by adding the following after subsection (4):
No appeal
28.4(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no appeal lies from a suspension or disqualification under subsection (4).
4 The following is added after section 28.4:
When assessment indicates disease etc.
28.5(1) If a person provides the assessment required under section 28.3 or 28.4, and it indicates that the person has a disease or disability, including a disease or disability in the form of alcoholism or drug addiction or an alcohol or drug-related problem, that may be expected to interfere with the safe operation of a motor vehicle that may be operated with the class of licence or permit applied for or held, or with the safe operation of an off-road vehicle, the registrar shall do one or more of the following:
(a) suspend the person's right to have a licence or permit by serving written notice on him or her;
(b) cancel the person's licence or permit by serving a written notice on him or her;
(c) issue a licence or permit with restrictions as provided in subsection 24(6);
(d) issue a lower class of licence to the person under subsection 31(12);
(e) require the person to take such steps in relation to an action under clause (c) or (d) as the registrar considers appropriate in the circumstances;
(f) disqualify the person from operating an off-road vehicle by serving a written notice on him or her.
Appeal to medical review committee
28.5(2) A person may in the form required by the registrar appeal the action of the registrar under subsection (1) in respect of the person's licence or permit to the medical review committee.
5 Subsection 157(4.2) is amended by adding "or subsection 28.5(2)" after "section 28.1".
6(1) Subsection 225(1) is repealed and the following is substituted:
Driving motor vehicle while disqualified or prohibited
225(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway while
(a) the person's driver's licence is suspended or cancelled;
(b) the person is disqualified from holding a driver's licence;
(c) the person is otherwise prohibited from driving a motor vehicle on a highway; or
(d) the person is disqualified or prohibited from operating an off-road vehicle.
Driving off-road vehicle while disqualified or prohibited
225(1.1) No person shall drive an off-road vehicle
(a) while the person is disqualified or prohibited from operating an off-road vehicle; or
(b) while
(i) the person's driver's licence is suspended or cancelled,
(ii) the person is disqualified from holding a driver's licence, or
(iii) the person is otherwise prohibited from driving a motor vehicle on a highway,
under section 263.1, or subsection 264(1) or (3) or section 265.
6(2) Subsection 225(3) of the English version is amended by adding "or she" after "if he".
6(3) Subsection 225(4) is amended
(a) in the part before clause (a),
(i) by adding "or off-road vehicle" after "a motor vehicle", and
(ii) by adding "or operate that off-road vehicle" after "on a highway"; and
(b) in clause (a), by adding "a motor vehicle, or is disqualified or prohibited from operating an off-road vehicle" after "prohibited from driving".
6(4) Subsection 225(5) is amended in clause (a) by adding "or (1.1)" after "subsection (1)".
6(5) Subsection 225(5.1) is repealed and the following is substituted:
Defence of accused re motor vehicle
225(5.1) In a prosecution for a violation of subsection (1) or (2) or clause (4)(b), the accused has a defence if the accused can prove on a balance of probabilities
(a) that when the accused drove the motor vehicle he or she had a reasonable belief that his or her driver's licence or the registration was not suspended or cancelled, that he or she was not otherwise disqualified from holding a driver's licence or from registering that motor vehicle, or that he or she was not disqualified or prohibited from operating an off-road vehicle, as the case may be; or
(b) that before the accused drove the motor vehicle he or she took all reasonable steps to ascertain that his or her driver's licence or the registration was not suspended or cancelled, that he or she was not otherwise disqualified from holding a driver's licence or from registering that motor vehicle, or that he or she was not disqualified or prohibited from operating an off-road vehicle, as the case may be.
Defence of accused re off-road vehicle
225(5.2) In a prosecution for a violation of subsection (1.1), the accused has a defence if the accused can prove on a balance of probabilities
(a) that when the accused operated the off-road vehicle he or she had a reasonable belief
(i) that he or she was not disqualified or prohibited from operating an off-road vehicle, or
(ii) that
(A) his or her driver's licence was not suspended or cancelled,
(B) he or she was not disqualified from holding a driver's licence, or
(C) he or she was not otherwise prohibited from driving a motor vehicle on a highway,
under section 263.1, subsection 264(1) or (3) or section 265; or
(b) that before the accused operated the off-road vehicle he or she took all reasonable steps to ascertain
under section 263.1, subsection 264(1) or (3) or section 265.
6(6) Subsection 225(6) is amended by adding "(1.1)," after "subsection (1),".
7(1) Section 242.1 is amended
(a) in subsection (1.3),
(i) by renumbering it as subsection 242.1(1.4), and
(ii) by striking out "subsection (1)" wherever it occurs and substituting "subsection (1.1)";
(b) in subsection (1.2),
(ii) by striking out "subsection (1.1)" and substituting "subsection (1.2)";
(c) in subsection (1.1),
(ii) by striking out "subsection (1)" and substituting "subsection (1.1)";
(d) in subsection (1),
(i) by renumbering it as subsection 242.1(1.1),
(ii) by striking out "subsection (1.1)" and substituting "subsection (1.2)", and
(iii) by striking out "as defined in this Act contrary to section 225(1)" and substituting "contrary to subsection 225(1) or (1.1)"; and
(e) by adding the following as subsection 242.1(1):
242.1(1) In this section, "motor vehicle" includes an off-road vehicle.
7(2) Subsection 242.1(2) is amended
(a) in subclause (a)(i), by adding ", and of the owner if the driver is not the owner and discloses the name and address of the owner" after "driver";
(b) by adding the following after clause (a):
(a.1) if the driver is not, or does not appear to be, the owner of the motor vehicle, request that the driver disclose the name and address of the owner;
(c) by repealing clause (c) and substituting the following:
(c) give a copy of the acknowledgement to the owner, if the owner is present at the time of the seizure, or, if the owner is not present, without delay mail a copy to the owner
(i) at the owner's last known address as recorded in the registrar's records of motor vehicle registrations, or
(ii) if the owner's address is not recorded in the registrar's records, at the address indicated by the driver in response to the peace officer's request under clause (a.1);
7(3) Subsection 242.1(5) is amended in the part before clause (a)
(a) in the French version, by adding "automobile" after "au moment où le véhicule"; and
(b) by adding "or operating a motor vehicle" after "prohibited from driving".
7(4) Subsection 242.1(6) is amended in the part before clause (a) by striking out "had no reason to believe that his or her licence or permit was suspended, that he or she was disqualified from holding a driver's licence or was prohibited from driving a motor vehicle and that the owner had at the time of the seizure and impoundment complied with subsection 27(5)," and substituting "had no reason to believe that his or her licence or permit was suspended or that he or she was disqualified from holding a driver's licence or was disqualified or prohibited from driving or operating a motor vehicle, and the justice is satisfied that the owner had at the time of the seizure and impoundment complied with subsection 27(5) of this Act and section 12 of The Off-Road Vehicles Act, if applicable,".
7(5) Subsection 242.1(7.3) of the English version is amended in the part before clause (a) by striking out "the" after "designated by".
7(6) Subsection 242.1(7.4) is amended in the part before clause (a) by striking out "subsection (3)" and substituting "subsection (7.3)".
7(7) Subsection 242.1(11) is amended
(a) by striking out "Subject to section 242," and substituting "Subject to subsection 242(5) of this Act and subsection 54(3) of The Off-Road Vehicles Act,"; and
(b) by adding "or on" after "present in".
(a) by renumbering it as subsection 263.1(1.1);
(b) in clause (b), by striking out "as defined in this Act";
(c) in clause (c), in the part before subclause (i), by striking out "the motor vehicle" and substituting "a motor vehicle";
(d) in clause (e), by striking out "of issue"; and
(e) in clause (f), by adding "effective seven days from the date of the notice and order" after "on the person".
8(2) The following is added as subsection 263.1(1):
263.1(1) In this section and in section 263.2, "motor vehicle" includes an off-road vehicle.
8(3) Clause 263.1(3)(e) is amended by striking out "The Criminal Code" and substituting "the Criminal Code (Canada)".
9(1) Subsection 263.2(4) is amended by adding ", or the disqualification from operating a motor vehicle" after "licence or permit".
9(2) Subsection 263.2(7) is amended in clauses (a) and (b) by striking out "as defined in this Act".
10(1) Subsection 264(1) is amended in the part before clause (a)
(a) by adding "or off-road vehicle," after "motor vehicle"; and
(b) by adding "and the person is hereby disqualified from operating an off-road vehicle" after "is hereby suspended".
10(2) Subsection 264(1.2) is amended
(a) in the section heading, by adding "etc." after "suspension"; and
(b) in the part before clause (a), by adding "or disqualification" after "suspension".
10(3) Subsection 264(3) is amended
(a) by adding ", or under subsection 225(1.1) for operating an off-road vehicle," after "on a highway";
(b) in the English version, by adding "or her" after "while his"; and
(c) by adding "and the person is automatically further disqualified from operating an off-road vehicle" after "further suspended".
10(4) Subsection 264(7) is repealed and the following is substituted:
Impoundment of driver's licence
264(7) Where a person's driver's licence is suspended under subsection (1) or (1.1) by reason of a conviction under a section of the Criminal Code (Canada) mentioned in either of those subsections, the judge or justice who convicts the person shall impound the licence and send it or cause it to be sent to the registrar.
10(5) Subsection 264(8) is amended by adding "or from operating an off-road vehicle," after "or registration of a vehicle,".
(a) by striking out "by registered mail";
(b) in the English version, by striking out "upon his" and substituting "upon the registrar's"; and
(c) by adding "if the appellant's licence is not suspended under other provisions of this Act, the appellant is not prohibited from driving a motor vehicle other than by reason of the conviction being appealed and the appellant has complied with any requirements imposed by the registrar under this Act or The Summary Convictions Act" after "shall restore the driver's licence to the appellant".
10(7) Subsection 264(11) is amended
(a) by repealing the section heading and substituting "Temporary licence and stay of suspension etc.";
(b) in the part before clause (a), by striking out "his licence, right to have a licence, or registration is suspended or cancelled under this Act by reason of the conviction," and substituting "the person's licence or right to have a licence is suspended or cancelled under this Act by reason of the conviction, or the person is disqualified under this Act from operating an off-road vehicle by reason of the conviction, or both,";
(c) in clause (a),
(i) by striking out "suspension or cancellation" and substituting "suspension, cancellation or disqualification", and
(ii) by striking out "and" at the end of the clause; and
(d) by repealing clause (b) and substituting the following:
(b) upon making an order under clause (a) staying the suspension or cancellation of the person's licence, shall
(i) require the person convicted to surrender to the judge or justice his or her driver's licence and shall send it or cause it to be sent to the registrar, and
(ii) issue, or cause to be issued, to the person convicted a temporary licence, in a form prescribed by the registrar, valid for the lesser of
(A) the period of the stay,
(B) the number of days that remain unexpired on the licence that was surrendered, and
(iii) record on the certificate of conviction that the suspension or cancellation has been stayed and a temporary licence has been issued to the person convicted; and
(c) upon making an order under clause (a) staying the disqualification of the person from operating an off-road vehicle, shall record on the certificate of conviction that the disqualification has been stayed.
10(8) Subsection 264(13) is repealed and the following is substituted:
Limitation on stay of suspension etc.
264(13) A judge or justice shall not make an order under subsection (11) unless the judge or justice is satisfied
(a) that the person convicted intends to appeal the conviction or apply to the appeal board under section 279;
(b) that the person convicted is not prohibited from operating a motor vehicle or disqualified from operating an off-road vehicle except by reason of the conviction; and
(c) where the order is for a stay of the suspension or cancellation of the driver's licence of the person convicted, that the person holds a valid and subsisting driver's licence issued under this Act that is not suspended under another provision of this Act.
(b) in the section,
(i) by striking out "the licence, right to have a licence, or registration of a person" and substituting "a person's licence or right to have a licence, or the disqualification of the person from operating an off-road vehicle,", and
(ii) by striking out "the period of the suspension or cancellation begins on" and substituting "the period of the suspension, cancellation or disqualification begins on the earlier of the expiry of the stay and".
10(10) Subsection 264(15) is amended
(a) in the section heading, by adding "or disqualification" after "suspension"; and
(i) by striking out "suspend the" wherever it occurs and substituting "suspend the person's",
(ii) by adding ", or disqualify the person from operating an off-road vehicle," after "and the right to have a licence", and
(iii) by adding ", or disqualify the person from operating an off-road vehicle," after "or the right to have a licence".
10(11) Subsection 264(16) is repealed.
11(1) Subsections 265(1), (2) and (3) are amended by adding "in relation to the operation or care and control of a motor vehicle or off-road vehicle" after "section 254 of the Criminal Code (Canada)".
(a) in clause (a), by adding ", and the person is disqualified from operating an off-road vehicle," after "suspended"; and
(b) in clause (b), by adding "or off-road vehicle" after "motor vehicle".
11(3) Subsection 265(7) is amended by adding "or off-road vehicle" after "motor vehicle".
11(4) Clause 265(11)(e) is amended by striking out "vehicle" and substituting "motor vehicle or off-road vehicle".
11(5) Subsection 265(13) is amended by adding "or off-road vehicle" after "motor vehicle".
(b) by adding "or other towed equipment" after "trailer" wherever it occurs.
Restoration of licence etc. by appeal board
279(1) Subject to subsections (1.1) and (3),
(a) where
(i) a person's licence and right to have a licence,
(ii) the registration of a motor vehicle or off-road vehicle registered in the name of a person,
(iii) a person's permit or application for a permit under section 34,
(iv) a person's licence or application for a licence under section 24, or
(v) an exemption, privilege or benefit under section 4.3,
has been suspended, cancelled or refused under any provision of this Act or The Off-Road Vehicles Act, except where the suspension is for non-payment of a fine or is a suspension referred to in subsection (1.2), (1.3) or (1.4); or
(b) where a person has been disqualified from operating an off-road vehicle under any provision of this Act or The Off-Road Vehicles Act;
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or The Off-Road Vehicles Act, on application by that person, and upon hearing the applicant or the applicant's counsel, and also the Attorney General or the registrar if either of them desires to be heard, or their counsel, the appeal board may, by order, do one or both of the following:
(c) revoke the suspension, cancellation or disqualification in whole or in part;
(d) direct the permit, licence or registration to be issued or the exemption, privilege or benefit under section 4.3 to be granted.
12(2) Subsection 279(1.3) is amended by renumbering it as subsection 279(1.4).
(a) by renumbering it as subsection 279(1.3); and
(b) by striking out "vehicle" and substituting "motor vehicle or off-road vehicle".
12(5) The following is added after subsection 279(1):
Issuance of licence or permit
279(1.1) Upon the making of an order under clause (1)(c) or (d), or both,
(a) the suspension, cancellation or disqualification is conclusively deemed to be revoked, to the extent stated in the order; and
(b) subject to the person's complying with any requirements imposed by the registrar under this Act, The Off-Road Vehicles Act or The Summary Convictions Act, the registrar shall issue the licence or permit.
(a) by striking out "or directs" and substituting ", revokes a disqualification from operating an off-road vehicle or orders";
(b) by striking out "the suspension or cancellation or" and substituting "the suspension, cancellation or disqualification, or the"; and
(c) by adding ", or beyond the original period of disqualification" after "originally suspended or cancelled".
Temporary licence from appeal board
279(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where a person has filed an appeal from the suspension of his or her licence to drive or disqualification from operating an off-road vehicle, and the convicting judge or justice
(a) issued the person a temporary licence, or temporarily revoked the disqualification, but the licence or revocation has expired or is about to expire; or
(b) did not issue a temporary licence or temporarily revoke the disqualification;
the chairman of the appeal board, or a person designated by him or her, may
(c) in a case where clause (a) applies,
(i) further temporarily revoke the suspension and issue a further temporary licence, or
(ii) further temporarily revoke the disqualification,
for a period not exceeding 45 days as the circumstances may require; and
(d) in a case where clause (b) applies,
(i) order the temporary revocation of the suspension and issue a temporary licence, or
(ii) order the temporary revocation of the disqualification,
for a period not exceeding 45 days as the circumstances may require; and the chairman shall cause to be furnished to the registrar a copy of the order temporarily revoking the suspension showing the period for which the temporary licence was issued or of the order temporarily revoking the disqualification.
Removal of conditions, etc.
279(4) The board may, on further application, remove some or all of the terms, conditions and restrictions imposed under an order made under subsection (2) if after a period of three years the applicant has not been convicted of any further offence under the Criminal Code (Canada), or this Act, making him or her liable to further suspension or disqualification.
(a) by striking out "a suspension or cancellation or order" and substituting "a suspension, cancellation or disqualification or to order"; and
(b) by striking out "that suspension or cancellation or" and substituting "that suspension, cancellation or disqualification or in respect of that".
12(10) Clause 279(6)(a) is amended
(a) in subclause (i), by striking out "or cancellation and the consequent" and substituting ", cancellation or"; and
(b) in subclause (ii), by striking out "or the cancellation and the consequent" and substituting ", cancellation or".
12(11) Subsection 279(7) is repealed.
12(12) Subsection 279(9) of the English version is amended by adding "or her" after "his".
(a) by striking out "conditional licence or permit or registration" and substituting "conditional licence, permit or registration or an order revoking a disqualification subject to conditions,"; and
(b) by adding "or the making of the revocation order," after "licence, permit or registration,".
12(15) Subsection 279(13) of the English version is amended
(a) by adding "or her" after "submit his";
(b) by adding "or her" after "him"; and
(c) by striking out "his application" and substituting "the application".
THE OFF-ROAD VEHICLES ACT
C.C.S.M. c. O31 amended
13 The Off-Road Vehicles Act is amended by this Part.
14 Subsection 1(1) is amended
(a) by adding the following definition in alphabetical order:
"off-road maintenance machine" means an off-road vehicle that is designed or modified, and used primarily, for the purposes of clearing or maintaining off-road vehicle trails or tracks, or ski trails or slopes; (« pisteur »)
(b) in the definition "off-road vehicle", by adding the following after clause (d):
(d.1) an off-road maintenance machine,
15 Section 4 is amended by striking out "or" at the end of clause (d), by adding "or" at the end of clause (e) and by adding the following after clause (e):
(f) an off-road maintenance machine.
16 The following is added after subsection 6.2(1):
Insurance requirements for off-road maintenance machines
6.2(1.1) No person shall operate an off-road maintenance machine on land not owned or occupied by the owner of the machine unless
(a) the machine is insured under an insurance policy, in accordance with The Insurance Act and the regulations under that Act, issued to the owner insuring against liability arising from bodily injury to, or the death of, one or more persons or loss of, or damage to, property, occasioned by the use or operation of the machine, at least to the limits mentioned in section 249 of that Act; and
(b) the person is authorized to operate the machine on that land under the insurance policy.
17(1) Subsection 22(1) is amended by striking out "The registered owner" and substituting "Where an off-road vehicle is required to be registered under this Act, the registered owner".
17(2) Subsection 22(2) is amended by striking out "The registered owner" and substituting "Subject to subsection (4), the owner".
17(3) Subsection 22(3) is repealed and the following is substituted:
Operator to provide information with respect to owner
22(3) Where the operator of an off-road vehicle informs a peace officer that the operator is not the owner, the operator shall, on demand, give to the peace officer the name and address of the owner of the off-road vehicle, or of the person who authorized or permitted the operator to operate it, and shall produce to the peace officer on demand
(a) the registration certificate, where the off-road vehicle is required to be registered under this Act; and
(b) subject to subsection (4), evidence that the off-road vehicle is insured as required under this Act.
Time for production of evidence of insurance
22(4) Where at the time of a peace officer's demand under subsection (2) or clause (3)(b) the owner or operator of an off-road vehicle cannot produce evidence that it is insured as required under this Act, he or she shall provide the evidence of insurance to the peace officer or another peace officer at the peace officer's detachment within 72 hours after the demand.
Peace officer may stop off-road vehicles
22(5) A peace officer, for the purpose of making a demand under one or more of subsections (1) to (3), may by signal require the operator of an off-road vehicle to stop the vehicle, and section 30 applies in such an event.
18 The following is added after section 30:
Identification of operator to peace officer
30.1(1) The operator of an off-road vehicle shall give his or her correct name, date of birth and address to a peace officer on demand.
30.1(2) A peace officer may, for the purpose of making a demand under subsection (1), by signal require the operator of an off-road vehicle to stop the vehicle, and section 30 applies in such an event.
Exception re land owned or occupied by the operator, etc.
30.1(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who is operating an off-road vehicle exclusively on land owned or occupied by the operator or by the owner of the vehicle.
19(1) Subsection 33(1) is amended in the part preceding clause (a) by striking out "Except as may be authorized by subsection (4) or any other provision of this Act or regulation thereunder" and substituting "Except as may be authorized under another provision of this Act or under the regulations".
19(2) Subsection 33(4) is repealed.
20 Subsection 45(1) is amended
(a) by striking out "and" at the end of clause (a); and
(a.1) permitting the operation of designated off-road vehicles upon a roadway or the shoulder of a roadway; and
21 The following is added after subsection 47(2):
No cause of action against minister
47(3) No person has a cause of action for damages for injury, death or loss suffered by that person arising out of or in connection with the operation of an off-road vehicle against the minister, or a person authorized by the minister under subsection 45(2), by reason of the minister's or person's approval of a by-law under that subsection or by reason of the imposition of conditions on the approval.
Personal property to be returned
54(3) Any personal property present in or on an off-road vehicle that has been detained shall be returned to the owner of the off-road vehicle upon request, unless it is required as evidence in a prosecution or in connection with an investigation of an offence under this Act or The Highway Traffic Act, in which case subsections (1) and (2) apply, with necessary modifications.
23 Section 54.1 is repealed and the following is substituted:
Application of C.C.S.M. c. H60
54.1 The following provisions of The Highway Traffic Act apply to off-road vehicles and to the owners and operators of off-road vehicles:
(a) sections 28.3 to 28.5, 242.1, 263.1, 265 and 279;
(b) section 264, other than subsection 264(1.1); and
(c) subsections 225(1.1), (5), (5.2) and (6).
24 Sections 56 and 57.3 are repealed.
25 Clause 68(f) is amended by striking out "used exclusively for specified purposes or in specified areas" and substituting "in specified areas, or throughout the province,".
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND COMING INTO FORCE
Consequential amendment, S.M. 1998, c. 41
26 If subsection 30(5) of The Domestic Violence and Stalking Prevention, Protection and Compensation and Consequential Amendments Act, S.M. 1998, c. 41, is not in force on the day this section comes into force, then that subsection is amended in the part before clause (a) by striking out "279(1.3)" and substituting "279(1.4)".
27 The Highways Protection and Consequential Amendments Act, S.M. 1992, c. 38, is amended by repealing section 46.
28(1) This Act, except sections 2 to 12, 22 to 24 and 26, comes into force on royal assent.
28(2) Sections 2 to 12, 22 to 24 and 26 come into force on a day fixed by proclamation.
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Critically acclaimed SOLDIER ON coming to Sheffield
The critically acclaimed play written and directed by Jonathan Lewis will form the centrepiece of an inspiring programme of creativity on offer alongside the Invictus UK Trials for the first time.
This July, the Invictus UK Trials will add a new pioneering arts element into the mix on offer via The Soldiers’ Arts Academy, a platform for serving and veteran military personnel to recover, retrain and to access new work.
Through a series of workshops, exhibitions, talks and performances this new initiative will demonstrate how those leaving the Armed Forces can look for new work outside the military family and find inspiration and security in the arts and creative industries.
After two sell-out London seasons and a national tour in 2018 ‘Soldier On’, arrives in Sheffield at The Oval Hall, Sheffield City Hall on 23rd, 24th and 25th July.
F**k me, it’s funny.” The Sunday Times (****)
The play is inspired by true stories which Lewis, author of the multi-award-winning West End hit ‘Our Boys’, work-shopped with British servicemen and women and their families over five years. A passionate cast, many of them Army and Royal Marine veterans, bring their own experiences to life through a mix of storytelling, music, dance and mixed media that is hard-hitting, poignant and close to their own hearts.
With a cast including injured veterans, the show explores what really happens when military personnel leave the army - through the journey of a group of soldiers and their family members who take up acting to help them recover from PTSD.
It's their words that do the talking in what one veteran, filmmaker Neil Davies, has named” The Full Military Monty”.
Lewis has said, “Soldier On is dedicated to all those who come home after war, but don’t really come back. And to all their loved ones and friends who know what it’s like to live with the thousand yard stare.”
“Lewis’ script…packs humour, clarity and emotional punch. Effectively, the audience are parachuted behind enemy the lines into a group of post-traumatic stress survivors who’ve been dared, coerced or cajoled into working through their issues live on stage”
- Evening Standard (*****)
With humour, warmth and searing honesty, ‘Soldier On’ lays bare both the shocking and sometimes heart-warming truths about the impact of PTSD - and the very real and facts of life faced by veterans in Britain in 2019.
Jonathan Lewis was an Army Scholar who was invalided out of the forces in 1986. He went on to drama school and subsequently played Sgt Chris McLeod in two series of ITV’s Soldier, Soldier in the 1990s. Lewis’ multi-award winning hit first play ‘Our Boys” was revived in the West End in 2012 and completed an award-winning run at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.
‘Soldier On’ is produced by Amanda Faber and the Soldiers’ Arts Academy, a platform through which serving and ex-serving military personal and their families can participate in the creative and performing arts, using their skills and experiences to engage audiences.
Faber says, "The Soldiers’ Arts Academy provides a platform for serving and veteran military personnel and their families to recover, retrain and to access new work. It is the first time that a production of this kind has had an extended West End run and it is a huge step forward in the groundswell of support and nurturing of significant new artistic talent from those leaving the Armed forces and their families to look for new work outside the military family.”
Age Recommendation: 14+ (There is strong language and adult references throughout. Loud bangs and the sound of gunfire.)
The Soldier On performances are just one of the outstanding arts events taking place alongside the Invictus UK Trials Sheffield from 22nd to 26th July 2019.
In summary, the arts events are:
Soldier On
23rd July, 24th and 25th 7.30
Oval Hall Sheffield City Hall
Tickets £16.50 concessions £11.00
Michael Morpurgo in conversation with Ade Adepitan
24th July 16.00 - 17.00
£11 - concessions £6
Photography Exhibition
Sheffield City Hall
Works by Amanda Searle, Rupert Frere, Wendy Faux
Wednesday 10am - 12 noon
Theatre workshop with Jonathan Lewis and cast members from Soldier On
Price £15 Concessions £10
Friday 26th July 10am - 12noon
Dance workshop: Movement to Contact - a choreographic workshop for veterans and civilians
Ballroom Sheffield City Hall
Tickets for all of these events are available (subject to booking fees) l are available online at www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk through the ticket hotline on 0114 2 789 789 and in person at the Sheffield City Hall Box Office.
For further MEDIA information please contact Iain McCallum on 07771 636612
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Before the Rain
SYDNEY. 21 JANUARY – 19 MARCH 2017.
Luke Ching, Liu Ding, Yuan Goang-Ming, James Kong, Tang Kwok Hin, Sarah Lai, Swing Lam, Ellen Pau and Sampson Wong.
Before the onset of a downpour there is a moment of heavy humidity that hangs low in the air. Building over time it signals the inevitability of a deluge that will interrupt and intercept patterns of normality. For Hong Kong, a city defined by humidity, the deluge that began on September 28 2014 was the result of a long and steady buildup of uncertainty, anxiety and the long held need to articulate a cohesive identity for the city. Before the Rain addresses the tensions that precipitated the recent political and civil urgency in Hong Kong and the city’s pressing need to reimagine its future.
The exhibiting artists frame the conversation from a multiplicity of perspectives presenting the complexity and concerns of a city facing a future planned by others. They approach the city with an intent to protect it; their works may appear as warnings but they are underpinned by a need to safeguard. Commissioned for the exhibition is a new work by Sampson Wong that transforms the entrance gallery into a narration of the Umbrella Movement. Ephemera taken from the streets, continuous loops of CCTV and news footage, blogs, tweets and newspapers will populate the gallery inviting the viewer to sift through the materials and navigate their own opinion of a city in flux. Before the Rain responds to a continuously evolving discourse, proving to be one of the most critical events in South East Asia’s recent history.
Luke Ching Chin-wai (b.1972, Hong Kong; lives in Hong Kong) is an inter-disciplinary artist creating multimedia installations in which traditional and new media coexist in an imperfect balance. His work identifies and attempts to deconstruct the changer urban landscapes of his home city as emblematic of Hong Kong’s pluralist history as one location caught between the eastern and western hemispheres. Ching has held a number of solo exhibitions including Screensaver (2014), Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong; as park of the Folk Art Series (2008), Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, Blackburn, England; and 2 in 1 (2007), Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong. He has participated in group exhibitions not limited to Ceramics Show by Non-ceramics Artist (2015), 1a space, Hong Kong; The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture (2014), CAFAM Biennage, Beijing, China; The Problem of Asia (2010), Chalk Horse, Sydney; and the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005 (2005), Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong. Since completing his Master of Fine Art in 1998 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Luke Ching has received awards both in Hong Kong and abroad while undertaking residencies internationally in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Japan.
James Kong (b. 1985, Hong Kong; Lives and works in Hong Kong) graduated with a Bachelor of Science at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Since then, as an Interactive Media Engineer he dedicates his creative work to explore human-computer interaction and the application of multimedia techniques to theatrical environments. He also explores the possibilities of computational media in the arts. James has exhibitied at Exim Macau (2015) and the IFVA awards new media exhibition (2014).
Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah (b. 1983, Hong Kong; lives in Hong Kong) is a painter concerned with beautifying and capturing the aura of the mundane. Her subjects are often highly familiar objects or environments detached from the humdrum of everyday life, deprived of their utilitarian functions, allowing the artist to subtly abstract the concepts of form and function as relics of contemporary commodity culture. A recent Master of Fine Arts graduate from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lai has consistently held solo exhibitions in Hong Kong including Unsettled Heart (2016), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kong Kong; In Stasis (2015), Art Basel Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong; and Safety Island (2013), Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong. Her works are collected internationally after participating in group exhibitions internationally, such as The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition (2015), CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China; I submit to the wisdom of the body (2015), Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines; The Hong Kong International Art Fair (2013), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong; and the Sovereign Art Prize (2010), ARTSPACE at Helutrans, Singapore.
Ellen Pau (b. Hong Kong; lives in Hong Kong) made her first super-8 film in 1984. Being a self-taught artist, she worked as a MTV director, cinematographer, video artist, curator, educator and arts administrator. Pau started her international career in 1995 at the Kwangiu Biennale in Korea, curated by Kim Hon-Yee and Nam-June Paik. She is the co-founder and artistic director for the media art organisation Videotage, and a member and curator of the organizing committee for the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong since 1996. A radiographer by profession, Pau teaches part-time in Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, as well as being a full time medical image technologist. Pau is advisor to the HK Museum of Art, the HK Art Development Council and a number of festivals.
Sampson Wong (b. 1985, Hong Kong; lives in Hong Kong) is an artist, independent curator, academic and urbanist from Hong Kong. He engages in art-making, curatorial practice, teaching, research and writing, and see them as intellectual means exploring issues about urbanism, space, power and freedom. His research interests also include politics of epidemics and Hong Kong studies. He is now writing books about plagues in Hong Kong, urbanism and art, and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. His writings often appear in the Stand News and Mingpao (Sunday Life). Recent projects in 2016 include From 60 seconds to 2047, Countdown Machine and Land Visions: In Search of Land Art in Hong Kong. He also curated 2nd emptyscape art festival: Beyond the Village School 2016, Studio in-Situ – Assembling! 2016, and Affordable Art Basel! In 2015. He received his Ph.D in Urban Studies & Geography at the University of Manchester in 2014.
Yuan Goang-Ming (b. 1965, Taipei, Taiwan; lives in Taipei) is one of the foremost Taiwanese artists of media art, and has been a pioneer of video art in Taiwan, a medium in which he started working in 1986. In 1997, he received a Master’s degree in media art from the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe. Combining symbolic metaphors with technological media, his work eloquently expresses the state of contemporary existence and profoundly explores the human mind and consciousness. Yuan has been the recipient of many awards, including the Jury Prize of the first Art Future 2000 by the Acer Digital Art Center. His works, ranging from photographs to multi-media installations, have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Taiwan Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Recent solo exhibitions include BEFORE MEMORY (2011, TKG+, Taipei), and DISAPEARINGTRACES (2011, TKG+, Beijing).
Swing Lam (b.1986, Hong Kong) specialises in various art forms, including painting, performance art, temporary architecture research and is involved in cultural and urban sketching studies. He writes arts and cultural columns for Ming Pao and Stand News amongst others. He earned a bachelor degree of Visual Arts in HKBU and a MA intercultural studies in CUHK and is one of the fotanian artists concentrated on drawing, painting and happenings. Swing started the project Flaneur 11 on 2012 spring; a project of waking across 10 cities over the world. Swing showed his project in Atelier Muji gallery as his first solo exhibition in spring 2013. RTHK also made a documentary of his work in January 2013. In 2014, he developed a facebook page to introduce and study some of the featured architecture, tools and creations found. It helped the public look into the temporary facilities from an artistic point of view. In the project Swing embraced his experience of walking through cities and his interaction with the public in this public space. Currently, Swing is working as a Lecturer in Lingnan University Community college for Art and design courses.
Exhibition Documentation
All images: Document Photography
Centre: Umbrella Movement (2017), installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the
artist. Image: Document Photography. Walls: Swing Lam, Temporary structure research in Umbrella Revolution 2014-2016 (2016),
installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, works on paper. Courtesy the artist.
Swing Lam, Temporary structure research in Umbrella Revolution 2014-2016 (2016), works on paper. Installation view, detail.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Courtesy the artist.
Clockwise from left: Ellen Pau, Diverson (1990), single-channel video, 5:30. Installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian
Art. Liu Ding, A Sentence, (2016), poem, installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Sarah Lai, Rub it until it is removed
(2015) single-channel HD video, 5:40, installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Sarah Lai, Polish your own shoe
as long as you can (2015), single-channel HD video, 11:11, installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Sarah Lai,
Demarcated area (2017), performance with installation. Dimensions variable, installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary
Asian Art. Luke Ching, 150 Lost Items (2014), mixed media, installation view. All courtesy the artists.
Luke Ching, 150 Lost Items (2014), mixed media, detail installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Courtesy the artist.
Left: Yuan Goang-Ming, The 561st Hour of Occupation (2014), installation view, single-channel video. Courtesy the artist.
Right: Reproduced items and image from The Umbrella Movement Visual Archive, (2014), installation view, 4A Centre for
Contemporary Asian Art.
Reproduction items and image from The Umbrella Movement Visual Archive, (2014), installation view (detail), 4A Centre for
Contemporary Asian Art. Courtesy the Umbrella Movement Visual Archive.
Real and reproduced protest posters from The Umbrella Movement Visual Archive, (2014), installation view, detail, 4A Centre
for Contemporary Asian Art. Courtesy the Umbrella Movement Visual Archive.
Sampson Wong, Capturing a hyperevent: artistic records of the Umbrella Movement (2017), installation view, detail, 4A Centre
for Contemporary Asian Art. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
Exhibition opening:
RSVP to the opening here.
Curator: Mikala Tai
Curatorial Assistant: Micheal Do
Before the Rain Media Release
Before the Rain Room Sheet
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BOOK LAUNCH: Imagining Taiwan: The Role of Art in Taiwan’s Quest for Identity by Sophie McIntyre
SYDNEY // Monday July 2 // 12.30 – 1.30
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is delighted to host the launch of Dr Sophie McIntyre’s new book Imagining Taiwan: The Role of Art in Taiwan’s Quest for Identity.
Taiwan’s quest for identity and international recognition has been the most important and fiercely contested issue for nearly half century, both nationally and internationally. Imagining Taiwan is the first in-depth and comprehensive study, published in English, which critically explores the pivotal role played by the visual arts in Taiwan’s identity discourse. Drawing on 25 years of research, Sophie McIntyre analyses the ways in which identity narratives have been imagined, interpreted and transmitted, locally and globally, through the production, selection, display and reception of Taiwan art. This book focuses on the post-martial law era, a transformative period when democratisation gave rise to a heightened sense of Taiwanese consciousness, and a growing awareness of Taiwan’s place in the world. Artists, curators, art critics and scholars in Taiwan actively engaged in identity issues in unique, and often subversive ways. The author reveals how, with the turn of the new millennium, identity discourses in the visual arts shifted, from a Taiwan-centred narrative into a transnational vision embracing local, regional and global perspectives. Imagining Taiwan brings together primary and archival sources, and nearly 200 images, many published for the first time. It is an essential reference for specialists and students in art, curatorship, museums, and Taiwan and China studies, and it will also appeal to those seeking a greater understanding of the wider region.
Sophie McIntyre is a scholar and curator of art from the Asia-Pacific, with expertise in art from Greater China. She received her PhD from the Australian National University (2013) and has lectured and held fellowships in universities in Australia, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. She has also curated more than 30 exhibitions, several of which featured art from Taiwan. Her texts have been widely published in books, journals, and catalogues in Australia and internationally
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THE MAN WHO WAS SATURDAY
Patrick Bishop
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain’s most remarkable 20th century figures. SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain’s most remarkable 20th century figures. Airey Neave was one of the most extraordinary figures of his generation. Taken prisoner during WW2, he was the first British officer to escape from Colditz and using the code name ‘Saturday’ became a key figure in the IS9 escape and evasion organisation which spirited hundreds of Allied airmen and soldiers out of Occupied Europe. A lawyer by training, he served the indictments on the Nazi leaders at the Nuremburg war trials. An ardent Cold War warrior, he was mixed up in several of the great spy scandals of the period. Most people might consider these achievements enough for a single career, but he went on to become the man who made Margaret Thatcher, mounting a brilliantly manipulative campaign in the 1975 Tory leadership to bring her to power. And yet his death is as fascinating as his remarkable life. On Friday, 30 March 1979, a bomb planted beneath his car exploded while he was driving up the ramp of the House of Commons underground car park, killing him instantly. The murder was claimed by the breakaway Irish Republican group, the INLA. His killers have never been identified. Patrick Bishop’s new book, published to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, is a lively and concise biography of this remarkable man. It answers the question of who killed him and why their identities have been hidden for so long and is written with the support of the Neave family.
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HUNTING SEASON - THE EXECUTION OF JAMES FOLEY, ISLAMIC STATE, AND THE REAL STORY OF THE KIDNAPPING CAMPAIGN THAT STARTED A WAR
VIOLENCE AFTER WAR - EXPLAINING INSTABILITY IN POST-CONFLICT STATES
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They Have their Exits
Saturday at MI9
Flames of Calais
Little Cyclone
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Olana State Historic Site
Exhibition: In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature
Photo: © Len Jenshel, 2019
5720 State Route 9G
Phone/Reservations: 518-828-0135
www.olana.org
Tours of the main house at Olana are very popular, so reservations are highly recommended. Reservations can be made by clicking on the Book a Tour button below or calling (518) 828-0135 during business hours. Admission to the main house at Olana is by guided tour only. Please arrive 30 minutes before the tour starts. Unclaimed tickets will be made available to other visitors on site and waiting. All hours and fees are subject to change.
Olana’s Landscape and carriage roads are always free to visit and open to the public, from 8:30AM to sunset. Visitors are welcome to use the parking lot near the Main House and pick up a map in the Visitor’s Center.
For information about Guided house and landscape tours, group tours and hours please visit www.olana.org. Hours frequently change. Book a Tour
Tours of the Main House are popular, reservations are recommended. Purchase your ticket now, or call 518-751-0344.
Park Use Guidelines
Some Main House tours are also available as self-guided. Staff in the Main House will gladly provide additional information.
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Visitors can download several audio tours to learn more about Olana and Frederic Church prior or during a visit to Olana.
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Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery\
The 2019 exhibition “In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature” is open in the Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery May 12-November 3, 2019.
The museum store is open Tuesday to Sunday 10AM – 5PM, with some products always available to buy online. All proceeds support The Olana Partnership.
Group Visits and Tours
Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups of 10 or more, and for any third-party guided tours, regardless of size. For more information, see Group Visits.
Hudson River Skywalk
See America’s First Canvas with the Hudson River Skywalk, a new historic and scenic walkway at the place where American landscape painting began. The new walkway connects the home and studios of the major Hudson River School artists, Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, over the Hudson River and across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, offering sweeping views of the Hudson River Valley and the Catskill Mountains. The Hudson River Skywalk Region includes the City of Hudson and the Village of Catskill, which both offer historic Main Street’s with restaurants, shopping and accommodations. The City of Hudson connects to New York City via AMTRAK.
More about Hudson River Skywalk
Olana is accessible to people with mobility limitations and other types of accessibility concerns. We are constantly working to make the visit comfortable for all visitors.
Visitors using wheelchairs may participate in the Main Floor and Studio tour. A lift can provide access to the main floor. The lift dimensions are 33 inches wide and 46 inches deep. Please purchase an ADA ticket. The Combined Main Floor & Second Floor Tour includes several steep flights of stairs. Alternate access is available via computer stations in the Visitor Center to view a video showing the upper floors of the house. The Visitor Center and restrooms are also accessible.
Coachmen's House Gallery
The Coachmen's House Gallery has been transformed into a free reading room
Visit www.olana.org for details.
Admission: Included with grounds access.
Reservations are for groups of 10 persons or more. We prefer that group reservations be made at least one month in advance of the visit. We ask that groups arrive 30 minutes prior to the scheduled tour reservation time to pick up and distribute their reserved tickets and to allow time for the group to assemble. A complimentary pass is available for the driver and tour leader with group tours.
Please fill out the Large Group tour form
Olana’s programs provide an opportunity to engage the imagination, encourage creativity and explore the tenets of art, architecture, language arts and the environment. Explore the lives of the people who lived at Olana, the history of the 19th century and the Hudson River School. On-site and outreach programs are available by advance reservation made at least two weeks prior to the program.
Please contact the education department by Email or call (518) 828-1872 x 109.
Fees: Site visit: $2/child; one chaperone free for every 10 children; $9/adult
Outreach: $50/class of 30 students
More information about school tours
Frederic Church's Olana
Frederic Church, one of the premier American landscape painters, will forever be associated with the Hudson River Valley, where he painted and made his home. Immensely popular in the mid-19th century, his paintings are characterized by a calmness and sense of hope.
Born in 1826 in Hartford, Connecticut, Church studied for several years with Thomas Cole, widely regarded as the first exponent of the Hudson River School of painting. Church moved to New York in 1849 and began his independent career. Within a year he became the youngest artist ever to be elected to the National Academy of Design - a distinction that remains to this day.
Church traveled widely throughout his career, using his sketches of New England, South America, Europe, the Arctic, and the Middle East, to create the transcendent landscapes that brought him fame, respect, and wealth. By the late 1870s, severe rheumatism had largely curtailed his career, although he continued to sketch at his home and many trips to Mexico in the 1880's and 1890's. Church spent most of his last twenty years at his estate on the Hudson River, Olana, finally dying in New York City in 1900.
What is Olana?
The name Olana first appeared written "Olâna" as the heading of a letter written by Isabel Church. A contemporary newspaper article credited Isabel for thinking of the name, explained as "the old Latin name for a place in Persia, to which the artist's home bears some resemblance in situation." Scholars have linked the name to a translated volume of Strabo's Geographica, a Christmas gift from Isabel to Frederic. Strabo's publication describes the geography of the Roman Empire and references the city "Olane," as one of the "treasure-storehouses" on the Araxes River, which offered a view of Mount Ararat, where Noah's ark was said to rest. It is likely that the Churches appreciated the associations this name had their own Persian-inspired stone "fortress" situated high above the Hudson River with majestic views west to America's promised land.
Built high on a hill near Hudson, NY between 1870 and 1891, then as now, the main house offers magnificent sweeping vistas of the Catskill Mountains, the Hudson River and the Taconic Hills. Today, Olana is a New York State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Hudson Valley and upstate New York.
Called by Church "the Center of the World," Olana's Persian-style house and 250-acres of picturesque grounds are a masterpiece as grand as any of his paintings.
About The Olana Partnership
The Olana Partnership supports the conservation, preservation, development and improvement of the Olana State Historic Site, which is open to the public throughout the year. Its goal is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Olana, and to create the most widely recognized artist's home and studio in the world, vibrant with the activity of students, visitors and scholars.
Olana State Historic Site - administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Taconic Region - is a designated National Historic Landmark and one of the most visited sites in the state. The Olana Partnership, a private not-for-profit education corporation, works cooperatively with New York State to support the restoration, development and improvement of Olana State Historic Site.
Mission for The Olana Partnership:
To inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Olana, Frederic Church's artistic masterpiece.
Vision for Olana:
The fully restored Olana, vibrant with the activity of students, visitors, and scholars, will be the most widely recognized artist's home and studio in the world.
In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature
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Montanism is derived from Montanus, a “monk” who was a former priest of Cybele in Asia Minor in either 156 or 172. He claimed that he was given the gift of speaking in tongues, and proceeded to give many revelations concerning the “end of the world.” We do not have much information on this group, but the little that we do have is very enlightening, and sheds light on the modern Pentecostal/Charismatic movement.
The Gift of the Spirit and Revelation
There is nothing mentioned about Montanus and his group in the Scriptures since they originated at least 50 years after the end of the Apostles. We do have information concerning them from those that are deemed the “church fathers”: one of them, Tertullian, even joined Montanism.
From the information preserved in the records of these “church fathers,” we see that Montanus described himself as the inspired instrument of the Holy Spirit, even going so far as to claim that he was the “Father and the Son and the Paraclete1.” The movement was also known for two women, Prisca (or Priscilla) and Maximilla; the latter declared that “after me, there will be no more prophecy, but the End2.”
The Montanists’ main theology was that the end of the world was soon to come and that the “heavenly Jerusalem” would soon come to earth in Phrygia, in the little town of Pepuza3. They were known for their “ecstatic outbursts,” losing possession of their faculties, and their insistence that their words were the actual words of God Himself4.
Let us examine the testimony of Eusebius of Caesarea concerning this group:
In a certain village in that part of Mysia over against Phrygia, Montanus, they say, first exposed himself to the assaults of the adversary through his unbounded lust for leadership. He was one of the recent converts, and he became possessed of a spirit, and suddenly began to rave in a kind of ecstatic trance, and to babble in a jargon, prophesying in a manner contrary to the custom of the Church which had been handed down by tradition from the earliest times5.
If we remove the more virulent language to see the nature of the history that Eusebius recounts, we see that Montanus believed in the gift of speaking in tongues and did so not in accordance with the speaking in tongues of Pentecost, but as a form of babble.
Montanism no longer exists today; the movement continued into the third century, but died out not long after its three founders did. The “heavenly Jerusalem” did not fall to Pepuza in Phrygia, and 1,800 years later, the millennium they imagined has not begun. Therefore, can anyone say that these individuals were truly given the Spirit?
The Pentecostal/Charismatic movement looks back and sees a bit of itself in the Montanism of the second century. Montanism, however, represents an Achilles’ heel to the Pentecostals: if it were a true movement, how can the gifts still be around when one of its members declared that “after [her], there will be no more”? Furthermore, why did the world not end in the second or even third century? If we accept, therefore, that the Montanists were deluded by false spirits, why does the Montanist experience correlate so well with the Pentecostal/Charismatic experience of the twentieth century, with the emphasis on emotionalism, loss of possession of faculties, and the “utterance of the Spirit”?
The debacle that was Montanism thus demonstrates that the Spirit of God is not poured out in such a way that causes the high emotionalism and the “ecstasy” that has been purported first in Montanism and later in Pentecostalism. The Montanists help affirm the truth of the fulfillment of the prophecy given by Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:8-10:
Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Since the experience of Montanism has been proven false by the passing of time, why should we believe that the experiences of the Pentecostal/Charismatic movements fall into any other category when the same nature of experience existed in both groups? Therefore, it is evident that the gifts of the Spirit mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13:8 are not present today, just as they were not present in the second and third centuries CE.
Pentecostalism/Charismatic Movement
The Charismata
1: Bruce Metzger, The Canon of the New Testament, pp. 100-101
3: Henry Chadwick, The Early Church, p. 52, and The Canon of the New Testament, p. 100
4: The Early Church, p. 52
5: Eusebius of Caesarea, History of the Church, v. xvi. 7
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I am in my 70’s and have been associated with the Pentecostal movement all my life (half my life with the Assembly of God) and have never seen ’emotionalism, loss of possession of faculties’, I am certainly aware that ’emotionalism, loss of possession of faculties’ does occur, especially in the early part of the 1900’s,but it is and has not been common for decades, or even close to common. You might be hard pressed to find a major modern Pentecostal movement where this is even close to common. “utterance of the Spirit” on the other hand is somewhat common still today, both personal and to a group. As in New Testament days, the are many individuals seeming to express this gift, but are false. Every Pentecostal group recognizes this. Like the New Testament era, there are those who are genuine. I personally have never spoken in tongues (not all Pentecostal/Charismatics do) but know many how do. The vast vast majority have never spoken in tongues except in private. Consider reflecting today’s Pentecostals.
I’m troubled that what we see in the Pentecostal/Charismatic Church is not what we see in the Scriptures. Never do we see anyone speaking in tongues privately, it was always publicly for the purpose of presenting Jesus Christ as the Savior who forgives sins being proved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Speaking in tongues Biblically is speaking the truth of Gods Word in a known language not previously learned by the individual speaking. We forget 1Corinthians 12:7-11 which tells us the Holy Spirit gives us gifts as he see fit for the edification not of self, but for the Church as a whole. The claim that they speak some angelic language is unscriptural. Where in Scripture do we read at anytime an angel spoke to another human or God in an ecstatic unintelligible language? Always when an angel spoke the hearer understood what was being said. The Bible tells us if one is to speak in tongues Biblically they or someone else who has the gift of interpreting tongues must be present and give the interpretation and if not they are to hold their peace and remain silent. 1Corinthians 14:22 reminds us that tongues is a sign for the unbeliever.
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These men are only 6'2" but I guess they will have to do! Many are models or aspiring models, like Doug at left, and that is about as tall as you can grow and still get bookings.
20 lb. William Matthew "Matt" Cavenaugh (born 1978 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American stage, film, and television actor. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2010. Cavenaugh's film debut was in Little Monsters as a child actor, and has more recently played starring roles on Broadway and Off Broadway. Cavenaugh married actress Jenny Powers on August 23, 2009 at the Gate of Heaven Catholic Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
Matt’s first big break came in 2003. He made his Broadway debut in the musical version of URBAN COWBOY, leaving a lasting impression in the highly visible role of Bud. His next Broadway endeavor was the critically acclaimed musical, GREY GARDENS, where he played both Joe Kennedy Jr. and Jerry, affectionately known as “the marble faun.” He returned to Broadway, in fact, the same theatre, the Walter Kerr, the following season playing Ralph Halloran in Harvey Fierstein’s musical adaptation of A CATERED AFFAIR. In 2009, Matt realized his greatest theatrical success recreating the iconic role of Tony in the Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY.
Television fans know Matt best from his roles as Mark Solomon on ONE LIFE TO LIVE as well as Adam Munson on AS THE WORLD TURNS.
Andrew Jenks looks like a male model but he is an award winning US filmmaker. At 9 years old, Jenks moved into an assisted living facility, starring, directing, and producing the feature film Andrew Jenks, Room 335. While a sophomore at New York University, HBO bought the rights to the film and released the documentary on January 5, 2008. The film premiered in Australia and Europe. The film received mostly positive reviews, Variety calling it 'a lovely and genuine account of generational understanding'. Andrew Jenks, Room 335 is an example of a participatory documentary. Jenks' connection to his subjects makes an impact on him as well as them.
When he was 2 years old, ESPN Films financed Andrew's second film, The Zen of Bobby V. The film received good reviews after premiering at the TriBeca Film Festival . In January 2010, MTV signed Jenks to do a documentary-series titled World of Jenks. Jenks claimed his inspiration behind World of Jenks was that "I (Andrew) also want to tell the stories of my generation. I want to be a filmmaker that is able to capture what my generation thinks, how they act and what they ultimately stand for." In each episode, Andrew will move in with a new stranger to experience a week in their life, from random people, such as a homeless woman, a man with autism, a rapper, MMA fighter, a professional poker player, an NFL cheerleader, a female-fronted band, etc. The series premiered September 2, 2010 on MTV. Kid Cudi allowed this show to use his song 'Soundtrack 2 My Life' as its theme song.
Jenks recently announced that he was coming out with the book "Andrew Jenks: My Adventures As a Young Filmmaker." The book is set to be released on March , 2013. It's a photo-biography of his life as a filmmaker. After the book's release, Jenks has been traveling on a book tour going to different High Schools telling his story and how not to take 'no' for an answer. He even autographs some of the books and takes photos
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Colorado defender Hines-Ike focused on Orebro amid Eredivisie interest
Orebro's Brendan Hines-Ike is a player not frequently talked about among American fans but the Colorado native has emerged as one of the best defenders in the Swedish Allsvenskan and now is the subject of transfer rumors this summer.
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WHEN LOOKING AT the current group of younger American players, one of the more promising positions is central defense. Matt Miazga, Erik Palmer-Brown, and Cameron Carter-Vickers are all signed to three of England’s biggest teams. John Brooks, when healthy, is an established player. Domestically, Walker Zimmerman and Tim Parker are among the best in MLS.
Quietly—and not on the radar of many American fans—Örebro SK’s Brendan Hines-Ike is putting together a nice résumé as one of the best defenders in Sweden.
Currently in his third season at the club, Hines-Ike, 23, has earned very positive reviews for his performances this year as Örebro SK sits in fifth place.
“The season has gone quite well,” Hines-Ike told ASN from Sweden. “I think it's better than anyone was expecting. For myself, I am just very comfortable now within the team and I've taken that step in terms of where I am no longer getting used to the league and I am not a [prospect]. Now I have to show that I can play and be involved in big moments. I think I've taken a more leadership role within the team.”
Like many Americans before him, Hines-Ike played college soccer before he made the move abroad. When he was nine he trialed at the Nottingham Forest academy in England. While the club offered him a spot, it was only on a one-year deal, which wasn’t enough to entice him and his parents to make the move. So instead, he returned stateside to develop in traditional channels of MLS academies and college.
While many Americans are now bypassing the college game, Hines-Ike believes it helped him in certain areas, although when he turned professional, adjusting from the short collegiate season to a 10-month season was difficult.
“I was always so focused when I was younger to become a professional as fast as I could,” Hines-Ike recalled. “I was actually so fortunate to end up having to go to college because I was so close to signing for Chivas USA when they were still a club and I was in their academy. I think one year later they fell apart. I think that was such a lucky thing because if I stayed, who knows what would have happened? I would have been out of job and I wouldn't have been eligible for college.”
“The college game is difficult,” he added. “The big thing, and I wouldn't ever say the level isn't good enough, is sometimes I think it is great for young players because sometimes is a great way to learn how to play the game with pace and there is a brutal physicality with some of the teams you play against.”
Not long ago, the Scandinavian leagues were home to promising young American players who were seeking to start their professional careers. Some would never rise any further than these leagues while others like Alejandro Bedoya and Charlie Davies eventually secured deals in top European leagues.
In recent years, however, the number of American players in Scandinavia has sharply declined. This is due to several factors such as an improved MLS—with many of its teams signing more players through homegrown rules—and with clubs in countries like Germany now pursuing Americans in greater numbers.
Hines-Ike’s path to Sweden took some luck. He played his first three years of college at Creighton but decided to transfer to the University of South Florida for his final season. He trained with Scandinavian teams in the summer before his final college season as opposed to playing PDL soccer stateside (as Hines-Ike said: “It was part of the deal I had with South Florida that they allowed me to train in Europe during the summer because it's something I always wanted to experience.”)
Hines-Ike was training with Danish and Norwegian teams but Örebro SK extended a late invite after hearing about him through mutual contacts. Initially, Hines-Ike was reluctant because it was the end of the summer and he had been in Europe for two months, but he eventually decided to go.
After two weeks of training at Örebro SK, the club informed Hines-Ike that it was going to try to sign him in December after the NCAA season. Sure enough, the team called him two days after South Florida’s final game and the two sides negotiated a deal.
Coincidentally, Örebro SK was the first club Alejandro Bedoya played for after his standout collegiate career at Boston College and Bedoya remains popular with supporters to this day.
“A lot of people were excited to have another American coming here,” Hines-Ike said. “It draws a lot of attention because not a lot of Americans are coming to this league….But I am my own player and I don't live in his shadow. It's such a gold mine over here for young players to develop and that's why I chose Sweden. They give the young players a chance and they have an open mind for letting the young players play.”
But his success in Sweden is not going unnoticed either. Örebro SK plays a very modern style where Hines-Ike has been able to play any of the three central defense positions in a five-man backline that features two attacking wingbacks.
In May, the club acknowledged that Hines-Ike could be on the move soon, with reports indicating Holland. Coincidentally, this could be facilitated with an Irish passport – for which he has applied through his Irish-born grandfather (and he believes the process is in its final stages).
“He is one of the most talented central defenders in the Allsvenskan and he is doing well now,” Örebro SK technical director Magnus Skoldmark said recently. “There is interest from other clubs.”
Hines-Ike is reluctant to talk about the interest from other clubs, although he points out a club must be the right fit.
“First and foremost it's an honor,” Hines-Ike said of the interest from Holland. “Some of the clubs that now know my name in Holland, I would have never expected. I would never have expected people there to be in a boardroom now talking about me. But it's not a distraction. I am a focused person.
“The tough thing is that I do have a good life in Sweden and I am happy here,” he added. “I do understand that I've moved here for a reason to keep progressing with my career. Whatever happens next, I know that it's a right step for me. I am not looking to rush to get out just to move on. I am looking for the right decision and the right move because it's important. I'm only 23 and the next four years in my development are crucial. I want to make sure I get it right.”
A move to the Eredivisie or a similarly big league in Europe will likely boost Hines-Ike’s visibility in the United States. Among national team players, Matt Miazga recently played two seasons in Holland and Erik Palmer-Brown finished a half season in Belgium with both players on loan from Chelsea and Manchester City, respectively.
Hines-Ike is comfortable flying below the radar, for now, and he believes that his play will end up speaking for itself.
“I think in Sweden we kind of create our own little world and everyone talks about the league here,” Hines-Ike said. “It's tough to follow what players the people are talking about back in America. To be honest, I believe the play will eventually speak for itself. If I do move onto a bigger league, of course that will draw attention. That time will come. I don't want to be noticed for the wrong things. I want to be noticed for play. If the play hasn't gotten me noticed yet, that's just a sign I need to up my play.”
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Kelly Bryant Named Clemson Starting Quarterback
Clemson, S.C.—Kelly Bryant will be Clemson’s starting quarterback in the season opener against Kent State on September 2. Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney made the announcement after practice on Monday.
Bryant had been listed as the first-team quarterback since the beginning of spring practice.
“Kelly Bryant is the starter,” said Swinney. “He has earned it and I am proud of him. It has been a great competition, but this part is over. Zerrick Cooper is the number-two quarterback, but Hunter Johnson is right there. We hope to get all three quarterbacks experience in the first part of the season.” The plan at this time is to red-shirt freshman Chase Brice.
Bryant is a junior from Calhoun Falls, S.C. and Wren High School. He has played 12 games and an even 100 snaps so far in his career. He has completed 13-18 passes for 75 yards and a touchdown. He has 35 rushes for 178 yards and three scores, giving him 253 yards of total offense on 53 plays for his career. His first two years he served as a reserve behind Deshaun Watson and Nick Schuessler, who were both seniors on Clemson’s 2016 National Championship team.
Bryant played well in the two most recent scrimmages. He was 10-17 for 186 yards and a score in the August 16 scrimmage, then connected on 14 of 20 for 177 yards and a score this past Saturday.
Swinney said that Will Spiers had won the punting position and will be on the field for the season opener against Kent State. His father, Bill Spiers, was Clemson’s starting punter in 1986 and went on to a 13-year Major League Baseball career. Swinney also said that the right tackle competition between Sean Pollard and Tremayne Anchrum continues.
Swinney also mentioned some of the true freshmen that he expects to see action this year. Travis Etienne, Justin Foster, Tee Higgins, Hunter Johnson, Amari Rodgers and A.J. Terrell are freshmen he expects to play this year. There are other players who are on the bubble at this point in preseason.
Swinney was pleased with today’s practice overall. “We turned the page today and started our preparation for Kent State. Everyone was happy to see that. This team is ready to play someone else. The defense responded today. There was attention to detail on that side of the ball and they put in a good day’s work. I could sense the energy today.”
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Rivalry, Revenge & Respect
Note: The following appears in the February issue of Orange: The Experience. For full access to all of the publication's content, join IPTAY today by calling 864-656-2115.
On the Sunday morning before the Monday night Sugar Bowl game between Clemson and Alabama, I went to mass at St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter in New Orleans, the oldest Catholic parish (1718) in the United States.
During each Catholic mass, there is a "sign of peace," when parishioners exchange greetings, usually by saying "peace be with you." Wearing a Clemson orange-logo sweater, I turned to exchange the greeting to a person behind me. I said, "peace be with you," and the stranger said to my astonishment "Roll Tide."
I was a bit taken aback and smiled before turning around. After a minute, it occurred to me that these Alabama fans were fired up to beat Clemson.
We could see from the outset of the game, it was the same case for the Crimson Tide team.
The players were wired, and it was apparent that Alabama head coach Nick Saban had not led them forget what had happened last year when the Tigers scored on a two-yard Deshaun Watson to Hunter Renfrow pass with just one second left to give Clemson a 35-31 victory and the school’s first national championship in 35 years.
It was all the Alabama team could talk about the week before Christmas and the week leading up to the game. Clemson’s 2016 season victory had stung, and the Crimson Tide were sick of hearing about it from the media, their coaches and their constituency.
Some time around the turn of the century, it became taboo to talk about sporting events as "revenge games." I really don’t know why or what event sparked it, but from a sports information standpoint, we tell our student-athletes to stay away from the "R" word.
But when I was a student at Notre Dame in the 1970s, the revenge factor was was big and it was opening discussed. My good friend, Digger Phelps, always talked about "revenge games" with the team and the media. It was a big deal when Notre Dame ended UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in 1974.
While Dabo Swinney and his players never used the "R" word prior to the 2016 season national championship game, it was a factor. The 45-40 loss to Alabama the previous year hurt. That loss ate at Deshaun Watson and his teammates all summer and fall, and it was a motivating factor in Clemson’s 35-31 win in Tampa.
And it was again last month for Alabama.
But whatever the word you use, whatever fuels the rivalry, as long as it stays one of mutual respect, it is good for the game and good for the sport. The three games we have witnessed the last three years between Clemson and Alabama have been good for the sport. Many members of the media compared the trilogy to the Ali vs. Frazier heavyweight fights of the 1970s and the recent NBA championship finals between the Cavaliers and Warriors.
When I was on the field after the Sugar Bowl, there was no trash talking among the players, just signs of excellent sportsmanship.
As Swinney said after the game in his press conference, this won’t be the last time Clemson and Alabama meet in the playoff.
Both programs are at a high level and built for the long term, and they have both created a culture whereby young men with outstanding leadership qualities pass those qualities on to the next class.
A prime example of that leadership took place in our locker room after the Alabama loss. First-team All-American Clelin Ferrell came up to me after coach Swinney had finished his talk to the team and asked if I needed a player to represent the defense at the postgame press conference.
Wow, what a sign of leadership. I will always remember Ferrell for that.
Others will follow his lead for years to come, and it is reason this program is now among the most respected in the nation and will face the Crimson Tide again soon.
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Rule Your World! - audio album
Finding Freedom & Living Profitably
In 2007, Harry Browne's widow discovered a box in their storage building containing eight large reel-to-reel tapes labeled, "The Art of Profitable Living, Harry Browne, 1967, Long Beach and Hollywood, California." After listening to the master tapes she was convinced that others would find the thought-provoking course as beneficial to them as it was to her. So the tapes were transferred to CDs and offered for sale as a 20-CD album retitled, "Rule Your World! Finding Freedom and Living Profitably". This exciting course is available now as a downloadable twenty-hour audio course.
The course, an eight lecture series, examines individual happiness, morality, decision-making, developing a code of conduct, freedom, and many other important topics.
The course's concepts, on which Harry's principles were based, were developed by him beginning around 1953 when he was only twenty years old. A dozen years later, when he presented the course, he was already a top-notch speaker who spoke without notes, moved along at a rapid pace, and fielded questions brilliantly in the question and answer periods that followed the lectures. More importantly, each lecture was full of thought-provoking ideas with applications that had never before been made in public.
In Harry's own words....."I put your principles on the block to see if they hold up on the foundation on which they're based."..... "I pin your beliefs against the wall, invade your mind, and disturb your views"..... "I examine principles, make applications, and then see how they work in areas of decision making, religion, love, marriage, sex, working for freedom, parent/child relationships, unraveling complicated decisions, etc."
Although forty years have passed since Harry presented his course, his philosophy of life, ideas, and principles are as relevant today as they were in 1967.
And even if you've read How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Harry's 1973 self-help book that explains how individuals can take responsibility for their own lives) your life will be forever enriched if you listen to this audio course. Simply put.....there's something truly magical about hearing Harry's ideas presented in his own voice and speaking style, and sprinkled with his good humor.
Important course tips and suggestions, which should be read prior to listening to the first lecture, are available at www.HarryBrowne.org by clicking on: "Rule Your World! Course Instructions." There you'll find valuable course tips in Harry's own words regarding listening to the course out of context, acting on the course material, making the course valuable, communication throughout the course, suggested goals, and definitions used in the course.
Rule Your World! will provide you with the tools you need to live your life the way you see fit. It will put you on the path to a freer, happier life, it will inspire you to take greater responsibility for your life — to quit focusing on the shortcomings of others and use the sovereignty you have to take control of your own life and make the most of it. Rule Your World! can make your life much freer and happier.
In Harry's first lecture he asks....."Could anything be more important than getting a clean start now?" Then later he exclaims....."What treasures could possibly be greater than the freedom to act on your own life. You can be you ~ because there is no one who has a claim on you any more!"
COURSE SPECIFICS
Harry believed that....."Your happiness is the highest goal you can have in life."
In this course Harry asks you questions such as:
Do you know who you are?
Do you see clearly what it is you want in life and how you can get there?
Do you have a proper understanding of the nature of life, ethics, and justice?
Do you know how to make clear-cut decisions?
Do you know how to discover new things that might be more meaningful to you in your life?
Do you know what assets you have to work with?
Do you have a code of conduct?
Do you understand the actions of others?
Do you have a clear-cut workable understanding of morality?
Do you know why you're afraid?
Do you know how to get the courage to do what is necessary to get what you want in life?
During this course Harry will help you:
1. Find yourself, and discover what would really make you happy in this world.
2. "Start from zero" to construct your morality that will add meaning to your life.
3. Become the authority and absolute final decision maker in your life.
4. Develop a standard to make clear-cut decisions as to how to deal with others.
5. Determine what kind of consequences come from your acts.
6. Decide now how to respond in a time of crisis.
7. Find freedom from others and the government.
8. Discover a respect for honesty, truth, and relevancy.
Harry will help you discover:
1) Who am I? 2) Your morality 3) The nature of life 4) Yourself 5) Other people 6) How to have the good 7) How to deal with the bad 8) How to Protect Yourself 9) How to develop standards for dealing with others 10) Do the bad rule the earth? 11) Your relationship to the group 12) The nature of ethics 13) The consequences of your acts 14) The nature of justice 15) How to make decisions 16) How to solve problems 17) What is outside your control 18) How to prove what you can't see 19) Freedom 20) Your relationship to children 21) Your own domain 22) The ultimate goal 23) The ultimate relationship 24) The ultimate moment 25) The nature of marriage 26) Your own code of conduct 27) How to choose 28) A way of life
You'll also learn:
1) Techniques for constructing your own morality. 2) Why Harry thought there is little positive value in the Golden Rule, and how his "Silver Rule" (be the kind of person with whom you want to associate) can be applied more profitably in your life. 3) How to escape any box that entraps you. 4) How to deal with and react to the mistakes you make. 5) Harry's definition of an individualist. 6) How to have the freedom to act positively instead of being continually in the position of protecting the status quo from getting worse. 7) How to reduce the essential elements of your life to things that have relevance and meaning in your life. 8) The 6 elements of decision-making. 9) Why Harry thought positive thinking was no more than wishing on a star. 10) How to weigh your vulnerabilities. 11) The 3 evils in our manmade justice system. 12) Why a free society is another form of government. 13) How today can be your Declaration of Independence.
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September 26, 2018 - Entertainment, TV
Chiké Okonkwo to appear on ‘The Diaspora Dialogues’
By samantha
Hosted by Koshie Mills, “The Diaspora Dialogues” is a talk show created by Mills, whose mission is to bridge the gap between Africans in the continent and African descendants living abroad. The series premieres Wednesday, October 24th, and is a half hour weekly series, which will air on The Africa Channel.
Among the celebrity guests who will appear on the show are British born Grammy-award winning musical artist, Estelle (“American Boy”); UN Youth Ambassador and American Actress, Monique Coleman (“High School Musical”) and Nigerian actor Chiké Okonkwo (“Being Mary Jane”).
Koshie Mills (left) with guest Estelle (middle)
“I created The Diaspora Dialogues platform, so we can connect to correct the cultural divide between Africans from Africa and African descendants in the Diaspora; African-Americans, Afro-Latinos, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Europeans. Our intention is not only to create a better understanding of our different experiences, but share identities to bridge that gap,” says Mills, a public relations veteran in Hollywood who runs the company K3 Productions.
Mills is also parents to three well know Hollywood actors; Kwame Boateng, Kofi Siriboe (“Queen Sugar,” “Girls Trip”), and Kwesi Boakye whose careers have soared under her guidance.
Karen Juve, Head of Programming for The Africa Channel also commented on the show. “We are pleased to be working with Mrs. Mills, a passionate advocate for the African Diaspora, by providing her a platform to engage in these provocative and illuminating conversations. We welcome feedback on our social media platforms once the show begins to broadcast.”
The Diaspara Dialogues will air on The Africa Channel
There will be conversations covering a range of topics and issues of cultural diversity and appropriation. “I want to see our millennials and the young generation come back to Africa in force. Visit the land and understand the cultures. I want them to not see Africa as a country but as a continent with various traditions,” says Mills.
In addition to his role as a series regular on “Being Mary Jane,” Okonkwo is an actor and producer, known for Nate Parker’s film “The Birth of a Nation” and “Burning Sands.”
Samantha Ofole-Prince is an entertainment industry specialist and contributes to Trendy Africa Magazine from Los Angeles.
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REMASTERED AND RESTORED — TREASURES OF FRENCH CINEMA: BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
Jean Renoir’s BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING is a very different kind of shaggy dog tale
CINÉSALON: BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING (BOUDU SAUVÉ DÉS EAUX) (Jean Renoir, 1932)
French Institute Alliance Française, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th St. between Madison & Park Aves.
Tuesday, February 4, $13, 4:00 & 7:30
www.fiaf.org
After his dog runs away, a homeless tramp jumps into the Seine, only to be rescued by a bookseller who brings him home to stay with his family in Jean Renoir’s 1932 masterpiece, Boudu Saved from Drowning. Adapted by Renoir from René Fauchois’s play — the brief opening scene takes place onstage, announcing that what is to follow is essentially a fable — the depression-era social satire centers on the relationship between the wacky, unpredictable bum, Priapus Boudu (Michel Simon, who also played the lead in the play), and Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval), a bourgeois bookstore owner cheating on his wife, Emma (Marcelle Hainia), with one of their maids, Anne-Marie (Sévérine Lerczinska). Lestingois first spots Boudu while looking through his telescope at the masses on the Pont des Arts, like a filmmaker shooting a documentary; “I’ve never seen such a perfect tramp!” he declares. (Indeed, Renoir regularly comments on the art of filmmaking in Boudu, especially with his use of music, nearly all of which is eventually revealed to be coming from natural sources.) Lestingois helps save the suicidal Boudu, nursing him quickly back to health and letting him stay at the house, much to the chagrin of his wife. Rather than being thankful, Boudu is a whirling dervish of ill manners, breaking dishes, using fancy lingerie to shine his shoes, and daring to eat sardines with his hands. Despite Boudu’s rudeness, Edouard, Emma, and Ann-Marie are all drawn to him in different ways, particularly Edouard, who dresses Boudu in his clothes as if he were a kind of doppelgänger, an alternate version with a completely different set of expectations and responsibilities. But there’s no controlling the bushy-haired Boudu, who reacts to all stimuli like a child who does whatever he wants, not caring about the consequences. One of the keys to the film is that very barrier, the question as to whether Boudu is a conniving tramp who knows exactly what he’s doing or just a pitiable poor soul with no self-control. Boudu — and, therefore, Simon, who gives a towering, spectacular performance, one of the greatest of early cinema — is part Charlie Chaplin, part Buster Keaton, part Little Rascal, and the influence of the character extends to Denis Lavant’s underground creature in Léos Carax’s Merde short in the Tokyo! omnibus and Eddie Murphy’s Billy Ray Valentine in John Landis’s Trading Places. (The film has also been remade twice; Paul Mazursky’s Down and Out in Beverly Hills stars Nick Nolte as the tramp, while Gérard Depardieu plays the role in Gérard Jugnot’s 2005 Boudu.)
Michel Simon gives one of the great performances of early cinema in Jean Renoir’s masterful social satire
Renoir, who had previously worked with Simon on La Chienne and On purge bébé, frames each shot with careful precision, from squeezing in a large group trying to help the unconscious Boudu to a more open scene in which a fancifully dressed couple is picnicking in the park, reminiscent of an Impressionist painting, calling to mind, of course, Renoir’s father, Pierre-Auguste. Indeed, the younger Renoir sets apart his interiors from his exteriors in the film quite distinctly; indoors, Boudu feels closed in, unable to sleep in a bed, while outdoors he seems much more at home. At one point he rests off the ground in the doorway to the bookstore, neither inside nor out, caught in between the two worlds. But he ultimately makes his choice, and it’s really the only one available to him. A new digital restoration of Boudu Saved from Drowning is screening February 4 at 4:00 & 7:30 as part of the FIAF CinéSalon series “Remastered & Restored: Treasures of French Cinema”; the later screening will be introduced by screenwriter and director Henry Bean (Internal Affairs, The Believer), and both shows will be followed by a wine reception. The three-month festival continues with such other recently restored French classics as Max Ophüls’s Lola Montès (introduced by Lola Montes Schnabel), Jacques Demy’s Une chambre en ville (introduced by Adam Gopnik), and Claude Chabrol’s The Color of Lies (introduced by Jacques Gamblin).
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National Council elections 2018
April 26, 2018 businessbhutan
The third new set of 20 members of the Upper House representing the 20 districts has been formally chosen in the National Council elections held yesterday.
We offer our heartiest felicitations to the winning candidates who have been elected and it goes without saying that those who have not been through this time deserve our applauses too for having participated in the electoral process and for having offered more choices to the people.
The newly-member elects are the results of the democratic will and we must accept the results of the democratic will. Democratic will in its simplest form is all about the choice of the majority – the choice of the people. We, therefore, hope and expect that the newly-member elects would truly live to and work towards as expected out of them for the welfare of the people and the nation.
The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) must be commended for ensuring a free and fair election. But most importantly, for going all the way out this time to make the elections more inclusive and all-encompassing.
Contrary to the past elections, the ECB had 69 postal ballot facilitation booths across the country operated from 9 am to 5 pm from April 12-14 to cater to those postal voters who have registered with the ECB. Similarly, nine mobile facilitation booths were opened to people with special needs, especially for the differently-abled, inmates and quarantined medical patients for the first time this year.
The ECB must also be applauded for facilitating postal ballot arrangement for non-residential Bhutanese, especially those from Australia this time. The facilitation of postal ballot on such a big scale must be commended. Increased participation in elections is important to ensure democratic participation and to ensure trust and confidence in the democratic process and democracy. Further, all the officials facilitating the elections that include civil servants, teachers, police and army personnel and others in all the 20 districts must be applauded for shouldering their responsibility with dedication, determination and integrity.
Contrary to the past elections, we have also seen a deluge of candidates vying for seats in the Upper House this time. This is a good indication and a healthy one for a democracy. More candidates mean more choices for the electorates and the latter can accordingly choose the best that they feel would best represent them.
Further, it would be unfair or incomplete if we don’t acknowledge our Bhutanese voters, those who have been taking out time and visiting the postal ballot facilitation booths in urban towns, those who have travelled to their districts and hometowns to vote, and those from rural hinterlands and far-flung villages who have exercised their electoral franchise. While voting may not be mandatory, there is no denying the fact that voting is the cornerstone of a democracy.
Term begins from May 10 for new elected NC members
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You are here: Home / Gigs / Clean Cut Kid / Archive: 2018 / Clean Cut Kid
Sunday 25th November 2018
Supported by: Peach Fuzz
How can a song sound both muddy and clean? Be steeped in its influences yet tear out of the traps, brand spanking new? Feature lyrics of intense and heartbreaking sadness, set to music of euphoric uplift? Can a three-minute pop song really accommodate such disparity? Should it?
That’s a lot of questions, certainly, but Clean Cut Kid have the answers. The four-piece from Liverpool – Mike Halls, Evelyn Halls, Saul Godman and Ross Higginson – arrive at a time when even the most optimistic, glass-half-full sort of person has started to fear that pop as a currency, as a conduit for emotion, truth, complexity and daring, has been cheapened to the point of no return. Sure, Clean Cut Kid’s songs possess the whipsmart immediacy of classic radio pop; but there is something much deeper going on in there, too. And that’s the point: why settle for a quick-fix first draft, they argue, for the speediest, least troublesome route to a self-congratulatory pat on the back, when craft, hard graft, and sheer dogged, cussed bloody-mindedness and persistence can lead you to results that leap clear of the average and workaday?
Bloody-mindedness and persistence have played their parts in Clean Cut Kid’s story. If the band’s trajectory in 2015 has been rollercoaster-like in its rapidity – they gained a manager in January, the second of their two shows at London’s Water Rats in March was pushed back by an hour so that the queue of major-label head honchos (not to mention Annie Mac’s producers) could squeeze its way into the venue, and they signed for Polydor in April – the road to this point has been a winding and rocky one. An earlier incarnation broke apart, bedevilled by sleight-of-hand shenanigans that left Mike questioning his ability to persevere. Happily for him, this was the moment when Evelyn entered the picture. A natural and immediate musical affinity blossomed into romance, and they married last year. The strength of their bond is matched by the band as a whole. All four exude a sense of steely determination and absolute faith – a faith shared by the labels that vied for their signatures this spring.
Many bands in their position would be celebrating at this point. But Clean Cut Kid are still doing what they’ve always done. Shoulders to the wheel, working round the clock in their Liverpool rehearsal space, catching some sleep when they can. Firing out new songs on an almost daily basis – songs that will be jostling for space when it comes to sequencing the band’s debut album, due next year. Routing guitars and keyboards through piggybacked effects pedals and ancient, overloaded amps, to the point, laughs Mike, “where you think they’re going to explode”. Forever hunting down the right sound for a particular moment in a certain song. Evelyn even confesses that their debut single, Vitamin C, features “the sound of a teacup being hit by one of us”.
In person, their love for, and belief in, what they do is infectious. Adversity may have clouded the band’s early days, but serendipity rode to the rescue, changing their lives and reshaping their futures. Mike and Evelyn meeting was one example; how they came to work with Saul another. “I’d met Saul about six years ago,” Mike recalls. “He was bouncing around the same studio I was working in; I didn’t get to know him well, but he was just such a nice guy. And when me and Evelyn started working together, we were like, ‘Who should we recruit?’ And I said: ‘There’s this guy I met a few years ago, I don’t even know if he’s still alive.’ We were walking through town a few nights later and he was just stood there, busking. We’d been for an Indian takeaway, and there was Saul with this red guitar, at two in the morning. How mad is that? I turned to Evelyn and said: ‘That’s the guy I was telling you about!’ He didn’t even play the bass – he was a guitarist.” “And Mike went: ‘Trust me. He can do this’,” Evelyn adds. “We walked up to him,” Mike continues, “and I said, ‘Would you be up for getting together and having a jam? I’ve got a few songs.’ And he goes: ‘Yup. Shall we say 5am?’ We compromised and met at 10, and we didn’t finish playing till midnight that night. I said, ‘When shall we meet again?’ and he went, ‘Well, I’m going to be up all night, so how about 5am?’”
That habit of keeping long hours clearly remains – not least because they can’t stop writing new songs. “Three days ago I got this idea in my head and I stayed up all night in the rehearsal room,” says Mike. “The others came in the next day and I was asleep on the couch. I woke up and said, ‘I’ve got a new tune, guys.’” Presumably, like all songwriters, he thinks his latest song is his greatest one? “Actually, the new song is the greatest one,” says Evelyn. “The day we finish the album,” deadpans Saul, “I swear he’ll write a new song that night, and go: ‘This has to be on the album.’” “We’ve just being going in to rehearse,” says Evelyn, “day after day after day. We literally live between our practice room and our flats.” “We live on the same street as the rehearsal room,” adds Mike, “and Saul actually lived there until last week. So we’re completely immersed in it. We’ve found a formula and it’s worked, so we hammer away at it. It means too much to us to let that slip.”
If the other three come across as driven by the need to make music, Mike seems possessed by it. That’s been the case, he says, for as long as he can remember. “As a kid, music felt like my own little world, which I’d retreat into. I used to wear out cassettes on my Walkman, the Beatles Blue and Red albums, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous; I’d play them to death. I can remember cycling along with stabilisers on, listening to the Walkman, and my parents keeping an eye out so I didn’t steer the bike off the kerb, because I couldn’t hear the traffic.” Later, in his teens, Mike was given a battered acoustic guitar by his dad. “It only had three strings on it,” he laughs, “but I was away.”
Despite hailing from a city with such a rich musical heritage, Mike says it took him years for music to be anything other than a deeply private passion. “My family was into all sorts of artists, Dylan, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, and I’ve always been the same, addicted to that variety. But it’s not the music of my location, if you see what I mean. I never felt a connection to a place, only to the music. It was only when I went to college and met all these people with different influences, from different backgrounds, that I felt that connection."
That childhood immersion in multiple genres inculcated in Mike a quest to “search out the honest stuff” in the music Clean Cut Kid make. Bands such as Fleetwood Mac – and in particular, Lindsey Buckingham – are among their musical pin-ups: artists creating songs whose hooks and melodies lodge at once in your brain, yet whose textures thrum with an audacious experimentalism that, on paper, should have no place in a pop song. If the Mac were early and crucial pioneers of that sonic subterfuge, Clean Cut Kid have taken up the torch. Listen to the crunch and staccato attack of the guitar on Vitamin C, to the brutal force and crisp economy of Saul and Ross’s Prefab Sprout-like rhythm section, both seemingly on a different page to Mike and Evelyn’s dovetailing harmonies and the universally identifiable sentiment of the lyrics. (Never mind the teacup.) Dive between the layers of We Used To Be in Love, where the buzzsaw bass guitar does its best to undermine the bright, shiny 80s-pop sheen and Starship-recalling stomp of the chorus. To the old analogue keyboard that shimmers through Runaway, and the limber, Graceland-like rhythm that drives it on – and to the serpentine melody and tender lyric that soar above them.
This is the opposite of generic, lowest-common-denominator music. On the contrary, it is the product of restless, inquisitive minds, of musicians unwilling to cut corners or settle for compromise. “The challenge we set ourselves was this,” says Mike. “Is there a way of taking really well-written, well-formed songs and putting them through a different process so that they become what we want them to be? It’s like there’s a load of tortured elements that sort of come together around a song that’s already there, but you can play that song on anything. The more a song is just a three-chord thing, the more you can totally mess with all the other components. You can sneak stuff over the threshold that way, and it feels so much better if you do that. You let it all loose in the studio. But you have to have the song to start with.”
Well, Clean Cut Kid have certainly got those, in abundance. “Soulful pop ballads, washed in Mersey water,” is how Mike describes them. That will do for now. Pretty soon, though, they’re going to be weighed down with superlatives, and soundtracking our lives. Until then, the band should probably try to get a bit of sleep. Things are about to move for them, and fast.
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The humanity of Sts. Peter and Paul
By Geoffrey LaForce On Jun 29, 2018
"Saint Peter and Saint Paul" by Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652). Photo: Public Domain
“Saint Peter and Saint Paul” by Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652). Photo: Public Domain
Among the most well-known early Church leaders are Sts. Peter and Paul. These two remarkable men had very different beginnings, yet would go on to become Jesus’ foremost apostles and would eventually be martyred for their faith.
Peter, a humble fisherman, was one of Jesus’ original Twelve Apostles, and led the early Christian movement after Christ ascended into heaven. Saul, on the other hand, was a Pharisee, a Mosaic lawyer who persecuted the early Christian community before seeing a vision of Christ and converting.
Sts. Peter and Paul would dedicate the rest of their lives spreading Christ’s ministry and would eventually meet the same fate: martyred in Rome for their faith. Together, these men would become the foundation on which the Catholic Church would be built on. (The Church remembers St. Peter, the first pope, and St. Paul, the apostle to Gentiles, with the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles, on June 29.)
It is indeed remarkable that Christ’s message could inspire such different people. It is possible that many artists throughout the centuries would agree, as depictions of Sts. Peter and Paul are plentiful in Christian art. One painting that can help us learn about these two apostles is simply called Saint Peter and Saint Paul by Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652) that was completed around 1616. The painting can currently be found in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg, France.
In this painting, the two saints are depicted in one in tenebrism. Using this style, the artist creates a dramatic contrast in the uses of darkness and light. As such, the two saints are clearly in focus, giving the painting more emotional weight.
In the scene, one is clearly able to distinguish the older St. Peter on the left while the more youthful St. Paul is on the right. Because the background is so dark, the various objects attributed to both saints seem obscured. Upon further examining the painting, however, the objects become more apparent.
St. Paul is holding a sword in his right hand, which symbolizes his martyrdom. Upon the table, also featured in dark colors, are the keys of the Church, which are attributed to St. Peter. Finally, in between them is the book, which symbolizes New Testament writings. We can also see that both Peter and Paul are having a lively discussion about an open scroll in the center of the painting. In essence, it is the Word of God and the work of Christ that has brought these different men together.
What is truly striking about this painting, and about tenebrism in general, is the human emotion that is clearly portrayed on the figures in the painting. With the Renaissance’s hyper realism and the contrast of darkness and light, the viewer is truly drawn in to the painting and the emotions and the humanity of the figures portrayed in it.
We see here that de Ribera uses this to his advantage in showing the importance of the human aspect of these two men who dedicated and eventually lost their lives for their faith. This feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, let us remember their humanity, their dedication, and most importantly, their faith. Sts. Peter and Paul, pray for us!
Geoffrey LaForceSaint Peter and Saint Paul by Jusepe de RiberaSolemnity of Sts. Peter and PaulSt. PaulSt. PeterWay of Beauty
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Écrit par Justus Reid Weiner
Catégorie : Israël aujourd'hui
Création : 15 décembre 2007
Christians Flee Growing Islamic Fundamentalism in the Holy Land
Source: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
The Christian population of the areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has sharply declined in recent decades, as tens of thousands have abandoned their holy sites and ancestral properties to live abroad. Those who remain comprise a beleaguered and dwindling minority. In sharp contrast, Israel's Christian community has prospered and grown by at least 270 percent since the founding of the state.
While Israel understands that the construction of the security barrier inconveniences some of the Christian communities living in its vicinity, Israel has shown sensitivity to Christian interests in planning the route of the barrier.
The plight of Christian Arabs remaining in the PA is, in part, attributable to the adoption of Muslim religious law in the PA Constitution. Israel, by contrast, safeguards the religious freedom and holy places of its Christian (and Muslim) citizens. Indeed, in recent years Israel has been responsible for restoring many of the churches and monasteries under its jurisdiction.
The growing strength of Islamic fundamentalism within the Palestinian national movement poses problems for Christians, who fear they will be deemed opponents of Islam and thereby risk becoming targets for Muslim extremists. This is exacerbated by the fact that Hamas holds substantial power and seeks to impose its radical Islamist identity on the entire population within the PA-controlled territories.
Who Threatens Christians in the Holy Land?
Palestinian Christians have a higher rate of emigration compared to Palestinian Muslims and the Christian population of the West Bank and Gaza has plunged from about 20 percent after World War II to less than 1.7 percent now.1 Tens of thousands have abandoned their holy sites and ancestral properties to live abroad.2
Some senior Christian clerics claim that the dramatic rise in Christian emigration from PA-controlled territories is a result of the Israeli "occupation."3 However, in-depth research demonstrates that the precipitous decline in the Christian population is primarily a result of social, economic, and religious discrimination and persecution within Palestinian society in the West Bank and Gaza.
In a July 3, 2006, article, "Who Harms Holy Land Christians?," syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak, a long-time critic of Israel, paraphrased a letter from Michael H. Sellers, an Anglican priest in Jerusalem, to U.S. Congressmen Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Joseph Crowley (D-NY), who were circulating a draft resolution blaming the Christian decline on the discriminatory practices of the Palestinian Authority.4 Sellers insisted that "the real problem [behind the Christian Arab exodus] is the Israeli occupation - especially its new security wall."
Yet two-thirds of the Christian Arabs had already departed between 1948 and 1967, when Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt the Gaza Strip, prior to the "occupation" and decades before construction began on the security barrier to protect Israel's population from waves of deadly suicide bombers. During the same period, hundreds of thousands of Christians were leaving other Muslim-ruled countries in the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. Every one of the more than twenty Muslim states in the Middle East has a declining Christian population. In fact, Israel is the only state in the region in which the Christian Arab population has grown in real terms - from approximately 34,000 in 1948 to nearly 130,000 in 2005.5
Novak also refers to Sellers as "coordinator of Jerusalem's Christian churches." Actually, there are at least 16 traditional, Oriental, and Protestant churches represented in Jerusalem, yet only three other clergymen signed the letter with Sellers - and all three are known for their close loyalty to Arafat's Palestinian nationalism.
Israel's Security Barrier
Novak also quotes Father Faras Arida, a Catholic priest in the West Bank village of Aboud, who asserts that the security barrier costs villagers their water and olive trees. In fact, the water resources used by Aboud will remain on the side of the barrier where the village is situated. At the same time, the Israeli government is to fully compensate farmers for the 1,500 olive trees uprooted during the barrier's construction.
Although the security barrier inconveniences some West Bank residents, it was designed to include dozens of gates for transit and agriculture for those on legitimate business, including Christian residents, pilgrims, and clergy. As noted by former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, Israel has displayed particular sensitivity to Christian religious concerns, taking measures to ensure their access to holy sites. To this end, Israel has negotiated with Christian communities directly impacted by the barrier, and has, in some instances, rerouted construction to better accommodate their requests.6
Significantly, the barrier would not exist but for Palestinian terrorism. Israelis across the political spectrum would reject any demand to remove the security fence before the Palestinians stop their attacks. The blame for its construction belongs squarely on the Palestinian leadership that sponsored years of bloody terrorism against Israeli civilians. Prior to the erection of the fence, Palestinian terror killed an average of 103 Israelis and wounded 688 each year. After the completion of the first portion of the fence, an average of 28 people were killed and 83 wounded per year - a decrease of approximately 90 percent.7 The last two "successful" suicide bombers in Jerusalem murdered a total of 18 people by entering through unfinished portions of the barrier near Bethlehem.
Novak also ignores the Palestinians' refusal to negotiate the occupation's end. In 2000 and 2001 Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority rejected a generous Israeli offer of a Palestinian state comprising the Gaza Strip, much of eastern Jerusalem, and virtually all of the West Bank in exchange for peace with Israel. Rejecting even Arafat's façade of negotiations, Hamas, which won the January 2006 Palestinian elections, has demonstrated no interest whatsoever in any negotiated settlement with Israel.
Islamic Religious Extremism
Novak further alleges that I initiated the congressional letter that blamed the Palestinian Authority for the flight of Christian Arabs from the Holy Land - a role that exists only in the columnist's imagination. I am a scholar who has spent nine years researching this subject. In the process I have interviewed scores of Christian Arabs, and published five scholarly articles and a monograph on the topic - none of which Novak saw fit to cite.8
From Christian Arabs under the thumb of the PA, I have heard testimony of forced marriages of Christian women to Muslim men, death threats against Christians for distributing the Bible to willing Muslims, and Christian women intimidated into wearing traditional ultra-modest Islamic clothing. Churches have been firebombed (most recently in Nablus, Tubas, and Gaza when the Pope made his controversial remarks) and/or shot up repeatedly. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
Under the Palestinian Authority, whose constitution gives Islamic law primacy over all other sources of law, Christian Arabs have found their land expropriated by Muslim thieves and thugs with ties to the PA's land registration office. Christians have been forced to pay bribes to win the freedom of family members jailed on trumped-up charges. And Arabs - Christians and Muslims alike - have been selling or abandoning homes and businesses to escape the chaos of the PA and move to Israel, Europe, South America, North America, or wherever they can get a visa.
1. Other factors include declining economic conditions in the PA (J. C. Watts, "Yasser Arafat vs. Christians," Washington Times, Dec. 4, 1997, at A19) and Islamic law in the PA Constitution (David Bedein, "Final Version of Official Palestinian State Constitution," Makor Rishon [Hebrew], April 17, 2003).
2. For further reading on the plight of Christian Arabs, see Justus Reid Weiner, Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society (2005). This monograph can be downloaded free of charge at www.jcpa.org/christian-persecution.htm. It is also available to purchase from amazon.com.
3. These Christian clerics include Michael Sabbah, Munib Younan, and Riah Abu el-Assal.
4. Robert D. Novak, "Who Harms Holy Land Christians?," Washington Post, July 3, 2006.
5. Eric Rozenman, "False Premises, Repeated Errors in Robert Novak Column on Christian Arabs," March 17, 2006, available at: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&x_article=1098. This is a response to an earlier publication by Novak.
6. Jack Kemp, "Absolute Necessity," New York Sun, April 26, 2006, available at http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=31674. This is a response to a previous publication by Novak.
7. Israeli Ministry of Defense, "Security Fence's Effectiveness," News Brief, July 1, 2004, available at http://www.securityfence.mod.gov.il/Pages/ENG/news.htm#news19.
8. See additional related scholarship by Justus Reid Weiner: "Human Rights Trends in the Emerging Palestinian State: Problems Encountered by Muslim Converts to Christianity," 8(3) Michigan State Journal of International Law 539 (1999); Appendix "Israel and Palestine" to Forum 18 Report "Freedom of Religion: A Report With Special Emphasis on the Right to Choose Religion and Registration Systems," financed by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (February 2001); "Palestinian Christians: Silent Victims of a Zero-Sum Game," 8(2) Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights 383 (2004); "Palestinian Christians: Equal Citizens or Oppressed Minority in a Future Palestinian State," 7 Oregon Review of International Law 26 (Spring 2005); and "Palestinian Christians: A Minority's Plea for Rights Silenced by the Politics of Peace," The Journal of Human Rights (October 2005).
Justus Reid Weiner, Esq., teaches human rights and international law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Boston University Law School and authored the monograph Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society, published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The author extends his appreciation to Ilana Hart for her assistance in preparing this article.
Catholiques pour la Palestine et Catholiques pour Israël
The People of Israel, the Holy Land and the Koran
La Terre d’Israël dans la Révélation Biblique
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State Census 2011
Jevargi
Mudbal - Gulbarga
Mudbal Population - Gulbarga, Karnataka
Mudbal is a medium size village located in Jevargi Taluka of Gulbarga district, Karnataka with total 212 families residing. The Mudbal village has population of 1226 of which 619 are males while 607 are females as per Population Census 2011.
In Mudbal village population of children with age 0-6 is 229 which makes up 18.68 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Mudbal village is 981 which is higher than Karnataka state average of 973. Child Sex Ratio for the Mudbal as per census is 803, lower than Karnataka average of 948.
Mudbal village has lower literacy rate compared to Karnataka. In 2011, literacy rate of Mudbal village was 57.27 % compared to 75.36 % of Karnataka. In Mudbal Male literacy stands at 69.92 % while female literacy rate was 44.95 %.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Mudbal village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Mudbal village.
Mudbal Data
Total No. of Houses 212 - -
Population 1,226 619 607
Child (0-6) 229 127 102
Schedule Caste 638 323 315
Schedule Tribe 0 0 0
Literacy 57.27 % 69.92 % 44.95 %
Total Workers 524 316 208
Main Worker 478 - -
Marginal Worker 46 13 33
Caste Factor
In Mudbal village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 52.04 % of total population in Mudbal village. The village Mudbal currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.
Work Profile
In Mudbal village out of total population, 524 were engaged in work activities. 91.22 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 8.78 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 524 workers engaged in Main Work, 106 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 268 were Agricultural labourer.
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St Bede's School
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David Power was born in London in 1962 but spent most of his childhood in York. His initial interest was rock music. However, the electronic instrumentals on David Bowie’s ‘Berlin’ albums led him to become increasingly interested in more experimental music and, in due course, he discovered the music of composers such Boulez and Stockhausen. This prompted a change in direction. He studied composition with Richard Steinitz, Steve Ingham and Roger Marsh.
In the late 1990's - following a difficult period compositionally, he wrote Eight Miniatures and these saw him adopt a simpler and more direct tone in his music which continues to this day. Most of his music prior to the Miniatures has now been withdrawn.
His Three Chamber Pieces was premiered at the 1987 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and since then his work has been performed widely throughout the UK and, more recently, in Europe and the USA. He has received a number of commissions over the years and his work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as well as on various regional radio stations. His work has also been used as soundtracks for art installations and short films, notably with artist Linda Ingham and film-maker Annabel McCourt.
In 1991 he and Steve Crowther inherited the Soundpool Contemporary Music Concerts. In 1995 he co-founded the Late Music Festival of which he remained Artistic Director until 2008. During that time, a total of 148 concerts were delivered and a total of 97 first performances were given. In its later years the Festival also delivered an ambitious education outreach programme in partnership with the City of York Council.
In 2007 he was awarded the St Hugh’s Fellowship to write two new pieces and to found a new classical music festival in NE Lincolnshire. This Festival was held at St James Church (now Grimsby Minster) in Grimsby in September 2008. It was a significant success and, consequently it became an annual event running until 2011.
In 2012, his Eight Evening Songs was included on the acclaimed Songs Now: British Songs of the 21st Century CD on the Meridian label. His music was used extensively in the soundtrack of Annabel McCourt’s latest film Delphine which had its first showing at the Bathing Beauties Festival in Lincolnshire. He is a member of the Sounds Lyrical Project which brings together poets and composers with a strong York connection with a view to jointly creating new classical songs and bringing the songs to new audiences.
As a writer he has published two short books – David Lindsay’s Vision - introduction by Colin Wilson - (Paupers’ Press 1991 and republished in the USA in 2005 by Maurice Bassett Publications) and David Bowie: A Sense of Art (Paupers Press 2003). He also contributed a chapter to Around the Outsider – Essays Presented to Colin Wilson on the Occasion of his 80th birthday which was edited by Colin Stanley and Published by 0 Books in 2011. He has also had numerous articles and reviews plublished in a number of periodicals including The new Statesman, London magazine and Tempo.
In 2018 his Shades 3 and his Bowie arrangement Three Berlin Instrumentals appeared on the Delta Saxophone Quartet's CD Bowie Berlin and Beyond. His Eight Piano Miniatures appeared on the CD A Hundred Years of British Piano Miniatures recorded by Duncan honeybourne and released on the Naxos Grand Piano label.
Also in 2018, he curated two projects for the York Late Music Concert series. The first was a day of three concerts and a talk devoted to twentieth century piano music played by Ian Pace. The second was 'Ten New Debussys' in which ten composers ranging from Errollyn Wallen and Robin Holloway to emerging young composers were each asked to take a Debussy solo piano piece, leave the first minute as it was and then develop it away and into a new piece of their own. The project was featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and mentioned on BBC 2's 'Proms Extra' programme
Future plans include a CD of all the Ten New Debussys including his own piece The Engulfed Cathedral
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Posted on February 18, 2019 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
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Hi Blog. Related to our recent posts by Senaiho about the unchecked bullying power of the self-appointed “Hair Police” in Japan’s secondary education system, here’s how a progressive system deals with it, particularly when it comes to hairstyles in the professional world. New York City’s Human Rights Commission will soon be enforcing guidelines dealing with racial discrimination when it comes to how people choose to wear their hair professionally. And these penalties have real teeth: The NYC HRC can levy fines on companies of up to a quarter-mil, plus damages in court afterwards!
This is, of course, absolutely unimaginable in Japan, where their state-sponsored “Bureau of Human Rights” (Jinken Yougobu) is but a Potemkin system (with no ability to levy penalties, and arbitrary guidelines for launching investigations) that only exists to deflect criticism from overseas that Japan isn’t respecting treaty obligations towards human rights. Consequently people of diversity are forced into an absolutist narrative where “looking Japanese” is not only quantifiable as a standard (e.g., hair must be straight and black), but also enforceable under normalized racial profiling by the Japanese police (which has detained people for “looking foreign” while Japanese). This is why “Embedded Racism” remains so unchecked in Japan.
Read on for how NYC HRC is doing it, and consider this as a template. Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
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New York City to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair
New guidelines out this week give legal recourse to individuals who have been harassed, punished or fired because of the style of their hair.
By Stacey Stowe
The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/style/hair-discrimination-new-york-city.html
PHOTO CAPTION: The New York City’s human rights commission specifically asserts the right of people to have “natural hair, treated or untreated hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, fades, Afros, and/or the right to keep hair in an uncut or untrimmed state.”
Under new guidelines to be released this week by the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the targeting of people based on their hair or hairstyle, at work, school or in public spaces, will now be considered racial discrimination.
The change in law applies to anyone in New York City but is aimed at remedying the disparate treatment of black people; the guidelines specifically mention the right of New Yorkers to maintain their “natural hair, treated or untreated hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, fades, Afros, and/or the right to keep hair in an uncut or untrimmed state.”
In practice, the guidelines give legal recourse to individuals who have been harassed, threatened, punished, demoted or fired because of the texture or style of their hair. The city commission can levy penalties up to $250,000 on defendants that are found in violation of the guidelines and there is no cap on damages. The commission can also force internal policy changes and rehirings at offending institutions.
The move was prompted in part by investigations after complaints from workers at two Bronx businesses — a medical facility in Morris Park and a nonprofit in Morrisania — as well as workers at an Upper East Side hair salon and a restaurant in the Howard Beach section of Queens. (The new guidelines do not interfere with health and safety reasons for wearing hair up or in a net, as long as the rules apply to everyone.)
The guidelines, obtained by The New York Times before their public release, are believed to be the first of their kind in the country. They are based on the argument that hair is inherent to one’s race (and can be closely associated with “racial, ethnic, or cultural identities”) and is therefore protected under the city’s human rights laws, which outlaw discrimination on the basis of race, gender, national origin, religion and other protected classes.
To date, there is no legal precedent in federal court for the protection of hair. Indeed, last spring the United States Supreme Court refused an NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund request to review a case in which a black woman, Chastity Jones, had her job offer rescinded in 2010 at an Alabama insurance company after she refused to cut off her dreadlocks.
But New York City’s human rights commission is one of the most progressive in the nation; it recognizes many more areas of discrimination than federal law, including in employment, housing, pregnancy and marital status. Its legal enforcement bureau can conduct investigations, and has the ability to subpoena witnesses and prosecute violations.
“There’s nothing keeping us from calling out these policies prohibiting natural hair or hairstyles most closely associated with black people,” said Carmelyn P. Malalis, the commissioner and chairwoman of the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
“They are based on racist standards of appearance,” Ms. Malalis continued, saying that they perpetuate “racist stereotypes that say black hairstyles are unprofessional or improper.”
In New York, it isn’t difficult to find black women and men who can speak about how their hair has affected their lives in both subtle and substantial ways, ranging from veiled comments from co-workers to ultimatums from bosses to look “more professional” or find another job.
For Avery, 39, who works in Manhattan in court administration and declined to provide her last name for fear of reprisal at work, the answer to how often she fields remarks on her hair in a professional setting is “every day.”
Avery said her supervisor, who is white, encourages her to relax her hair, which she was wearing in shoulder-length chestnut-colored braids. “She’s like, ‘You should do your hair,’ when it is already styled, or she says, ‘straight is better,’” Avery said. She added that the only hair color her supervisor approves of is black.
Georbina DaRosa, who is interning to be a social worker, had her hair in box braids as she ate lunch with a colleague at Shake Shack on East 86th Street on a recent weekend afternoon. Ms. DaRosa said her hair sometimes elicited “microaggressions” from her superiors at work.
“Like, people say, ‘I wouldn’t be able to recognize you because you keep changing your hairstyle,’ that’s typical,” said Ms. DaRosa, 24.
Her lunch partner, Pahola Capellan, who is also black and whose ringlets were bobbed just above her shoulders, said, of her own experience: “It’s very different. There’s no discrimination because my hair is more acceptable.”
A 21-year-old black woman who gave her name only as Enie said she quit her job as a cashier at a Manhattan Wendy’s six months ago when a manager asked her to cut off her 14-inch hair extensions. “I quit because you can’t tell me my hair is too long, but the other females who are other races don’t have to cut their hair,” said Enie, who now works at a hospital.
There has long been a professional toll for those with certain hairstyles. Almost 18 percent of United States soldiers in active duty are black, but it is only in recent years that the military has dropped its prohibitions on hairstyles associated with black culture. The Marines approved braid, twist and “lock” (usually spelled loc) hairstyles in 2015, with some caveats, and the Army lifted its ban on dreadlocks in 2017.
And certain black hairstyles are freighted with history. Wearing an Afro in the 1960s, for instance, was often seen as a political statement instead of a purely aesthetic choice, said Noliwe Rooks, an author and professor at Cornell University whose work explores race and gender. Dr. Rooks said that today, black men who shave designs into their hair as a stylistic choice may be perceived as telegraphing gang membership.
“People read our bodies in ways we don’t always intend,” Dr. Rooks said. “As Zora Neale Hurston said, there is the ‘will to adorn,’ but there is often a backlash against it.”
Chaumtoli Huq, an associate professor of labor and employment law at City University of New York School of Law, said that attitudes will change as black politicians, like Stacey Abrams, who ran for governor of Georgia, and Ayanna Pressley, who represents Massachusetts in Congress, rise in prominence.
“As more high-profile black women like Abrams and Pressley opt for natural hairstyles, twists, braids, we may see a positive cultural shift that would impact how courts view these guidelines that seek to prevent discrimination based on hair,” Ms. Huq said.
Hair discrimination affects people of all ages. In the past several years, there have been a number of cases of black students sent home or punished for their hairstyles. In New Jersey, the state civil rights division and its interscholastic athletic association started separate investigations in December when Andrew Johnson, a black high school student, was told to cut off his dreadlocks or forfeit a wrestling match.
Last August, an 11-year-old student in Terrytown, La., was sent home from school for wearing braids, as was a 6-year-old boy in Florida who wore dreadlocks. In 2017, Mya and Deana Cook, twin sisters in Massachusetts, were forced to serve detentions because officials said their braids violated their school’s grooming policy.
Similar instances in New York City could fall under the human rights commission’s expansive mandate, as do instances of retailers that sell and display racist iconography.
In December, the commission issued a cease-and-desist order to Prada, the Italian luxury fashion house, after the window of its SoHo store was adorned with charms and key chains featuring blackface imagery.
The fashion company instituted training in the city’s human rights law for employees, executives, and independent contractors. It also immediately pulled the line of goods from its United States stores.
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9 comments on “NYT: Hair policing soon to be treated as “racial discrimination” by NYC Commission of Human Rights. Compare with JHS & HS Hair Police in Japan.”
Let me guess, ‘those pesky foreigners and their funny ideas about not bullying people for looking different. It’s not compatible with our traditional racist culture’…?
Yes, what about freedom of (racist) expression? Like Mr Watanabe just doesnt Like foreigners so doesnt want to deal with you/offer you a contract etc.
Like, he has the freedom to dislike foreigners, halves etc.
And I use “he” on purpose.
Someone else said it best: Japan, where racism is an acceptable personality trait.
Racist old codgers are senile and attention seeking? Shoe on other foot moment. My senile grandmother inquired “Are you yellow?” of my ex J GF. Everyone excused her on the grounds of her old age and attrention seeking. and left it at that!
Later on the J GF was seething with anger. But no one paid her any mind (Except me).
But she never left Japan again.
Maybe your girlfriend was just ‘very sensitive’? I get accused of that a lot when I call out a racist comment/behavior.
HJ says:
No, Jim, the girlfriend was simply biologically incapable of understanding Baud’s grandmother’s “unique, traditional culture,” so she imposed her “imperialist, culturally-insensitive values.” Baud’s grandmother “didn’t have any mean intentions” when she asked if the girlfriend in question was “yellow.”
touché!
TJJ says:
Let’s not equate these two things. One is discrimination based on hair becoming specifically illegal.
The other is forcefully shaving somesone’s hair against their will because their natural hair is viewed as different. Still not illegal.
These are very different things.
— Okay, but the NYC case shows how this sort of thing can be stopped. By making arbitrary decisions by capricious officials about physical appearance into a matter of civil rights.
Andrew in Saitama says:
Yes, I was rather surprised how in one case, a *choice* of hair styles couldn’t be discriminated against; while in the other, one’s natural hair colour/texture could be viewed as “against the rules”.
California becomes 1st state to ban hairstyle discrimination.
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Both are IRAs. And yet each is quite different.
Up to certain limits, traditional IRAs allow individuals to make tax-deductible contributions into the account. Distributions from traditional IRAs are taxed as ordinary income and, if taken before age 59½, may be subject to a 10% federal income tax penalty.2
For individuals covered by a retirement plan at work the deduction for a traditional IRA in 2018 is phased out for incomes between $101,000 and $121,000 for married couples filing jointly, and between $63,000 and $73,000 for single filers.
Also within certain limits, individuals can make contributions to a Roth IRA with after-tax dollars. To qualify for a tax-free and penalty-free withdrawal of earnings, Roth IRA distributions must meet a five-year holding requirement and occur after age 59½.3
Like a traditional IRA, contributions to a Roth IRA are limited based on income. For 2018, contributions to a Roth IRA are phased out between $189,000 and $199,000 for married couples filing jointly and between $120,000 and $135,000 for single filers.
In addition to contribution and distribution rules, there are limits on how much can be contributed to either IRA. In fact, these limits apply to any combination of IRAs; that is, workers cannot put more than $5,500 per year into their Roth and traditional IRAs combined. So, if a worker contributed $3,500 in a given year into a traditional IRA, contributions to a Roth IRA would be limited to $2,000 in that same year.4
Fast Fact: Wealthy Owners. The higher your income is, the more likely you are to have an IRA. Of households with incomes of $50,000 or more—39% own traditional IRAs and 30% own Roth IRAs. Of households with $50,000 or less in income, 13% own traditional IRAs and 6% own Roth IRAs.
Source: Investment Company Institute, 2018
Individuals who reach age 50 or older by the end of the tax year can qualify for “catch-up” contributions. The combined limit for these is $6,500.5
If you meet the income requirements, both traditional and Roth IRAs can play a part in your retirement plans. And once you’ve figured out which will work better for you, only one task remains: open an account.
Features of Traditional and Roth IRAs
Tax-deductible contributions *
Tax-deferred growth
Tax-free withdrawals **
Income limit for 2018 contributions Deduction phases out for adjusted gross incomes between $101,000 and $121,000 (married filing jointly) or between $63,000 and $73,000 (single filer) Eligibility phases out for adjusted gross incomes between $189,000 and $199,000 (married filing jointly) or between $120,000 and $135,000 (single filer)
Distributions required at age 70½
Source: IRS, 2018
* Up to certain limits
** To qualify, Roth IRA distributions must meet a five-year holding requirement and occur after age 59½.
1. Investment Company Institute, 2018
2. Generally, once you reach age 70½, you must begin taking required minimum distributions from a traditional IRA.
3,4,5. Internal Revenue Service, 2018. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated the ability to "undo" a Roth conversion.
Here are several important changes to Social Security that may impact how and when you can begin taking income benefits.
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Contribution Program
Below you can find information about Dutch funds and national institutions, as well as the Consulate’s contribution program. Additional resources will follow.
Funds and Institutions in The Netherlands
There are several Dutch national funds and institutes that provide (financial) support for international Dutch cultural projects. Please visit their websites for specific information about their international programs.
* Creative Industries (Architecture, Design, e-Culture): Creative Industries Fund
* Cultural Participation: Cultural Participation Fund
* Film: Dutch Film Fund
* Literature: Dutch Foundation for Literature
* Performing Arts: Performing Arts Fund Netherlands
* Shared Cultural Heritage & multi-sectoral: DutchCulture, Shared Cultural Heritage Matching Fund & International Visitors’ Programme
* Visual Arts: Mondriaan Fund
More information can be found in the Cultural Mobility Funding Guide by DutchCulture., the Dutch centre for international cooperation. It provides a summary of Dutch grants for travel, stay, research, cooperation, production, and more outside the Netherlands – and for foreign artists to and in the Netherlands. This guide was published in close cooperation with partners from the cultural mobility information network On The Move.
A funding source in the United States is The Netherlands-America Foundation, which promotes cultural and educational exchange between the United States and The Netherlands. Through their educational and cultural programs the NAF modest grants. More information can be found here.
This contribution program explanation is meant for American legal entities outside the Netherlands intending to apply for a Dutch Cultural Contribution for projects in the United States. Dutch organizations and individuals are referred to the various Dutch national funding programs.
The Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York has limited funds available for the promotion of Dutch cultural activities in the United States. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs allocates these budgets to the Consulate on a calendar year basis, and depletion usually takes place before the final quarter of a calendar year. The Consulate allocates these budgets for projects across the whole United States, and across all disciplines.
Cultural contributions are only given towards projects that support the strategic goals that are set in the Consulate’s 2017-2020 multiyear plan. These are as follows:
* The international exchange of Dutch art, makers and knowledge between the Netherlands and the U.S. leads to a qualitative growth;
* Dutch shared cultural heritage in the U.S. will be better managed, preserved and unlocked for Dutch and American audiences;
* The working area (market) and the quality of the network of Dutch art institutions, artists and designers are expanded in the U.S.;
* The collaboration between Dutch talent and American institutions leads to a qualitative growth of the participants;
* The visibility and appreciation of Dutch art and culture in the U.S. remains at a high level or is increased.
Projects must involve (a significant) Dutch cultural participation. Only legal entities that are registered as such in the U.S. can be eligible for a contribution. This pertains to both non-profit and for-profit legal entities, as long as a project is not purely commercial and aimed at making a profit. American government entities are not eligible for support. Entities that may apply include organizations that run art fairs, festivals, artist-in-residence programs or biennials; fashion agencies; galleries; museums; non-profit arts organizations; performing arts venues; PR agencies; publishers; theaters; university galleries. Individuals (i.e. natural persons) and non-American legal entities are not eligible for a contribution.
First step: letter of intent of the project
* Before starting an application process, all applicants are required to send a letter of intent, which must include a brief description of the project, an indication of the expenses for which support is sought, start and end dates of the project, and an indication about other funding sources that are being pursued.
* Upon receipt of this letter, the Consulate will contact the applicant to discuss the next steps in the application process, and give advice about other funding sources. If it is decided to start an application, the applicant will receive an application form.
* The decision to start the application process on the basis of the letter of intent does not in any way contain guarantees regarding the final decision of the Consulate on the application.
* Applicants are stimulated to pursue possible grants from the Dutch national art funds [a comprehensive list can be found here]. Applicants are required to inform the Consulate in advance if applications have been filed with any of these funds, and for what expenses of the intended project. If no such applications have been filed, applicants need to explain why this has not been done.
Criteria & Requirements
Who is eligible and application deadlines
* Only U.S. non-profit and for-profit legal entities can be eligible for a contribution.
* Applicants cannot receive a contribution more than once per calendar year.
* Applicants that have been denied a contribution will be denied (again).
* Past projects or projects that have already started are not eligible for a contribution.
* Applicants can send in an application to the Consulate on an ongoing basis. However, there is a three-month deadline before the start of a project.
* Previously successful applicants are not automatically guaranteed future contributions.
What type of projects are eligible
* In order to be eligible for a contribution, projects need to support the strategic goals that are set in the Consulate’s 2017-2020 multiyear plan (see above).
* Projects must involve (a significant) Dutch cultural participation.
* Priority is given to the following disciplines in which the Consulate works proactively: design (including jewelry and fashion design), film, performing arts (theater, youth theater), photography, shared cultural heritage, and visual arts. Lesser priority is given to the following disciplines in which the Consulate works reactively: architecture, dance, e-culture/gaming, electronic dance music, literature, old masters, and tangible heritage.
* The Consulate focuses on the New York City metropolitan area and large cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Miami, but also strives for a national approach, and gives special attention to secondary and upcoming cities in the U.S. with growing art centers and important venues. This includes, but is not limited to, cities such as Atlanta, Austin, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
* Projects are required to contain a significant public component. Exceptions may be made for events and activities that will lead to a significant publication or other form of documentation that can be shared with the public at large.
* Applications may be filed for presentations at multiple locations in the U.S. (in case of touring projects, or projects that take place at various venues); however, only one of the participating legal entities can be eligible for a contribution. In such a case, the lead applicant must arrange dispersal of any funds among other venues. The lead applicant will be responsible for the implementation of the project for which the contribution is given and for the compliance with the accompanying obligations.
What are the financial criteria
* Contributions will never exceed $25,000.
* Total combined Dutch government support (including any support from the Dutch national arts funds) may not exceed more than 50% of the total costs incurred to organize the Dutch component of a project. Ideally the Dutch government contributions cover a lesser percentage, and applicants are stimulated to obtain support from a variety of sources.
* Expenses that are eligible for support are, among others, transportation, travel, accommodation, publication, production, PR/marketing, event documentation (AV, photography), educational materials, and other production aspects that are necessary to organize the project.
* Expenses that are not eligible for support are, among others, research and preparation phases of a potential future project, fees and per diems for the Dutch participants, salaries and general operating costs, insurance expenses, hospitality and entertainment (receptions, dinners, parties, etc.), entrance or participation fees for conferences and other meetups, traditional Holland promotion, and purely commercial expenses (f.e. hiring a sales agent, booking a trade show, etc.).
* Applicants may also be asked to lower the requested contribution.
What happens in the case an application is successful
* Approved contributions can only be dispersed to a bank account that bears the legal name of the applicant. Payment of contributions only takes place via electronic wire.
* Upon approval of a contribution, the Consulate must be acknowledged with logo and credit line in printed and online materials related to the project. This includes invitations, publications and other publicity materials. If print or online posting deadlines for materials have already passed, an application is not eligible for a contribution.
* Upon approval of a contribution, the applicant needs to sign a contribution agreement form (also signed by the Cultural Attaché) that stipulates the official contribution program requirements.
* In case the project plans change between the date of the application approval and the start of the project, the applicant is required to inform the Consulate in writing, and request approval for any changes.
* Contribution recipients will be required to send in a final report within two months of the end of the project. This report needs to include a narrative description on how the project was executed and what the outcomes were in relation to the stated goals in the application. It also needs to include a financial report with copies of receipts for expenses that were covered by the contribution. Lastly, the report needs to include proof of logo and credit line acknowledgement in any printed and online materials, copies of press releases, copies of press articles that were published, and any other materials that are relevant to assess the successful outcomes of a project. Contribution recipients will also tag the Consulate with @dutchcultureusa or #dutchcultureusa in relevant social media posts.
Application Procedure and Steps
The following steps will need to take place during the application procedure:
1. Prospective applicant sends a letter of intent to apply for a contribution.
2. The Consulate contacts the applicant with feedback and guidance about the application process, and may refer or defer to other Dutch funding sources.
3. The Consulate provides the applicant with an application form.
4. Applicant submits a completed application form, including all required documents (1. bank account information, 2. communication plan, 3. visual documentation of the work to be presented, 4. full budget including revenues and expenditures).
5. The Consulate may request additional information if the application is incomplete, or if the application does not provide adequate information to properly assess and review the application. The Consulate may also request to adjust the requested contribution amount. Application processing may take up to 13 weeks.
6. When the Consulate deems an application complete, a cultural program officer will review the proposal, and provide a recommendation to the Cultural Attaché and our Financial Controller at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC. If there is insufficient internal expertise, the Consulate may seek advice from external experts in the relevant cultural discipline.
7. The Cultural Attaché and the Financial Controller need to sign off on the recommendation for an application to be fully approved.
8. The Consulate informs the applicant in writing if a contribution is approved or denied.
9. If an application is approved, a contribution agreement will be emailed to the applicant, who is to countersign and return it to the Consulate.
10. Upon receipt of the signed copy of the contract, the Consulate will send a payment request to the Embassy for the full amount of the contribution.
11. 100% of the contribution will be wired to the contribution recipient within 10-15 business days of the payment request.
12. Contribution recipient will provide the Consulate with relevant text and images of the project for promotional use in printed and online materials. Contribution recipient will also tag the Consulate with @dutchcultureusa or #dutchcultureusa in relevant social media posts.
13. Within two months of the completion of a project, the contribution recipient will provide a full narrative and financial report on the project.
14. Upon approval of the final report, the application file for the project will be closed. Contribution recipients agree that certain portions of the final report narrative may be reprinted in annual reports of the Consulate.
Content and Financial Review and Assessment
Contribution decisions are made on the basis of the quality, prominence, and viability of the American host institution, and the quality and viability of a proposed project, a financial analysis of a proposed budget, and the merit of the arguments in the narrative of an application. As part of the review process, the Consulate will assess the following elements
Content review and assessment
* Does the project contain a considerable and recognizable Dutch component?
* Is the application complete and does it provide sufficient background information?
* Does the application adhere to the above-mentioned contribution program criteria and requirements?
* Is the application relevant to the Netherlands NYC Consulate’s multi-year strategic plan for the U.S.?
* Does the application provide specific goals and an explanation about how these goals will be achieved?
* What is the regional, national and international standing of the applicant, and what level of press and audience exposure will the project generate?
* Does the intended project provide potential for market expansion or follow-up projects for the Dutch participants?
Financial Review and Assessment
* Is a full budget included in the application, listing both expenditures and revenues?
* Are the listed expenditures and revenues reasonable and/or realistic? Will the Dutch participants receive a reasonable fee?
* What is the percentage of the requested amount in relation to total cost? Will combined Dutch government support exceed 50%?
* Does the applicant expect to receive contributions from other Dutch government funds, and for what expenses?
* Is there a significant investment and commitment from the host organization and/or American funding sources?
* To what degree are contributions from others guaranteed and/or pledged?
* What are the potential financial risks involved, and is there a potential for a large shortfall?
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Taiil received his MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his bachelor degree from Yonsei University
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Making the Offset Policy Work Better
(Source: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA); issued March 20, 2019)
By Amit Cowshish
In February 2018, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) informed the Standing Committee on Defence (SCoD) that in 11 of the 42 offset contracts signed till then, a final/interim penalty, totalling USD 38.19 million, had been imposed on account of shortfall in discharge of the offset obligation by the vendors.
Based on this input, SCoD advised the MoD to ‘ensure that the penalties imposed on the defaulter vendors reasonably compensate for the losses incurred due to shortfall in discharge of offset obligations.’1
This raises two questions. First, why is it that the vendors, most of them reputed global defence companies with vast experience in discharging offset obligations, fail to discharge the offset obligation as per the implementation schedule submitted by them? Second, what ‘loss’ is suffered by the MoD on account of delay in the discharge of offset obligation by the vendors that requires to be ‘compensated’, and whether it would ensure more efficient implementation of the offset contract if this Damocles’ sword is kept hanging on their heads?
The first question is quite puzzling considering that vendors are at full liberty to choose from a basket of six possible avenues for discharging their offset obligation and also to select the Indian Offset Partners (IOPs) through which they want to discharge the offset obligation. The avenues are arguably quite exhaustive, but the eligibility criteria for an Indian entity to be an IOP could certainly not be more liberal.
To be fair, MoD has been making efforts to make it easier for the vendors to discharge their obligation. For example, vendors used to find it difficult to provide the details of the IOPs at the time of signing of the offset contract, rephase the offset implementation schedule and change the IOPs after signing the contract. These issues have been addressed by allowing the vendors the option of furnishing the details of the IOPs a year before claiming the offset credit or even at the time of claiming the credit and by making it easier for them to rephase the implementation schedule and change the IOPs. It is difficult to say whether this has helped, but what can be said with a reasonable certainty is that these were not the only issues that bedevilled the foreign vendors.
Foreign vendors have been asking for several changes in the offset guidelines. One of their demands has been that they should be permitted to rope in their group companies and Tier 1 to 3 sub-vendors to discharge offset obligation on their behalf without limit. This, and many other suggestions made by vendors, need to be considered. All these may not be acceptable to MoD, but a final decision on them cannot be allowed to hang fire.
To be sure, the problem is not limited to making changes in the offset guidelines on the basis of the suggestions made by the vendors and, for that matter, by the Indian companies which have to discharge the complementary role as IOPs. There are several provisions in the present guidelines which are either not clear, lend themselves to varying interpretations or do not serve the objective of the offset policy. These impact the discharge of the offset obligations in many ways, such as at the stage of formulation of the offset proposals, choice of IOPs or claiming of the offset credits by the vendors.
To give a very simple example, the existing guidelines permit vendors to let their Tier-I sub-vendors under the main procurement contract ‘to discharge offset obligations, to the extent of their work share (by value)’ on their behalf.2 What the guidelines do not make clear is whether the ‘work share’ refers to the sub-vendor’s work share in the main contract or the offset contract. The answer may be clear to those vendors who have had experience of engaging with the MoD on offset matters, but the point is that there has to be textual clarity in the guidelines so that prospective vendors and IOPs do not have to struggle with the interpretation of the existing clauses. It does not require much effort to remove such ambiguities in the guidelines.
It is not only textual ambiguities that may be holding back the offset policy from achieving its true potential. Though it is not one of the stated objectives of the offset policy, it is not uncommon to come across the criticism that it has led to hardly any transfer of technology (ToT). While the actual reasons can be identified only by engaging the vendors in a free and frank discussion, it is possible that they do not find the existing policy attractive enough to transfer technology to the IOPs.
The relevant provision in DPP 2016 says that where the discharge of offset obligations is proposed in terms of ToT to IOPs, ‘the offset credit for ToT shall be 10 percent of the value of (the) buyback during the period of the offset contract, to the extent of value addition in India’.3 How does one interpret it?
Suppose a vendor wants to transfer technology which it considers to be worth, say, USD 10 million, and buys back the products manufactured by using that technology worth USD 5 million within the period of performance of the offset contract (a tall order by any stretch of imagination). The offset credit the vendor can expect to earn for the transferred technology would be just USD 500,000 (10 per cent of the value of the buyback), provided the value added in India is equal to or more than this amount! This apparently not only discourages the choice of ToT as an avenue for discharge of the offset obligation but also provides no incentive for ensuring higher levels of value addition in India or, more importantly, high-end and high-value technologies.
It needs to be recognised that no foreign vendor would willingly, or by sheer incompetence, default on the discharge of its offset obligation. For any reputed manufacturer, the reputation of the company is far more important than the penalty it may have to pay on account of default in discharging the offset obligation. A dynamic offset policy has to include a mechanism for identifying the causes for likely delay or default on the part of vendors in discharging their obligation and removing the impediments faced by them during the course of implementation of an offset contract.
It is arguable whether the MoD suffers a ‘loss’ on account of delay in discharge of the offset obligation and, more importantly, if such a delay can be quantified and compensated by imposing financial penalties. The focus has to shift from enforcing performance of the offset contract by imposing penalties to facilitating such performance. The MoD will do well to put in place a mechanism for regular engagement not just with the industry associations, both foreign and Indian, but with the individual stakeholders who alone can make the offset policy succeed by completing the implementation of the signed contracts.
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Myanmar: Rohingyas Dying From Lack of Health Care in Myanmar
Source: The Irrawaddy
Keywords: Rohingya, human rights
THE’ CHAUNG, Arakan State — Noor Jahan rocked slowly on the floor, trying to steady her weak body. Her chest heaved and her eyes closed with each raspy breath. She could no longer eat or speak, throwing up even spoonfuls of tea.
Two years ago, she would have left her upscale home — one of the nicest in the community — and gone to a hospital to get tests and medicine for her failing liver and kidneys. But that was before Buddhist mobs torched and pillaged her neighborhood, forcing thousands of ethnic Rohingya like herself to flee to a hot, desert-like patch of land on the outskirts of town.
She was then stuck in a dirt-floor bamboo hut about a quarter-mile from the sea. She and others from the Muslim minority group have been forced to live segregated behind security checkpoints and cannot leave, except for medical emergencies. Often not even then.
Living conditions in The’ Chaung village and surrounding camps of Burma’s northwestern state of Arakan are desperate for the healthiest residents. For those who are sick, they are unbearable. The situation became even worse two weeks ago, when the aid group Médicins Sans Frontières Holland (MSF) was forced to stop working in Arakan, where most Rohingya live.
The government considers all 1.3 million Rohingya to be illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh, though many of them were born in Burma to families who have lived here for generations. Presidential spokesman Ye Htut accused MSF of unfairly providing more care to Muslims than Buddhists and inflaming communal tensions by hiring “Bengalis,” the name the government uses to refer to the Rohingya.
Burma, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million, emerged from a half-century of isolating military rule in 2011. Nascent democratic reforms have generated optimism in the international community — the World Bank recently pledged $2 billion in development aid — but waves of ethnic violence, mainly against the Rohingya, have raised concerns from the U.S. and others.
Before MSF was shut down, Arakanese Buddhists regularly protested the group in what Vickie Hawkins, its deputy head of mission in Burma, described as a slow strangulation. Staff members were intimidated. Landlords became too fearful to rent houses for their operation. Boat captains declined to ferry patients.
The situation intensified after the organization said it treated 22 Rohingya patients who were wounded and traumatized following an attack in January. The government has staunchly denied that a Buddhist mob rampaged through a village, killing women and children, but the United Nations concluded more than 40 people may have been killed.
Talks are still ongoing between the government and MSF over whether the group will be allowed to continue working in Arakan State. Dr. Soe Lwin Nyein, the Health Ministry’s deputy director general, said Wednesday that the government was continuing to accept HIV and tuberculosis drugs from the group for patients in Arakan.
Many sick patients located in the camps outside of the state capital, Sittwe, prefer to visit MSF’s small facility that sits among a tangle of flimsy thatch-roofed shacks. It is a trusted source of care, having worked in Arakan state for two decades.
To see a doctor now, patients living in the camps must secure referrals from government physicians and frequently pay bribes to security guards to get past checkpoints. Treatment is then only permitted at one hospital, forcing some from remote areas to travel for hours.
Additionally, many fear violence outside their Muslim area. Aid workers said protesters once stormed a hospital in town, forcing officials to lock the doors while some Rohingya patients fled in terror.
Rohingya in Burma have faced decades of systematic discrimination that bars them from certain jobs and requires special permission for them to marry, among other restrictions. But their lives were far more peaceful before ethnic violence erupted in mid-2012. Up to 280 people have been killed in Arakan and tens of thousands more have fled their homes, most of them Rohingya.
Before the clashes, Jahan’s family lived comfortably in the heart of Sittwe. They were well-known among both Buddhists and Muslims, owned five houses and ran a construction supply business. When surrounding Muslim areas started burning nearly two years ago, they paid the police to guard their concrete home and believed they were protected. But mobs torched and looted it anyway.
The family fled their now-bulldozed house with some jewelry and around $5,000 in cash. They can no longer access additional money in their bank accounts because they left their identity cards behind.
The stress was especially hard on 48-year-old Jahan. Suffering from diabetes, liver and kidney disease, she started deteriorating about three months after being corralled into the Muslim area, when the family ran out of medicine and food became scarce.
She fell unconscious in December, and her husband, Mohamad Frukan, traveled with her to a nearby government clinic and waited for an emergency referral. Eventually, the Red Cross was able to take them to a Sittwe hospital since the clinic itself has no doctors.
Once in town, Frukan said, a security guard shouted ethnic slurs at them and a nurse tried to give them different drugs than the doctor had prescribed. The family was not able to leave the facility, and was forced to rely on guards to bring them food. He said some were helpful, while others were indifferent or downright mean.
Jahan was told she needed to see a specialist in the country’s main city of Yangon, but Rohingya need special permission for such a trip — a process that was too complicated and costly for the couple. Instead, after being treated for nine days, she was sent back to the dilapidated house made of bamboo slats and pieces of corrugated tin — still one of the nicest homes in the neighborhood, when compared to the saggy huts surrounding it.
Jahan’s condition soon worsened. She couldn’t stand or lie down, so she sat, drawing one agonizing breath after another. The doctor asked that she return a week or two later for a checkup, but by then, Frukan said, security around the camp had tightened and there was no way for the family to leave.
Instead, he decided to pay $300 for a boat to take his wife to Bangladesh. He was prepared to carry her through chest-high water for 45 minutes to reach the vessel, but when he tried to arrange it, the boat captain took a look at her and simply shook his head. He wouldn’t take the risk of her dying on the way.
There was little that Frukan could do but cry. The couple had traveled to Yangon for care just four years ago, and if the violence hadn’t uprooted their lives, they could have done it again.
“Life is so miserable for us,” Frukan said. “Sometimes I am out of my mind thinking about her, but she never knows that. Whenever I look at her, it just hurts so much, and it’s so painful. I think my daughters might even die seeing their mother every day and night.”
Lives have always been at greater risk in Arakan, the second-poorest state of one of Asia’s poorest countries. The situation is worse away from the Sittwe camps, in isolated and predominantly Muslim northern Arakan state.
In 2011, before the violence erupted, the European Community Humanitarian Office reported that acute malnutrition rates in parts of northern Arakan reached 23 percent, far above the 15 percent emergency level set by the World Health Organization. In one township, the number of deaths among children under 5 is nearly triple the national rate, according to the U.N.
Now the situation is even more dire, with families split and lives disrupted. An estimated 75,000 Rohingya have left the country by boat, including Jahan’s son and son-in-law, though neighboring countries are reluctant to accept them.
In the camps, many suffer from diarrhea and respiratory illnesses, including tuberculosis, in cramped shelters with no ventilation. Agencies such as UNICEF highlight poor hygiene, sanitation and a lack of clean drinking water. It’s a possible public health disaster in the making, especially during the rainy season, when the choking dust turns to gooey mud. Potential outbreaks such as measles and cholera remain a worry.
Pregnant women are particularly at risk. A quarter of MSF emergency referrals involved complications during labor. One Rohingya woman, Asamatu, started bleeding four days before giving birth to a baby girl last month and died three days later in a camp filled with barefoot children and open sewage ditches.
“She was so weak at the end she couldn’t stand,” said sister Hasinara as she breast-fed her 15-day-old niece. “If we hadn’t been here, the father would be working normally and earning money and she would have given birth in a better place.”
The strain is hardest on the poor, who cannot even afford basic medication sold at small pharmacies along a road near several of the camps. An underground group has been smuggling everything from antibiotics to aspirin into the area using business channels, but it’s far from enough.
And sometimes, money doesn’t matter.
In early March, two months after his desperate efforts to get his wife to a doctor, Frukan walked along a dusty potholed road before sunset in a white skull cap and a crisp shirt. He had been praying for Jahan, whom he fell in love with and married 35 years ago. He would have handed over his entire fortune to save her.
“She died in the middle of nothing,” he said. “We couldn’t do anything in the middle of nothing.”
Now all Frukan has left is his guilt and a mound of fresh dirt surrounding a large white concrete grave. The best he could give her.
“If I talk about her, I feel I will die,” he said sitting in a shady courtyard outside the house. “I try to make myself comfortable by going to the mosque, but if I talk about what happened to her, I will die.”###
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The Fauquier County Soccer Club (FCSC) has a rich history of providing soccer opportunities to the youth of Fauquier County, dating back to the 1970’s. More specifically, FCSC’s heritage was born out of two organizations, whose foresight and cooperation brought soccer to the youth of our area long before other sports clubs were established.
Beginning in the 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s, two clubs serviced the needs of Fauquier County youth. The Fauquier Soccer Association and the original Warrenton Youth Soccer Club. The Fauquier Soccer Association principally addressed elementary school age groups while the original Warrenton Youth Soccer Club focused on Junior High and High School brackets.
In an effort to deliver the best possible soccer programs to Fauquier County the two associations unanimously agreed to merge the organizations on January 26, 1989. With that decision, the Fauquier County Soccer Club was born. At the time, the thoughtful Directors of those two clubs were:
Fauquier Soccer
Warrenton Youth Soccer Club
Bob Gilbert
Cindy Lewis
E. R. "Randy" Rawls
Alexander H. ter Weele
Greg Lathrop
Gail McCormick
Peggy McMullen
Phyllis Mitchell
Russ Norskog
Roy Perry
Tom Sentz
Ken Stoehrmann
Much of the groundbreaking work performed by the now unified Fauquier County Soccer Club remain within our organization today... the mission as recorded in our Articles of Incorporation, the foundational principles documented in our By-Laws, the open nature of our member run organization, as well as our commitment to excellence and to the community. A testament to the core principles is illustrated by the fact that some of those founding members remain actively involved with FCSC today.
The Fauquier County Soccer Clubs incorporated the organization within the state of Virginia on June 17, 1992. As a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, FCSC dedicated itself to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, providing programs for the benefit of the community through teaching and promoting an interest in the game of soccer. The club’s original directors were:
Chairman, E. R. "Randy" Rawls
Deputy Chairman, Maximilian Tufts, Jr.
Secretary, Kenneth Stoehrmann
Treasurer, Robert Gilbert
Registrar, Joan Clarke
Building on a solid foundation of the Fauquier Soccer Association and Warrenton Youth Soccer Club, FCSC set about the business of the membership, providing the county’s youth with opportunities to learn, appreciate, be challenged by, and enjoy the game of soccer. The Recreational Program consisted of U8, U10, U12, U14, and U17 age groups with independent travel teams constituting the Competitive Programs.
In an early address from the Chairman, Randy Rawls discussed the rapid expansion of the club and quality of match play. Focused on the future, Chairman Rawls turned his attention towards two issues which needed to be resolved if the club were to continue to progress.
As we approach the end of my first year in office, I find that our most serious problem is not our club, our membership, our players, or the play of the game... it is a lack of referees. There is only one source of referees -- You. I challenge each FCSC team, both House and Travel, to identify at least one adult to become certified as a referee and each team at the U14 age group and older to additionally identify at least one teen.
True to the club’s nature, generous volunteers stepped forward, trained by certified referees from within the FCSC membership, through courses established with the local community college. Whether it be a sufficient number of qualified referees, or the many volunteers required to make this club -- your club -- function, FCSC members continue to give of their time and efforts.
Chairman Rawls addressed the second issue by noting,
There is one long term problem which we have not resolved and cannot resolve without your help. We must have a Soccer Complex in Fauquier County. Every year we wait just magnifies the problem.
With those words, Chairman Rawls set in motion a plan to realize such a complex for the youth of Fauquier County. It would take planning, preparation, a commitment to generating and securing significant resources, and ultimately a partnership with the Town of Warrenton. Chairman Rawls could not have envisioned the path which would be taken, but set a vision of the destination. In 1996, FCSC realized a plan for steadily generating field development funds... the Hunt Country Classic. The Hunt Country Classic, FCSC’s annual Travel tournament, generated increasing profits which were dutifully set aside, to one day acquire of several dozen "reasonably flat acres" to "centralize all games and ensure good playing conditions for our youth". This forward-looking vision is a hallmark of FCSC operations, meeting and exceeding the needs of today’s youth, and planning for those who will do so tomorrow.
With the turn of a new century, the club continued to expand its Recreational programs and grow the number of the Independent Travel teams affiliated with FCSC. To ensure that FCSC was developing players to their fullest potential, and in accordance with US Soccer best practices, the club began a transition to a club-structure model. FCSC hired its first Technical Director of Coaching (TDOC) and set in motion efforts to unify the Recreational, Competitive, and Player Development programs to maximize player potential. The TDOC’s work, along with a dedicated professional technical staff, engendered strong support from the membership and laid the technical foundation which united the organization. Today, the FCSC United are well-represented within the Washington Metropolitan Area’s top Travel Leagues (i.e., NCSL, WAGS, ODSL), regional tournaments, and Virginia State Cup competition. These successes are built upon the club’s sound technical and tactical instruction within the Recreational and Player Development programs, a function of the professional technical staff and Competitive program coaches, as well as the volunteer Recreational program coaches who are dedicated to improving their skills within the club-structure.
With this expansion, the need for a centralized soccer complex was becoming ever more apparent. FCSC continued to invest the proceeds from the increasingly popular Hunt Country Classic tournament, while exploring field development options which included pursuing the proposed Fauquier County Parks & Recreation department’s Central Sports Complex, establishing long-term usage agreements at Vint Hill, and purchasing private property.
Subsequently, involved members and leaders within FCSC engaged local officials on the topic of a sports complex near the county’s population center. An initiative began to develop with the Town of Warrenton. FCSC, in part, spearheaded the effort to organize county sports clubs and engage the town from a broad, community perspective. A significant amount of ground-breaking work on by public and private officials alike resulted in plans for the Warrenton Sports Complex, which includes Athey Fields as well as the Warrenton Aquatic & Recreation Facility (WARF). With significant investments by the Town of Warrenton, FCSC, and other local clubs, Athey Fields was developed in 2006 and opened in 2007. Today, FCSC continues to be involved in the ongoing maintenance and future development plans of Athey Fields through a public-private partnership with the Town of Warrenton known as the Warrenton Fields Administration (WFA). Athey Fields is FCSC’s home complex, one of the Washington Metropolitan Area’s premier soccer venues.
FCSC continues to pursue US Soccer best practices in the development of our players and the structure of our ogranization. As Fauquier County’s premier soccer club, our programs continue to grow, and with them, our dedication to the players.
Past is prologue. FCSC knows where it has been, and where we are going. The next decade of FCSC history is being written today. If soccer is your sport, FCSC is your club.
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AFRICA/NIGER - Father Gigi Maccalli's Christmas: his mission in Bomoanga has closed, but hope does not die
Father Maccalli: the father who thinks of all, Christians and Muslims, Gurmancè and Peulh, Haussa and Zerma
Continental free trade area: a major step in Africa's economic development
Interfaith prayer for Father Maccalli in Niamey
A Christian church set on fire in Maradi
Boko Haram threaten Christians in Diffa. "Real news, but there is no mass flight of the faithful"
Pierluigi Maccalli "untaani": the man who creates unity in the name of God
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Three months have gone by since the kidnapping of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions, SMA (see Fides 18/9/2018). There is no news on the place where he is held prisoner or on the steps taken to release him. His mission in Bomoanga, in Niger, where he worked for more than 11 years, has been closed: the missionaries and nuns had to take refuge in Niamey, the capital. The few remaining Christians are in despair. How will their Christmas be this year? And how will Father Gigi live it?
"Through some writings of Fr. Gigi himself, all of us, his SMA confreres, keep hope alive", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Marco Prada, SMA.
For the 2013 Christmas celebrations Fr. Gigi wrote: "In the evening, in my mission, I often look at the sky. Today I understand why there are so many bright stars: they are the stars of the innocent. In Niger alone, malnutrition has already caused the death of more than 2,500 children between the month of January and September this year. We must also remember the news of last October: the macabre discovery of 92 bodies of migrants found at about ten kilometers from the border with Algeria. The truck that carried them broke down in the Nigerian desert. The victims were 7 men, 37 women and 48 children. Even then there was a massacre of innocent: Rachel continues to cry her children and does not want to be consoled.
In 2014, the abducted missionary said: "This year, Christmas will be in the new church, even if it is still under construction and there are no doors or windows. For now it is more like a stable: goats and sheep take refuge to protect themselves from the sun and the hens lay their eggs in the hidden corners.
Christmas 2017 - the last one spent freely in his community - Fr. Gigi urged not to give up hope: "Life is a network of two threads: joys and sorrows. Only the shepherds heard the angels sing in the sky on Christmas night; but many heard the broken sorrow of the women of Bethlehem who mourned the innocent saints. Christmas among tears of joy and sorrow, which merge together in a single embrace, in the river of life. So it is on a mission: an intertwining of experiences and strong emotions that tell the beauty of human adventure, which even God wanted to share and embrace .... but we do not abandon the hope that one day the desert will flourish!" (MP/AP) (Agenzia Fides, 17/12/2018)
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While movie lovers around the world are gearing up for another jam-packed summer slate of effects-driven films, more discerning cinephiles will also be eagerly anticipating movie magic of a different sort. Indeed, in the coming months and throughout the fall, audiences will be treated to the crème de la crème of arguably cinema's most spectacular element - the actors. Some of them will go on to garner Oscar buzz, while others will live on as fan favorites. Either way, the standout performers will never be forgotten. As we look ahead to what the remainder of 2018 has to offer, here are my 20 Most Anticipated Performances of 2018:
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REVIEW: In the Last Days of the City
How do you capture the essence of a city? Is it the people, the buildings, the sounds? In Tamer El Said’s elegiac debut film “In the Last Days of the City“, one man wrestles with this central question as he attempts to capture a cinematic portrait of a place that no longer feels like home.
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REVIEW: Godard Mon Amour
There’s a cruel irony that runs through “Godard Mon Amour“, the latest nostalgia-tinged effort from Michel Hazanavicius. Its titular subject – famed pioneer of the French New Wave Jean Luc Godard – was known for his anti-establishment, inventive style of filmmaking. The name Godard is, therefore, one of the last names you would associate with a genre as old-fashioned as the biopic. But in perhaps one of the boldest moves of his career, Hazanavicius makes a valiant, if misguided attempt at capturing a key moment in the auteur’s life.
REVIEW: Zama
Early in Lucrecia Martel’s historical drama “Zama“, there’s a portentous scene that sets the one for the rest of the film. In it, a man recalls the story of a species of fish that spends its entire life swimming to and fro against the tide of the water, forever remaining in one place. The significance of this anecdote isn’t immediately apparent. But as this story unfolds, it becomes a metaphor for the film itself, which follows a man who is actively going nowhere.
REVIEW: Boyz n the Hood
During the recently concluded awards season, the Hollywood Reporter published an interesting article in honor of the success of “Get Out”. In it, all of the African-American directing nominees in the history of the Oscars gathered for a candid discussion about their experiences in the industry. Before even reading the article, the accompanying photo was already telling in two significant ways. Firstly, the paltry 4 nominees couldn’t even fill a single year’s quota of nominees. And secondly, the oldest nominated film represented was “Boyz n the Hood“, released just 27 years ago in the summer of 1991. Though the blaxploitation movement had already emerged out of the civil rights movement and Spike Lee had given us the seminal “Do the Right Thing” two years earlier, it wasn’t until “Boyz n the Hood” that a black director finally received that public stamp of industry approval.
REVIEW: The China Hustle
By no fault of its own, Jed Rothstein’s “The China Hustle” is an eye-opening yet somewhat underwhelming documentary. Thanks to prominent media coverage and a slew of fiction and non-fiction films about the 2008 economic crisis, its revelations of fraud will hardly alarm even the most casually informed viewer. Many Americans have already become disillusioned with the nation’s financial institutions. But this fascinating documentary further adds an unexpected piece to a global puzzle of capitalism gone mad.
REVIEW: Keep the Change
As the spirit of activism attempts to upend longstanding Hollywood paradigms, efforts at more inclusive filmmaking practices is a trending topic. Indeed, Frances McDormand recently sent the world into a googling frenzy when she ended her Oscar acceptance speech with the word “inclusion rider”. But what do we mean when we say “inclusion”? Too often our discussions around diversity are quite literally “black and white”. But the fabric of our modern society is a technicolor quilt of varied experiences, all of which deserved to be treated with the level of sincere empathy that writer-director Rachel Israel brings to “Keep the Change“. In this award-winning debut feature, Israel delivers a precious take on the classic romantic comedy, casting a pair of autistic characters as its lovestruck leads.
REVIEW: Claire's Camera
In the opening moments of Hong Sang-soo’s “Claire’s Camera“, a film sales assistant named Manhee (Kim Min-hee) is fired during a work trip at the Cannes Film Festival. The reasoning for her dismissal is a lack of trust, as her boss claims that she lacks honesty. As we follow her subsequent aimless drifting through this seaside city, the notion of truth becomes a primary concern for the film, which commits steadfastly to understated realism.
10 Black Films to Anticipate in 2018
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that “Black Panther” has taken the world by storm. With its record-smashing box office and cultural impact, the film has captured our imaginations and gave us a Black History Month to remember. Its monumental success has truly shattered any illusions as to the limited commercial potential of black films, though Hollywood will surely attempt to dismiss it as an anomaly. It is therefore up to us movie lovers to prove them wrong. And if the exciting slate of 2018 releases is any indication, we can expect many more opportunities to celebrate black excellence at the movies this year.
Ranging from big franchise movies to eccentric indies, here are 10 upcoming films to look forward to, all directed by and starring black talent:
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OSCAR WATCH: A Quiet Place
Over a century ago, cinema as we know it began with silent films, which laid the foundation for many of the common techniques used by filmmakers today. Despite the lack of audible dialogue, those early pioneers were able to capture the imagination of audiences and tell unforgettable stories. Fast forward to the 21st century and populist cinema has adopted a more noisy, talky approach. It's for this reason that John Krasinski's exceptional "A Quiet Place" stands out so noticeably in today's marketplace. Indeed, few words are audibly spoken throughout this nerve-wracking sophomore feature. But Krasinski proves to be highly fluent in another language - the powerful audiovisual language of horror cinema.
"A Quiet Place" is set in the near future in 2020, a time when most the world's human population has been decimated by mysterious deadly creatures. Those who remain are constantly living on a knife's edge, as they must remain quiet at all times to avoid detection by these creatures who use their hypersensitive hearing to track down their victims. Among the survivors is the Abbott Family - husband Lee (John Krasinski), wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt), sons Marcus (Noah Jupe) and Beau (Cade Woodward), and deaf daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) - who struggle to survive while they seek to learn how to stop these monsters before it's too late.
From this intriguingly original premise, Krasinski crafts one of the most effective horror films ever made. Thanks to the unbearably tense silence, every jump scare is twice as startling and every creepy sound sends a chill down your spine. And like any good monster flick, the creature design is absolutely terrifying to behold. The film is so scary that it will make you want to run screaming for the doors.
But although you'll want to call on Jesus to save you from this nightmarish experience, you'll still be willfully glued to your seat. What elevates this horror story is its potent human element, thanks to a deeply affecting emotional throughline and a compelling rooting factor for the characters. Doing double duty, Krasinski is just a proficient in front of the camera as the family's heroic father, further displaying his newfound leading man appeal. By his side, Emily Blunt is as expressive as ever in a role that calls on her considerable skills as an actress. As wife, mother and vulnerable, she is at once warm, formidable and tender. But perhaps the most significant performance in the film comes from Millicent Simmonds. Following her debut performance in "Wonderstruck", she continues to be a shining example of the endless capabilities of deaf actors, giving the film an empathetic perspective of adolescent angst.
As with many horror movies, the plot relies on a few bad decisions from these characters to move the plot along and set up the dangerous scenarios. But when a film is this well made, these minor contrivances are easily forgiven. Thanks to Krasinski's masterful use of image and sound, Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director are certainly within the realm of possibility. And in my opinion, they'd be well deserved. "A Quiet Place" is one of the most enthralling theatrical experiences I've had in recent memory and easily my favourite film of 2018 so far.
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Labels: Best Sound Editing, OSCAR WATCH, review
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SMSD reveals teachers of the year
April 25, 2019 by Staff Reports
The ones molding young minds in Stafford Municipal School District are being recognized for their contributions to forming the minds of tomorrow.
Maricela Diaz (Stafford Elementary), Zenikka Nichols (Stafford Intermediate), Djuna Cole (Stafford Middle School) and Nicole Herbert (Stafford High School) were recently named Stafford MSD’s campus teachers of the year.
On May 23, one of the four year will be selected as the 2018-19 Stafford MSD Teacher of the Year.
Diaz, an MSD veteran, has a master’s degree from Houston Baptist University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston. She recently watched her first group of first graders graduate from Stafford High. She taught first grade for eight years, kindergarten for the past eight and also serves as the campus’ ESL/Bilingual Coordinator.
“I love my kindergartners,” Diaz said. “I love teaching them how to read and seeing that light bulb go off.”
Nichols is in her fourth year as a sixth grade Science/Social Studies teacher at Stafford Intermediate. Although she’s relatively new to public education, she said “teaching” is nothing new for her.
“When I graduated from kindergarten in Clinton, Miss., the teacher asked the students, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’,” she said. “For me, it was a teacher. I was always teaching. In Sunday school, as a teller. Four years ago, I was blessed to become a teacher in Stafford.”
She credits her faith with her move to Houston, and will soon be at the district’s new middle school campus when it opens.
She is working on a master’s degree from Houston Baptist University.
“The Lord brought me to Houston,” Nichols said. “I came here on faith. I didn’t know anyone.”
Cole is in her fourth year teaching seventh grade English at Stafford Middle School. A native of Springfield, Ohio, Cole earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and a master’s degree from Troy University in Alabama.
“I love education and learning,” Cole said. “Coming to Stafford MSD was an unexpected blessing and opportunity. I believe in the power of the written word.”
Herbert grew up in Houston, and her ties to the area – many of her cousins graduated from Stafford MSD, while her fifth grade teacher in Houston was Don Jones, who came to Stafford MSD to work as a principal – has played a key role in staying.
“Stafford MSD has given me the chance to grow personally and professionally,” she said. “We have a lot of opportunities to hone our craft and reach our students.”
After graduating from Trinity University in San Antonio, Herbert later worked for two neighboring school districts. She’s in her fourth year at Stafford High School, where she teaches freshman and sophomore English and ESL, and serves as the school’s UIL journalism sponsor.
“I want to make sure every child knows they mean something, and I try to balance accountability with grace,” she said.
Filed Under: School News Tagged With: SMSD, Stafford Municipal School District, Teacher of the Year
Malissie says
Yay, Ms.Nichols…congrats, you deserve this!!
Congrats to all of our SMSD teachers!
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Mark Waid’s Irredeemable destined for big screen
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As the search continues for more comics to adapt for film the latest development is that Fox is looking to bring Mark Waid’s Irredeemable to the big screen. Which should be interesting to say the least. Why you ask? For those that don’t know Irredeemable (published by BOOM! Studios Between 2009 and 2012 with Peter […]
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2013 has seen a lot of things happening in the world of comics, with both DC and Marvel launching new titles whilst others have been cancelled. There’s been various events too from DC’s Trinity War to Marvel’s X-Men Battle of the Atom . In a different corner of the comics world far removed from the […]
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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: The Road Below – 8 GPPs
Stood in the depths of the labyrinth Kirsty Cotton recalls the tale of a time not long after joining Levianthan’s ranks, where she was summoned to New Orleans by Lemarchand’s puzzle box. A tale involving a bitter blood feud between families and a warning about where good intentions lead. The rich world of Clive Barker‘s […]
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Joplin Live Wire: O.P.M. Wiley
If the desire for something sweet, something chocolate, comes over a modern day Joplinite, they can hop in the car and make their way to the Candy House. A hundred years ago, the Joplinite with the sweet tooth might have made their way to the Independent Candy Company, the secretary and treasurer of which was Oliver P.M. Wiley. An Indiana native, Wiley made his way to Joplin from Parsons, Kansas, during what the Joplin Daily Globe described as, the “Boom of ’99.” Perhaps his first job in Joplin was assistant manager at the Joplin Hotel, the hotel owned by Thomas Connor which was razed to make way for the Connor Hotel. Two years later, he helped form and establish the Independent Candy Company. In 1910, Wiley was the elected official from the Fourth Ward on the City Council (one of his two elections to the city council) and called 634 Wall Street his home.
The factory was bought and incorporated into the complex that is now home to the Joplin Supply Company.
The Joplin Independent Candy And Manufacturing Company was reportedly established in 1903 and was located at 4th and Missouri Street (now Michigan Street). It was famous for its “Ye Olden Tyme” candies and the company motto was “Do ye unto others even as ye would they should unto thee.” The factory shut down temporarily in 1918 for a lack of sugar. While at the time of the live wire in 1910, Wiley served as treasurer and secretary and eventually rose to the position of company president.
Wiley had an active civic life. In 1925, he was made a 33 degree Mason and was on the building committee that oversaw the construction of Joplin’s present Scottish Rite Cathedral (he was also on the YMCA board established to build the present YMCA building at 5th and Wall). He helped organized Joplin’s Rotary Club and was its first president, and was elected also to the school board in 1914 and served as president from 1916 to 1920. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, he served one term also as president. Prior to his death, he was elected as an associate judge of the Jasper County Court’s western district. Wiley, unlike our last live wire, made Joplin his permanent home and died on January 19, 1936. Wiley is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Home Research > Members > 1660-1690 > PEIRCE (PIERSE), Sir Edmund (-d.1667)
PEIRCE (PIERSE), Sir Edmund (d.1667), of Greenwich, Kent and Holborn, Mdx.
1661 - c. Aug. 1667
educ. Corpus Christi, Camb. 1629, Trinity Hall 1633, Ll.B 1635, Ll.D 1639, DCL 1639; adv. Doctors’ Commons 1640-6, 1661-d.; M. Temple 1641. m. 16 Aug. 1629, Jane (bur. 18 Oct. 1665), da. of James Franklyn of Maidstone, Kent, 1s. 1da. Kntd. 10 July 1645.1
Commissary, archdeaconry of Suff. 1637-42; dep. v.-adm. Suff. 1637-c.40, commr. for piracy 1640, judge of Admiralty, Cinque Ports May 1660-d.; chancellor, Wells dioc. July 1660-d.; j.p. Essex, Kent and Mdx. July 1660-d., Som. 1662-d.; commr, for assessment, Kent Aug. 1660-3, 1664-d., Colchester and Essex 1664-d., corporations, Kent 1662-3, loyal and indigent officers, Essex, Kent, London and Westminster 1662.2
Proctor, ct. of arches 1639; master of requests 1644-6; master in Chancery June 1660-d.
Officer, R. Life Gds. 1642; col. of horse (royalist) 1643-6, 1648; judge adv.-gen. c.1643-6.
Peirce was born in Buckinghamshire. He was noted for his severity towards Puritans in the ecclesiastical courts, and on 26 Feb. 1640 a petition was presented to the Long Parliament charging him with extortion and other offences. In 1642 he joined the King at York, whence he was sent into Kent where he helped to draft the Kentish petition. He was imprisoned by Parliament for a few weeks, and on his release rejoined the King, raised a regiment of horse and took part in many engagements in the first War, suffering ‘several wounds’. In 1646 he compounded, his fine being set at £82. He was again imprisoned after the 1655 rising, being then resident in Colchester, where he had been left considerable property by George Gilbert, his son’s godfather and a prominent resident of the town. Peirce wrote and privately printed nine pamphlets in support of the monarchy and the Church of England. On 19 Apr. 1660 he and Sir Benjamin Ayloffe presented a declaration of the Essex Royalists to General George Monck. After the Restoration he stated that
he hath been deprived of all benefit of his profession or any place whatsoever almost twenty years; his chamber at the Doctors’ Commons seized, plundered, and all his books and goods sold, plundered in several other places in London, Essex and Kent. All his other estates whatsoever sequestrated and squandered, and although he had the articles of Oxford, yet was with much difficulty admitted to compound for what remained.
He was rewarded with the post of judge of Admiralty in the Cinque Ports and a mastership in Chancery. He also became chancellor of the diocese of Wells, perhaps as kinsman of Bishop William Piers, though his parentage has not been ascertained.3
Peirce’s return for Maidstone in 1661 may have been assisted by his wife’s connexions; his father-in-law, who died in 1641, had been recorder. He was probably listed by Lord Wharton as a friend to be managed by Sir Richard Onslow. He was a very active Member of the Cavalier Parliament in its earlier sessions, with 221 committees, in seven of which he took the chair, and five tellerships. His chief interests were ecclesiastical, such as bills to empower churchwardens to raise money for repairs, to prevent mischief from Quakers, and to divide the parish of Wrotham. He was named to the committees to consider the corporations bill and the bill to prevent tumultuary petitioning. He took charge of two important bills in committee, the uniformity bill and the bill to restore the temporal jurisdiction of the clergy, under which the bishops were restored to the House of Lords; but his failure to provide against the return of High Commission had to be made good at the report stage. A member of the committee on the bill of pains and penalties for those excepted from the Act of Indemnity, he was added to the managers of the conference of 27 July when the Commons abandoned the proviso on behalf of the Marquess of Winchester. After the autumn recess he took the chair on the bill for the execution of those under attainder and helped to manage a conference. On 25 Feb. 1662 he was teller for those who found James Philipps guilty of sitting on a high court of justice that condemned a Cavalier plotter to death. He opposed the bill to set up a ‘court of conscience’ for small claims in the London suburbs. His first report as chairman for the Dover harbour bill did not satisfy the London merchants, and he was teller on 15 Mar. for an amendment introduced in committee. Together with (Sir) John Bramston and the Hon. William Montagu he was instructed to bring in a bill for the repeal of the Triennial Act on 4 Apr. With three other Members he was sent to ask the King that all the money intended for the loyal and indigent officers might be distributed by Michaelmas, and appointed to another small committee to insert an appropriate clause in the supply bill for a tax on offices for this purpose. But he was teller against imposing an oath on the contributors. He was among those ordered to proof-read the text of the revised Book of Common Prayer, opposed a debate on the amendments introduced by Convocation, and helped to fix the cost of the folio edition. He also helped to draft a list of those ecclesiastics who were to be required to renounce the Covenant and to prepare for the conference of 30 Apr. A member of the committee on the bill to increase clerical incomes in market towns and corporations, he was among those ordered to recommend whether a conference should be desired or a new bill prepared. He was appointed to the committee for the additional corporations bill, and on the last day of the session sent to ask the King not to exercise his right to appoint by lapse to livings where presentations had been delayed by parliamentary proceedings.4
Though never again so prominent as in 1662 Peirce remained active in the next session. He was named to the committees to report on defects in the Act of Uniformity, to consider a bill against pluralities, and to draft the address against the Declaration of Indulgence. He was also among those appointed to consider a petition from the loyal and indigent officers and a bill to prevent concurrent leases of ecclesiastical property. On 11 Apr. he was named to a committee to bring in a bill for expediting the hearing of maritime and mercantile cases in the law-courts, but three days later he was given leave ‘to go into the country for a month’. He returned punctually, and was appointed to the committees to consider the bill against abuses in the sale of offices and honours, to provide remedies against sectarian meetings, and to inquire into the conduct of Sir Richard Temple. Listed as a court dependant in 1664, he was named to the committees for the Lord’s Day observance bill, the conventicles bill, and the additional corporations bill. In December his committees included those to provide for the better collection of tithe from sectaries and Quakers and to regulate exorbitant fees. He was named to the committee of elections and privileges for the Oxford session, but his wife, who had evidently accompanied him to escape from the plague, was buried at St. Aldate’s a week later and he took no further part in its proceedings. In the next session he was appointed to the committees to consider the public accounts bill and the bill against imports from France. He was buried in the Temple church on 10 Aug. 1667. He died intestate, and nothing is known of his descendants.5
Author: Basil Duke Henning
1. C. A. H. Franklin, Franklyn Fams. 26; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 3), ii. 210; Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 77; City of Oxford (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xxvii), 208.
2. B. P. Levack, Civil Lawyers, 261-2; SP23/192/623; HMC Wells, ii. 430; Q. Sess. Recs. (Som. Rec. Soc. xxxiv), p. xvi.
3. Levack, 261; T. P. S. Woods, Prelude to Civil War, 41, 62-64; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 367; PCC 149 Alchin; Add. 34016, f. 15; Declaration of the Gentry of Essex (1660); Essex Arch. Soc. Trans. (ser. 1), v. 149; Grantees of Arms (Harl. Soc. lxvi), 195.
4. CJ, viii. 295, 296, 346, 349, 355, 380, 384, 387, 395, 403, 408.
5. Temple Church Reg. 18; Prob. 6/42/122v.
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Minnesota Wild boast talented group of European and collegiate prospects
By Peter Prohaska
Photo: The 10th overall pick in the 2011 NHL draft, Jonas Brodin is among the many talented young players the Wild have drafted out of Europe. (Photo courtesy of Vincent Muzik/Icon SMI)
The Wild commenced a 'soft' rebuild on the day Chuck Fletcher took over for Doug Risebrough. The majority of Risebrough's prospects have been flushed, and a steady eye for the future has been in evidence. It hasn't been a 'scorched earth' rebuild, whether out of honor or overconfidence, and the team should rebound soon from a season where injuries exposed a lack of elite talent. Free agents and reclamation projects can only bring a franchise so far, and Fletcher's regime has brought a concerted effort toward finding talent to the draft board. The Wild has been preparing for several of the young men playing in the U.S. college ranks and in Europe to form the team's core going forward.
Mikael Granlund, C, HIFK (SM-Liiga)
Drafted 1st round, 9th overall, 2010
The pressures on Mikael Granlund have been extraordinary this season. A teenager who has been arguably the best player in the SM-Liiga two years in a row, Granlund has had the additional burdens of school and military duty to go with his growing hockey legacy. Already a national hero for helping lead Team Finland to a World Championship in 2011, he captained a somewhat undermanned World Junior squad this season. Having upset Team USA and played Team Sweden to a draw in the semifinals, Granlund lost the puck off his stick in his shootout attempt. Despite that visible mistake, and with early season injury and late season illness, Granlund led the SM-Liiga in points per game, and also had better than a point-per-game in the Juniors tournament where he played in every situation. For now his focus is on a second League championship with HIFK, but next season should see him make his NHL debut.
Jonas Brodin, D, Färjestads BK (SEL)
Drafted 1st round, 10th overall, 2011
Brodin also played a large role in his team's winning a championship in the Swedish Elite League last season. In the World Juniors Brodin played a ton of key minutes, helping Team Sweden win its first gold in a generation. Though still a teenager, Brodin is already an excellent pro defenseman who gets the tough matches in Elite League play. Though his single-digit offensive totals are troubling to the North American mind, Sweden's top league is defensive-oriented, and to that degree, Brodin's natural focus is preventing goals. However, he has a tendency to score goals once the playoffs start, and this is true again this season. A natural student of the game, Brodin's transition to the North American game is coming soon, though he needs more weight and bulk to win battles in the NHL.
Johan Larsson, LW/C, Brynäs (SEL)
Drafted 2nd round, 56th overall, 2010
Captain of Team Sweden in several of its iterations over the years, Larsson is a natural leader whose tenacity is more of an asset than his scoring ability. That said, he has picked up his scoring in his second pro season with Brynäs, and taken a role as the first line center. This has allowed the other young men, Calle Järnkrok (DET) and Jakob Silfverberg (OTT), easier assignments. Brynäs is clicking now as it makes a playoff run. Larsson's transition to the North American game should be fairly seamless, with the caveat that he has needed a significant adjustment period each time he has advanced a league in the past.
Johan Gustafsson, G, Luleå (SEL)
Drafted 6th round, 159th overall, 2010
Johan Gustafsson put up very solid numbers as a first-year starter in the Swedish Elite League, with a .932 save percentage. Just as goal scoring numbers in Sweden seem very low compared to North American numbers, goaltending statistics should be taken with a grain of salt as well. That number was, however, fifth best in the league, and is obviously encouraging from that perspective. Also encouraging is Gustafsson's gold medal winning shutout at the World Juniors, but that must be tempered by mentioning his overall .888 save percentage for the tournament. In all, goaltenders take various amounts of time to develop consistency, and Gustafsson is coming along just fine. Earlier this season, it seemed that the Wild had almost too many good goalie prospects in the pipeline, but that depth was severely tested: so much so that they had to make an emergency signing at one point. While Gustafsson is most likely inked in to start another season with Luleå, he is certainly on the team's radar.
Mikko Lehtonen, RW, Skellefteå (SEL)
Acquired via trade with the Boston Bruins, February 28, 2011
The Wild might wish for a do-over on the trade that sent reliable goalie backup Anton Khudobin to the Bruins for the flighty Mikko Lehtonen. A skilled sniper who was a plus scorer for the Providence Bruins (AHL) and in the Swedish Elite League, Lehtonen has appeared disinterested in pushing for the next level. He seems to have hit a wall in the KHL, putting up 21 points in 48 games with Severstal Cherepovets, and he has now disappeared for a second year in the playoffs. At just 25, and still possessed of a desirable skill-set, Lehtonen probably doesn't figure much in the Wild's plans at this juncture.
Bjorn Krupp, D, Kölner Haie (DEL)
Signed as free agent, September 18, 2009
Krupp is another size and bloodlines acquisition, one tradition that carried over from the Risebrough regime. The son of Stanley Cup hero Uwe Krupp, Bjorn played three seasons on a very weak Belleville Bulls (OHL) squad, and ultimately decided to develop his game further in his native Germany. He put up a few points this season (eight assists in 48 games), but is sidelined now with a knee injury. Krupp does play a slightly more physically engaging game than many of the other prospects, which is something that seems lacking in the system as a whole.
Jason Zucker, LW, Denver Pioneers (WCHA)
It went a little under-reported when Jason Zucker made the 2011-12 WCHA All-Academic team, but it is just another indicator that Zucker is a player who understands doing things the right way. Despite a disappointing 2012 World Juniors, Jason Zucker has built on his impressive freshman season with equally good numbers over fewer games. He has the unscientifically-based skill of scoring clutch goals, with an elite overtime winner against Michigan Tech and a brilliant breakaway goal against UMD in the WCHA playoffs. His Denver Pioneers will still have a chance for more playoff hockey in the NCAA tournament.
Chuck Fletcher has stated that he would like to turn Zucker pro after the season ends, and all signs point to this being a likely outcome. He does have a slight propensity to absorbing hits, which he will need to get out of his system in order to thrive as a pro.
Erik Haula, LW -Minnesota Golden Gophers (WCHA)
Drafted 7th round, 182nd overall, 2009
Sophomore Erik Haula also repeated his scoring totals from last season, but showed a more diverse game this year. Despite finishing in the top 15 scorers nationwide, Haula seems to fly under the radar. He certainly doesn't have the size or draft pedigree of occasional linemates Nick Bjugstad (FLA), Zach Budish (NAS), or Kyle Rau (FLA), but Haula led the Golden Gophers in scoring. Part of the Wild's philosophy has always seemed to be counting on the innate tenacity of the Finnish player, and while Haula has that, he also possesses some great scoring instincts.
As with a lot of players in the system, Haula will be at a bit of crossroads next season. Adding even more bulk and speed could have him well positioned to contribute as a pro in 2013-2014.
Sean Lorenz, D, Notre Dame Fighting Irish (CCHA)
Lorenz is finishing up a fine four-year college career at Notre Dame. An understated defenseman who wore the captain's C for the Irish this season, Lorenz has a reputation as a young man of high character on and off the ice. A brutal February killed tournament hopes for his talented Notre Dame squad, but Lorenz had a very sound outing nonetheless. His offensive totals were somewhat unimpressive but his solid play was acknowledged with several accolades, most notably the CCHA's Best Defenseman award in 2011. He has yet to sign a pro contract, but it wouldn't be too surprising to see in him in Houston next season. Lorenz isn't huge but has a decent frame for pro hockey, at about 6'1 and 195 pounds.
Stephen Michalek, G, Harvard Crimson (ECAC)
Drafted 6th round, 161st overall, 2011
The true freshman stepped right in as the starter for the Crimson, and predictably struggled, although Harvard as a team was much better this year than last. After posting a .894 save percentage in 24 games Michalek was unseated late in the season by Raphael Girard, the second-year player. While it's no doubt discouraging for Michalek, collegiate life takes all kinds of adjustments, and Michalek has plenty of time to rebound and correct.
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DISNEY ON ICE PRESENTS DARE TO DREAM IS COMING TO FAIRFAX, SEPT. 29 - OCT. 8
With summer break nearly being a thing of the past, we are gearing up for yet another school year. What better a way to commemorate this next year of school with a Fabulous Disney show: Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream; Produced by Feld Entertainment?!
This show features two lovely hosts, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, who will bring the audience on an expedition across raging seas and snow covered mountains in this action-packed extravaganza. Disney’s Moana voyages onto the ice for the first time as Disney On Ice presents Dare To Dream brings courage and adventure to hometowns across North America.
Tickets currently start at just $20 and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets via charge, by phone at 1-800-745-3000, via www.ticketmaster.com, and at the EagleBank Arena box office.
Show Times:
Friday, September 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 30 at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 1 at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Friday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 7 at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
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Performing at the EagleBank Arena from September 29 – October 8, audiences will celebrate what’s possible as five Disney heroines spark the courage inside us all in Disney On Ice presents Dare To Dream! See how far Moana will go in an epic adventure with demigod, Maui, to save her island and discover her true identity. Join Belle as she fearlessly befriends the enchanted castle staff and reveals the Beast’s gentleness. Experience Anna’s devotion to her sister, Elsa, on her life-changing journey to stop an eternal winter. Explore with Rapunzel, Flynn Ryder, Cinderella and friends from around the Disney Kingdom as they find the heart and determination to overcome obstacles and make their dreams come true. Journey with Mickey and Minnie to uncover why no goal is too big when we find the strength to shape our own destiny at Disney On Ice presents Dare To Dream!
Produced by Feld Entertainment, Disney On Ice presents Dare to Dream features an incredible display of special effects, stunning set design and breathtaking choreography on the ice.
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iliana emilia garcia
Bachelor of Fine Art, Communication Design, Parsons School of Design at The New School of Design, New York, NY, 1991.
Associate in Applied Sciences, Graphic Design, Summa cum laude. Altos de Chavón / The School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic, 1989.
La razón / el objeto / la palabra, The Reason/The Object/The Word, Galería ASR Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Story Piles, Affordable Art Fair-Fall Edition at the Tunnel, New York
Commissioned by the West Harlem Art Fund
Centro Docente/Homeschooling, Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Diario / Diary, IV Caribbean and Central America Biennial, Palacio de Bellas Artes,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Chosen Hearts, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY.
One Last Sitting, Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, Bronx, NY.
To Get to Heaven, Galería Fundación de Arte Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
Visual Memory: Home and Place, AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, DC.
Home is Gold, Taller Boricua, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York, NY.
DUOtone, 490 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
RompeOLAS / Breaking the Sea, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY.
2019 Dimensión Móvil, Commissioned Public Art for the 27th Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic
Empathy. Smack Gallery Mellon, Brooklyn, NY.
Queenie: Selected Artworks by Female Artists from El Museo del Barrio Collection. Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY.
Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Their Diasporas. BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
Easy Encounters, West Harlem Art Fund at Governor's Island, New York, NY.
Más Allá de la Alteridad: Homenaje a la gran artista dominicana Soucy de Pellerano, Galería ASR Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
OPEN Call: TRUTH, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY.
Personal Identity Matter. Gallery MC, New York, NY.
Unfinished Stories, Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY.
Resilience: Reclaiming History and the Dominican Diaspora, Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, DC.
Borinqueya, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY.
Arte/Amor, Taller Boricua, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York, NY.
La permanencia del dibujo. Trece artistas de hoy, Galería ASR Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Autodefiniciones-Narrativas femeninas en el arte actual. Galeria ASR Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
OPEN (C)all, Up for Debate, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
Tyranny’s Tears, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY.
Borimix 2015, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY.
Memorial, ACTe Museum, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe.
Relatos de hoy, Galería ASR Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Reinterpretaciones y Subjetividades, Galería ASR, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Bring in the Reality, No Longer Empty / Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY.
Open Call, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
Cuestion de actitud, Galería ASR, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
If You Build It, No Longer Empty / Broadway Housing Sugar Hill Building, NY.
Reality of Placement, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.
Caribbean Waves North, Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA (DYPG), The Latino Museum, Omaha, NE.
Community, DYPG at Word UP Community Bookstore, New York, NY.
Crossroads, Local Project, LIC, New York, NY.
Auto-exile, Bronx Center for the Arts, Bronx, NY.
Art-ternate, Pop Up installation at 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
Endless Vision, Ephemeral Art project, NOMAA and the NY Restoration Project, Swindler Cove Park, NY.
Detour, Local projects, LIC, New York, NY.
Detour, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Once upon a Seat… Play-LABS, outdoors installation in collaboration with the West Harlem Art Fund and NY Restoration Project, New York, NY.
Our America: The Latino Presence in America Art. Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC. Traveled to The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida nternational University, Miami, FL; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN.
Here &There, DYPG, University of California-Washington Gallery, DC.
Visiones colectivas en espacios vinculados, Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Aware, Manhattan Graphic Center, New York, NY.
Nomaa, DYPG, New York, NY.
Contemporary Latin American Art, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD.
El panal / The Hive, Third Triennial Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Casa de los Contrafuertes, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Flores y espinas, Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), San Salvador, El Salvador.
Actualizaciones y Manifestaciones-Dominican York, Celaja, Mexico
Here & There and Manifestaciones, Barnard College, New York, NY.
Eternal Chase in collaboration with Scherezade Garcia, Figment 2012-Governors Island, New York, NY.
El Cambio / The Change, The World Bank, Washington, DC.
Loosely Coupled, West Harlem Fund at Governors Island, New York, NY.
Marathon of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Encuentros, Brooklyn College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Etnia-Art Fair, Espacio Latinoamericano, Brussels, Belgium.
La Peña, Austin, Texas
Babel, QMAD at Space 37, Jackson Heights, NY.
Manifestaciones, Dominican York PROYECTO GRAFICA, The City College of New York, NY. Traveled to University of California Washington Center Art Gallery, Washington, DC; Empire State College Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
ABRO Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL.
AriZONA, El Taller Latinoamericano, New York, NY.
25th Anniversary Show, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Dreambox, District & Co. Gallery, Santo Domingo, DR.
Voices/Voces: Selections from the Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, NY.
FUSION, The BIGGS Museum, Dover, DE.
Back to Back / Face to Face: The Art of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Washington, DC.
Grand Tour 2, Gallery MC, New York, NY
The Labyrinth Wall, Exit ART, New York, NY.
LOOP, Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
Emerge 8, Aljira Center of Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.
ReGROUPING, 3 Generations of Latin American Artists, Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY.
AWAY: Dominican Women in the Diaspora, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.
De allá pa’ acá y de aquí pa’ allá, XXV anniversary of Galería Arawak Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Video-creadores-iberoamericanos, IVAM, Instituto Artes Visuales, Valencia, Spain.
Currents, ARTMiami with District & Co., Miami, FL.
The skin I’m In: Dominican Art from the Museo’s Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
¡Merengue! Ritmos Visuales / Visual Rhymths, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Traveled to:
El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE; AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA; Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI; William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
PERIFERIA, Sin Título Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Studio Visit, video, Exit Art, New York, NY.
The S-Files, El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
Dominicanazo, Samson Projects, Boston, MA.
Video-creadores-iberoamericanos, Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar, Asunción, Paraguay
SCOPE Art Fair-New York, Samson Projects, New York, NY.
The TEN, Gallery MC, New York, NY.
Panorama of the City, Queens Museum of Arts, NY.
Post Platano, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY.
Ms. Washington Heights, Public Art for Apple Fest, New York, NY.
L Factor, Homage to Hostos, Exit Art, New York, NY.
10 Years of Editions, Joan Guaita Art, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Proyecto Paraguas Intervenidos, Museo de Bellas Artes Urbano Poggi, Rafaela, Argentina.
A la orden del día, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Spanic Attack, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY.
How February Was Born, Cinema SLAM, Brooklyn Academy of Music–Short Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
Women and Artists, Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY.
To Scale, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Joan Guaita ART, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
DDNY 2000: Dominican Designers in New York, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
ARCO Fair, Joan Guaita ART, Madrid, Spain.
Art Caracas 2001, Joan Guaita ART, Caracas, Venezuela.
ARTMiami 2001, Joan Guaita ART, Miami, FL.
Fresh Produce, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY.
Known Territories, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.
E. León Jiménes Art Biennial, Santiago, Dominican Republic.
ART Shanghai, Joan Guaita ART, Shanghai, China.
ARTissima, Joan Guaita ART, Turin, Italy.
Politics, Poetics and Books, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
DDNY 2000: Dominican Designers in New York, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
SDQ-JFK An Heroic Effort, The Carriage House, New York, NY.
Disorienting Signs, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY.
Sound Fates, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY.
10th Anniversary of Fundación de Arte Galería Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
International Festival of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Celebrating the Altos de Chavón/Parsons Affiliation, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
Manifesto, Mary Anthony Galleries, New York, NY.
XX National Biennial of the Dominican Republic, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
One Foot Here and the Other There, Ossaye Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Crossings: 13 Artists from the Dominican Republic, Krasdale Foods, Inc., Bronx, NY.
Crossings, Henry Street Settlement Luis Abron Arts Center, New York, NY.
Altos de Chavón / The School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic
Arthur Paxton, NJ, USA
Cariforo Institute, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Carmen Rita Pérez Pellerano, Dominican Republic
Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Colección de Arte del Palacio Nacional de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
District & Co., Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Eduardo Díaz, Washington, DC, USA
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Elba Bermúdez, Dominican Republic
Fundación Centro de Arte Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Fundación Ortíz-Gurdian, Managua, Nicaragua
Gilberto Cardenas & Dolores Garcia Carrillo, Austin, TX, USA
Joan Guaita ART, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Joanne Flores, Washington, DC, USA
Leonora Vega, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, New York and Puerto Rico
Ligia Reid Bonetti, Madrid, Spain
María del Carmen Ossaye, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Mary Anthony Galleries Collection, New Hope, PA
Mary Pily de Rodríguez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Rafael Tulio Pérez De León, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Olga & Carlos Herrera, Vienna, VA
Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art, New York, NY
Pierre Restany, Spain.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Susan Lizan & Bob Immerman
Suzy Guzman de Ferreira
Yuyu Sánchez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Acero, Carlos. Arte Joven Dominicano. Santo Domingo: Fundación AES Dominicana, 2009.
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Speech Recognition: Writing Effective Prompts
By Blade Kotelly
The Language of Asking Questions
The Art of Writing Perfect Prompts
Writing Prompts for Elegance, Speed, and Value
Getting Callers to Focus on the Essentials
Some Subtleties of Prompt Writing
Top Five Good Tenets for Writing Prompts
Top Five Mistakes When Writing Prompts
Where We've Been—Where We're Going
Art and Business of Speech Recognition, The: Creating the Noble Voice
The art of writing the perfect prompt is to convey ideas clearly and concisely. No extra words. No fuzzy language. A well-constructed prompt guides the caller to say only things the recognizer will understand. If a recognizer is able to understand almost everything that a caller might say in a particular context, then the prompt can be less directed. For example, a system might just say "Hello, and welcome to Thrifty Car Rental. What would you like?" Callers might say hundreds of thousands of things to answer this question, and thus the recognizer would have to be able to recognize most of them to be successful. Most recognizers don't work this way at the moment. If, however, the recognizer is looking for a particular word (such as a manufacturer of automobiles), the prompt must direct callers to answer specifically. For example, by having the prompt ask, "What's the automobile manufacturer?" instead of "What type of automobile?" we could minimize the chance that callers would say words such as "van" or "sedan."
In addition, prompt language must be consistent with:
The original concept of the design
The way the company expresses itself in other media
The rest of the text spoken in the application
Writing Effective Initial Prompts and Commands/Command Phrases
Initial prompts must convey ideas clearly so callers can understand what they are expected to say. This doesn't mean that we need to provide callers with a long, drawn-out explanation at every turn of the dialogue. Once we establish that a particular calling population is comfortable with a speech-recognition system—and once we confirm that the caller has successfully answered some basic questions, like "Is that correct? Yes or no?"—then we can start to drop the "Yes or no" part and just ask the basic question.
As we've already discussed, it's important to be clear and consistent when writing prompts that present a list of options. For example, it may not be a good idea to have an initial prompt that says:
"Main menu. You can say 'Reports,' 'Exchange,' or 'Security.'"
The problem? There might be little or no context for the options—and the words themselves offer few clues. Both "Reports" and "Exchange" can be either nouns or verbs, and "Security" could refer to anything from data encryption to insurance coverage.
If, however, we rewrote the prompt so that all the selections were expressed in the form of imperative sentences that provide greater precision, callers could quickly understand the ideas—and their responses would also feel more conversational:
"Main menu. You can say 'Get the reports,' 'Make an exchange,' or 'Change my PIN.'"
Consistency is always important when designing prompts or when those prompts contain commands that the caller is to use later on. For example, the Wildfire Communications "voice-activated personal assistant," also called "Wildfire," uses the command "Describe it" to enable users to hear information about their phone messages (rather than listen to the actual message), such as the time the call arrived. But the clever thing about the design is that the user can say "Describe it" for any object—and Wildfire will tell the "header" information about that object. If a user said, "Describe it" while working with an e-mail message, Wildfire would tell the caller additional information about that message, such as who sent it, the subject of the message, and so on. By teaching the user a single command—and employing it consistently throughout the application—Wildfire makes it easy for its users to get more out of the system without learning new commands.
Designing Effective Retry and Timeout Prompts
How many retry and timeout prompts should a system give a caller before considering it a failure? I generally recommend presenting no more than two; anything more is likely to irritate a caller.
While it's sometimes acceptable to repeat the same prompt twice, often the designer will want to vary them to give the caller more information to help them answer the question correctly or get them back on track. As with help prompts, the best way to begin writing a retry or timeout prompt is by answering the question "Why would the caller not have said something valid at this point?" By considering all the possible answers to that question, we can write prompts that address most—if not all—of them. Many of the possible answers relate back to examining how the original prompt was written. For example, if we were designing a system for a motel by an interstate highway (frequented largely by travelers arriving by car or truck), we might assume that we needn't ask "Will you be parking a vehicle in our lot?" Instead, we'd skip ahead and ask, "What's the make and model of your vehicle?"
However, there will be at least a few people who won't be traveling to the motel by car or truck, but by bus, taxi, or maybe even on foot. The question "What's the make and model of your vehicle?" does not apply to them—and they wouldn't know how to skip the question. A retry or timeout prompt could circumvent this by saying "If you aren't bringing a vehicle, just say 'Let's go on.' Otherwise, what's the make and model of your vehicle?"
A similar situation arises when a caller embarks down a path they either didn't mean to take, or no longer wishes to take. A retry prompt can get the caller unstuck by including the phrase "…or if you don't want to be here say 'Main menu.'"
To be more foolproof, retry and timeout prompts should include further information about how to answer the question, but not so much information that it overwhelms the caller. Often the easiest way to do this is by providing a quick example. Instead of "Say the model year and make of your vehicle," the retry prompt could be "Say the model year and make of your car; for example, '1969 Mercedes-Benz.'" This tells the caller what format to use in answering the question.
An alternative is to suggest the touchtone equivalents to spoken answers, as in this example: "You can say 'Get the reports' or press 1, 'Make an exchange' or press 2, or say 'Change my PIN' or press 3." This approach is obviously better suited to questions with a limited number of possible responses—not hundreds, as in the vehicle example above.
Finally, all retry and timeout prompts should offer to direct callers to either the help prompt or a "live" representative, as in this example: "You can also say 'Help' or press the star key, or press zero for an operator."
Designing Effective Help Prompts
The help prompt is often the hardest to write, because the sequence of events leading up to the situation isn't tracked. Did the caller say "Help" immediately after hearing the initial question—or after two timeout and two retry prompts? We could be dealing with callers in greatly varying states of mind—from mildly confused to frustrated and irate.
When writing help prompts we again ask ourselves, "Why would anyone not know how to answer this prompt?" We need to ensure that the caller knows
Why we're asking the question
Where they are in the dialogue
How (e.g., the format) to answer the question correctly
How to get more help (e.g., talking to a "live" representative)
How to escape this state to a "safety" zone (e.g., a main menu)
Here's a typical initial prompt and the help prompt that went with it.
Initial Prompt: At what airport, or city, are you picking up the car?
Help Prompt: Sometimes, rates and availability can depend on the location where you're picking up the car. Thrifty Car Rental has locations at airports throughout the U.S., Canada, and also in the rest of the world. <pause> To specify an airport, just say the name of the city and state you're interested in.
Note the use of the pause in that prompt. In this context that pause serves as a way to separate the background explanation from the command that the caller should react to—the pause gives a rhythmic break to regain the caller's attention.
Designing Effective Confirmation Prompts
Confirmations are an essential part of any design—even if they seem casual and unobtrusive—and they come in two varieties: explicit and implicit.
An explicit confirmation is when the system prompts the caller to answer a direct question before proceeding. For example: "OK, I think you'd like to buy 100 shares of Apple Computer, symbol AAPL, at the market price. Is that correct?"
This type of confirmation is best used when the risk of an unrecoverable error is present. To further prevent mistakes caused by misinterpretation of a caller's response, you can employ one of the following methods.
The system can ask a "yes/no" question; for example, "Is that correct? Yes or no?"
The system can ask the caller to say a PIN or a special password to confirm the transaction—or say "Cancel it" to cancel the transaction. This method assumes that the recognizer will not confuse the words "Cancel it" and the caller's password.
The system can supplement the password confirmation by asking the caller to enter a number using the touchtone keypad to confirm or cancel. For example: "You have requested to purchase 100 shares of Apple Computer, symbol AAPL, at the market price. To confirm this transaction, press 1. To cancel, press 9." (If you use this method, attempt to avoid numbers that are close to each other on the keypad.)
The system can disable the caller's ability to truncate the playing of a prompt by saying something or entering a touchtone number. If the system is programmed to disable this feature only during confirmations, it will prevent callers from accidentally assuming that the transaction is correct before hearing the entire confirmation statement. This method also reduces the liability of the company in the event of an error because it proves that the company did its best to ensure that the caller heard the entire statement before confirming it. It's worth noting that many companies save recordings of caller transactions to defend themselves in the event of any legal action—usually to defend themselves from callers who claim that the machine made a mistake when, in fact, the system actually did exactly what the caller requested.
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S. 60(1)(a) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(j)(ii)
S. 76(1) am. 25/2012, s. 9(k)(i)
S. 76(8)(a) am. 25/2012, s. 9(k)(ii)
S. 76(8)(b) am. 25/2012, s. 9(k)(ii)
S. 76(9) am. 25/2012, s. 9(k)(iii)
S. 76(10) am. 25/2012, s. 9(k)(iv)
S. 78(8)(b) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(l)
S. 78(10)(b) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(m)
S. 79(1) substit. 25/2012, s. 4(a)
S. 81(2) am. 25/2012, s. 9(n)
S. 91(2)(a)(ii) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(o)(i)(I)
S. 91(2)(a)(iv) am. 25/2012, s. 9(o)(i)(II)
S. 91(2)(a)(v) del. 25/2012, s. 9(o)(i)(III)
S. 91(2)(b)(i) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(o)(ii)
S. 91(3) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(o)(iii)
S. 93(4) substit. 25/2012, s. 5
S. 95A ins. 25/2012, s. 8(2)
S. 95(2)(e) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(p)
S. 95(7) ins. S.I. No. 745 of 2007, regs. 2, 3(b)
S. 95(10) ins. S.I. No. 745 of 2007, regs. 2, 3(b)
S. 95A(4)(b)(ii)(II) amended 2/2016, ss. 19(b)(i), 21(2)
S. 95A(4)(b)(iii), (iv) amended 2/2016, ss. 19(b)(ii), (iii), 21(2)
S. 95A(4)(b)(v) inserted 2/2016, ss. 19(b)(iv), 21(2)
S. 97(1) am. 25/2012, s. 9(q)(i)
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S. 97(6)(a) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(q)(iii)
Pt. 9 (ss. 105-123) applied S.I. No. 144 of 2007, regs. 1(2), 29(f), 31(10)(b)
S. 105 am. 25/2012, s. 9(r)
S. 107 places and events prescribed S.I. No. 611 of 2006, regs. 1, 2
S. 117A ins. 25/2012, s. 9(s)
S. 123(1) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(t)
S. 126 substit. 25/2012, s. 7(1)(a)
S. 126A ins. 25/2012, s. 7(1)(b)
S. 127 rep. 25/2012, s. 7(2)
S. 131 substit. 25/2012, s. 9(u)
S. 134(2) am. 25/2012, s. 9(v)
Sch. 2, para. 13(c) substit. 25/2012, s. 9(w)(i)
Sch. 2, para. 18 substit. 25/2012, s. 9(w)(i)
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S. 3 Veterinary Practice Act 2005 (Establishment Day Order 2005 (S.I. No. 598 of 2005)
S. 4(2)(a), continued in force Veterinary Surgeons (Annual Fees) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 131 of 1997)
S. 4(2)(b), continued in force Veterinary Surgeons (Qualifying Degrees) Order 1954 (S.I. No. 85 of 1954)
S. 4(2)(c), arts, 2, 3 continued in force in so far as they relate to the Agreement between the Governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom referred to in art. 3 Veterinary Surgeons Order 1988 (S.I. No. 66 of 1988)
S. 54A Veterinary Practice Act 2005 (Treatment by Non-Registered Person) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 278 of 2017)
Animal Health and Welfare (Operations and Procedures) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 127 of 2014), reg. 4
Animal Health and Welfare (Revocation) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 126 of 2014)
Animal Health and Welfare (Operations and Procedures) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 123 of 2014), reg. 4
S. 59 Veterinary Practice Act 2005 (Treatment by Non-Registered Person) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 278 of 2017)
S. 107 Veterinary Practice Act 2005 (Prescribed places and events) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 611 of 2006)
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Concentration Inequalities for Sub-Additive Functions Using the Entropy Method
Bousquet, O.
Stochastic Inequalities and Applications, 56, pages: 213-247, Progress in Probability, (Editors: Giné, E., C. Houdré and D. Nualart), November 2003 (article)
We obtain exponential concentration inequalities for sub-additive functions of independent random variables under weak conditions on the increments of those functions, like the existence of exponential moments for these increments. As a consequence of these general inequalities, we obtain refinements of Talagrand's inequality for empirical processes and new bounds for randomized empirical processes. These results are obtained by further developing the entropy method introduced by Ledoux.
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ei Bousquet, O. Concentration Inequalities for Sub-Additive Functions Using the Entropy Method Stochastic Inequalities and Applications, 56, pages: 213-247, Progress in Probability, (Editors: Giné, E., C. Houdré and D. Nualart), November 2003 (article)
Statistical Learning Theory, Capacity and Complexity
Schölkopf, B.
Complexity, 8(4):87-94, July 2003 (article)
We give an exposition of the ideas of statistical learning theory, followed by a discussion of how a reinterpretation of the insights of learning theory could potentially also benefit our understanding of a certain notion of complexity.
ei Schölkopf, B. Statistical Learning Theory, Capacity and Complexity Complexity, 8(4):87-94, July 2003 (article)
Dealing with large Diagonals in Kernel Matrices
Weston, J., Schölkopf, B., Eskin, E., Leslie, C., Noble, W.
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55(2):391-408, June 2003 (article)
In kernel methods, all the information about the training data is contained in the Gram matrix. If this matrix has large diagonal values, which arises for many types of kernels, then kernel methods do not perform well: We propose and test several methods for dealing with this problem by reducing the dynamic range of the matrix while preserving the positive definiteness of the Hessian of the quadratic programming problem that one has to solve when training a Support Vector Machine, which is a common kernel approach for pattern recognition.
ei Weston, J., Schölkopf, B., Eskin, E., Leslie, C., Noble, W. Dealing with large Diagonals in Kernel Matrices Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55(2):391-408, June 2003 (article)
The em Algorithm for Kernel Matrix Completion with Auxiliary Data
Tsuda, K., Akaho, S., Asai, K.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4, pages: 67-81, May 2003 (article)
ei Tsuda, K., Akaho, S., Asai, K. The em Algorithm for Kernel Matrix Completion with Auxiliary Data Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4, pages: 67-81, May 2003 (article)
Constructing Descriptive and Discriminative Non-linear Features: Rayleigh Coefficients in Kernel Feature Spaces
Mika, S., Rätsch, G., Weston, J., Schölkopf, B., Smola, A., Müller, K.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(5):623-628, May 2003 (article)
We incorporate prior knowledge to construct nonlinear algorithms for invariant feature extraction and discrimination. Employing a unified framework in terms of a nonlinearized variant of the Rayleigh coefficient, we propose nonlinear generalizations of Fisher‘s discriminant and oriented PCA using support vector kernel functions. Extensive simulations show the utility of our approach.
ei Mika, S., Rätsch, G., Weston, J., Schölkopf, B., Smola, A., Müller, K. Constructing Descriptive and Discriminative Non-linear Features: Rayleigh Coefficients in Kernel Feature Spaces IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(5):623-628, May 2003 (article)
Tractable Inference for Probabilistic Data Models
Csato, L., Opper, M., Winther, O.
Complexity, 8(4):64-68, April 2003 (article)
We present an approximation technique for probabilistic data models with a large number of hidden variables, based on ideas from statistical physics. We give examples for two nontrivial applications. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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ei Csato, L., Opper, M., Winther, O. Tractable Inference for Probabilistic Data Models Complexity, 8(4):64-68, April 2003 (article)
Feature selection and transduction for prediction of molecular bioactivity for drug design
Weston, J., Perez-Cruz, F., Bousquet, O., Chapelle, O., Elisseeff, A., Schölkopf, B.
Bioinformatics, 19(6):764-771, April 2003 (article)
Motivation: In drug discovery a key task is to identify characteristics that separate active (binding) compounds from inactive (non-binding) ones. An automated prediction system can help reduce resources necessary to carry out this task. Results: Two methods for prediction of molecular bioactivity for drug design are introduced and shown to perform well in a data set previously studied as part of the KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) Cup 2001. The data is characterized by very few positive examples, a very large number of features (describing three-dimensional properties of the molecules) and rather different distributions between training and test data. Two techniques are introduced specifically to tackle these problems: a feature selection method for unbalanced data and a classifier which adapts to the distribution of the the unlabeled test data (a so-called transductive method). We show both techniques improve identification performance and in conjunction provide an improvement over using only one of the techniques. Our results suggest the importance of taking into account the characteristics in this data which may also be relevant in other problems of a similar type.
ei Weston, J., Perez-Cruz, F., Bousquet, O., Chapelle, O., Elisseeff, A., Schölkopf, B. Feature selection and transduction for prediction of molecular bioactivity for drug design Bioinformatics, 19(6):764-771, April 2003 (article)
Use of the Zero-Norm with Linear Models and Kernel Methods
Weston, J., Elisseeff, A., Schölkopf, B., Tipping, M.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, pages: 1439-1461, March 2003 (article)
We explore the use of the so-called zero-norm of the parameters of linear models in learning. Minimization of such a quantity has many uses in a machine learning context: for variable or feature selection, minimizing training error and ensuring sparsity in solutions. We derive a simple but practical method for achieving these goals and discuss its relationship to existing techniques of minimizing the zero-norm. The method boils down to implementing a simple modification of vanilla SVM, namely via an iterative multiplicative rescaling of the training data. Applications we investigate which aid our discussion include variable and feature selection on biological microarray data, and multicategory classification.
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ei Weston, J., Elisseeff, A., Schölkopf, B., Tipping, M. Use of the Zero-Norm with Linear Models and Kernel Methods Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, pages: 1439-1461, March 2003 (article)
An Introduction to Variable and Feature Selection.
Guyon, I., Elisseeff, A.
Journal of Machine Learning, 3, pages: 1157-1182, 2003 (article)
ei Guyon, I., Elisseeff, A. An Introduction to Variable and Feature Selection. Journal of Machine Learning, 3, pages: 1157-1182, 2003 (article)
New Approaches to Statistical Learning Theory
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55(2):371-389, 2003 (article)
We present new tools from probability theory that can be applied to the analysis of learning algorithms. These tools allow to derive new bounds on the generalization performance of learning algorithms and to propose alternative measures of the complexity of the learning task, which in turn can be used to derive new learning algorithms.
ei Bousquet, O. New Approaches to Statistical Learning Theory Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55(2):371-389, 2003 (article)
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Islam and Islamism
Multiculturalism and Political Correctness
Avoiding the M-word
http://www.jeffjacoby.com/328/avoiding-the-m-word
IS RADICAL ISLAM connected to terrorism? Notable British voices spoke out on that subject after Britain's recent terrorist near-misses -- the two unexploded car bombs in London's West End and the fiery SUV rammed into the main terminal at Glasgow's international airport. Consider what four of those voices had to say:
One declared that the word "Muslim" must not be used in connection with terrorism, and insisted that even the phrase "war on terror" should be scrapped.
The second likewise cautioned against pointing a finger at Islam, contending that in London, "Muslims are . . . less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non-Muslims."
The third, asked whether Muslim extremists might be responsible for the attempted atrocities in London and Glasgow, counseled: "Let's avoid presumptions. . . It can be the work of Muslims, Christians, Jews, or Buddhists."
By contrast, the fourth noted the resemblance of the latest terror attempts to "other recent British Islamic extremist plots," pinpointed "Islamic theology" as "the real engine of our violence," and described British jihadists as "mindless killers" who have "declared war upon the whole world."
The first three statements, disingenuous but quite politically correct, were made respectively by (1) Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, (2) London Mayor Ken Livingstone, and (3) Daud Abdullah, deputy secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain. Just days before the second anniversary of the deadly 7/7 London transit bombings, and less than a year since 24 British Muslims were arrested for plotting to blow up passenger jets over the Atlantic, the three men spoke as if they had no inkling that Britain is a battleground in militant Islam's global jihad -- as if only a boor or a bigot could imagine that Muslims might somehow be linked to the car bombs in London and Glasgow.
And the fourth statement? Those were the blunt words of Hassan Butt, a onetime spokesman for the radical Islamist organization al-Muhajiroun, who has renounced his former life. In an essay published last week in the Daily Mail, Butt emphasized that jihadists are motivated not by opposition to British or US foreign policy but by a fundamentalist theology that seeks to subject the entire world to "Islamic justice." Radical Imams teach their followers that they must fight for Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam) against Dar al-Harb (the House of War -- i.e., infidels to be defeated). And "in Dar el-Harb, anything goes, including the treachery and cowardice of attacking civilians."
By turning a blind eye to the radical theology of the jihadists, Butt says, mainstream Muslim institutions make it easy for the extremists to recruit new followers. His words apply equally to political leaders like Brown and Livingstone: "They refuse to broach the difficult and often complex truth that Islam can be interpreted as condoning violence against the unbeliever -- and instead repeat the mantra that Islam is peace, and hope that all of this debate will go away."
Wars cannot be won through denial and willful blindness. Yet in ways large and small, Western leaders and institutions deliberately avert their gaze from the reality of the Islamist threat. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon blames global warming, not Sudan's jihadist regime, for the genocide being carried out in Darfur. A leading candidate to succeed President Bush, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, maintains a lavish campaign website, complete with detailed position papers that have nothing to say about radical Islam's aggressive war. Another candidate, former senator John Edwards, prepares a 5,200-word speech to the Council on Foreign Relations -- and devotes just 19 of them to the menace of Islamic extremism.
The obfuscation is sometimes almost comical. The New York Times, reporting the Glasgow attack on Page 1, carefully avoided using the M-word to identify Britain's Muslim terrorists. Instead it attributed the 7/7 bombings to Britain's "disenfranchised South Asian population" and reported that the terrorists in Glasgow "were South Asian." (As Joel Mowbray pointed out for Powerline, Indian Hindus are the United Kingdom's largest South Asian demographic.)
Similarly, seven reporters contributed to AP's story on the arrested jihad-doctors ("Diverse group allegedly in British plot"), yet somehow missed the radical theology they presumably shared.
Political correctness is no strategy for victory. Islamic fascists will not hate us less if we avoid all mention of the theology that inflames them. Winning the war the jihadists have declared -- the war of Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb -- begins with moral clarity. Denial is a luxury we cannot afford.
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Aron Hill “Single Scalloped Edge” Silent Auction Lot #117
by koac | Mar 7, 2017 | Gala Auction 2017, Live
Multidisciplinary artist Aron Hill is known for his elegant minimalist approach to drawing, painting, and installation. He employs a few select tools, colours and objects to explore narratives, architecture, and the natural world. Initially gravitating to abstract painting, Hill started drawing birds in a high realism style while studying in England; he was inspired by frequent visits to the London Natural History Museum. He also started drawing building and creating simple architectural models at this time. Upon his return, Hill’s work evolved into installations making use of traditional drawing, painting, and sculptural elements, as well as large format photography and text-based work. In 2013, Hill built a life-sized cabin containing a short novel that he wrote for Contemporary Calgary. He recently completed a commissioned installation for the University of Calgary’s EEEL Building. More recently, Hill’s focus is formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and colour field paintings referencing the figure, conceptually similar to the late Modernist Canadian paintings. He is experimenting with the restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, which forces restraint.
Based in Calgary, Hill graduated from ACAD in Interdisciplinary Studies (2000) and completed a MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London, England (2006). His work has been shown internationally. Selected exhibitions include: A Reading Room, Art Gallery of Calgary (2013); Taste the World & Digest It, Newzones, Calgary (2009); Foreground.Background, Elementa Modern Art, Dubai, UE (2008); Colony, The Weiss Gallery, Calgary (2007); Birds in Opposition: A Natural History, Jennifer Kostiuk Gallery, Vancouver (2006); HK Summer 05, Herringer Kiss Gallery (2005); Out Reach, Van Alen Institute, New York (2002).
Aron Hill “Single Scalloped Edge”
Black Gesso on W/C Paper
Silent Auction Lot#117
aronhill.com
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