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Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club Officially Launches at The LINQ Promenade with Appearances from Celebrity Guests and Friends
SOURCE Caesars Entertainment
Sarah Silverman, Gordon Ramsay, Guillermo Rodriguez, Aunt Chippy and many more on hand as Jimmy Kimmel Opens his First-Ever Comedy Club with Marquee Lighting Celebration and All-Star Comedic Lineup
LAS VEGAS, June 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest chapter of comedy on the Las Vegas Strip has begun! In partnership with Caesars Entertainment, Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club at The LINQ Promenade was officially launched on Friday night with a grand opening celebration featuring appearances from some of Kimmel's closest friends, family and well-known comedians. Celebrity guests spotted on the special evening included Sarah Silverman, sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, sports analyst, podcaster and founder of The Ringer, Bill Simmons, multi-Michelin Star chef Gordon Ramsay, Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis, Cousin Sal, Aunt Chippy and many more. The Emmy Award-winning host and Las Vegas native received a heroic hometown welcome from fans gathered on The LINQ Promenade to watch as Jimmy addressed the crowd and officially opened the doors to his first-ever comedy club with an exciting marquee-lighting event.
Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8479655-jimmy-kimmels-comedy-club-linq/
"It's a pleasure to celebrate what I am certain will be a long partnership with Jimmy Kimmel at The LINQ Promenade," said Caesars Entertainment President and CEO Tony Rodio. "I can tell you that the venue reflects a true creative collaboration between Jimmy, his team and friends, as well as Caesars, to create a Comedy Club that's an ideal, intimate setting for the performers and audience."
Kimmel was also gifted from Rodio and Caesars Entertainment a custom, authentic UNLV 1990 Runnin' Rebels NCAA National Championship ring. Kimmel expressed his gratitude for the gift, and he spoke graciously to the energetic crowd, thanking them for their support and sharing his thanks to the Caesars Entertainment team who helped make his vision a reality.
"The best part of it is when I come to Las Vegas, I have a great place to hang and see some really great comedians," said Kimmel from the red carpet. "The club already feels like my home given the bar area was designed to look like my bar at home. I'm really excited for our guests to try the cocktails and the food selections as many were inspired by my friends and family."
Inside the namesake club, Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the evening with opening remarks and toast. With a grand opening show opened by sister Jill Kimmel, Kimmel welcomed headliner Gina Brillon, as well as surprise drop-in sets from Sarah Silverman, Pete Holmes and Chris Tucker.
Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club captures the spirit of classic Vegas with late night shows, surprise guests, high-end casual cuisine and memorabilia. The club will showcase comedians ranging from household names to up-and-coming talent curated by Kimmel and his team in a venue specifically designed by Jimmy. The dual-level 8,000 square-foot venue has an expandable showroom that seats up to 300 guests.
Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club boasts a full menu of high-end casual cuisine featuring a variety of artisan pizzas, appetizers, grilled sandwiches and desserts. Also, the lineup of craft cocktails and mocktails were invented with a personalized touch. Drinks are named for people and places in Jimmy's life- such as the bourbon-based Aunt Chippy and tequila inspired Guillermo. With a full kitchen and service staff, guests can enjoy bites and libations before, during and after performances. Daily happy hour is from 4 – 6 p.m. with $3 beers, $5 shots, well drinks and wine and $7 for food and signature cocktails.
Sponsored by LG Business Solutions, Ciroc and Jet Suite X, the evening's festivities gave fans and guests of Jimmy a first look at the newest attraction to hit The LINQ Promenade.
With the bar open daily at 4 p.m., Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club will showcase comedic performances Thursday to Sunday at 8 p.m. with additional shows at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. For tickets and more information, visit www.kimmelscomedyclub.com.
ABOUT JIMMY KIMMEL'S COMEDY CLUB
Curated and designed by comedian, writer, producer and Emmy Award-winning TV host, Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club at The LINQ Promenade captures the spirit of Kimmel's hometown of Vegas. Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club will feature late night shows, surprise guests, high-end casual cuisine and memorabilia. Complete with an expandable showroom that seats up to 300 guests, the dual-level 8,000 square-foot venue provides an optimal setting for both the audience and performers alike. Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club is located across from Brooklyn Bowl and near the High Roller – the tallest observation wheel in the world. Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club is an 18+ venue and is open daily, with the bar opening at 4 p.m. and performances Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with additional shows at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The club will showcase comedians ranging from household names to up-and-coming talent curated by Kimmel and his team. Jimmy Kimmel will not be appearing at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club nightly. For more information or to book tickets, visit www.KimmelsComedyClub.com or call (702) 777-2782.
ABOUT JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmy® Award-winning "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" network television's longest-running late-night talk show. Now in its 16th season, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" produces some of the most popular comedy bits in late-night and features a diverse lineup of guests including actors, musicians, athletes, comedians, authors, politicians, newsmakers and the occasional random weirdo.. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" airs weeknights at 11:35/10:35pm ET on ABC.
Kimmel has hosted some of the biggest events in entertainment including The Oscars in 2017 & 2018, the 64th and 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the ESPYs, the American Music Awards, multiple Comedy Central Roasts and the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2012. He grew up in Las Vegas, attended Clark High School and, despite bad grades and spotty attendance, received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater UNLV.
ABOUT CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT
Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ: CZR) is one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers and the most geographically diverse U.S. casino-entertainment company. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Caesars Entertainment's resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's® and Horseshoe® brand names. Caesars Entertainment's portfolio also includes the Caesars Entertainment UK family of casinos. Caesars Entertainment is focused on building loyalty and value with its guests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars Entertainment is committed to its employees, suppliers, communities and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework. For more information, please visit www.caesars.com/corporate.
ABOUT THE LINQ PROMENADE
The LINQ Promenade is the world-renowned, award-winning open-air district featuring more than 30 unique entertainment, retail and dining experiences with more to open in 2019. The LINQ Promenade also plays host to a variety of special events, festivals and parades throughout the year. Home to High Roller, the world's tallest observation wheel, and FLY LINQ, the only zipline on the Las Vegas strip, The LINQ Promenade is now the center for world-class attractions. High Roller quickly emerged as an instantly recognizable part of the already-iconic Las Vegas skyline and consistently ranks as one of the best, "must see" attractions by media outlets and websites around the world, ranging from Travel + Leisure to USA Today and Trip Advisor. The wheel's 28 glass-enclosed cabins feature an interactive 30-minute experience 550 feet in the air that includes video and music that fades away to unveil spectacular views. The sky is the limit for in-cabin experiences such as the popular Happy Half Hour (an exclusive open bar for guests 21 and over); Chocolate Tasting with Ethel M Chocolates and Yoga in the Sky. The brand-new FLY LINQ provides unparalleled views and features 10 side-by-side ziplines capable of simultaneously launching all riders from an 114-foot-tall launch tower to travel 1,121 feet through The LINQ Promenade at speeds up to 35 MPH. For more information, go to TheLINQ.com or the Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas media room. Find @LINQPromenade on Facebook and follow on Twitter and Instagram.
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DeVos proposes overhaul to campus sexual misconduct rules
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Posted Nov 16 2018 09:51AM EST
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday proposed a major overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle complaints of sexual misconduct, adding protections for students accused of assault and harassment, and narrowing the types of cases schools would be required to investigate.
Under the plan, schools would be required to investigate complaints only if they occurred on campus or other areas overseen by the school, and only if they were reported to certain campus officials with the authority to take action.
The Education Department says the proposal ensures fairness for students on both sides of accusations, while offering schools greater flexibility to help victims who don't want to file formal complaints that could trigger an investigation.
"Throughout this process, my focus was, is, and always will be on ensuring that every student can learn in a safe and nurturing environment," DeVos said in a statement. "That starts with having clear policies and fair processes that every student can rely on. Every survivor of sexual violence must be taken seriously, and every student accused of sexual misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined."
DeVos previously said the existing rules were too prescriptive, pressuring schools to take heavy action against students accused of misconduct without giving them a fair chance to defend themselves.
The new proposal adds protections for accused students, giving them a presumption of innocence throughout the disciplinary process and the right to review all evidence a school collects. They would also be able to cross-examine their accusers, although it would be done indirectly through a representative to avoid personal confrontation.
If finalized, it will tell schools how to apply the 1972 law known as Title IX, which forbids discrimination based on sex in schools that receive federal funding.
In September 2017, DeVos rescinded a set of 2011 rules that were created under the Obama administration and guided schools on how to handle complaints.
Advocacy groups for victims say the Obama rules forced schools to stop brushing the issue under the rug, while advocates for accused students say it tipped the scales in favor of accusers. Some college leaders complained that the rules were too complex and could be overly burdensome.
Among other changes, DeVos's proposal narrows the definition of what constitutes sexual harassment. It would be defined as unwelcome sexual conduct that's "so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the school's education program or activity."
It also allows schools to use a higher standard of proof to determine if a student should be found responsible for misconduct. While the Obama guidance told schools to use a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, meaning the allegation is "more likely than not" true, the new proposal would allow a "clear and convincing" standard, meaning the claim is highly probable.
The department will collect public input on the rules before they can be finalized.
More US and World News Stories
By Colleen Killingsworth, Kelly Taylor Hayes
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died, the court confirmed. He was 99.
When he retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2010, he had served for 34 years and six months, making him the second-oldest serving justice in the history of the court, and the third-longest serving Supreme Court justice in history. Had he served just three days more, he would have tied for the second-longest serving justice in history.
Stevens was known during his tenure on the Supreme Court to be one of the more liberal voices, even though Stevens said, “I don't think of myself as a liberal at all ,” in a 2007 interview with the New York Times .
In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump's Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn't "a racist bone in my body."
Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should "go back" to their home countries -- though all are citizens and three were born in the U.S.A. -- Democrats muscled the resolution through the chamber by 240-187 over strong GOP opposition. The rebuke was an embarrassing one for Trump, and he had appealed to GOP lawmakers not to go along, but there were four Republican votes for the resolution.
The measure carries no legal repercussions for the president and the vote was highly partisan, unlikely to cost him with his die-hard conservative base.
Girl, 6, dies after getting hit with golf ball while out golfing with father
Authorities say a 6-year-old Utah girl has died after her father accidentally hit her with a golf ball.
Police say the ball struck the girl in the back of the head on Monday morning, while the father and daughter were golfing at Sleepy Ridge Golf Course in Orem.
The ball collided with the base of her neck. Lt. Trent Colledge with the Orem Police Department says she was flown to a hospital in Salt Lake City in critical condition. She died from her injuries later that evening.
Eastern Michigan police videos show chase of suspect who hit 9 cars
Harrison grad uses cello to hold benefits for Freedom Hills, asylum seekers
Multi-vehicle crash involving over 30 cars at WB I-96 near Kensington
Dr. Sabrina: What it really means to have self-confidence
Ceremonial handshakes are over as UAW and Big Three talks begin
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The War Against Silence
↑427 · (my 36th birthday)
· 426 · Helms, Xiu Xiu, Postal Service, Atom and His Package
↓425 · Ted Leo / Pharmacists, Joe Jackson Band
The War Against Silence was a weekly music-review column, and then a weekly column about music, and then a weekly column that was often inspired by music. It was written by glenn mcdonald, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through a decade of devices and dreams and sleepless Wednesday nights. It was against many things, beginning with but not necessarily including silence, and in favor of many more, including some of the things it was once against and eventually its own end.
It may or may not occasionally be updated in its demise.
And Undo What Heredity's Done to You
426 · 27 March 03
Helms: McCarthy
Xiu Xiu: A Promise
Postal Service: Give Up
Atom and His Package: Attention! Blah Blah Blah.
The world does not exist. Or it exists, but only through our consent, and so it can be banished if that's what we truly want. Or there are an infinite profusion of worlds, and we're simply stuck in a bad one. Or, possibly, we have mistaken surfaces for morality, or vice versa. Whichever it is, the larger the world seems to me, the closer I want to scrutinize the smallest details. The more distant importance, the more I care about what I can touch. The more incomprehensible the manifest logic of cultural incompatibility, the more devoted I am to the internal order of mercifully isolated realities.
These are not songs so much as they are the fragments of shattered catharses, fallen onto the space where songs might have been. The arrangements are mathematical landscapes, pixelated not in contour but in expression, as if ideas cannot be connected, only juxtaposed. Where there are words, at all, they are muttered or howled, like notes for work that will be done later.
The titles are complicated, but the moments when this album is most radiantly itself are the silences, I think, or the standing waves where patterns cross, or the places where there seems to be the least left. This is Low's lesson in reductive beauty taken back past its origin, back to a reverse-extrapolated common ancestor for Low and Fugazi, a trilobite at once of cacophonous noise and breathless instants' pauses.
And I want to say that it's important. More: I want to feel that it's important. I want to believe that our definitions of meaning mandate personal relevance, and so we can't really hate each other from thousands of miles apart. As events claim to exceed the scope of art, I want to counter by ceding melody and storytelling and charm, and redefining Art as the study not of what is made or done, but of what then happens to it.
I yearn to believe so, more desperately the more vividly I see how hopeless it is. I want to believe that this oblique, halting, evasive record, with all its deliberately void aphorisms and failures of inertia, is as beautiful as Spirit of Eden in the same way that cement can be as intractable as air. "I've got this hope", says Sean at the last, and although nothing has really led to this, I want to turn around and trace his hope back through every other disconnected thought. I want exactly that. I want to stipulate hope, however unlikely, and then recalculate anything that doesn't imply it.
And if I didn't know what to do with this album all winter, and if I kept playing it and then wondering how much time had elapsed and whether I'd brushed the iPod's skip buttons without realizing, and if it took global atavism to re-remind me of my ambient alienation, then I grant you that this is denial, not an answer. Except that when you answer a question, you validate its grammar, and I want no part of these questions. I stand nowhere in the world where the choices are blood or oil, and where taking sides necessitates mislabeling half the idiots as liars and vice versa. So this is my protest album, and I will play it into the spaces where I refuse to stand.
And if our walls and colors will not fight without us, maybe we have overstayed our time. I have forgotten, anew, how to reconcile our ability to manufacture tranquility with our apparent inability to avoid destroying it again. Maybe I have let the artistry of patterns become separated from the authorship of patterns. Are we ultimately the same artists when we are builders and when we are soldiers?
But is abstraction then vital or imaginary? Truths are simplified out of the complexes of fear and dogmatic self-identity. Can love be based on anything but faith? And if not, since probably not, can I countenance faith without ratifying every barbarism built out of it?
So I walk around the city, listening to the sound of melancholy with its skin flayed off, looking for geometry that can replace too-gnarled bones. There must be a way to recalibrate the parameters of moral belief such that every two people don't get antipathetic results out of the same equations.
There must be a way to see Mondrian as our witness instead of Kevin Carter, or to embed our reporters where they already live in order to find out what we are when we're not playing roles. If McCarthy is my protest record, then A Promise is my war journal, ruthless and undistracted by storms or pretense. This is the record of the only thing you really need to know: we fall apart. No matter how noble our selves are, we can't sustain them all of every day. So the fragility of the world is metered not by our principles, but by whatever is left when they are lost or stolen from us.
And it's seductive to believe that anything we understand is safe, or that what we can paint can't undo us.
But when has that ever been true? Every flawed reality we have transcended was built in earnest. Permanence is an illusion of impatience.
Our materials know us inately.
Whereas our arts only really learn to know us after we release them to their own lives.
Near the end of this record, Xiu Xiu cover Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car". Or somebody plays the three-chord-pair rhythm riff over and over again, at least, the chorus reduced to just single diffident strums, the narrative whispered like a haunted prayer before chloroforming. "We can make a decision", Tracy insisted. Xiu Xiu are the avatars of the part of us that never believed we had that power. A Promise is the sound of emo decaying into Calvinism.
I've said before that beauty ought to be a matter of human construct by definition. I wrote down, a long time ago, that I thought the setting sun was hideous. I wrote it into the catalog of what I wanted to believe, and so it is there now, in what has become the diary of my misplaced and oversimplified idealisms. I thought that the setting sun couldn't (or shouldn't, anyway) be beautiful to us because we had no hand in making it, no hand in setting the planet to spin at the right speed and angle to produce the scene. And were beauty a census or a calculus of hands, I would have been right. But what I should have realized, no later than the first time I picked up a camera with the idea that it too was an instrument, is that of course beauty is an act of observation, not an act of creation, and the sun sets beautifully because (and if) we close our eyes and feel it slide across our eyelids. I know that art can be beautiful, but I have fallen into the trap of thinking that beauty is an exclusive function of art, rather than a potential characteristic of it. Arguably, it finally dawns on me (and "finally" is almost certainly the profoundly wrong word), art is mostly a curriculum for learning to see, and if you can only find beauty where it has been seeded in the interest of pedagogy, you haven't learned much of value yet.
There is beauty in movement, and also in movement arrested.
I didn't always remember that what I meant by saying that music is the thing humans do best is that music is an astonishing trick we do by listening, not by playing. I have defined art in terms of human intention, and as a communicative process. And it is, but there are so many others. And even art, for that matter, is not essentially communicative, it is essentially (and tautologically) artificial. People are essentially communicative. Make art, if you have something to paint or sing. Or just walk around, where you live, as a season surrenders to the inevitable. Tell somebody about it, if you wish. Or wait until you have something else to tell them, and say it as whomever you've become.
And remember, when art seems empty, or assembled out of other people's discarded parts, or transparent, that superficiality is a description of your decision to focus on the surface.
The Postal Service is a muted cut-and-paste-electronica side-project of two guys who are in other bands, and it's not particularly significant which ones. Theirs may be a slightly lower-key, less-glib version of this throwaway meme than the Future Bible Heroes' or Freezepop's, but if it's different in quality for you, not just magnitude, it's because you've found a way onto or through or against it. You've figured out how to hear it as David Gray modulating Polara, or a version of Massive Attack that is neither massive nor attacking, or a Radiohead that remembers how we could think the radio was magic when it was only playing the Pet Shop Boys.
And maybe Give Up is ultimately little more than a stick-figure cartoon rendered cheatingly with airbrushes. But if that's a way to see something, it counts.
It doesn't always have to be hard.
Eventually, though, I always come back to people, and to songs.
When I got to Harvard Square, I found that the Salvation Army Band had taken up residence for an afternoon. The Salvation Army Band needed Atom and His Package like the Oscars needed Michael Moore. If you have disliked Atom before, this album is not going to waste any of its or your valuable time trying to change your mind. If you have liked him before, he still sounds like that. If you have not heard him yet, he sounds like a one-man version of They Might Be Giants who dreams of being the world's most confrontationally self-abasing heavy-metal rhythm guitarist instead of the world's smartest children's band. If you've just been putting off investigation, this album reprises my favorite song from last year's EP.
If the Salvation Army Band generates one solo career, it's going to be this guy, who I believe is just a Package short of obscure stardom. "Possession (Not the One by Danzig)", the opening track on Attention! Blah Blah Blah., is basically Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" re-imagined as a Faith No More stomp. And after three albums, this week, that I appreciate through levels of abstraction, and as filters against states of the world I'm trying not to engage, suddenly everything comes flooding back. I know how comprehensively we fail and flounder, but for the moment I can't hold it against us no matter how much easier it would make things.
The saddest truth is that I understand. I understand this preacher's confused insistence that the deist overtones of Harvard's 1636 charter ought to be reflected in a religious component to the modern university's curriculum. I understand the petrifying fear that somebody will find a way to express their resentment of American cultural imperialism and pervasive spiritual bankruptcy using the same weapons that were supposed to keep the peace. I understand hating the oblivious sugar-water arrogance with which American corporations impose themselves and their useless products onto any authenticity that stands still for ten seconds. I understand the appeal of turning yourself into a heavy metal hero in your own bedroom.
This man had about five minutes in which to tell what was thus inevitably a formulaic life-story involving a worryingly standard-issue set of short-sighted life decisions and a brief but energetic disquisition on the transformational power of subsequently discovering Jesus Christ. I would rather have heard Atom blasting through "The Palestinians Are Not the Same Thing as the Rebel Alliance, Jackass", which has the considerable virtue of not sounding like it was written before the part was cast.
But I suspect that neither subject was likely to make a deep impression on these kids. The bouncy "Does Anyone Else in This Room Want to Marry His or Her Own Grandmother?" might fare no better with them, but at least it has a fake-xylophone solo.
This man is not sure a fake-xylophone solo is a good idea, and probably won't like Atom's careening "I, Professional Gambler" much, either.
But I am a cynical asshole, and some of these people are here to actually listen. Atom's "Out to Everyone" is out of tune, and who does it benefit if I snipe at the terms of somebody else's search for their own place?
And maybe I'm underestimating how many people would enjoy Atom, too. "Friend, Please Stop Smoking" sounds like a cross between Paul Simon's "Cecilia", "Come On Eileen", Run DMC's "Walk This Way" cover and the Police's "Don't Stand So Close to Me", and if you try to imagine the Beastie Boys singing an anti-smoking song you are on the way to understanding why I never thought they were funny.
"Head With Arms" is a one-joke song about octopi, but "I'm Downright Amazed at What I Can Destroy With Just a Hammer" still sounds just as fabulous and human to me as when it made my top-ten list last year. Atom lurks in these songs, half shy and half crouched in wait. The haphazard Radon cover "Lying to You" sounds like Green Day doing the FAO Schwarz theme. The blustery "Dear Atom, You Do Not Want children. Love, Atom." is actually a reverse letter back to his younger, more frightened self. The brash "For Aliza, Whenever She May Sleep", for a friend doing a medical residency, is probably going to wake her up again. Hopefully she'll hit Stop before Atom squanders the final track on the sound of one of his friends being moronic.
Back in Harvard Square, a wearyingly cheerful woman has just told us four times that she gave up a Vice Presidency at an International Consulting Firm in order to devote herself to the proposition that your life is meaningful because and only because Jesus loves you. I might have raised my hand and asked why Jesus doesn't love the Vice Presidents of International Consulting Firms, which sounds like a simpler solution to me, but I am too busy trying to decide whether this man with white pants actually has any explosives taped to his body. But this is wrong again. I am supposed to have come to the Square to be with people, not to use my camera like I'm playing a fairgrounds target-game in which I win a stuffed elk if I can pass summary judgment on more than two dozen strangers in less than a minute.
Atom is as happily mundane as Helms are abstruse, as engaging as Xiu Xiu are harrowing, as charged as the Postal Service are restrained. And he still may drive you crazy. They all may. For all I know, you'd be calmer if you spent the time watching CNN.
Do what you need to do to protect yourself.
I slip away.
We slip away into dreams and music, into surface and shadow, into each other's arms. We slip into ourselves and leave the world to thrash without us.
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Title XXXVII
INSURANCE Chapter 624
INSURANCE CODE: ADMINISTRATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS View Entire Chapter
F.S. 624.4621
624.4621 Group self-insurance funds.—
(1) The commission shall adopt rules that allow two or more employers to enter into agreements to pool their liabilities under chapter 440 for the purpose of qualifying as a group self-insurer’s fund, which shall be classified as a self-insurer, and each employer member of such approved group shall be known as a group self-insurer’s fund member and shall be classified as a self-insurer as defined in chapter 440. The agreement entered into under this section may provide that the pool will be liable for 80 percent, and the employer member will be liable for 20 percent, of the medical benefits due any employee for an injury compensable under this chapter up to the amount of $5,000. One hundred percent of the medical benefits above $5,000 due to an employee for one injury shall be paid by the pool. The agreement may also provide that each employer member will be responsible for up to the first $500 of medical benefits due each of its employees for each injury. The claim shall be paid by the pool, regardless of its size, which shall be reimbursed by the employer for any amounts required to be paid by the employer under the agreement.
(2) The commission shall adopt rules:
(a) Requiring monetary reserves to be maintained by such self-insurers to insure their financial solvency; and
(b) Governing their organization and operation to assure compliance with such requirements.
(3) The commission shall adopt rules implementing the reserve requirements in accordance with accepted actuarial techniques.
(4) Any self-insurer established under this section, except for self-insurers that are state or local governmental entities, is required to carry reinsurance in accordance with rules adopted by the commission.
(5) A dividend or premium refund of any self-insurer established under this section, otherwise earned, may not be made contingent upon continued membership in the fund, renewal of any policy, or the payment of renewal premiums for membership in the fund or on any policy issued by such self-insurer.
(a) For any self-insurer established under this section before June 1, 2008, the board of trustees of the self-insurer may declare any moneys in excess of the amount necessary to fund all obligations of the self-insurer as refundable to the members or policyholders of the self-insurer. The board of trustees may distribute such dividends or premium refunds at the board’s discretion, in accordance with the agreement establishing the self-insurer and subject to the following limitations:
1. The amount of the distribution may not exceed the total sum of the dividends declared and unpaid to policyholders and unassigned funds as recorded on the most recently completed audited financial statements of the self-insurer.
2. The payment of the dividend or premium refund may not jeopardize the financial condition of the self-insurer or result in the self-insurer having a negative unassigned funds balance.
3. Notice of the dividend shall be submitted to the office no later than 10 days after the date on which payment of a dividend or premium refund is made.
(b) For any self-insurer established under this section after June 1, 2008, such self-insurer must receive prior written approval from the office for any dividend or premium refunds during its first 7 years of operation. The office shall issue a decision within 60 days after receiving a request for a dividend or premium refund.
(c) The notice or request submitted to the office for a dividend must contain the following information:
1. Audited financial statements as of the most recently completed fund year.
2. Annual evaluations of loss reserves by a qualified independent actuary as of the most recently completed fund year.
(d) If a self-insurer does not make or declare a dividend or member distribution payable during a given fund year, the required information listed in paragraph (c) shall be submitted annually, no later than 7 months after the end of the group self-insurer’s fund year.
(e) The notice or request submitted to the office for such dividend or premium refund must include a resolution of the board of trustees of the group self-insurer stating the specific amount that has been paid or that is sought to be paid to the members or policyholders. A dividend, premium refund, or premium discount or credit must not discriminate on the basis of continued coverage or continued membership in the group self-insurer. Any dividend or premium refund that cannot be paid to the applicable member or policyholder or former member or policyholder of the group self-insurer because the former member or policyholder cannot be reasonably located becomes the property of the group self-insurer.
(6) The office may impose civil penalties not to exceed $100 per occurrence for violations of the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant hereto.
(7) Premiums, contributions, and assessments received by a group self-insurer’s fund are subject to ss. 624.509(1) and (2) and 624.5092, except that the tax rate shall be 1.6 percent of the gross amount of such premiums, contributions, and assessments.
(8) This section does not apply to any program, intergovernmental agreement, cooperative effort, consortium, or agency through which two or more governmental entities, without pooling their liabilities, administer the payment of workers’ compensation to their respective employees.
(9) A group self-insurance fund shall participate in the Florida Self-Insurance Fund Guaranty Association.
(10) Any self-insurance fund which holds a certificate of authority on or after January 1, 1998, shall maintain surplus to policyholders in a positive amount.
(11)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each application for workers’ compensation coverage issued by a group self-insurance fund established under this section must contain, in boldface and in not less than 10-point type, the following statement:
“This is a fully assessable policy. If the fund is unable to pay its obligations, policyholders must contribute, on a pro rata earned premium basis, the money necessary to meet any unfilled obligations.”
(b) If the application is signed by the applicant, the applicant is deemed to have made an informed, knowing acceptance of the assessment liability that exists as a result of participation in the fund.
History.—s. 201/2, ch. 18413, 1937; CGL 1940 Supp. 5966(57); ss. 17, 35, ch. 69-106; ss. 16, 23, ch. 78-300; ss. 43, 124, ch. 79-40; s. 21, ch. 79-312; s. 18, ch. 83-305; s. 1, ch. 88-204; s. 17, ch. 88-206; s. 12, ch. 89-167; ss. 26, 43, ch. 89-289; s. 56, ch. 90-201; s. 52, ch. 91-1; s. 79, ch. 93-415; s. 4, ch. 97-262; s. 824, ch. 2003-261; s. 1, ch. 2008-181; s. 1, ch. 2009-116.
Note.—Former s. 440.57.
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No. 77,5461
JENNIFER S. LOWMASTER, Appellee, v. MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Appellant, and SENTRY CLAIMS SERVICE, Insurance Carrier.
Petition for review 265 Kan. 885 (1998).
1. K.S.A. 44-510e(a) states that an employee is not entitled to receive permanent partial general disability compensation in excess of the percentage of functional impairment where the employee is engaging in any work for wages equal to 90% of the employee's pre-injury average weekly wage.
2. The legislature did not intend for a worker to receive compensation where the worker is capable of earning nearly the same wage as his or her pre-injury wage.
3. Whether framed as a "good faith" test or in terms of public policy considerations, an employee who is capable of accommodated work must, at a minimum, attempt to do such work.
4. A mere refusal to do the accommodated work is insufficient to allow an employee to circumvent the provisions of K.S.A. 44-510e(a).
Appeal from Workers Compensation Board. Opinion filed June 12, 1998. Reversed and remanded.
Kirby A. Vernon and Christopher J. McCurdy, of Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & Enochs, Chartered, of Wichita, for appellant.
Timothy J. King, of Speth, King & Riedmiller, of Wichita, for appellee.
Before LEWIS, P.J., ELLIOTT, J., and WAHL, S.J.
ELLIOTT, J.: Modine Manufacturing Company (Modine) appeals the order of the Workers Compensation Board (Board) awarding Jennifer Lowmaster an 80% permanent partial general disability and awarding her damages in the amount of $100,000.
We reverse and remand.
Lowmaster was employed as a press operator by Modine from May 1990 to May 1994. She began to experience pain in her shoulders some time in early 1991. She sought treatment for a brief period in 1991 and again in 1992. She sought no additional treatment from January 1992 until May 1994.
Lowmaster eventually developed pain in both of her wrists. On May 9, 1994, she sought treatment from a company-referred physician, who provided her with wrist splints. She worked with the wrist splints for 2 days and then quit her job.
Lowmaster filed a workers compensation claim on May 25, 1994. By order of the court, she was evaluated by Dr. Tyrone Artz. Dr. Artz found that Lowmaster had sustained a 6% permanent partial functional impairment to her body. Lowmaster was later evaluated by Dr. Ernest Schlachter at the request of her attorney. Dr. Schlachter found that she had a 9% permanent partial functional impairment to her body. He also found that she had a 75% job task loss. Lowmaster was also evaluated by Karen Crist Terrill, a vocational rehabilitation counselor, who found that she had sustained a 33% job task loss.
Special administrative law judge Douglas F. Martin awarded Lowmaster compensation based on an 8% functional impairment to the body as a whole, but awarded nothing for work or task loss disability. Lowmaster appealed to the Board.
The Board found that Lowmaster was eligible for work disability because she was not employed at 90% of her pre-loss wage at the time her claim was filed. The Board stated that it could not say that Lowmaster would have refused accommodated employment and found that she had an 80% permanent partial general disability. The Board awarded Lowmaster monetary damages in excess of $100,000.
Modine first argues that the Board erred in finding that Lowmaster was entitled to an 80% permanent general disability rating. Interpretation of a statute is a question of law. This court's review of questions of law is unlimited. Foulk v. Colonial Terrace, 20 Kan. App. 2d 277, 283, 887 P.2d 140 (1994), rev. denied 257 Kan. 1091 (1995). When interpreting a statute, this court should give effect to the intent of the legislature to the extent that intent can be ascertained. State v. Le, 260 Kan. 845, Syl. ¶ 4, 926 P.2d 638 (1996). "The legislature is presumed to intend that a statute be given a reasonable construction, so as to avoid unreasonable or absurd results." 260 Kan. 845, Syl. ¶ 4.
K.S.A. 44-510e(a) governs the award of permanent partial general disability benefits. The pertinent section of the statute provides that an employee is not entitled to receive permanent partial general disability compensation in excess of the percentage of functional impairment as long as the employee is engaging in any work for wages equal to 90% of the employee's pre-injury average weekly wage.
This court has previously interpreted K.S.A. 44-510e(a). In Foulk v. Colonial Terrace, an employee refused an employer's offer of accommodated employment and then claimed that she was entitled to work disability. 20 Kan. App. 2d at 280. The employee argued that the presumption of no work disability does not apply if a worker has the ability to engage in such work but chooses not to do so. 20 Kan. App. 2d at 283.
This court found that to construe K.S.A. 44-510e(a) in this manner would be unreasonable where the proffered job is within the worker's ability and the worker has refused to even attempt the job. 20 Kan. App. 2d at 284. Further, this court found that the legislature clearly did not intend for a worker to receive compensation where the worker is capable of earning nearly the same wage as his or her pre-injury wage. 20 Kan. App. 2d at 284. More importantly, this court stated that "it would be unreasonable . . . to conclude that the legislature intended to encourage workers to merely sit at home, refuse to work, and take advantage of the workers compensation system." 20 Kan. App. 2d at 284.
This court recently clarified this ruling. In Copeland v. Johnson Group, Inc., 24 Kan. App. 2d 306, 308, 944 P.2d 179 (1997), an employee failed to return to work after having been given work restrictions. The employee filed a workers compensation claim. The administrative law judge found that she had a 10% functional impairment but no disability rating because she had been offered, but refused, accommodated employment. On appeal, the Board found that the employee had an 80% work disability rating based on 100% wage loss. The employer argued that the employee was capable of earning wages at the time of her injury and was, therefore, ineligible for a work disability rating. 24 Kan. App. 2d at 319.
This court held that in order to "harmonize the language of K.S.A. 44-510e(a) with the principles of Foulk, . . . the factfinder must first make a finding of whether a claimant has made a good faith effort to find appropriate employment. If such a finding is made, the difference in pre- and post-injury wages based on actual wages can be made." If such a finding is not made, "the factfinder will have to determine an appropriate post-injury wage based on all the evidence before it, including expert testimony concerning the capacity to earn wages." Copeland, 24 Kan. App. 2d at 320.
The Board found the facts in the present case to be "materially different" from the facts of Foulk. The Board admitted that the evidence indicated that Modine could and would have offered Lowmaster accommodated work, but that because no such offer was actually made, it could not say that she refused such work. From this, the Board reasoned that the Foulk decision did not allow it to treat Lowmaster as if she were engaging in work at 90% or more of her pre-injury wage.
While it is true that the facts of the present case are distinguishable from the facts of Foulk, they are not materially different. In Foulk, the employee refused to do the accommodated work which she was capable of doing. In the present case, testimony indicates that Lowmaster was capable of doing her job up until the day that she quit. In Foulk, the evidence showed that the employee was capable of earning 90% of her pre-loss wage, although she chose not to do so. In the present case, testimony indicates that Modine would have accommodated Lowmaster's work restriction had she not quit her job. It follows, therefore, that she was capable of earning 90% of her pre-loss wage, but chose not to do so. In both cases, an employee was capable of performing her job, was offered or would have been offered accommodated employment, and refused--either by refusing to do the work or by quitting the job--to do the accommodated work.
The Board also was correct in stating that Modine never actually offered Lowmaster accommodated employment. It is equally true, however, that Lowmaster never requested such an offer. At oral argument, Lowmaster asserted that she had requested accommodated employment three times before she quit working at Modine. A careful review of the record on appeal reveals no such request. Lowmaster had the burden to designate a record sufficient to support this argument. Absent such a record, her argument fails. See Cline v. Tittel, 20 Kan. App. 2d 695, 702-03, 891 P.2d 1137, rev. denied 257 Kan. 1091 (1995).
What the Board failed to take into account is that Lowmaster, like the employee in Foulk, was capable of earning 90% of her pre-loss wage but chose not to do so. The Board also failed to consider the policy effects of its decision. The decision would create a rule requiring employers to offer accommodated employment to an employee even when that employee has voluntarily terminated his or her employment with the employer. The employer also would be required to offer accommodated employment to someone who was no longer an employee, arguably even one who had quit years earlier, all in an effort to avoid excessive workers compensation awards.
Whether framed in terms of the "good faith" test articulated in Copeland, or the policy considerations outlined in Foulk, the result is the same. An employee who is capable of accommodated work must, at a minimum, attempt to do such work. A mere refusal to do the work is insufficient to allow the employee to circumvent the provisions of K.S.A. 44-510e(a). Lowmaster has failed in this burden.
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with this court's opinions in Foulk and Copeland.
1REPORTER'S NOTE: Previously filed as an unpublished opinion, the Supreme Court granted a motion to publish by an order dated July 8, 1997, pursuant to Rule 7.04 (1997 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 44).
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Background!
Posted on April 26, 2010 by Cindy La Ferle
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.” — Tim Burton
Most people who work in creative fields are jockeying to land a leading role, a front-page story, or first prize in an art competition. Aiming high, we usually compete for the spotlight. We’re all trying to make it in a culture that worships overnight success and holds its collective breath for the latest American Idol winner.
So, who’d want to work long, repetitive hours as a background extra in films? Who’d get a kick out of working for little more than minimum wage and a few fleeting seconds of screen time?
Lots of people. And I’m one of them.
Thanks to Michigan’s new film incentive program, Hollywood has been sending a variety of productions to our state, creating thousands of new jobs for labor, crew, and actors.
My first gig as a background extra in a feature film began on a lark last fall — another item on my bucket list. Along with my husband Doug and several of our neighbors, I was cast in the opening scene of the big-budget Red Dawn remake when our own neighborhood was used as a film set. Humvees and assorted army vehicles rolled down our tree-lined suburban streets while a troop of gun-wielding Communist soldiers took us captive. It was a total blast, literally and figuratively, and some of us were called back to work in additional scenes in Detroit.
Doug and I had so much fun, in fact, that we registered with a couple of casting agencies, and have worked in several more projects. Among our favorites was the soon-to-be-released Lifetime TV movie, Secrets in the Walls, in which we were cast as a doctor and a nurse in a hospital scene. As Doug likes to joke, “Now I can finally tell people, ‘No I am not a real doctor, but I played one on TV.”
Now that we’re listed with casting agencies, the toughest part is learning to deal with the unpredictability. We might get a call or an e-mail inquiring about our availability a week (or a day) before a particular shoot. At that point, we must commit to a time frame — with no immediate guarantee that we’ll be booked for the job. We’re usually left hanging until the casting agents confirm our roles and send additional details. The agents aren’t being coy or cruel — they’re also waiting for a schedule from the production people.
So it can be hard to plan your life around this sort of work. Last-minute bookings — and production schedule changes — aren’t unusual. Last year, Doug got an emergency call from a casting agent, asking him to pack a sports jacket and drive immediately to Ann Arbor to cover for another extra who couldn’t show up on the set that morning. (He made it in record time.)
Lights, camera …
Pay rates vary, depending on each film’s budget. As a rule, hourly pay is rarely much more than minimum wage, so I wouldn’t advise anyone interested in this work to consider quitting your day job or ditching your best freelance clients. There’s always a chance that your 15 seconds of “face time” will end up on the proverbial cutting room floor, anyway.
But there are untold rewards, especially if you love movies as much as I do. For starters, background extras get a rare look behind the scenes and a chance to learn more about filmmaking. This takes most of the glitter out of the stardust, yet you can’t help but return home with a deeper respect for the hard work and long hours invested in any given film project. You meet some of the nicest people too — everyone from legal administrators to retired engineers and stay-at-home dads will show up for work. And yes, sometimes you do rub elbows with celebrities.
For me, film work provides an interesting contrast to my (real-life) role as a professional writer. Writers are often loners out of necessity — but we enjoy company too. Working in a film, I enjoy the same rush of adrenaline and camaraderie I used to get when I was in theater years ago. I thrived on the nervous hum of activity backstage while the crew geared up and my fellow actors prepped for their scenes.
Last week I worked as a background extra in an HBO television series. I was waiting for my cue from an assistant director half my age when it hit me that this sort of work is both humbling and freeing.
No matter which production I’m working for, I know I’m just a very small part of a much bigger picture. I have no lines to memorize or deliver, and mugging for the camera is strictly prohibited. Unlike writing a story — where I’m in creative control and get my own byline — I’m merely fulfilling someone else’s vision while working as an extra. My role in a film might be as simple as running across the street from an explosion, singing hymns in a church, working at a desk, hanging around the town square, or standing in a corner with a drink in hand.
Years ago, I worked with a director who liked to remind everyone on stage that “there are no small parts, just small actors.” And that’s still terrific advice for every performer.
But hey, I’m not going to get rich or famous working as a background extra. It’s honorable work, and while I’m on set, I take it seriously. I show up on time and follow the instructions I’m given to the letter. Yet I know I won’t be discovered and given a one-way ticket to Hollywood. And I’m really OK with that. This is teamwork. This is what I do for fun. — Cindy La Ferle
Top photo: I’m on the right, hamming it up with Laurie and Bryan Valko, fellow background extras, after getting fitted for a hospital scene in Secrets in the Walls, a Lifetime TV thriller scheduled to air this fall. Middle photo: My husband Doug (left) posting with background extra Vong Lee, the Communist soldier who held us captive on the set of Red Dawn in our Royal Oak neighborhood last year. Bottom Photo: One of several head shots I use for background extra gigs.
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30 thoughts on “Background!”
Nancy on April 26, 2010 at 10:40 am said:
I’ll best you are having a blast. I would LOVE to do this too, but haven’t a clue where to begin … perhaps wait until a Commie in a Humvee comes rolling into my ‘hood? 😉
You are rockin’ the scrubs … Grey’s may be in your future … and Doug? A “Mc” doctor too!
Leslie Wyman on April 26, 2010 at 11:15 am said:
Hey Cindy- thanks for this post! I have been wondering about the realities of your new pastime and this draws a complete picture for me. You and Doug look adorable in the snapshots, and, what could be more fun than finding a common interest to share with your partner? Way to go!
Joanne on April 26, 2010 at 12:36 pm said:
Well I must say, you certainly know how to have fun! What exciting ventures these sound like. And I kind of like the spontaneity of getting that call, and the different roles that come up. And it sounds like, in some way, it even can expand your understanding of writing at the same time.
Jae Burnham on April 26, 2010 at 1:20 pm said:
Having lived in LA for almost 20 yrs I a little familiar movies being made. I know and have a few friends that actually make a good living working as movie extras, and sometimes they get to travel as well.
Bridgette on April 26, 2010 at 4:12 pm said:
Well look at you, a woman of many talents!
Cindy La Ferle on April 26, 2010 at 4:23 pm said:
Thanks, Bridgette … but I think it’s more accurate to say I am a woman of many interests — and crazy enough to try almost anything 🙂
deb on April 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm said:
You rock , Cindy!
and I do think it’s a brilliant way to spend time together as a couple.
the spontaneity must be like a little rush, adding excitement to the whole process.
thanks for sharing all the pictures . You radiate .
Kitty on April 26, 2010 at 8:43 pm said:
This sounds like so much fun. 😀
Sharon on April 27, 2010 at 1:37 pm said:
This was fun – a behind the scenes look at your work behind the scenes.
cindy on April 27, 2010 at 1:38 pm said:
cindy, I knew about Red Dawn but not the other shows. This is so cool.
joanna jenkins on April 27, 2010 at 1:45 pm said:
YEAH YOU! What a fun thing to do! I’ve read about all the filming in Michigan lately and think it’s GREAT (although don’t tell that to my fellow Californians). I’ll be watching the background for you!!!
Keep up the good work. You never know when it might be time for YOUR close-up 🙂
Cindy H — I’ve worked in four productions so far. It’s been loads of fun, and I have learned something new and different from each one.
Angie Muresan on April 28, 2010 at 12:03 am said:
That’s so cool, Cindy! I do hope to see you in something soon, closely watching the background.
Mary Ellen on April 29, 2010 at 10:24 am said:
Oh what fun! You found a new way to play!
Mama Zen on April 29, 2010 at 1:20 pm said:
Janita Gaulzetti on April 29, 2010 at 4:52 pm said:
Cindy – I loved this piece! You said it all for the hundreds of crazy movie lovers that do this. Hope to see you on set soon!
giftsofthejourney (Elizabeth Harper) on May 1, 2010 at 4:19 am said:
The pictures and words seem so familiar as they reflect a part of my past too. I have a picture of me in scrubs from when I played a doctor in an industrial training film. With a degree in drama education, I built a career in pharma sales, but worked as an actor on the side. I started with extra work when I moved from stage to camera and have many stories regarding those days. Interestingly, even though I did a few day player things where I was a principal on camera with more visibility, it was in an extra scene with Kevin Kline and Forest Whitaker that you can see me long enough to pick me out of the scene. My work in Georgia and Alabama was more related to commercials and industrials, but I did show up in a night time soap filmed there too.
Have you considered moving up from extra work to auditioning for larger roles? It might be fun for you.
Hmm, I feel a blog post coming on.
Cindy La Ferle on May 1, 2010 at 7:58 am said:
Elizabeth — that is so cool. I didn’t know that about you. As someone else commented on another post, it’s amazing how much we get to know about each through blogging, isn’t it? I can’t wait for your post about your acting career!
I have thought about auditioning for speaking roles in film … I did a lot of work in theater years ago, as hinted in this post, and often had good speaking parts. I loved it. But there is a lot of work involved in auditioning and it’s a part-time job just keeping abreast of what’s available out there. And competition is fierce, making it twice as much work to stay in the game.
starrlife on May 4, 2010 at 5:00 am said:
Love the pics and the energy that you bring to life! Now I must find out which HBO series that you will be on- In Treatment perhaps? Enquiring minds…
I will keep you all posted on the HBO series, out next fall 🙂
Howard Byrne on May 6, 2010 at 12:19 pm said:
You took the words right out of my mouth, Cindy. And, most of all, I always seem to be smiling after an 11 1/2 hour day on the set somewhere.
Cindy's Coffeehouse on May 6, 2010 at 7:59 pm said:
Cindy, I’m just catching up again on my favorite blogs, and I loved this post. I think what you and Doug are doing is great fun, and, of course, it’s yet another way to communicate.
By the way, I loved this phrase from your blog: “This takes most of the glitter out of the stardust.” However, from your post, I can tell that you still like the stardust — even without the glitter!
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Cindy La Ferle on July 11, 2010 at 3:06 pm said:
Thanks so much, everyone, for these great comments! I’m especially tickled to read remarks and kudos from fellow background actors who’ve been working at this for a while.
Howard, I like the way you said you find yourself smiling after a day on set!
As of early July, I’ve worked on 8 different film projects since beginning this adventure 10 months ago. It’s wonderful for Michigan that we have so many films in production in our state, as they provide employment for so many people — not just actors.
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Only the Half of It on July 17, 2010 at 11:44 am said:
Awesome! I would LOVE to do this as soon as my schedule is more permitting. I see the mad scientist photo is not new. Love it.
Cindy La Ferle on July 17, 2010 at 11:55 am said:
Thanks, all, for your supportive comments! Ellen, the photo was taken this spring.
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Fernando Esteban Flores has been a life-long poet. He has performed and read his poetry at many venues throughout Texas including the first San Antonio Poetry Festival, The Houston Poetry Fest, Luminaria, and La Gloria (celebrations of poetry in San Antonio). His poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Fernando has served since 2011 as one of the seven judges for the San Antonio Public Library’s “Pegasus”contest and anthology which selects and publishes student poetry from elementary to high school annually. Students are chosen from the greater Bexar County and San Antonio, TX area. The SAPL has sponsored and supported the Pegasus event since 1927, and many well-known local and national writers and poets were first published in the anthology when they were students.
Received 1st place for the Maverick Press First Chapbook Competition for Ragged Borders (Eagle Pass, TX)
Collaborated in 2011 with artist Luis Lopez in a series of 14 paintings & 14 poems titled Americanos on the theme of immigration and what it means to be part of the fabric of America which was published in a limited broadside
Received 2 ExCEL awards for excellence in teaching from KENS 5-TV and in 2008 was Chosen as a distinguished educator from Bexar County by Trinity University’s Trinity Prize Committee
Presented with the Angela De Hoyos Award for Community Service by the San Antonio Cultural Arts Organization (SACA)
Archived in the Latino Collection in the Central Branch of the SAPL: Ragged Borders and Red Accordion Blues
Archived in the San Anto Cultural Arts Organization (SACA) mural project history; Heavy Metal Man poem and The American Dream poem, coupled with student mural art at the corner of South Laredo/Brazos Street, on the wall of the former Delta Produce Co. (recently white washed by new ownership)
Invited to join the Chicano Fine Art Museum (CFAM) as resident-poet-at-large. The museum which will be housed in San Antonio and is currently in the developmental stages under the auspices of San Antonio artist, founder and director Adán Hernandez, whose mural was used in the movie, Blood In Blood Out and has paintings on exhibit in New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Chosen to be part of Palo Alto College’s current archival project which will house the personal documents and books of San Antonio poets from the 50’s to date under the direction of Dr. Rafael Castillo
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Mr Paul Johnson
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Mr Paul Johnson was educated in Yorkshire and attended Leeds University Dental School qualifying in 1979 with honours. After working in junior dental jobs at Leeds Dental Hospital, he returned to Medical School at the University of Cambridge in 1980 graduating Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1984. He was House Surgeon to Professor Sir Roy Calne at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and trained in Surgery in General at the The North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent. Higher training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery was in Stoke-on-Trent, the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead and King’s College Hospital in London..
Overseas experience includes training in Salzburg, Austria and Seattle. As a senior trainee he also took part in a ‘Medicine du Monde’ surgical team which treated war casualties in Addis Abbaba at the end of the Ethiopian civil war.
He was appointed as Consultant in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Surrey County and Frimley Park Hospitals in 1992 and is now the Senior Consultant in the Maxillofacial Department at the Royal Surrey County Hospital.
His clinical interests are wide ranging and he has published on several areas of maxillofacial surgery. Current areas of special interest are in the treatment of facial deformity, facial cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and the treatment of skin cancer.
He lectures and conducts surgical masterclasses nationally and internationally and is closely involved in training surgeons in Maxillofacial, ENT and Plastic Surgery in the UK. Teaching interests extend to facial cosmetic and orthognathic surgery. He runs a Royal College of Surgeons approved cosmetic fellowship based in Guildford and London to train junior Surgeons in facial aesthetic procedures.
He is a member and past chairman of the Training Interface Group of the Royal College of Surgeons for reconstructive cosmetic surgery, laser surgery, soft tissue trauma and skin cancer. He is active in the British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) and represents them on several national and international Committees. He is a past BAOMS lead for Orthognathic and Facial Cosmetic Surgery. He is also an interspecialty member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS). He has been awarded the 2018 Down Surgical Prize by the British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons. This is the highest honour that the Association can bestow on a surgeon and is made ‘In recognition of the significant contribution made to the speciality of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.’
In the private sector Mr Johnson is based at the Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital where he pursues a busy general Oral & Maxillofacial practice and Facial Aesthetic practice. In addition, he is a Partner in Surrey Implant Services, a dental implant group based at the Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital.
He is chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee at the Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital.
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South Hill historic district approved
Published June 21, 2017 | By admin
The South Hill Commercial Historic District in Mecklenburg County was among 21 sites across the state that were recognized through listing in the Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) last week by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
According to a press release, the district “reflects South Hill’s emergence by 1891 as a rail town on the Atlantic & Danville Railroad. Financiers and engineers in 1889 laid out the 56-acre town in a circular plan centered on the railroad’s depot. In 1901, South Hill incorporated as a town and emerged as an important shipping and manufacturing center in a region rich in tobacco and lumber resources.
“The South Hill Commercial Historic District reveals its origins in the turn-of-the-century tobacco and railroad economy through its tobacco warehouses and commercial buildings situated along W. Danville Street and Mecklenburg Avenue. The district also features several churches, the 1932 South Hill High School, and residences built by prominent citizens of the town. The district’s architecture ranges from high Victorian and Colonial Revival styles to typical vernacular forms that range in date from the early to mid-20th century.”
Also in Southside Virginia, four rural properties in Halifax County are now part of the Virginia Landmarks Register:
Located on a well-traveled Halifax County route that became Highway 58, Bloomsburg (Watkins House) is a finely detailed Greek Revival plantation house, among the first generation of such houses in Halifax County. It was built for merchant-planter Alexander Watkins in the late 1830s and/or 1840s. The compact two-story frame house features marble mantels, superb examples of decorative plaster cornices and ceiling medallions, and a stair with foliated ornament. Watkins operated a Bloomsburg Store on his property, which, family tradition holds, did considerable business with immigrants heading westward. The store no longer stands, but surviving buildings on the property include a mid-19th century two-room brick kitchen and a brick carriage house, and other historic domestic and agricultural outbuildings.
Brandon-on-the-Dan represents over two centuries of architectural development. Construction began circa 1810-1825 with a small house of dovetail-notched log construction that may have later served briefly as a tavern. In the 1850s, George and Tabitha Brandon built a two-story Greek Revival frame house next to the log dwelling. The antebellum house features spirited vernacular mantels and stair details, and other ornament produced in the workshop of free African American cabinetmaker Thomas Day of Milton, North Carolina. In 1913, Danville architect James Woodson Hopper designed Craftsman-style features for the house including a new porch and fireplace mantels. The property also contains an extensive African American cemetery dating to the 19th century.
Among Halifax County’s oldest-surviving houses, Cedar Grove dates to the late 1770s, as indicated by aspects of the one story house, which may have been built for William Smith. Early features include hewn and mill-sawn framing members, wrought nails, and tarred fish-scale wooden shingles. Merchant James Warren acquired the property in the early 1800s, and by the 1830s it became the home of his daughter Sarah and her husband, planter and later mill owner Jacob Blane Sr. Federal-style remodeling dates to this period, followed by the addition of Greek and Gothic Revival architectural elements at mid-century. Jacob Blane built an office with Gothic Revival-style features that survives today in front of the house. Other historic structures on the property include log and frame farm buildings, an early smokehouse, and a cemetery. Cedar Grove remained in the Blane and inter-related families until 1945.
Built around 1861, Halifax County’s Glenwood blends the county’s leading antebellum architectural styles: Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italianate. The two-story frame house was constructed in front of an earlier planked circa-1800 log house which became a rear wing. The exterior of the main house exhibits Italianate and Gothic Revival influences, and the interior features a stair with Gothic Revival details and Greek Revival mantels and door and window trim. Architect John Evans Johnson may have contributed to the design of the house, which was built for tobacconist James Anderson Glenn II. In 1912 the property was purchased by the Bass family, the current owners. The property also contains historic outbuildings constructed during the first half of the 20th century.
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources will forward the documentation for all 21 sites listed on the VLR to the National Park Service for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
Complete nomination forms and photographs for each of these sites can be accessed on the DHR website at http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/boardPage.html.
Listing a property in the state or national registers is honorific and sets no restrictions on what a property owner may do with his or her property. The designation is, first and foremost, an invitation to learn about and experience authentic and significant places in Virginia’s history.
Designating a property to the state or national registers — either individually or as a contributing building in a historic district — provides an owner the opportunity to pursue historic rehabilitation tax credit improvements to the building. Tax credit projects must comply with the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. The tax credit program is voluntary and not a requirement when owners work on their listed properties.
Virginia is a national leader among states in listing historic sites and districts in the National Register of Historic Places. The state is also a national leader for the number of federal tax credit rehabilitation projects proposed and completed each year.
Together the register and tax credit rehabilitation programs play significant roles in promoting Virginia’s heritage and the preservation of the Commonwealth’s historic places and in spurring economic revitalization and tourism in many towns and communities.
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Roe deer stalking
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Hugh, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
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Looking after Cumbria’s environmental
assets is a team effort
Looking after Cumbria’s environmental assets is a team effort. Here are some of the organisations with whom we work closely.
Country Land and Business Association (CLA): the membership organisation for owners of land, property and businesses in rural England and Wales. They speak for everyone who believes in a living and working countryside, and influence decision makers to ensure the positive development of the rural economy.
Cumbria Fells and Dales: a local action group delivering the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) to help the businesses and communities of rural Cumbria thrive now and in the future.
Cumbria Post 2013: a project funded by RDPE (Rural Development Programme England ) to prepare land managers for the changes needed in rural land management in Cumbria in the next 20 to 30 years; and to raise public awareness of the issues and how they will impact on them. It’s a partnership led by the University of Cumbria supported by the Federation of Cumbria Commoners and Natural England.
Cumbria Wildlife Trust: voluntary organisation with more than 15,000 members devoted to the conservation of the wildlife and wild places of Cumbria. The Trust cares for over 40 nature reserves, campaigns for the protection of endangered habitats and species such as limestone pavements and red squirrels, and works with adults and children to discover the importance of the natural world.
Federation of Cumbria Commoners: a member-led organisation dedicated to maintaining and improve the viability of hill farming on common land.
Forestry Commission: manages 24 million trees every year to create new woodlands and to replace the trees we harvest. Some of these trees will help to regenerate blighted industrial landscapes such as former coalfield communities and to bring new woodlands closer to urban areas. We also protect the threat to Britain’s trees from pests and disease, which has never been greater
Lake District National Park:England’s largest National Park includes Scafell Pike – its highest mountain, Wastwater – its deepest lake and thriving communities like Keswick and Bowness-on-Windermere. We’ve information for visitors and students about this unique corner of England. Find out how we work caring for this stunning area. And our 42,400 residents can find out all about planning.
National Gamekeepers Organisation: represents and supports 16,000 gamekeepers in England and Wales. NGO defends and promotes gamekeeping, and ensures high standards throughout the profession.
Natural England: the government’s advisor on the natural environment, providing practical advice, grounded in science, on how best to safeguard England’s natural wealth for the benefit of everyone. They run the Environmental Stewardship schemes, in which we have enrolled in our efforts to conserve 5000 acres of heather moorland and blanket bog.
North Lakes Red Deer Group: coordinates the management of the red deer in the Lake District which are thought to be the only pure bred herd of red deer left in the UK. The group is made up of all the landowners, including Lonsdale and Lowther Estates.
Penrith Anglers Association: controls around 42.5 miles of riverbank, including several miles of Lonsdale Estates riverbank on the rivers Eden, Eamont and Lowther. They manage visitor permits on our behalf.
Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group: a charity promoting the conservation of the red squirrel population in their natural habitat in the Penrith area. A network of volunteers take calls from people who have seen non-native grey squirrels, or sick or injured red squirrels.
Robson and Liddle: chartered surveyors, land agents and valuers across the North of England and Southern Scotland, providing a full range of professional services to the rural community. These services include estate management, valuations, dispute resolution, planning and development, compulsory purchases, common land and conservation and environment.
Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE):aims to improve competitiveness in the agriculture and forestry sector; safeguard and enhance the rural environment; foster competitive and sustainable rural businesses and thriving rural communities.
University of Cumbria: previously the Cumbria campus of UCLan and Northumbria University, the Penrith campus became part of the University of Cumbria in August 2007.
This campus brought science and natural resources courses including The National School of Forestry, Conservation Science and Outdoor Studies into the university portfolio at the formation of the University of Cumbria in 2007.
Since July 2011 the further education (FE) provision at Newton Rigg has been managed by Askham Bryan College, a specialist agricultural FE provider. Higher education courses remain part of the University of Cumbria.
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Wachovia Bank v. The Gadbey Organisation
2005 WL 2559780 (N.J. Super. Law Div. 2005) (Unpublished)
Opinion Date: October 5, 2005
CONTRACTS; CONTINGENCIES—Where a purchase contract’s land use contingency states that it will be satisfied upon receipt of approvals from a particular municipality’s planning board, the buyer cannot terminate the contract just because highway access approvals can’t be obtained from the Department of Transportation or because the buyer believes that all land use approvals cannot be obtained.
A bank entered into a contract to purchase an unimproved tract of land to “construct a new banking facility pursuant to its plans, with satisfactory access and signage.” The agreement contained an “Inspection Contingency” clause and a “Land Use Approval” clause. The “Inspection Contingency” clause gave the bank sixty days within which to conduct all investigations and inquiries needed for the bank to determine whether the property was suitable for its intended development. If the bank decided it was not suited for development, it had the right to terminate the contract and obtain a refund of its deposit. If it did not terminate the contract, then it would proceed to obtain land use approvals within a given period of time. The land use approval contingency was to be considered satisfied when the municipal planning board’s approval became final and non-appealable without any appeal having been filed.
Originally, the bank intended to build a “new” prototype 4,000 square foot facility. For a period of time, it felt confident that such a facility could be built and that it could obtain necessary municipal and Department of Transportation approvals. It made application for a municipal approval. Two to three months after the sales contract was signed, the bank re-evaluated its prototype facility and decided to change to another prototype. This required a revision to the plans and a change in the application. About six months after the sales contract was signed, the bank learned of anticipated problems with highway access permit approvals. Subsequently, its traffic engineer prepared a report evidencing greater concern. By this time, the municipality was undergoing a shift in its concept as to how properties should be developed and the bank was faced with the necessity of further revising its plans. Further, the access permit problem seemed to imply that the bank would need to reduce the size of its proposed branch. With all of that in front of it, the bank decided to terminate the agreement based upon its perceived inability to obtain land use approvals. The bank requested return of its deposit, but the landowner refused to do so. The bank sued.
The Court was faced with a number of issues. One of them was whether the “due diligence” clause (i.e., the Inspection Contingency) was the means by which the parties had decided to use for the bank to determine whether its plans were feasible in the first place. If that were the case, then the bank’s concern about getting land use approvals should have been dealt with during the Inspection Contingency period. The Court was also asked to determine whether the doctrine of impossibility excused the bank from its contractual obligations either because the bank couldn’t obtain access permits or because the municipality was going to require the bank to substantially change its site plan to conform with the new land use concepts within the municipality. Further, the Court needed to decide whether the Land Use Approval contingency entitled the bank to void the agreement because of the bank’s perceived inability to obtain highway access permits prior to approval by the municipal planning board.
Unfortunately for the bank, the Court decided that the question as to whether a highway access permit could be received was a matter of purview within the Inspection Contingency provision of the contract and not within the Land Use Approval contingency provision. The Court viewed the Inspection Contingency text as “a broadly permissive bargained for provision permitting [the bank] an opportunity to perform its ‘due diligence’ investigation into whatever matter(s) it deemed appropriate in its sole discretion, in order to assure itself that ‘it can accomplish its objective of ... construction of a banking facility on terms and conditions acceptable to it, subject to obtaining the required Land Use Approvals as set forth’” elsewhere in the contract. The Court believed that the Land Use Approval contingency was limited by specific reference to planning board approval. Consequently, the Court held that the bank “was then required to close title, even though it may not have had the DOT access permit that [the bank] claim[ed] to be the subject of the land use contingency.” Further, the Court held that securing the access permit “was not a condition objectively impossible for [the bank] to meet.” It rejected the bank’s right to terminate the contract based upon the doctrine of impossibility solely based on the bank’s subjective perception of its ability to obtain access permits. The bank had an obligation “to file and diligently prosecute the development application before the Board, something it commenced, but just never completed. It was not ‘impossible’ for [the bank] to prosecute the application before the Board at a public hearing permitting the Board to decide the matter.” The bank chose not to proceed “because of its belief that denial of its application was predictable. Predictable as it may or may not have been, [the bank] had to comply with the contractual obligations it agreed to, and it just did not make that effort.” The bank’s speculation as to how the board would have ruled could not be equated with “impossibility to satisfy the land use contingency.”
The Court also rejected the bank’s argument that the access permit was a land use approval contingency within the ambit of the contract’s contingency provision. It argued that it had the right to apply for permits for a bank “pursuant to its plans with satisfactory access and signage.” If it couldn’t obtain approval for what the bank considered to be “satisfactory,” the bank felt it could terminate the agreement. The Court disagreed, holding that the bank was “bound by the language of the Agreement and [could] not adopt the position that once it subjectively determine[d]” that it would not get its approvals, “it had the right to void the agreement, it could do so no matter that the Board never had the opportunity act on its application.” According to the Court, when the bank decided “it could not accomplish its goal” and withdraw its application, it frustrated the purpose of the Land Use Approval contingency provision of the contract. The Court refused to rewrite the contract and substitute a new and different provision from what was clearly included within the contract. This was an important conclusion by the Court because the bank argued that the Inspection Contingency specifically exempted “required Land Use Approvals” from its coverage, thinking it left open the possibility for the bank “to terminate the Agreement if it could not obtain the necessary Land Use Approvals to build a bank pursuant to its plans.” The Court rejected this interpretation, opining that because the Inspection Contingency provision specifically referred to site planning, etc., the bank could have made all of its approval inquires during the initial sixty day period. Further, the Land Use Approval provision made reference solely to planning board approval where such approval was “final and non-appealable without any appeal having been filed.” Further, the Court rejected the bank’s contention that planning board approval “encompassed other permit approvals and therefore [the bank] was not overly concerned” with the contract’s reference to a specifically named municipality’s planning board within the land use contingency clause. In short, the Court believed that if the bank wanted the Land Use Contingency Clause to include access approvals, it could have expressly negotiated such words into the contract.
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SZA Says Her Voice Is 'Permanently Injured' In Deleted Tweets
'Tonight was the test. That settles that.'
Patrick Hosken patrickhosken 05/30/2018
Just over a week ago, news broke that SZA had been sidelined from her label's massive TDE Championship Tour due to persistent vocal injuries. In a statement at the time, TDE founder Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith said SZA was ordered to "rest her voice to prevent any permanent damage." Now, new tweets from SZA herself may mean the damage is already done.
In the since-deleted messages posted Tuesday night (May 29) — the same night the Championship Tour rolled into New York's Madison Square Garden, with SZA performing onstage — SZA claimed that her voice is "permanently injured."
twitter.com/SZA
"Tonight was the test. That settles that," she wrote, before adding, "I jus[t] wanna be left alone my priorities are fucked up. They been fucked up. I need space goodbye."
It seems likely that SZA's vocal cord issues are, in fact, much worse than previously thought. This might be in keeping with earlier grievances SZA has expressed, including after her Coachella performance in April, when she wrote on Instagram, "Last week kicked my ass" and "lost my voice completely."
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjJTs2vDayY/?taken-by=sza
Earlier this year, in March, she also told Flaunt, "I'm still miserable. My world got so much smaller so fast. I have so much to write about. I feel like I'm in a cage. I'm making the best album of my life for this next album and I know that... because it’s going to be my last album."
Here's hoping SZA can take some time off to heal — something not easy to come by for performers so regularly run through the ringer of pop stardom.
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By Hannah Lowe Corman
Let’s Reframe Comparison into Confidence, Mamas
Jessica Goodwin
“A lot of us wrestle with the fact that we’re not where we want to be yet. But we’ll get there. We just need to change the way we think about ourselves.”
I’ve had people high-five me and pat me on the back. I’ve had people tell me they’re proud of me. I’ve had people tell me they admire me.
And still I constantly worry that I should be working harder.
That I could be doing better. I worry about whether I’m doing enough. That I’m not good enough. There are days where I know I’m busting my ass, but I still feel like I should be doing more…
And I finally figured out why.
It’s because I constantly compare myself to other people.
Other writers. Other students. Other moms. Comparison is a huge confidence killer.
I see other writers on social media share showers of 5-star reviews and news of literary agents and book deals and can’t help but feel twinges of inadequacy. I see writers with huge followings on social media who somehow manage to find the right balance between original content, support of other colleague’s work, and a healthy dose of self-promotion and wonder how the hell they do it all… and still manage to work on the next book. How do they keep up with their blogs and their giveaways and their promos?
How can I do that? Why can’t I do that?
I sign on to my classes twice a week and have to force myself to speak up, constantly in awe of the great minds that I share my online classrooms with. You’d think that being in front of my computer in my home office in my pajamas rather than in a classroom of 20 other people would make it easier, but no, it’s still a form of public speaking, and I hate it.
I would much rather write out my responses in the chat box or send a peer review letter, because when it comes to participating in class, I always feel like a stammering, stuttering fool. Someone always says what I want to say, before I can figure out how exactly to say it, and they usually say it more eloquently than I would have managed in the first place.
Still, I make myself chime in. I try to take a minute to form an answer in my head, or even jot a few notes down on paper, before I speak up, and even then, I still probably sound like a blathering idiot. Why do I get so nervous? Why is talking in front of a room full of my peers so hard when other people do it like it’s no big deal?
Everywhere I go, whether it’s online or in real life, I find myself intimidated by other moms.
How do y’all do it? How do you get up and go to the gym and come back and straighten your hair and put on makeup and dress cute and take the kids to school and get shit done at work or around the house and look good while doing it? I am lucky if I can make myself roll out of bed in the morning to take a walk around the block. I consider the day a domestic success if I can unload the dishwasher before my husband comes home.
I constantly feel like I am struggling to keep it together as well as the other moms I know, and I am definitely not doing it with a blowout, a cute outfit, and a full face of makeup. (Concealer, maybe, and some mascara, but that’s about it.)
If you’re like me, you probably have to remind yourself constantly not to compare yourself to others. But we do it anyway.
So how are we ever supposed to be more confident when we’re always trying to see where we measure up next to our coworkers, classmates, and friends? I have been mulling this over for a few days… I literally stopped in the middle of this post to try to figure out how to stop comparing myself… how to stop bashing myself… when I really am trying to do my best and be a good writer, a good wife, and a good mom. I KNOW that. Other people know that. They tell me so! But why is it so hard to believe?
And suddenly, I thought about something I’d read about “reframing” your thoughts.
It comes from a book called The Danish Way of Parenting by Jessica Alexander and Iben Sandahl, and let’s face it, the Danes are constantly ranked as the world’s happiest people. So, what do they have to say about reframing?
“Our reality and understanding are created with the language we use. Therefore, all changes will require a change in the language. Think about whether you speak to yourself or your children in a supportive or inhibitory way. Words like “he is so…” or “I am too…” Are generally negatively defining and stigmatizing phrases that only intend to suppress a positive and supportive self-image. Reform, redefine or reframe. It’s about shifting the focus from what we think we cannot create an opening for possible change.”
So what would that look like for me? I grabbed some of my negative self-talk from above and tried reframing those words and phrases that could use a more positive spin.
“…and can’t help but feel twinges of inadequacy.” could be reframed as, “I am constantly looking for ways to improve myself and do better.”
“…and have to force myself to speak up… Still, I make myself chime in.” could be reframed as, “I take time to think before I speak so that I am making a thoughtful contribution to the class, and I do it even though it scares me.”
“I constantly feel like I am struggling to keep it together…” could be reframed as, “I have a lot going on and am doing my best to juggle motherhood, family life, school, and a career.”
As Jessica Alexander says on TheDanishWay.com:
“We develop when we believe that our hope and dreams can succeed. We also grow when others believe in us and give us confidence. Once we master the ability to reformulate or redefine our inhibitory/definitive language usage, we must gather the positive stories in which we succeed. It’s not about eliminating negative events (that’s often misunderstood) – they all come true – it’s just about seeing the same subject in more shades than in just one color.”
As moms, we have a lot going on in our lives. We’re parenting, wife-ing, working, traveling, cooking, cleaning, playing, arranging, scheduling, and on and on and on… A lot of us wrestle with the fact that we’re not where we want to be yet. But we’ll get there. We just need to change the way we think about ourselves.
Jessica Goodwin lives near Washington, D.C. with her husband, son, and their two cats. She’s written four novels and her work has appeared on Scary Mommy, Baby Gaga, Chocolate & Chaos, Tribe Magazine, Mamalode, and in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sleep when the baby sleeps? Nope, she’s writing. Follow her on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum
Species: Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. var. parviflorum
Common Name: southern small yellow lady’s slipper
Habitat: **
Plant Notes: Most of the records of Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum from New York are likely C. p. var. makasin and therefore the current distribution of these two taxa in the Atlas is clearly inaccurate. In New York Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum appears to be restricted to southeastern New York (and perhaps south-central New York) while C. p. var. makasin occurs throughout most of the state excluding at least parts of southeastern New York (Sheviak 2002).
Status: Native, Endangered-State, SH (State Rank), G5T3T4 (Global Rank), CoC: 10
Genus Cypripedium
Species Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. var. parviflorum - southern small yellow lady’s slipper
Citation Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. var. parviflorum
Herbarium Name Used: Cypripedium calceolus var. parviflorum
Broome NYFA_1990
Chemung 1882 BH
Herbarium Name Used: Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum Werier (2017) voucher!; T.F. Lucy s.n. 3/6/2018 - David Werier
Genesee NYFA_1990
Livingston NYFA_1990
Madison NYFA_1990
Monroe NYFA_1990
Onondaga NYFA_1990
Orange NYFA_1990
Tompkins NYFA_1990
Wyoming NYFA_1990
Cypripedium calceolus Cypripedium calceolus L. misapplied
Cypripedium calceolus var. parviflorum Cypripedium calceolus L. var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Fernald
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How climate determines consumption and culture
by veena March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 0404
BY DR. JAGDISH N. SHETH*
Everyone knows that there are differences across cultures in our consumption of necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing. However, we don’t know why these differences persist despite globalization.
In a recent book I published, Genes, Climate and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots (Emerald Publishing), I document that consumption as well as cultural differences such as punctuality, planning, and uncertainty avoidance are due to the North-South climate differences ranging from the arctic to temperate to tropical climates.
My interest in climate grew out of a research study we were doing for Coca Cola International. Coca Cola consumption varied enormously from country to country. It was as low as 64 bottles per year per capita in one country and as high as 400 bottles per year per capita in other countries. Given that this was an empirical observation, a large-scale correlation analysis revealed that more than 95 percent of the differences in Cola consumption can be explained by two factors: climate of the country and age of the population. Warmer countries with young populations consumed more Coca Cola and vice-versa. The highest per capita consumption was in Mexico (400 bottles) and the lowest per capita consumption was in Sweden (64 bottles).
Furthermore, the country’s climate was twice as important as the age of its inhabitants.
Climate is the root cause of who we are genetically, how we behave culturally, and how we consume three basic necessities common to all civilizations: food, shelter, and clothing.
Genes, Climate and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots (Emerald Publishing) by Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth is available for purchase on Amazon.com
Climate and Consumption
The best way to illustrate consumption differences in food, shelter, and clothing is to contrast Northern and Southern Europe. In the North above the Alps, the source of protein, calories, and fat is animal because of the lack of vegetation. Therefore, the Northern European diet tends to be what we refer to as meat and potatoes. In contrast, the Mediterranean cultures have more lentils, vegetables, nuts and fruits in their diet because they can grow them. The Northern European diet tends to be less spicy, whereas tropical countries such as India have an enormous variety of spices. In my research on cheese consumption, I was surprised to discover that the fat content of cheese (Swiss) in cold climates is very high (40 percent or more); it drops to low-fat content (2 to 3 percent) in the Mediterranean temperate climate (feta and mozzarella); and the concept of cheese is conspicuously absent in tropical climates. For inhabitants of tropical climates, saturated fat comes from olive oil, coconut oil, and avocado, for example.
Northern Europeans depend on animals for clothing materials and, therefore, their preference is for wool and leather. Whereas, warmer climate cultures have access to cotton and linen. Northern Europeans prefer multiple layers and tight-fitting clothes to create insulation, but in warmer climates loose, single-layer, free-flowing garments that provide ventilation are more prevalent. Given that vegetation is not possible in Northern Europe, the preference is for pastel colors in clothes. On the other hand, warmer climates prefer a colorful display of clothing, as exemplified by Indian Saris, native African garments, and colorful Pacific Island outfits. Finally, boots are replaced with shoes, shoes are replaced with sandals, and sandals substitute for thongs when migrating from the arctic to the temperate to the tropical climates.
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The shelter differences are also due to climatic adaptions. Northern Europeans have mountains and forests; therefore, most construction raw materials are wood and stone. In tropical climates, the preference is for clay and bricks. Wood material is indeed undesirable in tropical climates due to termite and other insects. The roof design in the North is typically “A” shaped to allow for snow to roll off the roof, whereas it is usually a flat roof with a gentle slope for rainwater to drain in warmer climates. The outdoors and indoors are insulated in cold climates, and one often sees the presence of a foyer as transition space. In warmer climates, indoor and outdoor boundaries are often blurred and indistinguishable. This type of housing is best typified by Spanish or Greek villas. High ceilings are most prevalent in hot and humid climates such as the deep South in the United States, to allow air to rise.
Finally, color preferences are significantly different for homes in arctic, temperate, and tropical climates.
Cultures also vary in punctuality, planning, and uncertainty avoidance. In general, Northern Europeans tend to be more punctual and time conscious while the Southern Europeans tend to be relatively relaxed. This is because in Northern Europe, weather is harsh and unpredictable. If you do not plant and harvest in time, you starve for the whole year. In warmer climates, weather is the same from one day to another and it is more predictable, and therefore survival is less dependent on unpredictable weather. In tropical climates, such as Mexico and India, time is not as important as the occasion.
Northerners also like to avoid uncertainty and believe in risk management; therefore, insurance appeals to them. They also tend to plan ahead, whether it is annual budget or long-term planning. Planning for the future is generally less prevalent among the temperate or tropical cultures. Living in the moment appeals to them more.
In summary, we have analyzed East-West differences since the colonial era. Rudyard Kipling’s famous saying was, “The East is East, and the West is West, and the twain shall never meet”. I think he is dead wrong. He is not only dead, but also wrong! Today’s Asian kids are just like their cousins in the West and now we are experiencing the Easternization of the world, starting with popularity of yoga and meditation in the West to fusion in dance, cuisines, and music.
“Slum Dog Millionaire” movie was a great reflection of this fusion.
What matters instead is to look at the North-South differences in our food, clothing, and preferences. This explains consumption and cultural differences between the North Indians and the South Indians as it explains differences between the Northern Italians and the Southern Italians.
*Jagdish N Sheth, Ph.D. in Behavioral Science from University of Pittsburgh, is the Charles H Kellstadt Professor of Business at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He has published more than 300 research papers and authored more than 20 books in consumer behavior, globalization, marketing strategy, and relationship marketing.
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Slow news day...
Anybody heard about the "Montauk Monster" - the crazy, monster-looking animal carcass that supposedly washed up on the beaches of the Hamptons?
Did somebody make it out of latex? Are the pictures photoshopped? Is it an authentic, undiscovered breed of creature?
Have we considered viral marketing for the upcoming Dark Crystal 2? That thing is clearly a Skeksi...
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...that the Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars will be arriving on DVD soon??
The psychedelic Oklahoma quartet's long-awaited "fantastical film freakout" - and accompanying soundtrack - will hit shelves in October. Pitchfork has the movie's appropriately spaced-out trailer.
Trailer watch, part II
Yet more new, buzzworthy trailers worth taking a look at...
Moviefone premiered Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tonight, and there should be plenty for fans to rejoice about: it's pitch-perfectly spooky, and it appears director David Yates (who also handled the last entry, the Order of the Phoenix, and will helm the next and final two-parter, the Deathly Hallows) continues to be unafraid to take the series into the books' increasingly dark terrain.
In addition, those curious about Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic, W., can get a look at that film's trailer, also at Moviefone. No surprise that they're employing a not-exactly-as-it-happened framework, but it looks interesting, to say the least.
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Old man takes a look at his life
Neil Young has directed a new documentary, CSNY: Deja Vu, about the supergroup's tumultuous "Freedom of Speech" tour in 2006.
While the seminal folk band is rooted in protest songs, Young's '06 album Living With War (or, as SNL parodied it, I Do Not Agree with Many of this Administration's Policies) didn't always go down easy with fans and the press. Deja Vu chronicles that time period.
Feist loves counting
Feist on Sesame Street. Who wouldn't want to watch that?
Trailer watch
Three new, noteworthy trailers have recently popped up, and we're gonna look at 'em...
First, and most importantly, is Watchmen. Comic fans know it's not really hyperbole when the trailer boldly declares it "the most celebrated graphic novel of all time" (understanding that "graphic novel" generally refers to stand-alone, usually lengthy, comic books), and the trailer, more or less, lives up to the hype. What was thought to be unfilmable looks pretty great here, and the cool, slowed-down Smashing Pumpkins soundtrack (itself a remix of a song from the superhero-movie-that-will-not-be-named) is solid:
Second is The Spirit, and I have to join in general blogosphere consensus and say my socks aren't knocked off. I love the source material, and Frank Miller seems a pretty good match for Will Eisner, but it suffers from the same disappointment I had with Sin City and 300: they're cool looking, to be sure, but I don't know that much else is there. Although maybe there doesn't need to be (are we getting spoiled with comic movies that are too serious?):
Finally, comes Body of Lies, and I have to admit here that, while I'm a Ridley Scott fan, my interest in this one stems mostly from the fact that I'm an extra in the movie (you just might be able to catch me as a flower vendor in a scene set in Amsterdam). Apart from that, though, it looks pretty cool, if a little been-there-done-that:
Scoring for stop-motion
More news on the hip-music-for-family-films front: Pulp's Jarvis Cocker is reportedly contributing to the soundtrack of Wes Anderson's upcoming (and increasingly interesting) Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name.
They still like beer and the nightlife
"Me and my friends are like the drums on 'Lust for Life,'" sings the Hold Steady's Craig Finn at the onset of the band's new record. "We pound it out on floor toms/ Our psalms are sing-along songs." And with that begins Stay Positive, the Brooklyn band's fourth LP, and latest set of loquacious party anthems.
As with the rest of their discography, Positive is full of both the promise of good times ahead ("We're gonna build something this summer," intones Finn, in signature nasal, on opener "Constructive Summer"), as well as the consequences that can come with them (by the second song, "Sequestered in Memphis," the narrator is already questioning the previous night's decisions).
Still, the overall lyrical and musical terrain on this record is a bit sadder and more introspective than with previous efforts. And while there's plenty of the E Street organ and Zeppelinesque riffs that have come to define the neo-classic rock bar band's sound, that tonal growth allows for some welcomed experimentation (the harpsichord and offbeat time signature of "One for the Cutters;" the haunting mandolin of "Both Crosses;" title track "Stay Positive," which shows off the band's hardcore roots).
Unfortunately, while the group's branching out is commendable, the album lacks the immediacy and energy of their last disc, the much-lauded Boys and Girls in America. On the other hand, both the Hold Steady and their previous incarnation, Lifter Puller, had to grow on me before I became a big fan, and the same could definitely turn out to be true about Stay Positive. For now, suffice it to say that it rocks.
Grade: B+
Don't call them Chuck E. Cheese
If you’re like me, and you recently had your mind blown by the circulating video of Showbiz Pizza’s animatronic band, the Rock-afire Explosion, inexplicably performing Usher’s “Love in this Club,” you wanted to know how this wonder came to be. Why is the clip synced so perfectly in time with the song? Could it be that someone, somewhere, actually programmed the singing robots in question to perform hits from today?
Yes, turns out. Not only that – there’s a small, but devoted, Rock-afire fanbase collecting, assembling, and programming the characters in their homes. And now, reports Paste, their journey is the subject of an upcoming documentary, The Rock-afire Explosion:
Epic. To prepare yourself, check out Rock-afire performing the White Stripes, MGMT, and Shakira.
You like like you need some Kanye news
Kanye, N.E.R.D., and Wyclef will perform at the Democratic convention in Colorado this September.
Any guesses as to who'll rock the Republican convention in Minnesota? We know it won't be Low, Tapes 'n Tapes, or P.O.S. Perhaps Young Jeezy?
"If just one person..."
In case you can't get enough Muppets, Jim Henson's Fantastic World - currently on display at the Smithsonian (and touring through early 2011) - is a fascinating look at the life and work of the man behind Kermit & Co.
Packed with his sketches, storyboards, and designs, the exhibit makes clear Henson was driven by genius, ambition, and limitless imagination, reiterating the tragedy that, though he had many more ideas than could ever be produced, his death cut short what might've been shared with the world.
What he did share, though, changed television, certainly (his background in groundbreaking commercials is highlighted), but also the world's ideas about how to entertain and educate children. Fitting, then, that the exhibition features not only original Muppets behind display case glass, but an interactive puppet show that allows kids to be Muppeteers themselves, complete with TV monitors.
Smithsonian has a great accompanying podcast, which you can enjoy with or without attending.
To do films about hobbits, you must resemble one
This weekend's Hellboy II (not to mention Pan's Labyrinth and upcoming Hobbit) director Guillermo del Toro talks his influences over at Entertainment Weekly. Love that guy...
Indie duo makes babies, pop songs
From one musical husband-and-wife team to another: NPR's got a piece up on (former This American Life house band) Mates of State, wherein the boppy, organ-happy indie rockers reflect on and perform from their more mellow, piano-happy Re-Arrange Us, released in May.
The tracking shot would do him proud
BBC's Channel 4 has put together a very cool ad for its Stanley Kubrick marathon, recreating the set of The Shining (aka the Best Horror Movie of All Time), down to every last detail - including nice use of the Steadicam, which Kubrick pioneered on the shoot:
Reminder: The Dark Knight opens in 11 days
In celebration, enjoy this recreation of the film's trailer, done entirely with Legos:
So pumped.
"Slow-core" or "Glacial-noir"?
I've got a post up on Sojourners' Beliefnet blog about the new Low documentary, You May Need a Murderer. Check it out...
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Meet One Day as a Lion
So, remember back in September when I said I wouldn't get my hopes up about Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha's supposedly completed solo album reaching the public anytime soon? There's good news and mixed news.
The good: a disc of new de la Rocha material has an actual release date of July 22; the mixed: it's only an EP, and comes from sessions de la Rocha had been doing with former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore (in fact, they're now a whole other band, One Day as a Lion), so, it's safe to assume that most of the material dude's been working on since RATM split won't be on here.
Still, sounds promising enough, and the ragey name is also pretty cool (as in, "It's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb")...
UPDATE: Check out their first single, "Wild International." Yes, it's pretty much what you'd expect, but it's also awesome.
He, Robot
Watching the mindless, recycled kids movie trailers that played before Wall-E, I was reminded of just how lucky we are to have Pixar in the world. Within the first five minutes of its latest commercial and critical smash, the studio effortlessly reinforces one of its key strengths: being completely unafraid to take risks.
Practically avant-garde in tone, Wall-E is centered around the titular robot who's spent 700 years on an abandoned Earth, compacting trash, listening to old musicals, and longing for connection. Another of Pixar's fortes, creating elaborate worlds, is on full display: the "camera" focus and zoom shots of the photorealistic, desolate surroundings in the opening scenes suggest documentary rather than animation, proving that they continue to reign supreme in technology, as well as storytelling.
There's also the small matter of the film being nearly dialogue-free. That the audience is able to so quickly emotionally resonate with a non-talking, cartoon robot would be amazing, if it weren't so rooted in Pixar's origins of bringing the inanimate to life (namely, with its early, groundbreaking short, Luxo Jr.). As it stands, the device serves simply as a means to tell an original story - another risk that pays off.
Things get complicated for Wall-E when, after mysteriously encountering another robot with whom he can finally share, his path takes unexpected turns. To add much more about the plot may be unnecessary, except to say that it involves (mostly) unforced commentary on corporate control, consumerism, and environmentalism, offering a surprisingly scathing - if hopeful - social critique, for a family film.
Ultimately, though, Wall-E, like most great (and many Disney) stories, is about love and purpose. If Disney's heyday was achieved by using new techniques to tell quality stories that audiences of all ages and types responded to, Pixar, given its track record, has clearly taken up the mantle. Wall-E, among the studio's best, is no exception.
Grade: A-
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The film(s) that changed my life, pt. 2
See part one for my first installment.
On Tuesday afternoons throughout summers in junior high, I'd make a list, bike to my neighborhood video store, and load up on 99-cent rentals. At the time, those rows of VHS tapes were my only available link to movies I'd merely heard about, but was fascinated by. Similar to experiencing Batman on the big screen as an extremely rare chance to see a comic book adapted to film, this now seems like a foreign concept. But in this, the era of the mid-'90s indie boom, Mr. Movies' five-rentals-per-visit policy allowed me to see Do the Right Thing, Clerks, El Mariachi, Hoop Dreams, and Reservoir Dogs (to name a few) for the first time. Each excited me, but Dogs was the one that made me starting thinking differently about movies.
"This can be a movie?" I thought, watching Quentin Tarantino's debut. As was the case for many Americans my age, Dogs was my first experience with this kind of filmmaking. The bulk of the movie takes place in one room, manages style and bold choices without a big budget, uses pop culture references as currency, and plays with nonlinear narrative. It felt fresh and accessibly challenging, and helped me begin to think about movies in an analytical way. Looking back, Reservoir Dogs may be the first movie that made me love film.
Simultaneously, my mom started teaching high school film courses, and I reaped the benefits. A public school teacher whose areas of expertise were theater and speech, she was enthusiastic about the possibilities that the subject matter of her new classes afforded. I poured over her curricula and film texts, and watched and re-watched the movies she was teaching when she'd bring them home. This is when I began reading collections of reviews by Roger Ebert, among others, and mentally logging "important" films that I knew I needed to see. As a result, I fell in love not just with movies, but with directors.
In high school, I first saw Coppola (Apocalypse Now may have been the first movie to truly blow my adolescent mind), Scorsese, Hitchcock, Welles, Huston, Polanski. But it was Stanley Kubrick who became my first favorite director as a "serious" (read: pretentious) aspiring teenage cinephile. Specifically, 2001 challenged and thrilled me in a way that still makes it a strong contender for my current Favorite Movie Ever. If Spielberg was the first director I'd checked out library books about growing up, Kubrick was the first director I did the same for in college. (Or at least, he'd do until I could start throwing around names like Truffaut and Rossellini—who carried more cache in film class—without really knowing what I was talking about.)
The final, key piece of the puzzle was the blessing of having access to my grandma's cable package. We didn't have cable at home, so in addition to typical teen favorites like MTV and Comedy Central, I'd plan spending summer nights at her house based around the Independent Film Channel's (now called IFC, to dispel any confusion about it being home to independent film any longer) schedule. I'd scour the newspaper's TV guide and bring blank tapes to record all kinds of films I never would've seen otherwise, including older and classic movies, world cinema, and documentaries. Of course, I took it for granted then, but in retrospect, I'm incredibly grateful for being exposed to, say, Powell and Pressburger, by a fledgling basic cable channel.
So, it's that combination of luck, video store discounts, and family who encouraged my emerging cinematic addiction that exposed me to the films that shaped my sensibilities, broadened my view of the world, and changed my life. What are some of yours?
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Otherjones.com
This blog is about The Big Picture - information and insights about what goes on in the world outside our borders - and what it means for Americans. Unless otherwise specified, all photos from Deena Stryker archive.
GE Superboss Trips over his own Feet
This morning Fareed Zakaria interviewed the CEO of General Electric, tapped by President Obama to help fix the jobs crisis. For a while Jeffrey Immelt sounded like a reasonable, old school Republican, only to find himself embarrassed by the fact that GE’s customers span the globe - and GE jobs follow.
But his worst moment came at the end (beware long interviews, even if you head one of the biggest companies in the world). Bragging about his business relations with China, Immelt said he ordered his managers to study China’s Five Years Plans because, unlike legislation that keeps U.S. business uncertain about the future, with China, business knows what to expect. The Chinese Politburo does not have to reckon with an organized opposition, either political or industrial, hence its decisions are implemented.
With the world financial crisis felt mainly in the West, China is also all that stands in the way of a U.S. default, as the BRICs and other developing countries see consistently high growth rates. Referring to the Euro Zone crisis, Immelt warned that Greece was not the biggest problem: “It’s a tiny economy”, he said, “while Italy’s is the seventh largest in the world, and if it goes belly up, the rest of the Euro zone will not be able to save it.” According to Fareed, Christine Lagarde will probably be the last non-Asian head of the IMF.
Before moving on to an inconclusive debate about next Tuesday’s Palestinian request for statehood at the Security Council, Fareed gave a no-holds barred critique of Obama’s Cuba policy. Our Caribbean nemesis turns out to have one of the biggest undersea reserves of petroleum in the world. Cuba watchers have known exploration was under way, but this probably wasn’t taken seriously by the White House. Otherwise why, just days ago, would Obama have declared that Cuba has not democratized enough to merit a lifting of our embargo? As oil companies from every corner of the globe rush to be part of the action off Cuba’s shores, we can only sit and watch. Worse, if there is an incident like last year’s BP disaster off the coast of Louisiana, Florida will be the most affected, and we would be hoisted by our own petard, our embargo forbidding us from sending men or machines to minimize the damage.
Labels: Christine Lagarde, Cuban oil, GE, IMF, Jeff Immelt, Palestinian statehood
Welcome to Otherjones!
The alternative press is replete with despair and ‘hope’, neither of which is helpful. ‘Squawking’ may alleviate some of the pain Americans experience at being identified with a government that brutalizes Others at will, but it doesn’t change the ‘facts on the ground’. As for hope, it is an easy cop-out: in the present state of the world, we can never be certain that tomorrow will come. Whether a barefoot child in Africa or a hedge-fund manager, all of us are the potential victims of hubris.
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Having lived for years at a time in half a dozen ‘foreign’, countries — learning their languages and histories — I have a unique ability to identify events that bear watching. That life, however, could not provide ‘retirement benefits’, so if you appreciate the unique combination of information and insight that characterizes my work, I hope you will integrate a small donation to Otherjones into your budget.
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My Latest Book: Russia's Americans
If you’re not quite prepared to believe that the US should go to war with Russia, or even that its President, Vladimir Putin, is a thug — or even if you simply believe that they mean the US harm, check out my new book Russia’s Americans, at Amazon. You will discover that there are many things you do not know about the Russia story, including the fact that thousands of Americans have chosen to live and work there. It is available in both paperback, at $22.25 and e-book, and is illustrated with many color photographs from my May 2017 trip.
Born in Philadelphia, I studied in Paris, became a French citizen by marriage, debuted at Agence France Presse in Rome, then, as Deena Boyer, followed Fellini’s creative process for The Two Hundred Days of ’81/2’. The proceeds from this book enabled me travel to Cuba to to interview Fidel Castro for a major French weekly, meeting with him again a week after the Kennedy assassination and several times in 1964 for a book, Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young, in which the other members of the government (including Che Guevara, Raul Castro and Celia Sanchez), tell in their own words why they made the revolution. My Cuba archive is on-line at Duke University.
In the seventies, I did graduate work in Global Survival, taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was a speech writer in the Carter State Department, publishing an article on U.S.-Soviet relations in the in-house journal in 1976.
Returning to Paris in 1981, with assistance from the Centre National du Livre, I published Une autre Europe, un autre Monde, the only book that foresaw the reunification of Europe and the breakup of the Soviet Union. I returned to Philadel-phia in 2000, and have been a contributor and senior editor at various on-line journals.
A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness hopes to change the way both seekers and skeptics look at good and evil - -and at the daunting problems of the 21st century. It shows that religious belief is not necessary to achieve serenity, but that awareness of the sacred as confirmed by modern science, is. It does this by viewing the world as a system and exploring what that means for the role of politics.
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World is a primer for Americans and others who find the policies of successive US governments difficult to square with their image of the country and its founding documents. The decades I spent living on both sides of the Iron Curtain provided me with a unique awareness of America’s image abroad and of the mainstream media’s failure to convey news and ideas to the voters in whose name policies are carried out. References to work by other political writers illustrate little-known or forgotten features of American history that have contributed to the tragic face the country presents today.
Cuba 1964 provides the definitive answer to the question: “Was Fidel Castro a Communist before he carried out the revolution, or did he become one because of the way the United States reacted when he ousted pro-US dictator Fulgencio Batista? While following day by day events, I had extensive conversations with the men and women who had joined the Castro brothers as early as 1953 and were now members of the revolutionary government. Together with Fidel, Raul, Che and Celia Sanchez, they told me in their own words why and now they made the Revolution hat continues to inspire countries in Latin America and around the world. The text is illustrated with photographs from my black and white archive which can be seen on-line at Duke University.
Lunch with Fellini Dinner with Fidel: How did it happen that a fourteen year old American girl found herself living among the French in post-war Paris? The answer to that question also explains why I went on to live in half a dozen countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain, becoming mutti-lingual, writing first about the cinema, then about ‘the big picture’ while raising two children, mostly on my own. A religious grandmother and a hedonistic lover accompanied me on a journal which has been both spiritual and political, and is illustrated by many photographs from my personal album.
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Kristen Kearns
A singer/songwriter with powerhouse vocals, Kearns was born in Harrisburg, Illinois. She showed an early interest in music, and picked up her first guitar at age four. Drawing inspiration from her father and the songwriting talents of Stevie Nicks, John Mayer and Norah Jones she began honing her own songwriting craft at the age of fifteen. Kearns then began performing her own songs at acoustic shows in local venues at the age of eighteen.
She met Nate McCoy while playing a local show and the band Darling Parade was later formed, with the addition of members Casey Conrad and Dustin McCoy. In 2009, Kearns moved to Nashville, TN to pursue music full-time. They released two EPs, landing placements on SyFy Channel's Stargate Universe, ABC Family's "The Lying Game", CW Channel's "Flygirls", and Showtime's "Shameless." The band’s success grew in 2011 with the release of the band’s third EP, “Until We Say It’s Over”, and landed the band the #8 spot on Billboard’s Next Big Sound chart. The first single “Never Wrong” received airplay on both MTVu and VH1. It also included, “Remember”, featuring guest vocals by Anberlin frontman, Stephen Christian. The spring of 2012, brought the band their first national tour with Cassadee Pope (Hey Monday, NBC’s The Voice).
Upon completing two additional national tours they returned back to the studio in Nashville partnering with Jon King of Page 2 Music, and released their first full length album “Battle Scars & Broken Hearts” in 2013. They released their single "Ghost" on XM Radio's "Top 20 on 20" station followed by their single "Crash and Burn." That same summer they performed live at MTV’s O Music Awards in New York City where they took home the MTV and VH1's “Make a Band Famous” award. They later became MTV's Artist to watch November 2013, performing VMA week with Hot Chelle Rae, and Fifth Harmony. Darling Parade is currently featured in a nationwide Supercuts "Rock The Cut" Campaign airing on ESPN.
After touring most of 2014, Kearns is back in Nashville in between penning new music and returning to the studio with Darling Parade, she is currently performing acoustically at various wineries, live music venues, and weddings. She will soon be releasing her first acoustic EP.
Leight July
The Native Acoustic Trio
Acoustic bluegrass
Matt Basler
Bill Carr
The Can't Get Rights
The Can't Get Rights is an acoustic cover band consisting of Thomas Henderson and Shaad Schubert. The duo have been playing the cover circuit of years with various bands and are now bringing you stripped down versions of your favorite 90's songs not unlike the “Unplugged” series of the same time. In addition to covers, The Can't Get Rights shows also features original music from Henderson and Schubert's other projects, Seasonal Panic and SHAADOWS respectively.
The “one-woman band” from Paducah, Kentucky, is making a name for herself on the regional music with folksy-Americana.
July has her own “suitcase drum” with a separate tambourine attachment she uses her in the show along with her guitar and voice.
The stage name pays homage to a musician that has helped shape her stage persona. Shakey Graves, who was born Alejandro Rose-Garcia, is an Austin-based musician who blends blues, folk and rock ‘n’ roll together.
“I thought that if he could do it all by myself then maybe I could too,” she said.
July’s style includes a whimsical wink to some of the early cues to what would become the basis of rock n’ roll.
“It’s folksy, bluesy Americana,” she said.
She said she has been performing for about a year with many of her gigs in Paducah. At the end of 2016, she expanded out to include venues around Southern Illinois.
“I’ve been playing around the wineries,” she said.
Her original music has been featured at the Bluebird Cafe, and two of the “48 Hour Film Projects.” She has also played at the 2017 Barbecue on the River in Paducah earlier this fall.
When performing, July says she likes to pay attention to the audience and see how they are reaction to her music.
“I like to watch the audience while I’m performing,” she said. “I like to gauge their reactions to some of covers and other original songs that I do.”
July described one of the songs she regularly puts in her set list, which highlights a down-on-the-luck approach to love and loss.
“There’s this song that I usually close my set with. It is from Shakey Graves and it actually is where I get my stage name,” she said. “It’s about a gold digger who takes his money and he kills her. He then awaits his execution by electric song. It’s probably the weirdest song I do.”
She plans to work on recording an album, with hopes of releasing them early next year. She said she has been scheduled for tonsil surgery, which will keep her sidelined for a few weeks.
She wants to continue to make music and she is appreciative of the chance to get to share her songs with the world.
“I’ve had incredible support from my parents,” she said. “They’ve been to every one of my shows. I couldn’t ask for more.”
Danny Brown is a Southern Illinois based musician who plays a variety of music and has been touring the winery circuit for the past year in the area. Having been immersed in the Carbondale music scene drumming for several bands since he was 15, his solo ventures and new band Baby Head and the Feathers are getting off their feet!
Tim Crosby & James Ricks of the Lightening Strikes
"Tim Crosby is a southern Illinois-based songwriter and performer in the Americana/country rock genre. He released a CD titled "Resurrection Mule Farm" with his band, the Lightning Strikes, in 2017 and currently is recording another CD. He performs more than 100 shows a year, including nearly every weekend at venues in Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, playing all original music that explores the trials and triumphs of everyday people. His influences include Steve Earle, Tom Petty, Todd Snider, John Prine, Chris Knight and others."
A Folky-Americana musician from a little town called Paducah.
Fri, Nov 23, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Nov 25, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
The kick off of the holiday season on the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail. We are featuring: a very tasty red wine toasted hot chocolate; 10 percent discount of six bottles or more of OCV wines; and half price on our 64oz growlers (save $3 on our $6 growler) plus a fill. See you on the trail!
Cement Pond
Outlaw Country/Southern Rock
Nate Blew-bass/vocals
Jeff Bradley-guitar/vocals
Mike Horn-drums/vocals
Tim Whiteford-guitar/steel guitar/vocals
Barry Cloyd
Dave Simmons
Larry Dillard
Jonathan Puzan & Zachary Thomas Diedrich
Honky Tonk Acoustic Duo
Eclipse Day / Blake Gardner & The Farmers
Total Eclipse Day! Totality will be at 1:20PM with the longest totality in the nation right here. We are opening @ 9am and have reserved our main lawn for eclipse viewing. Patrons are encouraged to bring lawn chairs & blankets to stake out your spot. Blake Gardner & The Farmers will play their first sets 11:00-!:00, then the main event "Total Eclipse", and the music continues 2:00-4:00. Our cafe is open all day and we'll be pouring Owl Creek wines & Apple Knocker hard ciders. Come join us!
Classic rock & blues...
Bosco & Whiteford
We hail from Southern Illinois where we pick, grin, and raise our kids (Toby included).
Schulyler Preener of "The Dirt Road Junkies"
We are kicking off Total Eclipse Weekend Music Series with Schulyler Preener of "The Dirt Road Junkies". Rocking' Red Dirt music from the Midwest!
Jeremy Joyce
Dom Weir
Wonky Tonk
Dakota Cummins
Dakota Danielle
Kevin Lucas
Beattie Rhodes Band
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peckvonhartel is proud to have received the Enduring Architecture Award for No. 1 Collins Street at the Australian Institute of Architecture 2011 Victorian Architecture Awards. No. 1 Collins Street was the result of an architectural competition entered by Robert Peck YFHK Pty Ltd in association with Denton Corker Marshall; the two companies proceeded to win the competition as a joint venture. The project was successfully completed in 1985 and has won a number of awards in the ensuing years, including the Royal Australian Institute of Architecture William Wilkinson Wardell Medal.
The award commends No. 1 Collins Street as "an outstanding building of its time and its enduring contribution to the city form and the streetscape of this sensitive precinct."
Posted on Wed, June 29, 2011 by Courtney Marriner
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Last producer to work with Nipsey shot dead in LA. Unfortunately, Andre Wakefield aka DJ Official was killed in a drive by on June 14. Wakefield was good friends with DJ Mustard who worked with Nipsey as well. Wakefield was a Grammy award winning producer Family and friends of Wakefield are baffled. Who would want […]
Weeks ago, Joe Budden and Cyn Santana’s breakup was revealed. Rumor has it Joe actually wasn’t faithful. With the relationship ending the way it did, Cyn may have been turned off by marriage completely. “Love And Hip Hop New York” stars Cyn and Joe have broken up. This was suspected after Cyn unfollowed Joe on social […]
Mr. Dope Chef What’s The Word – Kanye West Took Pot-Shots At Drake On OG “What Would Meek Do?”
Kanye West was flinging poop with no scoop in sight. Kanye West has never been one to engage in lyrical warfare, having gone the majority of his career without a full-fledged hip-hop beef. Despite ruffling more than his fair share of feathers throughout the years, Yeezy has opted to play the pacifist, even after fielding shots […]
Mr. Dope Chef What’s The Word – C Glizzy, 16-Year-Old Rapper & XXXTentacion’s Friend, Shot In The Head: Report
C Glizzy is expected to survive the gunshot wound to the head. A popular up-and-coming rapper from Florida was critically injured after he reportedly suffered a gunshot wound to the head this weekend. The news has been followed by Madeleine Wright, a reporter for WPLG Local 10, who claims that C Glizzy, whose real name […]
Mr. Dope Chef What’s The Word – Cardi B’s “Press” Debuts In Top 10 On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
Here are Cardi B’s major chart moves this week. Cardi B has earned her 11th top 10 song on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with her newest Press” track debuting at No. 6 on the latest iteration of the list. Originally arriving on May 31st, the track now becomes Cardi’s seventh top 10 debut on the […]
Mr. Dope Chef Wise Wisdom – The Origins of Rap & Hip Hop Music.
The origin of hip-hop can be traced back as far as the ancient tribes in Africa. Rap has been compared with the chants, drumbeats and foot-stomping African tribes performed before wars, the births of babies, and the deaths of kings and elders. Historians have reached further back than the accepted origins of hip-hop. It was […]
Urban Media Global Network Collective “Industry Shaker (Mr. Dope Chef)” Elevates Multi Industries Through Trials & Tribulations In Life.
The owner and founder of Urban Media Global Network Collective Mr. Ruben J Burgos also referred to as Mr. Dope Chef has now established a blueprint for any upcoming musician or model looking for more exposure in the entertainment world aligning him self with industry shakers with major record labels to radio rotation with F.M. […]
Kanye West Gets Trolled By Burger King Over Love For McDonald’s
Burger King trolls Kanye West over his love for McDonald’s. Over the weekend, Kanye West revealed that McDonald’s is his favorite restaurant. While that’s not really shocking or newsworthy, it did spark several comments from not only his peers like Rick Ross but also rival fast-food companies. Earlier today, Burger King U.K.’s Twitter account had […]
Dame Dash Hit With Restraining Order After Woman Claims He Threatened Her
A business owner was granted a temporary restraining order against Dame Dash. A woman who owns a children’s hair salon is accusing Dash of threatening her life has been successfully granted a temporary restraining order against the music mogul, The Blast reports. A judge recently granted Patrice Miner, owner of a children’s hair salon, a restraining […]
Rihanna Sends Legal Warning To Trump Administration After Her Music Was Played At Rally
The artist is making her stance official. Rihanna is the latest artist to send a cease and desist letter to the Trump administration asking the president to refrain from using her music during his political events. This legal action came after her song, “Don’t Stop the Music,” was played at the president’s rally Sunday in Chattanooga, […]
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$9,860/student vs. $14,858.40/student; Paying for Educational Priorities and/or Structural Change: Oconomowoc vs. Madison
April 30, 2012 Jim Zellmer
Chris Rickert summarizes a bit of recent Madison School Board decision making vis a vis educational outcomes. Contrast this with the recent governance news (more) from Oconomowoc; a community 58 miles east of Madison.
Moreover, it’s not like Madisonians are certain to oppose a large tax hike, especially given the way they responded to Walker’s bid to kill collective bargaining.
Before that idea became law, the board voted for — and the community supported — extending union contracts. Unions agreed to some $21 million in concessions in return for two years’ worth of protection from the law’s restrictions.
But the board could have effectively stripped the union of seniority protections, forced members to pay more for health insurance, ended automatic pay raises and taken other actions that would have been even worse for union workers — but that also would have saved taxpayers lots of money.
Board members didn’t do that because they knew protecting employees was important to the people they represent. They should be able to count on a similar dedication to public schooling in asking for the money to pay for the district’s latest priorities.
Christian D’Andrea
The changes would have a significant effect on teachers that the district retains. Starting positions – though it’s unclear how many would be available due to the staff reduction – would go from starting at a $36,000 salary to a $50,000 stipend. The average teacher in the district would see his or her pay rise from $57,000 to $71,000. It’s a move that would not only reward educators for the extra work that they would take on, but could also have a significant effect in luring high-level teachers to the district.
In essence, the district is moving forward with a plan that will increase the workload for their strong teachers, but also increase their pay to reflect that shift. In cutting staff, the district has the flexibility to raise these salaries while saving money thanks to the benefit packages that will not have to be replaced. Despite the shuffle, class sizes and course offerings will remain the same, though some teachers may not. It’s a bold move to not only retain the high school’s top performers, but to lure good teachers from other districts to the city.
Tuesday’s meeting laid out the first step of issuing non-renewal notices to the 15 teachers that will not be retained. The school board will vote on the reforms as a whole on next month.
The Madison School District has, to date, been unwilling to substantively change it’s model, one that has been around for decades. The continuing use of Reading Recovery despite its cost and lower than average performance is one example.
With respect to facilities spending, perhaps it would be useful to look into the 2005 maintenance referendum spending & effectiveness.
It is my great “hope” (hope and change?) that Madison’s above average spending, in this case, 33% more per student than well to do Oconomowoc, nearby higher education institutions and a very supportive population will ultimately improve the curriculum and provide a superior environment for great teachers.
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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
S. Afr. j. econ. manag. sci. vol.22 n.1 Pretoria 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v22i1.2794
Good capitalism versus bad capitalism: A review
Petrus D.F. Strydom
School of Economics, North-West University, South Africa
Book Title: Good capitalism, bad capitalism - The role of business in South Africa
Authors: Raymond Parsons and Ali Parry
Publisher: Jacana Media, 2018, R180*
*Book price at time of review
Effective institutions are not only important in determining the success or failure of economic development but they are significant in shaping economic policy while exerting discipline on government via institutionalised checks and balances to secure a consistent implementation of economic policy measures. This is an important theme in Good capitalism, bad capitalism: The role of business i n South Africa. The book analyses the role and voice of business in achieving affective policy outcomes in South Africa. It covers the past and present role of organised business in achieving such outcomes to secure successful economic development within the context of good capitalism where successful institutions secure widespread participation of the population in an inclusive economy. Failure in achieving such outcomes is detrimental to economic development and could be labelled bad capitalism as outlined on pp. 155-156. The history of these successes and failures is analysed within the context of political economy. This particular perspective is an important contribution to the South African political economy literature. Although the narrative of good and bad capitalism serves the exposition well, it should, nevertheless, be kept in mind that despite a liberal constitution and market-related economic institutions, our economic system is not a capitalist one. It is a developmental state and one with a poor delivery capacity as implemented by the post-Mandela African National Congress (ANC) governments (see for instance p. 124). In essence, good governance is presented as a critical element in the exposition. The book uncovers the role of organised business in securing or failing in promoting good policy governance.
The exposition could be systematised in terms of three themes. Firstly, the role of business in resisting the expansion of an authoritarian and oppressive apartheid regime while securing progress towards democracy. Secondly, the business contribution towards effective policy governance in a democratic South Africa, while hesitantly resisting the failing developmental state. Thirdly, the way forward for organised business in securing effective governance in a post-Zuma era and the 'new dawn' à la President Ramaphosa.
From repressive authoritarianism to democracy
The position of business under the apartheid regime was complicated by many factors. In supporting free enterprise it was obliged to resist the racially discriminatory policies that prevented black South Africans from entering business as entrepreneurs or from establishing labour organisations. Moreover, business's success and expansion were adversely affected by particular laws that governed the movement of people and prevented black South Africans from entering skilled job categories. Numerous efforts by business to oppose these discriminatory laws were without success. Instead, the bureaucratic law enforcement machinery became more intolerant towards business. Business experienced progression and regression in its efforts to change the behaviour of a regime that did not hesitate to apply violent actions to achieve its goals. These difficult and contradicting situations have been aptly described as follows:
The business community was caught between the recognition of the inevitability and desirability of significant political reform and a range of developments which resulted in a great deal of instability and uncertainty (p.35).
Where direct opposition to the state failed, business was often more successful in staging resistance through entrepreneurial efforts as part of civil society. These efforts were not always structured and in most instances not documented. The result is that they often escape the scrutiny of careful analysis. They, nevertheless, formed part of civil society's resistance and together with growing media coverage, a new wave of progressive thinking gained momentum. This momentum in intellectual resistance in civil society became too widespread for the regime to control, and political reform was inevitable. It is my assessment that business played an important role in supporting these developments through seminars, research reports, internal company training, public discussions and direct representation to government.
Apartheid came to an end in 1990 and in the new democratic dispensation that evolved after 1994, business played a prominent role in the evolution of social dialogue and the formation of the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC). The Council has been the outcome of several developments and the efforts of various institutions that contributed to the 'building of social capital in South Africa' (p. 67). NEDLAC was a negotiating organisation that provided the social economic partners 'an independent space … to develop a common vision on the way forward' (p. 81). The different partners in NEDLAC were government, business, labour and civil society. This negotiating forum played an important role in policy formulation and governance, particularly during the early years of the new democracy as is discussed in detail in chapter 4. NEDLAC suffers from several deficiencies as discussed by the authors and in its present format it has become ineffective in serving good governance. Moreover, within the framework of a governmental state, consultation and negotiation are not featuring prominently. More importantly, under the governmental state we have experienced a polarisation of society and increased tension between the NEDLAC partners that, eventually, revealed a trust deficit. These circumstances encouraged the idea of achieving social cohesion through a social compact. Although an effective social dialogue in this country is imperative, the social cohesion has deteriorated. The large trust deficit between social partners that developed under the developmental state regime resulted in 'many destructive attacks on certain stakeholders, which seem to reflect a visceral hostility towards them' (pp. 82-83). This does not bode well for achieving a social compact. The National Development Plan (NDP), although showing sympathy for the idea, formulated the conditions that are required to achieve a social compact successfully. These conditions are unlikely to be met in the present South Africa. Nevertheless, the authors show some sympathy in favour of a social compact, particularly in reference to the positive assessment by Ramaphosa in addressing this subject in 2013 (pp. 168-171).
The particular features of a social compact as it originated in Ireland and the Netherlands - as consensus-based economic policymaking, driven by a tri-party cooperation between government, representatives of employers' organisations and representatives of labour unions - is somewhat different from the perceptions outlined by Ramaphosa in the quoted reference above. European policy negotiation has a long-established well-functioning infrastructure to secure effective negotiations with scientific backing to evaluate the feasibility of competing proposals. South Africa has a long way to go towards establishing such an integrated support system. Furthermore, the South African envisaged procedures include civil society, or non-governmental organisations, as a participant together with government, business and labour. Civil society is likely to complicate a consensus outcome owing to its inability to define mandates. Moreover, civil society is not in a position to commit itself to attain certain policy tradeoffs because it lacks leverage in achieving the agreed values of policy parameters. We do not share the optimistic outcome regarding a social compact in this country.
Democracy and the developmental state
The post-1994 period saw far-reaching changes in policymaking and governance. Nelson Mandela emphasised reconciliation and relied on the mutual spirit of cooperation in business and civil society to promote support for positive nation building. This 'social capital' was rapidly spilt by successive ANC governments after Mandela. The 'cordial bilateral' (p. 97) between government and business started slipping and gradually organised business lost its influence in policymaking. Owing to difficult economic circumstances and the relatively poor economic performance of small and medium-sized enterprises, organised business polarised. In certain instances the division followed racial and social differences while in others it appeared to be big versus small business.
The revival of economic growth became an important priority and the period following Mandela was characterised by analyses and growth-enhancing programmes. The most successful was the Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy (GEAR) that replaced the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) which merely comprised a wish list without a policy strategy. Despite the criticism from the political left against its so-called neoliberal policy stance it, apparently, successfully improved the country's growth performance. Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 5% p.a. during the mid-2000s. The alliance partners of the ANC government were increasingly uncomfortable with these market-friendly policies of the GEAR programme. Government policies started shifting in favour of a developmental state. The lack of delivery capacity of the developmental state became evident at an early stage owing to the collapse of electricity supply in 2008 by ESKOM, the governmental-controlled monopolistic electricity supplier. This was a hard blow to the economy as it had already entered a recession in 2007. The situation was aggravated by the great international economic recession of 2008-2009.
Jacob Zuma was elected as President in 2007 and owing to the pressing economic circumstances at the time there was extensive collaboration between government, labour and business to support economic recovery. Initially Zuma showed preparedness to encourage social dialogue within NEDLAC (p. 102). This was confirmed by the release of the National Planning Commission's NDP. This was an ideology-free policy document with an extensive analysis of the present state of the economy, coupled with policy proposals over a visionary period to 2030. The NDP was accepted as a policy document by government. Later on it appeared to be merely an act of tokenism. The NDP was not acceptable to the ANC and its alliance partners in government. As opposed to the vision of the NDP, the developmental state became entrenched in policymaking. Extensive interventionist policies followed in the areas of employment equity, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) requirements and business charters. Certain black business chambers started acting as developmental agents for government (p.104). The developmental state and its transformation agents appeared to be a highway towards corruption and political patronage. This process gained momentum under Zuma's regime and eventually resulted in state capture. These developments were engineered through the destruction of many South African democratic institutions. The processes of checks and balances of a democratic system were eliminated or simply overruled.
The destructive effects of the developmental state on the economy and society necessarily alienated business from government. Moreover, government created the impression that the developmental state prefers policymaking without consultation. Furthermore, some business chambers were accused of being 'untransformed' and to be excluded from consultation (p.104).
Unfortunately, several private sector businesses became linked to state capture through shady deals with government. This sad state of affairs was aggravated by a deterioration in good corporate governance in private companies. The downfall of Steinhoff in 2018 was probably the most visible example.
It appears that the ANC government's developmental state has failed South Africa. The economic performance has deteriorated badly owing to destructive interventionist policies. Unemployment is running at an historically high level, poverty has increased while the provision of basic community services is in poor shape as the management in most municipalities is falling apart. The public corporations (state-owned enterprises) are virtually bankrupt and rely heavily on government financial bailouts. The public debt, therefore, escalated and appears to be without bound. South Africa is failing international performance criteria (see Annexure 4, p. 203). The country has successively been downgraded by international credit rating agencies during recent years. The dysfunctional school education system is wasting the South African youth dividend as it has deteriorated to one of the worst on the African continent.
The political elite enriched themselves through state capture while benefitting from lucrative state contracts. Furthermore, politically well-connected elites benefitted from interventionist policies such as BEE that appeared to be extensions of the developmental state. It is not surprising that the unequal income distribution deteriorated to one of the world's worst.
Civil society and the media, particularly through the contribution of investigative journalism have united in the public outcry against the failure of the developmental state and its state capture. In these actions organised business did not feature prominently, owing to particular developments, as explained by the authors and summarised above. This outcome is contrary to the resistance to the apartheid regime where business featured as a prominent participant and in many instances took a leading position in the resistance.
My assessment of the evidence is that the ideology-based apartheid regime has failed South Africa. Resistance from business, civil society and the media, together with international sanctions, contributed towards bringing the regime to an end. The country entered a new democratic era in 1994 with high hopes of an inclusive participation in the economy, reconciliation, poverty reduction, a more equal distribution of wealth while benefitting from international trade in terms of an open economy. These high hopes vanished on the horizon as the ANC government opted in favour of an ideology-based socio-economic order namely the developmental state which virtually had no delivery capacity. Owing to extensive resistance by civil society and clever political intervention, Jacob Zuma resigned. The appointment of President Ramaphosa is expected to bring new hope to a divisive society.
The election of President Ramaphosa as the new leader of the country is hopefully signaling a 'new dawn' for the country, as he himself formulated the new beginning. Unfortunately, this new dawn is presently covered by a dark cloud as the ANC's developmental state is preparing a destructive stab at two of our precious democratic institutions. The one is the proposed amendment to the constitution to secure land expropriation without compensation, the other is the proposed nationalisation of the Reserve Bank with a view to terminate the independence of the Bank in financial supervision and the conduct of monetary policy.
In 1994 we moved forward by abandoning the ideological-inspired apartheid regime. In 2018 we face a similar choice: abandoning the ideological-based developmental state. The authors do not go that far but they unequivocally argue in favour of substantial change. In this respect proposals are made for the active participation of business in economic policy deliberations. In a similar vein several well-considered proposals for economic reform are made. This confirms the fact that change is not going to be easy. There is no single miraculous solution. One has to do many things simultaneously. This applies equally well to government, labour and organised business. There is, nevertheless, an important barrier in implementing such reforms. As long as South Africa is committed to a developmental state there is little scope for an effective and sustainable cooperation between government and organised business. My reading of the authors' proposals is that business should embrace whatever scope there is to prevent the continuation of the marginalisation of business in policy and planning circles in this country.
The book under review is an important contribution to the political economy literature. It analyses the role of business in the South African struggle for freedom and democracy. The outcome is that it was not always as visible as we would have preferred it to be. Business played a prominent role in the resistance to the apartheid regime as part of the revolt in civil society. The high expectations of a new less divisive country, with inclusive institutions that ensure a more equal distribution of wealth under Nelson Mandela, were harshly destroyed by the ANC government's ideology-based developmental state. Owing to particular circumstances, business was less visible in civil society's revolt against this system that failed South Africa. The country is most probably facing the possibility of a new beginning. The authors outlined the challenges of political reform and the conditions for securing sustained economic recovery and the imperative of active participation by organised business in achieving such outcomes. My assessment is that such positive outcomes are only within reach outside the institutional framework of a developmental state.
Petrus Strydom
pdfs@icon.co.za
15 Oxford Street, Durbanville, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, ZA, 7550,
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Acosta displayed rare cowardice with court and must step down
As spineless judge, he allowed Jeffrey Epstein to prey on others
By Kathleen Parker
It helps to know people in high places, especially if you're a sex offender and your name is Jeffrey Epstein.
Some might say that Epstein, the multimillionaire financier, reached the summits of wealth and self-indulgence by his own volition. He is undeniably intelligent, a whiz kid at math and science in his early years who built his fortune in part by running a money management firm that catered to the mega-rich. He's also a philanthropist who specializes in collecting brilliant minds.
His ascent from the middle class in which he was raised to his place among the wealthiest of the wealthy has allowed him to surround himself with the highest and the mightiest, including two presidents, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Although Trump now denies a relationship with Epstein, in 2002 he told New York magazine a different tale:
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
Facing a federal indictment in 2007 for sex crimes that could have put him in prison for life, Epstein instead got off easy. His legal team, which included high-priced attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, secured a sweetheart, non-prosecution deal for Epstein that allowed him to plead guilty to lesser state charges. Epstein's lawyers received no small amount of cooperation from Alexander Acosta, then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida and now the U.S. secretary of labor. Thanks to these two sharp legal minds and one dull puppet, Epstein ultimately served just 13 months in county jail and was allowed to spend up to 12 hours a day on "work release," six days a week. He also had to pay restitution to some of the victims and register as a sex offender.
This was in spite of a 53-page federal indictment prepared by the FBI that identified 36 potential victims, some as young as middle-school aged.
In a 2011 letter trying to defend himself after the cushy plea deal, Acosta wrote that he faced "a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors" by "an army of legal superstars." He also asserted that defense lawyers "investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification."
Go on, grab a hanky.
Justice is sometimes slow, but she appears to be catching up with Epstein.
On Monday, a new 14-page federal indictment was unsealed in New York accusing Epstein of sex trafficking and abuse of underage girls at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005. The details are as disgusting as they are creepy. In short, Epstein allegedly had young girls brought to his homes to perform massages and sex acts in exchange for money. After girls had been brought in, they were sometimes enticed to recruit other girls — and so it went on for years, according to the indictment.
No one has ever overestimated the power of money, and its power to corrupt is absolute. The hubris that passeth all understanding belongs to Epstein.
Pending further revelations, one thing is clear: Acosta should step down from his Cabinet position for dereliction of duty in his prior role — and because he has the spine of a mollusk. In deciding not to fully prosecute Epstein in 2007 — and then agreeing to bury the proceedings without advising the victims — he violated the law, betrayed the victims' trust, and displayed rare cowardice before justice.
Finally, nobody likes a whiner.
Kathleen Parker's email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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2015 Miami Book Fair, Saturday
Andrea Mitchell Reports
World News : ALJAZAM : November 4, 2015 10:00pm-11:01pm EST
death of itzaak rabak rabin affe peace process. >>> good evening i'm antonio mora. after u.s. intelligence pointed to a bomb causing saturday's metro jet crash, hundreds of british tourists are stranded in sharm el sheikh after airlines suspended service to the region. also, significant possibility the crash was caused by a bomb. russian officials aren't going that far but they are looking into the possibility of an object on board caused the crash. lisa stark has more. >> antonio, so the question tonight, was a bomb smuggled on board this plane at the sharm el sheikh airport? according to the associated prets onpress one piece of evide points to that that a rebel group in the sinai associated with i.s.i.l. may have planted a bomb on this plane. but at this point, there is no definitive conclusion from investigators or the intelligence community. egyptian investigators have not officially determined whether an explosion or mechanical problem brought down the plane. but the british government says information now points to a bomb. >> we have concluded that there is a significa
death of itzaak rabak rabin affe peace process. >>> good evening i'm antonio mora. after u.s. intelligence pointed to a bomb causing saturday's metro jet crash, hundreds of british tourists are stranded in sharm el sheikh after airlines suspended service to the region. also, significant possibility the crash was caused by a bomb. russian officials aren't going that far but they are looking into the possibility of an object on board caused the crash. lisa stark has more. >>...
PBS NewsHour : KQED : November 4, 2015 3:00pm-4:00pm PST
minister yitzhak rabin twenty years later. how the event still shapes the mideast politics. >> ifill: and actor jeff daniels on bringing theater to his home town in rural michigan. >> you have to get them to not just go to the plays that have a happy ending. "is it a comedy? okay, it's not a comedy, when's the next comedy? i'll come to that." and you have to get those people to take a chance once in awhile. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: there's growing talk tonight that a bomb destroyed that russian airliner over egypt's sinai peninsula. the m
minister yitzhak rabin twenty years later. how the event still shapes the mideast politics. >> ifill: and actor jeff daniels on bringing theater to his home town in rural michigan. >> you have to get them to not just go to the plays that have a happy ending. "is it a comedy? okay, it's not a comedy, when's the next comedy? i'll come to that." and you have to get those people to take a chance once in awhile. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour....
News : ALJAZAM : November 4, 2015 9:30am-10:01am EST
20 years since the prime minister rabin was assassinated, an israel ultra nationalist killed him, angry over his making peace with the poils. many so you him as the last hope to the resolution. education minister in rabin's cabinet agrees that the assassination closed the door on the best chance for peas and shifted israel to the right. >> at the time, we thought that the shock waves of this assassination would change public opinion in israel, and would strengthen the left, the labour party, and its associates, but that didn't happen. it didn't happen, because there was a continuous period of terrorist attacks over the worst time in strehl, attacking buses, children, discotheques turning public opinion away from trying to reach peace. this is one of the great moments which was missed, one of the great opportunities, which will not come again in the foreseeable future. >> perez was sworn in as prime minister after rabin's assassination. the man who killed rabin is still in jail and campaigning for a pardon. >>> the pentagon faces questions after it paid $43 million to build a gas
20 years since the prime minister rabin was assassinated, an israel ultra nationalist killed him, angry over his making peace with the poils. many so you him as the last hope to the resolution. education minister in rabin's cabinet agrees that the assassination closed the door on the best chance for peas and shifted israel to the right. >> at the time, we thought that the shock waves of this assassination would change public opinion in israel, and would strengthen the left, the labour...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : November 1, 2015 1:00am-2:01am PST
remember and to honor minister rabin. how much he meant to the peace process. many here are holding signs, peace now each in the face of violence going on all month. especially in jerusalem. they come here to show support through rabbin's vision, especially of peace. u.s. president bill clinton spoke about how much he respected rabin and how much he loved the man and what he stood for. this is more than just a rally for rabin and an event to remember what he meant. this is a rally of peace and to an ex at the present titent a r. everyone is here to believe that hope is still possible. that peace and calm are still very much a possibility. warren lieberman, cnn, tel aviv. >>> actress leah remini was once a devoted member of the church of scientology and now she's a vocal critic as newsroom continues. we'll hear what she has to say now and why she's no longer a follower. newsroom." i'm george howell. police in the u.s. state of colorado are trying to determine a motive for a shooting that left four people dead, including the suspect. cnn affiliate krdo reports a heavily armed man shot
remember and to honor minister rabin. how much he meant to the peace process. many here are holding signs, peace now each in the face of violence going on all month. especially in jerusalem. they come here to show support through rabbin's vision, especially of peace. u.s. president bill clinton spoke about how much he respected rabin and how much he loved the man and what he stood for. this is more than just a rally for rabin and an event to remember what he meant. this is a rally of peace and...
News : ALJAZAM : November 4, 2015 7:00pm-8:01pm EST
. >> rabin's killer confessed, telling the police that he killed rabin to stop the peace process. like many of the ultra nationalists, they considered rabin atrator, despite his storied career in the military. under rabin's leadership, israel's forces wanted a day with neighbors. eventually leading to the arab/israeli peace process, where they would change peace for recognition. he was a skilled diplomat. in 1968, he became israel's ambassador to the united states. as ambassador, he worked at maintaining israel's security, which gaining support and sophisticated weapons. >> he refused to give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >> reporter: president bill clinton was there last week ahead of the anniversary of rabim's death. as they experienced one of the worst waves of violence in years. >> i am not a bearer of good news today. there are no peace talks, and there's terrering, and blood is spilling again, and impasse is growing. i have no country, and i don't recognize my country. >> since the beginning of october, palestinians have killed nine israelis in it stabbings or sh
. >> rabin's killer confessed, telling the police that he killed rabin to stop the peace process. like many of the ultra nationalists, they considered rabin atrator, despite his storied career in the military. under rabin's leadership, israel's forces wanted a day with neighbors. eventually leading to the arab/israeli peace process, where they would change peace for recognition. he was a skilled diplomat. in 1968, he became israel's ambassador to the united states. as ambassador, he...
Your World This Morning : ALJAZAM : November 4, 2015 7:00am-9:01am EST
pacemaker lived. we talk about rabin's legacy. legacy. >>> well snapshot of the presidential race, and it looks like democratic front runner hillary clinton could case trouble if going up against ben carson. >> according to a university poll, in that match-up clinton would lose to ben carson by 10 percentage points, 50-40. the poll has her trailling marco rubio, but beating the others. the same poll giving clinton a lead over bernie sanders. with less than 90 days to go, clinton is spending tuesday campaigning in iowa, telling voters she wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $12. the current is $7.75. heir democratic challenger said he would raise it to $15 >>> politics covered at aljazeera.com, by marine, who is in washington d.c. . >> good morning. >> with the exception of air b&b, voters in san francisco, even every conservative measure on the ballot. what does it say going into the presidential elections, do republican voters have more passion? >> i think it's hard to extrapolate off-year election results into the national landscape in a presidential year when there's more int
pacemaker lived. we talk about rabin's legacy. legacy. >>> well snapshot of the presidential race, and it looks like democratic front runner hillary clinton could case trouble if going up against ben carson. >> according to a university poll, in that match-up clinton would lose to ben carson by 10 percentage points, 50-40. the poll has her trailling marco rubio, but beating the others. the same poll giving clinton a lead over bernie sanders. with less than 90 days to go, clinton...
Weekend News : ALJAZAM : November 1, 2015 4:00am-4:31am EST
. it's nearly 20 years since the assassination of itzak rabin, the israeli prime minister who was willing to take a risk and talk to his enemies. he was shot on november 4th, 1995. he was killed by a jewish man opposed to the peace process and the 1993 oslo accord between israel and the palestine liberation organization. the former u.s. president bill clinton who worked closely with rabin and yassar arafat spoke at the rally. >> i never stopped seeing other people, including his adversaries, as human beings whose children were entitled to the same possibilities in life as his own. the third thing that i learned from him, most important for you tonight in this complex and challenging moment is he refused to give up his dream of peace in the faith of violence. >> two bombs have gone off just minutes apart in tansania semi autonomous zanzibar island. the blast in the main city caused no casualties but this is just the latest in a series of incidence since the anullment of last week's e lebsz. the opposition claimed victory hours after the polls closed but the election commission canc
. it's nearly 20 years since the assassination of itzak rabin, the israeli prime minister who was willing to take a risk and talk to his enemies. he was shot on november 4th, 1995. he was killed by a jewish man opposed to the peace process and the 1993 oslo accord between israel and the palestine liberation organization. the former u.s. president bill clinton who worked closely with rabin and yassar arafat spoke at the rally. >> i never stopped seeing other people, including his...
Fareed Zakaria GPS : CNNW : November 1, 2015 10:00am-11:01am PST
. >>> this week's book of the week is "killing a king: the assassination of yitzhak rabin and the remaking of israel" by dan ephron. what of the great and real what ifs of history is this -- what if israel's prime minister, yitzhak rabin, had not been assassinated in 1995? a decorated war hero, rabin seemed determined to make peace with the palestinians and forge a two-state solution. in this fast-paced, well-written book, ephron takes us through that fascinating crucial moment in middle eastern history. >>> now for "the last look." on tuesday, a guided missile destroyer called the "uss last passed within 12 nautical miles of reclaimed islands in the south china sea. china said the operation was, quote, a very serious provocation and warned washington not to, create, quote trouble out of nothing. but creating islands out of next to nothing is what has led to all this trouble in the first place. you see, the defense department says that over the past two years china has reclaimed almost 3,000 acres of artificial islands in the south china sea, an area sought after for its strategic
. >>> this week's book of the week is "killing a king: the assassination of yitzhak rabin and the remaking of israel" by dan ephron. what of the great and real what ifs of history is this -- what if israel's prime minister, yitzhak rabin, had not been assassinated in 1995? a decorated war hero, rabin seemed determined to make peace with the palestinians and forge a two-state solution. in this fast-paced, well-written book, ephron takes us through that fascinating crucial...
fest assassination of rabin. in 1995. he was killed by the palestine palestine. formepalestinianliberation army. >> children were entitled to the same possibilities in life as his own. the third thing that i learned from him most important for you tonight in this complex and challenging moment. is he refused to guc give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >> new zealand has been the first team to successfully defend the rugby world cup. lee wellings reports the show. >> the final for the first time. in weather more familiar to the southern hemisphere than london in the month of october. now that we're here, can't wait to might them. they went about young bucks in australia. record run of 13 world cup victories. australia hoping to peak when it mattered most. dan carter had a chance to open the scoring and his world cup final but last international. crucially broke the resistance at the earned of the first half, a deserved 16-3 hafl haft half:. this australian team would not giver up, particularly not in a world cuch. the easy conversion, gap down to j
fest assassination of rabin. in 1995. he was killed by the palestine palestine. formepalestinianliberation army. >> children were entitled to the same possibilities in life as his own. the third thing that i learned from him most important for you tonight in this complex and challenging moment. is he refused to guc give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >> new zealand has been the first team to successfully defend the rugby world cup. lee wellings reports the show....
rabin. killed by a jewish man opposed to the peace protest. former u.s. president bill clinton who worked closely with rabin, spoke at the rally. >> he never stopped saying other people, including his adverse air yairs, whose children were entitled to the same possibilities in life as his own. the third thing i learnt from him is he refused to give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >>> south korea, china and japan held their first trilateral talks. the leader pledged to boost trade cooperation, marred by territorial dispute. harry fawcett has more from seoul >>> japan's prime minister, stepping on to the tarmac in seoul must have been akin to stepping food on hostile territory. incensed by his approach to history. the south korean government admonished him. the president refusing to meet him. for park geun-hye, talks stalled for three years is deemed necessary. >> i'm hope that some will serve as a catalyst, sprengedenning and contributing bilateral relations. >> during the talks. they extended efforts to a free trade agreement. and committed to work towards resuming l
rabin. killed by a jewish man opposed to the peace protest. former u.s. president bill clinton who worked closely with rabin, spoke at the rally. >> he never stopped saying other people, including his adverse air yairs, whose children were entitled to the same possibilities in life as his own. the third thing i learnt from him is he refused to give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >>> south korea, china and japan held their first trilateral talks. the leader...
BBC World News America : KQED : November 4, 2015 2:30pm-3:01pm PST
assassination of israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin twenty years later. how the event still shapes the mideast politics. >> ifill: and actor jeff daniels on bringing theater to his home town in rural michigan. >> you have to get them to not just go to the plays that have a happy ending. "is it a comedy? okay, it's not a comedy, when's the next comedy? i'll come to that."
assassination of itzaak rabak r. former u.s. president bill clinton who worked closely with rabin and palestinian leader yassir arafat spoke at the rally to honor him. >> he never stopped seeing his possibilities in life as his own. the third thing that i learned from him, most important, for you tonight in this complex and challenging moment is, he refused to give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >> cyclone chipala is expected to make landfall, south in the arabian sea in record. >> severe weather has led to the death of six people in the u.s. state of texas. almost 7 centimeters of rain fell in one hour in the city of houston. >> the u.s. search team has tbhoound ifound what it believee wreckage of el faro, which disappeared on october the 1st while en route from jacksonville, florida to puerto rico. all 33 crew members on board disappeared with the ship. >>> guinea's constitutional court has declared alpha conde the winner. given more than 57% of the vote in the october 11th poll. it gave him a second five-year term in office, due to be sworn in in december. >>> envir
assassination of itzaak rabak r. former u.s. president bill clinton who worked closely with rabin and palestinian leader yassir arafat spoke at the rally to honor him. >> he never stopped seeing his possibilities in life as his own. the third thing that i learned from him, most important, for you tonight in this complex and challenging moment is, he refused to give up his dream of peace in the face of violence. >> cyclone chipala is expected to make landfall, south in the arabian...
CBS 2 News at 5 : WCBS : November 4, 2015 5:00pm-6:00pm EST
today israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin was rally in tel aviv. [muted singing throughout] these girls have waited 62 days for this concert tonight. so far i've counted 32 omgs, 75 lols, 13 yolos, and i'm super tired! tweens--fun age, huh? you have places to go. [girls squealing with delight] let us worry about getting you there. bp gasoline with invigorate. >>> what not to do if you have forgotten your metrocard. a canadian transit company is investigating after a man was caught on camera riding on the back bumper of a bus. the drive managed to flag the bus driver down and got him to pull over. there was no word on what happened to this rogue rider on if he made it to his stop. >> a little uncomfortable. >> holding on for dear life. >>> it is the first expansion of the long island rail road in 100 years. the largest transportation project happening right now in the u.s. and when it's finished commuters who don't want to go to penn station will save a bundle of time. cbs 2's vanessa murdoch takes us on a tour of east side access. >> reporter: big things are happening under grand centra
today israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin was rally in tel aviv. [muted singing throughout] these girls have waited 62 days for this concert tonight. so far i've counted 32 omgs, 75 lols, 13 yolos, and i'm super tired! tweens--fun age, huh? you have places to go. [girls squealing with delight] let us worry about getting you there. bp gasoline with invigorate. >>> what not to do if you have forgotten your metrocard. a canadian transit company is investigating after a man was caught on...
Andrea Mitchell Reports : MSNBCW : November 4, 2015 9:00am-10:01am PST
succeeded. there's been no peace treaty since rabin's death. w offense w. i mean, our running back is a beast. once he hits the hole and breaks through the secondary, oh he's gone. and our linebackers and dbs dish out punishment, and never quit. ♪ you didn't expect this did you? no i didn't. the nissan altima. there's a fun side to every drive. nissan. innovation that excites. they come into this iworld ugly and messy. ideas are frightening because they threaten what is known. they are the natural born enemy of the way things are. yes, ideas are scary, and messy and fragile. but under the proper care, they become something beautiful. >>> and moments ago senators john mccain and jeff flake shared unprecedented information about an investigation into the department of defense and professional sports. they're calling it paying for patriotism. so when you see a military member singing "the national anthem" or carrying the american flag at a sports game, often these events are in fact contracted between dod and the professional sports team. mccain and flake announced today that the depar
succeeded. there's been no peace treaty since rabin's death. w offense w. i mean, our running back is a beast. once he hits the hole and breaks through the secondary, oh he's gone. and our linebackers and dbs dish out punishment, and never quit. ♪ you didn't expect this did you? no i didn't. the nissan altima. there's a fun side to every drive. nissan. innovation that excites. they come into this iworld ugly and messy. ideas are frightening because they threaten what is known. they are the...
KRON 4 Evening News : KRON : November 19, 2015 5:00pm-7:01pm PST
cellphone robbery suspect. looking for the scroll right here 18 year-old sasha violently rabin of israel high school student and later set these up pictures of herself with the fund the pictures of blood to the victims clouds storage and says she recognizes the person. they believe the share live in richmond. please urge people not to confront her been called off real police. >> pam: 08 be featured a new device called kron 4 copper forecast roberts said you of any given area tonight be good to anderson sprayed and two towns in the county two months after the valley wild fire their. for people destroyed 1200 homes >> j.r.: copter for best perspective on damage from like county one of the best perspective. 1900 structures destroyed to under prop. cleared and still lots of work to be done. among >> j.r.: sees trees and lake county the structure of some of more 1200 homes destroyed in the valley fire barbara owen to what was what the star resort the star you did not in fact damage to that building is extensive many properties in this area have been cleared many have not you can see fr
cellphone robbery suspect. looking for the scroll right here 18 year-old sasha violently rabin of israel high school student and later set these up pictures of herself with the fund the pictures of blood to the victims clouds storage and says she recognizes the person. they believe the share live in richmond. please urge people not to confront her been called off real police. >> pam: 08 be featured a new device called kron 4 copper forecast roberts said you of any given area tonight be...
MSNBC Live With José Díaz-Balart : MSNBCW : November 9, 2015 6:00am-8:01am PST
. two weeks ago or so the israeli defense minister came to washington to receive the yitzhak rabin prize and his comments were very positive about the obama administration. point two, i think that this is the incredible make-up tour and i think both men want to put grievances behind them. sure, this new defense package will be a sweetener, but i also think the fact that the treasury department announced increased sanctions against the revolutionary guard last friday for aid to hezbollah didn't escape notice and i also think the fact that bebe netanyahu is speaking to democrats, one of the things he's doing is speaking at the center for american progress, is signs that he wants to make up the fractured relationship that occurred when he spoke at john boehner's invitation to the joint session of congress without informing democrats. >> but how do you go about doing that? >> you go about doing it by doing it. less talk, more action. i think it's good they're not having a press conference where everybody with slice and dice whether they smile, didn't smile, every single word. it more i
. two weeks ago or so the israeli defense minister came to washington to receive the yitzhak rabin prize and his comments were very positive about the obama administration. point two, i think that this is the incredible make-up tour and i think both men want to put grievances behind them. sure, this new defense package will be a sweetener, but i also think the fact that the treasury department announced increased sanctions against the revolutionary guard last friday for aid to hezbollah didn't...
KRON 4 Early News : KRON : November 17, 2015 4:00am-7:01am PST
the best chance of rabin beholden to and you see the same% average discount on electronics the monday before thanksgiving beauty something bedwetters the best thing for jury cells are on conserving than apple may lawless finance the opening a store in singapore of a hundred percent sole power it will reliable systems talk most of the into buildings in the port as of 24 t 100 percent of the u.s. operations and 87 percent are powered by renewable energy. >>james: that there will critical control and 5500 hotels 100 countries in a close eye, a hotel chains like marriott sheraton w hotels weston and st. regis the bid out three chinese firms watt tradition there is word of the here and let inward and all here is a live look outside as a full camera showing clear conditions visibility pretty good for the forecast coming up the top of the our. >>: it is not born to be the new normal runoff going to have to live in fear of terrorism like this he and president omar will be fifth in paris today in the visiting washington d.c. next week. >>darya: the tragic events in paris a lot of people wonder
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in a rally in rabin square. tens of thousands of people came to remember how much he meant to the peace process and to israel, and to believe that even in these difficult times, there is still a chance for peace. >> there are supporters of my father's legacy, and there is hope. >> reporter: the funeral brought together egyptian, palestinian, and american officials in israel. it's hard to imagine a similar scene today. prime minister benjamin netanyahu with a very different vision of the region. >> reporter: israel is the haven of human rights where sword is in control, and only the sword. in death, robin has gained new life, not as a man but as a myth. his followers look to his words and dreams to this day, and so duz the former president. >> i think basically we may have concluded the peace process with the palestinians. we started. we didn't finish. it remained open. >> reporter: as a soldier turned statesman, he believed the best way to get israel's future was to accept the palestinian state. he was murdered for his belief. >> you have to do things, and pay prizes. this is cost
in a rally in rabin square. tens of thousands of people came to remember how much he meant to the peace process and to israel, and to believe that even in these difficult times, there is still a chance for peace. >> there are supporters of my father's legacy, and there is hope. >> reporter: the funeral brought together egyptian, palestinian, and american officials in israel. it's hard to imagine a similar scene today. prime minister benjamin netanyahu with a very different vision...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : November 11, 2015 8:00pm-12:01am EST
and grace. remember rabin's words of love you more than time can tell. devotedly, dad. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen,. welcome to johns hopkins school for advanced international studies. we are here today to discuss the great - - a joint project of the policy center as turkey transformed a the origins and the is solmization of the akp party. publishing this report shortly before the november 1st election and it is available on-line. the studies are available on-line there also copies outside her gore want to mention the institute has been publishing also another statement said is dedicated to environmental issues but i will start with the brief introduction by saying there is no need to talk to mention of bay critical region between central asia and the maturity and. it is important for political and other prospective so it is important of what is happening for turkey itself and also for its neighbors and the united states having interests in that area as well. we all know the results of the election the president regained parliamentary majority and
and grace. remember rabin's words of love you more than time can tell. devotedly, dad. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen,. welcome to johns hopkins school for advanced international studies. we are here today to discuss the great - - a joint project of the policy center as turkey transformed a the origins and the is solmization of the akp party. publishing this report shortly before the november 1st election and it is available on-line. the studies are...
2015 Miami Book Fair, Saturday : CSPAN2 : November 21, 2015 10:45am-8:01pm EST
, rabbits and rabin black hogs which could be a man or woman, the more often she was female and she maintained a menagerie of familiars, demonic mascots the dinner bidding, often turtles, weasels, cats, dogs and toweds. you conceit here this seventeenth century woman is feeding her blood to her diabolical toads, this is a woman with great black cat and demon familiar, she illustrates the 1621 english witchcraft case and this woman was acquitted of all charges. these are more diabolical familiars, they range from basic standard issue barnyard animals to fantastic gargoyle like creatures. black cats, a particular favorite, turn up regularly throughout the salem testimony, black dogs occur, but historically english whiches tended for canine -- k-9 for. this is not a witch's familiar but a family catch. looking ever so vaguely demonic here. a which could be a muttering contentious malcontent, she or he could be inexplicably strong war unaccountably smart. those kinds of whiches could turn up as salem as would merchants, see captains, ministers and homeless 5-year-old girls. witchcraft t
, rabbits and rabin black hogs which could be a man or woman, the more often she was female and she maintained a menagerie of familiars, demonic mascots the dinner bidding, often turtles, weasels, cats, dogs and toweds. you conceit here this seventeenth century woman is feeding her blood to her diabolical toads, this is a woman with great black cat and demon familiar, she illustrates the 1621 english witchcraft case and this woman was acquitted of all charges. these are more diabolical...
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Home » Reviews » A Taste of Honey, National Theatre
A Taste of Honey, National Theatre
Tuesday 18th February 2014
Another week, another postwar classic. Hot on the heels of last week’s revival of Oh What a Lovely War comes another legendary play from the Joan Littlewood museum of great one-offs. This time it’s a restaging of Shelagh Delaney’s 1958 play about poor parenting and teen pregnancy in Salford. Although this play is lauded in most history books as a great radical breakthrough, it has attracted fewer revivals in recent years than plays such as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot or John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Is there a good reason for this comparative neglect?
The original play was penned by Delaney when, as a 19-year-old Salford teenager, she saw a production of Terence Rattigan’s Variation on a Theme on tour in Manchester. She was so incensed about its mealy-mouthed portrayal of homosexuality that she determined to write a realistic account of sex, and of real life. Hence the story of Jo, the young daughter of the single mother Helen, and of her pregnancy following a brief encounter with a black sailor, followed by her co-habitation with Geof, a young gay art student.
Of course, in the hands of Littlewood, the piece’s original director, this slice of life became embellished with several theatrical devices, such as direct address to the audience and the presence on stage of a live jazz band. How does its current director, Bijan Sheibani, tackle the challenge of re-imaging the play for an audience of today? At first, the signs are not good. The initial image is Hildegard Bechtler’s huge set, which slowly lumbers into view, a sunless Coronation Street monstrosity, all sooty tenements and scrubbed doorsteps. Then this revolves and a shabby flat appears in all its hyper-realistic glory — you can almost see the mould growing in the corners and smell the grease from the blocked kitchen sink. Such high-definition grimness feels much too rich for the play, and Delaney’s young voice struggles to be heard amid the peroxide hair-dos, glittering high-heels and assorted 1950s glam. This is not naturalism so much as cartoon caricature; not stripped back poverty, but hugely expensive stage and costume effects. Yes, we’re in a theatre museum. Except that this time there’s no onstage jazz band and precious little direct address to the audience.
Battling gamely against the massy impressiveness of the design is the cast, led by the wonderful Lesley Sharp as Helen and the magnetic Kate O’Flynn as Jo. If the first round goes to the set, gradually these two women make their mark. Sharp grows from being a battered fortysomething with a dripping nose into a woman suddenly rejuvenated by the prospect of another marriage, while O’Flynn starts off as a vulnerable child and develops into a confident young woman. Good support comes from Dean Lennox Kelly as Peter, Helen’s smarmy new beau, and Harry Hepple as the earnest and sensitive Geof.
But the most tender moments are those when Jo has a tryst with Jimmie, played by Eric Kofi Abrefa, the black sailor who gets her pregnant and then ships out. Suddenly you forget about the overpowering set, and instead you thrill to the sympathetic vibes between the actors. The same is true in much of the second half in the gentle domestic banter between Jo and Geof, soon to be rudely interrupted by the domineering Helen. But such episodes of emotional truth are often compromised by Sheibani’s love of comedy, with distractingly funny dancing during the scene changes, and a tendency to prefer grotesque caricature to real-life honesty. Sadly, in this production the pathos is never deep enough to balance the jokiness — and the lasting impression of a lurid cartoon of northern working-class life is extremely hard to shake off. What this play needs is more simplicity, less art.
This review first appeared on The Arts Desk
A Taste of Honey Bijan Sheibani Eric Kofi Abrefa Harry Hepple Hildegard Bechtler Joan Littlewood Kate O’Flynn Lesley Sharp National Theatre race sex Shelagh Delaney Theatre Royal Stratford East working class
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Gulf War Prisoner of War, Flt Lt John Nichol speaks at Annabel’s reception for Square Mile Salute
By figaro.admin.marc21st May 2015 Latest news
During 15 years’ service in the Royal Air Force John Nichol served as a technician and after being commissioned, as a Tornado Navigator in both the Air Defence and Ground Attack roles. He was shot down on the first low-level, daylight raid of the first Gulf War in January 1991. Captured and tortured, he was paraded on television provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the enduring images of the conflict. He returned to active duty and was involved in policing the exclusion zone as part of the UN force maintaining the fragile peace in Bosnia. He has served around the world from the Nevada Desert to the Middle East and Norway to the Falkland Islands.
John is the best-selling author of Tornado Down, five novels, and the highly acclaimed & best-selling WWII history books, Tail-End Charlies, The Last Escape, MEDIC! – Saving Lives From Dunkirk To Afghanistan, Arnhem – The Battle For Survival, and The Red Line – The RAF’s Bloodiest Raid On Hitler’s Germany. He is in demand to give motivational lectures and after-dinner speeches and has worked with wide variety of businesses including BT, Shell, Lloyds Bank and The Stockholm School of Economics.
We are delighted to have John’s support for Square Mile Salute.
For further information www.johnnichol.com
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Readers Write: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement, Minneapolis fourplex proposal
Oil pipeline replacement project is an issue that's coming to a head.
March 30, 2018 — 6:37pm
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, a group of five appointed people, all white and all nonresidents of northern Minnesota, will be deciding for northern landowners, native tribes and all Minnesotans whether we are to have an environmentally dangerous, foreign-owned pipeline (Line 3) going through our land, wilderness and waters. It will be deciding whether there is more benefit in having a Canadian company profit from a pipeline that will steal our land, cut down our forests and likely pollute our remaining clean waters in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, or to reject that application by Enbridge, a for-profit Canadian company, and stand to protect our sustainable natural resources (wilderness, wild rice and water). A granting of the permit would continue a centuries-long persecution of the indigenous population and culture. The decision is expected this summer.
I am a landowner and resident in Carlton County along Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 route. I do not give my permission. I do not wish to sell an easement that in essence is a forced sale of my land in perpetuity to a Canadian company that is willing to pollute my treasured wilderness for short-term profit. I am proud to say that I stand with Friends of the Headwaters and the native tribes, and they stand with me in opposition to this attack on their sovereignty and my rights as a landowner. If the PUC approves this application, Enbridge will sue me over eminent domain. This is not rightfully an application of eminent domain; Enbridge is not a public utility. Minnesota is merely a channel for oil to pass through. I will fight this as long as I can.
David L. Johnson, Kalevala Township, Carlton County
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A March 22 letter on Enbridge’s lobbying expenses requires additional clarification.
In its filing with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board in March, Enbridge reported lobbying expenses in 2017 of about $5.3 million.
Under the laws of Minnesota, legal representation and other support related to matters before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission are considered lobbying activities and must be reported as such. In 2017, more than 95 percent of what qualifies as lobbying expenses in Minnesota was incurred as a result of direct support of matters pending before the PUC.
For Enbridge, this includes legal and other support for the operation of our existing pipeline systems in Minnesota and for the Line 3 replacement project. Last year alone, there were 40 public meetings across that state and three weeks of hearings that were conducted as part of the thorough regulatory review process for the project. The expenses incurred by the company related to these meetings and hearings are part of total lobbying expenses that were reported.
Less than 5 percent of Enbridge’s reported lobbying expenses in 2017 were spent on what most people would consider traditional lobbying — government-relations activities related to legislative and/or administrative issues.
Enbridge has and will continue to communicate openly with all Minnesotans to ensure that they have information about our company and the Line 3 project, and that they are able to participate in the regulatory process.
It’s important that Minnesotans know about the measures we are taking to protect Minnesota communities and the environment by replacing Line 3 with a new, modern pipeline. This is an important safety project with the protection of the environment and the community at the center of its design.
Peter Holran, Washington, D.C.
The writer is director of state government affairs for Enbridge.
It’s been written that the person who can see both sides of a conflict doesn’t have income tied up in one side or the other. The Duluth author of the March 24 letter “Enbridge truly cares about Minnesota landowners,” as the manager of land services for the Line 3 project, obviously has income involved. As with most corporations, Enbridge will act like it cares about others as long as it doesn’t impede the bottom line.
The Enbridge pipeline may have been an asset in the past. The real issue now, and in the future, is not how much Enbridge cares. The real issue is what the pipeline will carry, which is the dirtiest oil in the world. According to a recent Minnesota Public Radio story, the amount of oil shipped through the pipeline would be comparable to putting 12 coal-fired power plants in operation.
Do the names Harvey, Irma, Marie, Nate, Sandy, Katrina and Ophelia mean anything to you? Do the fires in California and western Canada make you pause and think? What about the increased number, size and severity of tornadoes in the U.S.? Because these weather-related events either don’t happen, or only happen occasionally in our state, doesn’t mean we should ignore the implications.
Some people in this state want to narrow the focus to the positive economic outcomes of the pipeline. What about the negative economic consequences of weather-related catastrophes? Even if this region doesn’t currently have to deal with events other regions do, we’re all going to pay heavily if we don’t make changes.
We as a state, a nation and a world need to get out of the fossil-fuel business. Building another pipeline does nothing but increase and sustain the problems that will devastate our planet.
For many of us, our language and ways of thinking are not suited for dealing with problems on the magnitude of global warming. Our cultural tools were developed for local and regional problems, not global-scale catastrophes. That needs to change.
Gary Burt, Marble, Minn.
FOURPLEX PROPOSAL
Won’t work without parking, setbacks and larger lots
I have been reading with interest about the proposal for allowing fourplexes throughout Minneapolis. I grew up in a neighborhood where there were many among the single-family homes and duplexes, and they were just part of the fabric. One feature they have that is lacking in the current proposal is at least one parking space for each unit; another is that most were built on lots wider than 40 feet. My daughter lived for a time in south Minneapolis, where many buildings had fewer than one parking space for each unit (or sometimes none at all). Parking was a nightmare and dealing with it made life difficult, especially in winter when the many cars had to compete with snowbanks and residents had to shuffle cars during snow emergencies. Lack of parking pitted renters against homeowners, who never had space for guests or service people to put their vehicles.
While the desire for more-dense, and therefore theoretically more affordable, housing is admirable, to pretend that Minneapolis residents do not own and depend on automobiles is just silly and shortsighted, especially in areas where parking is already restricted due to traffic, like along Lyndale Avenue in southwest Minneapolis. If you want fourplexes to be accepted, off-street parking, setback restrictions and probably expanded lot sizes will be necessary.
Sue Sherek, Fridley
Having moved here from Jersey five years ago, I loved the March 30 letter in opposition to fourplexes that compared Minneapolis and East Coast cities. But here’s the thing: Minneapolis desperately needs affordable housing, which row houses in South Philly provide and which fourplexes in Minneapolis could provide. And even Philly isn’t all South Philly row houses. A great city needs a diversity of housing options. Yes, lift restrictions on fourplexes along streets near good public transit, but also provide neighborhoods of starter homes for young families who want to make a commitment to the city by moving from rental housing to their own home. Otherwise when families outgrow their rental unit in a fourplex, they’ll be headed to Wisconsin in search of affordable housing.
Allan Campbell, Minneapolis
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If this rule is not blocked in court, the only remaining way to seek asylum in the U.S. may be to obtain a visa and board a flight. But there is no visa for seeking asylum.
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The Student speaks to MP Tommy Sheppard about the necessity of reinstating post-study work visas for international students
By Victoria Belton
• February 8, 2016
Victoria Belton
Edinburgh MP Tommy Sheppard is working with the University of Edinburgh to urge the UK Home Office to reinstate a post-study work scheme for international students.
Scottish universities, including The University of Edinburgh and several Scottish government officials have warned against the tangible effects of removing post-study work schemes.
Back in 2005, Labour First Minister Jack McConnell introduced a Fresh Talent Initiative to encourage people to settle in Scotland and granted international students two years after graduation to find work.
However this system was dismissed by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2012.
Tommy Sheppard is an SNP politician and has been MP for Edinburgh East since May 2015. He is also the SNP spokesperson on the Cabinet Office in the House of Commons. Sheppard made a speech in the House of Commons about post-study work schemes back in May last year and has been giving his total support to the University on this matter ever since.
Speaking to The Student, Sheppard said: “We’ve been doing a lot of work to see if we can get a specific scheme for Scotland, because we did used to have one. That process isn’t yet concluded. But I think there is still an interim report recommending there should be such a scheme.
“Our problem is that because we are not an independent country, we can only do what the Tory government will let us do, and they seem to have set their face very much against any type of scheme.”
Sheppard will continue fighting the conservatives on the matter.
“I think the more the campaign goes on, the more we can chip away with what hope we have of getting a result, because what’s happening is crazy. It’s not only bad for the students but it puts our universities at a very great disadvantage.
“If you want to go study Engineering and you can do it in America or Scandinavia and then work there for a couple of years after your course, that’s going to be more attractive than coming here and getting chucked out as soon as you’re finished.”
“We should be welcoming people here, you know?”
Speaking to The Student, Euan Fergusson, University of Edinburgh’s Head of International Student Support, said that Scottish businesses are missing out on a vast amount of potential talent due to these restrictions.
Fergusson was part of a post-study work working group which looked at the impact of removing the post-study work visa.
“It was established in that report that businesses really feel a need to have something in order to recruit graduates, because I think the tier two restrictions that are in place, even though there are some concessions for tier four students, they don’t really work particularly well”, he told The Student.
Fergusson said that tight restrictions have precipitated a “brain-drain” out of Scotland, and that Scotland was “falling behind” compared to competitor countries, such as Canada and Australia.
Fergusson told The Student the visa scheme “wasn’t just withdrawn but it was decimated on the way out…. it was criticized heavily by the government who said they were removing this work category.”
The UK home office stated one of their reasons for putting such tight restrictions on post-study work visas was because the system was often open to widespread abuse.
But Fergusson denied the claim, stating: “wasn’t really born out by reality.” He told The Student: “There were lots of reasons to believe it was a very successful scheme.”
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The Metropolitan Opera's Currant Leaf Brooch
Empress Eugenie painted by Edouard Louis Dubufe, ca. 1854 (Grand Ladies Site)
It's a new month, which means we're delving into the collection of a brand-new Magpie of the Month! Because Princess Eugenie of York is getting married in a few days, we're spending October with one of her royal namesakes: Empress Eugenie of France. And we're kicking things off with an absolutely grand brooch from her collection: the Currant Leaf Brooch that later belonged to New York's Metropolitan Opera.
The brooch was made in 1855 by Bapst. In the notes from a 2014 auction of the piece at Christie's, it is described as being "designed as a cluster of three openwork currant leaves set throughout with old mine diamonds, centering upon a larger cushion-shaped-mine diamond and suspending three detachable articulated pampilles, each composed of graduated old mine diamond collets to the drop-shaped aiguillette terminals, mounted in silver and gold."
The Feuilles de Groseillier Garland and the Rose Brooches
It's hard to believe, given the size and design of the brooch, that it was actually once part of a much larger piece of jewelry -- but it was. In 1855, Bapst created a demi-parure of diamond jewels for Empress Eugenie which featured currant leaves in the design of each piece. (The name of the suite, "Feuilles de Groseillier," simply means "currant leaves" in French.) The set included a garland (or necklace), a tour de corsage (a long ornament that stretched across the wearer's bodice), and a devant de corsage (a large brooch worn on the front of a gown's bodice, like a stomacher).
The brooch was part of the large garland-style necklace, which is pictured above with a separate trio of rose brooches that were not part of the currant leaf suite. You can see how the garland would eventually be broken down into individual brooches, with fringes suspended from some of the sections. Today's brooch is one of the sections that has three individual fringes.
Here's a closer look at the diamond-studded currant leaf design that makes up the top of the brooch...
...and here's a good close-up of the piece's fringes, or pampilles.
Empress Eugenie painted by Winterhalter, ca. 1864 (Grand Ladies Site)
Unfortunately, we don't seem to have any extant images, either paintings or photographs, of Empress Eugenie wearing this grand suite of diamond jewels. It would have been astounding to see all of the pieces worn together, but it wasn't to be. Eugenie's husband, Emperor Napoleon III, was overthrown in 1871, and she spent the rest of her life in exile. The currant leaf demi-parure stayed behind in France.
Sixteen years later, the jewels went into a kind of exile of their own. When the French government decided to sell the nation's crown jewels in May 1887, the suite was among the glittering lots offered at auction. The enormous garland necklace was broken down into eight separate sections, including today's brooch. It was purchased at the auction by the jewelry firm Tiffany and Co.
Lucrezia Bori, ca. 1921 (Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons)
From Tiffany's purchase of the brooch in 1887 until the late 1930s, the brooch's journey gets a bit murky. It resurfaces again in New York in March 1936, during the retirement gala for Lucrezia Bori, a remarkable Spanish lyric soprano who appeared in more than 600 performances with the city's Metropolitan Opera. She was also a tireless, extremely effective fundraiser for the Met, especially during the Great Depression. At the gala, in recognition of both her talent and her charitable efforts, Helen Huntington Astor presented Bori with the Currant Leaf Brooch on behalf of the Metropolitan Opera Board. Bori kept the brooch for the rest of her life, and when she died in 1960, she bequeathed it back to the Met.
And, until 2014, that's where it stayed. But facing more financial hardship -- and perhaps lacking a fundraiser as effective as Bori -- the Metropolitan Opera decided to sell the brooch at auction, selecting Christie's in Geneva to do the honors. The auction estimate was appropriately high, and when the hammer fell, the brooch had fetched the equivalent of more than $2.3 million USD.
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Ferdinand II, King of Aragón
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Ferdinand II, called the Catholic, was in his own right the King of Sicily from 1468 and King of Aragon from 1479. As a consequence of his marriage to Isabella I, he was King of Castile jure uxoris as Ferdinand V from 1474 until her death in 1504. He was recognised as regent of Castile for his daughter and heir, Joanna, from 1508 until his own death. In 1504, after a war with France, he became King of Naples as Ferdinand III, reuniting Naples with Sicily permanently and for the first time since 1458. In 1512, he became King of Navarre by conquest after asserting a hereditary claim.
Ferdinand is today best known for his role in inaugurating the discovery of the New World, since he and Isabella sponsored the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. That year he also fought the final war with Granada which expunged the last Islamic state on Spanish soil, thus bringing to a close the centuries-long Reconquista. At his death he was succeeded by Joanna, who co-ruled with her son, Charles V, over all the Iberian kingdoms (save Portugal).
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MUSIC DIRECTOR • PERFORMER • COMPOSER • PRODUCER • COLLABORATOR
2016 OVATION AWARDS WINNER
TODD SCHROEDEr
Music Direction
HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Image by Peter Konerko
The Ovation Awards are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles, created to recognize excellence in theatrical performance, production and design in the Greater Los Angeles area.
In 1989, the Ovation Awards were created to celebrate the theatrical community of Greater LA. They were conceived as honorary awards and remained so until 1993, when they became competitive. Since then, over 300 theatrical productions have competed each year in 35 different categories to be recognized as Ovation Awards recipients. These productions are evaluated by a pool of 250 vetted Ovation voters, all of whom are working theatre professionals of Greater LA.
Each Ovation Awards season (September through August) concludes with a tabulation that determines the nominees in each category, followed by a black-tie ceremony at a prominent Greater Los Angeles theatre.
Receiving an Ovation Award is a significant point of recognition for LA theatre artists. The LA Times has referred to the Ovation Awards as the “highest-profile contest for local theatre.”
THE ANNUAL CEREMONY
The Ovation Awards ceremony has been held at many different theatres throughout the Los Angeles area, showcasing the great variety of our region’s stages. The ceremony is typically attended by around 1,200 prominent members of the Greater LA theatre community, including presenters, nominees, celebrities, luminaries, and major supporters and partners of LA STAGE and the arts. Our list of distinguished hosts has included Nathan Lane, Lily Tomlin, Neil Patrick Harris, French and Vanessa Claire Stewart, and Michael McKean.
The formal ceremony is a yearly celebration of achievement and excellence, and is a way for our expansive community to converge for an evening of recognition, engagement, and entertainment.
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THE BALLAD OF LEFTY & CRABBE
by Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, & Seth Macchi
Lefty & Crabbe are a dynomite vaudeville duo - but when the audiences dry up, they reluctantly turn to a strange new world called "Hollywood."
This fringe production (which won best of venue) was the first iteration of the musical comedy by Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, and Seth Macchi. It would later be produced as a revamped, full-length show in the summer of 2017.
The Ballad of Lefty & Crabbe ran at Living Room in July of 2015 as part of the Kansas City Fringe Festival.
"Get ready to laugh and smile because Brian Huther, Auxier, and Macchi combined their creative minds and talents to write this happy piece...The Ballad of Lefty and Crabbe is one of the most fun shows of the KC Fringe."
- Bob Evans, AXS
Book & lyrics by Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, and Seth Macchi
Music by Ben Auxier and Brian Huther
Directed by Jerry Genochio
Musical director/accompanist Ben Auxier
Michael Hudgens.........................Lefty Childs
Seth Macchi................................James "Crabbe" Hathaway
Amy Attaway...............................Evelyn Rose / Ms. Alice / Ensemble
Max Frankel................................E.G. Swellington / Ensemble
Rebecca Munoz...........................Lolo Carmichael / Ensemble
Kris Stoker.................................Gene / Mac Lloyd / Ensemble
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DESIGNING KITS POOL
September 20, 2016 by LOCAL VISITOR
Originally built in 1931, Kits Pool is Vancouver's only (heated) saltwater swimming pool and, at 137m (150 yards), it's also the longest pool in Canada. The pool itself is picturesque, with views of the mountains, ocean, beach, and downtown skyline. The pool is designed like the neighbouring beach, gradually becoming deeper as you wade toward the ocean, making it accessible to every age and swimming ability from babies to athletes.
And while all those things make Kits Pool worth a visit, there's much more to the pool's design than most people know (until now...).
In the 1970s the City decided to renovate the pool to bring it up to the BC Building Code. They hired Howard Architects and John Bingham was tasked as the Project Architect. Fortunately for us, we know John pretty well and convinced him to tell us anything he could remember about the renovation that isn't already on paper.
The first challenge of the renovation was to address the Provincial Government's requirement for a continuous seawall path for public access and maintenance along the entire length of the seawall. At that time, a concrete wall separated the ocean from the pool, effectively ending the seawall to the east of the pool. The Architects kept the original wall (which is still there today directly north of the pool) and created a new wall for the pool at a higher elevation so that it was no longer fed directly by the ocean.
One of the major components of the renovation was to include new mechanics for cleaning and heating the water. Since its opening, the pool had been seawater fed at high tide. Until the renovation, though, the water was untreated and unheated. With the addition of new mechanical system, the pool is now filled with treated sea water once only at the beginning of the summer. Over the season, evaporated water is replaced by fresh water. By the end of the summer, Kits Pool is filled with more fresh water than sea water.
The change rooms were also included in the renovation. The men's and ladies' symbols on the walls differentiating the change rooms were meant to be placeholders on the Architectural drawings only. However, they ended up making the cut and are carefully recreated with every paint job. The cubbies on the deck are chimney stacks turned on their side, a relatively cheap (and original) way to create open cubbies. Light wells into the change rooms can be seen from the concession stand south of the pool, but have since been covered to mitigate privacy concerns.
Other areas included in the renovation were the Showboat, which acts as a stage for amateur performers. The circular deck that sits out above the change room was originally supposed to have a tent (the clips for the tent are still there). However, the tent and the children's spray park designed to the east of the pool for eliminated due to budgetary constraints (and have apparently since been abandoned altogether).
Construction of the renovation began in 1978 and took approximately one season to complete. Apparently, the mayor at the time received numerous complaints about noise during the construction, which could only be done during low-tide, whenever low tide happened to be that day.
After leading the design of the renovation, the same Architectural firm was commissioned by the City to design Second Beach Pool. While Second Beach Pool is not saltwater fed, it does have the same graduated entry as Kitsilano Pool, making it equally popular for families with young children.
John Bingham, of Bingham + Hill Architects, was the project architect for the pool's renovation
Looking North over Kits Pool during its first season after the renovations. Photo courtesy of Bingham + Hill Architects.
The view from inside the lifeguard station, 1979. Photo courtesy of Bingham + Hill Architects
Kits Pool during its first season after the renovations in 1978. Photo courtesy of Bingham + Hill Architects.
September 20, 2016 /LOCAL VISITOR
kitsilano, pool, design, heritage, history
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Project In Progress: XO by Josh Adam Jones
We spoke with Bristol based photographer Josh Adam Jones about his new in progress series XO. Unearthing stories about the expatriate communities of Muscat in Oman. Jones concentrates on the relationship between locals and outsiders. As an outsider himself, Jones has created an intimate exploration of the diverse and colourful culture, working alongside the people Oman Jones was fortunate enough to work with The British Embassy and Oman Tourism College to create this stunning series. Visit this GoFundMe page to support this project and the publishing of XO as a book.
Photography By Josh Adam Jones
Firstly, how did this project come to be, and what were your motivations behind this series?
The truth is, I actually wanted to work on a project in Japan but couldn’t afford it. I therefore started looking elsewhere as I knew I wanted to photograph abroad, somewhere away from my familiar surroundings. Flight comparison sites became my new best friend, and I would trawl the internet for interesting or far-flung places in which to begin my research. The Middle East was somewhere I new little about, and what knowledge I did have was fuelled by Western misconceptions and biases towards the Orient. Early motivations behind making this work were from being intrigued, but then soon developed into an investigation into misrepresentations of Middle Eastern values.
You mention that this series was in response to Wester misconceptions of the East, did you find that you had any yourself before starting this series?
Western media has consistently catalysed negative views towards Islam in which a growing minority of people seem to uphold. Of course I did not, and do not think that Muslim communities should be persecuted on the basis of their religious viewpoint or choice of dress, and it is saddening to know this still exists. Experiencing life in a Middle Eastern country, even for a short period of time, reiterated the generally peaceful nature of such people. Although this series attempts to deal with such issues as religion, politics and race, I think it more suited if the images are permitted to exist by themselves to communicate with the viewer on a human level.
Along with help from The British Embassy and Oman Tourism College, you utilised Facebook groups and other websites to gain contact with people for this series and you can see that engagement within your images. Tell me a little about your time spent talking with these communities and the people you met?
I found the whole process quite remarkable really, and I found myself inundated with messages from various different people. It took me a while to search through them, and in the end there were so many I could not reply to each individual message. It was truly amazing that people were so wanting to help. I was told about the forthcoming nature of Omani’s, but this was something else! Prior to actually landing in Oman, I had successfully built a foundation of contacts who acted like informal fixers whilst I was there. Many of the interactions I had were a result of putting in the ground work before leaving the UK, and I met some incredible people this way.
Captain Adbulrauf (Ralph) was one such person, and a sure highlight of the trip. Ralph used to be the Captain of the Sultan’s Yacht, so is well respected amongst local Omani’s. Now a converted Muslim, Abdulrauf invited me to his grandeur home in a small fishing village just outside of the city. The conversation flowed and I found myself asking about the numerous works of art hung inside his home, and also the wealth of decorative objects which were littered throughout. Somehow the conversation turned to my home in the UK and the city of Bristol. Ralph, without saying anything led me through his kitchen and out of the back door, to which he proceeded to point at the side wall – a massive Banksy mural, complete with Pest Control authentication. Not only have Banksy and Invader been over for tea, it turns out Ralph was at the Mr. Brainwash gallery opening, which is featured in Exit Through The Gift Shop. There is definitely a documentary to be made about Ralph.
Within two weeks you have created the start of an amazing series that already intimately explores the community, having secured a bursary for your second trip what do you plan to focus on in round two?
I have got a few ideas of what I would like to do, one of which being more to do with the oil industry over there. Apart from that, it’s still early days. The documentary about Ralph, amongst other people is in the pipeline (pun intended), and my girlfriend is going to work with me on this. Lauren is a fantastic producer and assistant, and I would love to complete the next trip with her.
What do you look for when starting a new project, as a social documentary photographer what are the themes you want to follow?
I guess the simple answer to that question is I am interested in people, and specifically people who lead a different life to me. It’s funny though, because being a Skinhead, most people already see me as different to themselves and I don’t mind that. Very much like how I wish to change the general perception of the subculture I fit into, I aim to tell stories about often misrepresented places by using photography. Themes that I am interested in and which seem to follow me around are religion, politics, race and nationality. It’s not that I am actively trying to document such things, but I think they are important factors to consider when making pictures about society.
With the research that you put in behind the scenes, and with other projects you have made, you get a sense of being an insider, it feels as though you know these people well, but yet there is still an element of exploration and distance. How do you feel looking back at this series and what do you do to maintain that familiarity with your subject?
The fact that you have commented on this means I am achieving what I set out to, and that is to unearth some of the incredible and interesting lives that other people lead. Photographing people was never actually a reason I began making pictures, so it’s actually quite weird reflecting on the last 3 or 4 years. It has been quite a journey. The most important thing for me is making that initial contact, whether that’s on the street or via a more ‘formal’ mode of communication such as Facebook, and then just being genuinely interested and engaged with people. Having a camera is just the closing segment of the circle really, and what I mean by this is it tends to come last in the process. Most of the time people enjoy talking about themselves and just need the right opportunity to do so. Building a rapport is essential, as people have to trust that you’re not there to exploit them.
What is the best advice that you have ever been given?
What a question… and a tough one. I remember my tutor, Jim Campbell saying something quite a lot that has stuck with me: ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease’. What I took from this is that as a photographer hoping to get somewhere, you have to be persistent but not annoying, determined but not arrogant.
What advice would you give to anyone starting out in social documentary?
Make lots of pictures of people you don’t know, as it really pushes you to improve quickly. I hated it at first, but you have to learn the right things to say when you meet people (on the street for example), so it’s as much about social skills as it is about being good with a camera. Also, get a tripod.
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Ulrikka S. Gernes, Patrick Friesen & Per Brask: Poetry in Translation
RUSTY TALK WITH ULRIKKA S. GERNES, PATRICK FRIESEN & PER BRASK
Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in 1965 in Sweden to Danish parents. At the age of twenty-two she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, already a published and highly acclaimed poet. Her first collection, NATSVÆRMER, was published in Denmark in 1984, when she was eighteen years old. Since then she has published an additional ten collections, all of them received gratefully in the Danish press. She is also the author of two books for children, as well as many short stories, songs, and various contributions to literary anthologies, art catalogues, magazines, newspapers and Danish National radio.
Patrick Friesen is a poet, essayist, playwright and translator living in Victoria, B.C. His most recent publications are jumping in the asylum (2011), a dark boat (2012) and a short history of crazy bone (2015). He has co-translated five volumes of poetry with Per Brask.
Per Brask is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg where he has taught since 1982. He has published poetry, short stories, drama, translations, interviews and essays in a wide variety of journals and books. This is his fifth volume of poetry co-translated with Patrick Friesen.
Danish poet Ulrikka S. Gernes collaborated with Canadian poets Patrick Friesen and Per Brask on their English translation of her Flosset opus for strygere & blæsere (Gyldendal, 2012), the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated Frayed Opus for Strings and Wind Instruments (Brick Books, 2015). It is the second book they have worked on together, having previously collaborated on A Sudden Sky (Brick Books, 2001).
Gernes is an acclaimed poet in Denmark, where she also manages the estate and artistic legacy of her father, the Constructivist artist Poul Gernes. Friesen, from Steinbach, Manitoba, teaches at the University of Victoria and is also a playwright, as is Brask, who teaches at the University of Winnipeg and has worked extensively in theatre. Brask came to Canada after training as a dramaturg in Denmark.
--Rebecca Rustin
Rebecca Rustin: While Frayed Opus for Strings and Wind Instruments eschews direct religious references, Per, you made the remarkable decision to convert to Judaism (For love? I was born to the troubled tribe), and you, Patrick, deal head-on with religious themes in your play The Shunning (Scirocco Drama, 2010), about the Mennonite community you grew up in. Ulrikka's second book was Englekløer (Borgen, 1985), the title translated by Per and Patrick as Angel Claws. Per's work is concerned with, among other things, philosophy (Nietzsche, Badiou), Graeco-Roman classics, and mid-twentieth century European politics. It seems that Patrick and Ulrikka ultimately cleave to the pagan--land, sea, animals, the elements--in terms of anchoring the self to the broader world. How does the divine and/or the pagan (to use the term loosely; I might as well just say 'nature') figure into your thinking about the world, and inform your writing/translation practice? How do you use the subject's direct relationship with nature to find your own path through the dominant narratives of the communities you grew up in?
Ulrikka S. Gernes: I am not an agnostic and I'm even anxious about using such a word, since I do have a firm belief that ”there's more between heaven and earth than flesh and blood” (line from a poem).
As a poet I must never cast my eyes down. I am on the side of the human spirit, the human condition ... I must carry those few drops of water in the palm of my hand through the desert. I once summed it up like this: ”Poetry, in any language, is a language of resistance, resilience, resonance, that speaks from the core and from the rim, from inner and from outer space within the experience of human existence.” One could ask where that thinking comes from? Of course it has to do with the ethics that are fundamental in most world religions and hence are part of our social and cultural ”foundation”, but as Patrick pinpoints it: ”One is a physical and spiritual animal.” I guess that is the point of departure for my work as a poet.
Per Bask: When my wife, Carol Matas, and I got together some forty years ago we quickly became aware that we wanted to make a go of it and that our life together would include children. We decided early on that those children would be raised as Jews—and they have been. That meant that I had a lot of catching up to do and I began to study Judaism. The more I got into it the more fascinated I became and eventually I fell in love with the conversation Jews had had down through the ages about life and God and what we humans owe to each other and to God. I wanted to join that conversation as a member. We are not a religiously observant family, but we celebrate Shabbat and we are committed to a spiritual Judaism that is eclectically informed by different denominations. My recent poetry comes from this outlook, this engagement with life. It has also led me to translate the Danish Jewish thinker Andreas Simonsen.
Patrick Friesen: A community is many things. Some communities have a basic religious approach to life, though every community has its dissenters, or outliers. I found myself resisting the fundamentalist Christian approach prevalent in my community, and central in my family. While the theological aspect was important, the intrusiveness of those who thought they had a right to probe the state of my soul and to judge it was perhaps the most important part of my resistance. I am interested in both the state of my own spiritual existence and in the social and political aspects of world religions. One is a physical and spiritual animal. I doubt I’m a pagan, though that would be a lovely label to carry. I don’t know if there’s one single word that indicates what I am. Some days I feel I’m an atheist, other days an agnostic, and there are even days where I might come close to some kind of Christian mysticism. But I don’t really know. I do feel that essentially I’m a material being with a spirit, and I have a good sense of what happens to matter after death. What I don’t have a firm grip on is what happens with spirit.
RR:I know I said I'd stay away from boring process-y questions, but Patrick, in the interview you recently gave Vancouver's Roundhouse Radio you said something that sounded kind of fun, about the early days of you and Per's collaboration in translating Danish poetry, when he would come sit on your couch and you guys would hammer things out. How does it look when the three of you get together?
USG: Our collaboration has unfortunately mostly taken place in cyber space (not many drinks involved) in a rainbow of emails exchanging suggestions, corrections, comments back and forth, and for me it felt like a complete luxury that two wonderful people on the other side of the world would take such care, use their linguistic strength, intelligence and sensitivity—as well as their precious time—to choose and shift around words in poems and stick by them until they fitted hand in glove into the poem.
PB: Email with the addition of the telephone has made our work possible since Patrick moved to BC.
PF: The three of us never get together physically in order to discuss the translation we’re involved in. Email and telephone is how we communicate. With Per and myself the occasional phone call is essential so that we can hear what we’re doing.
RR: When John Weiners, at the time a prodigious drinker of Carling Black Label beer, won a NEA grant, he simply switched to champagne. What's the silliest thing you've ever done with an unexpected windfall? Would you do something silly with the prize if you won? Why is money such a vexed question with regard to the arts? Is money evil?
USG: Money? Well, rent has to be paid. Honour doesn't buy breakfast. Money; it's tough when you don't have it. I guess the point is to have enough. Money can do great things and change lives, but money itself doesn't interest me. I know that that sounds arrogant and is a sure sign I'm spoilt silly with the privileges of having been born in a wealthy part of the world, but one must remember: life itself is not long! I am sensible with money (grew up in an artist family with no money) knowing that money—or perhaps a windfall?—can buy freedom to do other things such as writing poetry.
There's hardly ever money involved in poetry. Up to now Per and Patrick have basically worked for free. Actually the fee paid for reading at the Griffin is the first real money they get for this book because it is shared between us and that makes me happy (and if we hit the jackpot, naturally that is shared too!).
PB: I’ve never had a windfall. Should one happen I can only say: 7 grandchildren
PF: People of Mennonite background don’t do silly things, surely everyone knows that. But I think investing a windfall would be quite silly. It’s not something I have to worry about.
RR: Patrick's first language was, I think, Low German, Per's was Danish, and Ulrikka, growing up Danish in Sweden, perhaps you learned Swedish, Danish, and English at the same time? How do you all feel about the relationship between English and your mother tongues? Do you wish it were easier to make delicious compound words in English, as you can do in German and Danish? Are there things English can do that Danish can't?
USG: Different languages have different advantages and disadvantages. Certain things are more easily, precisely or poetically expressed in Danish than in English and vice versa. There are words ”lacking” in both languages. One language will have an abundance of synonyms while the other has an empty gap in a particular field. For instance the Danish word døgn, which is a word for day and night together, for the full 24 hours, English, curiously, doesn't have a word for that. Translating døgn you have to either choose day or night or say 24 hours and that can completely shift the meaning and feeling in a poem.
Danish is my mother tongue, the language I feel the most intimately connected to (spiritually and physically) despite the fact that I am born and grew up in Sweden and speak fluent Swedish. It is interesting that somehow mother tongue and mother's milk are almost synonymous—language is part of the nourishment. However, English was a ticket to the whole world in a sense, allowing me to travel and live in other parts of the world. I have a fairly good command of English, but when it comes to the subtle details, the shades and nuances, the flavors, I depend on Patrick and Per.
PB: Those compound words in Danish and in German are usually pretty awful, in my view. English has a much larger vocabulary and I find that endlessly engaging.
PF: Compound words are mostly very useful, but in translating you often have to split compound words in half, or possibly in threes, and then you have lost a lot. Perhaps if you’re lucky you’ll find a compound word in English that approximates the Danish compound word, but it’s doubtful. But you might find a word that catches part of the compound word and adds something new to the poem. Suddenly, the poem changes a little bit, and it’s up to the translator to decide if this change in fact helps the poem in its new language without straying too far from the original.
RR: What kind of music do you like right now? Anybody ever play an instrument? Smash a guitar onstage? Per, you're a librettist. What a beautiful word. Do you sing?
USG: I wish I could sing, or play an instrument! I wish I could express myself without leaving behind a monument to failure ...
Music has this ability to push through barriers in the brain and touch us in a direct and immediate way and hence influence emotions, atmosphere, sentiment, we have little defense toward music, and it is also curious how lines from songs or snippets of tunes and melodies can pop up in your heads triggered by an emotion, or a chemical shift in the body. The same way music can put you in different moods. I used to listen to a lot of music, and I still do, and many different types of music, but find that I ”use” music, sometimes as tools to access certain ”moods”, or to get energy, or to get myself out of a certain mood. Music can pour from an open window and completely blow you away ...
PB: The Rolling Stones never get old for me.
I’ve written two pieces for the composer Michael Matthews, one a piece for actor and cello and the libretto for Matthews’s opera Prince Kaspar. I do not sing. Way back in the mid to late 1960s I played bass guitar in rock and roll bands, eventually dropping the bass and becoming a lead singer (read: screamer). I was never good at either but I love good bass riffs and in my writing and translation it is a bass line that plays in the back of my mind.
PF: I like a lot of different kinds of music. I loved the rock ‘n’ roll of the 60s, especially what was coming out of England in the middle of that decade. I particularly love garage-band records, like Shakin’ All Over by Chad Allen & the Expressions, and what used to be called novelty records, like Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen or Muleskinner Blues by the Fendermen. I loved the wildness in rock, the letting go, the sheer exhilaration and mad laughter.
I love all kinds of jazz, people like Bill Evans, and classical music, from Mozart to Arvo Part. I love fado and cante jondo. The list goes on. I can read music and took piano lessons, but I ain’t no player, and I’m no singer either, but music plays a central part in all my work.
RR: How do the dramatic scenes encapsulated in each of Ulrikka's poems speak to your, Patrick and Per's, experience in theatre? Have you, Ulrikka, ever been involved in theatre in any way?
USG: I've never tried my hands at writing for the theatre, but when writing poetry I often have this ”stage” in mind where something happens, where people interact, or nothing happens and you wonder why. As a child I loved radio plays. Maybe because we didn't have a TV. I think the attraction was that images developed in my head, I was actively involved and that was very engaging. I still love to listen to radio drama when I'm moving around Copenhagen on my bicycle.
A Danish actress once told me about an exercise her acting group had done where each actor and actress had picked a book randomly. The task was to act improvisations from the texts they randomly chose. Chance had it that she had picked one of my poetry collections and the whole group was surprised how well my poems had worked ”dramatically”. I wish I had been a fly on the wall there.
PB: In addition to that bass line, I need to sense the gesture of a piece before writing or translating. I believe that comes from my theatre training.
PF: In addition to the actual theatrical writing I’ve done, I think there’s an element of theatre in some of my poetry; that is, I often have voices in my poems, implied or actual. There’s a lot of conversation in my work, often internal. I think I always look for that conversational motion in other people’s work.
RR: Ulrikka and Patrick, you've drawn a distinction, in the Afterword to Frayed Opus and in the Roundhouse interview, respectively, between melancholia (Ulrikka) or the doldrums (Patrick), and depression. It seems as though North American culture overclinicizes things sometimes. Or demands that everyone 'think positive.' Would you expand a bit on the subtleties of negative emotion--the kind that calls for medication versus the kind everyone lives with? Anyone: European versus North American approaches? Is there an equal balance of joy and misery in the world?
USG: Patrick suggests reading Lorca and Per points out the importance of visits to the darkness. I absolutely agree! Now, I will be a little bit cheeky and answer your question by guiding your attention to a fantastic painting by Lucas Cranach The Elder because that painting for me sums up melancholia in a beautiful, philosophical and intelligent way. I would prescribe meditating on that painting before taking any medication! We are fortunate to have that painting in the collection of the National Gallery in Denmark so I have seen the original many times and I still go to see it every now and then—when I need a bit of that medicine!
PB: That’s Jacob’s struggle, the struggle we all have with life and the divine—whatever we chose to call that. But depression is real, horrible and not recommended. Melancholy thoughts, visits to the darkness, on the other hand are necessary for reevaluation and getting better at life—I think.
PF: Ah, yes, much has been medicalized which shouldn’t be. I recently heard that grief is now considered a “disease”. We medicalize, and we categorize, to the point of absurdity. Melancholy is essential I think. As are grief and sorrow and even moments of despair. Experiencing darkness is important simply for living our lives, but it certainly plays a part in the creation of art. A lot of the best work is done in “altered states”. But, of course, it’s always a balancing act, a risky business. One can get lost in darkness, or in an altered state. Venturing there requires a certain amount of courage and the strength and pragmatism to get out. Read Lorca on this subject; his poems but also his essays. His concept of duende is central to his literary output.
Frayed Opus for Strings and Wind Instruments
Brick Books, 2015
Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places and states of mind, from a lit bicycle shed in the back yard to a root canal in November, from a typhoon in Hong Kong to instincts astray in various Copenhagen neigborhoods. Elegantly translated by Canadian collaborators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, these dreamlike poems attempt, with honesty and humour, to fathom what it is to inhabit a specifically unspecific point in life—not to mention in the Universe.
YOU ONLY LOVE ME WHEN I SMOKE;
I love a blue apple tree.
Rebecca Rustin is a Montreal-based writer and translator.
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Maria Meindl: Nonfiction Writer
Photo by Kathryn Palmateer
Maria Meindl is the author of Outside the Box: the Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew from McGill-Queens University Press, a story “The Last Judgment” from Found Press and “Rules” an essay in an anthology on death published by Creative Non Fiction. Her essays have appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, Descant and Musicworks. She has made two radio series for CBC Ideas: Parent Care, and Remembering Polio. She is the founder of the Draft Reading Series (now in its seventh season) which features work by new and established writers.
Maria Meindl has two London readings this week:
The University of Western Ontario
November 23, 2011 @ 12:00pm to 1:00pm, North Campus Building, 2nd Floor room 295
Fanshawe College
November 24, 2011 @ 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Room D1060, 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd.
RUSTY TALK WITH MARIA MEINDL
Kathryn Mockler: How did you first come to writing?
Maria Meindl: As a small child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother, who had been a well-known poet, journalist and broadcaster from the 1930s to the 1950s. Right around the time I was born she was disappearing from the public eye. She felt hurt and bitter about it and planted all her hopes on me.
It was a given that I would follow in her footsteps. It never occurred to me that I had a choice. At the age of eight I wrote a poem, which felt like it came to me by divine inspiration. My grandmother said it was a tour-de-force, my teacher praised it as “sensitive,” and a lifetime of literary misery was born.
I felt I had to fulfill my destiny as a writer, yet I gave myself no room to experiment, no permission to fall on my face. Furthermore I was a one-trick “sensitive” pony; anger, sexuality, clear and incisive thought all fell outside my very limited range. Oh, and tyrannized by that “divine inspiration,” I was afraid to roll up my sleeves and rewrite anything.
It took years--and I mean years--to get over it. I started writing at the age of eight and published my first book, Outside the Box, this September at the age of 52. By the way it’s about my grandmother and our relationship.
KM: What keeps you going as a writer--especially when you are working on a project that is years in the making?
MM: I’m a very, very determined person, and I hate to give up. It’s in my nature, or deeply conditioned. I should say that this is not a healthy quality in most circumstances. If you only knew the horrible relationships and bad jobs I have spent years trying to “fix”!
For my emotional and physical health, I have had to learn to turn my tenacity off at times and cut my losses, but it is a strength when it comes to writing, especially when your projects take twelve years to finish. (This was the case with Outside the Box.) I should also say I think that tenacity can be learned if you don’t have it.
KM: What is the writing process like for you? Is it different when you are writing in different genres?
MM: For Outside the Box, all the fraught history with my grandmother seemed to infuse the process I felt like my brain was bleeding most days when I’d been working on it, and this went on for years. But I got through it.
Lately I have also been writing fiction. A totally different experience. It is joyful, though all writing comes hard to me and fiction is no exception. This may be because in the past few years I have been exploring movement and voice. I don’t feel a direct link with the writing process, but I do feel my writing has become more embodied, sexier and more fun. Also I am less cautious and more direct in the way I say things.
KM: How do you approach revision?
MM: I am much better about revision than I used to be. Once I get past my usual “oh my God it isn’t perfect!” panic I enjoy it. It’s oh so satisfying to dig into the richness of the initial draft and feel it transform into something more evolved.
It also helped to take a philosophy degree as a mature student. We would critique each other’s papers minutely, but there was something good-natured and co-operative about the process. In that context, it’s known that by critiquing someone’s work, you help them reinforce their argument because you help them anticipate what others might say. When I applied this to creative writing the whole process got easier.
Now I consider any and all critiques, no matter how they are presented. I have had some wonderful editing, especially on Outside the Box, but I’ve endured a lot of pure, unconsidered meanness over the years, and I’m sure it’s not over yet. I don’t care any more. If the editor can’t be diplomatic, it’s not my problem; meantime, the work improves, and I get the credit anyway.
KM: How did you deal with rejection when you first started out?
MM: Um, how about now?
I am and have always been devastated by rejection. I take it personally, and it brings up painful rejection issues from my past. It’s getting worse and not better with time.
However…I don’t let that stop me!
My method is as follows: when something is rejected, I stop working and go into mourning for 24 hours. I allow myself to be overwhelmed with my darkest self-doubts. I resolve to quit. Next day, I consider the editor’s comments carefully (if I’ve been lucky enough to get them). I make changes if necessary. Then I put it BACK IN THE MAIL.
I wrote a story in 1986 called “The Last Judgment.” I began submitting it to literary magazines. It was rejected about 20 times, always with the comment that it was too long. Each time I was flattened. I kept sending it. Last year it was accepted by Found Press, which does really good and innovative e-publications, and which treats short stories like books, with all the attendant publicity and marketing (and an advance). It was the ideal length for Found Press.
KM: What authors or books would you recommend, especially to creative nonfiction writers?
MM: I have read some great Canadian nonfiction. Recent favourites have been The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates, The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown, anything by Marni Jackson. I was very affected by Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama: such a beautifully written book and an ideal balance between anecdotes and thoughtful analysis. Also, I keep returning to Silences by Tillie Olsen--not only for the content but the unique structure.
KM: Do you have a piece of advice for new writers?
MM: The literary community needs you, NOW, no matter how inexperienced, awkward, over-committed or downright weird you think you are. I have run a reading series (Draft) for seven years now and our volunteers are like gold. We cannot do without them, and we always need more.
Get involved with something--publications, events, or whatever you like. Or start something. The big established organizations we have now began with a few people who gathered together in a basement or departmental lounge of their university and made things happen. They made mistakes and learned along the way.
You will have a lot more fun and the more people who do this, the bigger, more welcoming and more diverse the literary scene will be.
KM: Your funniest literary moment, if you have one?
MM: My authors’ copies of Outside the Box were delivered on the front porch at one and the same moment as the earthquake in Toronto August 23, 2011.
KM: What are you working on now?
MM: I’m writing a series of three novels working back through history from 1980s Toronto to post-WW2 London to Weimar Berlin. Isn’t it nice that I’ve got over putting too much pressure on myself?
MARIA MEINDL'S RECENT BOOK
Outside the Box, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
Description from McGill-Queen's:
When poet and broadcaster Mona Gould died in 1999, she left behind thirty-eight boxes of papers. Her war poem, "This Was My Brother," was still a staple of textbooks and anthologies, yet Mona - well known in her youth - had fallen into obscurity in the 1960s. Born at the very time Mona's career was faltering, Maria Meindl became a captive audience for her grandmother's extravagant stories of the past.
Years later, Maria took on the daunting task of sorting through Mona's mountain of papers to create an archive for the University of Toronto's Fisher Rare Book Library. The chaotic state of the boxes reflected Mona's flamboyant and demanding personality, yet they also drew an important picture of the life of a Canadian freelancer in the twentieth century. Mona had begun publishing poetry and features in newspapers in the 1920s and published three books of poetry in the 1940s. In the 1950s, at a time when many women were retreating from the public sphere, she had a successful radio career. Her later journals and letters recount, in agonizing detail, a downward spiral into self-doubt, poverty, and addiction. Maria soon discovered that the truth of Mona's life was even more fascinating than her stories.
Outside the Box brings to life a thinly documented era in Canadian letters through the story of one passionate and conflicted woman. It also charts the journey of an unwilling archivist, coming to terms with family secrets, forgotten history, and the stories that are never told.
"Not content merely to provide an account of Gould's life and times, Maria Meindl probes the complexities of her own relationship with this remarkable woman. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it rewarding on multiple levels." Susan Olding, author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays
"Encompassing literary, social, and women's history, personal memoir, and media studies, Outside the Box is honest, revealing, and original." Elaine Kalman Naves, author of Shoshanna's Story
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Love’s Abiding Joy (2006)
Traxy Thornfield 2 August 2013 Film Reviews, TV Reviews
TV film review: Love’s Abiding Joy (2006), directed by Michael Landon Jr.
Set about six years after Love’s Long Journey, Missie (Erin Cottrell) and Willie LaHaye (Logan Bartholomew) have now got the farm up and running properly. Willie is approached by Mayor Samuel Doros (John Laughlin) to become the town sheriff, but Willie would rather keep his cattle.
Doros has a henchman (Kevin Gage), so it’s obvious he’s not a very nice man. His daughter Colette (Mae Whitman, a.k.a. the voice of Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender), on the other hand, is home from the all girl’s school and takes an instant liking to the now teenaged Jeff (Drew Tyler Bell), whom the LaHayes have adopted.
Add to that, the film starts off with Missie’s paw Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff) arriving by stagecoach for the first visit in years, which means he’s there throughout the story – yay!
Also starring Frank McRae as Cookie, William Morgan Sheppard as Scottie, Brett Coker as Mattie LaHaye, Brianna Brown as Melinda Klein and James Tupper as Henry Klein.
Despite some really rather bad thing happening to the family, I still didn’t feel like it was too preachy. Yes, there are some incredibly cheesy lines out there (most of which I think were spoken by Clark, bless), but then I did speculate in the previous “episode” review that there was either less preaching going on when Clark’s around, or I simply notice it less, because I’m too distracted by THIS here guy:
What do you mean, “that’s not even from this show, you loony!”? It’s the same actor so it totally applies. And if it actually happens to be from Time Trax, that’s so not a bad thing.
See? I’ve completely lost my train of thought trying to google suitable exceedingly handsome images.
You can tell from a mile away that Doros is the baddie of the piece. In fact, if you can’t work out that you ought not to trust him from the first seconds he’s on screen, every film you’ve ever seen must come as a delightful surprise to you. It’s glaringly obvious. The thing about the horse near the end, you know exactly what he’s doing and what’s going to happen, and that’s of course exactly what happens.
So no, the plot certainly isn’t challenging those “little grey cells” Poirot liked to refer to, and for the most part, it was nothing more than tediousness, sprinkled with cutesy sayings like “God wuvs us so he has to test our faith” and such, while walking around a Little House on the Prairie setting and being annoyingly wholesome.
2 out of 5 reposessed farms for the story itself and +1 for the sheer amount of Dale Midkiff. Which, let’s face it, is 99% the reason for me watching this.
2006 Brett Coker Brianna Brown Dale Midkiff Drew Tyler Bell Erin Cottrell Frank McRae James Tupper John Laughlin Kevin Gage Logan Bartholomew Love Comes Softly Mae Whitman Michael Landon Jr William Morgan Sheppard
2 Responses to "Love’s Abiding Joy (2006)"
RhubarbsMom says:
I recently saw a made-for-tv movie of his called “Back to You and Me” (2005) on cable. I now understand why you like him so much. I am now a fan of his as well. (If you haven’t seen it, unlike those “Love” movies, this one is set in this century.)
Traxy says:
Thanks for the tip! I must keep an eye out for it. ♥
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19th-century slang, circus jargon, and other fun and interesting terms
This glossary of terms which were used in various communities in the nineteenth-century appears in Appendix III of my latest book, A Trip and a Tumble. Enjoy —and please feel free to share with your friends!
When Felix's newspaper sends him up to Victoria, B.C. to report on a visiting circus Ken inevitably tags along, "like a dutiful puppy", as Addie says. Meanwhile, Jacob's sent north to Victoria as well, as an ambassador for the cycling company he represents. Addie tells him to keep an eye on the chums, but no one ever could keep Ken and Felix from stumbling into scrapes. When a vivacious high-society belle and a surprisingly timid circus bicyclist enter the picture, things heat up quickly.
Be prepared for a grand circus pageant —let the show begin!
A Trip and a Tumble:
A Victorian Cycling Club Story
Bill: Poster. The word "bill" meaning "sign or poster" has somewhat fallen out of use in modern America, although it may still be seen in the familiar prohibition "POST NO BILLS" which is often seen on walls and poles in public spaces.
Boston: American. (Aboriginal trade jargon of the American Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada, early and mid-nineteenth century.) This term referred to any white American, regardless of his city or region of origin: to an aboriginal person in this part of the world, Yankees and Southerners alike were simply "Bostons". See also King George Man and Passaieux.
Canvas men: Rough laborers in a circus.
Celestial: Chinese. Historically the Chinese referred to China and the countries it occupied as the Celestial Kingdom or the Celestial Empire. Some modern scholars have taken umbrage with the term, but nineteenth-century Anglophones who referred to Chinese as Celestials were using a direct translation of what the Chinese called themselves at the time.
Circus mother: A matron who manages the aspects of circus life falling under women's sphere. Whereas the (male) manager supervised the business end of circus life, the circus mother managed the performers' personal affairs, acting as everything from banker, to nurse, to chaperone and wardrobe outfitter for them. Source: Thompson, W.C. On the Road With A Circus, New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1905. pp. 130—132.
Clallam: A tribe of American Indians living on the Olympic Peninsula, in what is now Washington state. Chief Chetzemoka was the nineteenth-century leader of the group of Clallams living in and around Port Townsend, the real city which inspired the town of Chetzemoka in this series.
Cully: Friend. (Circus jargon.) Source: Frost, Thomas. Circus Life and Circus Celebrities. London: John Child and Son, 1876, p. 309.
Dona: Lady (Circus jargon, from the Italian donna.) Source: Frost, Thomas. Circus Life and Circus Celebrities. London: John Child and Son, 1876, p. 306.
En garçon: Used in reference to married men temporarily away from their wives. (French: literally, "as a boy" or "as a bachelor".) Source: Jenkins, Edward. The Captain's Cabin. Belfast: William Mullan and Son, 1877. p. 14: "On the left is the purser's table, frequented mostly by bachelors, old and young, and by leery commercials, who are married when at home, but are travelling for the voyage en garçon—a most lively table, where…rough joke and broad story are never wanting…"
Goney: A great goose, a stupid fellow. (New England origin.) Source: Dictionary of Americanisms, Ed. John Russell Bartlett, Boston: 1877. p. 253.
Guy: Man. The very british Oxford English dictionary credits the origin of this term to effigies burned on Guy Fawkes day, but the term had a different connotation in circus culture: "Circus dialect for a man is always 'guy,' and the proprietor of the show is invariably styled 'the main guy,' or the 'main squeeze.' The former appellation is probably adapted from the fact that the main guy rope holds the tent in position."[1] It is worth noting that "guy" was not a very common term yet for a man in the American population in general in 1885, but it was common in circus communities. It is also worth noting that nineteenth and twentieth-century Americans did not celebrate Guy Fawkes day as a culture, but they did watch a lot of circuses. Which context truly led to its adoption in America is left to the reader's judgement.
Hello: 19th-century exclamation of surprise. The term didn't become a generic greeting until after telephone use grew widespread.
Hey Rube!: A circus call for help. It orders all circus workers to drop what they're doing and rush to the aid of the person who yelled it. (Circus jargon.)
High climber: A logger (lumberman) who climbs up tall trees to cut off the limbs and tops in preparation for the rest of the tree being felled.
Hook: To steal. (Late nineteenth-century slang.) Source: Dictionary of Americanisms, Ed. John Russell Bartlett, Boston: 1877. p. 293.
Header (active form, "take a header"): A crash or fall. In the high wheel era, this term referred to any fall from a bicycle: it did not (as commonly believed) mean falling on one's head, it was simply slang for a crash. It applied equally when the unfortunate wheelman landed on his hands, his knees, or any other body part. (Similarly, we now use the term "crash" to describe any fall from a bike, even when the actual sound involved is more of a thwack, a thud, or a shriek.) Confusion about terminology led to the widely held misconception that riders who fall off high wheel bicycles frequently fall on their heads, but such a landing is actually extremely rare. In 1883 a medical doctor writing on high wheel bicycles described the actual physiology of a typical fall: "When the wheel meets with any obstruction upon the road, either unobserved by the rider or thrown by some mischievous urchin, the rider is pitched forward upon his hands and knees, in the same way as if he had stumbled while running upon his feet. This is called "taking a header." The wrist is sometimes sprained in these involuntary dismounts, but the rider is never seriously injured unless he is going at an inordinate rate of speed."[2] In the very rare cases when someone did fall on their head —usually in the position which would now be called a "face plant"— the appropriate term was a "cropper". This phrase was borrowed from equestrianism and comes from the fallen rider landing in a position that resembles a horse cropping the grass with its teeth.
Falls in general from high wheel bicycles were far less dramatic and certainly less slapstick than farcical depictions of them in the twentieth and twenty-first century. An instructor on high wheel riding advised, "In order to avoid a fall, keep the wheel turned a very little out of the perpendicular, your hands ready to adjust the handle, and your toes lightly pressing on the pedals. If you feel that you must fall —if you cannot check your descent by gently and slightly turning the front wheel in the direction of its incline, prepare to go down as easily as possible. Put out your leg, and yielding to the inclination of the Bicycle, come down easily, and without a jerk."[3] Note that in this description, the fall is again one towards the side of the bicycle, not over the handlebars. As the writer says, this is the natural inclination of the bicycle.
My husband Gabriel has been riding high wheel bicycles with extreme frequency for years, and his copious experience with them confirms the statements of these nineteenth-century writers. He's never even once gone over his handlebars, and the small handful of times he's fallen to the side were because I crashed into him on my own wheel, which can hardly be considered the fault of his machine.
Ink-Slinger: "One who habitually writes for publication; particularly an editor or reporter of a newspaper." (Late 19th-century slang.) Source: Dictionary of Americanisms, ibid., 1877. p. 786.
Keester: Trunk. (Circus Slang.) Source: Thompson, W.C., On the Road With a Circus, New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1905. p. 23.
King George / King George Man: British. (Aboriginal trade jargon of the American Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada, early and mid-nineteenth century.) Aboriginal trade jargon continued to designate the British this way even after Queen Victoria assumed the throne in 1838. See also Boston and Passaieux.
Klootchman: An American Indian woman, or a female animal —pejorative. (Aboriginal trade jargon of the American PNW and Southwestern Canada.) In terms of both offensiveness and meaning, the closest term familiar to modern audiences would be "squaw". This word was in fairly common usage by traders in this region (both white and native) in the mid-nineteenth-century but it was considered increasingly derogatory as time progressed. In the early days of exploration and trade, the ambiguity of a word which could refer either to a woman or a female animal was more a linguistic side-effect of the inarticulate nature of pidgin languages than it was any deliberate attempt to be offensive. However, as relationships deepened and English became the lingua franca of the region, this dual-meaning jargon word shifted from being an accepted term to being a slur.
By 1885, when A Trip and A Tumble takes place, the term was inappropriate for polite society; on the Pacific coast at the time it was considered even more offensive than squaw. The scene where Theresa calls herself a klootchman in order to shock Jacob was taken almost verbatim from an Englishman's non-fiction account of his visit to Victoria in 1887. In this autobiographical work, the Englishman meets a woman who challenges him to guess her ancestry. After he fails several times the lady laughs at him and calls himself a klootchman to scandalize him. He makes a very clear point of stating that although the woman had referred to herself by this term, she "would have been very indignant indeed if I had called her that."[4]
Lumberman: Logger.
Macadam: A smooth road surface favored by cyclists.
Main: Very. (Late 19th-century slang.) Source: Alger, Horatio, The Young Acrobat, New York: Hurst & Company, 1889, p. 134. "I'm main tired and hungry." / "They must have been main strong."
Mash: A crush. (Nineteenth-century slang.) Source: McIlvaine, C.W. "Censor". The Nassau Herald. Princeton College, 1878, p. 60: "Boys, you know Miss B… I took her to a cotillon one evening and got a terrible mash on her."
Missed (my) tip: Fail in an aim to do something, as when an acrobat fails in a catch. (Nineteenth-century slang.) Source: Stradling, Arthur, "A Broken Neck", Time, March, 1883, p. 360: "Almost the first part of an acrobat's education is to learn how to fall properly when he "misses his tip" —a principle which might be introduced with advantage into the course of training for some other professions."
Mosquito Fleet: A collective term for the great variety of ships that plied the waters of the greater Puget Sound region in the 19th and early 20th centuries. For more on these, see Newell, Gorden R. Ships of the Inland Sea, Portland: Binsfords & Mort, 1960. and Findlay, Jean Cammon and Robin Paterson, Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound, Images of America, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
Multum in parvo (M.I.P.) Literally, "much in little" (Italian.) A style of leather or canvas bag which straps to the backbone of a high-wheel bicycle behind the seat. They were especially popular for touring cyclists.
Mumble the Peg: A boy's game. "It consists in endeavoring to draw out with the teeth a peg driven almost wholly into the ground. The successful one of course wins." Source: Dictionary of Americanisms, Ed. John Russell Bartlett, Boston: 1877. p. 413.
Old horse: Especially hard and dry salt beef (Nautical slang.) In Two Years Before the Mast (1840), R.H. Dana recounts a rhyme he'd heard sailors reciting at mealtime when they came across a particularly bad piece of meat: "Old horse! Old horse! What brought you here? / From Sacarap' to Portland pier / I've carted stone this many a year; / Till, killed by blows and sore abuse, / They salted me down for sailors' use. / The sailors they do me despise: / They turn me over and damn my eyes; / Cut off my meat, and pick my bones / And pitch the rest to Davy Jones." Dana credits the euphemism (and the resulting rhyme) to a story about a beef dealer in Boston who was convicted of selling old horse meat for ship's stores and being sentenced to imprisonment until such time as he had eaten the whole of it. The story is very likely apocryphal, but it stuck.[5]
Passaieux: French. (Aboriginal trade jargon of the American Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada, early and mid-nineteenth century.) See also Boston and King George Man. The spelling used here was found in James G. Swan's book The Northwest Coast (1857). Swan reports:
"Formerly the Americans had a very extensive trade of furs on the Northwest Coast, and this was carried on principally by the merchants of Boston. The Indians, hearing the name of Boston so often repeated, supposed that to be the name of the country these people and ships came from; consequently, all Americans are to this day [1857] called by the Northwest Coast Indians Boston tillicums, or Boston people. English, Scotch, and Irish are called King George People, and the French, Passaieux. The derivation of this last term… is undoubtedly [derived from] some Canadian French patois word."[6]
Orthography of trade jargon words varied substantially between different sources. As Swan put it, "no two writers of Indian words fully agree as to the proper method of spelling."[7] Among many other alternatives, this word was also spelled "pasiuks"[8]; and "pasai-ooks".[9]
British ethnographer Horatio Hale attributes the word's origin to a mispronunciation of the French "Français" by people unable to pronounce f, r, or nasal n sounds. However, this explanation seems questionable since Swan, who lived at close quarters with Northwest tribes for a number of years, reported their extreme linguistic skills: "The Indians are very quick to detect any difference in the intonation or method of pronunciation of the whites, and sometimes think we speak different languages. An Indian asked me one day (while pointing to a cow) what was the name we called that animal. I told him cow. He said that he had just asked another white man, and he called it a caow. By this means, different Indians who have been with the whites acquire a habit of pronouncing such English words as they pick up in the same style and manner as the person from whom they learn them."[10]
Phaeton: A light carriage. For a picture of a phaeton and other horse-drawn vehicles from the nineteenth-century, see <http://www.thisvictorianlife.com/blog/a-visit-to-the-northwest-carriage-museum>.
Potato jacket: Potato skin / peel.
Queer a pitch: Spoil a performance. (Circus jargon.) Source: Frost, Thomas. Circus Life and Circus Celebrities. London: John Child and Son, 1876, p. 307.
Razorback: A man or boy who helps load and unload circus materials. (Circus jargon.) Source: Alger, Horatio, The Young Acrobat, New York: Hurst & Company, 1889, p. 68.
Running Gear: A horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling large loads like timber. Different from a wagon in that a running gear didn't have sides. For a picture of a running gear and other horse-drawn vehicles from the nineteenth-century, see <http://www.thisvictorianlife.com/blog/a-visit-to-the-northwest-carriage-museum>.
Sacred cattle: A breed of cattle from the Indian subcontinent, popular with nineteenth-century menageries.
Sociable: A cycle for two riders with seats side-by-side. (Tandems have seats fore and aft.) A sociable has two large wheels to propel it, a smaller wheel for stabilization, and usually an additional even smaller wheel to prevent tipovers on hills. This technically makes it a quadricycle, although since the smallest wheel rarely touches the ground it is often termed a tricycle.
Tá: Is / it is / that's so. (Irish Gaelic). Irish is a somewhat unique language in not having words for "yes" or "no". Instead, questions are answered by giving the affirmative or negative form of the verb —in this case, the affirmative of "to be". Centuries of English rule have led to a dwindling number of speakers of the Irish language. A school inspector in 1884 reported that it was no longer taught (Ross, Donald. The Gaelic Journal, March, 1884, p. 95.), and in modern times the World Languages Project lists its status as Endangered. However, certain Irish words have persisted in the speech of the country. When I visited Ireland in 2000 I found it interesting to note that the word Tá still retains a sort of slang status in the twenty-first century, even amongst young urban Dubliners.
Top: Tent. (Circus jargon.)
Tyee: The highest caste in aboriginal society in the Puget Sound Region. Usually translated as "chief", it is more appropriately translated as "person of high-rank" or "titleholder". Aboriginal societies in the Pacific Northwest were stratified into three castes: titleholders, commoners, and slaves. For more on this, see Professor Leland Donald's book, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America.
Wheel: Bicycle or tricycle.
Wheelman / Wheelwoman: Cyclist.
Worth: Charles Frederick Worth, one of the 19th-century's most famous fashion designers. The idea of a show mother being "the Worth of circusland" was cribbed from Thompson, W.C. On the Road With A Circus, New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1905, p. 132. For more about Worth himself, see "Worth and His Dresses", The Domestic Monthly, June, 1885, p. 196. <https://tinyurl.com/y84g4lnn>.
[1] Thompson, On the Road With A Circus, New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1905, p. 23.
[2] Kinch, Charles A., M.D. "A Medical Symposium: The Bicycle and Tricycle for Physicians and Patients." The Wheelman. August 1883, p. 362. The full text of this article can be found at <http://tinyurl.com/hc9n8yt>.
[3] "A Practical Bicyclist" [Nom de plume.] The Bicycle and How to Ride It. London: Ward, Lock And Co., 1882. p. 36—37.
[4] Roper, Edward. By Track and Trail: A Journey Through Canada, London: W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1891, pp. 243—244.
[5] Ibid., ch. 30.
[6] Swan, James G., The Northwest Coast. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. pp. 95—96.
[7] Swan, ibid, p. 308.
[8] Hale, Horatio. An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language. London, Whittaker & Co., 1890. p. 8.
[9] Bryce, George. The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. p. 410.
[10] Swan, ibid., pp. 308—309.
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HI, Sarah. Congratulations on the Seattle article! I find that those closest to home are often the last to recognize a person’s talents or accomplishments. Well done!
I was fascinated by the circus slang entries. Mumble the Peg eventually became Mumblty-Peg, a game it played when I was a girl and had been given my first jackknife. The game, as it had been modified, consisted of pushing a peg or thickish stick into the ground. We then stepped a certain distance away from the peg and flung out knives overhand. The knife which landed point down closest to the peg was the winner. Variations included starting the game standing close to the peg and stepping away a pace after each successful throw. Anyone whose knife failed to land point down or whose throw was wildly out of bounds of the peg was eliminated until one player was left and declared the winner of the round. Much more sanitary than attempting to pull up a circus tent with one’s teeth, though perhaps not much safer.
Author: Sarah A. Chrisman
(Known around Port Townsend as "The Victorian Lady"
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9/11 is the Litmus Test
There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack. Everyone in government and every field of endeavor the world over is defined by their position on this event. It is not necessary to know the truth. It is only necessary to know the extent of the lies in order to define any leader in any position anywhere in the world. By what they have said and by what they have not said, one can accurately judge who is an enemy of the peoples of the world. One can accurately determine who is a tool of the psychopaths or one of them.
Think about what you allow yourself to know. Think about what you pass by; ignore, deny and defend ...that defines you. It defines the degree of your personal courage, your relationship to the truth, your values, your principles and what you will pass on to your children and everyone you meet. It tells you in that place where your conscience must once have lived whether you are a hypocrite and a fool or whether something greater still lives within you.
Nineteen men pass through airport security. Eleven of them are stopped and questioned but then allowed to board. Several large passenger planes wind up hijacked and flown at high speed into enormous buildings. None of these men had shown previous capacity to accomplish this feat. These men were armed with box cutters. No jet fighters were scrambled to intercept these planes, although the authorities in charge of such actions knew immediately what was happening. Airport traffic controllers were ordered to destroy all recorded evidence of the event. Some of them physically broke the CDs and scattered the pieces into different trash containers at the airports.
Within hours, three of the biggest buildings in the city, buildings designed to absorb the impact of the very planes which hit them, all crumbled into their own footprints at the speed of freefall. It was said that the fire, which burned below the melting point of steel, caused this to happen. No fire in history had previously accomplished such a thing, not once. Previous fires had burned hotter and longer, yet no building fell. Now, three have fallen in one day. Months later the wreckage burned white hot beneath the surface and clear cuts in support beams were photographed.
A passport from one of the hijackers appears on a city street undamaged. Cars are discovered at airports with flight training videos and Korans. Apparently the men who were deeply religious enough to give their lives to attack these buildings thought nothing of leaving their sacred texts behind. Some weeks later, seven of the alleged hijackers are found to be alive in their native countries.
Some days earlier some of these men were observed drinking and having lap dances in a Florida bar. This sort of behavior is not normal for such men as these. Around the same time, the ringleader of these men and some associates were observed by the FBI boarding a gambling boat belonging to Jack Abramoff. These men were tracked to Las Vegas and watched by the FBI, yet they passed through the airport security checkpoints. Even though eleven of them were stopped and questioned they still boarded.
On the day of the event several men were observed videotaping the attack as it happened. They were seen to be dancing and celebrating as well. The police stopped and arrested them. They were found to be Mossad agents. Some time later they were quietly released and returned to their home country with no reasons given. The men videotaping and celebrating had to have known about the attack in advance in order to have been in a position to film it. Members of the Bin Laden family; the man accused of masterminding the attack, were immediately flown out of the country. Bin Laden denied any connection to this attack. Direct evidence of this exists and no evidence of his admitting his involvement exists. All of this is fabrication and hearsay. No one can present such information other than one fabricated video that was proven false by the world’s leading forensic experts in Switzerland. Many insist it is true but no one has such evidence. Go look. Bring it to me.
As a result of this event, major wars have been launched. Over a million people have died with nearly another 5 million displaced. An investigation was launched into the event against the wishes of the president and vice president and rubber stamped with pre-drawn conclusions even though the evidence did not support these conclusions. The wreckage was gathered together and shipped overseas. No one was allowed to investigate it.
In every event... in New York City... in a Pennsylvania field... at The Pentagon... all of the evidence is contradictory. The amount of evidence on every level that directly refutes what we have been told fills thousands of pages. Meanwhile, the administration and the congress belligerently oppose any inquiry into the matter. People in government who have questioned the official story have been fired from their jobs or driven from office by the very party they are a member of. University professors are fired for discussing it. Independent investigators are met with scenes like THIS. Major web sites composed of experts in their fields, HERE and HERE are ignored and censured.
Casual investigation of who benefited and who engineered actions of global impact based on official 9/11 findings ALL lead to the same parties. It is incontrovertibly true that one organization, PNAC, called for an attack on American soil in order to facilitate what followed. Members of this organization held key positions in and around the present administration.
Therefore... therefore... here is what you must know, given that the official story is patently absurd. Anyone... anyone who promotes the official story; who accepts the official story, who oppresses those who doubt the official story, who does not question the official story, is involved or too stupid to pat their head and chew gum at the same time. Any presidential candidate who does not dispute the official story is a traitor to their nation and a tool of those who accomplished the attack.
It all comes down to 9/11. Everything that has happened has happened based on a lie. Everyone in government; in the media, in entertainment, in organized religion, in the public eye and in the public who accepts and promotes the official story is either a traitor or a tool. Everyone who does not stand forth and speak truth to power is a coward, a liar and complicit in mass murder. Everyone- everywhere can be measured according to this litmus test.
I have included here only a very small portion of the damning evidence that runs counter to the official lies. The preponderance of evidence that refute the official lies is overwhelming.
Measure everyone by their position and their comments or lack of comments concerning this signal event. Measure everything they say in relation to their position on this event. For those of you who know that this is all a lie, I ask you not to go to work on March 19th in protest of this event and all of the events that have followed. I ask the residents of every nation on Earth to take this day off from your usual duties and stand down in protest of the terrible lies and events that cloud our existence and circumscribe our freedoms. Send a message. Stop the machine. See your power and in seeing it, expand it.
Hear me people. We know who you are and we know who we are. We see you lie and we see you murder. We see. You are going down. It may not be today and it may not be tomorrow but you are going down. And you... all of you who know and who abet and serve the empire of darkness; all of you who have sold your honor and integrity for a place at the table, for the opportunity to run your mouths about banal tripe and be a hearty-fellow-well-met among the psychopaths, who lurk like jackals among the lions, who are complicit in this evil... you will be shamed beyond endurance for having been such a whore and a fool for table scraps at the cost of your humanity.
March 19th. Stand down. Next time make it a week and then a month and then as long as it takes.
Patrick Willis narrates:
911 Was an Inside Job by Les Visible
Iron Man said...
As a kid, I remember seeing countless documentaries by CBS, ABC and NBC in the days, months and years after JFK was assassinated. In fact, in the course of the years which have followed, I can remember myriad examinations and documentaries on just about any noteworthy event that in essence, shocked the coherent.
Les, you provide a tremendous outline of elements of the 9/11 stroy which stretch any type of credibility. How does a group of individuals who by all accounts cannot fly single engine Piper Cub planes engineer the flights of jet planes which deal with high rates of speed and pinpoint turns. How are hijackings engineered with box cutters? Why do 35 air bases in the region stand down?
Perhaps most galling to me is the media's role in all of this. If the stories were true, we would see countless reminders of that day. We would continually see picture of the WTC on fire, of the second plane hitting the building, of people deciding to jump out of the windows of fractured sky scrapers. We'd continually see the buildings coming down. We'd see the Pentagon. We'd hear from firefighters. We'd see interviews with police officers.
All Americans remember where they were that morning. The national sadness during that day should not be forgotten and yet, the nationalism the country felt was something bordering on remarkable. Bush made a living off of that nationalism for quite a while--without vivid, media-driven reminders of the actual event. Giuliani made a name for himself from that day. Time has shown us that both profited from something they had a negligible impact upon, at least under the guise that "we were attacked."
With all of this in mind, wouldn't it make sense to remember that day and remember those events? Wouldn't it have been prudent for a CNN or CBS to do documentaries on those who purportedly carried out the suicide missions? Wouldn't a worthy subject have been doing documentaries on the lives of fire fighters--their reactions to what took place that day--the reactions of those they've left behind---the feelings about what really happened from those at ground zero--police and firefighters?
I can remember only CBS doing something along these lines years ago, and I can say that the utter shock and awe of seeing the plane hit that building has rarely been revisited.
Is it that people will ask too many questions about the ability of someone who essentially lived in a third world country to maneuver a huge plane at high speeds into a building? Is it that repeated viewing of the buildings coming down might generate too many questions as to the structure and how things transpired? Is it that too many viewers might wonder why no plane parts were ever found at the Pentagon and that repeated viewing might have the citizenry wonder?
It is said that when you own the media, you own the people. In America, 2008, nothing could be more on target.
Now, Cindy McCain is going to tell me what a "patriot" is. I'll put it bluntly for her: a patriot is someone who accepts the company line and doesn't ask questions. It is someone who shouts down those with questions or those who protest as being "un-American".
Thanks Les. What is going on here? Why aren't more people aware of PNAC? How overt can this all be?
Friday, February 22, 2008 2:33:00 PM
Hi from Somerset County Pennsylvania, The last letter I wrote to Representative John Murtha asked him how a C-130 airplane could be close to flight 77 AND flight 93, as reported in media. Before that, I sent him photos of the Pentagon lawn, and pictures of the plane that hit the South Tower/WTC-2. I asked him, Where are the wing marks, engine holes, tail mark, fuselage hole on the Pentagon? And I printed out a chart comparing the South Tower plane and another, military version, of the same model (767-200 & 767-300).
Here in Somerset, we saw Jon Meyer, first reporter on scene for WJAC-TV channel 6 Johnstown, interview eyewitnesses. They said a "small white plane" was flying alongside the big plane. One man said he "heard a bang and looked up" to see the airliner.
Jon Meyer later interviewed Jim Will of nearby Berlin who flew his small private plane over the area 45 minutes after the crash/shootdown. Meyer commented that "Jim's plane is Red and white" while the "plane the eyewitnesses saw was All White". There's more 'little or UN-reported' info from Somerset.
[Ask wjactv.com where's Jon Meyer; ask wwcp Fox tv channel 8 where's Renae Kluk (reported the ghosts of flt 93); check Alec Rawls errortheory blogspot for info on the 93 Memorial's Islamic features.]
kikz05 said...
i saw an oddity ystrdy on wrh...
fbi has stated that ted olson's wife never called him on 911, as he so gallantly told the US public shortly afterward.
now, for anyone who knows anything about airphone and or cellular.. this lie was never anything but a lie, as were all the other "calls" made that day.
it's got me wondering though... who did ted olson (then solicitor general) piss off to get called to the carpet?
GodSend said...
Have you got it right?
Well, you got it right - up to a point.
You SEE!, 9/11 is merely ONE important piece of The Puzzle! There are many more and at least one piece is more important than 9/11!
Seek, and you will find!
It may be the "official" story that these "Arabs" were questioned and then allowed to board the planes, but that's bullshit, and it's not completely made clear here.
There were no people on those planes. There is no video of anybody boarding the planes or going through "secondary security," and there have never been any corpses of the alleged passengers or their luggage recovered from any of the crash sites. There have never been any remains returned to anybody.
And a woman named Ellen Mariani spent five years searching for relatives of 64 people on the passenger list for "Flight 175," and came up empty. No corpses, no videos, no luggage, and no living relatives? THERE WERE NO PEOPLE ON THOSE PLANES!
It's a much bigger lie than you have summarized here.
You start with the 19 men who hijacked airplanes. How do we know there even were any airplanes used in 911? There is no evidence of airplanes. Perhaps that is why the FAA controllers were ordered to destroy their evidence.
Everyone who saw planes saw them on television. I have seen no independent photographs of airplanes taken by people on the street, or for that matter, anyone who is not connected with the media. That's because there were no planes. The media broadcast videos of the event that were doctored. There were explosions in the buildings where the 'planes' hit, and the videos we saw had graphic images produced by software--special effects--inserted to show us 'planes' flying into the buildings (and disappearing inside of the buildings without any disintegration, compression, or crumpling happening outside the buildings like what would happen to real aircraft)just prior to the explosions in the right places so that we would all believe this fabricated airplane story.
This explanation does many things. It explains why no inerceptors were scrambled (no planes on the radar). It explains why some of the hijackers were still alive after the event, living in their own countries. It explains why there was no airplane debris and no black boxes. And it explains why the airline equipment (the planes that supposedly crashed) were still in the airlines inventory years after the event. It also explains why the government was so eager to compensate the airlines for grounding them for 3 days after the event.
But the explanation does much more. It tests our faith in the media. It separates out the people who are able to think critically from those who have to have their thinking done for them. And it is the mainstream media that does that for them.
Unfortunately, the people who have to have their thinking done for them outnumber the rest by five to one, or perhaps more. This is the real issue that you seem to be addressing in all that you write here in this blog.
Keep chipping away at it. Those dense ones among us will eventually see the light, and they will think they believed it all along. They will never admit how dense and obstinate they were, and that is what makes your job such a thankless one. Good luck to you Les, and one day I hope you can be More Visible.
Adam Zettler said...
Its as though those of us who can see through the charade are living on an alien planet.
The official version of the events of 911 IS patently absurd, and the very fact that the "media" has not investigated the gargantuan series of absurd events only cements the fact that the official story is a lie.
Excellent article, sir.
Masher1 said...
The Twin Towers WERE built to demolish on 911. From Uranium 238 tuned mass dampers to the sub-sheet steel flooring laced with demo explosives ... all seem to say that the towers WERE supposed to do what they did... in fact there was nothing left to chance save the TONS of cameras they could not control.
Shock and Awe started at Ground Zero.
If i am right about the U-238 in each tower (Some 600 PLUS tons) to sustain as some claim a 16 WEEK fire on the site.
There was MILLIONS of gallons of water sprayed onto the rubble pile and all it did was cause more trouble for the atmosphere.
All done on some PLAN. All done to Shock YOU and AWE them.
Don't be a lemming FIGHT the LIARS!
Alcor said...
Reading one of these comments here sort of pissed me off. The author isn't trying to be complete or saying that because some guys were checked out and passed through that that is what happened. He's saying the official story is a lie.
I've never gotten anything but the truth from this site and I can't say that about almost anywhere else I go. Try to understand the authors point instead of going off in some other direction///
Excellent writing my friend. Thank you for your good services to the human race.
Excellent post. Keep it up.
I'm still wondering how a 20 foot hole in the wall (Pentagon) could swallow up a 47 foot wide fuselage without a trace; wings, tail, seats, luggage, bodies.
We all know the answer though.
As always, the only way to draw and quarter the system -shut it down completely- is for millions of people to stop feeding it. No shopping, no t.v., stop working, stop paying taxes, etc., etc. The only reason that this has not happened yet(and maybe never will)is because of FEAR. The average person has become so complicit in keeping the system alive; has actually aided and abetted the system through mortgages, car loans, home-equity loans, consumer loans, etc. Now they must "toe the line" and be obedient or their FEAR of living on the street and eating out of a garbage can will be realized. Being a slave to MAMMON is no easy task. One has to be willing to sell one's soul at the altar of consumerism everyday. Billions of people do this. Everyday. Real courage is not hiding behind your wife and kids by saying "I have to go along with this." "I have a wife and kids to support." " I can't say no, I have a mortgage and a car apyment", or whatever lame-ass excuse anyone gives for sucking at the tit of BAAL. Real courage would be telling your wife and kids "NO" whenever they demand the newest of the new gadgets/diversions that corporate america has to offer. Be a MAN and take charge of the runaway desires of NEED and WANT that your wife and children demand. STOP spending. Start saving. Look within for the answer. Not to the lure of merchandise. This is an EMPTY existence. Hungry once in a while is agood thing. It sharpens the senses; creates awareness; raises the hackles, so to speak. This is the true human. Awake. Aware. Independent in thought and together in community. Peace! Aloha! Matt in Honolulu
Even if 25% of the population threw their bodies on the gears of the economy I don't think it would phase them. This is their End Game after all and they are accepting of some losses. What we need is civil disobedience and unrest to shock the sheep from their slumber. Public demonstrations were invented as a way for the common man to get his voice heard and spread by the media. With the media completely ignoring even massive demonstrations regarding 9/11 Truth it's time to show them what we're capable of. Let's block the flow of main traffic arteries with protesters. We're justified. It's time to show the sheep just how dire the situation really is and what we're willing to personally risk to get this message out for people to wake the hell up. An inconvenienced people are a people who are going to ask themselves "what's this all about, why are so many people this angry?".
robert cinque said...
Les...many thanks for your penetrating insight. I realized 911 was a psy-op 2 seconds after finding myself yelling at the Palestinians celebrating in the streets on 911 and have really done the research to prove the official story as a lie. The biggest smoking gun is the iron globules in the dust, which can only be formed at 5ooo degrees F., along with the free fall speed. As individuals, we must overcome our tendency to dramatize abandonment and betrayal and victimhood because it is a lie that gives tyrants a weakness in us to exploit. Israel, as you know, was built on the sympathy extracted from the world for the suffering of the Jews, a suffering that was carefully constructed by Rothchild's Zionism...keep up your excellent work
Robert Cinque
March 19? I looked it up. Falls right in the center of Christian Holy Week, between Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Christ. You know what it is, I guessed what it is: used to be called "Spy Wednesday." Commemoration of Judas' Iscariots' betrayal of Christ for thirty pieces of silver. In some churches, a feast in which candles are extinguished (rather than lit in memory of someone). Called "Day of Darkness". Musical compositions were made for this day - "Tenebres"-- very grim, and since betrayal is the theme of 9/11, quite appropriate. The "Romans" too, that is the oil men, are part of the whole thing as well.
Perhaps the greatest debt to Western Civ is owed to the Greeks, who taught us to reason. No wonder the religious right calls that "secular humanism" , while the Jewish right calls it "Hellenism". But come, let us reason together, not as medieval Christians with our candles and tenebrous ceremonies, but as free men and women who understand how to refuse to lick the boots of our enslavers. Truth will out, if we do not deny it (like Peter!). The cock is crowing.
Absolutely a great essay.
I've always taken a different approach in explaining 9/11 to people. As it turns out, you don't really need any post-9/11 evidence to make the point with facts and reason.
1. You don't know - beyond a shadow of a doubt - what happened, and neither do I.
2. We are therefore left with what is most likely to have happened. Things like Occam's Razor come into play.
3. Throughout U.S. history, false flags have been used to encourage war. They were deployed extensively in the wars against the Native Americans. In the last 120 years the pattern has been clear: the USS Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, The Baby Incubator Incident - all employed lies and false flags.
4. There is no precedent for a sneak attack on the USA by foreigners. The only possible candidate - Pearl Harbor - has been shown conclusively to be the opposite of a sneak attack by Robert Stinnett's book Day of Deceit.
5. Since there is no precedent for your point of view, and ample precedent for my point of view - the MOST LIKELY explanation of the events in question is mine.
Friday, February 22, 2008 10:41:00 PM
Freedom said...
clydeickes comments were passed onto me. thank you clyde.
anyone interested in learning more about the shanksville uav please go to google video and type in "susan mcelwain" and you will find my uncut interview with her.
i hope to bring you more eyewitness testimonials about the shanksville uav in the near future.
domenick
reichstag_911@yahoo
To me the first hurdle/banana we must negotiate is the loaded question..Are you a conspiracy theorist
Is the world controlled by a relatively small bunch of
elite people?....
.. Of course it is! You must be crazy to pretend otherwise!.. haha!!
.. instead of the exact opposite!
Joe, Webmaster said...
I completely agree with the author of this article. I too think that every member of Congress except for Cynthia McKinney and Congressman Kucinich are complicit in the 9/11 false flag attack. If they are not willing to speak out about the lies and deceptions of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory, then they are traitors and must be voted out of office. Go to my website which is www.911insidejob.net
Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:12:00 AM
Nephilim70 said...
Brilliant analysis. As always your blog offerings leaves us all pondering. 2 things of notable absence in the were:
1) The overwhelming impossible volumes of molecularized steel. These towers actually were composed of 80% more steel than concrete. Yet the pyroclastic flows we all saw were grey therefore we all assumed it was concrete dust. hmmm.
2) The "plane" we all saw suffered NO DE-ACCELERATION as it entered the Sth Tower building. It "SEAMLESSLY" entered the tower at the same speed it flew, suffering NO RESISTANCE AT ALL from massive steel columns of the Wtc towers.
For all the 9-11 lie... the larger picture remains that the laws of physics were not only suspended, they were played with, by expert puppetry artists. We are living in the digital age people. Having a Digital Television only increases the prospect of seeing digitally images that are not really there..
I rest my case to the jury that 9-11 was a poorly constructed lie by amateur terrorists within certain lobby groups and elements of the United States heirachy.
Great article, Les.
Great responses.
the_last_name_left said...
There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack........
Everyone who does not stand forth and speak truth to power is a coward, a liar and complicit in mass murder. Everyone- everywhere can be measured according to this litmus test.
That's absurd. Everyone - everywhere?
buildings designed to absorb the impact of the very planes which hit them, all crumbled into their own footprints at the speed of freefall.
They did survive being hit by planes. They collapsed later.
Did they collapse into their "own footprint"? I can find claims saying the towers must have been demolished because of all the debris flying out so powerfully.
And how do you know the towers were built 'to design'?
They were built under Port Authority - and the chief NY fire dude at the time was criticising buildings such as WTC for being "semi-combustible buildings".
How do you know the building met (weak) building regulations operating at the time? The Authority never undertook to obtain such certification? How do you know it was built to spec? How do you know the spec was good enough when it was criticised by chief new york firemen at the time?
Anyone… anyone who promotes the official story; who accepts the official story, who oppresses those who doubt the official story, who does not question the official story, is involved or too stupid to pat their head and chew gum at the same time. Any presidential candidate who does not dispute the official story is a traitor to their nation and a tool of those who accomplished the attack.
This really is absurd.
To show you why it's absurd, answer a simple question: Do you agree the event happened on 9/11?
Was it a Tuesday? You must agree it was - but now you are already down the road to accepting "the official version"! TRAITOR!!!
For those of you who know that this is all a lie, I ask you not to go to work on March 19th in protest of this event and all of the events that have followed.
Millions starving to death isn't enough to "strike" about, I suppose?
But lieing to americans is?
Hello godsend; Litmus Test 101
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34,35
No bloodshed, Les but yes, 'whatever it takes'.
Stand down.
the last name left
Whooh! The system has certainly done a good job with you.
Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:19:00 AM
Wonderful song les that gets one to thinking....Forty years ago a black couple gave me transportation to and fro my house to work on a certain congressional campaign, and when my southern daddy caught on, he beat me unmercifully and more....
Now forty years later, all these meteors fall, and it sorts out and lo and behold.... there is Obama... Rense et al. may say he is Trilateral, but I see it that he is the last chance. It is just an intuition. Whether he's half jewish or half black or half martian I don't really care anymore, if this doesn't work out, nothing will. So... yes we can.
New essay here
http://lesvisible.blogspot.com/
Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:13:00 PM
Usama bin Laden Says the Al-Qa'idah Group had Nothing to Do with the 11 September Attacks
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/obl_int.htm
Interview published in newspaper Ummat Karachi, 28th September, 2001
The Al-Qaidah group had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks on the USA, according to Usama bin Ladin in an interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat. Usama bin Ladin went on to suggest that Jews or US secret services were behind the attacks, and to express gratitude and support for Pakistan, urging Pakistan’s people to jihad against the West. The following is the text of an interview conducted by a "special correspondent", published in the Pakistani newspaper Ummat on 28 September, place and date of interview not given.
UMMAT: You have been accused of involvement in the attacks in New York and Washington. What do you want to say about this? If you are not involved, who might be?
USAMA BIN LADEN: In the name of Allah (God), the most beneficent, the most merciful. Praise be to Allah, Who is the creator of the whole universe and Who made the Earth as an abode for peace, for the whole humankind. Allah is the Sustainer, who sent Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) for our guidance. I am thankful to the Ummat Group of Publications, which gave me the opportunity to convey my viewpoint to the people, particularly the valiant and momin (true Muslim) people of Pakistan who refused to believe the lies of the demon (Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf).
I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam. All that is going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to call the wrath of God upon the United States and Israel. There is also a warning for those Muslim countries, which witnessed all these as a silent spectator. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya and Bosnia? Only one conclusion could be derived from the indifference of the United States and the West to these acts of terror and the patronage of the tyrants by these powers that America is an anti-Islamic power and it is patronizing the anti-Islamic forces. Its friendship with the Muslim countries is just a show, rather deceit. By enticing or intimidating these countries, the United States is forcing them to play a role of its choice. Put a glance all around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies of Muslims.
The U.S. has no friends, nor does it want to keep any because the prerequisite of friendship is to come to the level of the friend or consider him at par with you. America does not want to see anyone equal to it. It expects slavery from others. Therefore, other countries are either its slaves or subordinates. However, our case is different. We have pledged slavery to God Almighty alone and after this pledge there is no possibility to become the slave of someone else. If we do that it will be disregardful to both our Sustainer and his fellow beings. Most of the world nations upholding their freedom are the religious ones, which are the enemies of the United States, or the U.S. itself considers them as its enemies.
The countries which do not agree to become the U.S. slaves are China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Syria [Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Sudan, Indonesia, Malaysia] and Russia. Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the U.S. Government has stated. But the Bush Administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be anyone, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the U.S. itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American-Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him.
Then there are intelligence agencies in the U.S., which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usama and Taleban and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush Administration approved a budget of 40 billion dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies, which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and for increasing their importance. I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the U.S. secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other U.S. President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks.
UMMAT: A number of world countries have joined the call of the United States for launching attacks on Afghanistan. These also include a number of Muslim countries. Will Al-Qa'idah declare a jihad against these Islamic countries as well?
USAMA BIN LADEN: I must say that my duty is just to awaken the Muslims; to tell them as to what is good for them and what is not. What does Islam say and what do the enemies of Islam want. Al-Qa'idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to counter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared pillar of Islam. [The first five being the basic holy words of Islam ("There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God"), prayers, fasting (in Ramadan), pilgrimage to Mecca and giving alms (zakat).] Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of jihad. Al-Qa'idah wants to keep jihad alive and active and make it a part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give it the status of worship. We are not against any Islamic country. We do not consider a war against an Islamic country as jihad. We are in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel governments, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women and children just because they are Muslims. Supporting the U.S. act is the need of some Muslim countries and the compulsion of others. However, they should think as to what will remain of their religious and moral position if they support the attack of the Christians and the Jews on a Muslim country like Afghanistan. The orders of Islamic Shariah [jurisprudence] for such individuals, organizations and countries are clear and all the scholars of the Muslim brotherhood are unanimous on them. We will do the same, which is being ordered by the Ameer-ul-Momeneen [the commander of the faithful] Muhammad Omar [leader of the Taleban] and the Islamic scholars. The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad. We are grateful to them.
UMMAT: The losses caused in the attacks in New York and Washington have proved that giving an economic blow to the U.S. is not too difficult. U.S. experts admit that a few more such attacks can bring down the American economy. Why is Al-Qa'idah not targeting their economic pillars?
USAMA BIN LADEN: I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the [U.S. Government] system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in the control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid down by them. So the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the U.S. is not uttering a single word.
UMMAT: Why is harm not caused to the enemies of Islam through other means, apart from the armed struggle? For instance, urging the Muslims to boycott Western products, banks, shipping lines and TV channels.
USAMA BIN LADEN: The first thing is that Western products could only be boycotted when the Muslim fraternity is fully awakened and organized. Secondly, the Muslim companies should become self-sufficient in producing goods equal to the products of Western companies. Economic boycott of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim World but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. Muslim traders and philanthropists should make it a point that if the weapon of public opinion is to be used, it is to be kept in the hand. Today's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure. Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done.
UMMAT: The entire propaganda about your struggle has so far been made by the Western media. But no information is being received from your sources about the network of Al-Qa'idah and its jihadi successes. Would you comment?
USAMA BIN LADEN: In fact, the Western media is left with nothing else. It has no other theme to survive for a long time. Then we have many other things to do. The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. Our silence is our real propaganda. Rejections, explanations, or corrigendum only waste your time and through them, the enemy wants you to engage in things which are not of use to you. These things are pulling you away from your cause. The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which makes us surprise but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. They become afraid of it and begin to cause harm to themselves. Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that. You can understand as to what will be the performance of the nation in a war, which suffers from fear and helplessness.
UMMAT: What will be the impact of the freeze of Al-Qa'idah accounts by the U.S.?
USAMA BIN LADEN: God opens up ways for those who work for Him. Freezing of accounts will not make any difference for Al-Qa'idah or other jihad groups. With the grace of Allah, Al-Qa'idah has more than three alternative financial systems, which are all separate and totally independent from each other. This system is operating under the patronage of those who love jihad. What to say of the United States, even the combined world cannot budge these people from their path. These people are not in hundreds but in thousands and millions. Al-Qa'idah comprises of such modern educated youths who are aware of the cracks inside the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their hands. These are the very flaws of the Western fiscal system, which are becoming a noose for it and this system could not recuperate in spite of the passage of so many days.
UMMAT: Are there other safe areas other than Afghanistan, where you can continue jihad?
USAMA BIN LADEN: There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jihadi forces are present, from Indonesia to Algeria, from Kabul to Chechnya, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir. Then it is not the problem of my person. I am a helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. It is not the question of Usama but of Islam and, in Islam too, of jihad. Thanks to God, those waging a jihad can walk today with their heads raised. Jihad was still present when there was no Usama and it will remain as such even when Usama is no longer there. Allah opens up ways and creates loves in the hearts of people for those who walk on the path of Allah with their lives, property and children. Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires. And the biggest desire of a Muslim is the life after death. Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life.
UMMAT: What do you say about the Pakistan Government policy on Afghanistan attack?
USAMA BIN LADEN: We are thankful to the Momin and valiant people of Pakistan who erected a blockade in front of the evil forces and stood in the first file of battle. Pakistan is a great hope for the Islamic brotherhood. Its people are awakened, organized and rich in the spirit of faith. They backed Afghanistan in its war against the Soviet Union and extended every help to the mojahedeen (freedom fighters) and the Afghan people. Then these are very Pakistanis who are standing shoulder by shoulder with the Taleban. If such people emerge in just two countries, the domination of the West will diminish in a matter of days. Our hearts beat with Pakistan and, God forbid, if a difficult time comes we will protect it with our blood. Pakistan is sacred for us like a place of worship. We are the people of jihad and fighting for the defense of Pakistan is the best of all jihads to us. It does not matter for us as to who reforms Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jihad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people.
End of Interview
Source: Ummat, Urdu-language daily newspaper based in Karachi, Pakistan - Friday, 28 September 2001 - pages 1, 7. Source: BBC Monitoring Service.
Source: Robert Fisk
P.S. The week of March 19, 2008 is also when the Jewish Holy Day of Purim is celebrated.
Why mention that? Because in 2003, the Bush/Cheney Junta launched their illegal and immoral war of aggression against Iraq on the 2003 Day of Purim.
Tony:
Jesus was speaking to His disciples. Do His true disciples love another? You betcha! And then there is 'tough love'. Ask true Torah Jews about Yahweh's 'tough love' - they know all about it from wandering through the Sinai for years and then experiencing the occasional pogrom and Diaspora. There's more of Yahweh's 'tough love' coming for His 'Chosen People' (soon). A remnant will acknowledge their true Messiah (Jesus) when push comes to shove (also soon).
"You MUST be born again" (from Above). Pray (for it) without ceasing. And don't be a wise ass but wise up!
And 9/11 is the litmus test for every sentient human being, not just the leaders. Many are blind because they don't want to SEE!
Les -
Just wanted to throw this in here...I somehow got into this discussion with a coworker of mine yesterday. Just knowing what I know of her and her husband I would have classified them most likely as conservative, right wing, pro-war, etc. Her husband is ex-military and was involved in numerous "unofficial" campaigns back in (I'm assuming based on their age) the late 70s to early 80s.
Many of the things he was involved in he is unable to even share with his wife. He is retired but needless to say has some solid contacts in the US military. She shared with me the fact that he was informed by high ranking friends still in the military that it is indeed a fact that United flight 93 was shot down by the military.
Let me salute Greg for publishing the interview. In particular, I was struck by this spot-on comment:
"Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that."
I am no fan of Mr.Bin Laden, but why is it that a foreigner understands what is going on here so much better than a huge percentage of people who actually live here.
Godsend, The Apocalypse discusses much of the coming trouble. As stated previously, it is no great reach to say that we are already seeing unique things in the world that would advance the idea that we are already in that time period. Yet, I have a problem with people who want to assign time to the Lord's return. After all, your connotation of "soon" and of a generation are likely different from the good Lord's scorecard, where a thousand years are as one day. I simply try to remember that no one knows the time or day, and that the return will be like a thief in the night. And again, I used to wonder who could possibly be deceived by a false messiah, then the last 7 years of Bush II came along. I don't wonder anymore.
Lastly, you should know that the "born again" tag is rather self-serving where newer sects of Christianity are concerned. We Catholics believe we were "born again"--yes, from above--at birth.
Lastly, to all posters on this thread, is it me or does there seem to be some concerted effort to present news in a blinding fury each and every day in hopes that things which should give readers and viewers great pause, simply don't. The blizzard of news entails something new constantly diverting the mass attention of the populace. To me at least, this has been the lynchpin on the Bush administration: quickly turn the page and quickly change the past/truth. Quickly smear those who actually stop to question.
What an amazing time.
Yes iron man, news at a blinding rate, meant to confuse.
Who can remember the cutting of the undersea cables??
Len Hart said...
BRAVO!!! Great article! Keep up the great work. As you may have noticed, the liars who continue to espouse the 'official conspiracy theory' have lately taken up 'labeling' critics of Bush's official theory as '911 Deniers'. This new label has the stench of a GOP focus group about it. The obvious intention is to create a subliminal link with "Holocaust Denial". Of course, there is absolutely NO ANALOGY to be made.
Thanks for taking a courageous stand on this issue. I stand with you. If you get a chance, your comments are welcome at The Three Irrefutable Facts That Shatter Bush's Official 911 Theory
Only recently, I have, like you, elected to 'moderate' comments. I kept getting spammed with ad hominem attacks, irrational ravings, crass and obvious propaganda, et al. One poster insisted that airliners actually VAPORIZE, turn into gases, whenever they hit hard wallas at 530 MPH!!
I challenged and refuted with science and my own observation of numerous crashes as a network reporter. I was simply called a traitor for my attempt to educate.
I got sick of it and simply will no longer put up with it. I welcome debate; but will not tolerate abuse and deliberate lies.
Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:26:00 PM
I'm still wondering why accepting 9/11 happened on a tuesday, in 2001 deserves being called a traitor.........
That's the "official line" - so it must be disputed, apparently, else one is a traitor.
So if it didn't happen on a tuesday - what day did it happen on?
sockmonkey said...
in order to progress beyond a "hermetic circle jerk"(jeff wells) you have to be active in your disengagement otherwise you really are doing nothing
here are some things to investigate
earthships
straw bale house
http://www.fungi.com (mushrooms)
start buying seeds
PLAN PLANT PLANET
Well said Les...March 19th we rally!!
Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:28:00 AM
Where have you gone to my lovely?
Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:07:00 PM
Mr. Hart, during the McKinney trial there were reported to have been "911 enthusiasts" and conspiracy theorists lining the walls of the courtroom.
last name left said: So if it didn't happen on a tuesday - what day did it happen on?
Hmmmm, I think first you have to understand the sun doesn't really rise...
"Have I got it right..?" No you haven't. I'm a mechanical engineer and will limit my comments to what I'm professionally qualified to comment on. Although the fires have weakened the structure, the building would have most likely collapsed even without the fires as the columns in areas where the floors collapsed due to the impact and the weight of the plane which they were not designed to bear lost their lateral support and subsequently buckled. The building was known to sway widely in the wind, as the structure was weakened it swayed even more widely, snapping the bolts with which the columns were attached to the floors and thus depriving ever more structural elements of their lateral support until the structural elements buckled dropping the upper part of the building onto the lower. The floors pancaked leaving the walls standing for dozens of seconds. Find a video of North Tower collapse - after the collapse northern wall which looks like a vertical line rising from the ground on the right continued to stand for about 20-25 seconds until it visibly buckles and falls. Clearly it was not cut by any charges. Likewise the fountain of smoke and debris was the dirty compressed air escaping from under the "piston" of falling floors - the only reason it was shooting upwards is that it was channeled by the still standing walls which obviously were not cut. I could go on and on and easily explain every detail of the collapse, but someone like you is too fucked up and into the conspiracy crapola. Lastly, the metal was molten weeks later because the thousands of tons of carpets in the debris were burning blast furnace like, as the fires had a constant and strong flow of air from the subway tunnels below. But I guess I'm just throwing pearls before an ignorant conspiracy swine
Monday, February 25, 2008 11:50:00 PM
Don't let your subscription to Popular Mechanics expire. You've clarified nothing. Two words, Building Seven. Now go apply your same theory to this which behaved in exactly the same way.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:45:00 PM
to the anon ME (smirk)
yeah, right, sure,... burning carpet melts steel.
gimme a fukin break...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:13:00 PM
Mechanical engineer; your tuition fees and time were wasted.
Read some of the excellent properly qualified reports on this event on the internet, be honest with yourself and stop bothering us!
(another mechanical engineer)
I could go on and on and easily explain every detail of the collapse, but someone like you is too fucked up and into the conspiracy crapola. ...But I guess I'm just throwing pearls before an ignorant conspiracy swine from ANONYMOUS 11:50pm
You were better in your mechanical engineering costume than you are on generalized smears. A better smear would be to confound the musician with elaborate engineering postulations. Once you veer off into preconception of your audience, you lose them entirely and you lose all credibility because you deny the possibility of trust on common ground. Get hip.
".....The floors pancaked leaving the walls standing for dozens of seconds...."
The floors pancaked? Really? How come 110 floors of concrete were not piled up like a great stack of pancakes as is visible in a pancake collapse?
Walls standing for dozens of seconds? Really? How come 110 floors came down in 10 seconds making that 11 floors per second which defies the laws of physics?
I think 2 things after reading these ignorant comments.
1) It seems Anonymous is the "conspiracy theorist" relying on speculation and hyperbole to make his argument.
2)He must have been in an alternate dimension to have witnessed these things when No-one else did.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:33:00 AM
I have read many great posting about September llth but "911 is the Litmus Test is an absolute "Master Piece". If for some reason GOD were to grant "we the people" a last minute stay of execution and by some miracle HE [The Almighty] with HIS divine intervention would awaken the blind and the hypnotized masses of sleeping religious illiterates to face the Truth of "who they are" in the Whitehouse and the Congress of the United States. What the liars and the murderers in Washington fear the most IS THE TRUTH, they would all go back into the darkness and not come back untill it was safe again to do so.
If that miracle were to ever happen, The Litmus Test should be the new Declaration of Independence, it is that inspiring. Yes, how one's opinion about the events of 911 is a reflection on his morality,his honesty,his patriotism,his belief in GOD, and yes, his humanity.
"911 is the Litmus Test" is the most brilliant piece of literature ever writen about that historic day in America.
Thanks for writing this article. I've forwarded it to quite a few. Best wishes. Mike
http://mail.moment.net/~michael/Terrorism101.htm
You are gentleman and a scholar, not to mention a poetic genius. You speak the truth in an age of lies and massive deception by evil greedy corrupt oligarchs and arch criminals, and that alone makes you a hero to decent informed citizens. I applaud your efforts to educate and wake people up, and you are deserving of no less than a standing ovation (which I just gave you). You are a truth seeker and a truth sayer, and may the good Lord smile on you for the rest of your days on this "elite" dominated, corrupted planet....... anyways, all the best to you in the rest of your journey as a citizen of this third rock from the sun!!!
J. Hill said...
Seriously, you guys believe that 1000+ people can all keep their mouth shut about killing civilians? And remember, you aren't talking exclusively politicians. Reporters, Cops, FBI, Military, FAA staff, etc. These aren't people who would benefit from this and the guilt would be immense.
Is the official story completely accurate? Who knows, personally the question isn't the most important one. What is really important is that everyone decided that nothing is as important as 9/11. Forget freedoms, forget the economy, forget foreign policy everyone lookie lookie buildings fell down. And you are a part of that problem, big time. Judge everyone by one issue? Seriously people there are many other issues to look at.
Also, Ron Paul a traitor? Really? Perhaps the only man who said "I don't care what happened, leave our rights alone." Just because he doesn't believe some grandiose government plot is running around? They didn't need to orchestrate it, in fact I doubt many of them willfully used it for personal gain. People push government officials to "do something" and the only thing they can do is get more power and try to wield it.
If the people of this nation had said, "rebuild them, and let the FBI do their job" we wouldn't be where we are now. It would be back to normal already.
Joe Hill huh?
You sir are a moron and you're not very good at it either.
reading_is_dangerous said...
You know "room 101" from 1984? That room was made to process one individual at a time.
9/11 was designed to process millions of brains simultaneously.
Four are five. Three buildings are two. Etc.
Room 101 and "Room 911" share the same, basic mechanism: They make use of primordial fear and extreme pain to rewire the brain. The pain does not have to be physical. It can be emotional. The fear doesn't have to be for one's self. It can be "empathic fear".
The first target of "Room 911" was not you or me, but the millions of ordinary members of the "Outer Party". These make our middle class, the bureaucrats, people who work for the System: Corporate media journalists, judges, police officers, soldiers, generals, etc. Most of them came out of "Room 9/11" with an enhanced ability to practice the art of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs. Orwell called this "doublethink".
"Doublethinkers" know or they can feel that there is something wrong about the government's explanation of 9/11, but they can, and they will continue to accept this story nonetheless.
Take a child, and have a government official tell the "doublethinkers" that this child is a terrorist, and watch what happens next.
That millions of proles or poets like you can still see through the lies is not a problem. On the contrary, proles and disbelievers contribute to the strength of the "fear circuitry" necessary to doublethink.
There has been new rooms, new experiments since 9/11, and there will be more of them, and they will be more effective at rewiring our brain, but the mechanism will remain the same: Various types of fear and pain used to train us to accept our rulers' lies as the truth.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:06:00 AM
Mouser said...
Les Visible,
I just reread this entire post again today (February 8, 2011). Your words remain just as truthful and powerful today as the day they were written.
Respectfully, Glenn Dormer (aka Mouser)
Having installed carpet for 22 yrs. I can tell you carpet WILL NOT burn, Although it MELTS real well.ANYBODY challenge me!ALL carpet is made from a derivitive of polypropylene.That's the most absurd thing I've heard to date on this subject. Agatn, I challenge readers to buy a $2.00 sample of carpet from carpet store and just try to "Burn" it. Good luck!!!
Friday, February 25, 2011 5:48:00 AM
Very well written! Have put you in my "Favorites". If the truth does'nt come out in the near future I imagine MANY "Deathbed" confessions in the future when "these" people have nothing left to lose.
When you lose everything
and have nothing left to lose
You lose it!
I love the litmus test idea. I don't even want to discuss 911 with anyone who thinks there were 'planes'- they've failed my test. As we all know - the longer someone is lied to, the madder they'll be when they learn the truth. (911 was a media hoax) And I agree that the Holocaust is the other BIG test. Recently I've added 'gold standard', as soon as I hear someone shilling it (Max Keiser, Ron Paul,etc) I say 'Rothschild Agent'
I do believe that 'September clues' hit the nail on the head.
Monday, February 28, 2011 3:22:00 PM
Les, this article is a Troll-attractant and a Megaphony-magnet.
All the crazy no-plane and/or no passenger theories put forward by government-paid spooks and the ever-present Zionists to poison the well with nonsense.
You know you're doing something right when they trip over themselves to post on your articles.
How astonishing that no steel high-rise building in Japan fell down at free-fall. 4th largest earthquake in world history and biggest in 2000 years for japan.
One comment posted was about the lack of media post coverage regarding the 911 attacks...there is more coverage on the WWII holocoust.....Nazi's etc... "O yeah", the Jews run the media....the movie, "Inglorious Basterds"
as one example...
The UN (NWO)gets involved in Libya
because the poor Libyans need our help...right???...yet the UN does not get all the best scientific brains to help resolve the nuclear crisis in Japan
which affects all of us...
I cannot say "Merry Christmas" any longer because it offends people???...it's "Happy Holidays" now...aren't we celebrating Christmas...the birth of Christ,what people are offended??
...Jews, Muslims, Atheists???
....but then I dare not say I'm offended when a bloody Mosque is built in my neighbourhood...that doesn't allow women to pray supposedly with men...a psuedo religion that promotes violence if any one dares say anything about their god...isn't it a free country to express our beliefs...just like they are protected to express theirs...
Everyone I talk to says once the population is large enough, they will promote their insane religious doctrine...it's already being shoved down our throats...along with homosexuality...and their filth...but they take prayer out of the school system...it offends people???...if I don't agree I'm the
outcast....
Wakeup...people...
Odin's Raven said...
Some advice attributed to that great man Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"Don't believe them.
Don't fear them.
Don't ask anything of them"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
I also seem to recall a version as
'Don't fear them.
Don't expect anything from them.
Ignore them.'
Remember that the same sort of people who brought you 911 had already been very busy in Russia.
http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/solzhenitsyn.htm
Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:01:00 AM
Here's someone else who lays it out pretty straight and strong about 911.
http://www.johnkaminski.info/pages/whats_that_ticking_sound/9-11_ten_years_later.htm
He takes it even further:
"For many years, I have viewed the whole 9/11 situation as a window into deeper understanding of what American history is really all about. Wave your flag as frenetically as you like, but Americans have been duped into chiessesevery war they have fought by politicians who were bought by Jewish bankers pushing their buttons. This includes our beloved Founding Fathers."
Well i think i know another thing, In trying to find a reason for all the dust and nano-bits of everything i was struck with this... The corrugated floor pans the concrete was poured onto were a sandwich of two steel plates and a core of C4 in the middle. it satisfies the energy numbers,,it could have been built without the men doing the work even knowing it's there,it explains the dust and lack of any concrete remains, they could easily be drilled into and wired in the space above the ceiling panels well out of view for even a week or two beforehand without detection. As to the fires that burned for SIXTY or SEVENTY DAYS in a concrete basement i am almost certain they were fueled with only one fuel.... Uranium-238. I KNOW the towers had built into them devices called Tuned Mass Dampers. These units some 800 TONS each mounted in the tops of these towers NEVER get ANY mention.. None. I saw a 16mm film i my self loaded into the projector at school about the Twin Towers and the motion control system in my science class.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013 5:03:00 AM
alaa nile said...
"He that doesn't know the truth is just ignorant.
But he that knows it and calls it a lie, is a criminal."
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German author and playwright.
Thursday, November 17, 2016 12:54:00 PM
President Obama's Inaugural Address.
Your World and Colony Collapse Disorder.
I've got an Excedrin Holocaust Headache.
Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and the Weight of Empire...
When the Law makes you an Outlaw.
Strike up the Band, we are Marching into the Sea.
There's Something Wicked in the Wind.
Hold that Thought, I've got to go to the Al Qaeda....
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Honduras Coup - Day 82 - September 17, 2009
Honduras Update September 17, 2009
By peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com : September 17, 2009
Four of the five candidates who met with Arias yesterday, namely Elvin Santos (Liberal Party), Pepe Lobo (National Party), Felicito Avila (Christian Democratic Party) and Bernard Martinez (Innovation and Unity Party) signed a document saying they support the Arias process, but do not support the return of Zelaya. Since the return of Zelaya is a sine-qua-non element of the proposals made by Arias, this is tantamount to saying that they support the Arias process, except that they don't.
Arias' Honduran Candidates Meeting? More Like Sizing Up the "Mafia" Dons
By hondurasoye.wordpress.com : September 17, 2009
Once again the moonlighting mediator, Oscar Arias, held a meeting in San Jose with Honduran politicians who said pretty much what was expected. Their statements of support for a negotiated settlement, however vague, were for international consumption and withholding support for the return of President Zelaya was the only way not to piss off the boys back in Tegucigalpa. They rolled it straight down the alley.
Honduran Teachers Begin 48-Hour Strike
Teachers and professors in Honduras have begun a 48-hour strike to condemn the June 28 coup and to demand the reinstatement of constitutional order in their country.
UN Reiterates Support to Honduran President
By radionuevitas.co.cu : September 17, 2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon ratified on Thursday the UN support to President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya. The constitutional process in that Central American country must be respected and the authority of his elected president must be protected and guaranteed, Ban said in a press conference.
Honduras: IMF money flows
By blogs.mcclatchydc.com : September 17, 2009
Mark Weisbrot poses some very interesting questions in this blog for the Huffington Post. By all accounts, the United States plays a decisive role in the IMF's deliberations. So while the Obama administration has cut off some $32 million in U.S. government aid for Honduras, the IMF is disbursing $150 million to the de facto government. Weisbrot points to what he believes is inconsistent behavior by Washington and by the IMF.
Cutting Off the Honduran Coup's Air Supply
By Laura Carlsen - huffingtonpost.com : September 17, 2009
The political crawl space that Honduran coup leaders packed themselves into on June 28 would appear to be running out of air. A burgeoning grassroots movement from below and continued pressures from the international community above have reduced the space, although the coup-mongers continue to control access to the state apparatus and use the Armed Forces to support their stand-off with the world and the Honduran people.
Law professor Carozza travels to Honduras
By Madeline Buckley - media.www.ndsmcobserver.com : September 17, 2009
Paolo Carozza, an associate professor of Law and member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), helped investigate how the human rights situation in the country has fared since coup d'etat during a trip from Aug. 17-21 with the Commission.
The Disheartening But Predictable Violation Of Women's Rights In The Context Of The Honduran Coup
By feministpeacenetwork.org : September 17, 2009
Two weeks ago, an international delegation of human rights and feminist organizations representing countries from Latin America, Canada, Spain and the United States, traveled to Honduras on a fact-finding mission during Women's Human Rights Week, to document the violation of women's rights in the context of the coup of June 28 that deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya.
Understanding US Assistance to Honduras, Post-Zelaya
By budgetinsight.wordpress.com : September 17, 2009
The people of Honduras celebrated their Independence Day this week amidst the ongoing constitutional crises that lead to the removal of President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009. Since that time, Roberto Micheletti's interim government has failed to garner any significant international support as the Organization of American States (OAS), the UN General Assembly, and the US have called for Mr. Zelaya's immediate return.
While Nero Fiddles
By hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com : September 17, 2009
It seems the Secretary of Agriculture and Cattle (SAG) may not have received the message about the overabundant harvests this year. Radio America reports that Arturo Galo, spokesperson for the Secretary of Agriculture and Cattle is forcasting significant losses in the basic grains sector because of El Niño conditions. He reports that bean growers in the departments of Yoro and Olancho have lost the entire crop due to drought. Drought has lead to significant reductions in the overall bean and corn harvests throughout the country. He advises people to be prepared for a shortage of basic grains.
Honduran candidates support crisis settlement proposal
By xinhuanet.com : September 17, 2009
Four Honduran presidential candidates expressed their support on Wednesday for Costa Rican President Oscar Arias' proposal of solving the political crisis in their country, which would allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to power.
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Home > Turkmenistan tops medal standing at Asian Games-2017 following Traditional Wrestling competition
Turkmenistan tops medal standing at Asian Games-2017 following Traditional Wrestling competition
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The hosts of the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games expectedly triumphed over their competitors in Traditional Wrestling (Turkmen Goresh). Athletes from 9 countries competed in this sport, including Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Philippines.
The bouts were conducted in five weight categories for women and eight weight categories for men in freestyle and classical style. A total of 26 medal events were held.
The Traditional Wrestling competitions were noted for the overwhelming domination of Turkmen wrestlers. In freestyle, they won 10 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. Turkmen wrestlers were no less successful in classic style, winning 13 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals.
Uzbek sportsmen were the second-toughest team that challenged Turkmen wrestlers’ domination in Traditional Wrestling. They won two gold medals in freestyle, as well as four silver and seventeen bronze medals in classic and freestyle. The prize-winners also included wrestlers from Mongolia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
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Wednesday the 17th of July
...to the ends of the earth
UCR TOP 40
"By means of the internet, the Christian message can reach 'to the ends of the earth'" (Acts 1:8) Pope Francis, Message for World Communications Day, 2014
Carly celebrates her Italian roots
Classical star Carly Paoli, who provided the voice for Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy, is celebrating her Italian roots with her first single of 2019, I’ Te Vurria Vasà (I Want To Kiss You).
Written and composed by Vincenzo Russo and Eduardo di Capua in 1900, and first played to Ms Paoli by her Italian grandfather, the track has long been a favourite of Italian tenors including Andrea Bocelli, Franco Corelli and notably, Tito Schipa, one of the most popular tenors of the 20th century.
Rarely performed by a soprano, Ms Paoli said it was also interesting to sing the timeless Neapolitan love song from a woman’s point of view.
“It was interesting during the recording, and later the filming of the video, to identify and characterise the voice behind the lyric as a woman”, said Ms Paoli. “Looking at it from a woman’s perspective was an exciting element that brought into light a new drama in the lyric.”
The Anglo-Italian star previously spoke to The Catholic Universe about her Italian mother’s family, which she credits as “the musical side of the family”.
“All my family in Italy are Catholic so I spent a lot of time singing at Mass when I was out there in the summer and I did lots of work like that, Catholic weddings and so on. It just felt right to embrace the musical side of the family, which is Paoli,” she told The Catholic Universe in 2017.
Ms Paoli also revealed that meeting Pope Francis and having her debut single, Ave Maria, chosen as the official theme song of his Jubilee Year of Mercy was “the biggest honour” she’d experienced.
I’ Te Vurria Vasà by Carly Paoli is out now on ABIAH Records.
Picture: Carly Paoli.
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July 17, 2019 This Day in Rock
Def Leppard - Songs From the Sparkle Lounge
Mercury - April 29, 2008
by Melanie "Sass" Falina
With having sold more than 65 million albums worldwide, Def Leppard has perfected making music for the masses, and on April 29th the band will be celebrating their first studio release in almost a decade. Def Leppard is back and hitting hard with their glamorously titled Songs from the Sparkle Lounge.
Kicking off with "Go" - a larger-than-life rock anthem - this is Def Leppard of today: a dash of 70's influence combined with the band's signature sound, and sweetened with a contemporary edge to brew a great rock tune.
On "Nine Lives" Elliott's voice shows a seasoned maturity without having lost any chutzpa. A solid, toe-tapping rocker but with a slight country twang to it due to the fact that "Nine Lives" also features Tim McGraw.
"C'mon C'mon" remains consistent with the sound of the opening track "Go," keeping this listening odyssey light-hearted.
Next up, as the title suggests, "Love" is an achingly tender ballad. Delicate and tender vocals wafting around a haunting melody, then augmented by a guitar solo worthy of making the heavy metal heyday proud.
More stellar guitar playing shines through the catchy "Tomorrow." This is a hit waiting to happen.
"Cruise Control" has got a sexy and gritty feel to it. And old-school Lep fans will love "Hallucinate" - it's fun and upbeat with a groovy flow.
"Only The Good Die Young" is a modern-day rock canticle. Followed by "Bad Actress" - another musical mover and shaker.
Alas, wrapping up Songs from the Sparkle Lounge are: "Come Undone" - an aural version of sensuality dripping out of your speakers, and the sly and powerful "Gotta Let It Go."
Even if you haven't been a huge Def Leppard fan in the past, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge is a solid, enjoyable rocker all on its own merits. There simply isn't one bad song within this entire collection of songs.
Vivian Campbell
Melanie "Sass" Falina Official Website
Melanie "Sass" Falina on MySpace
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Profiles of Success 2019
EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Recognition for contributing a number of years to Hispanic issues, giving personal time and making a difference to the community.
Liz Barker-Alvarez
Liz Barker Alvarez is Chief Policy Advisor for First Things First. First Things First is a voter-created, statewide organization that funds early education and health programs to help kids be successful once they enter kindergarten. Decisions about how those funds are spent are made by local councils staffed by community volunteers. As Chief Policy Advisor, she is responsible for strategic planning and oversight of FTF’s efforts to build awareness of the importance of early childhood among Arizona’s elected leaders and to work with policymakers at all levels to promote public policy that improves outcomes for young children. Her unit’s work encompasses government affairs, tribal affairs, and statewide media. In addition, Liz advises the First Things First Board and Executive Team on communication/public affairs matters and serves as the primary media spokesperson for First Things First.
Liz brings to her work almost 25 years of communications experience in the education, non-profit and government sectors. She spent six years as Communications Director for the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), overseeing all of the communications functions of a statewide agency responsible for administering more than 50 programs, including Child Protective Services, the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly called food stamps), Unemployment Insurance, Child Care Subsidy and Child Support. Liz served as the primary media spokesperson for all DES programs and advised DES leadership on a variety of sensitive communication issues.
Prior to joining DES, Liz was responsible for communications at Children’s Action Alliance, a statewide child advocacy organization. She also served as Communications Director for the Isaac School District, an urban K-8 district in Phoenix. Liz began her communications career as a newspaper reporter in Arizona and California, garnering several awards for writing and reporting.
Liz earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Arizona and is a Certified Public Manager. She is a graduate of Valley Leadership (Class 22) and serves on the Board of Directors, Public Policy Committee and Early Childhood Funders Collaborative of the Arizona Grantmakers Forum.
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The Fasting Person has Two Occasions for Joy
Sheikh Riyâd al-Musaymîrî
Abû Hurayrah relates that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Allah says: ‘Every deed of the child of Adam is for himself, except for fasting. It is for Me and I shall reward it.’ Fasting is a shield, so if it is a day of fasting for any one of you, then he should engage in no obscenity or shouting. If anyone belittles him or fights with him, he should just say ‘I am a person who is fasting’. I swear by Him in whose hand is Muhammad’s soul, the smell of the fasting person’s breath is sweeter to Allah on the Day of Judgment than that of musk. The fasting person has two occasions for joy, one when he breaks his fast because of his breaking it and the other when he meets his Lord because of the reward for his fast.”
[Sahîh al-Bukhârî (7492) and Sahîh Muslim (1151) with the wording being that of Muslim]
The Prophet (peace be upon him) says in this hadith: “The fasting person has two occasions for joy…” This does not mean that the fasting person experiences no other joys aside from these two. It is just that these two particular occasions of joy are exclusive to a fasting person and are experienced by no one else.
The fasting person experiences the first occasion of joy when he eats and drinks after a full day of self-restraint, patience, and obedience seeking Allah’s reward.
He experiences the second occasion of joy when he meets his Lord after a full lifetime of fasting and seeking Allah’s reward every time the month of Ramadan called upon him as an honored guest.
The first of these two joys comes every night in Ramadan when the Sun sets and the fasting person stretches out his hand to eat a sweet date or take a sip of cool, refreshing water to relieve his hunger and thirst.
And why should he not feel joy at this moment? He had expended every effort throughout the day only for his Lord’s pleasure and forbade himself his share of food and drink, seeking Allah’s eternal and everlasting reward.
It is the joy of having control over the demands of one’s own body and ascendancy over the everyday habits of life. It is, in this way, a spiritual joy, an exuberance that comes with the appearance of every Ramadan and with the exercise of goodly patience.
The happiness of a fasting person when he breaks his fast is not merely because he assuages his hunger and thirst, for even the lowliest of animals share in such pleasures. Instead, it is the joy of triumph over Satan and over one’s own passions and basest desires.
It is also the joy of having successfully carried out the command of our Lord. When He asked us to abandon our food, we abandoned it. When He called upon us to abstain from quenching our thirsts, we abstained from it.
We had hearkened to Allah’s words: “The month of Ramadan in which the Qur’ân was revealed as a guidance for humanity, clear proofs of guidance, and a criterion. So whoever among you witnesses the month, let him fast it.” [Sûrah al-Baqarah: 185]
As for the second occasion of joy, it is an experience like no other, reminiscent of the joy felt when meeting someone who is most beloved. It is the meeting of the fasting person with his Lord who had helped him to carry out his fast and had blessed him with success in doing so, and who had promised him for his fast the best of rewards that He has kept in store for him.
This is an experience of joy by which all the pains and sorrows of life are forever forgotten. It is an overwhelming joy. On that day, the person who had fasted during his worldly life will be entitled to rejoice in it. However, this will be the case only as long as he had restrained his hands from sinful deeds and his tongue from evil words and thereby safeguarded his fasts from becoming bereft of blessings.
Those who are barred from the blessings of their fasts are indeed doubly deprived. Their fasts deprived them of their food and drink, and then their conduct deprived them of the blessings and rewards. This is because they had violated the sanctity of the month of Ramadan with the ignominy of their words and the wickedness of their deeds.
Therefore, every fasting person needs to be aware of what the fast really means. He needs to fully appreciate its great and noble purposes. He must prepare himself mentally to safeguard his fast from every evil word and deed, so he can be sure to experience both of the joys that are unique to the fast. He should, likewise, let all the goodness that Allah has prepared for those who fast with sincerity be a means for him to restrain his eyes from casting their gaze upon that which is unlawful.
If, instead, a person opts not to lower his gaze from the foul images on the television screen and the forbidden sights of the street; if he chooses to indulge his ears in listening to provocative music and indecent songs; if, above all that, he allows his tongue to speak falsely and injuriously, then he should know that the only pleasure he shall experience when he breaks his fast is that felt by the cattle when they are set out to pasture or by the lion when it catches its prey.
Of joy, he will have nothing else.
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Home•Cepac makes multi-million-pound investment in...
General Manager of the Rawcliffe Bridge factory, Richard Moore at the site of the latest investment / Picture: Cepac
“The spirit in the plant has been significantly buoyed by this announcement. The investment is absolutely key to our future strategic objectives. Under Cepac’s ownership the plant has thrived and we are all very excited about the future and our plans for continued expansion.”
A significant part of the site’s heritage has been its involvement in the production of paper-based materials for almost 130 years and the site was originally developed for the manufacture of graphic papers. In the process of digging the foundations for the new buildings some notable artefacts from the factory’s history have been unearthed in the form of 16 granite mill stones.
Richard Moore added: “The stones are absolutely enormous and, we believe, weigh about four tonnes each. They’re roughly around five feet in diameter and two feet thick. We had no idea they were there. They had been buried in the rubble and then concreted over. We’ve preserved them and plan on making them into an architectural feature to reflect our heritage.”
Ground was broken on the site in early June with foundations now laid and steel work on the new buildings to follow.
Richard Moore concluded: “This investment will enable us to partner with many new customers and increase our service offering to our existing customer base. We are extremely excited about the future of our plant and meeting our strategic growth targets.”
Founded in 1999, Cepac is part of the international HSA Group. Cepac also has plants at Darlington, Doncaster and Rotherham, in addition to the Rawcliffe plant
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The Saints Are Coming
The Saints Are Coming Lyrics
The Saints Are Coming - Live Lyrics
This 1979 classic track from Scottish punk band The Skids, got a whole new life when Green Day joined U2 at Abbey Road Studios in London to record a special version to benefit those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
The band managed to track down Richard Jobson, former Skids frontman and now filmmaker, who wrote the song - and couldn't believe it when Edge called him up to ask about performing 'The Saints Are Coming'.
'I thought it was one of my Irish mates winding me up, I really did!'
'It's true, he just wouldn't believe me,' adds Edge. 'I was saying, 'This is Edge from U2 and he was saying, 'yeah, yeah, yeah...'
Eventually, Edge managed to convince him of his impeccable rock'n'roll credentials, and told him the song had a special resonance for Music Rising.
Produced by Rick Rubin, all proceeds from the release of the track went to Music Rising, the charity set up by Edge to help 'put the music back in the hands of the musicians' in the region affected by Hurricane Katrina. The official music video for 'The Saints Are Coming' was directed by Chris Milk.
U2 & Green Day performed the track live in 2006 during the re-opening of the Louisiana Superdome.
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ninety feet of perfection.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. – Red Smith
Lou Gehrig.
I recently did an all Joe DiMaggio photo post and received such a nice response for doing so that I decided to do another. This time I’m sharing some photos of another Yankee legend, enjoy.
I assume this was taken in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s as he looks quite a bit younger than most photos you see of him in the mid to late 1930’s.
He definitely did not look like a man who was only 36 when said goodbye to the game in 1939. I can only assume that the abuse on his body from playing every day for so long, in addition to the possible beginning effects of the disease that would take his life aged him towards the end of his career.
Gehrig being assisted off the field after being hit in the head while at bat. The fact that MLB teams did not start to implement batting helmets until the early 1940’s and officially made them mandatory in the mid 1950’s still kind of blows my mind. Ray Chapman was killed in 1920, so that’s literally decades of playing Baseball in the big leagues without another death. All I can say to that is players back then were incredibly lucky another tragedy on that level never happened again.
May 31st, 1938. Gehrig plays in his 2000th consecutive career game. The Yankees beat the Red Sox 12-5 that day.
Gehrig manning First Base during the 1926 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Yankees lost to the Red Birds 4 games to 3. To watch some nice footage of this series, click HERE. I have mentioned it before, but I love photos of Lou playing First Base so much.
May 3rd, 1938. Gehrig steals home against St. Louis Browns in a game in which the Yankees won, 5-1. The Iron Horse went 2 for 3 that day with a homerun and a double. It was his last complete season playing Baseball.
Gehrig argues with an umpire during the 1938 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. This photo takes me off guard as Gehrig was known as being very respectful to most and having a even-keeled personality. I would love to know the story behind this incident. To view some video of Game 1 of the series, click HERE (I warn you to put the sound on mute first).
June 2nd, 1941, Gehrig passes away.
~ by duaneharris19 on July 27, 2012.
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Tags: 1926 World Series, 1938 World Series, baseball, boston red sox, chicago cubs, lou gehrig, Major League Baseball, MLB, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Negro League Baseball, new york yankees, pacific coast league, PCL, Ray Chapman, st. louis browns, st. louis cardinals, The Iron Horse, yankee stadium
3 Responses to “Lou Gehrig.”
Reblogged this on Johnny's Baseball Blog and commented:
of course i had to reblog this great post about the Iron Horse.
John Vincent said this on July 28, 2012 at 2:02 am | Reply
About the ’38 WS photo…there is a really cool wire photo on sale on eBay that depicts the same incident from a slightly different angle and the write up on the back ocovers the details of what happened pretty clearly.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lou-Gehrig-argues-38-World-Series-original-wire-photo-/190494703688
pepefreeus said this on August 6, 2012 at 9:14 am | Reply
Awesome, thanks for the heads up on this. It is much appreciated!
duanexharris said this on August 7, 2012 at 2:18 am | Reply
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Veterinarian Who Implanted Heroin in Puppies Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
posted by R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter - Feb 9, 2019
A veterinarian who surgically implanted liquid heroin in puppies on behalf of Colombian drug traffickers has been sentenced to six years in prison, the DEA announced this week.
On Thursday, Andres Lopez Elorez was sentenced in a Brooklyn court after he plead guilty to charges of conspiring to import heroin into the United States back in September. The scheme by Elorez involved the veterinarian implanting the liquid heroin by stitching the packets in their bodies. Prosecutors say Elorez leased a farm in Medellin, Colombia where he raised the dogs and implanted the heroin into nine puppies that were being imported to the United States.
“Every dog has its day, and with today’s sentence, Elorez has been held responsible for the reprehensible use of his veterinary skills to conceal heroin inside puppies as part of a scheme to import dangerous narcotics into the United States,” said United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard P. Donoghue. “This office and our law enforcement partners will continue to investigate and prosecute drug trafficking organizations, operating here and abroad, to reduce the availability of opioids and save American lives.”
The scheme first came to law enforcement's attention after officials raided the puppy farm on Jan 1. 2005. Officials say they seized 17 bags of liquid heroin, including ten bags that were removed from the puppies.
Three of the puppies died following surgery to remove the heroin after they contracted a virus.
Law enforcement sought to arrest Elorez at the time, but he became a fugitive. Authorities finally caught up with Elorez in Spain in 2015. He was extradited to the U.S. in May 2018.
Two of the puppies rescued from the farm went on to bigger and better things. Donna, a beagle, was adopted by a Colombian police officer and his family. Another puppy, named Heroina, went on to be trained by Colombian police to be a drug detection dog.
Photo: DEA.
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Weezer Just Made Us Nostalgic and Brought Out TLC's Chilli, Tears for Fears
posted by December Savage - Apr 13, 2019
Weezer graced the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California and really put us in that 90’s mood. Fans heard more covers and classic hit than new music, but are they complaining? Nope!
The Los Angeles rock band brought out English pop/rock band, Tears for Fears and all of a sudden the Coachella valley venue became a old school romcom film.
The two power bands performed the 1986 hit Everybody Wants to Rule the World together. (Fun fact: This song earned the Brit Award for Best British Single in 1986.)
Twitter users were flipping out at the magic they just witnessed seeing these two bands perform together.
“If you were to tell me Tears for Fears would come out during Weezer’s set to sing Everybody Wants to Rule the World in the year of our lord 2019, I would not believe you except I JUST WITNESSED IT”
The band also brought out another special guest to give us a bit more of that 90’s flare. Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas from the popular girl band, TLC joined the stage to perform their hit song, No Scrubs. The song gained popularity in 1999 when it reached number 1 on the Billboard charts.
Weezer's Set list included:
Hush Pipe
El Scorcho
Can't Knock the Hustle
Pork and Beans
Island in the Sun
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Home News Ten beheaded by suspected Islamists in Mozambique village
Ten beheaded by suspected Islamists in Mozambique village
TEN people, some of them children, were beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique, in a weekend attack blamed on suspected Islamists, local sources said early this week.
The pre-dawn attack on Sunday occurred in Monjane, a village close to the border with Tanzania and not far from Palma, a small town gearing up to be the country’s new natural gas hub in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
‘We were informed about this tragedy,’ Palma’s administrator David Machimbuko told AFP, whose account was also confirmed by a local resident, who blamed Islamists. Mozambique’s state broadcaster also reported on ‘10 persons decapitated’ in the Palma area.
Cabo Delgado has seen a number of attacks by suspected radical Islamists since October.
One of the victims of the latest attack was the leader of Monjane village, a local resident said, without giving his name for fear of reprisals. ‘They targeted the chief as he had been providing information to the police about the location of al-Shabaab in the forests,’ he said, referring to an armed group believed responsible for a deadly October attack on a police station and military post in the town of Mocímboa da Praia.
Two officers died and 14 attackers were killed then in what was believed to be the first jihadist attack on the country. The group has no known link to the Somali jihadist group of the same name.
In the following weeks, at least 300 Muslims, including Tanzanians, were arrested and several mosques forced to close.
Alex Vines, a specialist analyst on Mozambique for the London-based Chatham House told AFP that the ‘new attacks are unsurprising and a reminder of the seriousness of the situation.’ ‘A number of independent assessments of the situation in Cabo Delgado conducted over the past three months have concluded that the security situation [there] remains fragile and continued attacks probable.’
The attackers on Monjane approached the village from a nearby forest. Police were called but ‘arrived very late and the attackers were already gone. Nothing was stolen,’ a local source said. ‘They are becoming more much radical now as they are facing attacks from government,’ said another villager.
A study published last week by a Mozambican academic João Pereira said up to 40 members of the radical group ‘have been trained by movements’ that operate in the Great Lakes region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia and Kenya.
The increase in attacks in the north of the country presents a huge problem for Mozambique, which holds general elections next year and has its eyes set on recently discovered gas reserves. Vast gas deposits discovered off the shores of Palma could transform the impoverished country’s economy. Experts predict that Mozambique could become the world’s third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The country’s north has largely been excluded from the economic growth of the last 20 years, and the region sees itself as a neglected outpost, giving the radical al-Shabaab-style ideology a receptive audience.
This month, Mozambique passed an anti-terrorism law that punishes terrorism activity with more than 40 years in jail.
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Small Town Girl Turned Social Media Wizard
Storyteller, start-up fan, and student of life are words that STI College – Kalibo alumna Jonha Revesencio Richman uses to describe herself. And while others are stressing out just to meet their deadlines in work, Jonha spends her work time enjoying what she loves to do — connecting people!
Wizard in Training
Jonha already felt what it was like to make both ends meet at an early age. When her father passed away, Jonha was compelled to work her way through college juggling time to attend school and meet deadlines at work. However with the supportive environment she had in STI, Jonha was able to get by. "It's good to have teachers who were both supportive and understanding," shared Jonha.
Right after graduating with the Diploma in Computer Programming program in 2007, Jonha landed a job with a business process outsourcing company in Iloilo where she worked for over four years. Since Jonha was tasked to do all sorts of marketing from telemarketing, email promotions, and eventually digital marketing, she also decided to pursue a four-year program on Marketing Management. On the job, Jonha explained that she honed her skills in online community management and strategic planning through building a group of followers, engaging them, and creating new ways of attracting new followers to the company’s brand on social media. Because of her expanding expertise, Jonha even handled community management for IKEA in Singapore and Malaysia, an international home furniture and appliances company.
"More than anything else, STI has truly helped me to dream and believe that I can make it happen. It's where I dreamed and started believing in myself," shared Jonha.
Social Butterfly in Media
Jonha built her career in social media strategy and community management at several companies, including Google, Pepsi, Bloomberg, and a start-up company called RebelMouse where she thrived as a Digital Marketer for a good 2 years. Today, she founded TechAE.com and offers her expertise and experience to other businesses looking for effective digital media strategies. She also regularly contributes original content for websites such as Huffington Post, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company.
Apart from her fun job, Jonha also seeks to inspire others and has been a resource speaker for various events includingThe 12th National Youth Conference on Information Technology, GDayxIloilo for the Google Business Group Iloilo, Youth Empowerment for Stronger Communities (YES-C), The 3rd Iloilo Provincial Tourism Summit 2012 and Social Media Influencers Summit 2013. To add punch to her already impressive career, Jonha also received multiple recognitions including The Top 100 Community Managers to Follow, Yahoo! Philippines Mail Ambassador of Cool, and Standard Chartered Bank World's Coolest Intern.
A "Social" Advice
"Don't look at me as a role model. Look at your family and the people who believe in you," stated Jonha as she recounted her days of being a student to being a manager of "social connections."
As a final piece of advice, Jonha relayed the importance of self-trust and confidence in one's self. "Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself."
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I was recently asked how Michael Jackson‘s death affected me. I had to be honest and report that it really had not impacted my life. I did feel bad that he had died at such a young age, but I would feel the same about the death of anyone who did not deserve to die.
Sure, I like some of his music and I thought Thriller had a rather kick ass video (especially since it had Vincent Price). However, I am not related to him I never met him in person, and never even exchanged emails with him. As such, I have no meaningful connection to him that would warrant a powerful emotional response to his untimely death.
Obviously enough, many people who did not know him personally have been devastated by his death. This is, most likely, because they attached great importance to him and he was somehow very significant in their lives. Some people can form such one way emotional bonds to someone who would not know them from Adam or Eve. In my own case, I only form strong attachments to people I actually know and expect the attachment to be reciprocated. Otherwise, the relationship would seem to be something of an illusion and a fantasy. But, perhaps that is a harsh thing to say.
Speaking of fantasy, I did see clips of Al Sharpton talking about Michael Jackson. Oddly enough, he claimed that Jackson somehow paved the way for Obama and presented Jackson as a figure of great social and political significance. While I do agree that Jackson was a talented performer, it seems inaccurate to cast him as paving the way for Obama. Jackson did not, as an adult, have to smash down racial barriers to become a star. He also did not seem to do much to fight against injustice and social ills in America. Rather, he seemed to be a rather typical (if very odd) celebrity: he spent lavishly on himself (and to buy his way out of lawsuits). Yes, he should be praised and honored for his work as a performer but it is absurd to present him as someone who changed the political and social fabric of America. Of course, I am open to evidence that he did have such an impact.
Speaking of the absurd, I also saw the clips of Joseph Jackson trying to use the publicity of his son’s death to push his latest scheme. While people do grieve in different ways, anyone with a sense of decency would realize that a son’s death should not be exploited to publicize a scheme. Not surprisingly, there has been a great deal of criticism about his actions. While I do not know the man, this latest shameless act seems consistent with what has been said about his character. If these claims are true, it certainly explains a great deal about Michael Jackson.
Finally, it seems that both Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are vying for a place in the spotlight gleaming down upon Michael Jackson’s death. While these two men might be honestly concerned about the families, one might suspect that they are primarily drawn by the publicity. But perhaps that is unfair. Or perhaps it is dead on.
I do, of course, feel sorry for Michael Jackson’s children. They lost their father and are now in the middle of a rather wild circus. I can only imagine just how odd their lives will be.
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T. J. Babson says
“However, I am not related to him I never met him in person, and never even exchanged emails with him. As such, I have no meaningful connection to him that would warrant a powerful emotional response to his untimely death.”
This isn’t always true. When the Washington Post columnist Michael Kelley became the first journalist to die in Iraq, I felt pretty bad about it.
Not a White-Lights Person
This column was published in the Washington Post on Dec. 12, 2001. The Post reran it on April 5, 2003, opposite an editorial about Kelly’s death.
I am Catholic and my wife is Jewish, so in our house we celebrate both Hanukah and Christmas, which our sons, Tom and Jack, regard as an excellent thing. People sometimes ask me if it is hard to raise children in respect and love for two great faiths that have a slight doctrinal disagreement between them, and I say: Not if you give them presents every day for eight days of Hanukah and for Christmas. The more Gods, the merrier is Tom and Jack’s strong belief.
Like other parents, we try not to let the materialism get out of hand, and to keep the focus on the sacred. This year, on the first day of Hanukah, we gave Tom, 5, a realistic, detachable, revolving red police cruiser roof light, so that he may follow the ancient Jewish holy practice of impersonating a state trooper. He received the gift with appropriate reverence. We gave Jack, 2, some Silly Putty. He received the gift in his hair, and now he is in a fine shape to play the role in the Christmas pageant of the Wondering Child With a Bald Spot.
Actually, Jack has not been cast in a pageant. Tom has, though. He has a walk-on in the pageant staged by our local Unitarian church. There was a rehearsal the other Sunday after the service, which featured the lighting of a menorah (during which apologies were offered to anyone who might take offense at a lighting before sundown), followed by the traditional singing of the great Christian hymn “Oh, Mitten Tree” (during which the faithful paraded around a tree that was decked, in fact, with mittens). A Unitarian pageant turns out to be different from a Roman Catholic one. In Tom’s pageant, Jesus Christ is celebrated as “a very special person” and “a great rabbi” and an all-around asset to the community. The Son-of-God debate, which has proved so regrettably contentious over the years, is not mentioned.
No doubt this is all to the good. There is too much disputation around Christmas anyway. One growing issue is the white vs. colored lights debate. Like all matters of taste, this is also a matter of class. White lights are high-class; colored lights are somewhat less so.
White lights make the statement that one is a refined sort who appreciates that less is more and who celebrates Christmas (and life in general) in such a fashion that one would not be absolutely mortified if Martha Stewart dropped by unexpectedly for tea. Colored lights make the statement that one is the sort of person who believes that Christmas is not Christmas without an electric sled and reindeer on the lawn, an electric Santa on the roof, an electric Frosty by the front gate and an electric Very Special Person in a manger on the porch.
Most of the houses in my neighborhood are white-light houses, and I have to admit they are lovely, but I was raised in a colored-light family, and I am raising Tom and Jack to be colored-light men too. They do not take a lot of convincing on this. Boys are naturally colored-lighters.
We got up the first three strings of our lights the weekend before last, and another two last weekend, at which time we threw away the rotted Halloween pumpkin. I might have gotten more lights up by now except that the remaining three strings are not working. To fix them you have to go through and find the burned-out bulb and replace it, and there are a lot of bulbs in a string, and the whole enterprise is one of those things that lead Daddy to point out that this is really the sort of job Mommy does better, and Mommy claims that she doesn’t know how to do it because she wasn’t raised in a colored-light family. This is a cop-out, and unworthy of her.
Still, I am confident we will get all the lights up by New Year’s, and all down by Easter. In my family, it was considered poor form to leave the lights up past Easter; it suggested shiftlessness. One elderly woman in our neighborhood did leave her lights up, and also her tree, and her electric Santa, all year around. But she was considered a special case and no one held it against her. This may have been because everyone back then was a colored-light person. Colored-lighters are more relaxed about this sort of thing than white-lighters.
But that was judgmental, wasn’t it? I should not be judgmental. I learned that from the Unitarians. Colored-lighters aren’t any better than white-lighters; we are all special persons. Very.
Interesting point. It is well worth considering what sort of meaningful attachments we can form to other people in ways that do not involve a two way street of interaction.
biomass2 says
Judging by the piece you’ve chosen, your feelings about the death of Michael Kelley are not surprising and do not contradict Dr. LaBossiere’s atatement. Good writing does indeed create a “meaningful connection” between an author and a reader whose mind is open to the author’s message.
willfuqua says
I agree with you. I think it’s psychologically unhealthy to have strong emotional attachments to people we personally don’t know. Also it’s annoying to me to put performers and actors on such a high pedestal. These people are normal individuals who’s way of making a living is to get others to adore them and/or their acting/music. Why do they deserve so much more respect from us than those in the research fields who better our lives through their studies whom we rarely hear about, for instance in medicine, engineering, and etc? How about those who work for no profit organizations without pay to better humanity?
While I do think it is okay to have favorable feelings towards people we have not met (for example, I think well of Socrates) the strong attachments people form towards celebrities they do not know strikes me as a bit problematic.
People do have an odd sense of value and often value most what is worth little. Socrates made an excellent point when he said:
“And so he proposes death as the penalty. And what shall I propose on my part, O men of Athens? Clearly that which is my due. And what is that which I ought to pay or to receive? What shall be done to the man who has never had the wit to be idle during his whole life; but has been careless of what the many care about – wealth, and family interests, and military offices, and speaking in the assembly, and magistracies, and plots, and parties. Reflecting that I was really too honest a man to follow in this way and live, I did not go where I could do no good to you or to myself; but where I could do the greatest good privately to everyone of you, thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests, and look to the state before he looks to the interests of the state; and that this should be the order which he observes in all his actions. What shall be done to such a one? Doubtless some good thing, O men of Athens, if he has his reward; and the good should be of a kind suitable to him. What would be a reward suitable to a poor man who is your benefactor, who desires leisure that he may instruct you? There can be no more fitting reward than maintenance in the Prytaneum, O men of Athens, a reward which he deserves far more than the citizen who has won the prize at Olympia in the horse or chariot race, whether the chariots were drawn by two horses or by many. For I am in want, and he has enough; and he only gives you the appearance of happiness, and I give you the reality. And if I am to estimate the penalty justly, I say that maintenance in the Prytaneum is the just return. ”
-The Apology
Emotions are stronger than intellect, I think. Reading a textbook is sometimes painful for me. But give a novel written by a master (he’s a master because he knows how to manipulate my emotions–not my intellect) and I’m hooked).
Artists such as Jackson hit us with emotional lightning bolts–because that’s what good art does. It transmits the feeling of the author to the reader. weak emotion =weak art. So yes, I do feel something when someone like Jackson dies. I would not have hung out with the guy; intellectually I know there was something wrong with him and I wouldn’t want myself or my family to be infected with his strangeness. So while you won’t catch me weeping for him, I do realize that his music was powerful and that somehow connected his listeners permanently to him.
It’s just being human, not melodramatic.
Music as smells also bring back memories of nostalgia and better times. Luckily, I was never doing anything memorable when I listening to anything by Michael Jackson.
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Appendix B—Physical hazard criteria.
B.1 EXPLOSIVES
B.1.1 Definitions and general considerations.
B.1.1.1 An explosive chemical is a solid or liquid chemical which is in itself capable by chemical reaction of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as to cause damage to the surroundings. Pyrotechnic chemicals are included even when they do not evolve gases.
A pyrotechnic chemical is a chemical designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as the result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions.
An explosive item is an item containing one or more explosive chemicals.
A pyrotechnic item is an item containing one or more pyrotechnic chemicals.
An unstable explosive is an explosive which is thermally unstable and/or too sensitive for normal handling, transport, or use.
An intentional explosive is a chemical or item which is manufactured with a view to produce a practical explosive or pyrotechnic effect.
B.1.1.2 The class of explosives comprises:
(a) Explosive chemicals;
(b) Explosive items, except devices containing explosive chemicals in such quantity or of such a character that their inadvertent or accidental ignition or initiation must not cause any effect external to the device either by projection, fire, smoke, heat or loud noise; and
(c) Chemicals and items not included under (a) and (b) above which are manufactured with the view to producing a practical explosive or pyrotechnic effect.
B.1.2 Classification criteria
Chemicals and items of this class must be classified as unstable explosives or must be assigned to one of the following six divisions depending on the type of hazard they present:
(a) Division 1.1 - Chemicals and items which have a mass explosion hazard (a mass explosion is one which affects almost the entire quantity present virtually instantaneously);
(b) Division 1.2 - Chemicals and items which have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard;
(c) Division 1.3 - Chemicals and items which have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor projection hazard or both, but not a mass explosion hazard:
(i) Combustion of which gives rise to considerable radiant heat; or
(ii) Which burn one after another, producing minor blast or projection effects or both;
(d) Division 1.4 - Chemicals and items which present no significant hazard: chemicals and items which present only a small hazard in the event of ignition or initiation. The effects are largely confined to the package and no projection of fragments of appreciable size or range is to be expected. An external fire must not cause virtually instantaneous explosion of almost the entire contents of the package;
(e) Division 1.5 - Very insensitive chemicals which have a mass explosion hazard: chemicals which have a mass explosion hazard but are so insensitive that there is very little probability of initiation or of transition from burning to detonation under normal conditions;
(f) Division 1.6 - Extremely insensitive items which do not have a mass explosion hazard: Items which contain only extremely insensitive detonating chemicals and which demonstrate a negligible probability of accidental initiation or propagation.
B.1.3 Additional classification considerations
B.1.3.1 Explosives must be classified as unstable explosives or must be assigned to one of the six divisions identified in B.1.2 in accordance with the three step procedure in Part I of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003. The first step is to ascertain whether the substance or mixture has explosive effects (Test Series 1). The second step is the acceptance procedure (Test Series 2 to 4) and the third step is the assignment to a hazard division (Test Series 5 to 7). The assessment whether a candidate for "ammonium nitrate emulsion or suspension or gel, intermediate for blasting explosives (ANE)" is insensitive enough for inclusion as an oxidizing liquid (See B.13) or an oxidizing solid (See B.14) is determined by Test Series 8 tests.
NOTE: Classification of solid chemicals must be based on tests performed on the chemical as presented. If, for example, for the purposes of supply or transport, the same chemical is to be presented in a physical form different from that which was tested and which is considered likely to materially alter its performance in a classification test, classification must be based on testing of the chemical in the new form
B.1.3.2 Explosive properties are associated with the presence of certain chemical groups in a molecule which can react to produce very rapid increases in temperature or pressure. The screening procedure in B.1.3.1 is aimed at identifying the presence of such reactive groups and the potential for rapid energy release. If the screening procedure identifies the chemical as a potential explosive, the acceptance procedure (See section 10.3 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10 (incorporated by reference; See §1910.6)) is necessary for classification.
NOTE: Neither a Series 1 type (a) propagation of detonation test nor a Series 2 type (a) test of sensitivity to detonative shock is necessary if the exothermic decomposition energy of organic materials is less than 800 J/g.
B.1.3.3 If a mixture contains any known explosives, the acceptance procedure is necessary for classification.
B.1.3.4 A chemical is not classified as explosive if:
(a) There are no chemical groups associated with explosive properties present in the molecule. Examples of groups which may indicate explosive properties are given in Table A6.1 in Appendix 6 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003; or
(b) The substance contains chemical groups associated with explosive properties which include oxygen and the calculated oxygen balance is less than -200.
The oxygen balance is calculated for the chemical reaction:
CxHyOz + [x + (y/4)-(z/2)]O2 → x.CO2 + (y/2)H2O
using the formula: oxygen balance = -1600[2x + (y/2)-z]/molecular weight; or
(c) The organic substance or a homogenous mixture of organic substances contains chemical groups associated with explosive properties but the exothermic decomposition energy is less than 500 J/g and the onset of exothermic decomposition is below 500°C (932°F). The exothermic decomposition energy may be determined using a suitable calorimetric technique; or
(d) For mixtures of inorganic oxidizing substances with organic material(s), the concentration of the inorganic oxidizing substance is:
(i) less than 15%, by mass, if the oxidizing substance is assigned to Category 1 or 2;
(ii) less than 30%, by mass, if the oxidizing substance is assigned to Category 3.
B.2 FLAMMABLE GASES
B.2.1 Definition
Flammable gas means a gas having a flammable range with air at 20°C (68°F) and a standard pressure of 101.3 kPa (14.7 psi).
A flammable gas must be classified in one of the two categories for this class in accordance with Table B.2.1:
TABLE B.2.1—CRITERIA FOR FLAMMABLE GASES
Gases, which at 20°C (68°F) and a standard pressure of 101.3 kPa (14.7 psi):
(a) are ignitable when in a mixture of 13% or less by volume in air; or
(b) have a flammable range with air of at least 12 percentage points regardless of the lower flammable limit.
Gases, other than those of Category 1, which, at 20°C (68°F) and a standard pressure of 101.3 kPa (14.7 psi), have a flammable range while mixed in air.
NOTE: Aerosols must not be classified as flammable gases. See B.3.
Flammability must be determined by tests or by calculation in accordance with ISO 10156:1996 (E), Gases and Gas Mixtures—Determination of Fire Potential and Oxidizing Ability for the Selection of Cylinder Valve Outlets, Second Edition, Feb. 15, 1996, ISO 10156-2:2005 (E), Gas Cylinders—Gases and Gas Mixtures—Part 2: Determination of Oxidizing Ability of Toxic and Corrosive Gases and Gas Mixtures, First Edition Aug. 1, 2005. Where insufficient data are available to use this method, equivalent validated methods may be used.
B.3 FLAMMABLE AEROSOLS
Aerosol means any non-refillable receptacle containing a gas compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure, and fitted with a release device allowing the contents to be ejected as particles in suspension in a gas, or as a foam, paste, powder, liquid or gas.
B.3.2.1 Aerosols must be considered for classification as flammable if they contain any component which is classified as flammable in accordance with this Appendix, i.e.:
Flammable liquids (See B.6);
Flammable gases (See B.2);
Flammable solids (See B.7).
NOTE 1: Flammable components do not include pyrophoric, self-heating or water-reactive chemicals.
NOTE 2: Flammable aerosols do not fall additionally within the scope of flammable gases, flammable liquids, or flammable solids.
B.3.2.2 A flammable aerosol must be classified in one of the two categories for this class in accordance with Table B.3.1.
TABLE B.3.1—CRITERIA FOR FLAMMABLE AEROSOLS
Contains ≥85% flammable components and the chemical heat of combustion is ≥30 kJ/g; or
(a) For spray aerosols, in the ignition distance test, ignition occurs at a distance ≥75 cm (29.5 in), or
(b) For foam aerosols, in the aerosol foam flammability test
(i) the flame height is ≥20 cm (7.87 in) and the flame duration ≥2 s; or
(ii) the flame height is ≥4 cm (1.57 in) and the flame duration ≥7 s.
Contains ˃ 1% flammable components, or the heat of combustion is ≥20 kJ/g; and
(a) For spray aerosols, in the ignition distance test, ignition occurs at a distance ≥15 cm (5.9 in), or in the enclosed space ignition test, the
(i) time equivalent is ≤300 s/m3; or
(ii) deflagration density is ≤300 g/m3
(b) For foam aerosols, in the aerosol foam flammability test, the flame height is ≥4 cm and the flame duration is ≥2 s and it does not meet the criteria for Category 1
NOTE: Aerosols not submitted to the flammability classification procedures in this Appendix must be classified as extremely flammable (Category 1).
B.3.3.1 To classify a flammable aerosol, data on its flammable components, on its chemical heat of combustion and, if applicable, the results of the aerosol foam flammability test (for foam aerosols) and of the ignition distance test and enclosed space test (for spray aerosols) are necessary.
B.3.3.2 The chemical heat of combustion (ΔHc), in kilojoules per gram (kJ/g), is the product of the theoretical heat of combustion (ΔHcomb), and a combustion efficiency, usually less than 1.0 (a typical combustion efficiency is 0.95 or 95%).
For a composite aerosol formulation, the chemical heat of combustion is the summation of the weighted heats of combustion for the individual components, as follows:
The chemical heats of combustion must be found in literature, calculated or determined by tests (See ASTM D240-02 (Reapproved 2007), Standard Test Method for Heat of Combustion of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels by Bomb Calorimeter, ISO 13943:2000 (E/F), Fire Safety—Vocabulary, First Edition, April 15, 2000, Sections 86.1 to 86.3, and NFPA 30B, Code for the Manufacture and Storage of Aerosol Products, 2007 Edition).
B.3.3.3 The Ignition Distance Test, Enclosed Space Ignition Test and Aerosol Foam Flammability Test must be performed in accordance with sub-sections 31.4, 31.5 and 31.6 of the of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations of the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003.
B.4 OXIDIZING GASES
Oxidizing gas means any gas which may, generally by providing oxygen, cause or contribute to the combustion of other material more than air does.
NOTE: "Gases which cause or contribute to the combustion of other material more than air does" means pure gases or gas mixtures with an oxidizing power greater than 23.5% (as determined by a method specified in ISO 10156:1996 (E), Gases and Gas Mixtures—Determination of Fire Potential and Oxidizing Ability for the Selection of Cylinder Valve Outlets, Second Edition, Feb. 15, 1996, 10156-2:2005 (E), Gas Cylinders—Gases and Gas Mixtures—Part 2:Determination of Oxidizing Ability of Toxic and Corrosive Gases and Gas Mixtures, First Edition Aug. 1, 2005 or an equivalent testing method).
An oxidizing gas must classified in a single category for this class in accordance with Table B.4.1:
TABLE B.4.1—CRITERIA FOR OXIDIZING GASES
Any gas which may, generally by providing oxygen, cause or contribute to the combustion of other material more than air does.
Classification must be in accordance with tests or calculation methods as described in ISO 10156:1996 (E), Gases and Gas Mixtures—Determination of Fire Potential and Oxidizing Ability for the Selection of Cylinder Valve Outlets, Second Edition, Feb. 15, 1996 and ISO 10156-2:2005 (E), Gas Cylinders—Gases and Gas Mixtures—Part 2: Determination of Oxidizing Ability of Toxic and Corrosive Gases and Gas Mixtures, First Edition Aug. 1, 2005.
B.5 GASES UNDER PRESSURE
Gases under pressure are gases which are contained in a receptacle at a pressure of 200 kPa (29 psi) (gauge) or more, or which are liquefied or liquefied and refrigerated.
They comprise compressed gases, liquefied gases, dissolved gases and refrigerated liquefied gases.
Gases under pressure must be classified in one of four groups in accordance with Table B.5.1:
TABLE B.5.1—CRITERIA FOR GASES UNDER PRESSURE
Compressed gas
A gas which when under pressure is entirely gaseous at -50°C (-58°F), including all gases with a critical temperature1 ≤ 50°C (-58°F).
A gas which when under pressure is partially liquid at temperatures above -50°C (-58°F). A distinction is made between:
(a) High pressure liquefied gas: a gas with a critical temperature1 between -50°C (-58°F) and +65°C (149°F); and
(b) Low pressure liquefied gas: a gas with a critical temperature1 above +65°C (149°F).
Refrigerated liquefied gas
A gas which is made partially liquid because of its low temperature.
Dissolved gas
A gas which when under pressure is dissolved in a liquid phase solvent.
1 The critical temperature is the temperature above which a pure gas cannot be liquefied, regardless of the degree of compression.
B.6 FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS
Flammable liquid means a liquid having a flash point of not more than 93°C (199.4°F).
Flash point means the minimum temperature at which a liquid gives off vapor in sufficient concentration to form an ignitable mixture with air near the surface of the liquid, as determined by a method identified in Section B.6.3.
A flammable liquid must be classified in one of four categories in accordance with Table B.6.1:
TABLE B.6.1—CRITERIA FOR FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS
Flash point < 23°C (73.4°F) and initial boiling point ≤ 35°C (95°F)
Flash point < 23°C (73.4°F) and initial boiling point ˃ 35°C (95°F)
Flash point ≥ 23°C (73.4°F) and ≤ 60°C (140°F)
Flash point ˃ 60°C (140°F) and ≤ 93°C (199.4°F)
The flash point must be determined in accordance with ASTM D56-05, Standard Test Method for Flash Point by Tag Closed Cup Tester, ASTM D3278-96 (Reapproved 2004) E1, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point of Liquids by Small Scale Closed-Cup Apparatus, ASTM D3828-07a, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point by Small Scale Closed Cup Tester, Approved, ASTM D93-08, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point by Pensky-Martens Closed Cup Tester, or any other method specified in GHS Revision 3, Chapter 2.6.
The initial boiling point must be determined in accordance with ASTM D86-07a, Standard Test Method for Distillation of Petroleum Products at Atmospheric Pressure or ASTM D1078-05, Standard Test Method for Distillation Range of Volatile Organic Liquids.
B.7 FLAMMABLE SOLIDS
B.7.1 Definitions
Flammable solid means a solid which is a readily combustible solid, or which may cause or contribute to fire through friction.
Readily combustible solids are powdered, granular, or pasty chemicals which are dangerous if they can be easily ignited by brief contact with an ignition source, such as a burning match, and if the flame spreads rapidly.
B.7.2.1 Powdered, granular or pasty chemicals must be classified as flammable solids when the time of burning of one or more of the test runs, performed in accordance with the test method described in the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations of the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, Part III, sub-section 33.2.1, is less than 45 s or the rate of burning is more than 2.2 mm/s (0.0866 in/s).
B.7.2.2 Powders of metals or metal alloys must be classified as flammable solids when they can be ignited and the reaction spreads over the whole length of the sample in 10 min or less.
B.7.2.3 Solids which may cause fire through friction must be classified in this class by analogy with existing entries (e.g., matches) until definitive criteria are established.
B.7.2.4 A flammable solid must be classified in one of the two categories for this class using Method N.1 as described in Part III, sub-section 33.2.1 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations of the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.7.1:
TABLE B.7.1—CRITERIA FOR FLAMMABLE SOLIDS
Burning rate test:
Chemicals other than metal powders:
(a) wetted zone does not stop fire; and
(b) burning time <45 s or burning rate ˃2.2 mm/s
Metal powders: burning time ≤5 min
(a) wetted zone stops the fire for at least 4 min; and ˃
Metal powders: burning time ˃5 min and ≤10 min
NOTE: Classification of solid chemicals must be based on tests performed on the chemical as presented. If, for example, for the purposes of supply or transport, the same chemical is to be presented in a physical form different from that which was tested and which is considered likely to materially alter its performance in a classification test, classification must be based on testing of the chemical in the new form.
B.8 SELF-REACTIVE CHEMICALS
Self-reactive chemicals are thermally unstable liquid or solid chemicals liable to undergo a strongly exothermic decomposition even without participation of oxygen (air). This definition excludes chemicals classified under this section as explosives, organic peroxides, oxidizing liquids or oxidizing solids.
A self-reactive chemical is regarded as possessing explosive properties when in laboratory testing the formulation is liable to detonate, to deflagrate rapidly or to show a violent effect when heated under confinement.
B.8.2.1 A self-reactive chemical must be considered for classification in this class unless:
(a) It is classified as an explosive according to B.1 of this appendix;
(b) It is classified as an oxidizing liquid or an oxidizing solid according to B.13 or B.14 of this appendix, except that a mixture of oxidizing substances which contains 5% or more of combustible organic substances must be classified as a self-reactive chemical according to the procedure defined in B.8.2.2;
(c) It is classified as an organic peroxide according to B.15 of this appendix;
(d) Its heat of decomposition is less than 300 J/g; or
(e) Its self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) is greater than 75°C (167°F) for a 50 kg (110 lb) package.
B.8.2.2 Mixtures of oxidizing substances, meeting the criteria for classification as oxidizing liquids or oxidizing solids, which contain 5% or more of combustible organic substances and which do not meet the criteria mentioned in B.8.2.1 (a), (c), (d) or (e), must be subjected to the self-reactive chemicals classification procedure in B.8.2.3. Such a mixture showing the properties of a self-reactive chemical type B to F must be classified as a self-reactive chemical.
B.8.2.3 Self-reactive chemicals must be classified in one of the seven categories of "types A to G" for this class, according to the following principles:
(a) Any self-reactive chemical which can detonate or deflagrate rapidly, as packaged, will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE A;
(b) Any self-reactive chemical possessing explosive properties and which, as packaged, neither detonates nor deflagrates rapidly, but is liable to undergo a thermal explosion in that package will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE B;
(c) Any self-reactive chemical possessing explosive properties when the chemical as packaged cannot detonate or deflagrate rapidly or undergo a thermal explosion will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE C;
(d) Any self-reactive chemical which in laboratory testing meets the criteria in (d)(i), (ii), or (iii) will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE D:
(i) Detonates partially, does not deflagrate rapidly and shows no violent effect when heated under confinement; or
(ii) Does not detonate at all, deflagrates slowly and shows no violent effect when heated under confinement; or
(iii) Does not detonate or deflagrate at all and shows a medium effect when heated under confinement;
(e) Any self-reactive chemical which, in laboratory testing, neither detonates nor deflagrates at all and shows low or no effect when heated under confinement will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE E;
(f) Any self-reactive chemical which, in laboratory testing, neither detonates in the cavitated state nor deflagrates at all and shows only a low or no effect when heated under confinement as well as low or no explosive power will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE F;
(g) Any self-reactive chemical which, in laboratory testing, neither detonates in the cavitated state nor deflagrates at all and shows no effect when heated under confinement nor any explosive power, provided that it is thermally stable (self-accelerating decomposition temperature is 60°C (140°F) to 75°C (167°F) for a 50 kg (110 lb) package), and, for liquid mixtures, a diluent having a boiling point greater than or equal to 150°C (302°F) is used for desensitization will be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE G. If the mixture is not thermally stable or a diluent having a boiling point less than 150°C (302°F) is used for desensitization, the mixture must be defined as self-reactive chemical TYPE F.
B.8.3.1 For purposes of classification, the properties of self-reactive chemicals must be determined in accordance with test series A to H as described in Part II of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003.
B.8.3.2 Self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) must be determined in accordance with the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003.
B.8.3.3 The classification procedures for self-reactive substances and mixtures need not be applied if:
(a) There are no chemical groups present in the molecule associated with explosive or self-reactive properties; examples of such groups are given in Tables A6.1 and A6.2 in the Appendix 6 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003; or
(b) For a single organic substance or a homogeneous mixture of organic substances, the estimated SADT is greater than 75°C (167°F) or the exothermic decomposition energy is less than 300 J/g. The onset temperature and decomposition energy may be estimated using a suitable calorimetric technique (See 20.3.3.3 in Part II of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003).
B.9 PYROPHORIC LIQUIDS
Pyrophoric liquid means a liquid which, even in small quantities, is liable to ignite within five minutes after coming into contact with air.
A pyrophoric liquid must be classified in a single category for this class using test N.3 in Part III, sub-section 33.3.1.5 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.9.1:
TABLE B.9.1—CRITERIA FOR PYROPHORIC LIQUIDS
The liquid ignites within 5 min when added to an inert carrier and exposed to air, or it ignites or chars a filter paper on contact with air within 5 min.
The classification procedure for pyrophoric liquids need not be applied when experience in production or handling shows that the chemical does not ignite spontaneously on coming into contact with air at normal temperatures (i.e., the substance is known to be stable at room temperature for prolonged periods of time (days)).
B.10 PYROPHORIC SOLIDS
B.10.1 Definition
Pyrophoric solid means a solid which, even in small quantities, is liable to ignite within five minutes after coming into contact with air.
B.10.2 Classification criteria
A pyrophoric solid must be classified in a single category for this class using test N.2 in Part III, sub-section 33.3.1.4 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations of the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.10.1:
TABLE B.10.1—CRITERIA FOR PYROPHORIC SOLIDS
The solid ignites within 5 min of coming into contact with air.
B.10.3 Additional classification considerations
The classification procedure for pyrophoric solids need not be applied when experience in production or handling shows that the chemical does not ignite spontaneously on coming into contact with air at normal temperatures (i.e., the chemical is known to be stable at room temperature for prolonged periods of time (days)).
B.11 SELF-HEATING CHEMICALS
A self-heating chemical is a solid or liquid chemical, other than a pyrophoric liquid or solid, which, by reaction with air and without energy supply, is liable to self-heat; this chemical differs from a pyrophoric liquid or solid in that it will ignite only when in large amounts (kilograms) and after long periods of time (hours or days).
NOTE: Self-heating of a substance or mixture is a process where the gradual reaction of that substance or mixture with oxygen (in air) generates heat. If the rate of heat production exceeds the rate of heat loss, then the temperature of the substance or mixture will rise which, after an induction time, may lead to self-ignition and combustion.
B.11.2.1 A self-heating chemical must be classified in one of the two categories for this class if, in tests performed in accordance with test method N.4 in Part III, sub-section 33.3.1.6 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, the result meets the criteria shown in Table B.11.1.
TABLE B.11.1—CRITERIA FOR SELF-HEATING CHEMICALS
A positive result is obtained in a test using a 25 mm sample cube at 140°C (284°F)
A negative result is obtained in a test using a 25 mm cube sample at 140°C (284°F), a positive result is obtained in a test using a 100 mm sample cube at 140°C (284°F), and:
(a) The unit volume of the chemical is more than 3 m3; or
(b) A positive result is obtained in a test using a 100 mm cube sample at 120°C (248°F) and the unit volume of the chemical is more than 450 liters; or
(c) A positive result is obtained in a test using a 100 mm cube sample at 100°C (212°F).
B.11.2.2 Chemicals with a temperature of spontaneous combustion higher than 50°C (122°F) for a volume of 27 m3 must not be classified as self-heating chemicals.
B.11.2.3 Chemicals with a spontaneous ignition temperature higher than 50°C (122°F) for a volume of 450 liters must not be classified in Category 1 of this class.
B.11.3.1 The classification procedure for self-heating chemicals need not be applied if the results of a screening test can be adequately correlated with the classification test and an appropriate safety margin is applied.
B.11.3.2 Examples of screening tests are:
(a) The Grewer Oven test (VDI guideline 2263, part 1, 1990, Test methods for the Determination of the Safety Characteristics of Dusts) with an onset temperature 80°K above the reference temperature for a volume of 1 l;
(b) The Bulk Powder Screening Test (Gibson, N. Harper, D. J. Rogers, R. Evaluation of the fire and explosion risks in drying powders, Plant Operations Progress, 4 (3), 181-189, 1985) with an onset temperature 60°K above the reference temperature for a volume of 1 l.
B.12 CHEMICALS WHICH, IN CONTACT WITH WATER, EMIT FLAMMABLE GASES
Chemicals which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases are solid or liquid chemicals which, by interaction with water, are liable to become spontaneously flammable or to give off flammable gases in dangerous quantities.
B.12.2.1 A chemical which, in contact with water, emits flammable gases must be classified in one of the three categories for this class, using test N.5 in Part III, sub-section 33.4.1.4 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.12.1:
TABLE B.12.1—CRITERIA FOR CHEMICALS WHICH, IN CONTACT WITH WATER, EMIT FLAMMABLE GASES
Any chemical which reacts vigorously with water at ambient temperatures and demonstrates generally a tendency for the gas produced to ignite spontaneously, or which reacts readily with water at ambient temperatures such that the rate of evolution of flammable gas is equal to or greater than 10 liters per kilogram of chemical over any one minute.
Any chemical which reacts readily with water at ambient temperatures such that the maximum rate of evolution of flammable gas is equal to or greater than 20 liters per kilogram of chemical per hour, and which does not meet the criteria for Category 1.
Any chemical which reacts slowly with water at ambient temperatures such that the maximum rate of evolution of flammable gas is equal to or greater than 1 liter per kilogram of chemical per hour, and which does not meet the criteria for Categories 1 and 2.
B.12.2.2 A chemical is classified as a chemical which, in contact with water, emits flammable gases if spontaneous ignition takes place in any step of the test procedure.
The classification procedure for this class need not be applied if:
(a) The chemical structure of the chemical does not contain metals or metalloids;
(b) Experience in production or handling shows that the chemical does not react with water, (e.g., the chemical is manufactured with water or washed with water); or
(c) The chemical is known to be soluble in water to form a stable mixture.
B.13 OXIDIZING LIQUIDS
Oxidizing liquid means a liquid which, while in itself not necessarily combustible, may, generally by yielding oxygen, cause, or contribute to, the combustion of other material.
An oxidizing liquid must be classified in one of the three categories for this class using test O.2 in Part III, sub-section 34.4.2 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.13.1:
TABLE B.13.1—CRITERIA FOR OXIDIZING LIQUIDS
Any chemical which, in the 1:1 mixture, by mass, of chemical and cellulose tested, spontaneously ignites; or the mean pressure rise time of a 1:1 mixture, by mass, of chemical and cellulose is less than that of a 1:1 mixture, by mass, of 50% perchloric acid and cellulose;
Any chemical which, in the 1:1 mixture, by mass, of chemical and cellulose tested, exhibits a mean pressure rise time less than or equal to the mean pressure rise time of a 1:1 mixture, by mass, of 40% aqueous sodium chlorate solution and cellulose; and the criteria for Category 1 are not met;
Any chemical which, in the 1:1 mixture, by mass, of chemical and cellulose tested, exhibits a mean pressure rise time less than or equal to the mean pressure rise time of a 1:1 mixture, by mass, of 65% aqueous nitric acid and cellulose; and the criteria for Categories 1 and 2 are not met.
B.13.3.1 For organic chemicals, the classification procedure for this class must not be applied if:
(a) The chemical does not contain oxygen, fluorine or chlorine; or
(b) The chemical contains oxygen, fluorine or chlorine and these elements are chemically bonded only to carbon or hydrogen.
B.13.3.2 For inorganic chemicals, the classification procedure for this class must not be applied if the chemical does not contain oxygen or halogen atoms.
B.13.3.3 In the event of divergence between test results and known experience in the handling and use of chemicals which shows them to be oxidizing, judgments based on known experience must take precedence over test results.
B.13.3.4 In cases where chemicals generate a pressure rise (too high or too low), caused by chemical reactions not characterizing the oxidizing properties of the chemical, the test described in Part III, sub-section 34.4.2 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, must be repeated with an inert substance (e.g., diatomite (kieselguhr in place of the cellulose) in order to clarify the nature of the reaction).
B.14 OXIDIZING SOLIDS
Oxidizing solid means a solid which, while in itself is not necessarily combustible, may, generally by yielding oxygen, cause, or contribute to, the combustion of other material.
An oxidizing solid must be classified in one of the three categories for this class using test O.1 in Part III, sub-section 34.4.1 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.14.1:
TABLE B.14.1—CRITERIA FOR OXIDIZING SOLIDS
Any chemical which, in the 4:1 or 1:1 sample-to-cellulose ratio (by mass) tested, exhibits a mean burning time less than the mean burning time of a 3:2 mixture, by mass, of potassium bromate and cellulose.
Any chemical which, in the 4:1 or 1:1 sample-to-cellulose ratio (by mass) tested, exhibits a mean burning time equal to or less than the mean burning time of a 2:3 mixture (by mass) of potassium bromate and cellulose and the criteria for Category 1 are not met.
Any chemical which, in the 4:1 or 1:1 sample-to-cellulose ratio (by mass) tested, exhibits a mean burning time equal to or less than the mean burning time of a 3:7 mixture (by mass) of potassium bromate and cellulose and the criteria for Categories 1 and 2 are not met.
NOTE 1: Some oxidizing solids may present explosion hazards under certain conditions (e.g., when stored in large quantities). For example, some types of ammonium nitrate may give rise to an explosion hazard under extreme conditions and the "Resistance to detonation test" (IMO: Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes, 2005, Annex 3, Test 5) may be used to assess this hazard. When information indicates that an oxidizing solid may present an explosion hazard, it must be indicated on the Safety Data Sheet.
NOTE 2: Classification of solid chemicals must be based on tests performed on the chemical as presented. If, for example, for the purposes of supply or transport, the same chemical is to be presented in a physical form different from that which was tested and which is considered likely to materially alter its performance in a classification test, classification must be based on testing of the chemical in the new form.
B.14.3.3 In the event of divergence between test results and known experience in the handling and use of chemicals which shows them to be oxidizing, judgements based on known experience must take precedence over test results.
B.15 ORGANIC PEROXIDES
B.15.1.1 Organic peroxide means a liquid or solid organic chemical which contains the bivalent -0-0- structure and as such is considered a derivative of hydrogen peroxide, where one or both of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced by organic radicals. The term organic peroxide includes organic peroxide mixtures containing at least one organic peroxide. Organic peroxides are thermally unstable chemicals, which may undergo exothermic self-accelerating decomposition. In addition, they may have one or more of the following properties:
(a) Be liable to explosive decomposition;
(b) Burn rapidly;
(c) Be sensitive to impact or friction;
(d) React dangerously with other substances.
B.15.1.2 An organic peroxide is regarded as possessing explosive properties when in laboratory testing the formulation is liable to detonate, to deflagrate rapidly or to show a violent effect when heated under confinement.
B.15.2.1 Any organic peroxide must be considered for classification in this class, unless it contains:
(a) Not more than 1.0% available oxygen from the organic peroxides when containing not more than 1.0% hydrogen peroxide; or
(b) Not more than 0.5% available oxygen from the organic peroxides when containing more than 1.0% but not more than 7.0% hydrogen peroxide.
NOTE: The available oxygen content (%) of an organic peroxide mixture is given by the formula:
B.15.2.2 Organic peroxides must be classified in one of the seven categories of "Types A to G" for this class, according to the following principles:
(a) Any organic peroxide which, as packaged, can detonate or deflagrate rapidly must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE A;
(b) Any organic peroxide possessing explosive properties and which, as packaged, neither detonates nor deflagrates rapidly, but is liable to undergo a thermal explosion in that package must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE B;
(c) Any organic peroxide possessing explosive properties when the chemical as packaged cannot detonate or deflagrate rapidly or undergo a thermal explosion must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE C;
(d) Any organic peroxide which in laboratory testing meets the criteria in (d)(i), (ii), or (iii) must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE D:
(e) Any organic peroxide which, in laboratory testing, neither detonates nor deflagrates at all and shows low or no effect when heated under confinement must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE E;
(f) Any organic peroxide which, in laboratory testing, neither detonates in the cavitated state nor deflagrates at all and shows only a low or no effect when heated under confinement as well as low or no explosive power must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE F;
(g) Any organic peroxide which, in laboratory testing, neither detonates in the cavitated state nor deflagrates at all and shows no effect when heated under confinement nor any explosive power, provided that it is thermally stable (self-accelerating decomposition temperature is 60°C (140°F) or higher for a 50 kg (110 lb) package), and, for liquid mixtures, a diluent having a boiling point of not less than 150°C (302°F) is used for desensitization, must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE G. If the organic peroxide is not thermally stable or a diluent having a boiling point less than 150°C (302°F) is used for desensitization, it must be defined as organic peroxide TYPE F.
B.15.3.1 For purposes of classification, the properties of organic peroxides must be determined in accordance with test series A to H as described in Part II of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003.
B.15.3.2 Self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) must be determined in accordance with the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, Part II, section 28.
B.15.3.3 Mixtures of organic peroxides may be classified as the same type of organic peroxide as that of the most dangerous ingredient. However, as two stable ingredients can form a thermally less stable mixture, the SADT of the mixture must be determined.
B.16 CORROSIVE TO METALS
A chemical which is corrosive to metals means a chemical which by chemical action will materially damage, or even destroy, metals.
A chemical which is corrosive to metals must be classified in a single category for this class, using the test in Part III, sub-section 37.4 of the UN ST/SG/AC.10/Rev. 4, The UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition, 2003, in accordance with Table B.16.1:
TABLE B.16.1—CRITERIA FOR CHEMICALS CORROSIVE TO METAL
Corrosion rate on either steel or aluminium surfaces exceeding 6.25 mm per year at a test temperature of 55°C (131°F) when tested on both materials.
NOTE: Where an initial test on either steel or aluminium indicates the chemical being tested is corrosive the follow-up test on the other metal is not necessary.
The specimen to be used for the test must be made of the following materials:
(a) For the purposes of testing steel, steel types S235JR+CR (1.0037 resp.St 37-2), S275J2G3+CR (1.0144 resp.St 44-3), ISO 3574, Unified Numbering System (UNS) G 10200, or SAE 1020;
(b) For the purposes of testing aluminium: non-clad types 7075-T6 or AZ5GU-T6.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060 and 29 C.F.R. 1910 Subpart Z. WSR 14-07-086, § 296-901-14024, filed 3/18/14, effective 5/1/14; WSR 13-06-050, § 296-901-14024, filed 3/5/13, effective 4/15/13.]
Reviser's note: The brackets and enclosed material in the text of the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency.
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Null and Annoyed
"We'd make a fortune. An improv group made up of superheroes. We can take it to Washington. We'd be the "D.C. Comics"."
—Ralph Dibny
"Null and Annoyed"
Lauren Certo
Kristen Kim
Hartley Sawyer as Ralph Dibny/Elognated Man
Miranda MacDougall as Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker
Paul McGillion as Earl Cox
Bethany Brown as Janet Petty/Null
Danny Trejo as Josh/Breacher
Kevin Smith as Bob the Security Guard (special appearance by)
Jason Mewes as Jay the Security Guard
"Run, Iris, Run"
Post 77 "Breacher 2.0"
"Null and Annoyed" is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of The Flash, and the eighty-sixth episode overall. It aired on April 10, 2018.
Barry and Ralph take different approaches to finding the remaining bus metas before DeVoe gets to them. However, Ralph’s cavalier attitude frustrates Barry and the two clash over what it means to be a hero. Meanwhile, Breacher returns to ask Cisco for a favor.[1]
The Flash 4x17 Extended Promo "Null and Annoyed" (HD) Season 4 Episode 17 Extended Promo
The Flash Null And Annoyed Scene The CW
The Flash Inside Null And Annoyed The CW
The title is a reference to the idiom "null and void".
Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith's cameos in the episode, the latter non-speaking, pays homage to their roles as Jay and Silent Bob, who have appeared in many of Kevin Smith's films, such as Clerks.
Ralph suggests forming a superhero comedy group, going to Washington (also known as D.C. for its location in the District of Columbia) and calling themselves the "DC comics", referencing the comic book publisher of the same name.
Ralph also called the simulation DeVoe "Doc Ock" a reference to the Marvel villain Doctor Otto Octavius also known as "Doctor Octopus" or "Doc Ock"
When Barry's floating around in S.T.A.R. Labs after being affected by Janet Petty's gravity-bending powers, Ralph suggests Barry burp like Charlie Bucket to get himself down, referencing a scene in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Seemingly not taking the situation seriously, Ralph mentions his confusion over the incredible divisive series finale of the TV series Lost, also mentioning characters Kate Austen and Jack Shephard.
Cisco exclaims "jumpin' jellyfish", possibly referencing the ride of the same name at Disney California Adventure.
When mentioning his plans to spend his old age at a dragon farm on Earth-47, Cisco refers to Breacher as "Khaleesi", referencing the title used by Daenerys Targaryen, the "mother of dragons", in the TV series Game of Thrones.
When Harry Wells enters the Time Vault, the Reverse Flash music starts to play.
Gideon tells Wells that it has been 1,078 days since "they" last spoke. From the date of airing, that date is April 28, 2015, the day "The Trap" premiered, which was the last time Gideon appeared chronologically in the series.
↑ Flash Spoilers: “Null and Annoyed” Description - FlashTVNews
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Home » Products » Darkman original concept graphite by John Alvin
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ABOUT JOHN ALVIN:
"Creating the promise of a great experience" is how John Alvin described his role as the preeminent designer and illustrator of cinema art in the entertainment industry. In a business where you are only as good as your last job, Alvin was diverse enough in style and creative invention to be one of the ultimate go-to artist for movie posters in Hollywood for over two decades. He designed and illustrated some of the world's most widely recognizable movie art. From E.T. to Blade Runner, to Blazing Saddles and The Lion King, John Alvin is responsible for many of your favorite movie campaign images...
Alvin's first official movie art campaign was the poster for Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks, in 1974. Alvin, who was working as an animator at an animation studio at the time, was invited to work on the Blazing Saddles poster by a friend. Alvin took an unusual path when designing the movie poster. He designed a serious movie poster, which incorporated unusual and quirky elements from the film. For example, in the poster, Alvin depicted Mel Brooks, who plays a Yiddish-speaking Native American chief in the film, wearing a headdress inscribed with the phrase, Kosher for Passover. The joke had been suggested by Alvin's wife, Andrea.
Alvin's work on Blazing Saddles was liked by Mel Brooks, as well as by others in the industry. He went on to work on a number of Brooks' later films, including Young Frankenstein, which was also released in 1974.
Another of Alvin's iconic posters was his work for Steven Spielberg's 1982 film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It showed E.T.'s finger touching the finger of his human friend, Elliott, finger tip to finger tip. The fingers create a glow where they touch. The idea for the poster was reportedly suggested by Spielberg, and was inspired by Michelangelo's painting, The Creation of Adam. Alvin used his daughter as the human hand model for the poster.
Alvin created artwork for more than 135 film campaigns over the span of three decades. His work for such film studios as New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Disney Studios and Lucasfilm Ltd., included Blade Runner, Cocoon, The Lost Boys, Predator, The Princess Bride, Gremlins, The Goonies, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Jurassic Park. He also created the anniversary posters and other artwork for the 30th anniversary Star Wars Celebration. In later years he created posters for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Harry Potter film series and Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films. According to John Sabel, an advertising executive at Walt Disney Pictures who often worked with Alvin, "There was a reason why The Lion King did the numbers that it did... There was a reason why 'Hunchback [of Notre Dame]' became a big success. It's because of the images that were produced, and a lot of those were John Alvin's paintings."
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Community Wiki: Andro
Andro is a member of the community who first joined Cloud’s Forum in 2011 during its Super Mario Bros. X iteration. Andro is credited with increasing Ack’s compatibility with Discord and is known for appearing in Season 3 of Cloud’s Forum Adventures as a primary protagonist.
Andro was one of the earliest members of the community. He was highly involved in the early administration of Cloud’s Forum and even contributed to it with images and theme content. Along with Megar, Andro was unknowingly involved in the High SMBX Council hacking and compromise of Cloud’s New Forum (one of Cloud’s Forum’s iterations). Andro later returned to the Exion Discord server and helped Switch retool Ack to allow it to become compatible with Discord.
Andro also runs his own Discord server called Escape, which formerly featured a Minecraft server that went through several iterations; both Survival and Creative mode worlds were made available to players. Escape is not an official branch of the community, but it is loosely associated with it.
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ANDREW-PETER LIAN
Academic Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Sydney), 1967. Doctorat d'Université (Paris IV - Sorbonne), 1971.
Academic Distinctions: Elected to Membership of the International Structuro-Global Audio-Visual Association .
Languages Spoken: English and French (native-speaker level proficiency in both). Modern Greek (reasonable working knowledge in speaking and listening). Some remnants of Arabic and very small amounts of German, Italian and Polish.
Current Employment
Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Suranaree University of Technology Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, 30000
Emeritus Professor of Languages and Second Language Education (Full Professor), Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia, (elected by University Council in November 2002).
Previous Employment
Professor and Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Western Illinois University, Macomb. IL, 61455, USA
Professor of Humanities (Full Professor), Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, (October 2003 - 2004).
Director of the Center for the Study of Languages, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (October 2003 - 2004).
Professor of Languages and Second Language Education (Full Professor), Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia, March 1998- December 2002).
Head of the School of Languages and International Education, Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra (March 1998 - December 2001).
Chief Administrator English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) Programme, University of Canberra (March 1998 - December 2001).
Coordinator of Information Technology, Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra (July 1998 - December 1999).
Director, Centre for Child Literacy and ESL (Canberra), National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia (May 1998 - December 1999).
Professor of Modern Languages (Full Professor), School of Languages, Literature and Communication, James Cook University, Townsville, Q. 4811, Australia (January 1993 - January 1998)
Head of the Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University, prior to its amalgamation with the Department of English to form the School of Languages Literature and Communication. (January 1993 - December 1996)
Director of the Institute of Modern Languages, James Cook University (January 1993 - December 1996)
Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Language Teaching and Research, University of Queensland, Australia (March 1992 - December 1992)
Professor of Computer-Enhanced Language Learning (Full Professor), Bond University, Gold Coast, Q. 4229, Australia. (July 1988 - December 1991)
Director of the Language Centre, Bond University, Gold Coast, Q. 4229, Australia. (July 1988 - December 1991)
Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University, Gold Coast, Q. 4229, Australia. (July 1989 - December 1991)
Director, University of Queensland Language Laboratory (equivalent Reader/Associate Professor level in the British system). (1st February 1988 to 30th September 1988.
Director, Humanities Computing Resource Unit, University of Queensland. (1986 - 1988)
Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in the US system), Department of French, University of Queensland. (1984 - 1988)
Lecturer, Department of French, University of Queensland. (1974 - 1983)
Tutor Group 4 and Temporary Lecturer, Department of French, University of Queensland. (1972 - 1974)
Membership of Professional and Other Relevant Associations
President of AsiaCALL (Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning), 2012 -
AsiaCALL representative on IndiaCALL Executive 2009 -
Member of the editorial board, AsiaCALL Online Journal, 2005 -
Advisor to GEMA on-line Journal, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2006 -
Invited Member of the Fulbright National Screening Committee: English Language Teaching Assistantships, 2007 -
Invited Member of the International Program Committee of CSEDU 2009, 2010: The International Conference on Computer Supported Education
Member Advisory Board of International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, 2007 -
Member of the International Programme Committee (IPC scientific commission) for the IASK International Conference "Teaching and Learning 2008" (TL 2008)
Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of i-TCE 2008. Kuwait.
Member editorial board, Zhang, F. and Barber, E. (eds.): Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning, 2008 (in press)
Member review board, e-learning 2007 conference, 2007
Article reviewer for APACALL (Asia Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language-Learning) book 1, 2004
Member of CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Instruction Consortium)
Chair of the Technology Committee of the Illinois Council for the teaching of Foreign Languages.
Member of the Higher Education Committee Illinois Council for the teaching of Foreign Languages
Member of the Advisory Council, Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Member Modern Languages Association
Member of ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages)
Appointed to Editorial Board of Thai TESOL Bulletin, January 2010.
Highlights for 1993 - 2010
Invitation to conduct a research and reviewing workshop for editors of the Thai TESOL Bulletin.
Keynote Speaker for AsiaCALL2010 International Conference, HM. Patel Institute of English Training and Research, Anand, India.
PhD Thesis examination panel,Suranaree University of Technology.
Reviewer CSEDU 2009, 2010: 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education
Completion of NCATE Accreditation report - September 2010
Participated in 2nd Virtual Roundtable Conference on Language Learning and Technology
Keynote Speaker, 2010 NCUE Fifth Annual Conference on Language Teaching, Literature, Linguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Continuity and Discontinuity: Interdisciplinary Spectrum in English Study and Teaching, National Changhua University of Education, Changua, Taiwan, April 2010.
Appointed to Editorial Board of Thai TESOL Bulletin., January 2010.
Vice-President and US representative of AsiaCALL, 2007-2011
AsiaCALL representative on IndiaCALL Executive
Participant in the APACALL Panel presentation of WIAOC 2009 online conference, May 2009
Paper presenter, International Conference of the International Society for Language Studies, Orlando, Florida, June 2009
Keynote Speaker for the International Conference in ELT Research Findings, Rajabhat University, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 20 - 21, 2009: 'Where do I start? What do I do next? Enhancing effective language learning and teaching'
Paper presenter, Illinois Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Springfield, October 2009
Keynote Speaker for AsiaCALL2009 International Conference, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 2009: 'Asian CALL, AsiaCALL: Issues In Visibility and Invisibility'.
Invited to be a keynote speaker in India, 2010
Invited to be a keynote speaker in Malaysia, 2009 and 2010.
Initiating and/or continuing discussions re a consortial international refereed journal on language teaching/learning.
Developing further relations with the Australian Catholic University, Canberra, Australia; Suranaree University of Technlogy, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand; Rajabhat University, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand; National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan; Gyeongju University, Gyeongju, Korea; College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Developer and Manager of the AsiaCALL website and on-line journal
Assessor for PhD theses and proposals - various universities
Invited to offer an extended training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning, International Islamic University-Malaysia
Invited as Visiting Research Professor, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Elected President AsiaCALL 2008 Conference, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Elected Vice-President of AsiaCALL (The Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
Plenary speaker, AsiaCALL Conference, Indore, India.
Participation in two Examination Committees for PhD proposals, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.
Awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Award for Internationalization, April 2007
Participation in WIAOC 2007 online conference. Panel discussion with colleagues from APACALL, 18 May 2007
Presentation to International Society for Language Studies Conference, Hawaii, April 2007
Approval of Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences by Board of Trustees, March 2007
Review of curriculum and development of new language courses March 2007
Creation of Professional Development Program, January 2007
Keynote Speaker, AsiaCALL Conference, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2006
Negotiations for creation and signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with Suranaree University of Technology and creation of international refereed journal on language teaching - a cooperative venture between Suranaree University of Technology and Western Illinois University, November 2006
Negotiation of possible links between Western Illinois University and Chulalongkorn University and Ayuttayah Rajabhat University, November 2006
Appointed Advisor to GEMA on-line journal, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, October 2006
Workshop with Dr Dennie Hoopingarner on the latest Web Technologies in Language Learning, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand, August 2006
Keynote Speaker at the 2006 (9th) Conference on English Language Education sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan), Fortune Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung, Republic of China, April 2006
Reviewer, Department of Foreign Languages, Eastern Illinois University, April 2006
Development (as Committee Chair) of the new Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Western Illinois University
Participation in an online conference: WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Convergence "Bridges across Cyberspace", November 2005
Keynote speaker, AsiaCALL Conference, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, November 2005
Co-Chair College of Arts and Science Committee to construct a major in International Studies
One of three leaders in 3-hour symposium on computers in language-learning, World Conference of Applied Linguistics (AILA), University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 2005
Project consultant, Critical Reading and Critical Writing Research Project, joint project between Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, Korat Rajabhat, Korat, Thailand, Dhurakijpundit University, Bangkok, Thailand and Critical Pedagogy and Technology Consultants Pty Ltd, Australia.
Principal keynote speaker, New Directions in English Language Teaching Conference, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhonratchasima, Thailand, August 2004.
Presentation of academic paper by videoconference between Houston (USA) and Canberra (Australia) as part of the International Computers and Philosophy Conference held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Keynote speaker at Professional Development Conference for English teachers, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.
Outside Studies Program. (sabbatical year).
Attended and delivered paper at ASIACall 2002 Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Keynote speaker, English Language Professional Development Conference, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.
Keynote speaker, English Language Teaching Trends, Dhurakijpundit University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Attendance at AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) Conference, Singapore.
Attendance at Australia-Taiwan Higher Education Conference, Adelaide.
Attendance at CALICO (Computer-Aided language Learning and Instruction Consortium) 2002 conference, University of California, Davis, USA.
Editor APACALL Journal.
Editor ASIACall Journal.
Growth of doctoral enrolments in the School from 0 enrolments in 1998 to 15 in 2003 (13 supervised by Andrew Lian).
Trips to Taiwan and Thailand promoting the University of Canberra.
Keynote speaker, English Language Teaching and Knowledge Transformation Conference, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
Keynote speaker, English language Professional Development seminar, Chung Tai Institute of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
Chair Organising Committee, 25th Annual National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.
Editor, Applied Linguistics in the Asia-Pacific Region: the next 25 years, Proceedings of the 25th Annual National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
Keynote speaker, 9th International Symposium on English Teaching, November 2000
Promotional trips for University of Canberra: Korea, Thailand, Taiwan
Development in conjunction with the Hungarian Embassy in Australia of a proposal for the first Centre for Hungarian Language and Culture Studies in the southern hemisphere. Subject to final approval by Hungarian government (1999)
Organised an electronic petition in support of the East Timorese.
Planning, development and implementation of the Australian Centre for Language-Learning: a collaborative initiative of the University of Canberra and the Canberra Institute of Technology. (University of Canberra) (1998 -1999)
Modelling of a low-cost "self-serve" system for providing distance education access to the new Technology-Enhanced Language-Learning graduate degrees. System combines, webcam technology, streaming technology, WebCT site, e-mail and chat sites (1999).
Invited keynote speaker to the National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea: joint paper with Ania Lian entitled 'Toward the Notion of a Language-Learning Environment' (July 1999).
Travel to Taiwan (March and June 1999 - accompanying the University's President) to establish links with universities and local government authorities.
Travel to Korea (March, June and July 1999) to sign or develop formal memoranda of understanding between the University of Canberra and Korean universities, also developing marketing initiatives.
Development of graduate stream (Graduate Certificate to PhD) in Technology-Enhanced Language-Learning (1999).
Re-organisation of Modern Language Majors (1999).
Development of public relations and marketing structures to attract the community to the study of languages.
Design and organisation of a new building (incorporating an individual learning centre) for the School of Languages and International Education at the University of Canberra. (University of Canberra)
Travel to Korea to address the Korean TESOL conference and to present seminars in the context of IDP activities in Korea. (University of Canberra)
Creation of a set of English Language majors to be incorporated in a number of structures e.g. the Bachelor of Information Technology (in collaboration with the Vietnam National University). (University of Canberra).
Travel to Burma and Vietnam with a view to establishing educational links on behalf of the University of Canberra as a whole. (University of Canberra)
Creation of a set of new postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics and Language and Applied Linguistics (Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, Master of Arts - Honours). (James Cook University)
Delivery through the use of flexible learning approaches (including use of Internet and other modes of communication) of a postgraduate degree in Applied Linguistics and a number of subjects in French language (Beginners' French and French for Business). (James Cook University)
Design and organisation of a new building (incorporating a self-access centre) for the Department of Modern Languages at James Cook University. (James Cook University)
Establishment of a major satellite reception facility (3 dishes) for use in language learning. (James Cook University)
Re-organisation of all language courses in the Department of Modern Languages: semesterisation and streaming of beginners and non-beginners. (James Cook University)
Introduction of a proficiency-based system for assessing language-learning outcomes. (James Cook University)
Creation of a self-access centre incorporating satellite reception facilities, video-cassette recorders and computer-enhanced language learning systems. (James Cook University)
Several in-service courses for teachers of Languages Other Than English (LOTEs) in collaboration with primary and secondary educational bodies. (James Cook University)
In-service courses and seminars for university colleagues in the areas of flexible learning and the use of modern technology to enhance learning. (James Cook University)
Establishment of a language-teaching forum (including practising teachers). (James Cook University)
Review of Eastern Illinois University's language department, April 2006.
Review of the Language Learning Centre at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, August 1995.
(with Lian, A. B.): Electronic networking for LOTE teachers (ILOTEs funded project, in conjunction with the NLLIA's LATTICE centre at University of Queensland) (1994).
Griffith University re organisation of language teaching and learning facilities (1994).
Federal government contract (jointly with the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia at the University of Queensland) under the Australian Second Language Learning Programs, to develop interactive audio and video computer-enhanced language learning resources ($60,000) (1991-1993).
Informal consultancies (University of Melbourne, James Cook University) re the establishment and organisation of Language Centres.
Australia/UK educational consultancy on language learning in distance education with special reference to the use of technology (in partnership with the Centre for Language Teaching and Research, University of Queensland) (1990).
Senior Consultant to the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia (Centre for Language and Technology) (1989 -1999 ).
University of New England (Northern Rivers campus): Japanese re-training project (1990 and 1993).
Griffith University: Language Laboratory and Language Learning Review (1988).
NSW Department of Technical and Further Education, CALL Project (1988). Brisbane Migrant Education Centre (various).
The University of Sydney (various).
Other Experience
Selected as one of twenty funded international experts to participate in a seminar held in London (September 1988) entitled: The use, application and limitations of new computer-based technology in foreign language learning. The seminar was organised by the World Federation of Modern Language Associations (FIPLV) and Eurocentres.
Full-time secondment for twelve months to the University of Queensland's Computer-Assisted Learning Unit (1986).
Full-time secondment for six months to the University of Queensland's Tertiary Education Institute (1982).
Positions Currently Held
College of Arts and Sciences Representative on the Excellence in Internationalizing the Campus Committee, (WIU).
College of Arts and Sciences Representative on the Course Management System Committee, (WIU).
Member of the Humanities Sub-Group of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Member of the Provost's Committee on International Studies, WIU.
Member of the Faculty Mentorship Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, WIU.
Co-chair College of Arts and Sciences Committee for International Studies, WIU.
Member of Undergraduate Research Awards Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, WIU.
Member Chairs' Council, College of Arts and Sciences, WIU.
Member Higher Education Committee, Illinois Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Supervisor and examiner for PhD, MA and MEd theses, University of Canberra and elsewhere.
Professional Development Leader, Department of Foreign Languages, WIU.
Vice-President, AsiaCALL
Advisor, GEMA online Journal.
Editorial Board, AsiaCALL journal.
Many other minor committees and working groups.
Positions Held Previously
Member Review Panel for Foreign Language Grants, Illinois Board of Secondary Education.
Chair Search Committee German Assistant Professor.
Chair Search Committee for two Spanish Assistant Professors.
Search Committee for Assist./Assoc. Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Member Search Committee for the Director of the Center for International Studies, WIU.
Member Chairs' Committee on the review of departmental retention and promotion criteria, WIU.
Chair Committee for the creation of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Western Illinois University (WIU)
Member English Proficiency Review Committee
Manager of the ozfrench computer-based bulletin board system.
Manager of the langbrain computer-based bulletin board system. Australian Capital Territory, Board of School Senior Education,
Member of the Accreditation Panels for French, ESL, Generic LOTEs, Modern Greek.
New South Wales Board of Studies, Member of the Board Consultative Committee for Languages.
Manager of the gesture-l computer-based bulletin board system.
Member of the International Committee of the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee, University of Canberra.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra.
Member of the University Heads of Schools' Forum, University of Canberra.
University of Canberra Team Leader for Taiwan, University of Canberra.
University of Canberra Team Leader for Korea, University of Canberra.
Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Division of Communication and Education (at various times), University of Canberra.
Member of the Academic Board, University of Canberra.
Member of the Higher Degrees Committee of the Faculty of Education, University of Canberra.
Member of the Faculty of Education Marketing Committee, University of Canberra.
Member of the Education Committee of the Faculty of Education, University of Canberra.
Member of the Information Technology Committee of the Faculty of Education, University of Canberra.
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Education (at various times), University of Canberra
Chair and member of various selection committees.
Member of the Editorial Board of ON-CALL.
Member of the Board of the Faculty of Education, University of Canberra.
Member of the Faculty of Education Executive, University of Canberra
Chair, Infrastructure, Equipment and Space Committee, Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra.
Member of the Queensland Language Education Consortium, Queensland Department of Education.
Member (invited) French syllabus subcommittee, Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies.
Member of the Languages Other Than English Subject Advisory Committee, Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies.
Member State Review Panel for French, Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies.
Member, Course-Planning Committee of the Academic Board, James Cook University.
University working party for Internationalisation and Globalisation, James Cook University.
University working party for Flexible Learning, James Cook University.
Leader, Planning Committee for Internationalisation and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Economics, James Cook University.
Leader, Planning Committee for Flexible Course Delivery, Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Economics, James Cook University.
Elected by the Academic Board as its representative on the Selection Committee for the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Invited member and panel Chair of the National Workshop of the Australian Research Council Discipline Strategy Review of Languages and Literacy, Melbourne, December 1996.
Chair, Vice-Chancellor's Working Party on the Use of Technology in Teaching and learning, James Cook University.
University representative on Education Network Australia, James Cook University.
Elected to the Teaching Committee of James Cook University (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997).
Member of the JCU Academic Board.
Representative of the JCU Academic Board on the Library Committee.
Member of Budget Group 2 Advisory Committee, JCU.
Member of the Committee of the Faculty of Arts, JCU.
Member of the Faculty of Arts, JCU.
Member of the Committee to conduct the Performance Review the Library at James Cook University (1994)
Appointed to the Reference Group for Project on Management Information System Analysis and Development (1994)
Chair of the Vice-Chancellor's Working Party on Technology in Teaching and learning (1994)
Elected to the Standing Committee of James Cook University (1994)
Academic Program Review Committee of James Cook University (1994)
Member of committee reviewing the activities and structure of the JCU Research Committee.
Elected to the Faculty of Arts committee to examine the establishment of a Faculty of Social Sciences.
Foundation member of the Board of the JCU Research Foundation.
Member of the video-conferencing committee at JCU.
Elected Deputy Chairman of Library Liaison Committee (1993-1994)
Working Party on Australia Today '94 - Jakarta.
Vice-President, Structuro-Global Audio-Visual Association of Australia.
Member of the Editorial Board of The SGAV Review.
Member of the Advisory Committee of the THESIS project (joint Griffith University-Bond University research).
Member of the Peer Review Advisory Committee of the Languages and Cultures Unit, Queensland Department of Education.
Member of the Advisory Board of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia's Centre for Technology and Language Learning (1989 - 1999).
Member of the LOTE Reference Group South Coast Region, Queensland Department of Education.
Assessor for Australian Research Committee Grants.
Acting Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (various times) at Bond University.
Member of the Interim Board of the Asia Pacific Open Learning Agency established as a spin-off from Queensland's bid for the Multi-Function Polis. Seed funding has been granted by the Queensland Government.
Member (invited) of the Steering Committee for Communicating: an interactive videodisc project funded by the Adult Migrant Education Programme (Adult Migrant Education Programme - AMEP), managed through the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research.
Member of the Language sub-committee of the Queensland Open Learning Network.
Language Services Committee, World Expo 88.
Member of the Board of the Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland.
Representative of the Humanities Group to the University of Queensland's Computer-Assisted Learning Steering Committee.
Keynote Speaker: Computer Education Group of Queensland Conference. June 1989.
Keynote Speaker: Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, December 1989.
Member and Chairman of the University of Queensland Humanities Group Computing Policy Committee.
Assessor for Australian Research Council projects in foreign language learning.
Assessor for Key Centres of Teaching and Research (Australian Research Council).
Member of the Committee to examine the uses of very high-speed computer networks in universities and industry (Queensland Department of Manufacturing and Commerce) June 1990.
System manager for the Humanities Computing Resource Unit.
Representative of the Humanities Group to the University of Queensland's Central Computing policy Committee.
Member of the Computing Subcommittee of the University of Queensland's Central Research Committee.
University of Queensland: Chairman, Humanities Computing Policy Committee.
Chairman State Review Panel for French, Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies.
Information Officer and then Vice-President Structuro-Global Audio-Visual Association of Australia.
University of Queensland: Representative to the Foreign Languages Advisory Committee of the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies.
University of Queensland: French Department financial delegate.
Convenor, French Syllabus Sub-Committee of the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies. This committee was responsible for the re-writing of the French syllabus for Queensland at both Junior and Senior levels.
Convenor, Working group on Applied Computational Linguistics including Computer-aided Instruction of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.
Convenor, Language Teaching Section of two AULLA Congresses (1978 and 1983).
Member of the editorial board of The New Zealand Language Teacher.
Member of the organising committee of the CALITE (Computer-Aided Learning in Tertiary Education) Congress, University of Queensland, 1983 and 1984.
Invited participant in the Australian Technological Change Forum, Canberra, August 1984.
Invited participant in the ARGS Workshop on Language, Speech and Computers, of Melbourne, November 1984.
Examiner in French for the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI): levels 2 and 3 (interpreting) and level 2 (translation).
Tutor and Chief Examiner in French at the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Queensland.
Examiner for the Senior examination in French (Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies).
Examiner for the Concours La Pérouse prize organised by the Alliance Française
University of Queensland: Departmental Consultative Committee, Research Committee, Course-Planning Committee, Equipment and Space Committee, Noumea Committee, Schools Liaison Committee (at various times).
University of Queensland: various selection committees for appointments to tutorships and lectureships in French and in Computer-Aided Learning.
University of Queensland: Acting Head of French Department (at various times).
Grants/Awards/Contracts
University of Canberra Travel Grant ($1,200).
University of Canberra Faculty Travel Grant - US and Europe ($8,000 approx.).
with (Curro, G., Kutash, G. and Zhang, F. Z.): Analysis of Pronunciation Errors of Australian Learners of Chinese, French, Italian and Japanese, Merit Research Grant, James Cook University ($8,000).
(with Zhang, F. Z): Teaching Mandarin tone and rhythms through enhanced audio-kinaesthetic input, James Cook University Teaching Grant ($10,000).
(with Lian, A. B.): Electronic networking for LOTE teachers (ILOTEs funded project, in conjunction with the NLLIA's LATTICE centre at University of Queensland).
(with Lian, A. B.) Queensland government contracts (5) to provide in-service teacher education programmes in computers, technology and language learning.
Federal government contract (jointly with the National Languages Institute of Australia at University of Queensland) under the Australian Second Language Learning Programs, to develop interactive audio and video computer-enhanced language learning resources ($60,000).
Queensland government contracts (4) to provide in-service teacher education for practising teachers of Japanese. Grant made to Language Centre.
Australia/UK educational consultancy on language learning in distance education with special reference to the use of technology (in partnership with the Centre for Language Teaching and Research, University of Queensland).
Australian Research Grants Scheme (ARGS) ($15,000).
(with Girle, R. A.): University of Queensland Special Project Grant ($15,000).
University of Queensland Academic Enhancement Grant (Language Laboratory) ($30,000).
Brisbane Migrant Education grant for joint development of videodisc materials for the teaching of English as a Second Language ($1,500).
University of Queensland Humanities Special Project Grant ($9,000).
CAL Small Grant for the development of videodisc materials ($2,000).
University of Queensland Special Project Grant ($14,250).
Australian Research Grants Scheme (ARGS) grant.
University of Queensland Special Project Grant ($9,000).
To Depts of French/German/Philosophy, a grant to establish and develop a CAL facility. ($35,000) (partly as a result of my activities in CAL).
(to CASLED group) University of Queensland Humanities Major Project Grant ($1,235).
(to CASLED group) University of Queensland Innovations in Computing Grant ($200).
(to CASLED group) University of Queensland Special Project Grant ($4,500).
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Awards
French Government Scholarship (Doctoral studies, University of Paris IV).
Herbert Johnson Travel Grant (University of Sydney).
Commonwealth Postgraduate Studentship (University of Sydney).
Australian National University Postgraduate Scholarship.
Lithgow No. II Scholarship (University of Sydney).
Commonwealth Scholarship (University of Sydney).
Major Research
The ongoing definition and testing of a theoretical framework for foreign/second language-teaching and learning based initially on the work of P. Guberina, A-P. Lian and other theoreticians of the verbo-tonal theory of perception. Critical to this framework are the notions of (a) Meaning-making mechanisms, (b) load-reduction and (c) awareness-raising and (d) making complex authentic language input comprehensible.
More detailed intellectual argumentation for this framework may be found by clicking the Publications link in Andrew Lian's website (http://www.andrewlian.com/andrewlian/prowww/selpub.htm).
The definition and development of an optimal language-learning environment based on the above-mentioned theoretical framework. This has resulted in the definition of what might be called an exploratory-interactive environment.
When fully developed, the environment will have an audiovisual database as its central component. The database will then generate links to lessons, student-generated exercises, tools for analysis of language and awareness-raising, tools for student self-analysis. The system will essentially be modular in nature and enable the creation of links between modules as appropriate. This structure is not specific to language-teaching and learning but is generalisable to other learning contexts
Publications/Research Papers
Intonation Patterns of French, (Student's Manual), Melbourne, River Seine Publications, 1980, 70p.
Intonation Patterns of French, (Teacher's Book), Melbourne, River Seine Publications, 1980, 189p.
(with Joy, B. K.): 'Verbo-tonalism, Research and Language-learning', in SGAV Newsletter, July 1981, pp 7-12.
(with Joy, B. K. and Russell, I. R.): 'Introduction to Computer-Assisted Second Language Education', paper read to the 21st A.U.L.L.A. Congress, Massey University, New Zealand, January 1982, in Dunmore, J. and Muirhead, J. (eds): AULLA XXI Proceedings and Papers 1982, Massey University, Palmerston North, N. Z., 1982, pp. 303-311. Reprinted in The New Zealand Language Teacher, vol. 8, nos. 2-3, 1982, pp. 17-19.
(with Joy, B. K. and Russell, I. R.): 'Toward the Development of a Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Listening Comprehension Programme', paper read to the 21st A.U.L.L.A. Congress, Massey University, New Zealand, January 1982.
'Forms and Techniques of Assessment for Listening Comprehension Skills', (invited) paper read to the Assessment Conference of the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies, February 1982.
(with Mestre, M-C.): 'La vidéo dans la classe de langue', paper read to the first Australian Conference organised by the Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur l'utilisation et la diffusion des médias d'expression française, French Embassy, Canberra, May 1982.
(with Joy, B. K.): 'Prosody: the Crossroads of Language Systems', in SGAV Review, No. 1, July 1982, pp. 5-11.
(with Mestre, M-C.): 'The Use of Video in a Communicative Approach to Language Learning', in SGAV Review, No. 2, November 1982, pp. 13-24.
'On Interlanguage and Naivety', in SGAV Review, No. 2, November 1982, pp. 5-12.
(with Mestre, M-C.): 'The Use of Video in a Communicative Approach to Learning French', in Zuber-Skerritt, O. (ed.): Videology: The Use of Video in Higher Education, Kogan Page, London, 1984, pp. 257-267.
(with Mestre, M-C.): 'Toward Genuine Individualisation in Language Course Development', in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983, pp. 1- 19.
(with Joy, B.K. and Russell, I. R.): 'Listening Comprehension in Foreign Languages: Computing Some Possibilities', in Babel, vol. 18, no. 2, 1983, pp. 15-30.
(with Joy, B. K.): 'The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: Some Uses of Dialogue Generators in Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Learning', in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983, pp. 60-71.
'Using Scanners in the Computer-Assisted Development of the Writing Skill in a Foreign Language', in Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Aided Learning in Tertiary Education (CALITE), Brisbane, 1983, pp. 446-455.
'Aspects of Answer-Evaluation in Traditional Computer-Assisted Language Learning', in Russell R. M. (ed.): Proceedings of the 2nd CALITE Congress, Brisbane, University of Queensland, 1984, pp. 150-160.
(with Mestre, M-C.): 'Goal-directed Communicative Interaction and Macrosimulation', in Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, 73-74-75, 1985, pp. 185-210.
'An Experimental Computer-Assisted Listening Comprehension System', in Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, 73-74-75, 1985, pp. 167-184.
(with Cryle, P. M.): 'Sorry, I'll Play That Again', in Bowden, J. A. and Lichtenstein, S. (eds): Student Control of Learning: Computers in Tertiary Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, December 1985, pp. 204-213.
'Methods of Teaching French', in Guindy, E. (ed.): Language Methodology and Resources: A Report of Proceedings, Brisbane, Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland, 1985, pp. 27-31.
'Review of Savignon, S.: Communicative Competence, Theory and Classroom Practice', in System, vol. 13, December 1985, pp. 167-168.
'Implementing Computer-Assisted Language Learning', in Hoddinott, D. (ed.): ATESOL 4th Summer School, Proceedings: volume 4, Sydney, 1986, pp. 28-45.
(with Montredon, J.): 'Learning About Tenses, a Computer-Aided Approach', paper read to the ALAA Congress, Brisbane.
'Generative Computer-Aided Language Learning: The University of Queensland CALL Project and EXCALIBUR', in (Girle, R. A. ed): Report of the First Round Table Conference: Australian Educational Expert System Project, Project EXCALIBUR Publications, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1986, pp. 125-136.
'Awareness, Autonomy and Achievement in Foreign Language Learning', paper read to the VIIème Colloque International SGAV, Brussels, 1986, in Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, 82-84, 1987, pp. 167-184, and pre-published in The SGAV Review
Review (solicited) of Français et audio-visuel à l'authentique, for The New Zealand Journal of French Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1987, pp. 57-61.
'Computer-Aided Language Learning: A Matter of Vision', (invited) paper read to the 15th ATESOL Summer School, Sydney, January 1987.
'EXCALIBUR and CALL', (invited) paper read to the 5th ATESOL Summer School, Sydney, January 1987.
(with Thornquist, L. and Thornquist, L.): 'Computer-Based Technology in Language Learning: Beyond the Walls of the Traditional Classroom', in Journal of Educational Techniques and Technologies, vol. 20, no. 2, Premiere 1987, pp. 24-31, (solicited).
'The Best of Both Worlds... Cheaply', paper read to the 5th CALITE Congress, Sydney, December 1987.
'Distributed Learning Environments and Computer-Enhanced Language Learning: Evolution in (Language) Learning Laboratories', (invited) paper read at the RELC Seminar, Singapore, April 1988.
'Distributed Learning Environments and Computer-Enhanced Language Learning (CELL)', (invited) paper read to the Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association (ASPESA) National Workshop, Capricornia Institute, Rockhampton, July 1988, in Dekkers, J., Griffin, H. and Kempf, N. (eds): Computer Technology serves Distance Education, Rockhampton, Capricornia Institute, 1988, pp. 83 - 88.
'Distributed Language-Learning Environments in Computer-Enhanced Language-Learning: Implementation Considerations', (invited) paper read to the VIIIth International SGAV Conference, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, September 1988.
'Computer-Enhanced Language Learning at Bond University', (invited) paper read to the VIth ATESOL Summer School, University of Sydney, January 1989.
(joint ed.): SGAV Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1989.
(with Levy, M. J.): 'The Impact of Policy Decisions on the Implementation of Computer-Enhanced Language Learning (CELL)', paper read to the International CALICO Conference, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, USA, April, 1989.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the national CALL Clearinghouse) vol. 4, no.1, Bond University Language Centre, August, 1989.
'Computer-Enhanced Language Learning: the Near Future', Keynote address read to the National Congress of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, December 1989.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the national CALL Clearinghouse) vol. 4, no.2, Bond University Language Centre, December, 1989.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the National CALL Clearinghouse) vol. 4, no.3, Bond University Language Centre, February 1990.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the National CALL Clearinghouse) vol. 4, no.4, Bond University Language Centre, May 1990.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the National CALL Clearinghouse), vol. 5, no. 1, September 1990.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the National CALL Clearinghouse), vol. 5, no. 2, December 1990.
'Computer-Enhanced Language Learning and Distance Education', chapter in Sussex, R. D.: Australia-UK Educational Exchange Consultancy: Distance Education and Technology in Language Teaching, Language and Technology Centre of the National Languages Institute of Australia, CLTR, University of Queensland, pp. 78-87.
'Language Learning Methodology', chapter in Sussex, R. D.: Australia-UK Educational Exchange Consultancy: Distance Education and Technology in Language Teaching, Language and Technology Centre of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, CLTR, University of Queensland, pp. 58-63.
'Applications of Interactive Digitised Audiovisual Systems (IDA) in Language Learning', paper read to the National Conference of the Australian Federation of the Modern Language Teachers Association, Brisbane, September 1990.
Keynote speaker (paper entitled 'Trends and Developments in Computer-Enhanced Language Learning') and leader of a Plenary Colloquium on Computer-Enhanced Language Learning, National Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association, Brisbane, September 1990.
(with Crawford, J. C.): 'Some Australian Applications of Verbotonalism, invited paper read at the International Verbotonal Symposium, Zagreb, 1991.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the National CALL Clearinghouse) vol. 5, no. 4, Bond University Language Centre, May 1991.
'What is CALL Software?' (invited) paper read to the FIPLV/Eurocentres seminar on: The use, application and limitations of new computer-based technology in foreign language learning, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, September 1988. Subsequently read as a keynote address to the State Conference of the Computer Education Group of Queensland, 1989. Published in On-Call, vol. 5, no. 4, 1991, pp. 2-8.
(with Levy, M. J.): 'An Australian Perspective on Computer-Enhanced Language Learning: the Bond University Context', (invited) in Interactive Learning International, vol. 7, no. 3, July-September, Wiley, London, 1991 pp. 165-174.
'Applications of Interactive Digitised Audio Technology in Language Learning', (invited) in Merry, B. (ed.): Essays in Honour of Keith Val Sinclair, Townsville, JCU, Capricornia No 9, 1991, pp. 254-272.
'The On-Call Bulletin Board System', in On-Call, vol. 6, no. 1, 1991, pp. 2-3.
(joint ed.): On-Call, (the Journal of the National CALL Clearinghouse) vol. 6, no.1, Bond University Language Centre, September 1991.
'Applications of Computers in LOTE Teaching', Keynote address (invited) read to the Biennial Conference of the Modern Languages Association of Tasmania, September 1991.
'Toward a Computer-Aided Language Learning Support System', in Filologija, Journal of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Fine Arts, special edition in honour of the 75th birthday of Professor Petar Guberina, vol. 15, Zagreb 1987-1988 (published 1992), pp. 143-152.
'Intelligence in CALL', (invited) paper read to the International CALL Symposium held within the World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, August 1987, in Pennington, M. and V. Stevens (eds): Computers in Applied Linguistics: An International Perspective, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, Avon, UK, 1992, pp. 66-76.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 6, no.2, Bond University Language Centre, May 1992.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 7, no. 1, Bond University Language Centre, September 1992.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 7, no.2, Bond University Language Centre, January 1993.
'Listening comprehension, interactive videodisc and digitised speech', paper read to the Linguistics section of the AULLA Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z., 1993.
(with Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.): Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, 2 vols, 127 pp. and 153 pp., 1 videodisc, 3 computer programs, computer-based listening comprehension materials for English as a Second Language, French and Japanese, Australian Second Language Learning Project, Director of Project: A-P. Lian, Commonwealth of Australia, 1993.
'General Introduction', Chapter 1 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 1-8.
'Awareness, Autonomy and Achievement', Chapter 3 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 25-41.
'Toward a new computer tool for the development of listening comprehension skills', Chapter 6 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 64-74.
'SBPLAY: an audiovisual browser and language laboratory substitute', Chapter 7 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 75-92.
'The problem of answer-evaluation in traditional CALL settings', Chapter 8 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 93-105.
'Brief description and users' manual for the IBMREG system', Chapter 9 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 106-112.
'English as a Second Language', Chapter 10 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 115-116 and ACP1-1 to ACP8V-2.
'French', Chapter 11 in Lian, A-P., Hoven, D. L. and Hudson, T. J.: Audio-Video Computer Enhanced Language Learning and the Development of Listening Comprehension Skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993, pp. 117-118 and AC1SBP-1 to AC1SB-35.
AC1SB, computer-based listening comprehension materials for French, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993.
AC1SBP, computer-based listening comprehension materials for French, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993.
(with Hoven, D. L): ACP1-1 to ACP8V-2, a set of 23 listening comprehension materials for English as a Second Language, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993.
'Technology and the language learner', keynote address to the National Seminar on Computers in Language Learning, Canberra, 1993, (to be published in the Proceedings of the seminar).
'Computer-Enhanced Language Learning: the latest research', keynote address to the National Seminar on Computers in Language Learning, Canberra, 1993, (to be published in the Proceedings of the seminar).
'A New audio-visual browser and language laboratory substitute', paper read to the national conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Adelaide, September 1993.
(with Lian, A. B.): 'Computer-Enhanced Language Learning: a research workshop', workshop conducted at the national conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Adelaide, September 1993.
(with Lian, A. B.): 'Computer-Enhanced Language Learning: research in progress', a workshop conducted North Queensland Conference for LOTE teachers, JCU, December 1993.
'Language Teaching in the '90s', (keynote address) Modern Language Teachers' Association of ACT Conference, Canberra, May 1994.
'The implications of technology for the LOTE teacher', (keynote address) Modern Language Teachers' Association of ACT Conference, Canberra, May 1994.
(with Lian, A. B.): 'Using technology in the LOTE classroom', (keynote address) Modern Language Teachers' Association of ACT Conference, Canberra, May 1994.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 8, no. 2, Bond University Language Centre, May 1994.
'Dialogue generators Mark II', paper presented to the ALAA National Congress, University of Melbourne, July 1994.
'Two computer-based listening comprehension systems', paper read to National Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, Perth, October 1994..
'Dialogue generators: the next generation', paper read to the International CALICO symposium, Middlebury College, USA, June 1995.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 9, no. 1, University of Queensland, January 1995.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 9, no. 2, University of Queensland, May 1995.
'Language-learning resources and modern technology', paper read to the 20th National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Canberra, September 1995.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 9, no. 3, University of Queensland, October 1995.
'Virtually Speaking... Technology-Enhanced Language Learning in Australia', in Education Australia, no. 31, 1995, pp. 24-27.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 10, no. 1, University of Queensland, January 1996.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 10, no. 2, University of Queensland, May 1996.
(with Lian, A. B.): 'The uses of technology in language-teaching: an exploratory approach', (invited) paper to National Languages and Literacy Institute (NLLIA) panel on Technology in the Language Classroom, EXPO Lingua '96, Brisbane, July 1996, to be published in a collection of papers on the subject by NLLIA.
'The challenges of technology', plenary address to the National Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Association, in Scarino, A. (Ed.): Equity in Languages Other Than English, Conference papers of the AFMLTA 10th National Languages Conference, Perth, AFMLTA, 1996, pp. 35 - 42.
'Does using a calculator reduce your ability to think? Does using a book reduce your ability to remember? Reflections on the use of technology in language learning', paper read to the National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Sydney, October 1996.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 10, no. 3, University of Queensland, October 1996.
Paper (invited): 'Australian LOTE Policies and Universities', in McMillen, D. H. (ed.): Globalisation and Regional Communities, USQ Press, Toowoomba, 1997, pp. 362-367..
(with Lian, A. B.) 'The Secret of the Shao-Lin Monk: Contribution to an intellectual framework for language-learning', revised and expanded version of a paper read originally to the Language Departments at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, February 1997, in On-CALL, vol. 11, no. 2, May 1997 pp. 2-18.
'Toward an Integrated Computer-Enhanced Language-Learning Support System', paper and software demonstration, presented to the National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld, October 1997.
'From theory to practice', (invited) contribution to a TELL symposium held as part of the National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld, October 1997.
'Assessment revisited: An analysis of the criteria for assessing levels of achievement in the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies' Language Syllabuses', paper read to the Second Language Assessment Conference at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, October, 1997, to be published in the Proceedings (in press).
'LOTE in the new millenium', (invited) contribution and chair of a symposium on future directions of LOTE in Australia, presentation to the Second Language Assessment Conference at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, October, 1997.
(joint ed.): On-Call, vol. 12, no. 1, University of Queensland, May 1998
'On meaning and making sense in second-language pedagogy', paper read to the National Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane, July 1998.
'On-demand generation of individualised language-learning materials across the Internet', paper read to the CALICO98 International Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, July 1998.
'On-demand generation of individualised language-learning materials across the Internet', paper read to the KOTESOL 98 Conference Seoul, October, 1998.
(with Lian, A. B.) (invited): 'Toward a Language-Learning Environment', Plenary session to Applied Linguistics Association of Korea, July 1999.
'From first principles: Constructing language-learning and teaching environments', 9th International Symposium on English Teaching, November 2000, Taiwan, published in Selected Papers from the Ninth International Symposium on English Teaching, Taipei, Crane Publishing, November 2000.
'Imagination in Language Teaching and Learning', keynote address to the English Language Teaching and Knowledge Transformation Conference, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, 5th December 2001, published in the Proceedings of the Conference.
Applied Linguistics in the Asia-Pacific Region: the next 25 years, Proceedings of the 25th Annual National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, electronically published, University of Canberra, December 2001.
'Language, Learning, Legitimation', keynote address to English Language Conference on English Language Teaching Trends, Dhurakijpundit University, Bangkok, Thailand, 31 May 2002
'Knowledge, Meaning, (Language-) Learning and Technology', paper read to the International Computers and Philosophy Conference held at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, November 2003 (videoconference from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA).
'Seriously Practical: Implementing Technology-Enhanced Language-Learning (TELL) in an increasingly globalised world', in Hongladarom, S. (ed.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002), Chulalongkorn University Press, Bangkok, 2003, pp.399 - 407.
'Rethinking Technology-Enhanced Language-Learning (TELL)', keynote address at the Innovations in Language-Teaching Conference, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, 6 August 2004.
Review of Streaming Speech in Language Learning and Technology, vol. 8, no. 2, May 2004, pp. 23 - 32, available at http://llt.msu.edu/vol8num2/pdf/review2.pdf
'Technology-Enhanced Language-Learning Environments: a rhizomatic approach', book chapter in Son, J-B. (ed.): Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Contexts and Practices, New York, iUniverse, November 2004, pp. 1 - 20.
(with Lian, A. B., Dolan, D. C. and Scotellaro, G.): 'Narizoma: critical pedagogy in practice', book chapter in Son, J-B. (ed.): Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Contexts and Practices, New York, iUniverse, November 2004, pp. 21 - 38.
'The future of CALL', keynote address to AsiaCALL Conference, Sorabol College, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, November 2005.
'Language, Culture, Meaning, Learning and Technology', keynote address at the 2006 (9th) Conference on English Language Education sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan), Fortune Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung, Republic of China, April 2006 (Power Point presentation of speaking notes - Internet Explorer required)
'So you want me to teach a class of 150 students??!!??', keynote address to AsiaCALL Conference, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2006.
'Implementing a rhizomatic model of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning', paper to be read to the 2007 Conference of the International Society for Language Studies, Hawaii, April 2007.
'The AsiaCALL Website: Objectives And Strategies For Developing A Strong And Dynamic Professional Association', (Keynote Address), AsiaCALL 2008, The Seventh International Conference of The Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon ratchasima, Thailand, November 21 - 23, 2008.
Panel Discussion: 'The Future of CALL in Asia', AsiaCALL 2008, The Seventh International Conference of The Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon ratchasima, Thailand, November 21 - 23, 2008.
(with Gonzalez, J. A.): Technology-supported Rhizomatic Language-Learning : A Report On Work In Progress, AsiaCALL 2008, The Seventh International Conference of The Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon ratchasima, Thailand, November 21 - 23, 2008.
Online Panel Discussion: 'Technology innovations for language learning and teaching', WIAOC (Webheads in Action Online Convergence Conference), 22 May 2009.
'Developing a rhizomatic language-learning environment: the cultural dimension and the linguistic dimension', ISLS2009 Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 2009.
'Where do I start? What do I do next? Enhancing effective language-learning and teaching', Keynote Speaker for the First International Conference in ELT Reserahc Findings, Rajabhat University, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 20 - 21, 2009.
'Rhizomes, databases and learner-generated lessons', Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages State Conference. Lisle, IL, October 24, 2009.
'Asian CALL, AsiaCALL: Issues in visibility and invisibility', (Keynote Address), 8th AsiaCALL Conference, Sanata Dharma University, November 19 - 21, 2009.
'Rhizomatic Culture and Language Learning Systems: Implementation', 8th AsiaCALL Conference, Sanata Dharma University, November 19 - 21, 2009.
Participant in Panel Discussion: 'Breakthroughs in CALL', 8th AsiaCALL Conference, Sanata Dharma University, November 19 - 21, 2009.
(with Moore, C. R.): 'Teaching Business French with Macrosimulation', in Innovations in CALL and their Implications in Language Learning', Proceedings of the 8th AsiaCALL Conference, Sanata Dharma University, November 19 - 21, 2009.
'When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change', (Keynote Address), 2010 NCUE Fifth Annual Conference on Language Teaching, Literature, Linguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Continuity and Discontinuity: Interdisciplinary Spectrum in English Study and Teaching, National Changhua University of Education, Changua, Taiwan, April 2010. Available at: http://criticalpedagogy.blip.tv/
(with Moore, C. R.): 'Une nouvelle méthode pour enseigner le français commercial : la macrosimulation avec support technologique', Colloque 2010 de la Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique (SPFFA), Fordham University , New York, USA, October 29 - 30.
Source Book for French Language C, Brisbane, Department of French, University of Queensland, 1976.
Students' Book for French Language D, Brisbane, Department of French, University of Queensland, 1976.
'The Fabliaux: Immoderate but Moral', in Parergon, No. 7, December 1973, Canberra, pp. 12-20.
'Aspects of Verbal Humour in the Old French Fabliaux', in (Treweek, A. P. ed.): Proceedings and Papers of the XIIth AULLA Congress, Perth, 1969, pp. 236-261
Software and Courseware
PRONOUN (Random exercise generator based on a program written by Collett, J.: Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1984, upgraded to IBM PC, 1992.
PRESENT (Random exercise generator based on a program written by Collett, J.: Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1984, upgraded to IBM PC, 1992.
SUBJUNCTIVE, (Random exercise generator), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1984, upgraded to IBM PC, 1992.
MINISCAN, (CAL Lesson Driver), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1985.
INPUT, (CAL Authoring Package), Brisbane, University of Queensland FGPCAL System, 1984.
Revelation, (Computer-Aided Reading Comprehension Authoring System), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, December 1986.
Clom, (Authoring package for Cloze tests based on a driver written by J-C. Lacherez), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1986.
ORTHO, (Spelling Database for French), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1986.
Histoires, (Interactive Fiction Authoring/Presentation System), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1986.
(with Deschamps, G.): Class, (Computer-Based Testing System), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL Unit, 1987.
(with Cryle, P. M.): AC1, (Computer-Aided Listening Comprehension package), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1984, upgraded 1986 and adapted to IDA system, Bond University Language Centre, 1990-1991.
(with Cryle, P. M. & Spencer, M. C.): AC2, (Computer-Aided Listening Comprehension package), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1984, upgraded 1985 and adapted to IDA system, Bond University Language Centre, 1990-1991.
(with Cryle, P. M.): AC3, (Computer-Aided Listening Comprehension package), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1985 and adapted to IDA system, Bond University Language Centre, 1990-1991.
(with Spencer, M. C.): AC6, (Computer-Aided Listening Comprehension package), Brisbane, University of Queensland, FGPCAL System, 1986 and adapted to IDA system, Bond University Language Centre, 1990-1991.
Revelation (Computer-Aided Reading Comprehension Authoring System), an adaptation for the IBM PC of revelation (UNIX version), Bond University Language Centre, 1990-1992.
Langlab Language Laboratory simulation program for use with IDA system, University Language Centre, 1990.
Telefon, program to practise recognition of telephone numbers in foreign languages, Bond University Language Centre, 1990-1992 (in development)
(with Harper, H., and Levy, M. J.): Flatworld2, package teaching spatial relations and associated words, Bond University Language Centre, 1990.
(with Kutash, G.): harukanaru, re-purposing of a Japanese full-length feature film for the development of listening proficiency. Bond University Language Centre, 1990.
IBMREG, an adaptation for IBM PC of the MINISCAN lesson driver (UNIX version), Bond University Language Centre, 1990.
IBMINPUT, an adaptation for IBM PC of the authoring system for IBMREG, Bond University Language Centre, 1991.
BUS1, corrective phonetics package using digitised speech and digital filtering to enhance perception of sounds and correct pronunciation problems with French [y], Bond University Language Centre, 1991.
(with Hudson, T. J and Hoven, D. L.): SBPLAY, program for the development of listening comprehension skills, Australian Second Language Learning Project, 1993.
(with Lian, A. B.): CELLMENU, menu-based management system for Computer-Enhanced Language Learning, Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University, 1994.
(with Lian, A. B.): Dialog, a dialogue practice system for second language learning, Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University, 1994.
(with Lian, A. B.): AVI2, a sampler of international satellite television based on digitised video technology, Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University, 1994.
(with Lian, A. B.): Audiovisual database, Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University, 1994.
(with Lian, A. B.): Mmbrowse, audiovisual listening comprehension development program, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, October 1995.
(with Lian, A. B.): Mmbauth, authoring program for Mmbrowse, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, October 1995.
(with Oram, P. G., Dixon, M., Lian A. B.): MMstory, a multimedia storyboard program, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, October 1995.
(with Oram, P. G., Dixon, M., Lian A. B.): Mmstauth, authoring system for MMstory, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, October 1995.
(with Lian, A. B.): Mmbrowse, (integrated authoring version) audiovisual listening comprehension development and exploration program, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, April 1996.
(with Lian, A. B.): Grads01 - Grads06, prototype audiovisual listening comprehension development program for German, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, April 1996.
(with Lian, A. B.): Intonation Patterns of French (lesson 2 sensitisation), prototype pronunciation program for French, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, April 1996.
(with Lian, A. B.): Intonation Patterns of French (lesson 2 reinforcement), prototype pronunciation program for French, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University and A&A software, April 1996.
(with Lian, A. B. and Zhang, F. Z.): Intonation Patterns of Chinese, prototype pronunciation program for Chinese, Department of Modern Languages James Cook University, April 1996.
(with Lian, A. B.): WWTLab, a prototype dialogue practice system.
(with Lian, A. B.): Mmbrowse, (integrated authoring version) (upgrade) audiovisual listening comprehension development and exploration program, School of Languages, Literature and Communication, James Cook University and A&A software, 1997.
(with Lian, A. B.): MMgen, a proof-of-concept demonstration of a learning environment based on the principles enunciated in 'The Secret of the Shao-Lin Monk' and other articles. The system generates, on-demand and under learner control, lesson and other materials for language-learning. The demonstration focuses on work with intonation patterns.
(with Puakpong, N. and Lian, A. B.): MMexplore, audiovisual listening comprehension development and exploration program, Critical Pedagogy and Technology Consultants Pty Ltd, 2003 - 2006.
Other programs are currently under development
Workshops and seminars conducted (1981 - 1997)
(excluding papers read at conferences - incomplete record after 1997)
In-service course for JCU staff on flexible learning (emphasis on the WebCT system for learner and lesson management across the World Wide Web).
In-service course for LOTE teachers in the Northern Region of the State Department of Education.
AISQ in-service seminars for LOTE teachers
Open Day 1997, JCU.
Presentations to various public and community groups.
In-service seminars for teachers of LOTE.
Demonstration of software to school students.
Several in-service seminars on technology and language-learning, Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University.
Invited organiser and Chair of a 2-hour panel session entitled Technology and Language-Learning, 20th National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Canberra, September 1995.
Invited member of a 2-hour panel session on Language Teaching in Universities: Languages of Low Candidature, 20th National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Canberra, September 1995.
3 lectures on language education for an in-service course in Italian sponsored by the Italian government.
'The Verbo-Tonal theory of perception', presentation to the Intensive Refresher course for teachers of Japanese, JCU, March.
(with Lian, A. B.) Computer-Enhanced Language Laboratory Workshop, National Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, September.
(with Lian, A. B.)Various workshops for the LOTE network.
Participant in A Taste of French, a workshop for prospective students of French at the University of Queensland, organised in collaboration with the Association of Independent Schools of Queensland.
10-day intensive French course (A day on Tahiti Television) taught for the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Queensland, September 1992.
Five-day intensive workshop for the Queensland Department of Education (Languages and Cultures Unit) entitled: An Introduction to the Principles of Computer-Enhanced Language learning.
Plenary session (invited) on Technology in Language Learning for the Association of Independent Schools in Queensland seminar on LOTE teaching, September 1992.
Presentation and demonstration of Language Centre to UNESCO delegation from China.
Public lectures for mature age student programme run by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Demonstrations for schools and other organisations.
(with Crawford, J. C.): Learning Languages in the 1990s - Applied Linguistics in Practice, Bond University Language Centre, Bond University Experience programme.
Presentation and Workshop on CELL, Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland (October).
Two-day workshop organised by Bond University Language Centre and On-Call (November).
Lecture/Demonstration, Open Day, Bond University Language Centre, January.
Griffith University (Institute of Applied Linguistics and Languages), Lecture/Demonstration, Bond University Language Centre, March.
Two lectures as part of The Southport School's special Bond Day, April.
Presentation to Business Council of Australia, April.
Lecture/Demonstration on Technology in Language Learning to Australian Managers of General Electric Corporation, April.
Lecture to Regional Language Masters, Merrimac State High School, May.
Lecture/Demonstration to students and teachers of Miami State High School, May.
Lecture as part of All Saints Anglican Church School Bond Day, June.
Presentation to the Gold Coast Branch of the Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland, June.
Workshop on Applications of Interactive Digitised Audiovisual Systems, Horwood Language Centre, University of Melbourne, (funded visit), November
Public lecture on Language Learning in the 1990s, Bond University Language Centre, August.
Workshop on the use of Interactive Digitised Audio (IDA) in Language Learning Queensland Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (QATESOL), Bond University Language Centre, September.
Lecture/Demonstration on Technology in the Service of Language Learning, Australian Society for Educational Technology, Bond University Language Centre, November.
SGAV workshop on the IDA system, Bond University Language Centre, December
Colloquium and workshop on Computer-Aided Language Learning, for QATESOL, Brisbane, University of Queensland, 1988 (invited), July.
Lecture and Workshops on CALL and interactive videodisc, AV88 Conference, University of Queensland (invited), October
Session on Computer-Aided Language Learning, SGAV symposium held in conjunction with the World Congress of the International Applied Linguistics Association, Sydney (invited), April.
Mini-conference on CAL, Tertiary Education Institute, University of Queensland (invited), November.
Colloquium and workshop/seminar (both invited), on Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ATESOL Summer School, Sydney (invited), January.
Colloquium and workshop on Computer-Assisted Language Learning, AULLA Congress 1985, Melbourne (invited), February.
Workshop on Materials and Resources, Tertiary Education Institute, University of Queensland (invited), June.
Panelist in a symposium on authoring systems, 3rd CALITE Conference, University of Melbourne (invited), December.
Seminar on CAL in Foreign Languages, Tertiary Education Institute (invited), March.
Seminar on CAL, University of Queensland Humanities group (invited), March.
Symposium on CAL, Tertiary Education Institute, University of Queensland (invited),
Colloquium on CAL in foreign languages, Center for Educational Experimentation, Development and Evaluation, University of Iowa, Iowa City. U.S.A. (invited), 1983.
Workshop: assessing listening comprehension skills, Brisbane (invited), February.
Seminar on R.O.S.B.A., Qld Bd. of Sec. School Studies, Cairns, September.
Workshop for Migrant Education, Brisbane (invited), September.
Workshop/seminar on CAL in Foreign Languages, ALAA Congress, Perth, November.
Workshops (9) for The SGAV Association / University of Sydney, Sydney (invited), December.
Teachers' Refresher Course, Brisbane, December.
SGAV Workshop, Sydney (invited), May.
Teachers' Refresher Course, Brisbane (invited), December.
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The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border
Posted by David Williams | Jun 20, 2018 | Immigration/Deportation, Our Elected Representatives, President Trump
By Salvador Rizzo Washington Post .com June 19 at 3:00 AM Email the author
Is there a law that requires families to be separated at the border? | Fact Checker
Administration officials have pointed to “the law” as the reason why undocumented children are being separated from their parents. But there’s no such law. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That’s their law.”
— President Trump, in remarks to reporters at the White House, June 15
“We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world. Nobody has such sad, such bad and, actually, in many cases, such horrible and tough — you see about child separation, you see what’s going on there.”
— Trump, in remarks at the White House, June 18
“Because of the Flores consent decree and a 9th Circuit Court decision, ICE can only keep families detained together for a very short period of time.”
— Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech in Bozeman, Mont., June 7
“It’s the law, and that’s what the law states.”
— White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, at a news briefing, June 14
“We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”
— Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, on Twitter, June 17
The president and top administration officials say U.S. laws or court rulings are forcing them to separate families that are caught trying to cross the southern border.
These claims are false. Immigrant families are being separated primarily because the Trump administration in April began to prosecute as many border-crossing offenses as possible. This “zero-tolerance policy” applies to all adults, regardless of whether they cross alone or with their children.
Fact Checker- 7 questions about the family-separation policy, answered (Video)
The Justice Department can’t prosecute children along with their parents, so the natural result of the zero-tolerance policy has been a sharp rise in family separations. Nearly 2,000 immigrant children were separated from parents during six weeks in April and May, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Trump administration implemented this policy by choice and could end it by choice. No law or court ruling mandates family separations. In fact, during its first 15 months, the Trump administration released nearly 100,000 immigrants who were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, a total that includes more than 37,500 unaccompanied minors and more than 61,000 family members.
Children continue to be released to their relatives or to shelters. But since the zero-tolerance policy took effect, parents as a rule are being prosecuted. Any conviction in those proceedings would be grounds for deportation.
We’ve published two fact-checks about family separations, but it turns out these Trumpian claims have a zombie quality and keep popping up in new ways.
In the latest iteration, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted and then said at a White House briefing that the administration does not have “a policy of separating families at the border.” This is Orwellian stuff. Granted, the administration has not written regulations or policy documents that advertise, “Hey, we’re going to separate families.” But that’s the inevitable consequence, as Nielsen and other Trump administration officials acknowledge.
“Operationally what that means is we will have to separate your family,” Nielsen told NPR in May. “That’s no different than what we do every day in every part of the United States when an adult of a family commits a crime. If you as a parent break into a house, you will be incarcerated by police and thereby separated from your family. We’re doing the same thing at the border.”
Although we’ve fact-checked these family-separation claims twice, we hadn’t had the opportunity to assign a Pinocchio rating yet. We’ll do so now.
Since 2014, hundreds of thousands of children and families have fled to the United States because of rampant violence and gang activity in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. U.S. laws provide asylum or refugee status to qualified applicants, but the Trump administration says smugglers and bad actors are exploiting these same laws to gain entry. Nielsen says the government has detected hundreds of cases of fraud among migrants traveling with children who are not their own. Trump says he wants to close what he describes as “loopholes” in these humanitarian-relief laws.
The Central American refugee crisis developed during President Barack Obama’s administration and continues under Trump. The two administrations have taken different approaches. The Justice Department under Obama prioritized the deportation of dangerous people. Once he took office, Trump issued an executive order rolling back much of the Obama-era framework.
Obama’s guidelines prioritized the deportation of gang members, those who posed a national security risk and those who had committed felonies. Trump’s January 2017 executive order does not include a priority list for deportations and refers only to “criminal offenses,” which is broad enough to encompass serious felonies as well as misdemeanors.
Then, in April 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled out the zero-tolerance policy.
When families or individuals are apprehended by the Border Patrol, they’re taken into DHS custody. Under the zero-tolerance policy, DHS officials refer any adult “believed to have committed any crime, including illegal entry,” to the Justice Department for prosecution. If they’re convicted, they’re usually sentenced to time served. The next step would be deportation proceedings.
Illegal entry is a misdemeanor for first-time offenders and a conviction is grounds for deportation. Because of Trump’s executive order, DHS can deport people for misdemeanors more easily, because the government no longer prioritizes the removal of dangerous criminals, gang members or national-security threats. (A DHS fact sheet says, “Any individual processed for removal, including those who are criminally prosecuted for illegal entry, may seek asylum or other protection available under law.”)
Families essentially are put on two different tracks. One track ends with deportation. The other doesn’t.
After a holding period, DHS transfers children to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Department of Health and Human Services. They spend an average 51 days at an ORR shelter before they’re placed with a sponsor in the United States, according to HHS. The government is required to place these children with family members whenever possible, even if those family members might be undocumented immigrants. “Approximately 85 percent of sponsors are parents” who were already in the country “or close family members,” according to HHS. Some children have no relatives available, and in those cases the government may keep them in shelters for longer periods of time while suitable sponsors are identified and vetted.
Adding it all up, this means the Trump administration is operating a system in which immigrant families that are apprehended at the border get split up, because children go into a process in which they eventually get placed with sponsors in the country while their parents are prosecuted and potentially deported.
Nielsen becomes the public face of Trump’s family separation policy (Video)
This is a question of Trump and his Cabinet choosing to enforce some laws over others. The legal landscape did not change between the time the Trump administration released nearly 100,000 immigrants during its first 15 months and the time the zero-tolerance policy took effect in April 2018.
What changed was the administration’s handling of these cases. Undocumented immigrant families seeking asylum previously were released and went into the civil court system, but now the parents are being detained and sent to criminal courts while their kids are resettled in the United States as though they were unaccompanied minors.
The government has limited resources and cannot prosecute every crime, so setting up a system that prioritizes the prosecution of some offenses over others is a policy choice. The Supreme Court has said, “In our criminal justice system, the government retains ‘broad discretion’ as to whom to prosecute.” To charge or not to charge someone “generally rests entirely” on the prosecutor, the court has said.
Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for Nielsen, said the administration does not have a family-separation policy. But Waldman agreed that Trump officials are exercising their prosecutorial discretion to charge more illegal-entry offenses, which in turn causes more family separations. The Obama administration also separated immigrant families, she said.
“We’re increasing the rate of what we were already doing,” Waldman said. “Instead of letting some slip through, we’re saying we’re doing it for all.”
Waldman sent figures from fiscal 2010 through 2016 showing that, out of 2,362,966 adults apprehended at the southern border, 492,970, or 21 percent, were referred for prosecution. These figures include all adults, not just those who crossed with minor children, so they’re not a measure of how many families were separated under Obama.
“During the Obama administration there was no policy in place that resulted in the systematic separation of families at the border, like we are now seeing under the Trump administration,” said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. “Our understanding is that generally parents were not prosecuted for illegal entry under President Obama. There may have been some separation if there was suspicion that the children were being trafficked or a claimed parent-child relationship did not actually exist. But nothing like the levels we are seeing today.”
Trump administration officials say they’re trying to keep parents informed about their kids.
But some families instead have wound up in wrenching scenarios.
“Some of the most intense outrage at the measures has followed instances of parents deported to Central America without their children or spending weeks unable to locate their sons and daughters,” The Washington Post’s Nick Miroff reported. “In other instances, pediatricians and child advocates have reported seeing toddlers crying inconsolably for their mothers at shelters where staff are prohibited from physically comforting them.”
Administration officials have pointed to a set of laws and court rulings that they said forced their hand:
A 1997 federal consent decreethat requires the government to release all children apprehended crossing the border. The “Flores” consent decree began as a class-action lawsuit. The Justice Department negotiated a settlement during President Bill Clinton’s administration. According to a 2016 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the Flores settlement requires the federal government to release rather than detain all undocumented immigrant children, whether they crossed with parents or alone. The agreement doesn’t cover any parents who might be accompanying those minors, but it doesn’t mandate that parents be prosecuted or that families be separated. Moreover, Congress could pass a law that overrides the terms of the Flores settlement. Waldman said the Flores settlement requires the government to keep immigrant families together for only 20 days, but no part of the consent decree requires that families be separated after 20 days. Courts have ruled that children must be released from detention facilities within 20 days under the Flores consent decree, but none of these legal developments prevents the government from releasing parents along with children.
A 2008 law meant to curb human trafficking called the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). This law covers children of all nationalities except Canadians and Mexicans. Central American children who are apprehended trying to enter the United States must be released rather than detained under the terms of the TVPRA, and they’re exempt from prompt return to their home countries. The law passed with wide bipartisan support and was signed by a Republican president, George W. Bush. No part of the TVPRA requires family separations.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. This comprehensive law governs U.S. immigration and citizenship and makes a person’s first illegal entry into the United States a misdemeanor. Clinton, Bush and Obama — the presidents who were in office during the immigration boom of the past few decades — never enforced the INA’s illegal-entry provision with the Trump administration’s zeal. The INA says nothing about separating families. It was sponsored by Democrats and passed by a Democratic-held Congress. President Harry Truman, also a Democrat, tried to veto the bill, describing it as a reactionary and “un-American” measure meant to keep out immigrants from Eastern Europe. Congress overrode his veto.
“What has changed is that we no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law,” Nielsen said at a White House briefing June 18. “Everyone is subject to prosecution.”
It’s unclear whether 100 percent of adults are being prosecuted. Experts on the ground say there are not enough resources on the border to process all these cases. Trump administration officials say immigrants should show up at a port of entry to request asylum if they want to avoid prosecution, but there’s usually a big crowd and people often get turned away at these entry points, according to reporting from Texas Monthly.
It’s strange to behold Trump distancing himself from the zero-tolerance policy (“the Democrats gave us that law”) while Nielsen claims it doesn’t exist (“it’s not a policy”) and Sessions defends it in speech after speech.
“We do have a policy of prosecuting adults who flout our laws to come here illegally instead of waiting their turn or claiming asylum at any port of entry,” Sessions said in a speech on June 18 in New Orleans. “We cannot and will not encourage people to bring children by giving them blanket immunity from our laws.”
In a June 7 speech, Sessions said: “I hope that we don’t have to separate any more children from any more adults. But there’s only one way to ensure that is the case: it’s for people to stop smuggling children illegally. Stop crossing the border illegally with your children. Apply to enter lawfully. Wait your turn.”
The attorney general also suggested on June 7 that legal developments are forcing his hand. “Because of the Flores consent decree and a 9th Circuit Court decision, ICE can only keep families detained together for a very short period of time,” Sessions said. But as we’ve explained, this is misleading. Neither the consent decree nor the court ruling forces the government to separate families. What they do provide is accommodations for children that the government could extend to parents if it wanted to.
For Trump, the family-separation policy is leverage as he seeks congressional funding for his promised border wall and other immigration priorities, according to reporting by The Washington Post. Top DHS officials have said that threatening adults with criminal charges and prison time would be the “most effective” way to reverse the rising number of illegal crossings.
The Pinocchio Test
The doublespeak coming from Trump and top administration officials on this issue is breathtaking, not only because of the sheer audacity of these claims but also because they keep being repeated without evidence. Immigrant families are being separated at the border not because of Democrats and not because some law forces this result, as Trump insists. They’re being separated because the Trump administration, under its zero-tolerance policy, is choosing to prosecute border-crossing adults for any offenses.
This includes illegal-entry misdemeanors, which are being prosecuted at a rate not seen in previous administrations. Because the act of crossing itself is now being treated as an offense worthy of prosecution, any family that enters the United States illegally is likely to end up separated. Nielsen may choose not to call this a “family separation policy,” but that’s precisely the effect it has.
Sessions, who otherwise owns up to what’s happening, has suggested that the Flores settlement and a court ruling are forcing his hand. They’re not. At heart, this is an issue of prosecutorial discretion: his discretion.
The Trump administration owns this family-separation policy, and its spin deserves Four Pinocchios.
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Left-Wing Classics
May 12, 2014 by www.acasadevidro.com
WEB LIBRARY – Recommended E-books! [3rd Post] – Louis Althusser, Michel Serres, Mike Davis
MICHEL SERRES. The Natural Contract – Studies in Literature and Science. “Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants. World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history must now include the uncontrolled violence that humanity perpetrates upon the earth, and the uncontrollable menace to human life posed by the earth in reaction to this violence. Just as a social contract once brought order to human relations, Serres believes that we must now sign a “natural contract” with the earth to bring balance and reciprocity to our relations with the planet that gives us life. Our survival depends on the extent to which humans join together and act globally, on an earth now conceived as an entity.
Tracing the ancient beginnings of modernity, Serres examines the origins and possibilities of a natural contract through an extended meditation on the contractual foundations of law and science. By invoking a nonhuman, physical world, Serres asserts, science frees us from the oppressive confines of a purely social existence, but threatens to become a totalitarian order in its own right. The new legislator of the natural contract must bring science and law into balance.
Serres ends his meditation by retelling the story of the natural contract as a series of parables. He sees humanity as a spacecraft that with the help of science and technology has cast off from familiar moorings. In place of the ties that modernity and analytic reason have severed, we find a network of relations both stranger and stronger than any we once knew, binding us to one another and to the world. The philosopher’s harrowing and joyous task, Serres tells us, is that of comprehending and experiencing the bonds of violence and love that unite us in our spacewalk on the spaceship Mother Earth.”
LOUIS ALTHUSSER. On The Reproduction Of Capitalism: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses. Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek. The piece is, in fact, an extract from a much longer book, On the Reproduction of Capitalism, until now unavailable in English. Its publication makes possible a reappraisal of seminal Althusserian texts already available in English, their place in Althusser’s oeuvre and the relevance of his ideas for contemporary theory.
On the Reproduction of Capitalism develops Althusser’s conception of historical materialism, outlining the conditions of reproduction in capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle for its overthrow. Written in the afterglow of May 1968, the text addresses a question that continues to haunt us today: in a society that proclaims its attachment to the ideals of liberty and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of relations of domination? Both a conceptually innovative text and a key theoretical tool for activists, On the Reproduction of Capitalism is an essential addition to the corpus of the twentieth-century Left.
MIKE DAVIS, Planet of Slums. Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy.
He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz. Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the “war on terrorism” as an incipient world war between the American empire and the new slum poor.
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Things I learned on the Way to Looking up Other Things #27
Chicago’s American Association Franchise
At the close of the 1891 season, The Chicago Tribune assured their readers that Chicago would be a two-team town:
“The Chicago club of the American Association of 1892 is a certainty. Fred Pfeffer will be its manager and leading spirit, and Sam G. Morton (an executive with A.G. Spalding and Bros. Co.) well known here, its business guardian.”
Fred Pfeffer
According to the paper, the new club’s roster would include:
“(Bill) Dahlen, (Ad) Gumbert, and (Malachi) Kittridge probabilities. Such men as (Bill) Hart, the Sioux City pitcher, (Bid) McPhee of Cincinnati, (Jake) Beckley of Pittsburgh, Danny Richardson of New York, and (Herman) Long of Boston are in sight.”
The Tribune said the new American Association franchise would build a park on Chicago’s west side:
“Convenient to cable and railroad, and their accommodations will be for 20,000 people.”
The stockholders in the team were said to be some of the most prominent industrialists in Chicago.
The planned team never materialized after the American Association folded and four teams were absorbed into the National League.
Pfeffer, the would be manager, was traded to the Louisville Colonels for Jim Canavan and $1000.
Weidman’s Swan Song
George “Stump” “Kid” Weidman spent parts of nine seasons in the major leagues, he appeared in his final game in 1888, and posted a career 101-156 record.
Ten years after he left the game, C. H. Steiger, The Detroit Tribune sportswriter, quoted an unnamed former teammate about how Weidman wore out his welcome in Detroit during his second tenure with the Wolverines. Weidman had rejoined Detroit after the Kansas City Cowboys folded:
“He had pitched for us before, and was at that time considered a great pitcher, and he really was. When he was with us before, he was the most popular boy on the team. Everything was Kid, and he got the glad hand from everyone until one day he lost it all at once. It goes to show how easily a man can throw away what it has taken him a long time to acquire”
Weidman won 13 games for the eventual pennant winning Wolverines before being sold to the New York Metropolitans in August, after the former teammate said Weidman was playing right field one day, while Detroit ace Pretzels Getzein was on the mound:
“(The) batter on the opposing club, Philadelphia I think it was, popped up a slow outfield fly to Weidman. He had lots of time to get it, and it was the easiest kind of chance, but he ran up to within about ten feet of where it would strike, stopped, let it strike and bound into his hands, then threw it in.
“Well, it was the only time I ever saw Getzein mad. He looked at Weidman, shrugged his shoulders and said to his catcher, ‘What do you think of that?’
“(Manager Bill) Watkins saw it from the bench, and was mad as a hornet. When Weidman came in, Watkins called him down, and the Kid said he was afraid of over-running it, and thought it was best to do as he did, otherwise the batter might have made two bases on it, But his explanation didn’t go.”
The teammate concluded:
“I don’t think he meant to throw the game. He just wanted to let the other fellows get another hit off Getzein. But the other players in the club rather soured on Weidman after that, and so did the crowd.”
After being sold to the Metropolitans, Weidman appeared in just 15 more games, his major league career was over at age 27.
Tags: A. G. Spalding, Ad Gumbert, American Association, Bid McPhee, Bill Dahlen, Bill Watkins, Chicago Colts, Detriot Wolverines, Fred Pfeffer, Herman Long, Jake Beckley, Jim Canavan, Kansas City Cowboys, Louisville Colonels, Malachi Kittridge, New York Metropolitans, Pretzels Getzein, Sam Morton, Stump Weidman
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Kobo eBook)
By Rebecca Skloot
**Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Publication Date: February 2nd, 2010
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Category Archives: Athletics
HISD athletics camp focuses on improving water safety for students across the city
The whistle blows at Lamar High School’s natatorium, and students attending HISD’s athletics swimming camp return to their breast stroke drills and breathing exercises.
Summer is here for students, and that means tons of fun in the sun and swimming pools with friends. That is why veteran Coach Stephen McDonald wants to ensure HISD students have the proper education to have a safe and fun summer around water.
“Naturally, our students are going to gravitate towards activities such as swimming, and we fail them if they aren’t prepared,” McDonald said. “By offering the swim camp, we are making sure our students understand the importance of how to enjoy water in a safe way.”
This entry was posted in Athletics, News, Summer programs on June 17, 2019 by HISD Communications.
HISD athlete runs to win at state track meet
Top Sprinter Robert Gregory from HISD’s Wheatley High School achieved remarkable rankings at the Texas State Track and Field Meet held May 10-11.
Gregory placed first in the Boys 4A 200-meter dash. He completed the contest in just over 21 seconds and beat the second-place finisher by nearly half a second. Gregory is currently ranked first in the region, second in the state, and fifth in the nation.
This entry was posted in Athletics, News on May 10, 2019 by HISD Communications.
Sharpstown HS soccer coach fosters family bond, lessons beyond the pitch
Statebound Apollos have built strong relationships within team despite language barriers
They’ve been dubbed the “seven-nation family” — 11 starters, seven countries, four languages, and one dream: to become state champions.
The Sharpstown Apollos varsity soccer team earned a regional title over the weekend with a win over Kingwood Park to advance to their first state tournament in school history.
“This is something we have visualized and dreamed about,” Coach Greg Boles said. “This is huge – this is what we’ve worked for, and I am just so proud of these guys.”
The championship-bound Apollos team features a diverse roster of players from seven different countries – USA, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Rwanda, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And, despite some language barriers, the team has formed a strong bond during their time out on the pitch.
This entry was posted in Achievement/Recognition, Athletics, News and tagged Boys Soccer, Sharpstown High School on April 17, 2019 by HISD Communications.
Two top HISD student athletes commit to Kentucky State, University of Texas on National Signing Day
Nearly 150 students sign letters of intent for collegiate athletic programs across the country
With their parents, coaches, and friends looking on, two of the Houston Independent School District’s top athletes announced they will attend Kentucky State University and the University of Texas to pursue their athletic and academic careers.
Mesi Wilson is a standout in volleyball at Bellaire High School who has been offered a scholarship to play at Kentucky State.
North Forest High School’s Javonne Shepherd, one of the top offensive tackles in the state, has accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Texas. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Achievement/Recognition, Athletics, News and tagged National Signing Day on February 7, 2019 by HISD Communications.
HISD Athletics Director Andre’ Walker recognized by NIAAA
HISD Director of Athletics Andre’ Walker has received the designation of Certified Master Athletic Administrator by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.
Through a voluntary NIAAA certification process, Walker was evaluated on his background, experience, and professional contributions. He joins an elite group of administrators who demonstrate exemplary professionalism in the field of interscholastic athletic administration.
Walker has spent the past 18 years serving students in HISD as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, and most recently as a senior athletics program administrator for the district’s Athletics Department. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Texas Southern University, Master’s in Education from Prairie View A&M University. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Achievement/Recognition, Athletics, News on December 12, 2018 by HISD Communications.
HISD Director of Athletics named 2018 National Sport and Security Professional of the Year
HISD Director of Athletics Marmion Dambrino
HISD Director of Athletics Marmion Dambrino has been selected to receive the 2018 National Sport and Security Professional of the Year Award, presented by the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at the University of Southern Mississippi.
The award recognizes a member of management in the field who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in addressing safety and security issues over the past year.
The honor is selected by each respective sport league, association, or advisory committee, and will be presented on Wednesday, July 11, during the 2018 National Sports Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky.
This entry was posted in Achievement/Recognition, Athletics, HISD: Our Story, News on April 13, 2018 by HISD Communications.
HISD high school wins $100,000 worth of sports equipment
Sharpstown High School won a $100,000 customized sports equipment grant from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Let’s Play, and Good Sports back in September, and now the new athletic gear has been delivered to the school. State Representative Gene Wu presented Sharpstown Principal Daniel De Leon with a congratulatory certificate during a school celebration on Dec. 14.
The school received new soccer balls, new goals for the soccer field, cones, and practice gear; a football five-man blocking sled with flags and uniform pants; starting blocks and training equipment for track; rackets and tennis balls for tennis and PE; gloves, bats, baseballs/softballs, and practice gear for the baseball/softball programs; and a wealth of other PE equipment ranging from hula hoops to jump ropes to medicine balls to floor hockey equipment.
This entry was posted in Achievement/Recognition, Athletics and tagged Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Good Sports, Let's Play, Sharpstown HS on December 15, 2017 by HISD Communications.
Vote now and help Sharpstown HS win $100K
Sharpstown High School is in the running to win a $100,000 customized sports equipment grant from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Let’s Play, and Good Sports, and they need your help.
Voting started today, Sept. 8, at 10 a.m., and you can vote once a day by visiting this Facebook link: http://woobox.com/vr6esa. You will need a Facebook account to vote. If you have trouble accessing this link, you can also visit the Let’s Play Facebook page here.
The field has been narrowed down to 20 finalists, and based on the number of votes, there will be 10 winners. One school receives the grand prize and the nine runners-up each receive a $1,000 PE kit that contains inflatables, pinnies, cones, and other PE essentials.
Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Sept. 17, and the winners will be notified the week of Sept. 25.
This entry was posted in Athletics and tagged Sharpstown High School on September 8, 2017 by HISD Communications.
Hundreds gather to dedicate, celebrate new Delmar Fieldhouse
Standing before hundreds of cheering fans packed into the stands at the new Delmar Fieldhouse, HISD Board President Wanda Adams began to pump up the crowd.
“We need to get this party started! Are y’all ready?” she hollered, clapping her hands above her head as she led the fans in a celebratory cheer. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in 2012 bond, Athletics, District II - Rhonda Skillern Jones, District IV - Jolanda Jones, District IX - Wanda Adams, District V - Sue Deigaard and tagged 2012 bond, Delmar Fieldhouse on February 10, 2017 by HISD Communications.
Grand opening celebration this week for new Delmar Fieldhouse
The Houston Independent School District will host a grand opening celebration to mark the completion of the new Delmar Fieldhouse, which was constructed as part of the voter-approved 2012 Bond Program.
The first games to be played in the new facility will follow that afternoon, as eight HISD boys’ high school basketball teams take to the court, which features a star representing the HISD logo and an image of the Houston skyline.
This entry was posted in 2012 bond, Athletics and tagged 2012 bond, Delmar Fieldhouse on February 8, 2017 by HISD Communications.
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Tag Archives: gowalla
TechCrunch: Google Realtime Search adds Facebook
Journalists can now search for keywords and get second-by-second updates on topics of interest from a wider range of sources. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Realtime Search, which allows real-time updates from social media sites including Twitter, has added results from Quora, Buzz, Gowalla and Facebook.
The really interesting addition is Facebook. Before you get too excited, it appears that only Facebook Pages data is surfaced. So it’s not actually personal profile data. And obviously all of this Pages data is public, which is how Google is getting it. But previously, Google has distanced themselves from crawling the content of their big rival, even when it is available.
Our Google Realtime Search for “royal wedding”, pictured below, revealed only tweets.
However, site search of Facebook for Journalism.co.uk’s event news:rewired did yield a result.
See the full post on TechCrunch at this link.
This entry was posted in Handy tools and technology, Social media and blogging and tagged Facebook, Google Realtime, gowalla, Quora, TechCrunch, Twitter on April 27, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
10,000 Words: Making better use of location-based networks
Inspired by the successes of location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, Mark Luckie offers some starting-points over on his 10,000 Words blog about how journalists and publishers could make better use of the technology.
His suggestions include greater exploitation of first person media by pulling together items such as tweets, photographs and audio recorded within a geographical area for a multimedia record of events or news.
Luckie adds that newsrooms could create apps or check-in alerts which centre on the technology which is able to pinpoint places of interest, such as cinemas, restaurants and shops near to a mobile phone user and then provide them with relevant reviews and articles.
With a little extra tinkering, an app can also aggregate reviews from other locals or like-minded movie viewers.
(…) So far though, the majority of those companies that are exploring and taking advantage of the technology fall outside of the journalism realm. Hopefully, as these services and social media applications become more mainstream, newsrooms will be more likely to adopt them for their own uses.
See his full post here…
This entry was posted in Business, Handy tools and technology, Online Journalism and tagged 10000 words blog, apps, foursquare, gowalla, location based, mark luckie, Twitter on September 1, 2010 by Rachel Bartlett.
How new Fourwhere maps plotting Foursquare, Yelp and Gowalla could be useful for journalists
Fourwhere, a location-based search service, first launched a few months ago with data from geolocation gaming service Foursquare. Now it has developed its service to also include data from other location services, Yelp and Gowalla.
The mapping service, launched at the SXSW technology conference in Austin, now has arrangements with Foursquare and Gowalla to allow extra access to information, and says it’s in discussions with Yelp for unrestricted access to its platform.
Fourwhere says it can match different service updates on the same venue, even if the services are not using a standardised naming or location convention. Following the latest update, Cnet’s Josh Lowensohn pointed out a few of the glitches, but also said:
Despite the current shortcomings, I really like the idea of having one place that aggregates not only the tips from these sites, but, more importantly, the check-ins. When done right, and given a sense of time, Fourwhere could prove itself as a very powerful tool for showing what’s hot and what’s not based on a much larger group of users than any of the three services could offer on their own.
I asked Sysomos, the social media monitoring and analytics company behind Fourwhere, how the service would be useful to journalists.
“Fourwhere will make it easy for journalists to see what is going on at certain locations,” says community manager Sheldon Levine. It can provide insight as to what’s going on from the people actually there, he says.
“It can even help them search out locations where something interesting is happening and with story ideas by seeing where people in their markets are, and what they are talking about while there.
“Fourwhere will help connect all kinds of users, from those on the ground to, say journalists, making it easier for everyone to see what’s going on around them.”
I’ve taken a grab to show how it looks for the area around the Journalism.co.uk office in Brighton. Admittedly, some of the updates are out of date by several months, but that’s probably due to low level user-activity. I was briefly excited by the promise of free beer at a local pub, before realising someone had made the comment six months ago.
But, imagine a lot more people were using these services in a concentrated area, with more regular updates. It’s not just the comments: as Paul Bradshaw commented in a post about Foursquare, location based services give you an extra layer of information: frequency of visits etc.
I’ll be keeping an eye on Fourwhere, and on Twitter’s development of Twitter Places, which will also be integrated with Foursquare and Gowalla.
As more people embrace these location-based services and use them more creatively, the more useful they could become for journalists.
On Friday, at Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event Yelp’s head of European community management, Miriam Warren, will be talking about mobile and the development of Yelp’s online review service.
Yelp, which now attracts over 32 million monthly unique visitors to its online reviews, has recently developed new version of the Yelp iPhone app: when a user checks-in to a combination of businesses, they will be able to earn “Yelp Badges”. More details at this link.
Publishers who offer similar review or local information services might be interested to see what and how Yelp is developing, while news journalists might consider how they could use Yelp and other location-based products to feed their stories and make contacts.
This entry was posted in Handy tools and technology, Hyperlocal, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging and tagged foursquare, fourwhere, gowalla, location services, yelp on June 22, 2010 by Judith Townend.
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“Sylva” by Snarky Puppy
I owe 90’s alternative to my mom, hip-hop to a childhood friend, heavy metal to my brother, and classic rock to a friend whom I call brother. Everything that came after I like to claim as my own. So, I’m a late bloomer when it comes to jazz & classical. After exploring both, I’m finding that jazz has tipped the scales between the two genres, and that my preference within jazz leans towards the later years into now. This is not to say I don’t love what came before bebop, but everything that came after is so much more resonant with me.
So, I enjoy jazz, and a band like Snarky Puppy, when I stumbled upon them years ago, was a match made in heaven: a huge lineup, talented musicians, tons of instruments, improvisation, complexity, a bit of funk, etc. I started with their album groundUP and have followed them since, always maintaining a respect for them as a solid jazz band with some great sounds. Then their bandleader, Michael League, wanted to create a collaboration between a jazz band and an orchestra.
Then came Sylva.
Oh, this album.
Trying to convey how much the sounds that come off this record move me is incredibly difficult. The only way I have found that works for me is basically listening to it with someone—whether it’s voluntary or not is irrelevant—and involves me giving, what is essentially commentary over the album, “This part that’s coming up, the horns, it’s so good. I love it. I love it!” It could involve watching me play air guitar over bits that aren’t even guitar lines. It may even involve me incoherently repeating the word ‘just’ over and over, while I gesture with my hand back and forth, culminating in a long sigh. Instrumental music has a way of reducing me to a child, in awe of something I can’t articulate in the slightest.
I texted a friend, who I knew was into jazz, that if he wanted to listen to what will later be known as one of the greatest jazz albums of the modern era, then he should listen to “Sylva” by Snarky Puppy.
Dramatic text? Oh, of course. Do I still believe it? Why yes I do.
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Former U.S. President George H W Bush has died at 94.
Posted on December 2, 2018 by cadilblog
Former US President George H. W. Bush has died at age 94, his family announced late Friday. Image: Mandel NGAN / AFP
Former US president George H.W. Bush, who helped steer America through the end of the Cold War, died Friday at age 94, his family announced.
“Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died,” his son, former president George W. Bush, said in a statement released on Twitter by a family spokesman.
“George H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for.”
Bush’s passing comes just months after the death in April of his wife and revered first lady Barbara Bush – his “most beloved woman in the world” – to whom he was married for 73 years.
He is survived by his five children and 17 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements will be announced in due course, a family spokesman said.
The US leader was a foreign policy stalwart who declared a “new world order” in 1990 and drove Iraq from Kuwait but saw his military intervention in the Middle East serve as a harbinger of chaos to come.
The decorated war pilot and former CIA chief suffered the ignominy of being a one-term president, denied a second term over a weak economy when he lost the 1992 election to upstart Democrat Bill Clinton.
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Wikipedia Beats Fake News Every Day, So Why Can't Facebook?
Users don't need better media literacy to beat fake news. We need social media to be frank about its commercial interests.
Katherine Maher
Katherine Maher is the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position she has held since June 2016. Previously she was chief communications officer.
In addition to a background in the field of information and communications technology (ICT), Maher has worked in the non-profit and international sectors focusing on the use of technology to empower human rights and international development, specifically improving communities, promoting inclusivity and transparency, and deepening participation.
You can find more information about her on — guess where?
Katherine Maher: So Wikipedia—it is a fascinating thing today, that Wikipedia is as trusted as it is and is used by as many people as it is. To think that an encyclopedia that anyone could edit could possibly grow to be a resource that gets about a billion visits every single month from all over the globe!
There's a story of constant self-improvement in there, a story of really grappling with our flaws and with our faults along the way. Wikipedia wasn't trusted when it first started because it was the encyclopedia anyone could edit. And then we had a series of fairly high-profile mistakes, hoaxes, screw-ups. The thing that makes Wikipedia work is that the Wikipedia community is so committed to getting it right that when errors happen their first response is to fix them.
So there's this story from 2005 when a journal Nature, which is a scientific journal, did a study, a sample study on how accurate Wikipedia articles are. And the study found that on average the articles that they surveyed were about as accurate as a relative sample set from Encyclopedia Britannica. And the story of this goes that when this was published the Wikipedia community went to Jimmy Wales (the founder) and asked if he could put them in touch with the editors at Nature so they could find out where the errors were so they could fix them. And I think that that is such a classic example of Wikipedians: when they find out that something's wrong, their first response is not to get defensive. Their first response is generally delight, because it means that there's something to improve.
So, the whole conversation around fake news is a bit perplexing to Wikimedians, because bad information has always existed. The very first press freedom law was passed more than 250 years ago in Sweden, and I bet the very first conversation about misinformation happened within that first year. Yellow journalism, misinformation, propaganda—however you want to name it—there are already names for fake news and there are ways of dealing with them, established ways of dealing with them. So for Wikipedians we look at this and we say this has been a problem since time immemorial, and for the last 16 years we've been working on sorting fact from fiction and doing a pretty good job of it.
So to have this conversation I think is a little bit disingenuous, because it is looking at fake news as though it's the problem instead of actually looking at some of the commercial and other factors that enter into play around the distribution of information, the obfuscation of the source of information, the consolidation of the media landscape, the commercial pressures on publishers that have been created by major platform distributors, the lack of transparency in the way information is presented through algorithmic feeds, and why there is an interest in these platforms doing this.
It's really not about the quality of information itself; bad information has always existed. I would certainly say the media landscape and media literacy are important, and it is a call to arms for us to be more engaged in education around civics and media literacy, but I also think it's an opportunity to have hard conversations with platforms that present information within algorithmically curated feeds about why they aren't presenting some critical information that allows people to make good decisions about understanding where that information comes from.
One thing that we would point to within Wikipedia is that all of the information that is presented you can scrutinize, you can understand where it comes from, you can check the citations, but you can also check almost every single edit that has ever been made to the projects in their 16 years of existence and those are more than three billion edits. All of that is available to the public. We hold ourselves up to scrutiny because we think that scrutiny and transparency creates accountability and that accountability creates trust.
When I'm looking at a Facebook feed I don't know why information is being presented to me. Is it because it's timely? Is it because it's relevant? Is it because it's trending, popular, important?
All of that is stripped out of context so it's hard for me to assess: is it good information that I should make decisions on? Is it bad information that I should ignore? And then you think about the fact that all of the other sort of heuristics that people use to interpret information, where does it come from? Who wrote it? When was it published? All of that is obscured in the product design as well.
So the conversation that we're having I think is a bit disingenuous because it doesn't actually address some of the underlying platform questions and commercial pressure questions, it tends to focus on… I’m not even sure! It tends to focus on educating the end consumer, which is good. We believe in an educated user, but we also have a lot of confidence that if you give the user the information they need they can make those decisions and determinations.
Wikipedia has come a long, long way. Back when teachers and education institutions were banning it as an information source for students, did anyone think that by 2017 "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" would gain global trust? Wikipedia had a rough start and some very public embarrassments, explains Katherine Maher, the executive director at the Wikimedia Foundation, but it has been a process of constant self-improvement. Maher attributes its success to the Wikimedia community who are doggedly committed to accuracy, and are genuinely thankful to find errors — both factual and systemic ones — so they can evolve away from them. So what has Wikimedia gotten right that social platforms like Facebook haven't yet? "The whole conversation around fake news is a bit perplexing to Wikimedians, because bad information has always existed," says Maher. The current public discourse focuses on the age-old problem of fake news, rather than the root cause: the commercial interests that create a space where misinformation doesn't just thrive — it's rewarded. Why doesn't Facebook provide transparency and context for its algorithms? An explanation for 'why am I seeing this news?' could allow users to make good decisions based on where that information comes from, and what its motive is. "We [at Wikimedia] hold ourselves up to scrutiny because we think that scrutiny and transparency creates accountability and that accountability creates trust," says Maher.
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Pilots in doomed plane re-engaged suspect anti-stall system
David Koenig And Tom Krisher
Pilots of an airliner that crashed last month in Ethiopia initially followed Boeing’s emergency steps by disconnecting a system that can force the nose of the plane down, but they could not regain control.
Data from the plane indicates that the pilots then broke from Boeing recommendations by reconnecting power to the system, according to an official familiar with the crash investigation.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because a preliminary report on the March 10 crash has not yet been made public. Ethiopian investigators are expected to release the report on Thursday.
News that pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max turned off a critical flight-control system suspected of playing a role in an earlier crash of the same model was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper said the pilots’ actions are still being evaluated by investigators but could raise questions about assertions by Boeing and U.S. regulators last year that pilots could regain control in some emergencies by following steps that include turning off an anti-stall system designed specifically for the Max.
In a statement, Boeing urged against speculating before the preliminary report and flight data from the plane are released.
Investigators are examining the crashes that killed all 346 people aboard the two Max 8 jets, which were operated by Lion Air, an Indonesia carrier, and Ethiopian Airlines. They are looking into the role of a flight-control system known by its acronym, MCAS, which under some circumstances can automatically lower the plane’s nose to prevent an aerodynamic stall.
The Max has been grounded worldwide pending a software fix that Boeing is rolling out, which must still receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators.
The official who discussed the matter with The Associated Press said that data downloaded from the plane’s so-called black boxes indicates that the pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 followed recommendations by flipping two switches that disconnected power to the system. Sources told the Journal that despite that step, the pilots could not make the plane climb.
The pilots then reversed the power switches that they had turned off — a step not included in Boeing-approved recovery procedures — which reactivated MCAS and pushed the plane’s nose down, the official told the AP. Boeing’s procedures instruct pilots to leave the MCAS system disconnected and continue flying manually for the rest of the flight.
Boeing developed MCAS for the Max because the plane has larger engines that sit higher and more forward under the wings than the engines on previous 737s, which gives the new model a greater tendency for the nose to tip upward in some situations.
John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said MCAS was designed largely to reduce the nose-up effect during takeoff and avoid a dangerous aerodynamic stall, or loss of lift from air flowing over the wings.
Pilots can turn off MCAS by pressing a button on their control column, although the system can resume if pressure is released. If pilots opt instead to disable the system by flipping a pair of toggle switches, it cuts power to part of the tail called a horizontal stabilizer used to point the plane up or down. Flipping the switches requires pilots to manually turn a wheel to operate the stabilizer.
“The pilot not flying should be cranking that wheel,” Goglia said.
If the Ethiopian pilots followed all of Boeing’s procedures and disengaged the MCAS but the plane still crashed, the company has some explaining to do, he said. But, he added, restoring power to the system “is not in the procedure.”
Boeing is the focus of investigations by the Justice Department, the Transportation Department’s inspector general, and congressional committees. Investigations are also looking at the role of the Federal Aviation Administration, which certified the Max in 2017 and declined to ground it after the first deadly crash in October.
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Category: Review
THE SECOND COMING OF JOHN & YOKO
(This, with a few edits, is a newspaper piece I wrote on the release of John and Yoko’s Double Fantasy. It was published on Nov. 30, 1980, two weeks after the record’s release and eight days before Lennon’s murder. Despite all the hoopla, the much-anticipated album did not shoot straight to the top of the charts until after the tragedy (which gives the phrase “Number One with a Bullet” a chilling irony) and some critics were not kind. My editor at the time told me that following Lennon’s death, some of the bad reviews were pulled before publication and rewritten .)
Whether he was reshaping the world as a Beatle, giving peace a chance, exposing his jagged psyche, traipsing left-ward with the likes of Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, about-facing and shunning the mixed-up media or settling down to family life in any one of his home-sweet-homes, John Lennon and his art have been one.
Mercurial, eccentric, quick-witted and brilliantly talented, Lennon has always plunged heart-first into anything he’s created. He’s given pieces of himself on the printed page (his two books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works) and on celluloid (the avant-garde films he shot with Yoko Ono). Vinyl-ly, with his records, he’s invariably left blood on the tracks (as Mr. Zimmerman would say) with his confessional offerings, beginning with such compositions as “Help” and “I’m a Loser.”
Though the mythology of The Beatles has in some ways proven to be a weighty albatross for him and the rest of the Fab Foursome, it was in the context of the group that he first quaked the earth. Lennon was the controversial one, the dream-weaver and the wave-maker. The intellectually-inclined slice of The Beatles’ audience gravitated, predictably, toward the brainy, zany Lennon.
No, he wasn’t The Beatles. No one of them was. But as Pete Hamill wrote, “In some way, John had been the engine of the group, the artistic armature driving the machine beyond its own limits, restless, easily bored, in love with speed the way Picasso was in love with speed, and possessed of a hoodlum’s fanatic heart.”
The post-Beatles Lennon was once likened to Sisyphus; indeed, ever since Yoko Ono supplanted Paul McCartney as his partner-in-rhyme, Lennon has been a twentieth-century Sisyphus, pushing his rock (and roll) uphill, with snide snipers taking pot shots at him—and, especially, his paramour—at every opportunity.
In their early days together, this ripening pair weathered a lot of bruises and eventually parted ways and means, only to be reunited eighteen months later because, as Lennon put it, “the separation didn’t work out.”
And then in ’75, with a pocketful of fresh songs and on the verge of booking studio time, the Lennons had a baby boy and John unplugged his guitar and stopped dead in his soundtracks.
“I became an artist because I cherished freedom—I couldn’t fit into a classroom or office,” he told Newsweek recently. “Freedom was the plus for all the minuses of being an oddball! But suddenly I was obliged to a record company, obliged to the media, obliged to the public. I wasn’t free at all!”
So he clammed up, offed the record, and became a hearth-and-homebody focused on the raising of his son. The man who back in ‘72 wrote the pro-woman anthem “Woman is the Nigger of the World” (which, sadly, was squashed dead by misguided objections to the title—usually by white males, as Lennon pointed out) went one better and swapped roles with Yoko. She became the breadwinner, he the bread baker. The Lennons invested in dairy cows and real estate, and it was moos and moola for five years.
Now 40, he has rolled away the stone and reappeared with a hot new single, “Starting Over,” and a grand-new album, Double Fantasy. Ah, but to set the record straight, this is not just a John Lennon album. It’s the Second Coming of John and Yoko. And it’s a superlative double-headed triumph.
Like it or not, it took guts on Lennon’s part to divvy up the 14-numbered LP with his wife. After all, their last collaboration, in ’72, was Sometime in New York City, generally considered to be the rough nadir of Lennon’s recorded output (not counting the trio of avant-garde albums, Two Virgins, Life With the Lions and Wedding Album). Consequently, starting over together, for better or for worse, as the wedding vowels go, could be sales-suicide. For the record, while doing well, the album currently is not topping the charts.
“It’s like a play,” Lennon said of Double Fantasy. “We wrote the play and we’re acting in it. It’s John and Yoko—you could take it or leave it…otherwise, it’s cows and cheese! Being with Yoko makes me whole. I don’t want to sing if she’s not there.”
Therefore, she is there with seven originals. One of them, “Kiss Kiss Kiss,” concludes with orgasmic panting, for which Yoko will, no doubt, get slam-banged once again. More exhibitionism, they will say. But no one crucified Donna Summer for doing it in “Love to Love You Baby.” Different strokes? Quite possibly.
Yoko clearly doesn’t have the pipes of a diva, but some credit is due. In 1970, Lennon told Rolling Stone, “She makes music like you’ve never heard on earth…It’s fantastic. It’s like 20 years ahead of its time.” Or maybe 10. Listen to The B-52s. Yoko was on the New Wavelength before it had a name.
But before anyone screams, “Yoko oh no!” about her inclusion on the new album, be advised that the oral hijinks are minimal, and her seven contributions are her finest to date. They include the lovely, classical-tinged “Beautiful Boys,” the edgy “I’m Moving On” and the ska-flavored “Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him.”
John, on the other half, has never sounded more contented overall. As contented as those quarter-of-a-million-bucks-apiece Holstein cows the couple owns. In “Watching the Wheels,” he speaks of his at-long-last peace:
I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
“I’m not interested in other people’s work—only so much as it affects me,” he said to Newsweek. “I have the great honor of never having been to Studio 54 and I’ve never been to any rock clubs. It’s like asking Picasso, has he been to the museum lately?”
The theme of Double Fantasy, which is a Jack Douglas and Lennons co-production, is simply John loves Yoko loves John. Not forgetting son Sean for whom John’s lovely lullaby “Beautiful Boy” was written. Lennon’s dreamy “Woman” is as beautiful and sensitive as anything in his catalog:
Woman I know you understand
The little child inside the man
Please remember my life is in your hands
In his funky “Cleanup Time,” a verse of which reminds one of his nursery rhyme-like “Cry Baby Cry” from The Beatles’ White Album, Lennon sings of his and Yoko’s juxtapositions:
The queen is in the counting house
Counting out the money
The king is in the kitchen
Making bread and honey
Yet, despite the album’s apparent bliss-blitz, the pair’s life together—“so precious together” (a little too precious for some people, it seems)—is not all Peaches and Herb. The underbellyaches of love are also exposed. Their fears, insecurities and tensions bubble to the surface in such cuts as Yoko’s “I’m Moving On”:
But now you’re giving me your window smile
I’m moving on, moving on, it’s getting phony
In John’s “I’m Losing You,” he sings:
I know I hurt you then
But hell that was way back when
Do you still have to carry that cross?
But the riled side of life is not dwelled upon, and Yoko concludes the album with an expression of hope in the gospel-tinged“Hard Times Are Over”:
It’s been very hard
But it’s getting easier now
Hard times are over
Over for a while
It is a fitting and optimistic finale to John and Yoko’s new peace of the rock.
Author Jim GeorgePosted on December 9, 2017 December 9, 2017 Categories Album Classic, Double Fantasy, john lennon, Legend, Review, Rock & Roll, Uncategorized, Yoko Ono2 Comments on THE SECOND COMING OF JOHN & YOKO
A LOOKING-GLASSFUL OF LEWIS CARROLL
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Those lyrics from The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” a song directly inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, partially conjure up the scene which provided the genesis and revelation of what has become The Bible of so-called nonsense literature, a work which more than a century and a half later still influences prose, poetry, art, music and film.
There were no tangerine trees on the English shores on July 4, 1862 when Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, his friend Robinson Duckworth, and the three little Liddell girls—Alice, Edith and Lorina—went for a boat ride.
And whether the sky was marmaladen with clouds is debatable (the author described it as a “cloudless day,” but meteorological records indicate that it rained on the date in question).
Whatever the reality, on that tranquil “golden afternoon,” as Dodgson termed it, he ad-libbed a wondrously nonsensical tale of a girl named Alice who fell down a rabbit-hole. At the non-fictional Alice’s behest, Dodgson was obliged to recollect the story and commit it to manuscript so that she could make the return trip over and over again with her namesake.
Although the final version wouldn’t materialize until some three years later, it was on that fateful July day that Dodgson, tuned into the gods and inspired by the presence of his friends, planted the seed of the story which would give him an immortality he never dreamed of.
Its first incarnation was Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which he illustrated himself. Later, he added more material and new characters (The Cheshire Cat, The Mad Hatter), commissioned artist John Tenniel to do a new set of drawings, rejected the earlier title for sounding “too like a lesson book about mines,” and the fairy tale became the celebrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865.
“In writing it out,” explained Lewis Carroll, Dodgson’s author alias, “I added many fresh ideas which seemed to grow of themselves upon the original stock; and many more added themselves when, years afterward, I wrote it all over again for publication; but…every such idea, and nearly every word of the dialogue, came of itself.”
Carroll cast himself and the other boaters in his magical tale. The Duck was an animalization of his pal Duckworth; The Dodo, Dodgson himself—in a self-deprecating jab at his own lifelong stammer (Do-Do-Dodgson) which, interestingly, vanished in the company of children; The Lory and The Eaglet, Lorina and Edith respectively; and, of course, Alice was Alice. In name and inspiration only, however.
“…Alice Liddell is not the character in the books,” wrote Jean Gattegno in Fragments of a Looking-Glass. “At most we can say that some kind of current passed through Alice Liddell and brought to life a picture waiting to become animated.”
Choosing one of four pen-names the author submitted to him, Edmund Yates (editor of Comic Times and The Train, a pair of publications for which Carroll wrote on occasion) christened Dodgson, Lewis Carroll. He might just as easily have been Edgar Cuthwellis, Edgar U.C. Westhill or Louis Carroll, the other names under consideration.
Both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its equally enchanting sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), incorporated unfinished bits and piecemeal ideas Carroll had written years earlier. The first verse of the poem “Jabberwocky”—which Derek Hudson called “the ‘Kubla Khan’ of nonsense”—from Through the Looking-Glass is one such example.
Like Edward Lear, Carroll often invented his own language, and both authors’ words’ worth was primarily in their sound and meter. However, while Lear’s creations were purely nonsensical nonsense, if you will (or even if you won’t), Carroll frequently had a method to his mangling:
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Unlike other welders of words, e.g, James Joyce—who let it up to his readers to fathom the meaning of his newfound language—Carroll bothered to relate, right there in his book, via the mouth of the on-and-off-the-wall Humpty Dumpty, how and why he put a little english on his English.
“I can explain all of the poems that were ever invented—and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet,” proclaims the famous Eggman to Alice.
“Slithy” is a fusing of “slime” and “lithe,” “gimble” is to “make holes like a gimlet,” “Mimsy” is a compound of “miserable” and “flimsy,” “mome” is a contraction of “from home,” as “wabe” is of “way before” and “way behind.”
Similarly, “chortle,” from elsewhere down the lines of “Jabberwocky,” is a blend of “chuckle” and “snort,” and it is but one example of Carroll-coined words that have become assimilated into our everyday language, as any dictionary will attest.
Wrote Gattegno, “…While continually stressing the difference between the meaning intended and the meaning understood, and showing how words are empty forms that one can play about with and not worry about the ‘sense’ one may arrive at, he also makes the word the basic unit around which the whole universe of significance comes into being. Words, which he does his best to destroy (with puns, plays on words, word games, etc.), also take on a certain almost magical value as objects of supreme enjoyment.”
“Alice in Wonderland broke new ground,” wrote Derek Hudson in Carroll, “because it was in no sense a goody-goody book but handled childhood freshly and without sententiousness.
“The nearest parallel to the humorous method of Lewis Carroll is probably that of The Marx Brothers, whose dialogue not only has many verbal similarities with his, but who also, like him, assert one grand false proposition at the outset and so persuade their audiences to accept anything as possible…Both have been based largely on a play with words, mixed with judicious slapstick, and set within the framework of an idiosyncratic view of the human situation; their purpose is entertainment. Lewis Carroll has one transcendent advantage—with his limpid prose, he paints the color of poetry.”
And Carroll was, after all, above all, a poet. Continued Hudson, “He was, indeed, perhaps the most poetic when he wrote in prose, and we must think of the Alice books, with their harmonious and unforced blending of prose and verse, as being primarily a poetic achievement.”
Despite his fame and good fortune, Charles Dodgson struggled to keep his pseudonymous alter ego a separate entity. Dodgson was a mathematician, a logician, and a don at Christ Church at Oxford, England; Lewis Carroll existed only when tucked under the covers of his dreamlike books.
“I cannot, of course,” stated Dodgson/Carroll, “help there being many people who know the connection between my real name and my ‘alias,’ but the fewer there are who are able to connect my face with the name ‘Lewis Carroll,’ the happier for me.”
Such sentiments were not merely aw-shucks idol chatter from a humble soul; besides publishing a leaflet in which he “neither claims nor acknowledges any connection with any pseudonym, or with any book that is not published under (his) own name,” he returned to senders all letters addressed to “Lewis Carroll.”
In Lewis Carroll and His World, John Pudney wrote, “Lewis Carroll has been described as the best photographer of children in the 19th century…Children were of course the inspiration for his most creative work, both in literary and photographic terms…(He had a) penchant for the company of pre-pubescent girls and situations which would now trendily be associated with a Lolita syndrome.”
Not a book has been written about Carroll, it seems, which hasn’t in some measure touched on (no pun intended—for a change) those young girls, who seemed to be the joy of Carroll’s life. Alice was neither the first nor the last.
Speculation and Freudian interpretations aside, what we do know as fact is A) He loved to spend time with females aged anywhere from, say, four to puberty (though in later years, he seemed equally delighted by older young women—up to 17 or thereabouts); and B) He loved to photograph them–with their parents’ permission–in the nude.
“In the last three decades of Victoria’s reign,” wrote Pudney, “photographs of children in the nude, and voluptuously fleshy paintings of naked adults, were not only acceptable but fashionable. Carroll’s portraits sans habillement were neither a novelty nor necessarily an outrage.”
Much ado about nothing on? His photo-graphic hobby and/or his attachment to his subjects reportedly incurred mom wrath on more than one occasion, but while there has been no incriminating evidence against the man, the debate as to his true nature and motivations goes on.
Though violence creeps into the Alice books (“Off with their heads!”) Carroll was a gentle man who despised the degradation of women and was vehemently anti-vivisection and anti-hunting for sport with its happiness-is-a-warm-gun mentality. In a pamphlet he once wrote, he predicted a future “when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair green earth, if not a heaven for man, at least a hell for animals.”
On the flip side, Carroll was said to be extremely class-conscious and decidedly self-centered, somewhat of a prima don. As Pudney stated, “He just never did anything much that he did not want to do or felt that duty called upon him to do.”
Carroll’s other literary works, which include “The Hunting of the Snark,” “A Tangled Tale,” “Sylvie and Bruno,” “Sylvie and Bruno Concluded” and “Phantasmagoria,” showcased his genius in varying degrees, though none of them eclipsed or matched the pair of Alice books.
Virgina Woolf wrote of Carroll, “(Childhood) lodged in him whole and entire…He could do what no one else has ever been able to do—he could return to that world: he could recreate it, so that we too become children again…The two Alices are not books for children, they are the only books in which we become children…”
Lewis Carroll was, in the best sense, kidding us.
Author Jim GeorgePosted on January 8, 2017 January 8, 2017 Categories humor, fiction, wordplay, lewis carroll, nonsense, poetry, Review, Uncategorized, wordplayTags Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, classic literature, lewis carroll, nonsenseLeave a comment on A LOOKING-GLASSFUL OF LEWIS CARROLL
BLONDE ON BLONDE WAS DYLAN’S GOLDEN HOUR
(Note: This, with a few minor changes, is a piece I wrote back in 1983 for a series my hometown paper, The Reading Eagle, ran entitled “Album Classics.”)
“I’m the first person who’ll put it to you and the last person who’ll explain it to you.”
–Bob Dylan, 1978
It’s kind of a don’t ask/won’t tell situation. You don’t ask, he won’t tell. And for those who did ask, more often than not, Bob Dylan has elected not to tell. At least not too much.
A clue to his press behavior was crystallized in the following exchange between the erudite Jonathan Cott and the enigmatic Dylan in a ’78 Rolling Stone interview:
Cott: I guess there’s no point in asking a magician how he does his tricks.
Dylan: Exactly!
Elsewhere in their discussion, Dylan likened himself mediumistically to his mentor, Woody Guthrie, who said that he pulled songs out of the air.
“That meant,” said Dylan, “that they were already there and that he was tuned into them.”
Cott’s magician-parallel was a good one. Overall, Bob Dylan has been a musical magician–a singing sorcerer who has summoned up his own spirits, conjured songs out of the air, and transformed pieces of shiny black plastic into something indeed quite magical.
Like Blonde On Blonde.
“One of the most pleasing things about Blonde On Blonde,” wrote then-critic Jon Landau in a ’68 article for Crawdaddy magazine, “is that by shifting the focus from the impossible epics of earlier works to subjects which were closer to himself personally, Dylan was able to create a more powerful and lasting artistic tension than he ever was out of things like ‘With God On Our Side.’”
Blonde On Blonde was rock’s first double-album and the last album Dylan recorded before his breakneck pace of living climaxed with him literally breaking his neck in a motorcycle accident in July of ’66.
“At the time of my Blonde On Blonde album,” he later said, “I was going at a tremendous speed.” In life and, apparently, on his motorcycle, though he has never gone into much detail.
Dylanesque as it sounds, the album’s title was not a Zimmy (well, he did say we could call him that, didn’t he?) invention. As Dylan recollected—or failed to—in a ’69 Rolling Stone interview, “I don’t even recall exactly how it came up, but I do know it was all in good faith. It has to do with just the word. I don’t know who thought of that. I certainly didn’t.”
(While it may purely be coincidental, ever notice that the first letters acronymically spell BOB?)
Lyrically, musically, thematically and emotionally, Blonde On Blonde was a milestone in contemporary music. Dylan’s incomparable phrasing was played against the spare, soulful and eloquently simple (or simply eloquent) musical backing of Nashville Cat Charlie McCoy’s band, augmented by the likes of Al Kooper and Joe South.
Amusingly, the significance of the album’s kickoff, “Rainy Day Women Numbers 12 and 35,” wasn’t quite as high-minded as those who gleefully latched onto the catch-phrase “Everybody must get stoned.” Of course, the double-entendre is there. But if one listens to the verses of this Salvation Army-gone-awry number, clearly the song’s operative word “stoned” refers not to a euphoric condition, but rather to the act of being knocked, kicked, harassed, oppressed, criticized, slandered, maligned, beaten down or tangled up in blue.
Likewise, the “They” refers not to turned-on friends, but to those who wish ill will toward men (and women). In fact, the chorus is the only section of the song which can be (mis)interpreted as a paean to altered states. The smoky connotation doesn’t hold up beyond that.
(Dylan’s line, “They’ll stone you when you’re sent down in your grave,” rings forever true—evidence the heartfelt Mommie Dearest and Albert Goldman’s endearing The Lives of John Lennon.)
As for the cryptic title, Dylan psycho-analysts—preferring to sniff between the lines—failed to consider the possibility of a happenstance explanation. It has subsequently been revealed that Dylan either wrote or recorded (or both) the tune on a rainy day with two females, aged 12 and 35, present. Honest to Bob.
Similarly, “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” is “just about that,” admitted Dylan. “I think that’s something I mighta taken out of a newspaper. Mighta seen a picture of one in a department store window. There’s really no more to it than that. I know it can get blown up into some kind of illusion. But in reality, it’s no more than that. Just a leopard-skin pill-box. That’s all.”
“It balances on your head like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine,” sings Dylan of the millinery monstrosity. (Note the similarity of John Lennon’s guitar solo in “Yer Blues” to the stinging Dylan-fingered lead guitar licks of this blues-rocker.)
“Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again” is inspired nonsense—an irresistible, funny, surreal tour de farce. Displaying his absurdist agility and a superlative vocal, Dylan delivers such wonderful lines as:
Shakespeare, he’s in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells
Speaking to some French girl
Who says she knows me well
And I would send a message
To find out if she’s talked
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked
When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon
Where I can watch her waltz for free
‘Neath her Panamanian moon
And I say, “Aw come on now
“You know you know about my debutante”
And she says, “Your debutante just knows what you need
“But I know what you want”
While Dylan’s unpolished and rough-around-the-etches harmonica playing has been disparaged by some over the years (virtuoso mouth organist Larry Adler felt his blowing and sucking, well, sucked), many more consider it beautifully soulful and spirited. As such, it lends an ingenuous charm to the songs so graced.
“Temporary Like Achilles” marries the two predominant elements of the album; it is a love song performed in the blues idiom. Love, lost or found, is all around Blonde On Blonde: “Just Like a Woman,” “I Want You,” “Visions of Johanna,” “Sooner or Later (One of Us Must Know),” and the epic “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” another gift from the gods.
“(‘Sad-Eyed Lady’) started out as just a little thing,” said Dylan, “but I got carried away somewhere along the line. I just sat down at a table and started writing. At the session itself….I just started writing and I couldn’t stop. After a period of time, I forgot what it was all about, and I started trying to get back to the beginning (laughs).”
Speaking of his work in general, Dylan stated, “The words are just as important as the music. There would be no music without the words. Indeed, despite its haunting melody, the lyrics of the 12-minute “Sad-Eyed Lady” (which accounts for one of the LP’s four sides) stand on their own as gorgeous poetry:
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims
And your matchbook songs and your gypsy hymns
Who among them would try to press you
In The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, Bob Dylan’s legacy is summed up thusly: “Bob Dylan’s importance to the development of rock is rivaled only by that of The Beatles. His influence went much further than the innovative qualities of his lyrics, his semivisionary songs effecting a change in the consciousness of an entire generation and opening up a general awareness of attitudes, both personal and political, that, without him, might still be stifled and denied today.”
If by some simple twist of fate you’ve never heard Blonde On Blonde—whether you’re too young to remember it or you’ve spent the mid-‘60s in a coma—by all that is wholly superior, listen to this magnum opus. Everybody must get milestoned.
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August 4, 2017 / 12:42 PM / 2 years ago
In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie
Isabel Coles
NIMRUD, Iraq (Reuters) - Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud.
One of the citizens of the Nimrud city refers to the place of Agatha's Christie former residence in the Nimrud Archaeological city in south of Mosul, Iraq August 1, 2017. Picture taken August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily
The mud-brick house where the British author of “Murder on the Orient Express” once stayed is long gone. If she were alive today, she would probably be shocked by what has befallen the Assyrian city where she worked alongside her archaeologist husband five decades ago.
Islamic State attacked Nimrud with bulldozers, jackhammers and dynamite three years ago as part of their general assault on Iraq’s cultural heritage.
Iraqi military forces retook the site early in their campaign to drive the jihadists out of Mosul, which lies about 30 km (20 miles) north.
The house where Christie lived on site was knocked down some years before that, and the people who knew her have all died. But her name still stirs recognition among locals, although most do not know what she is famous for.
“We just know that she was British,” said Abu Ammar, who lives in the closest village to the ruins.
Famed for her detectives - Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot - Christie is listed by Guinness World Records as the best-selling fiction author of all time. Her 78 crime novels have sold 2 billion copies in 44 languages.
Christie first visited Iraq before it gained independence from Britain in 1932 and met the man she would marry on an archaeological dig in the south.
The couple spent time in Mosul, and eventually moved to Nimrud.
“What a beautiful spot it was,” she wrote. “The Tigris was just a mile away, and on the great mound of the Acropolis, big stone Assyrian heads poked out of the soil. It was a spectacular stretch of country - peaceful, romantic and impregnated with the past.”
That description stands in contrast to the present.
The mound on which the ruins are situated has a fresh crown of razor wire to keep looters out, and until recently, corpses floated down the river Tigris from battlefields upstream.
WINGED BULL STATUES
Colossal winged bull statues - or lamassus - that stood guard at the entrance to a palace lie dismembered in a heap.
“Look, there’s a foot,” said Iraqi army Captain Ali Adnan, pointing out a giant talon carved from a slab of stone. Feathers and cuneiform letters are chiselled into other fragments.
Much of it was unearthed during the 1950s by Christie’s husband, Max Mallowan, who wrote the book: “Nimrud and its Remains”.
Christie’s own interest in archaeology is evident in “Death on the Nile” and “Murder in Mesopotamia” and she began writing her autobiography in Nimrud.
But she spent most of her time there documenting Mallowan’s work in photographs, and cleaning ivories dug up from the ruins, using her own face cream to coax dirt out of the crevices.
Mohammed Saeed is too young to have met Christie, but he is familiar with her legend.
A local man, he has worked on excavations at Nimrud since 1996, and used to show tourists around in less turbulent times.
“Here was Agatha Christie’s room,” he said, standing on a nondescript patch of scorched ground at the edge of the mound. “Now nothing is left.”
Saeed was present when Islamic State took over and remained as a guard at the site until he started receiving threats from the militants.
Over the following months, he saw bulldozers at work on the mound, and at night, cars came and went. He suspected they were traders inspecting what could be sold to fill Islamic State’s coffers. A year later, the militants blew up the site.
“I can’t describe how I felt. My brothers thought I was going to die,” said Saeed. “The ruins are a symbol — a civilization. They represent this nation.”
It is a feeling he believes Christie would have shared: “She probably would have collapsed,” he said.
There is hope however. Saeed said there were plans to begin excavating the southern palace next spring.
As Christie prepared to leave Nimrud, she wrote:
“Now Nimrud sleeps. We have scarred it with our bulldozers. Its yawning pits have been filled in with raw earth. One day its wounds will have healed, and it will bloom once again with early spring flowers ... Who shall disturb it next? We do not know.”
Writing by Isabel Coles; editing by Giles Elgood
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August 6, 2008 / 12:10 AM / 11 years ago
Grain boom tempts investors to Russia's open lands
Robin Paxton
DOBRINKA, Russia (Reuters) - When Murat Shamshinurov toasted this year’s harvest with a glass of vodka, he did so with confidence.
A harvester is seen at night while harvesting wheat outside Russia's southern city of Stavropol, July 25, 2008. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko
A fleet of new Dutch combine harvesters, better seeds and a mild winter promise a bumper crop at the farms he runs in Russia’s fertile Black Earth region. This prosperity is the result of a $175 million investment by Nastyusha, the grain-trading firm that bought the land in 2006.
Shamshinurov’s situation is not unique: investors are plowing money into Russia’s open lands to resuscitate the long-neglected farm sector and supply a world in ever greater need of food. This year’s Russian wheat crop promises to be the best in 30 years.
“The opportunity for agriculture in Russia is remarkable. It has the potential to be one of the truly key sectors of the economy,” said Sid Bardwell, general manager in Russia for U.S. agricultural equipment supplier Deere & Co.
Russian agriculture, crippled by the legacy of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s collectivization, is one of four sectors afforded priority status by the Kremlin as it seeks to reverse more than a decade of decline that followed the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Russia, the world’s fifth-largest grain grower and exporter, expects a total grain crop of at least 85 million tonnes this year, up 4 percent on 2007, but the country has yet to surpass Soviet-era production levels on a sustained basis.
Only 13 percent of Russian land is used for agriculture, compared with a world average of 38 percent, while a hectare of wheat yields an average 1.9 tonnes — much less than the U.S. average of 2.8 tonnes and 5.5 tonnes in the European Union.
Therein lies the potential.
“Agriculture, even with the current low level of efficiency, is still a profitable business thanks to government support,” Renaissance Capital analyst Natalya Zagvozdina said.
“Imagine what it would be like if efficiencies increase.”
LAND GRAB
Prices for wheat, rice and maize hit records this year as droughts in grain-growing countries exacerbated a shortage at a time of high global demand. This makes Russian agriculture even more attractive as production costs are relatively low.
Wheat accounted for 60 percent of Russia’s total grain crop last year, or 49.4 million tonnes. Moscow-based analyst group SovEcon says the 2008 wheat crop could rise to as much as 54.2 million tonnes, which would be the highest since 1978.
The country also grows large quantities of barley, as well as maize, rye and buckwheat.
“The returns on investment are dramatically higher than they used to be,” said Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at investment bank Troika Dialog.
“Increase yields to 5 tonnes per hectare, sell at $250 per tonne, keep costs to $700 per hectare and you’ve got $550 of profit per hectare. But actually achieving that is very tough.”
Fertilizer and fuel costs are rising worldwide, while investment is needed in equipment and seeds to increase yields and offer insurance against Russia’s typically cold winters.
Investor appetite for the sector, coupled with the need for cash to develop land, will add to the $420 million in new capital raised by Russian agribusiness firms since November.
Zagvozdina said Russian farm companies were likely to raise a further $500 million to $1.5 billion by the end of the year, either through initial public offerings or private placements.
Investors ranging from Western funds to English farmers want firstly to buy land in Russia.
“Russia was the bread basket of Europe 100 years ago. The quality of land is exceptional, but the neglect of this land during Communist times was astounding,” said Sergei Glaser, a manager at Vostok Nafta Investment Ltd.
Rural life got even harder after the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Land lay fallow and machinery was left to rust.
Glaser’s fund, with $1 billion in assets under management in the former Soviet Union, owns a quarter of Black Earth Farming, a Swedish-listed firm named after the fertile belt of soil that stretches from eastern Europe to the banks of the Volga River.
AGRICULTURAL REVIVAL
Agriculture contributed 5 percent of Russia’s gross domestic product of 32.5 trillion roubles ($1.4 trillion) in 2007. Farming accounts for about 10.5 percent of the country’s work force, compared with 2.5 percent in the United States.
About $3.3 billion from this year’s federal budget was committed to the sector, with the same amount again supplied by regional governments, said Dmitry Rylko, general director of the Moscow-based Institute for Agricultural Market Studies.
This money, plus the rising private investment, is funding a move by large agribusiness firms — whose assets include land, grain elevators, flour mills and port terminals — to establish themselves as reliable, long-term suppliers to global markets.
“Russia has come to the front line of grain exporters,” said Yuri Makarov, senior economist at the London-based International Grains Council, which forecasts Russia could account for 11 percent of world wheat exports in the 2008/09 marketing season.
There is also a second, less advanced thrust to investment in Russian farming: the development of a thriving livestock sector reared on home-grown fodder crops to cut the country’s dependence on imported food products.
Despite having an exportable surplus of grains, Russia still imports over a third of its poultry and a quarter of its beef, spending $4.5 billion on meat and poultry imports last year.
Nastyusha’s strategy in the Lipetsk region of central Russia follows this model of using high-quality wheat to produce flour and bread, while also rearing cattle and producing its own milk.
Originally a trading firm, it has united 29 former collective farms in Lipetsk over the last two years as the basis for a vertically integrated farming operation.
“It’s essential for the development of the agricultural sector,” Shamshinurov, who runs Nastyusha’s 130,000 hectares in Lipetsk, said as he stood in fields of golden wheat that will be processed at the company’s flour mills in Moscow.
Authorities in Lipetsk, 450 km (280 miles) southeast of Moscow, describe their region as the ‘Pearl of the Black Earth’. Yields at Nastyusha’s farms are set almost to double to 6 tonnes per hectare this year. Similar results can be seen elsewhere.
“Learning to apply Western technology in a Russian environment has led to better crops,” said Richard Willows, an ex-grain trader who left England six years ago to run Heartland Farms in the Penza region at the invitation of the local governor.
PORK AND POULTRY
The government’s push to make agriculture a priority project has not been an unqualified success however. The 47.2 million hectares sown to grain in 2008 remain 25 percent below the area under cultivation in 1990, while cattle numbers have stagnated, rather than increased as planned.
Sergei Mikhailov, chief executive of meat producer Cherkizovo Group, said Russian meat consumption had declined to 51 kg per capita per year from Soviet-era levels of 78 kg, although a declining trend is being reversed as incomes grow.
Private investment is again playing a large role. Cherkizovo is the first Russian meat producer to list on the London Stock Exchange and is investing $350 million this year and last to develop its pork and poultry business.
“The share of imported pork and poultry will go down in future thanks to growing domestic production,” Mikhailov said, “but the share of imported beef could even grow because of the lack of high-quality beef production facilities in Russia.”
Despite the problems, access to capital is rising, with banks more willing to lend to farmers and private investors more confident of returns.
“It’s still dominated by the Russian Agricultural Bank, but you’re seeing much more participation in rural areas by other large Russian banks,” said Deere & Co country manager Bardwell.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also underlined the country’s potential role in addressing the global food crisis when meeting fellow Group of Eight leaders in Japan last month.
“Our country’s long-term input in solving this problem will mainly consist of significantly increasing our agricultural production and supplies, not only to the local market but also to world markets,” Medvedev said at the summit.
Farmers across Russia will drink to that.
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Still Serving in Silence:
Transgender Service Members and Veterans in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey
by Jack Harrison-Quintana and Jody L. Herman On 20 September 2011, the repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell (DADT) went into effect in the U.S. military. The repeal marked the end of discriminatory practices in the military based on sexual orientation, but it did not end the prohibition on transgender military service. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) found that transgender Americans serve in the military at a high rate; 20 percent of NTDS respondents had served in the armed forces as compared to 10 percent of the U.S. general population. This study draws upon both quantitative and qualitative data about transgender soldiers and veterans who responded to the NTDS to describe who these transgender soldiers and veterans are and what their experiences have been in regard to their military service. This study outlines respondents reported issues in obtaining corrected identity documents, accessing military health care, and experiences of discrimination. This study finds that transgender veterans experience substantial barriers in these areas and also experience high rates of family rejection and homelessness. INTRODUCTION On 19 September 2008, United States District Judge James Robertson ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Colonel Diane Schroer, finding that the Library of Congress had engaged in illegal employment discrimination against Schroer. The Library of Congress had revoked Schroers job offer after learning she planned to transition from the sex she was assigned at birthmaleto live in accordance with her gender identity as a woman. Schroer had been an Airborne Rangerqualified Special Forces officer and received numerous decorations over her twenty-five-year career with the Army, including the Defense Superior Service Medal. When Schroer transitioned from male to female after retirement from active duty, these accomplishments did not protect her against anti-transgender employment discrimination. In some ways, Schroers story is unique because she was decorated, ranked highly, and was uniquely qualified for the job she sought. But this case raises the question: if Diane Schroer, with all of her accomplishments, faced employment discrimination, then what are the experiences of other transgender veterans? The end of 10 U.S.C. 654, more commonly referred to as Dont Ask, Dont Tell (DADT), came about on 20 September 2011. From that day forward, military personnel of all sexual orientations could serve without hiding their partners or identities. However, this repeal process did not allow for military service by transgender people because, though engaged in the same social movement that led to the repeal of DADT
Advance copy, to be published in the LGBTQ Policy Journal, Volume 3.
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and often conjoined by community affiliations in the greater culture, transgender people were technically never disallowed from service by DADT (Kerrigan 2011). The exclusion of transgender people is not mandated by Congressional legislation; it exists within the military medical code, which lays out exclusions on the basis of what are deemed psychosexual disorders, including transsexualism, as well as on the basis of cross- dressing or a history of gender transition (Witten 2007). Therefore, not only are transgender individuals who wish to join the military prohibited from doing so, but those already serving honorably in the armed forces can be ousted if suspected of being transgender. In light of the repeal of DADT, as well as the high rates of anti-transgender discrimination reported throughout the United States, we sought to answer the following question: what is the situation for transgender service members, potential service members, and veterans today? In order to offer a holistic look at these groups, our study examines data collected through the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) to provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis. First, we will review literature about the experiences of transgender service members and veterans. Second, we will describe the methodology for the NTDS and the current study. Third, we offer a demographic portrait of the respondents to the NTDS survey who served in the military. Fourth, we review life outcomes for NTDS veteran respondents versus NTDS nonveteran respondents. And finally, we provide findings from a qualitative analysis of openended questions from the NTDS to look more deeply at the experiences of those who were unable to join the military as well as others who served and/or mentioned military service in their free response answers. LITERATURE REVIEW Little peer-reviewed research has been published 2
2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
regarding transgender service members or veterans. George Browns first study of transgender veterans described a motivation to join the armed forces that was common among those who had transitioned from male to female (Brown 1988). Brown named this motivation flight into hypermasculinity, which describes the desire to join the armed forces in an attempt to correct or repress feelings of incongruence of sex assigned at birth and gender identity (Brown 1988, 531). Brown hypothesized that the flight into hypermasculinity among transgender people assigned male at birth would result in an overrepresentation of transgender women in the U.S. military. Brown reported to Courthouse News Service that findings from a forthcoming study of data from five million service members will show that the prevalence of male-to-female transgender people in the military is twice that of the general population (Klasfeld 2012). Brown teamed up with Everett McDuffie for a followup to Browns 1988 study, in which they examined the records of seventy active duty service members and veterans who were evaluated for gender-related issues or distress (McDuffie and Brown 2010). They found that 43 percent of these veteranswho were predominately older than forty years of age, white, assigned male at birth and now identifying as women, and employed with at least a high school educationsuffered from psychiatric problems such as depression, substance abuse, and combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); additionally, 61 percent reported suicidal ideation, with 11 percent attempting suicide (McDuffie and Brown 2010). The majority of these soldiers and veterans described motivations for joining the armed forces similar to Browns flight into hypermasculinity. Those who had reported a flight-into-hypermasculinity motivation for joining the armed services frequently reported
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that military service provided no relief from their distress related to their gender identity. Furthermore, McDuffie and Brown note, This population of transgendered veterans generally described the health care systems in the Department of Defense and in the Department of Veterans Affairs as hostile and insensitive to their medical and mental health care needs in spite of the fact that they honorably served their country and were entitled to health care benefits (McDuffie and Brown 2010, 28). In 2008, the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) and the University of Californias Palm Center fielded a survey among transgender veterans to learn more about their demographics and their experiences both in and out of the U.S. military and with the VA (Bryant and Schilt 2008). According to the survey, 64 percent of respondents identified as transgender on the male-to-female spectrum; 40 percent had a bachelor degree or higher; 44 percent made $40,000 or more annually, while 10 percent reported an annual income of $10,000 or less; and 54 percent owned their own homes (Bryant and Schilt 2008). Additionally, 38 percent identified their sexual orientation as heterosexual, while the remaining 62 percent identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or another sexual identity (Bryant and Schilt 2008). The DADT policy was in effect at the time of the survey, and respondents reported being questioned by peers (38 percent) and officers (14 percent) about their sexual orientationa violation of the policy (Bryant and Schilt 2008). The report noted that removing the DADT policy would not be a panacea for the problems transgender service members and veterans face. In addition, 97 percent of the transsexual-identified respondents to the TAVA survey said they were not able to transition until they had left the
military (Bryant and Schilt 2008). Outside of the military, nearly one-third of respondents reported experiencing some form of discrimination in hiring or in the workplace. One-third reported some form of discrimination outside the workplace, mainly in obtaining corrected identification documents. Transgender veterans who sought or received health care through the VA reported discriminatory treatment by doctors (22 percent) and staff (21 percent). Subsequent to Bryant and Schilts study, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) issued a directive mandating that all VA-covered medical care be provided to transgender and intersex veterans in the VA health system in a manner free from discrimination and consistent with ones selfidentified gender (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2011; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2013). This directive, issued in June 2011 and renewed in February 2013, also states that sex reassignment surgery cannot be performed or funded by VHA or VA (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2011, 2). METHODS This study utilizes data collected through the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which was conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (the Task Force). Over a six-month period beginning in fall 2008, 6,456 transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States, the largest survey sample to date, answered a seventy- question survey, reporting on their experiences of discrimination and abuse at home, in school, in the public sphere, and in the workplace (Grant et al. 2011). The survey also asked respondents about their military service, whether they had been discharged due to anti-transgender bias, and their ability to update military discharge records. 3
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Respondents for the survey were recruited in collaboration with 800 active transgender-led or transgender-related organizations nationwide that announced the survey to their membership. The survey link was also disseminated through 150 e-mail lists that reach the transgender community in the United States. The survey was made available online and on paper. The final sample consists of 5,956 online responses and 500 paper responses.1 In this study, we employ Pearsons chi-square tests of independence to measure within-sample relationships between service members/veterans and those who did not serve in the military. Pearsons chi-square tests are only generalizable when using random samples. The tests ability to find statistical significance may also be limited when utilized with a nonrandom sample. Yet, the test can be used to crudely measure a statistical relationship between two variables within this sample and provide hypotheses for future research (Ljer 2007). Qualitative data provided by respondents through write- in responses to the survey were coded and analyzed to provide a more in-depth understanding of service members and veterans experiences with the military. DEMOGRAPHICS OF VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS IN THE NTDS Of the total NTDS sample, 1,261 respondents (20 percent) reported that they had served in the military at some point in their life.2 This section examines the demographic makeup of those respondents by race, gender, age, age of transition, and how out or open they are about their gender identity. Table 1 presents this data alongside data for respondents who did not serve and the full NTDS sample. Chi-square tests of independence are noted both here and in Table 2, which we used to assess the relationship between military service and the demographic variable listed. 4
The majority of respondents who had served in the military were White (82 percent), multiracial (11 percent), or Latino/a (3 percent).3 Of those who served in the military, 88 percent were assigned male at birth. Respondents who served in the military were older in age, with 56 percent being over the age of forty-five. They were also more likely than nonveterans to have transitioned at an older age, with half (50 percent) having transitioned after the age of forty-five. Those who served are less likely to be out or open about their gender identity (48 percent). LIFE OUTCOMES FOR SERVICE MEMBERS This section will examine the relationship between military service among NTDS respondents and outcomes in seven areas of life: employment, education, housing, health, identification documents, experiences with police and jails, and family acceptance. Table 2 presents this data. Each of the questions in the NTDS that refers to discrimination specifically asked respondents to report discrimination due to anti-transgender bias. However, in some cases, the figures reported here may also speak to a complex interplay between transphobia and anti-veteran sentiment, whereby veterans are discriminated against because of a variety of assumptions made about them, such as PTSD and their mental health, their employable skills, and other assumptions.4 Employment NTDS respondents who served are more likely to have lost a job due to bias (36 percent) and/or to have not been hired for a job due to bias (53 percent) compared to nonveterans (24 percent and 42 percent, respectively). Within the workplace, NTDS respondents who served are more likely to have been harassed (54 percent) and to have survived physical violence (9 percent) and sexual violence (8 percent) at work. However, those respondents who had served in
*Chi-square test of independence = p<0.05 **Chi-square test of independence = p<0.01
Table 1: Demographics of veteran and service member respondents, nonmilitary respondents, and the overall sample Veteran and service Nonmilitary Overall Demographic Category member respondents Sample respondents American Indian or Alaskan 2% 1% 1% Native only Asian or Pacific Islander 1% 2% 2% only Race** Black only 2% 5% 5% Latino/a only 3% 5% 5% Multiracial 11% 12% 11% White only 82% 75% 76% MTF transgender women 68% 41% 47% FTM transgender men 9% 32% 28% Male-assigned-at-birth 18% 9% 11% cross-dressers Female-assigned-at-birth Gender** 1% 4% 3% cross-dressers Male-assigned-at-birth 2% 3% 3% genderqueers Female-assigned-at-birth 2% 11% 9% genderqueers 18-24 7% 22% 19% 25-44 37% 56% 52% Age** 45-54 29% 13% 17% 55-64 22% 8% 11% 65+ 5% 1% 2% <18 2% 7% 6% 18-24 6% 35% 29% Age of 25-44 42% 40% 40% transition** 45-54 32% 14% 18% 55+ 18% 4% 7% Generally out 52% 61% 59% Outness** Generally closeted 48% 39% 41%
Table 2: Life outcomes of veteran and service member respondents, nonmilitary respondents, and the overall sample Veteran and Nonmilitary Overall Life outcome service member respondents Sample respondents Lost a job due to anti-trans bias** 36% 24% 26% Was not hired for a job due to anti53% 42% 44% trans bias** Was harassed by someone at work 54% 49% 50% due to anti-trans bias** Survived physical violence at 9% 6% 7% Employment work due to anti-trans bias** Survived sexual violence at work 8% 5% 6% because of anti-trans bias** Was compelled to do sex work, drug sales, or otherwise engage in 12% 17% 16% the underground economy for income** No high school diploma** 2% 5% 4% High school diploma only** 8% 8% 8% Educational Some college** 48% 39% 40% attainment College degree** 23% 28% 27% Graduate degree** 19% 20% 20% Was evicted from a home or 14% 10% 11% apartment due to anti-trans bias* Housing Experienced homelessness* 21% 18% 19% Owned their own home** 48% 29% 32% Was refused medical treatment due 24% 18% 19% to anti-trans bias** Postponed seeking medical care 22% 29% 28% when sick or injured** Health Is HIV positive** 2% 3% 3% Did not know their HIV status** 6% 9% 8% Attempted suicide 40% 40% 41% Was harassed by the police due to 22% 28% 27% Police and anti-trans bias** jails Was put in jail or prison for any 21% 14% 16% reason** Was generally rejected by their Family life 67% 55% 57% families due to anti-trans bias**
the military were less likely to have been compelled to do work in the underground economy (12 percent), such as sex work or drug sales for income, than those who had not served (17 percent). Education NTDS respondents who served are more likely to have attained some college education, but less likely to have completed college or a graduate degree. Of NTDS respondents who had served, 48 percent attended some college, compared to 39 percent for those who did not serve. Yet they completed college at a rate of 23 percent, compared to 28 percent for those who did not serve. Nineteen percent of those who served completed a masters or professional degree, compared to 20 percent for those who did not serve. Housing In terms of housing, NTDS respondents who served in the military are more likely to have been evicted from a home or apartment due to bias (14 percent). Those who served in the military were also more likely to have experienced homelessness (21 percent) than those who did not serve (18 percent). This figure is nearly three times higher than the general population lifetime rate of homelessness (7.4 percent) (United States Congress of Mayors 2006). This high rate of homelessness for transgender veterans is not surprising, given that veterans of all gender identities are disproportionately represented in the U.S. homeless population. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2011), nearly one in seven homeless adults is a veteran. However, NTDS respondents who had served in the military were more likely to own their homes (48 percent). This is still much lower than the national average of 67.4 percent reported by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development in the second quarter of 2009, at approximately the same time as the survey was launched (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 2009). Health Of NTDS respondents who served in the military, 18 percent go to VA clinics or hospitals to receive healthcare.5 The majority (58 percent) go to nonVA doctors offices for their healthcare. NTDS respondents who had served in the military were more likely to have been refused medical treatment due to bias (24 percent). However, they were less likely to have postponed seeking medical care when sick or injured (22 percent). Respondents who served in the military are less likely to be HIV positive (2 percent) and more likely to know their HIV status. Only 6 percent of those who had served said they did not know their HIV status, compared to 9 percent of their nonveteran counterparts. It should be noted, though, that all of these figures are higher than the general US population rates related to HIV, with a general US rate of 0.6 percent (UNAIDS and WHO 2007). There was no statistically significant relationship between military service and having attempted suicide. Identification Documents Identity documents are a salient part of most Americans lives and are needed when seeking employment and housing, for driving, and in a variety of other circumstances. Identity documents often list an individuals gender, and people who transition may desire to have their gender corrected on these documents. Military service records provide information about an individuals service in the armed forces, including discharge status. 7
Respondents were asked in the NTDS about their ability to update forms of identification, including military discharge papers (the DD 214, or Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, and the DD 215, the document used when original information is corrected or updated). Of respondents who had served in the military, only 5 percent said they had attempted to update those documents to match their current name and gender marker and were successful. Another 10 percent said they had tried but been denied, 64 percent said they had not tried, and 21 percent marked not applicable. There was no significant relationship between having updated nonmilitary identifications and having served. QUALITATIVE FINDINGS FROM THE NTDS Respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey were provided with the opportunity to write in a response to the following question, Question 70: Anything else youd like to tell us about your experiences of acceptance or discrimination as a transgender/gender nonconforming person? Seventy-four NTDS participants discussed the U.S. military in their responses. Those who chose to respond about the military were predominantly White (73 percent) or multiracial (19 percent), ages twenty-five through fifty-four (74 percent), assigned male at birth (77 percent), and had served in the military (80 percent). Respondents described a variety of experiences, including instances of harassment and sexual assault, and shared their thoughts on public policy regarding transgender military service. In this section, we review these write-in responses to describe experiences of those participants who want to serve in the military, experiences while serving in the military, experiences with identity documents and health care, and requested changes in public policy 8
related to the military. A few young respondents, all transgender men from the ages of twenty-one to twenty-eight, expressed a desire to join the military and distress at not being able to serve. One young man explained, I am a patriotic and God-fearing twenty-one-year-old male (of transsexual history) from a military family . . . I want to serve my country, badly, and think about this constantly. Another young man was denied entry and described his situation, stating, I scored high enough to go into the military and die for our country as a ranking officerbut I was denied because of my genitals not matching what my gender marker was on my license. A twenty-eight-year-old transgender man described his dismay at not being able to serve: What bothers me most is Ill never get to join the military. That breaks my heart . . . as I grow older I am really beginning to think if I am not able to serve my country like that in some way, its going to be one of my regrets in life. Another young transgender man describes the difficult choice between transitioning and military service: I have wanted to enlist in the military or take a federal job my entire life . . . and now I am finally having to come to terms with the fact that I will either have to delay my transition for eight or more years, or give up on my dreams. In order to serve in the military, eleven respondents described how they hid their gender identity from others, including delaying transition until being discharged or having retired from the service. One transgender man described how he went back to living as his assigned sex at birthfemalein order to serve in the military after having lived full-time as a man for two years. Others described the personal price they have paid in order to serve in the military. One veteran explained, I have thirty-five years of service though and throughout my career I have been
highly regarded. I feel that many others do not have the experience that I have. But I did pay the price for my success . . . I gave up most of my life and lived a lie. A current service member stated, To date I have experienced few instances of discrimination because I have continued to present primarily as my birth gender in order to avoid losing my position in the military. Conversely the sure knowledge that I must do this must qualify as severe discrimination and harassment. Another current service member, a cross-dresser assigned male at birth, described how the military created distress in not being able to live an authentic life but simultaneously curtailed some potential negative outcomes of that distress. He explained, Many of the requirements necessary to stay in the military have made acting out and self-medicating with drugs to escape the pain impossible. Without this structure I might not have developed the discipline and strength necessary to overcome my pain. Seven respondents described how they suffered verbal, physical, and sexual harassment in the military based on their gender expression or perceived sexual orientation. One veteran described her experience in the military, stating she experienced extreme sexual harassment and abuse when in the military. She described a specific incident with an officer: I was once verbally and physically bullied by an Army Colonel because I was a freak, even though I served four years in the infantry. One respondent related incidents of harassment she had experienced while serving in the Navy Reserve. She explained, I was harassed because I was observed with, of all things, shaved arms. The harassment was shunning . . . While on a field exercise, I was silently offered sex contact with my tent mate. I said nothing and did not respond in any way to his overtures. The purpose of this attempt
was to obtain the necessary evidence to remove me from military service. It failed. Another veteran described sexual harassment she endured, based on a misperception of her sexual orientation: Sexually harassed in the military for being perceived as gay. Actually was pre-out transsexual. Gender behavior nonconformity with societal norms is why I was perceived to be gaymuch in the same way that effeminate males are often perceived to be gay. Four respondents reported they were raped, and one reported suffering attempted rape while in the military. Four of these respondents reported they were targeted for sexual violence due to their gender nonconformity or gender identity. One Navy veteran attributed her rape to others reactions to her gender identity: My US Navy enlistment was short, two years of a six-year enlistment because when my gender feelings were discovered I was twice raped at sea. Another veteran explained, I was raped twice in the military because I was butch/lesbian/gender nonconforming. The first time was a gang-rape. One respondent described going AWOL (absent without official leave) subsequent to being raped while in the Marines and told to not report it: At age sixteen, while in the Marines I was raped in the barracks and when I reported it I was told that I would be dishonorably discharged if I allowed it to become officially reported. No action was taken against the rapist and I was placed back into the barracks with this same person. I went AWOL and remained in that status for twenty-eight years. When I was finally arrested, I lost my high six-figure income job that I had had for twelve years and ended up losing everything and became homeless for about a year. All of this because I was transgender. One hundred seventeen survey respondents (9 9
percent) who had served reported they were discharged because of being transgender or gender nonconforming. In Question 70, thirteen respondents described having their positions undermined, being denied promotions, being forced out of the military, or being discharged. A transgender woman working for the Army described how her position was undermined after she transitioned: Upon my transition, key individuals acted so as to deny me access and communication to fulfill my duties. She was terminated. Several respondents described situations where they were forced out of the military, but not officially discharged. Another transgender woman explained, I served in the US Navy when I figured things out and was told to leave or be dishonorably discharged. Another respondent found his career path stunted: Even though I wasnt forced out of the military officially due to my transgender status, because they knew of it and made me seek counseling I knew I had no opportunities to make it a career and left at the first opportunity. Four respondents reported being discharged or fired from military employment. One transgender man was discharged as mentally unfit to serve under Section 8 for being a lesbian but noted that they intended to discharge him for being transgender but utilized Section 8 to do so.6 In Question 70, five survey respondents described their experiences with updating their military records. Two of these respondents outlined problems that arise from having military records that dont accurately reflect their gender. One veteran explained, [I was not] able to obtain a new military DD 214 with [my] new name, otherwise [I] cannot use it and prove prior military service, so [I] am denied many services. Another veteran described his situation that impacted his income and health care: 10
On the DEERS [Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System] I am listed by my male name with the gender listed as female. I have a court order stating that effective [January 2008] my male name is ____ and my gender is male. Still the military refuses to recognize this. This refusal affects the name on my Army retirement check, disability check, and is causing havoc with my military health care. The VA provides a number of services for veterans of the armed forces, including health care services administered through the VHA. Veterans who responded to Question 70 provided a wealth of information about health care they had received both inside and outside of the VA system. Fourteen wrote about specific experiences with VA health care, facilities, doctors, and staff, ranging from very positive experiences to very negative. One transgender woman noted, I happen to be a disabled war veteran who has a letter from the VA stating that Im overdue for a mammogram. How cool is that? Other respondents related positive experiences with the VA when needing job-related physical evaluations and when needing a second opinion on a diagnosis. However, 71 percent of responses about the VA were negative. Eight veterans described distress at not being able to receive transition-related health care services through the VA, including hormones, or experiencing discrimination, including denial of regular health care services, by VA doctors and medical staff.7 Another transgender woman stated she was raped at a VA hospital. Eighteen respondents offered their opinions on what public policy changes should take place to improve the military for transgender people who want to serve or are currently serving. The most common public policy suggestion, offered by eight respondents, was to allow transgender people to serve
openly in the military. One respondent declared, I should have the right to risk my life for my country. Four respondents suggested that the VA and military health insurance cover transition-related health care. Other public policy suggestions included allowing military records (such as DD 214) to be changed to correct ones gender, military adoption of antiharassment measures to protect service members and veterans, federal anti-discrimination protections that cover employment (such as ENDA), and training and education on transgender issues. The lack of public policies to address transgender military service and the needs of transgender service members and veterans left several veterans dismayed. One veteran declared, Very angry about serving in the first Gulf war, being a 100 percent service-connected disabled vet and having my rights and benefits . . . being denied. Another veteran explained, Im a combat veteran and am discriminated against because I am nonconforming. I earned the right to be myself. Finally, a Navy veteran asked, Served twenty years in the Navy, highly decorated, with honor. [I was] protecting Americas rights. WHAT ABOUT MINE? CONCLUSION Many transgender people desire to serve their country in the armed forces, yet are not allowed entry or allowed to remain in the service if they wish to live their lives true to their gender identities. Transgender service members and veterans have reported wide-ranging experiences of discrimination, harassment, and physical and sexual assault while serving in the military. Outside of the military, transgender veterans in the NTDS experienced higher rates of homelessness, incarceration, and family rejection than those who did not serve. Transgender veterans described unique challenges and barriers to obtaining necessary health care and
accurate identification documents. The repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell does not provide a public policy solution for these problems transgender service members and veterans experience. Though the VHA has begun to address transgender veterans health care concerns, it will be necessary to make additional changes to military policies in order to allow transgender people to serve openly and with honor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank Erin Fitzgerald, Angeliki Kastanis, and Aaron Belkin for their assistance with this paper and Brad Sears and George Brown for their thoughtful reviews. REFERENCES
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is similar to the findings from the NTDS, where we find that 29 percent of transgender women had ever served in the military.
For comparison, the racial makeup of all active duty military service members in 2010 was as follows: 70 percent White only, 17 percent Black only, 4.9 percent other, 3.7 percent Asian only, 2.1 percent multiracial, 1.7 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 0.6 percent Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. Additionally, 10.8 percent of active duty military service members were Hispanic or Latino/a (U.S. Department of Defense 2010, 20). A preliminary multivariate analysis found that military service remains a significant predictor of some negative life outcomes, even when controlling for age, race, and gender. Future research is needed to understand the complex interplay between demographics, military service, and experiences of discrimination. Shipherd et al. (2012) figures on VA use differ slightly from ours, though the difference could be attributable to differences in the survey questions that were fielded. Here we find that 18 percent of transgender veterans use the VA when sick or in need of advice about their health. This figure jumps to 20 percent when only considering transgenderwomen veterans. Shipherd et al. (2012) find 9 percent of transgender women veterans use the VA for primary health care and 16 percent had used VA services in the last six months. Section 8 refers to a type of administrative discharge for a sexual perversion that rendered an individual unfit for military service. A Section 8 discharge no longer exists within the military. For more information about the development and use of administrative discharges and policies regarding sexual minorities in the U.S. military, see Evans, Rhonda. 2001. U.S. Military Policies Concerning Homosexuals: Development, Implementation, and Outcomes. Santa Barbara, CA: The Palm Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military). The data presented here was collected before the VHA directive (issued in 2011 and updated and renewed in 2013) mandated provision of all VA-covered medical care to transgender veterans in the VA health system in a manner free from discrimination and consistent with ones selfidentified gender identity (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2011; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2013).
Though the research team and staff members conducted widespread outreach efforts, including to rural areas, to recruit survey respondents from a variety of regions, literacy levels, and socioeconomic backgrounds, there are certainly segments of the transgender population that are not represented or are underrepresented in this survey. Therefore, while this is by far the largest sample of transgender experience collected to date, with respondents hailing from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, it is not appropriate to generalize the findings in this study to all transgender and gender nonconforming people because it is not a random sample. More details about the composition of the survey sample can be found in the report Injustice at Every Turn: A report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (Grant et al. 2011). A study by Shipherd et al. (2012) found that 30 percent of transgender women in their survey sample served in the military, whereas 10.1 percent of the U.S. general population had ever served in the military as of 2009. This
Jack Harrison-Quintana is a queer Latino activist and researcher currently serving as the manager of the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In 2011, he was a coauthor of the groundbreaking report Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. Since the publication of the study, he has continued producing new research products based on the NTDS data including state and regional reports as well as a series on racial justice-related findings. Additionally, he is a coauthor of A Gender Not Listed Here: Genderqueers, Gender Rebels, and OtherWise in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, published in the 2012 LGBTQ Policy Journal. Jody L. Herman holds a PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from The George Washington University, where she also earned her MA in Public Policy. She currently serves as the Peter J. Cooper Public Policy Fellow and Manager of Transgender Research at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. Before joining the Williams Institute, she worked as a research consultant on issues of voting rights in low-income minority communities and gender identity discrimination. She served as a co-author on the groundbreaking report Injustice at Every Turn, based on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality. Her main research interests focus on the impact of gender identitybased discrimination and issues related to gender regulation in the built environment.
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Installation and Operation Instructions Mark IIXG Diesel Engine Fire Pump Controllers
FTA1100
NS1100-50 ECN 225126
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1 MOUNTING CONTROLLER ............................................................................................................1 Wall Mount................................................................................................................... 1 - 2 Floor/Base Plate Mount......................................................................................................2 MAKING ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS ...................................................................................... 2 - 4 MAKING SYSTEM PRESSURE CONNECTIONS .................................................................................4 PROGRAMMING THE MARK IIXG ...................................................................................................4 User Interface and Display .................................................................................................5 User Menu Structure..........................................................................................................6 Programming Notes ..........................................................................................................7 MAIN MENU - SETTINGS System Setup Display Brightness ..................................................................................................................8 Contrast .....................................................................................................................8 Invert .........................................................................................................................8 Keyboard ...................................................................................................................8 Language and Units Language ...................................................................................................................8 Pressure Units ............................................................................................................8 Passwords Level 1 ........................................................................................................................8 Level 2 ........................................................................................................................8 Date & Time Time ..........................................................................................................................8 Date ...........................................................................................................................8 Date Format ...............................................................................................................8 Daylight Saving ..........................................................................................................9 Timers On Delay ....................................................................................................................9 Minimum Run / Off Delay ...........................................................................................9 Pressure Pressure Units ............................................................................................................9 Start...........................................................................................................................9 Stop ...........................................................................................................................9 Automatic Shutdown Disabled ...................................................................................9
Pressure (continued) Overpressure Alarm .................................................................................................10 Recording - Delta .....................................................................................................10 Sensor ......................................................................................................................10 Calibration ...............................................................................................................10 Engine & Cranking Control.....................................................................................................................10 Overspeed (Engine Terminal #1) ..............................................................................10 Alarm Limits Overpressure Alarm Enabled ....................................................................................10 Volts DC ...................................................................................................................10 Volts DC Min. ...........................................................................................................10 Volts DC Max. ...........................................................................................................11 Volts AC Min. ............................................................................................................11 Volts AC Max. ...........................................................................................................11 Coil Check ................................................................................................................11 Feature Settings AC Power Loss Start ..................................................................................................11 Interlock Alarm ........................................................................................................11 Low Pressure Audible ...............................................................................................11 Low Suction .............................................................................................................11 Main Switch Mis-Set .................................................................................................11 Manual Test ..............................................................................................................12 Pump Run Alarm ......................................................................................................12 Remote Start ............................................................................................................12 User Input ................................................................................................................12 Weekly Test Setup .............................................................................................. 12-13 Low Pump Room Temp ............................................................................................13 Low Reservoir ...........................................................................................................13 Relief Valve Open .....................................................................................................13 High Fuel Level .........................................................................................................13 High Reservoir..........................................................................................................14 Option Settings ...............................................................................................................14 MAIN MENU - EVENT LOG ...........................................................................................................14 MAIN MENU - DATA HISTORY ......................................................................................................14 MAIN MENU - USB Save to USB .....................................................................................................................14 Remove Drive ..................................................................................................................15 MAIN MENU - FACTORY Conguration - Model Serial Number ..........................................................................................................15 Model ......................................................................................................................15 Battery Type .............................................................................................................15 Battery Voltage ........................................................................................................15
MAIN MENU - FACTORY (continued) Conguration - Model Pressure Sensor ........................................................................................................15 Autostart NC ............................................................................................................15 User Input Number...................................................................................................15 Low Suction .............................................................................................................15 Screen Saver.............................................................................................................15 Conguration - Options ...................................................................................................15 Conguration - ADC Calibration ......................................................................................15 Diagnostics Raw Input: Analog ....................................................................................................16 Raw Input: Discrete ..................................................................................................16 Raw Input: Keys ........................................................................................................16 Raw Output: Discrete ...............................................................................................16 Mark IIXG Starts ........................................................................................................16 Lamp Test ................................................................................................................16 Audible Test .............................................................................................................16 USB Test ...................................................................................................................16 Flags ........................................................................................................................16 Tools Clear Data History ....................................................................................................16 Clear Event Log.........................................................................................................16 Reset to Defaults ......................................................................................................16 Firmware Update .....................................................................................................16 MAIN MENU - ABOUT .................................................................................................................16 BATTERY CHARGER INFORMATION .............................................................................................17
RISK OF ELECTRICAL SHOCK
Personal injury could occur. Ensure all power is disconnected before installing or servicing this equipment.
These instructions are intended to assist in the understanding of the installation and operation of the FTA1100. Read through these instructions thoroughly prior to connecting the controller. If there are any questions unanswered in these instructions, please contact the local Firetrol representative or factory service department. INTRODUCTION Firetrol FTA1100 combined automatic and manual diesel engine re pump controllers are intended for starting and monitoring re pump diesel engines. They are available for use with 12 or 24 volt negative ground systems using lead acid or Nickel-Cadmium batteries. FTA1100 re pump controllers are listed by Underwriters Laboratories Inc., in accordance with UL218, Standard for Fire Pump Controllers, CSA, Standard for Industrial Control Equipment (cUL), and approved by Factory Mutual. They are built to meet or exceed the requirements of the approving authorities as well as NEMA and the latest editions of NFPA 20, Installation of Centrifugal Fire Pumps, and NFPA 70, National Electrical Code. MOUNTING CONTROLLER NoteConsult the appropriate job plans to determine controller mounting location. Controller must be mounted within view of the engine. Tools and Materials (all mounting): 1. Assortment of common hand tools of the type used to service electromechanical equipment. 2. Hole (conduit) punch. 3. Drill for drilling wall/oor anchor holes. 4. Hand level. 5. Tape measure. 6. Four (4) anchors with bolts and washerif wall mount. Six (6) anchors, bolts and washersif oor/ base mount. Wall Mount Procedure 1. Locate bottom mounting brackets and hardware. 2. Inspect for damage. 3. Gently lay the controller on its back, using protection so the paint is not damaged. It is best to lay the controller in a location that is out of the way from actual mounting location. 4. Attach each bracket to the bottom of the enclosure using the supplied hardware . Tighten nuts securely.
RISK OF PERSONAL INJURY
Controller cannot stand upright with the bottom mounting brackets attached. Leave laying on its back until the wall anchors are ready for controller installation.
NoteRefer to the controller dimension drawing for necessary mounting dimensions. The controller is wall mounted by using four (4) wall anchors, 2 anchors for the top ears and 2 anchors for the bottom mounting brackets. The ears and brackets are dimensionally on the same center-line for ease in mounting.
5. Using either the dimension print or by measuring the distance between the center lines of the 2 lower bracket slots, transcribe this dimension onto the wall. Note: The bottom edge of the enclosure should be a minimum of 12 (305 mm.) from the oor in case ooding of the pump room occurs. 6. Drill and put 2 anchors into the wall for the 2 lower bracket slot mounts. 7. Mark on the wall, the location of the holes in the upper mounting ears. 8. Drill and put 2 anchors into wall for the upper mounts. 9. Install bolts and washers in 2 lower anchors, leaving a gap between the washer and wall. 10. Lift the controller and place the bottom mounting slots down onto the 2 lower anchor bolts. Do not tighten bolts. 11. Align holes in upper mounting ears and install 2 bolts and washers in anchors. 12. Shim anchors as necessary to ensure rear of enclosure is vertically level and enclosure is not stressed. Tighten all 4 anchor bolts. 13. Check to be sure enclosure door opens and closes freely and that enclosure is level. Floor/Base Plate Mount Procedure MOUNTING LEGS (OPTIONAL - IF ORDERED) Procedure 1. Unpack legs and mounting hardware. 2. Inspect legs for damage. 3. Gently lay the controller on its back, using protection so the paint is not damaged. It is best to lay the controller in a location that is out of the way from actual mounting location. 4. Attach each leg to the bottom of the enclosure using the provided hardware . Tighten nuts securely. 5. After legs are securely attached, stand the controller up on its legs for mounting. Each leg has 3 holes on the bottom for anchoring to the oor or base plate.
Controller is not free standing! Controller must be secured to floor or wall surface before opening door or operating.
NoteConsult the appropriate job plans to determine controller mounting location. Refer to the controller dimension print for necessary mounting dimensions. The controller is oor/base plate mounted by using the 3 pre-drilled holes in each leg. The holes are dimensionally on the same center line for ease in mounting. 6. Using either the dimension print or by measuring distance between the center lines of the holes on one leg, transcribe these dimensions onto the oor/base plate. 7. Drill 3 holes in oor/base plate for anchoring the leg. 8. Mark location of holes for opposite leg and drill 3 more holes. 9. Secure controller to oor/base plate with bolts and washers and tighten. 10. Check to be sure enclosure door opens freely and that enclosure is level. MAKING ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS Important Precautions Prior to making any eld connections: 1. Open door of enclosure and inspect internal components and wiring for any signs of frayed or loose wires or other visible damage.
2. Verify that the controller information is what is required on the project: Firetrol catalog number Engine voltage and polarity of grounding Incoming line voltage and frequency Maximum system pressure 3. Project electrical contractor must supply all necessary wiring for eld connections in accordance with the National Electrical Code, local electrical code and any other authority having jurisdiction. 4. Refer to the appropriate eld connection drawing for wiring information. Procedure All engine connections, remote alarm functions and AC wiring must be brought into the enclosure at the bottom. (See dimension drawing for exact location). A gland plate is supplied for ease of installation. Proceed as follows: 1. Use a hole (conduit) punch, not a torch nor a drill, and punch a hole in the gland plate for the size conduit being used. 2. Install necessary conduit. WarningUse only gland plate for conduit entrance. Controller warranty is VOID if any other location is used. NoteAll eld wiring connections are connected to terminal blocks located in the controller. Terminals for interconnection to the corresponding numbered terminals on the engine terminal block are located between the circuit breakers (CB1, AC power and CB2-CB3, battery connections). Not all engines require all terminals to be connected. Reference engine wiring diagram and Field Connection Diagram for appropriate information. Other terminals are for connecting remote alarm functions and optional features are located on the controller relay board(s). AC line connections are made to terminals L1 and L2 (1CB). A ground lug, marked G is provided for grounding. This AC circuit should come from a source having a circuit breaker sized in accordance with the National Electrical Code and other local codes. 3. Pull all wires necessary for engine connections, remote alarm functions, AC power and all other optional features. Allow enough excess wire inside enclosure to make up connections to the terminal block. Be sure to consult the appropriate eld connection diagram. Make sure AC Circuit Breaker (CB1) and Battery Circuit Breakers (CB2, CB3) are turned Off. WarningDo not use controller wire way for routing external wiring. Wire Sizes Use #14 AWG wire minimum for all electrical connections except for battery charger connections. (Battery chargers connected to terminals 6, 8, and 11.) On terminals 6, 8, and 11, use the following information to determine wire sizes: Linear feet (in conduit run) from controller to terminal block on engine 0 to 25 (0 to 7.62 m.) 25 to 50 (7.62 m. to 15.24 m.) Maximum Wire Size #10 AWG (6 mm2) #8 AWG (10 mm2)
4. Make all eld connections to remote alarm functions and any other optional features. 5. Verify AC line voltage and frequency with the controller data plate on the enclosure door prior to energizing AC power.
6. Connect AC power to L1 and L2 (CB1) 120 Volt, 60 Hz or as called for on controller data plate. 7. Connect remote normally open START push-button wires to terminals 13 and 14 (if used). 8. If deluge valve is used, remove jumper from terminals 16 and 17. Connect wires from normally closed contact on deluge valve to terminals 16 and 17. 9. Connect remote normally open shutdown interlock wires to terminals 15 and 16 (if used). A factory installed jumper will be installed on these terminals. If installing a interlock, this jumper may be removed, otherwise leave jumper in place until the set up of the Mark IIXG is complete. 10. Check to see that all connections are both correctly wired (in accordance with eld connection diagram) and tight. 11. Close enclosure door. MAKING SYSTEM PRESSURE CONNECTIONS The FTA1100 controller requires one (1) System Pressure connection from the system piping to the enclosure. The connection tting, 1/2 FNPT, is provided on the bottom, external side of the enclosure for this purpose. The Test Drain connection, located to the left of the System Pressure connection, should be piped to a vented drain or to waste. The Test Drain is used only briey during the weekly test cycle. NoteTest drain line must be free owing. Do not use any valves or plugs on this line. Refer to NFPA 20 for correct eld piping procedure of sensing line between the pumping system and the controller. PROGRAMMING THE MARK IIXG 1. Energize (Turn ON) circuit breakers 1CB (AC Power), 2CB & 3CB (Battery Connections). Follow the programming instructions included in this manual to set pressure, timers, etc... 2. When all programming is complete and the unit is ready to put into service, remove interlock jumper wire from terminals 15 & 16. This jumper is factory installed to prevent starting of the engine during installation and setup.
Mark IIXG User Interface and Display
SYSTEM STATUS Ready
1 2 11.7 11.5 0.8A 0.7A
120~ 118~
AC POWER AVAILABLE ALARM MAIN SWITCH IN AUTO MAIN SWITCH IN MANUAL SYSTEM PRESSURE LOW
ENGINE RUNNING ENGINE FAIL TO START
ENGINE TEMPERATURE HIGH ENGINE OIL PRESSURE LOW ENGINE OVERSPEED ENGINE ALTERNATE ECM ENGINE FUEL INJECTOR MALFUNCTION FUEL LEVEL LOW
AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN DISABLED
CHARGER MALFUNCTION
BATTERY #1 TROUBLE BATTERY #2 TROUBLE
Informational Display Control Status and System Pressure Battery 1 & 2 Status - DC Volts, Charging Amps, AC Volts (charger) Active Alarms - Primary Status Notication Date-Time or Active Timer Secondary Status Notication ESC Button Used to go backwards through menu screens Enter Button Used to go forwards through menu screens and save user dened settings
Directional Arrows Used to go up and down in menu screens and change user dened values Silence Alarm Button Used to silence audible alarm System Status LEDs Provide visual indication of important system information
Mark IIXG User Menu Structure
Settings System Setup Date & Time
Display Language/Units Passwords Time Date Daylight Saving
On Delay Time Min. Run Time
Units Start Stop Auto Shtdwn Overpressure Recording Sensor Calibration
Engine & Cranking Alarm Limits Feat. Settings Opt. Settings
Control # Attempts Crank Time Rest Time Overspeed Term 1 Overpressure Sys DC Volt Set DC Volt Min DC Volt Max AC Volt Min AC Volt Max Coil Check AC Failure Start Interlock Alarm Low Press Aud Low Suction Main Sw Mis-Set Manual Test Pump Run Alarm Remote Start User Input Weekly Test Low PR Temp Low Reservoir Relief Valve Open High Fuel Level High Reservoir (As ordered with controller)
Event Log Event History
Data History
Calls to Start Starts Pump Total Run Time Last Pump Run Time Controller Power On Time Last Pump Start Min. Pressure Max. Pressure Last High Temp. Last Low Oil Last Low Fuel Last Charger Fail Last Battery Trouble Last Overspeed Batt. 1 Volts (min, now, max) Batt. 2 Volts (min, now, max) Batt. 1 Amps (min, now, max) Batt. 2 Amps (min, now, max)
Status Save to USB Remove USB Drive
Conguration Diagnostics Tools
Model # S/N SW P/N SW Build Ver. Boot Code Ver.
Programming Notes
The Firetrol Mark IIXG is multi-level password protected. User programmable functions are protected by a Level 1 password.
LEVEL 1 PASSWORD 2-1-1-2
Indicates the level of password required to modify a setting.
Note: Many menu settings feature an enable/disable option. These options are indicated by a or a x for no.
for enabled or a x for disabled. In many cases this can also be interpreted as for yes
Incorrect or inappropriate controller settings could render the fire protection system inoperable. Only qualified and knowledgeable personnel should operate this equipment.
RISK OF PROPERY LOSS, DEATH OR INJURY
Mark IIXG User Menu Settings
Note: Many menu settings feature an enable/disable option. These options are indicated by a " for enabled or a x for disabled.
Indicates the level of password required to modify setting.
System Setup - Display
SETTINGS Use and SETTINGS Use and SETTINGS Use or SYSTEM SETUP DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS arrows to set desired display brightness. Press SYSTEM SETUP DISPLAY 1 to conrm. 1
CONTRAST to conrm.
arrows to set desired display contrast. Press SYSTEM SETUP DISPLAY
1 arrows to enable/disable inverted display (bright background with dark letters). Press SYSTEM SETUP DISPLAY KEYBOARD
to conrm.
1 Use or arrows to set the amount of time of keyboard inactivity before the display returns to the main screen. Press to conrm.
System Setup - Language & Units
SETTINGS Use and SETTINGS Use and SYSTEM SETUP LANGUAGE & UNITS LANGUAGE to conrm. PRESSURE 1 to conrm. 1 arrows to select preferred display language. Press SYSTEM SETUP LANGUAGE & UNITS
arrows to select preferred pressure unit display (psi, bar, kPa). Press
System Setup - Passwords
SETTINGS Use SETTINGS Use SYSTEM SETUP PASSWORDS LEVEL 1 arrows to set preferred password for level 1 access. Press PASSWORDS SYSTEM SETUP LEVEL 2 arrows to set preferred password for level 2 access. Press 1 to conrm. 2 to conrm.
NOTE: A higher level can change a lower level password (level 2 can change level 1). If passwords are changed from factory default and forgotten, charges my be incurred to reset the passwords.
Settings - Date & Time
SETTINGS Use SETTINGS Use Press 1 arrows to set current local time (24 hr format). Press DATE & TIME DATE DATE & TIME TIME to conrm.
1 arrows to set current date (YYYY-MM-DD). The day of week will automatically update as required. to conrm. 1 arrows to set current date format (YYYY-MM-DD, DD-MM-YYYY, MM-DD-YYYY). to conrm. 8 DATE & TIME DATE FORMAT
SETTINGS Use Press
SETTINGS Use (+/-)
1 arrows to enable or disable automatic Daylight Saving time adjustments. Press
Use arrows to set number of minutes to adjust for at the beginning or end of Daylight Saving time. Press to conrm. Use arrows to set the hour of day that Daylight Saving time begins. Press to conrm. Use Press arrows to set the day of the month that Daylight Saving time begins. to conrm.
(DST +) Begin - Hour (DST +) Begin - Day (DST +) Begin - Month
Use arrows to set the month of the year that Daylight Saving time begins. Press to conrm. (Example: Hour=2:00, Day=2nd Sun, Month=Mar means Daylight Saving time would begin at 2:00a.m. on the 2nd Sunday in March) (DST -) End - Hour (DST -) End - Day (DST -) End - Month Use arrows to set the hour of day that Daylight Saving time ends. Press conrm. Use Press to
arrows to set the day of the month that Daylight Saving time ends. to conrm.
Use arrows to set the month of the year that Daylight Saving time ends. Press to conrm. (Example: Hour=2:00, Day=1st Sun, Month=Nov means Daylight Saving time would end at 2:00a.m. on the 1st Sunday in November)
Settings - Timers
SETTINGS Use 1 arrows to set preferred on delay time. Press TIMERS ON DELAY to conrm.
Note: On Delay (also known as sequential start) time, delays the starting of the motor when an automatic call to start is received. 1 Use arrows to set timer mode to Minimum Run or Off Delay. Press desired time. Press to conrm. SETTINGS TIMERS MIN RUN/OFF DELAY
key and use
keys to set
Note: Minimum Run time will begin when motor starts, Off Delay time will begin when system pressure has been restored to Stop pressure setting.
Settings - Pressure
SETTINGS Use 1 arrows to set preferred pressure unit system (psi, bar, kPa). Press PRESSURE START 1 PRESSURE UNITS to conrm.
SETTINGS Use
arrows to set desired pump start pressure. Press SETTINGS PRESSURE STOP
1 Use arrows to set desired pump stop pressure. Press to conrm. Note: Pump stop pressure must be set below the pump churn pressure (including minimum suction pressure), otherwise the pump will run continuously once started. SETTINGS PRESSURE AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN DISABLED Use arrows to enable or disable the automatic shutdown disabled feature. Press Note: Enabling this feature makes the controller manual stop only. 1 to conrm.
SETTINGS Use Limit
1 arrows to enable or disable the overpressure alarm feature. Press Use PRESSURE RECORDING - DELTA
OVERPRESSURE ALARM
to conrm. to conrm.
arrows to set the pressure limit for the overpressure alarm. Press 1 to conrm.
arrows to set pressure delta recording limit. Press
Note: Pressure will be recorded whenever pressure changes by more than set limit. Use arrows to enable or disable hourly pressure recording. Press HOURLY Note: Pressure will be recorded every hour, on the hour.
SENSOR PRESSURE SETTINGS The maximum operating pressure of the sensor (transducer) is displayed. Value cannot be changed from this location. SETTINGS CALIBRATION - SET TO ZERO PRESSURE 2 NOTE: Before proceeding, place jumper wire between eld terminals #15 & 16 to prevent starting of the engine. A calibrated pressure gauge will be required to correctly adjust the settings. Remove/relieve system pressure from the controller sensing line. If gauge shows 0 psi, no adjustments are required; otherwise set zero calibration to same value as displayed on pressure gauge. (Example: With system pressure removed the gauge reads 3 psi, set zero calibration value to 3). Use arrows to set zero calibration value. Press to conrm. Using calibrated gauge, restore pressure to controller sensing line. Adjust span setting to match the value shown on the gauge. Use arrows to set span calibration value. Press to conrm. SET TO SPAN NOTE: Remove interlock jumper wire from terminal #15 & 16 when calibration is complete. Use arrows to enable reset. Press to conrm. RESET TO DEFAULT NOTE: Calibration setting will reset to factory defaults and reset function will automatically return to disabled.
Settings - Engine & Cranking
3 Current value is shown (Mechanical or Electronic). This setting determines the type of Engine being used. Use arrows to select engine type. Press to conrm. Also shown on this screen are the cranking cycle values (# Crank Attempts, Duration of a Crank Cycle, Duration of a Rest Cycle). This is informational only and cannot be changed. 1 This setting determines if the Fuel Valve Relay (Terminal #1) remains energized during an overspeed condition. This output is required on some engines. Use arrows to enable or disable this setting. Press to conrm. SETTINGS ENGINE & CRANKING OVERSPEED (Engine Terminal #1) SETTINGS ENGINE & CRANKING CONTROL
Settings - Alarm Limits
Use ALARM LIMITS OVERPRESSURE ALARM ENABLED SETTINGS arrows to enable or disable this setting. Press to conrm. arrows to set pressure limit at which the alarm is activated. Press 1
LIMIT Use
ALARM LIMITS SETTINGS Indicates controller battery voltage setting. Informational only - setting cannot be changed from this menu. MIN ALARM LIMITS SETTINGS 1 Use arrows to set minimum voltage point for Battery Trouble alarm. Press 10 to conrm.
MAX ALARM LIMITS SETTINGS 1 arrows to set maximum voltage point for Battery Trouble alarm. Press V MIN ALARM LIMITS SETTINGS 1 arrows to set minimum voltage point for AC Voltage Low alarm. Press ENABLED 1 arrows to enable or disable the AC Voltage Low alarm. Press
Use Use
V MAX ALARM LIMITS SETTINGS 1 arrows to set maximum voltage point for AC Voltage High alarm. Press ENABLED 1 arrows to enable or disable the AC Voltage High alarm. Press
COIL CHECK ALARM LIMITS SETTINGS 1 Use arrows to set monitoring of the engine starting solenoid coils (1-, -2, 1&2, OFF). Press
Settings - Feature Settings
SETTINGS FEATURE SETTINGS AC POWER LOSS START to conrm. ENABLED 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the AC Voltage Loss Start feature. Press
DELAY 1 Use arrows to set the time delay between loss of AC voltage and engine starting (0-60 sec.). Press to conrm. Use Use INTERLOCK ALARM FEATURE SETTINGS SETTINGS arrows enable or disable the alarm for Interlock On. Press 1 to conrm. to conrm.
LOW PRESSURE AUD FEATURE SETTINGS SETTINGS 1 arrows enable or disable the audible alarm for Low System Pressure. Press SETTINGS FEATURE SETTINGS LOW SUCTION ENABLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the alarm for Low Suction Pressure. Press
Use Use Use Press
AUDIBLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for Low Suction Pressure. Press
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for Low Suction Pressure. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for Low Suction Pressure (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. SETTINGS FEATURE SETTINGS MAIN SWITCH MIS-SET
1 Use arrows to choose how the Main Switch Mis-Set alarm relay operates. Pick Up means the relay will energize when the switch is not in auto. Drop Out means the relay we de-energize when the switch is not in auto. Press to conrm.
FEATURE SETTINGS
MANUAL TEST
DURATION 1 arrows to set the minimum run time (duration) when manual test push-button is used (10 - 99 min.). to conrm. FEATURE SETTINGS PUMP RUN ALARM to conrm. AUDIBLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for Pump Run. Press
SETTINGS Use Use Press
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for Pump Run. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for Pump Run (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. SETTINGS FEATURE SETTINGS REMOTE START to conrm.
USE ON DELAY 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the on delay timer function when remote start is used. Press NOTE: The on delay timer must be set in the TIMER SETTINGS menu. AUTO SHUTDOWN 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the automatic shutdown feature when remote start is used. NOTE: If enabled, the minimum run timer set in TIMER SETTINGS will be used. Press to conrm. SETTINGS Use Use Press Use Use FEATURE SETTINGS USER INPUT to conrm. ENABLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the user dened alarm. Press
ON DELAY 1 arrows to select an on delay time before the alarm is acknowledged (0-99 seconds). to conrm. AUDIBLE 1 arrows to select if the user input activates the audible alarm. Press to conrm. to conrm.
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to select if the user input activates the common alarm output (ALR Relay). Press PUMP ROOM
1 Use arrows to select if the user input activates the alarm output (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. ON MESSAGE TEXT Use vated. Press Use vated. Press SETTINGS 1 arrows to program the message that is displayed and recorded when the user dened alarm is actito conrm. 1 arrows to program the message that is displayed and recorded when the user dened alarm is deactito conrm. FEATURE SETTINGS WEEKLY TEST SETUP
OFF MESSAGE TEXT
ENABLE 1 Use arrows to disable or dene the frequency of the Weekly Test feature (Disabled, Every Week, Every 2 Weeks, ...........Every 5 Weeks). Press to conrm. ON Use 1 arrows to choose the day of the week that the Weekly Test is performed. Press to conrm.
AT Use FOR Use
1 arrows to choose the time of day that the Weekly Test is performed. Press 1 arrows to choose the duration (engine run time) of the Weekly Test. Press
1 Use arrows to choose current time frame in reference to the Weekly Test schedule. Press to conrm. (Example: If test is programmed for every 2 weeks on Sunday and today were Friday then - If testing is desired to start this week, then every other week thereafter, we would now be in week 2 of 2 - If testing is desired to start on the following Sunday, not the coming Sunday, then we would now be in week 1 of 2). SETTINGS FEATURE SETTINGS LOW PUMP ROOM TEMP to conrm. AUDIBLE 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for Low Pump Room Temperature. Press Use Press
NOW IN WEEK
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for Low Pump Room Temperature. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for Low Pump Room Temperature (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. SETTINGS Use Use Press FEATURE SETTINGS LOW RESERVOIR to conrm. AUDIBLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for Low Reservoir Level. Press
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for Low Reservoir Level. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for Low Reservoir Level (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. SETTINGS Use Use Press FEATURE SETTINGS RELIEF VALVE OPEN to conrm. AUDIBLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for Relief Valve Open. Press
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for Relief Valve Open. to conrm. PUMP ROOM
1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for Relief Valve Open (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. SETTINGS Use Use Press FEATURE SETTINGS HIGH FUEL LEVEL to conrm.
AUDIBLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for High Fuel Level. Press
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for High Fuel Level. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for High Fuel Level (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm.
HIGH RESERVOIR to conrm.
AUDIBLE 1 arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for High Reservoir Level. Press
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for High Reservoir Level. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for High Reservoir Level (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm.
SETTINGS OPTION SETTINGS NOTE: The list of available options and the settings associated with them will vary with each controller. Listed below are the most common user dened settings that may appear. AUDIBLE 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the audible alarm for selected option. Press Use Press to conrm.
COMMON ALARM 1 arrows to enable or disable the common alarm output (ALR relay) for selected option. to conrm.
PUMP ROOM 1 Use arrows to select the alarm output relay for selected option (Disabled, PTR (Pump Room Trouble), ETR (Engine Trouble), Both PTR and ETR). Press to conrm. EVENT LOG The Event Log is a record of events (pressure recording, alarms, starts, etc...) that are stored in the memory of the Mark IIXG. The last 3000 events are kept in this memory. The events are stored in the order that they occur, with the most recent being rst (the last event that occurred will be event #1). The following keys are used to browse through the event log: Move forward through the events one at a time (1 - 2 - 3....etc) Move backward through the events one at a time (55 - 54 - 53....etc) Move forward through the events ten at a time (60 - 70 - 80....etc) Move backward through the events ten at a time (91 - 81 - 71....etc) Pressing and holding of the arrow keys will allow the scrolling to move faster. DATA HISTORY The Data History is a record of important data and events that are kept throughout the life of the controller. Use arrows to scroll through the information stored in the Data History log. The available information is: Numbers of calls to start Number of actual starts Pump total run time Pump last run time Total controller power on time Last pump start time/date Minimum system pressure Maximum system pressure Last high temp. alarm time/date Last low oil pressure time/date Last low fuel level time/date Last charger failure time/ date Last battery trouble time/date Last engine overspeed time/date Battery 1 & 2 voltage min/current/max Battery 1 & 2 amps min/current/max
USB SAVE TO USB 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the Save to USB function. Press to conrm. The following is saved to the USB ash drive: Event Log, Data History, Controller Information and all user dened settings (pressure settings, timer settings, alarm settings....etc.). The saved le is a text le named the same as the controller serial number (87654321.txt) and can be viewed using most word processing software. 14
REMOVE DRIVE 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the Remove Drive feature. Press to conrm. Much like a computer, the Remove Drive feature ensures le closure prior to removing the USB ash drive from the Mark IIXG. Use of this feature helps prevent le corruption. NOTE: The Mark IIXG also features an automatic daily save function. Every day at midnight (0:00) the events for that day are written to a le on the USB ash drive. This le is also a text le (.txt) and is named for the month, in the current year folder under Firetrol (x:\Firetrol\2009\Sept.txt).
FACTORY SERIAL NUMBER
3 Use arrows to enter the controller serial number. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. MODEL 3 Use arrows to select required model number. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. BATTERY TYPE 3 Use arrows to select required battery type. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. BATTERY VOLTAGE 3 Use arrows to select required battery voltage. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. PRESSURE SENSOR 3 Use arrows to select if a pressure sensor (transducer) is used. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. If disabled, menu options in SETTINGS/PRESSURE are disabled. AUTOSTART NC 3 Use arrows to enable or disable this parameter. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. USER INPUT NUMBER 3 Use arrows to select input used for user dened option. Press to conrm. NOTE: This is a factory set parameter and under normal circumstances would never be changed. LOW SUCTION 3 Use arrows to select input used for Low Suction Pressure option. Press to conrm. NOTE: This value cannot be changed unless a Low Suction option has been selected in the options conguration. SCREEN SAVER 1 Use arrows to enable or disable the screen saver function. Press to conrm. NOTE: The display screen is designed to automatically dim 5 minutes after returning to the home screen and without any activity. The screen will wake up or return to set brightness on a key press or any event that would cause a message to appear on the screen. This feature is designed to prolong the life of the display. It is not recommended that this function be disabled. OPTIONS CONFIGURATION 3 This is area where ordered options are added by the factory. Any user dened parameters for these options would appear in the SETTING/OPTION SETTINGS menu. FACTORY ADC CALIBRATION FACTORY CONFIGURATION 4 This area displays the values of the Analog to Digital Converter calibrations. This calibration is done by the manufacturer. Any changes to these settings would have to be made by the factory. 15
FACTORY DIAGNOSTICS RAW INPUT: ANALOG Input values are shown. This information is for factory level troubleshooting purposes. RAW INPUT: DISCRETE Input values are shown. This information is for factory level troubleshooting purposes. RAW INPUT: KEYS Input values are shown. This information is for factory level troubleshooting purposes. RAW OUTPUT: DISCRETE Output values are shown. This information is for factory level troubleshooting purposes. MARK IIXG STARTS Displays the total number of times the Mark IIXG has been booted. LAMP TEST 1 Use arrows to enable the lamp test. Press to begin test. All System Status LEDs should illuminate. Use arrows to disable the lamp test. Press to end test. System Status LEDs should turn off and return to normal indications. AUDIBLE TEST 1 Use arrows to enable the audible test. Press to begin test. The audible alarm should sound. Use arrows to disable the audible test. Press to end test. The audible alarm will turn off. USB TEST 1 Use arrows to enable the USB test. Press to begin test. A small test le is written to the USB ash drive then read back from the drive. If the write/read is successful, the test is passed. After completion of the test the setting will automatically return to disabled. FLAGS These ags are a part of a manufacturer level testing tool.
FACTORY CLEAR DATA HISTORY
3 Use arrows to enable this option. Press to conrm. Data History will be cleared and option will automatically revert back to disabled. NOTE: Once cleared, this data cannot be recovered. CLEAR EVENT LOG 3 Use arrows to enable this option. Press to conrm. The Event Log will be cleared and option will automatically revert back to disabled. NOTE: Once cleared, this data cannot be recovered. 3 Use arrows to enable this option. Press to conrm. The Mark IIXG will be reset to out of the box default settings. NOTE: All user and factory conguration settings will be lost. FIRMWARE UPDATE 3 This is a tool for installing rmware updates. Updates are installed from a USB ash drive. On screen instructions will guide the process. Installing rmware usually takes just a few minutes, however, the controller is out of service during this time. RESET TO DEFAULTS
ABOUT Information is shown for: Model Number, Serial Number, Software (Part Number, Build Number, Date), and Boot Code (Part Number and Version Information). 16
When installing the battery charger as a replacement part, it is necessary to verify the proper charger settings and adjust as necessary. 1. Incoming AC voltage 115 or 230 volts. 2. Battery voltage - 12 or 24 volts DC. 3. Battery type - Lead Acid / Ni-Cad 9 or 18 Cell / Ni-Cad 10 or 20 Cell. If battery charger is powered with the incorrect settings, damage to the charger and/or batteries may occur. The Firetrol battery charger features a fully automatic 4 step charging cycle. The charging cycles are as indicated: Step 1: Qualification Stage (Flashing yellow and green LEDs) During this stage, the battery charger checks the batteries to insure they can accept a fast charge. It also checks for missing or defective batteries. If the charger detects missing or defective batteries a fault will be given (solid red LED). Step 2: Fast Charge (Solid yellow LED) Charges the batteries until they reach peak voltage. Step 3: Bulk Charge (Solid yellow LED and slow blinking green LED) Charges the batteries at a constant potential of peak voltage until current reaches 500mA. Step 4: Float Charge (Solid green LED) Trickle charges the batteries to maintain peak potential. Charger reset push-button (resets charging cycle to beginning)
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Home » Business » Economy
US job losses hitting men harder than women
Source: Agencies | January 22, 2009, Thursday | Online Edition
THE economic crisis is hitting men much harder than women in the workplace, largely because male-dominated industries like construction and transportation are bearing the brunt of job losses, figures show.
Women, meanwhile, dominate sectors that are still growing, like government and healthcare, experts said.
"It's men that have taken the hit," said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. "It's been an overwhelmingly male phenomena."
Four-fifths of the 2.74 million people who lost their jobs between November 2007 and November 2008 were men, Sum said.
The biggest losses came in construction, where men comprise 87 percent of the work force, he said. Large losses also came in manufacturing and wholesale trade, where men make up more than two-thirds of the work force, he said.
"Males were dominant in sectors that were taking a bad hit," he said. "It's men and the blue-collar jobs. It's overwhelming."
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, men's employment as a ratio of the population dropped by 2.7 percent, while the ratio among women's dropped 0.8 percent from December 2007 to December 2008. The unemployment rate among men rose to 7.9 percent from 5.0, while among women, it rose to 6.4 percent from 4.8 percent, the agency said.
The gap between men's and women's unemployment is the highest since 1983, said Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for American Progress.
"The recession started with the collapse of the housing bubble," Boushey said. "Clearly we've seen significant layoffs in the construction industry and other sectors, and that really has been driving this problem."
Meanwhile, women are strongly represented in sectors that are still growing, experts noted.
Health and education sectors -- where three-quarters of workers are women -- added 536,000 jobs, Sum said.
Women office workers, like receptionists and clerical workers, have suffered losses. The sector, more than 70 percent female, has lost about 800,000 jobs, Sum said.
Women accounted for 102,000 of the 134,000 lost in the financial sector, Boushey said. But job loss in that industry has been relatively small, compared to manufacturing jobs, she said.
Women may see more job losses ahead in the financial sector, where they hold about 59 percent of jobs, Sum said.
"They're just beginning to lay off," he said. "I expect to see more business-related losses in the months ahead."
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Howeler + Yoon and substance are among winners of AIA Small Project Awards
Big ideas start with small changes. This is definitely the case for the 11 outstanding projects that were just honored for their design excellence in small project design as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) just announced its 2018 Small Project Awards winners. The awards are given in three categories: architectural objects or environmental art that cost up to 150,000 in construction (Category 1), small project constructions that cost up to 1,500,000 in construction (Category 2), and projects under 5,000 square feet (Category 3). The theme this year is “Renewal.” Here are a few of the Small Projects award winners: Howeler + Yoon Architecture designed Shadow Play, a hovering canopy formed from triangulated modules. Located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, Shadow Play is a cluster of shade structures that casts geometric shadows that transform the streetscape and how pedestrians congregate in the public space. The canopy’s design maximizes the shaded area but also allows for apertures that bring breezes underneath, making it an ideal space to sit and relax. substance architecture designed the Principal Riverwalk Pump Station in Iowa, which also received the award. The design includes two objects–a Pump House that responds to the neighboring Café Pavilion with similar materials of black zinc and steel, and a Gate Valve Platform that combines translucent glass atop and a solid concrete base. According to the AIA, “The creation of this facility has literally led to the renewal of Des Moines' Historic District and, in concert with the Café Pavilion, it frames a popular public space along the river.“ Kevin Daly Architects was recognized for a low-cost, low-impact prototype backyard home. The 500 square foot parcel dubbed BI(h)OME has an innovative facade made of a paper honeycomb inside layers of ETFE, making a lightweight but sturdy structure that creates a pleasing aesthetic. The prototype is recyclable and customizable, and aims to serve as a housing option for 500,000 single families in Los Angeles, a city that struggles with a “shelter crisis.” Sawmill, designed by Olson Kundig, is a family retreat standing in the high desert of California. In response to the harsh climate and the remote location, the net-zero home utilizes recycled but durable materials and employs strategies to reduce environmental impact and minimize operating costs. Cutler Anderson Architects’ design of Studio / Bunkhouse blends in with the wooded site in Washington. The 80 square feet compact, multi-purpose toolbox is set at the top of a waterfront bluff and complemented by the jury for the ability to work with limited power-tools within the challenging site. Other winners include Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for The Grand Lake Poolhouse, FXCollaborative for their Chapel at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, and Edward Ogosta Architecture’s design of Rear Window House. For the past 15 years, the AIA Small Project Awards program sets out to promote value and design quality in buildings, no matter their size. The complete list of the awarded projects can be seen in the link.
Burntwood School by AHMM wins 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize
Burntwood School, a girls high school in Wandsworth, south London, has won the UK's most coveted architecture award—RIBA's Stirling Prize—with judges describing it as the "clear winner." The project by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) also collected the RIBA London 2015 award in the process. The concrete structure maybe a '50s throwback of sorts, but AHMM's school is by no means a concrete relic of the bygone era. In awarding the project the 2015 Stirling Prize, RIBA, which is seldom accused of playing politics, has also sent a strong message in the importance public education. The building was close to not being built as it was one of the last schools to be constructed under Tony Blair's "Building Schools for the Future scheme"—a policy ditched by current Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010. Education secretary at the time, Michael Gove, granted permission for the proposal even though the scheme had come to an end. RIBA President Jane Duncan spoke to the BBC about the school, noting how it "shows us how superb school design can be at the heart of raising our children's educational enjoyment and achievement." "Delightful, resourceful, and energy efficient buildings that will benefit the whole community in the long term," she continued. "With the UK facing a huge shortage of school places, it is vital we learn lessons from Burntwood." Judges continued that praise, describing AHMM's work as the "most accomplished of the six shortlisted buildings" and showed "the full range of the skills that architects can offer to society." They went on to add: "Burntwood sets a standard in school design that every child in Britain deserves... It is a culmination of many years of creative toil by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris in designing schools up and down the country. This is their masterpiece." Burntwood fought off competition from five other builds, three of which were also from London. Those included project by Richard Rogers, Niall Mcloughlin Architects, Reiach & Hall Architects, MUMA, and Heneghan Peng Architects. With the price tag just north of $63 million, Wandsworth Borough Council's investment appears to have made architectural dividends as members of the awarding jury showered the building in compliments. AHMM Director Paul Monaghan said schools should be "more than just practical, functional buildings," and good design "makes a difference to the way students value themselves and their education." "Staff and students have said on many occasions that the new buildings have greatly improved the quality of their day-to-day experiences at the school and students comment that their commitment to learning has been enhanced," Burntwood School Principal Helen Dorfman commented. The awarding jury consisted of Peter Clegg, senior partner at Field Clegg Bradley Studios; Rory Olcayto, editor at The Architects' Journal; Dame Theresa Sackler of DBE; Steve Tompkins, director of Haworth Tompkins and 2014 Stirling Prize Winner; and Jane Duncan, director of Jane Duncan Architects, RIBA president and chair.
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Actors / Performance / Singers
The Secret Life of Understudies on Philly’s Theater Scene
BY ZOE GROSSINGER
via www.philly.com
“Line?”
Alanna J. Smith, decked out in emerald green face paint from head to toe and a witch’s black hat, yelled frantically to the stage manager.
It was holiday season in 2016 and Smith was almost finished with her first staged production of The Wizard of Oz at the Walnut Street Theatre, having made zero mistakes so far.
The line that slipped her mind? “I’m melting.”
“Of course, the most famous line is the one I miss,” said Smith.
Not to worry. Smith, now an in-demand musical theater actress, was at the time an understudy for the Wicked Witch of the West role, and her flubbed line came during the “understudy run” of the production — a tradition in most Philadelphia theaters.
COURTESY WALNUT STREET THEAT
Flubbing one key line as an understudy didn’t stop Alanna J. Smith, now in demand as an actress in productions like the Walnut Street Theatre’s “Noises Off.”
For the understudy run, the entire cast of understudies performs on stage in one full production, shortly after the regular cast’s opening night. The audience consists of friends, family members, and artistic scouts.
Smith’s wobble in the Wizard production didn’t hurt her career: She’s recently done Noises Off at the Walnut, Grease at the Fireside Theatre in Wisconsin, and she goes into rehearsal next week for Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors, opening Jan. 15 at the Walnut.
The private, family-and-friends production is just one aspect of the secret life of understudies on the Philly theater scene, those largely unsung actors who stand ready to stand in on short notice for others.
A way to get noticed
Jonathan Silver, associate producer at the Arden Theatre, says many are fresh out of acting school. Casting them for the often thankless stand-in role gives producers and directors an opportunity to learn their style and work before they’re cast in larger roles.
On any given production night, a couple of dozen actors are poised to go on at the last minute for shows across the region. It’s a chance for an actor to get identified as a talented new artist. But it’s a very different discipline from acting as a regular role.
Understudies might have only 20 hours of formal rehearsal, compared to the regular actors who practice for about three weeks before opening.
It’s up to the them to stay on top of their game and go see the show repeatedly from the audience — admission is free for them — and to read, reread, and rereread the script on their own.
“You really have to rely on your own brain,” said Georgiana Summers, a junior at the University of the Arts who was an understudy in the spring as Molly in Theatre Horizon’s Peter and the Starcatcher. “Instead of rehearsals, I was on my couch tearing my hair out trying to learn the lines and also the accents.”
Summers has just been cast in the forthcoming Philadelphia Theatre Company production of The Bridges of Madison County (Feb. 8-March 3), where she’ll play Francesca Johnson’s daughter, Carolyn.
COURTESY WALNUT ST. THEATRE
Nichalas L. Parker, seen here as the Cowardly Lion in Walnut Street Theatre’s “Wizard of Oz,” started out as a secretly cowardly understudy.
Like Nick Foles, minus the millions
The role of an understudy can be compared to that of a backup quarterback, like Nick Foles. And the odds are long that they’ll ever get their Super Bowl call-up.
Silver estimates that 95 percent of the time over a season, the regular cast will go on with no need for an understudy.
Still, understudies’ night lives are on hold during the full run of a show because actors can get sick, injured, or called out on emergencies without warning. Understudies are asked to stay within a 30- to 45-minute radius of the theater during showtimes and can be called in as late as halfway through Act One.
Because they’re not paid for much stage time, it’s extra-critical for these budding actors to keep their day jobs.
Rachel Camp, now a Barrymore Award-winning musical theater actress, supplemented her understudy days as a theater teacher and continues to teach occasionally for the Arden Theatre Company. Summers has supported her acting habit with summer jobs making puppets in her hometown of Frederick, Md.
Lindsay Mauck, an actress and understudy, has both a “passion job” as the managing director and producer of Mauckingbird Theatre Company, specializing in gay-themed productions, and a day job as managing director of Philadelphia Young Playwrights.
‘A different muscle in your brain’
On top of worrying about when they might fit into the show, understudies grapple with another big question: how?
“It just flexes a different muscle in your brain,” said Camille E. Young, a professional actress who has at times played understudy and swing roles (a cast member who covers vacation days and other vacancies for several roles at once). She is currently a swing in four roles for The Color Purple at Theatre Horizon.
For one thing, Young said, you have to memorize blocking and stage directions rather than practice them repeatedly.
ALEX MEDVICK.
Camille E. Young (second from right) in rehearsal for The Color Purple with (from left) Aaron-Michael Sobers and Candace Benson.
Another challenge is that understudies are expected to replace the featured actor so seamlessly that the rest of the cast doesn’t even notice. So instead of making their own creative calls and choices, understudies learn to blend in.
“It’s important to know how to imitate — imitate is a strong word — the choices of another performer,” Summers said. “You have to still be genuine and bring your own life to the role while keeping through what another performer already created.”
Mauck said the task of being an understudy “is not for the fainthearted.”
“It’s a fine line between bringing your personal touch to the role and honoring and respecting everything the person in the role has done before you,” Mauck said. “You have to do it in a way that keeps everyone else in the show comfortable and at ease performing with you.”
A secret sense of relief
The most surprising secret of the lives of understudies may be that they’re not necessarily upset when they don’t get the call.
In the full run of Peter and the Starcatcher, Summers never went on. To her, that wasn’t a big loss.
“To be honest, it was kind of relieving,” she said. “There was a very big part of me that never wanted to go on stage.”
JESSICA GRIFFIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Georgiana Summers wasn’t entirely disappointed to play her “Peter and the Starcatcher” role to an audience of one.
Nichalas L. Parker started understudying at the Arden Theatre immediately after graduating from the University of the Arts, then got an apprenticeship at the Walnut Street Theatre.
He said that “luckily,” he was never in a position to replace someone on stage when he understudied. He was conflicted about whether he genuinely wanted to get on stage and perform.
“There’s a mixed feeling between stress where it could happen at every moment, where you’re constantly checking your phone for someone to be like, ‘Hey, we need you on stage in the next five minutes,’ but then also wanting to get on stage and show what you can do,” said Parker.
Parker has gone on to leading roles in musicals – including the Lion in Walnut Street Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz – and will play an as-yet unannounced starring role in one of theater’s forthcoming mainstage productions.
“Being an understudy,” said Parker, “pushed me forward.”
Camp, now considered one of the top actresses on the local scene, made a big impression as an understudy in 2010 for Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George at the Arden.
She’d been cast as an understudy for not one, but two, roles. And they were twins.
When it was time for the understudy run and Camp had to choose between Celeste #1 and Celeste #2, she couldn’t decide.
“It felt impossible to do one of the twins, so I played both,” said Camp.
MARK GARVIN
Rachel Camp (far left) in Michael Hollinger’s “Red Herring” last year at Act II Playhouse in Ambler.
She sang and bickered back and forth to herself as both roles simultaneously. She described it as an “absurd and entertaining” exhibition.
Though there weren’t many people in the audience, associate producer Silver was.
“Just as a performance, it was absolutely brilliant,” said Silver.
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OOOOPS! ;)
June 19, 2017 June 19, 2017 / bruthabruce / Leave a comment
I am unsure how I dropped the ball on my first record, but I did!
Three of eight songs on the record are mislabeled. Tracks 3, 4, and 6 are transposed. The order of the tracks on the record goes like this:
Meet me in the Middle
Pocketful of Change
Peace of Mind (Me & Mine)
I, Myself, & Me
Sunshine Nectar
When You’re Gone
Flinch
Cold Light of Day
We will be fixing this in the very near future, but it seems we’ll have to re-release the record with a different bar code, rather than just renaming the affected tracks, so don’t judge us too harshly, we’ll fix it as soon as we’re able!
mniB
Greetings and welcome!
May 31, 2017 July 1, 2017 / bruthabruce
My 10-year old nephew was bouncing around with his guitar during our lesson, more enamored with the way a guitar looked on him than the intriguing sounds he could make with it, when I held up my guitar to him and told him, “Do you know, I have had a guitar in my life longer than I’ve had most people in my life? I’ve been playing this instrument, or one like it, for 30 years!” This information blew his little mind.
It did mine too.
Other than my Wife, my family, and some very close friends, I am closer to my guitar than to any single person I know.
Perhaps it’s how supremely frustrating the instrument can be sometimes. I’ve been at odds with my guitar as often as I’ve been at odds with people. Sometimes it sings to me, other times it sounds like it shouldn’t have gotten out of bed. Clearly, these personifications are reflections of my attitudes, but the resulting compatibility, or friction, depending on which vibe I’m getting, makes it feel like a relationship.
Perhaps it’s because I just can’t get it right. I have a very analytical brain. Consequently, I approach guitar like a puzzle to be solved. And while daily guitar epiphanies are on the rise, the thing is, there’s no final answer. I’ll never figure it all out, and I find this amazing.
Perhaps it’s because it doesn’t matter how many times I play the same thing, each time is its own opportunity for brilliance, its own chance for redemption. This is the one thing about musicians which sets them apart from other artists. Painters, sculptors, and photographers, for example, are finished with their expression of the piece upon completion of the piece. Musicians are finished with their expression of the piece at the conclusion of their performance, so another performance offers a new opportunity to refine expression.
That said, these eight songs were recorded with no bells and whistles. I played the guitar. I sang the tune. What you hear is how that performance sounds. That was the idea.
Here’s some insight to each track:
“Meet Me in the Middle” is an autobiographical love song about my departure from Arizona to find my true love and purpose the Rockies.
I wrote “Pocketful of Change” after I quit drinking.
“I, Myself, & Me” is the third incarnation of this song. The riff was written in ’92, and lyrics have been about killing frogs, and, when it was called “Dysfunction Junction” was about the unraveling of society. Here, I made it about me.
“When You’re Gone” – When my Wife and I were dating she left my house and called two minutes later. I feared the worst. I answered,” Is everything ok?” She replied, “Yeah, I just miss you.” I said, “But you just left.” She said, “It’s a given when you’re gone.” Boom.
“Sunshine Nectar” – figure it out.
“Peace of Mind (Me & Mine)” is about working too much and not taking time to love those who love you.
“Flinch” is inspired by a fight I had with a loved one, but the song is about accountability. We all do things we’re not proud of at one point or another. It’s how we own up to those things that distinguish us from undesirables.
“Cold Light of Day” – the title came from a conversation with a close friend, but the song is about my love for my Wife. It’s the first song I wrote for her, and two of my very good friends performed it for our first dance at our wedding.
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Vincenza DeFazio Award to Charitie…
Vincenza DeFazio Award to Charities’ Horton - Catholic New York
At its annual convening in Albany Feb. 8-9, the New York State Council of Catholic Charities Directors honored George Horton, director of social and community development for archdiocesan Catholic Charities.
He received the Vincenza DeFazio Award during an evening reception at the Renaissance Hotel Feb. 8. The award is named after the Catholic Charities attorney who was tragically hit and killed by a bus on her way to work in June 1992. She worked with Catholic Charities for 17 years on contracts and cases involving government relations.
“We had been great friends. We came to Catholic Charities around the same time,” Horton said in an interview with Catholic New York Feb. 12.
“I grew to admire her as a person of faith and of great abilities.”
He received the award for his contribution to the council’s work. Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, executive director of New York Catholic Charities, presented him the award.
“I was honored because I respect the work of the Council of Catholic Charities Directors and because it was in the name of my good friend Vinnie,” Horton said.
More than 70 representatives from Catholic Charities agencies across the state participated in the two-day event. Those present from the archdiocese were from Astor Home for Children, Abraham House, Cardinal McClosky Community Services, Good Shepherd Services and others.
Tuesday was a day of advocacy with lawmakers on issues related to state budget negotiations. The council is focusing on three main issues this year: subsidized child care, supportive housing and fair wages.
Horton has served as social and community development director since 1991. He began at Catholic Charities in child welfare work, 1981-1986, and served as director of the Catholic Charities’ Office for the Homeless and Hungry, 1986-1991.
The Bishop Francis J. Mugavero Award was presented to John Carr, former executive director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, for his contributions to the work of charity and social justice. “I’ve had a long relationship with John Carr, who has been a leader in our understanding of Catholic social teaching and action at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,” Horton said. “I was honored to be up for an award at the same time he was getting an award.”
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The End of the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
April 5, 2017 April 5, 2017 ebsobenefits
Instead of preparing for the changes that were expected from the American Health Care Act (AHCA), employers now need to continue or resume their efforts to maintain compliance with the ACA. As House Speaker Ryan said, “I don’t know what else to say other than Obamacare is the law of the land. It’ll remain law of the land until it’s replaced,” he said. “We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
Determining where we go from here seems to be anyone’s guess, but after watching the industry ebb and flow for decades, our best advice is to stay calm and carry on as self-funded health plans continue to cover an estimated 75% of the U.S. workforce.
ACA The Law of the Land
Until the Republican majority decides to try again or Obamacare implodes, as President Donald Trump and others say is inevitable, individuals and employers with 50 or more full-time employees will have to live with the Affordable Care Act. Many who thought the American Health Care Act (AHCA) meant the certain loss of coverage made possible by the ACA can breathe easier. Providers and employer groups, many of which have adopted self-funding in order to better cope with the added regulations of Obamacare, can take comfort in the fact that drastic change has been avoided, at least for the foreseeable future.
EBSO will be monitoring the events on Capitol Hill and will continue to provide updates as things arise. As always, thank you for being a valued Client and/or Business Partner.
Plans to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017 ebsobenefits
Several proposals have recently circulated regarding alternatives to the ACA. But, last week the House of Republicans proposed legislation intended to repeal and replace certain elements of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare or the ACA. Their proposal has been named the American Health Care Act (AHCA).
The Health Care Administrators Association (HCAA) released an in-depth update late last week that details the changes the AHCA would impose as well as the aspects of the ACA that would remain unchanged. This overview was provided by the law firm of Quarrels & Brady LLP.
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What It Means for Employers and Health Insurers
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After months – or maybe years – of speculation, on March 6 the House Republicans released proposed legislation intended to repeal and replace certain aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known affectionately as Obamacare or the ACA. The proposal, somewhat generically named the American Health Care Act (AHCA), is trimmed down to fit into the Congressional reconciliation process to avoid a Senate filibuster. As the President tweeted the next day, there is more to come “in phase 2 & 3 of healthcare rollout.”
The AHCA proposes some major changes for the individual market and Medicaid, substantial changes in the employer market, and some minor changes to Medicare. Most prominently, the AHCA does away with the most controversial aspects of Obamacare, the individual and employer mandate. It also repeals the cost sharing and income-based premium subsidies available on the Obamacare exchanges, and replaces them with age-based tax credits designed to help individuals pay for coverage.
Almost more notable is what the AHCA does not repeal, presumably due at least in part to use of the reconciliation process. The AHCA does not repeal many of the more popular patient protections, such as the prohibition on pre-existing condition exclusions. It also doesn’t repeal many of the market reforms: the guaranteed issue and guaranteed renewal requirements, community rating rules (although there is a loosening of the age rating limitation), essential health benefit rules (other than for Medicaid), or the health insurance exchanges….
Click the image below to read the full article, which explains how this proposed legislation would impact employers, plan sponsors and health insurers.
ACA Changes You Should Note
March 2, 2017 March 1, 2017 ebsobenefits
Even though 2016 was considered the year of full implementation for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer mandate, changes keep coming. Here are a few points you will want to stay ahead of.
Small Employer Group Changes
The Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employers (PACE) Act, passed last fall, defines the small employer as having one to 50 employees. States, however, are permitted to elect to extend the definition of a small employer as up to 100 employees.
Even though the way businesses are categorized will now be a state-by-state decision, most are using the PACE Act definition. A few, including California and New York, have chosen to use 100.
Health Plan Transition Relief to Expire
Transition relief for the Employer Shared Responsibility payments for large employers with fully insured plans during the prior year will expire January 1, 2017. Depending on a plan’s eligibility and start date, applicable large employers (ALEs) must be compliant at some point this year or face penalties. Starting January 1, the non-calendar year transition relief expires and all ALEs will be required to offer compliant coverage. This does not apply to self-funded plans.
Grandfathered plans are also expiring in January 1, 2017. Fifteen states required the end of remaining grandfathered, non-ACA compliant plans this year, while the other 35 states will do so in 2017.
IRS Reporting Penalties
This year when employers completed Forms 1094-C and 1095-C, they were not assessed penalties for incorrect or missing data. Employers need to identify any issues with their reporting and plan ahead since that good faith effort has not been extended. They must set aside time for testing to correct any coding or processing errors. Employers should also consider avoiding the cost of printing and mailing by enabling employees to access Form 1095-Cs online.
Cadillac Tax Delayed to 2020
The 40% excise tax on the cost of health coverage exceeding pre-determined threshold amounts, which was initially intended to take hold in 2013, was delayed to 2018. Now it has been delayed to 2020 and while some think it will eventually become law because the revenue is needed to fund the Affordable Care Act, the IRS has again issued a request for comments.
Employers have several regulations to address and implement in order to remain compliant and avoid future penalties. As always, we are prepared to help our clients remain ACA compliant as regulatory changes continue to come our way.
ACA Fee Moratorium and Self-Funding
February 16, 2017 February 15, 2017 ebsobenefits
When Congress delayed the Cadillac Tax until 2020, the same law placed a one-year moratorium on the annual fee the ACA imposes on health insurance carriers. While the fee does not have a direct impact on TPAs or self-funded plans, it does sometimes impact stop loss premiums.
Since this fee applied to insurance carriers and not the majority of self-funded plan costs claims, some small group plans that moved to level funding may experience a slight cost increase in 2017. When the tax returns in 2018, the revenue targets are expected to increase. If the tax increases from its previous levels of 3% to 4%, the potential savings available to self-funded and level-funded plans will increase as well.
More Individuals Visit ERs
December 29, 2016 December 28, 2016 ebsobenefits
According to a study by the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University shows that despite the Affordable Care Act taking effect, emergency room visits in Illinois increased by nearly 6% during 2014 and 2015. While the number of visits by uninsured people dropped after Obamacare took effect, the decrease was not sufficient to offset the increase in ER visits by those with Medicaid and private insurance. Some believe the increase is temporary and that it will drop as previously uninsured people learn how to use their health insurance.
Physician-Owned Hospitals and the ACA
July 28, 2016 July 27, 2016 ebsobenefits
Even though doctors currently have an ownership interest in just 5% of the 5,700 hospitals in the U.S., the ACA will not allow physicians to increase their ownership interest or pursue ownership in additional hospitals. The potential for conflict of interest and concerns about physician owners “cherry picking” the more profitable patients were the impetus behind Section 6001 of the Affordable Care Act that was passed in 2010.
Challenges to the law continue to come along, including a House bill sponsored by Representative Sam Johnson of Texas that would suspend the moratorium on expansion of physician-owned hospitals (POHs) for 3 years and grandfather in several POHs that were under development when the Affordable Care Act was passed. The legislation is based on a recent study that reviewed patient populations, quality of care, costs and payments in 2,186 hospitals, 219 of which were partly physician-owned. The study showed little difference in patient care between POHs and non-POHs, in fact 7 of the top 10 hospitals receiving quality bonuses in the new Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program were physician-owned hospitals.
One study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services showed that a majority of physician owners have less than a 2% interest in their institution. As healthcare continues to evolve from fee-for-service to more value-based, there is no doubt that the debate over physician-owned hospitals will continue.
Cadillac Tax Delayed Until 2020
April 21, 2016 April 21, 2016 ebsobenefits
When President Obama signed the new Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 into law in late December, he delayed both the Cadillac and Medical Device taxes by two years, from 2018 to 2020. The legislation also provided for the deductibility of the Cadillac Tax, which is an excise tax of 40% on the “excess benefit” of high cost employer-sponsored coverage, regardless of whether the health plan is fully insured or self-funded.
The cost thresholds associated with “high cost” coverage were initially indexed annually from a base value of $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for other than self-only coverage, adjusted to reflect the age and gender composition of the employee population. The Cadillac Tax was originally intended to take effect in 2013, but in 2010, was postponed from 2013 to 2018.
Obamacare Driving More Companies to Self-Funded Healthcare Plans
March 21, 2016 ebsobenefits
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has sparked a renewed interest and growth in self-funding as more organizations look for ways to continue to offer quality healthcare benefits to their employees, but also create opportunities for savings. Self-funded health plans are not new. In fact, they have been around for decades. However, many businesses have simply been unaware of their advantages and the differences between self-funded and fully insured plan options.
Organizations of many sizes have turned to third party administrators, such as EBSO, to help design, administer and manage a self-funded plan that manages risk and promotes wellness while keeping costs in line.
As Obamacare gives employees even more reason to identify and manage plan costs, TPAs can provide greater access to health plan data and work closely with you and your plan participants to build individualized programs that manage both cost and quality.
In this FREE whitepaper we examine “5 Reasons Why It’s Time to Consider Self-Funding Your Employee Healthcare Plan.”
Still Still trying to get a handle on the differences between a self-funded and fully-insured plan? Click to watch our short video, Discover the Benefits of Self-Funding and in less than 2 minutes we will explore those differences, give you the advantages of self insured health benefit plan and help you understand how self-funding works.
Can a MEC Plan Help Your Company?
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) can avoid paying the $2,000 per employee penalty for failing to offer qualifying health coverage by offering full-time employees a Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) plan.
Offering the most basic benefits – MEC plans offer only the most basic level of benefits required under ERISA and while some may view them unfavorably, others view MECs as a viable alternative to paying costly penalties and sending employees to public Marketplaces.
MECs are extremely affordable – Since MEC plans cover only certain wellness and preventive services, many employers fund the entire cost even though this is not required. Simply offering a MEC satisfies the ALE’s obligation to offer coverage, as well as the individual mandate that can penalize employees who do not have coverage.
Some prefer a combined approach – Employers wishing to furnish more coverage may supplement a MEC with a Limited Medical Benefit plan. This can provide additional, restricted coverage for routine doctor visits and hospitalization, while still costing far less than a traditional health plan. Since employers can also be assessed $3,000 for each employee qualifying for a federal subsidy, some may pursue a combined option to keep workers from accessing a public Marketplace.
As we help companies weigh their options, MEC or a combination MEC/Limited Medical Benefit plan should be considered. If the costs associated with ACA present challenges to your organization, let us help you determine the best way to proceed
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Bogota launches virtual street map
by Esteban Refshauge October 3, 2012
Bogota’s government has launched an online virtual street map of the city, giving detailed gems of information for locals and tourists alike.
The impressive and color-coded map allows visitors to locate over 10,000 addresses in Colombia’s largest city, its major transport routes, major tourist attractions, hotels, hospitals, schools and more.
Bogota’s street map also provides the opening hours, contact information and other details about the various attractions and businesses. Even better, all the data is updated regularly, providing users with the latest information.
The interactive map has already proved popular with approximately 14,000 hits per day and 425,104 views per month.
Internet giant Google began a related project in Bogota in late June, when it started photographing the streets of the capital for its famous Street View program.
The projects are part of a more general effort to increase tourism in Bogota. Approximately 4,563,000 tourists have already made their way to the city in the first six months of 2012.
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Connecticut HIPAA Lawsuit, Patients May Now Sue over HIPAA Violations
2018 marks the year that Connecticut citizens are now allowed to file HIPAA lawsuits against providers for unwarranted release of their protected health information (PHI).
This ruling was issued for a HIPAA violation case between the Avery Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Westport, Connecticut, and one of their patients, Emily Byrne. Byrne sued Avery Center for negligence and breach of contract after the Center sent Byrne’s medical records to the New Haven Regional Children’s Probate Court after a man looked to claim custody of her child in a paternity suit.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) serves to protect the privacy and security of sensitive health data, or PHI. HIPAA does not permit private lawsuits by patients to collect damages for these unauthorized releases of PHI–which is why this ruling in Connecticut is such a landmark precedent, following similar verdicts in New York, Massachusetts, and Missouri.
Avery Center was subpoenaed to appear in court and display Byrne’s medical records before an attorney. Rather than follow necessary procedure, Avery Center mailed Byrne’s records to the probate court, which made her records publicly available to the man who initiated the paternity suit. The case records show that Avery Center did not challenge the subpoena, nor did it attempt to disclose the minimum necessary PHI to accomplish its purpose.
Byrne and her attorney proceeded to sue the Avery Center over the unauthorized release of her medical records and history. Byrne argued that HIPAA regulation creates a standard for the security of patient’s PHI, and that the standard was broken with the release of her information by Avery Center.
Byrne’s case was brought to Connecticut’s Supreme Court after a series of legal battles. The Court disagreed with Avery Center’s claim that a subpoena for medical records does not require patient consent.
Justice Dennis G. Eveleigh, in his written decision, highlighted key points in federal law that show that covered entities (CE), such as Avery Center, that are acting upon subpoenas or court orders must have “satisfactory assurance” that the patient was noticed about the request for the release of their medical records. Eveleigh continued to write that after reviewing the case, Byrne was never given a release notice and that Avery Center neglected to send any form of communication to her regarding the subpoena and her records.
The Supreme Court ruled the case in Byrne’s favor and granted her suit for damages valid–a new precedent allowing all Connecticut citizens to sue providers for damages in the aftermath of unauthorized releases of PHI.
Byrne’s attorney Bruce L. Elstein said, “Finally we have a remedy in Connecticut that recognizes that there is a duty of confidentiality, the breach of which can lead to compensation for damages.”
HIPAA Lawsuits, Risks on the Rise
In light of HIPAA lawsuits and HIPAA penalties like these, the threat that a HIPAA violation can pose to your practice has never been greater. External threats from federal enforcement are now paired with HIPAA lawsuits being levied by patients against providers. And that says nothing of state Attorney General HIPAA penalties being levied, as well as jail time.
The days of flying under the radar for HIPAA violations are quickly coming to a close. And the best way to defend against HIPAA lawsuits and penalties is with a HIPAA compliance program built to address the specific needs of your business. By creating an effective HIPAA compliance program, you’re demonstrating to the federal government that you’re performing your “good faith effort” toward maintaining the privacy, security, confidentiality, and integrity of your patients’ sensitive health information.
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Afro-Mexicans count in Mexico’s national census
Descendants of Africans living in Mexico were finally able to self-identify as Black in the 2015 national census; 1.38 million Afro-Mexicans counted
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For the first time ever, people of African descent living in Mexico were able to identify themselves as Black in the national census.
Afro-Mexicans will no longer be discounted as a non-entity in the official population
MEXICO CITY (MNS) — For the first time ever, people of African descent living in Mexico were able to identify themselves as Black in the national census, Reuters reported.
According to Reuters, Mexico’s 2015 population survey released Dec. 8 counted 1.38 million people of African heritage, representing 1.2 percent of the country’s population. Most live in three coastal states, including Guerrero, where they account for nearly 7 percent of the population, and overall they are poorer and less educated than the national average, Mexico’s census bureau (INEGI by its acronym in Spanish) has found.
The newswire also reported that the Mexican government’s inclusion of an “Afro” category in the census is part of a push to recognize Latin America’s Black communities. Like the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean have a history of slavery that resulted in about 150 million residents of African descent — accounting for about 30 percent of the region’s population, according to the United Nations.
Similar to their American counterparts, Latin America’s Black population also has been the target of racism, something that some countries are starting to address with anti-discrimination laws and affirmative-action policies, Reuters reported, adding that several Latin American governments have also committed to making more improvements to protect Black Latin Americans as part of the UN’s international decade for people of African descent, which started this year.
The Reuters story also reported there is still a long way to go for Black Latin Americans to achieve equal status. Earlier this month, according to Reuters, United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, speaking at a meeting in Brasilia, said he was “struck by the enormity of the task before us.”
Compared to other countries in Latin America, Mexico had a smaller influx of African slaves, reported Reuters, which also noted that many thousands were forcibly brought to New Spain, as the country was known when it was a Spanish colony, to work in silver mines and sugar plantations.
The Reuters story noted that following Mexico’s independence from Spain, the African population became largely invisible because it didn’t fit into the Mexico’s new national identity, “built on the idea of mestizaje, or the mixing between Spaniards and indigenous people,” said Citlali Quecha, a researcher at National Autonomous University of Mexico who is knowledgeable of Mexico’s Black community.
“All those who were different were considered foreigners,” she said, Reuters reported.
After fighting for recognition for more than two decades, Afro-Mexican activists are finally getting some traction. Being included in the census as a distinct category is a big step, the Reuters story said, which also noted that Mexico’s Human Rights Commission has vowed to fight discrimination, and organized a forum earlier this year to discuss policies to achieve that.
Reuters reported last month, a gathering of Afro-Mexican communities — once a relatively small affair — was attended by several high-ranking government officials, including the head of the senate’s commission on indigenous rights, who accepted a proposal to have Black Mexicans formally recognized in the constitution.
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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century
Stories From the Wall
What’s that big white thing on the north lawn?
Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Visitors to Crystal Bridges this week will notice something unusual taking shape on the north lawn. From the north gallery bridge, you can see sections of white fiberglass coming together to form… what?
This is the Fly’s Eye Dome, a prototype of a design for inexpensive, efficient housing conceived by R. Buckminster Fuller in the early 1980s. The finished dome, covered with 61 circular openings, or “oculi,” will be 50 feet in diameter and stand some 30 feet tall. Crystal Bridges acquired the dome in 2015. It is being assembled on the north lawn, and will be available for up-close viewing this summer.
Buckminster Fuller was an American theorist, engineer, and designer, among other thigns. A true renaissance man, “Bucky,” as he was called, produced a wide body of work that crosses many disciplines, but his chief interest was in improving the quality of life through inspired design, particularly of affordable housing. He was interested in creating structures that relied upon what he referred to as “tensegrity,” his own mashup of “tension” and “integrity” that referred to a building model by which all the parts of a structure shared in the support of its weight, distributing the force in every direction, rather than just downward, as most architectural models do. One such structure is the geodesic dome, which Fuller championed as an ideal example of his concepts. Although he did not invent the geodesic dome, Fuller is sometimes credited for its invention because he devised and patented ways to build lightweight, yet structurally sound domes for industrial and military use in the 1950s and ’60s.
The Fly’s Eye Dome was a further development of his designs for geodesic domes. Fuller saw a close-up photograph of a multi-lensed fly’s eye in a magazine, which sparked an idea for a way to let more light and air into his dome structures without compromising strength. He got together with a surf board manufacturer and fiberglass expert named John Warren, and collaborated with famous British architect Norman Foster to develop his idea. Together they created three prototypes of the Fly’s Eye Dome — a 12-foot, a 24-foot, and this 50-foot version — which debuted at the 1981 Bicentennial festival in Los Angeles.
After the festival, the domes were dismantled. Although the smaller versions eventually found permanent homes with private collectors, the 50-foot version languished in an overgrown lot until architectural historian Robert Ruben acquired and restored it in 2013. It appeared briefly at the Toulouse International Art Festival in France that summer. It is now part of Crystal Bridges’ permanent collection.
The 50-foot Fly’s Eye Dome in Toulouse, France, 2013.
Along with the dome itself, Crystal Bridges also acquired the archive of Buckminster Fuller’s original plans and documentation of the process that went into designing the dome. Parts of this will be on view in a focus exhibition in the museum in mid-summer.
Three Architectural Gold Medal Winners
With the installation of the Fly’s Eye Dome at Crystal Bridges, guests to the museum may view the work of three recipients of the American Institute of Architecture’s Gold Medal in one place. Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of the Bachman-Wilson House on the museum grounds, received this honor in 1949. Buckminster Fuller was honored with the gold in 1970; and Moshe Safdie, the architect who designed Crystal Bridges itself, received the Gold in 2015.
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UMass finishes off non-conference schedule with win over Siena
By Cameron McDonough
Filed under Fall Sports, Sports, Women's Soccer
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The Massachusetts women’s soccer team closed out its non-conference schedule Sunday afternoon with a 1-0 victory over Siena at Rudd Field.
The lone goal of the game came during the 63rd minute off the foot of Minutewomen (5-5) leading scorer, Moa Mattsson. It was her fifth goal of the season.
Creating the opportunity for Mattsson were teammates Alyssa D’Arcy and Jess Howe off of a corner kick. It was both D’Arcy and Howe’s second assist of the season.
The corner found Howe, who sent the ball in towards goal. D’Arcy then tipped the ball along the way right into Mattsson’s wheelhouse.
UMass coach Ed Matz credited his team’s more aggressive outlook in the second half with creating the only goal of the game.
“One of the things we talked about at halftime was getting ourselves in a better position around the goal,” Matz said. “I felt like in the first half we were taking ourselves out of a lot of dangerous situations and taking ourselves away from the goal. So we were trying to get more numbers in front of the goalkeeper and I tell the girls all the time, goals like this can happen all the time if you get enough numbers in front of the goal.”
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The Minutewomen had their fair amount of chances during the first half, but were unable to convert on any.
UMass finished the game with 14 shots, four of which were on target. Eight of those shots came in the first half.
Both Tori Souza and Jackie Bruno led the way with three shots apiece, while Mattsson and Hlin Gunnlaugsdottir each had two.
Mattsson’s second shot came on a golden opportunity for her second goal of the game, but she mishandled the ball and was unable to get her full strength behind the shot.
Also key in the Minutewomen’s victory was the play of goalkeeper Emily Cota.
Cota (3-1), who made her fourth-straight start after starting the season on the bench behind Stephanie Gordon, came up with five big saves, and in the process, recorded her third shutout of the season.
In fact, Cota has yet to allow a goal scored by the opposing team. The only goal she has allowed so far came against Brown, in a 1-0 loss, and it was an own goal.
Cota was especially tested on two occasions during the game.
The first came during the first half when the Saints (4-5) won three straight corner kicks. The first and final corners were handled by her teammates, but on the second corner, Cota tipped the ball away, preventing a scoring opportunity for Siena.
The second came during an offensive flurry by the Saints after UMass had taken the lead in the second half.
Matz was happy with the way his team grinded out a victory. He said that these are the sort of games they won last year and that the team needs to come away with victories in this year in order to have a successful season.
“We grinded it out,” Matz said. “I’ve been telling this team all year long that, especially young teams like this, we have to find a way to win these games that could go either way. Until you find a way to win these games you’re not going to have a successful year. So I just told the girls that we found a way to win today. It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t pretty, but along the way … we got a goal and that’s the biggest thing and we held on and got a win against a good team.”
The Minutewomen now will venture into Atlantic 10 conference play next weekend with a pair of home games against Dayton on Friday and Xavier on Sunday.
Cameron McDonough can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @MDC_McDonough.
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‘Power Rangers’ is better than expected, but nothing more than that
By Jon Ho
Filed under Archives, Arts & Living, Movies, Scrolling Headlines
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“Power Rangers” is the latest addition to a burgeoning trend of nostalgic, child-centered properties adapted for a PG-13 audience, with recent examples including “Transformers,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “G.I. Joe.” For the record, I did not grow up with Power Rangers, and with mediocre trailers, I went into this film with no real expectations. Having since seen the film, I will say that “Power Rangers” surpassed my expectations, but that’s about the only compliment I can give to the film.
“Power Rangers” is about five average teens – Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Trini and Zack, who are considered outcasts in the small town of Angel Grove. One day, when they come together at a gold mine, they obtain powers after discovering five power coins. As a result, they are each chosen to be Power Rangers by Zordon (Bryan Cranston). At the same time, the evil Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) has reemerged and plans to destroy Angel Grove, and eventually, wouldn’t you know it, the world. Now it’s up to our heroes to prepare themselves and learn how to fight as a team.
The biggest surprise is that the acting and characters in the film are actually kind of impressive. Each of the actors who play the Power Rangers behave convincingly like teenagers who struggle with real-life issues, like mental illness and burgeoning sexuality. This humanization of otherwise silly subject matter helps make each of the main characters more likable and relatable. Cranston is also delightfully hammy as Zordon, even though he looks like a speaker in a Beats by Dre commercial.
Each of the five main characters have great chemistry together, with a clear camaraderie evident throughout. They even go through their own character arcs. Each character has their own personality and issues and, by the end of the film, they each discover something about themselves. My favorite scene is when the characters sit at a campfire and tell each other their deepest secrets. The feelings evoked in the scene are similar to that of “The Breakfast Club,” and that’s no easy accomplishment.
However, the positive remarks stop there. The film can be tonally inconsistent to an aggressive degree. In one scene, the movie will be dark and grim, and then silly, like the original TV show, in another. We get a scene of the funeral of a fisherman who was murdered by Repulsa, and then we get a scene that has a joke about cow genitalia.
Banks seems like she’s having a blast playing the larger-than-life Repulsa. In another movie, like “Flash Gordon,” I could see Repulsa as an effective and fun villain. But in this movie, which does a great job of showing the serious and personal drama that each of the main characters face, it feels really out of place.
Those who desire some amazing action set pieces might be a bit disappointed, since the Power Rangers costumes do not show up until the end of the film. Most of the movie is spent on developing the chemistry of the main characters. While that isn’t, conceptually, a bad idea, the film drags this process out for far too long. The film also repeatedly uses the Zack Snyder slow motion effect, which gets incredibly tedious and distracting.
Overall, while “Power Rangers” is not an atrocious film, it leaves much to be desired. It does a good job at developing its characters and has some really solid acting. Nevertheless, it suffers from tonal inconsistencies and a really meandering storyline. It’s also really unclear as to which audience this film is geared toward. It’s definitely not aimed at kids who are currently fans of “Power Rangers,” given its PG-13 rating. On the other hand, it doesn’t seem to be aimed at hardcore, adult “Power Rangers” fans since the titular heroes barely show up in costume. It’s a film that satisfies no one, but won’t particularly disappoint anyone either.
Jon Ho can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @jonathanho77.
Tags: banks, bryan cranston, Cranston, Elizabeth Banks, film review, movie review, Power Rangers, reboot, Snyder, Zack Snyder
One Response to “‘Power Rangers’ is better than expected, but nothing more than that”
elizabeth on April 9th, 2017 2:09 pm
I hate how they turned power rangers into a social justice film.
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Wi-Lan Technologies Corp. v. D-Link Systems Inc.
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Neutral citation 2006 FC 1484
File numbers T-556-06
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Date: 20061212
Docket: T-556-06
Citation: 2006 FC 1484
Toronto, Ontario, December 12, 2006
PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice von Finckenstein
WI-LAN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC. and
D-LINK CANADA INC.
(d.b.a. D-LINK NETWORKS)
Defendants
REASONS FOR ORDER AND ORDER
[1] This is an appeal from the decision of Prothonotary Milczynski dated August 23, 2006. In response to a motion to strike out portions of the amended Statement of Claim, the Prothonotary refused to strike out subclause 1(f) and clause 13 of the amended Statement of Claim. These clauses states:
1(f) exemplary and punitive damages by reason of the Defendants’ wilful infringement of the Canadian Letters Patent No. 2,064,975
13 The Defendants at all material times have been aware of the Patent and have chosen to knowingly, deliberately, and wilfully market infringing products in Canada. The Defendants were at all material times fully aware that the Plaintiff’s predecessor in title, Wi-LAN Inc. had made statements at least as early as July 7, 1998 to the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers stating that the Plaintiff’s predecessor in title, Wi-LAN Inc. would provide licenses for its patents for the practice of the OFDM technology on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms and conditions to qualified applicants in accordance with IEEE Patent policy. The Defendants did not enter into negotiations for a licence but rather unreasonably, wilfully and callously ignored the Plaintiff’s predecessor in title, Wi-LAN Inc. and the Patent. Rather, the Defendants callously adopted the attitude that the Plaintiff’s predecessor in title, Wi-LAN Inc. and the Plaintiff would lack the financial resources to enforce its Patent. The conduct of the Defendants was particularly egregious in the circumstances where the Defendants were fully aware that the inventors of the Patent Hatim Zaghloul and Michael Fattouche, who are also the founders and principals of the Plaintiff’s predecessor in title, Wi-LAN Inc., are men of modest means who immigrated to Canada and staked both their personal assets and reputations in an endeavour to promote a truly worthy invention. The Plaintiff’s predecessor in title, Wi-LAN Inc. was desirous of cooperating with chip manufacturers such as the suppliers to the Defendants but was callously ignored and effectively forced out of the wireless product sales market by the aforesaid actions of the Defendants.
[2] The Defendants allege that the Prothonotary erred in not striking these paragraphs. In their view, the facts alleged in paragraph 13 would not give rise to punitive and exemplary damages even if every allegation was proven.
[3] As this is an appeal from a decision of a Prothonotary, the Defendants have to justify the test set out in Merck & Co. v. Apotex Inc. (2003), 30 C.P.R. (4th) 40 at 53, which provides:
a) the questions raised in the motion are vital to the final issue of the case, or
b) the order is clearly wrong, in the sense that the exercise of discretion by the Prothonotary was based upon a wrong principle or upon a misapprehension of the facts.
[4] The Defendants rely on the second prong, in other words, that the order is clearly wrong. The Plaintiffs on the other hand argue that this is a matter to be dealt with by the trial judge and that on the basis of the allegations set out in paragraph 13, a court may well award punitive or exemplary damages.
[5] The test for punitive or exemplary damages is stated by Cory J. in Hill v. Church of Scientology, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130 at paras. 197, 199:
197 Unlike compensatory damages, punitive damages are not at large. Consequently, courts have a much greater scope and discretion on appeal. The appellate review should be based upon the court's estimation as to whether the punitive damages serve a rational purpose. In other words, was the misconduct of the defendant so outrageous that punitive damages were rationally required to act as deterrence?
199 Punitive damages can and do serve a useful purpose. But for them, it would be all too easy for the large, wealthy and powerful to persist in libeling vulnerable victims. Awards of general and aggravated damages alone might simply be regarded as a license fee for continuing a character assassination. The protection of a person's reputation arising from the publication of false and injurious statements must be effective. The most effective means of protection will be supplied by the knowledge that fines in the form of punitive damages may be awarded in cases where the defendant's conduct is truly outrageous.
(Underlining added.)
[6] This was repeated with approval by Binnie J. in Performance Industries Ltd. v. Sylvan Lake Golf & Tennis Club Ltd., [2002] 1 S.C.R. 678 at para. 79, which stated:
79 Punitive damages are awarded against a defendant in exceptional cases for "malicious, oppressive and high-handed" misconduct that "offends the court's sense of decency". The test thus limits the award to misconduct that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour: Whiten, supra, at para. 36, and Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130, at para. 196.
[7] If we analyse paragraph 13 it becomes apparent that the Plaintiff alleges two things: a) that the Defendants callously, knowingly and wilfully infringed their patent, and b) that they failed to negotiate with the Plaintiff or seek a licence. I fail to see how any of the allegations of paragraph 13, if proven, would amount to ‘misconduct that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour’.
[8] I agree with my colleague Mosley J. who said in Dimplex North America Ltd. v. CFM Corp., 2006 FC 586 at para 123:
123 There are no patent cases in the Federal Court that I am aware of where punitive damages have been awarded simply because the defendant knowingly or intentionally infringed the patent without more. Punitive or exemplary damages have been awarded in connection with litigation misconduct, or abuse of process, such as continuing activities found by the court to constitute infringement in disregard of a court order to cease such activities.
[9] To counter the Dimplex case the Plaintiff relies on Polansky Electronics v. AGT Ltd. (1999), 3 C.P.R. (4th) 34 and Underwriters Survey Bureau Ltd. v. Massie & Renwick Ltd. (1942), Ex. R. 1. These cases are of no help to the Plaintiff. The Polansky case was overturned on appeal and the retrial found no infringement. It thus hardly advances the Plaintiff’s case. The Underwriter Survey case involved unsubstantiated counter proceedings of conspiracy and criminal conduct. There is no conduct of that sort in this case.
[10] Since the Plaintiff does not allege any other facts such as abuse, fraud, malice, contract, fiduciary obligation, agency, or the like, the allegations pleaded are not sufficient to allow a court to arrive at a conclusion that punitive or aggravated damages are present. Failing to strike this paragraph will merely lead to an unnecessary delaying of pre-trial proceedings.
[11] Accordingly, I agree with the Defendants that paragraph 13 should be struck and I find that the Prothonotary was in error when she failed to do so.
THIS COURT ORDERS that:
This appeal is allowed;
The order of Prothonotary Milczynski of August 23, 2006, is amended by changing paragraph 1 thereof to read as follows: “1. Subparagraph 1(c) and 1(f) and Paragraph 13 of the Statement of Claim are struck without leave to amend”; and
Costs for this motion to follow the cause.
“Konrad W. von Finckenstein”
NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
STYLE OF CAUSE: WI-LAN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. v. D-LINK SYSTEMS,
INC. and D-LINK CANADA INC. (d.b.a. D-LINK
NETWORKS)
PLACE OF HEARING: Toronto, Ontario
DATE OF HEARING: December 11, 2006
REASONS FOR
ORDER AND ORDER: von FINCKENSTEIN J.
DATED: December 12, 2006
Mr. Christopher Kvas
FOR THE PLAINTIFF
Mr. Bruce Stratton
Mr. Etienne de Villiers
FOR THE DEFENDANTS
SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
Ridout & Maybee LLP
Dimock, Stratton LLP
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US Public Might Not Be Told About Foreign Efforts to Alter Next Election
From Voice Of America
Senior U.S. officials say they are already busy buttressing the nation’s defenses against foreign interference for the 2020 presidential election. Only they admit the public may be kept in the dark about attacks and intrusions.
Intelligence and election security officials have warned repeatedly that Russia, among other state and nonstate actors, remains intent on disrupting the upcoming elections and that the Kremlin may even have gone easy on the U.S. during the 2016 midterm elections, seeing the ability to impact the 2020 presidential race as the bigger prize.
At the same time, election and security officials have come under increased scrutiny for failing to reveal the size and scope of Russia’s efforts to hack into voter databases and other critical systems.
In April, special counsel Robert Mueller released his report into Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as well as allegations of obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.
Florida representatives
In May, two U.S. representatives from Florida, Republican Michael Waltz and Democrat Stephanie Murphy, wrote to the FBI and Justice Department, demanding a classified briefing on the extent of Russia’s exploits after the Mueller report indicated Moscow managed to infiltrate critical systems in at least one county during the 2016 presidential election.
“Florida voters have the right to know the extent to which foreign actors may have breached our state’s election security systems, and what the federal government is doing to prevent it from happening again,” Murphy said in a statement.
Senior Trump administration officials, however, cautioned Monday they may decide to keep information like that from the public.
“There are hard choices to be made,” one official told reporters while briefing them on efforts to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference.
“The ultimate question is going to be whether the federal or national interests in doing so — publicly disclosing it — outweigh any counter veiling consideration,” the official added.
Intelligence and law enforcement officials said the ability to disclose information can often be limited by the need to protect the sources and methods that discovered the attacks or intrusions in the first place.
Impact on victims
There are also concerns about the impact on the victims.
“Victims who work with the FBI do so because they trust that we’ll protect and handle their information appropriately,” a senior law enforcement official said. “For example, the majority of technical information that we were able to give election officials during the 2016 time frame was initiated from this type of trusted outreach.”
In cases involving foreign influence campaigns, the decision to make them public can be even more difficult.
“Disclosing a foreign influence operation might do more harm than good because it might draw more attention to an operation that would otherwise go unnoticed,” the senior administration official said.
A senior intelligence official agreed that in some cases, the less said, the better.
“It’s less about highlighting for the public that there might be a problem,” the official said. “We actually want to stop it from happening, whether we do that through cyber channels or diplomatic channels or other operations.”
With the 2020 presidential campaign getting under way, intelligence agencies, along with the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, have set about briefing the candidates and making them aware of the resources available should their campaign come under attack.
There are also increased efforts to reach out to U.S. state and local officials to make sure they have the information they need to protect their voter databases and election systems from attacks.
Officials said there have even been ongoing discussions with the private sector, both those that provide voting machines and other election infrastructure, as well as with social media companies.
Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Election Security, Election Transparency
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Crushed by your crush? How to move on when the feeling’s not mutual
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Have you ever been in a situation where you liked someone who didn’t like you back? Three out of four students say they have, according to a recent Student Health 101 survey. “Most people have experienced at least one crush,” says Dr. J. Dennis Fortenberry, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
Amalia*, a freshman in Brooklyn, New York, says she liked someone for a whole two years before she worked up the courage to tell him. “He found out, and he doesn’t like me like I like him,” she says. “It’s very hard to move on, but I’m working on it.”
What does it mean to have a crush?
“A crush is an attraction based on one person projecting their romantic ideals onto another person,” says Dr. Carl Pickhardt, a psychologist in Austin, Texas.
Projecting romantic ideals? What does that even mean?
When we have a crush, we tend to feel like that person is the answer to everything we’ve ever dreamed of in a romantic partner. We play out scenarios in our heads about how they’d talk to us, look at us, treat us, what they’re thinking, and how their lives would perfectly mesh with ours. But more often than not, we don’t know our crush well enough to know whether any of that could be true. Psychologists believe our minds often craft these attributes based on what we hope the person is like rather than what they’re actually like. “Crushes have more to do with fantasy than with reality, and they tell much more about the admirer than the admired,” Dr. Pickhardt writes in Psychology Today.
But that doesn’t mean we should dismiss how we’re feeling. Dr. Pickhardt explains that crushes are an important part of how we learn about romantic love, and the emotions associated with them are for real.
How to see crushes as a learning experience
Even if your crush doesn’t work out the way you’d initially hoped—most don’t—you can learn a lot from the experience. “A crush can be an important way to learn about attraction to other people and how to handle feelings of rejection if that attraction is not mutual,” says Dr. Fortenberry.
Of course it can be difficult to see it this way when you’re reeling from the heartache of your crush asking someone else out, but crushes are important because they help you get to know yourself better.
“In coming to know yourself, you need to be intimately involved with others, to talk intimately and to reflect on yourself and the other person,” says Dr. Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine. “I think it’s an intellectual need—certainly a social need—to be liked by someone.”
When feelings are one-sided
When you have a crush who doesn’t feel the same way as you do, it can be a heartbreaking experience. But it’s also a very common situation; everybody experiences rejection at some point. “Crushes are normal, and although it sucks when they’re not reciprocated, it’s completely okay,” says Cam, a senior from Andover, Massachusetts.
“It can be painful to realize that one’s feelings aren’t returned, but that can also be important information,” says Dr. Fortenberry. “It helps us get our priorities straight and figure out how to move on.”
How to move on when the feeling’s not mutual
Follow these four tips:
1. Take a step back and reflect on the situation.
Your crush might be a great person, but chances are slim they’re as wonderful as you’d imagined. Ask yourself: Are your feelings based on an idealized version of the person you’re crushing on? Often, these attributes are not as close to reality as we let ourselves believe, notes Dr. Carl Pickhardt, a psychologist in Austin, Texas. Perhaps you exaggerated certain attributes you thought your crush had, only to make the harsh discovery that they weren’t entirely true.
How students say they deal when a crush doesn’t return their affection
Talk to the people they’re close with about their feelings
Get involved in a new activity (e.g., clubs, sports, yoga, art class)
Hang out with friends as a distraction
Try to meet new people to check out “the other fish in the sea”
Write in a journal
Unfollow the crush on social media
Spend some time indulging in their feelings (e.g., listen to Adele or watch a sad movie)
Delete/throw away text conversations, notes, pictures, and messages they had with the crush
Source: Student Health 101 survey, October 2015
Acknowledge that the feelings aren’t mutual, and accept the loss
Respect yourself for daring to dream, says Dr. Pickhardt. “When I liked someone who didn’t like me back, I was able to realize that and move on,” says Caroline, a sophomore in Brooklyn, New York.
Take some time to let yourself feel sad. Try turning on some music or a movie that allows you to express your emotions. Write down your thoughts and feelings in a journal. Allowing yourself to fully experience your emotions, rather than pushing them aside, can help you move past them.
2. Remember your self-worth.
The rejection you feel is not a reflection of who you are as a person. Keep in mind that pretty much everyone will feel this kind of heartbreak at some point in life—and most of your peers already have.
Focus on your positive attributes
Look in the mirror and pick out all of the things you love about yourself. “I tell myself I haven’t been asked out not because I’m a horrible, unlovable person who is scary and intimidating,” says Riana, a senior from Thornton, Colorado. “It’s because I’m unique and my unique match just hasn’t come across yet.”
Remember, people are probably crushing on you, too
There are people who are probably feeling the same way about you as you’re feeling about your crush. If you know of someone specifically who has had a crush on you, think about what attracted them to you. Maybe they really liked the way you made them laugh or how you answered questions in class. Even if you weren’t interested in that person, remembering that you are likable and desirable can help put things in perspective. If you don’t know of anyone who has ever had a crush on you, that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. Many people keep their feelings to themselves. “You’ll find someone who appreciates you for who you are,” says Megan, a freshman from Brooklyn, New York.
3. Try to see the bigger picture.
Look to the future
You have a lifetime ahead of you, and more than likely you’ll have relationships with people you haven’t even met yet. Think about all of the experiences to come—new schools, new jobs, new people to meet. “I just try to remember that I’m young and I shouldn’t worry about something as minor as [a crush],” says Leslie, a junior from Forest Park, Illinois. “Don’t take it personally,” says Brian*, a senior from Forest Park, Illinois.
Think of it as a learning experience
Focus on the fact that you’re “meeting interesting people and getting involved with interesting people, rather than thinking, ‘this [is ruining] my life because I lost this relationship,’” says Dr. Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Think back to past experiences. Do you remember feeling similar emotions to these about a former crush? Think about how you were able to move on then, and believe in your ability to do it again.
Be grateful for other important happenings in your life
Your emotions might feel overwhelming, but remember that your world hasn’t ended. “Maybe it’s not what you wanted at first, but things will work out in the end,” says Zana, a freshman from Brooklyn, New York.
Don’t forget that there are other important things and people in your life who deserve your time and attention. “When I liked someone and they didn’t really like me back, I realized that it wasn’t that important, because even though boys are nice to have fun with, there are other things that are way more important,” says Alessandra, a freshman from Brooklyn, New York.
Focus on what is going well for you right now, such as:
Your grade in English class
The basketball game your team won last night
The good friends you have surrounding you
The cute girl/guy in class who always says “Hi” to you
4. Talk to friends, parents, or counselors.
Recognize the importance of feeling your emotions to re-experience loss
While you don’t want to obsess over the feelings you’re experiencing, you shouldn’t ignore them either. “It’s good to rehash the feelings, and go over it a few times just to get perspective,” says Dr. Field. She refers to a phenomenon known in psychology as “re-experiencing,” which allows you to release the emotions you’ve been holding in by expressing them to someone else.
Turn to the people you trust for comfort
Ask your friends or an adult you trust to let you vent a little and speak your mind. “Let out some of the emotion you’ve internalized by expressing it to someone else,” says Dr. Field. According to our survey, two out of three student respondents say they turn to the people they’re close to when they need to talk out their feelings about a crush.
“Surround yourself with positive people,” says Kelly, a junior from Indianapolis, Indiana. Distract yourself by spending time with friends and doing activities you enjoy, such as:
Cozying up with your favorite book or TV show.
Practicing something creative, such as art, dance, or writing.
Going to the movies with friends.
Hanging out with your pet or animals at the animal shelter. (Research shows that spending time with animals causes the release of oxytocin, a hormone that calms us and gives us those warm and fuzzy feels.)
Get help or find out more
Rejection and how to handle it: TeensHealth
Crush: Scarleteen
How teens meet, flirt with, and ask out potential romantic partners: Pew Research Center
Dating in the digital age: Pew Research Center
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F.I.T. (Families Involved Together)
F.I.T. (Families Involved Together)Monica Dood2018-07-23T14:47:10-04:00
F.I.T. Parents Working to Improve Kids’ Health
Each month a group of diverse parents from Nash and Edgecombe counties meet at the Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) to brainstorm ways they can make a difference in the health and well being of not only their own children but all young children and their families. The group is called Families Involved Together, or F.I.T. and they are committed to help others make positive changes to health outcomes in the Down East community.
“Parents are a child’s first teacher,” said Sydney Phillips, DEPC Healthy Kids. “They determine how and what children eat, how much play time they get. This team wants to provide information to parents that will help children get the healthiest start possible with the belief that when you know better, you do better.”
In North Carolina, childhood obesity rates are more than 30 percent, with Nash and Edgecombe counties not too far behind at nearly 25 percent. And, according to research, children who are overweight or obese are also more likely to be overweight or obese as adults.
“What’s even more disturbing is that today’s youth may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of the high prevalence of obesity,” Phillips said. “That’s a scary thought but we are working hard to change that.”
FIT team member Leslie Perkins is proud of the work the group created and excited to share it with the community. “A lot of people think there’s nothing to do in Rocky Mount, but there is,” said Perkins. “The map shows that there’s so much to do. There are places to go, fun things to do and many ways to get and be involved. It’s time to get to moving, get involved, get FIT & join our Team!”
Perkins also said she wanted the community to know that as a parent there’s a lot to know about being healthy and fit but you just have to be open and willing to learn. “We want the community to become educated with the WIC program, SNAP programs, the ‘Ask 3 questions’ when going to the doctor’s office and even with how to proportion their plates when it’s time to eat. The blue side of the map shows all of the above.”
The FIT team is made possible through the work of Shape NC and DEPC’s Healthy Kids Collaborative. The team also created the content for what is now the back of the new “Places to Play and Grow Map.” Moving forward, the team will create a distribution plan and actively share the message on the importance of well-child visits and talking to your doctor.
If you live in Nash and Edgecombe, are interested in health and would like to work on issues that are important to parents of young children, the FIT team needs your help. Please contact DEPC if you would like to be a member or would like copies of the new map.
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Tag: Anaheim Garden Walk
Disney Shows off Concept Art for ‘The NBA Experience’ and Announces Opening
As the 2017-18 NBA season tips off, we want to give you a first look at the new NBA Experience at Walt Disney World Resort coming to Disney Springs.
Inspired by the modern architecture of new NBA arenas around the country, the building design exudes the same spirit and energizing impact, while creating an unmistakable and entertaining connection to the NBA in a way that only Disney can.
It’s one of several ways Disney Springs is still growing and adding new experiences to delight and entertain our Guests.
“We are inspired by the design of the new building and the energy that it will bring to the West Side of Disney Springs,” said Senior Vice President of Disney Springs and ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex Maribeth Bisienere.
The state-of-the-art space will include interactive games and competitions, immersive experiences, a retail store and an adjacent restaurant.
NBA President, Global Partnerships Sal LaRocca, recently commented on the project, sharing, “This one-of-a-kind experience is sure to be enjoyed by basketball and Disney fans of all ages who visit Disney Springs from around the world.”
And, with the start of the NBA season, we also want to wish our hometown NBA team, the Orlando Magic, good luck. As part of Disney’s jersey sponsorship agreement, Guests who renew or purchase qualified Walt Disney World annual passes at the Amway Center this year will receive a new Orlando Magic jersey complete with the Disney logo, while promotional supplies last. Visit orlandomagic.com/annualpass for more information.
Author RayPosted on October 20, 2017 Categories Walt Disney WorldTags Anaheim Garden Walk, Disney Springs, NBA, The NBA ExperienceLeave a comment on Disney Shows off Concept Art for ‘The NBA Experience’ and Announces Opening
#DisneyParksLIVE Will Stream Pandora – The World of Avatar Dedication Live May 24 at 9:25 AM ET
This Wednesday, May 24, Disney’s Animal Kingdom will host a very special dedication moment for this new land – and our #DisneyParksLIVE cameras will be there to live stream the amazing moment!
The #DisneyParksLIVE stream of the dedication will begin at 9:25 AM ET on the Disney Parks Blog. A fresh post containing the live stream will appear at the top of the blog at that time.
Pandora – The World of Avatar will give guests the chance to explore an interactive world filled with bioluminescent rainforests, floating mountains and surprising flora. Here, guests can experience Avatar Flight of Passage, an attraction that sends guests flying over Pandora on a banshee, and Na’vi River Journey, a family-friendly boat ride that travels down a mystical river.
Tune in to our #DisneyParksLIVE broadcast on May 24 for a very special look at this new land.
Author RayPosted on May 22, 2017 May 22, 2017 Categories Walt Disney WorldTags #DisneyParksLive, Anaheim Garden Walk, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Pandora - The World of AvatarLeave a comment on #DisneyParksLIVE Will Stream Pandora – The World of Avatar Dedication Live May 24 at 9:25 AM ET
House of Blues is Leaving Disneyland Resort’s Downtown Disney and is Moving to Anaheim GardenWalk
For 15 years, House of Blues Anaheim has hosted big-name talent in its 1,000-capacity concert hall, which was quickly nicknamed the Mouse House by locals due to its location, right in the heart of Downtown Disney.
Throughout those years, legends such as B.B. King, James Brown, Ray Charles and Etta James all graced the stage. There were also numerous intimate evenings with rockers such as the Cramps, Joe Sturmmer, Foo Fighters and Motörhead. Mega pop stars like Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears randomly dropped in. It has also been the place for fans to enjoy multiple-night runs by O.C. staples Social Distortion and L.A. punks Bad Religion.
After a handful of local rock and ska bands take the stage on May 29, House of Blues will officially end its chapter in Downtown Disney and prepare to reopen an all-new, state-of-the-art facility in early November, just down the street on Katella Avenue where the UltraLuxe Cinemas were once located inside the Anaheim GardenWalk.
“We’re excited about the future, but bittersweet about the past,” Ron Bension, president of House of Blues Entertainment, said. “We had a great run on the Disney property, but we’re really excited about having this new venue coming on board in a few months that will incorporate everything we’ve learned over the last 15 years in Orange County and everything we’ve learned as a company over the last 25 years.”
The old venue officially opened on Jan. 12, 2001 with two sold-out nights by Orange County’s own rock band Lit. It will be replaced by a much larger complex that will include a 2,000-capacity main concert hall for bigger touring acts and events, a 400-capacity smaller room (which may be called the Parish) for smaller artists, singer-songwriter evenings, release parties and corporate meetings, a 175-capacity Foundation Room and a much larger restaurant and kitchen then it was able previously to house.
“We’ve really learned so much since building the House of Blues in Anaheim,” Bension continued, noting that they’ve taken patrons’ concerns to heart, including the constant gripe about the sometimes impossible stage sight lines at the current venue. They’ve created multiple levels within the new main concert hall that include several platforms and a seated mezzanine to improve upon the view of the stage from all corners of the space. “We’re doubling the size while maintaining the intimacy,” he added.
The Downtown Disney location never had the space for a Foundation Room, which is standard at other House of Blues locations and was once pretty legendary within the now permanently closed House of Blues Los Angeles. That will be remedied with the new facility and the Foundation Room will feature a full bar, nightly entertainment of its own and a viewing platform of the stage in the main concert hall.
“The Orange County opening will celebrate the 25th year of House of Blues so that’s really exciting to be able to kick off the next generation of growth,” Bension said. “It’s been 10 years since our last (new) building, which was in Houston, so for this to be the first one in over a decade and to also have it represent the kick-off of our 25th anniversary and to serve as the model going forward, that’s kind of cool.”
Since Lit helped open the venue 15 years ago, it seems appropriate that they’d be one of the last acts to help close the current location down. Counting its final sold-out headlining gig on Friday, the Fullerton-based group will have played the Mouse House 15 times.
Bassist Kevin Baldes said one of his favorite memories was being able to open for metal gods Judas Priest. After two back-to-back sold-out headlining Lit shows, they wanted to add a third evening to their run, but Priest were scheduled to headline that particular Sunday. Somehow, the guys got Priest to agree to allow them to serve as their opener.
“We get in front of like the strict, hardcore metal people and there were quite a few that liked us and then some that you could just hear yelling ‘Booooooooo!’” he said with a laugh. “Those people hated us, but we still had a good time.”
Baldes has attended the venue as a fan and as a professional photographer who has shot acts such as Willie Nelson, Social Distortion and Foo Fighters there. Guitarist Jeremy Popoff is also a fan and has gone out to see country artists like Dustin Lynch, Kip Moore, A Thousand Horses, Blackberry Smoke and Jamey Johnson.
However bittersweet the transition, both musicians are excited about an all-new House of Blues opening in their home county.
“I think it’s going to be the premier venue in Southern California, not just in Orange County,” said Popoff, who also owns Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen in Fullerton. “It’s going to rival most spots in Los Angeles and I think it’s going to be state-of-the-art, top-notch and a killer place to see shows. They’ll probably also be able to book more shows and not have to ask Mickey Mouse for permission for every band they book.
“All bands love to play House of Blues. They have the best staff,” he added. “They know what they’re doing. They’ve created this cool kind of culture in all of the venues across the country. They’re all different, but they all have that common theme of quality about them and you’re never bummed when you find out you’re playing at a House of Blues.”
From the Orange County Register
Author RayPosted on May 21, 2016 May 20, 2016 Categories DisneylandTags Anaheim Garden Walk, Disneyland Resort, House of BluesLeave a comment on House of Blues is Leaving Disneyland Resort’s Downtown Disney and is Moving to Anaheim GardenWalk
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/ Deaccessioned Artworks
/ Calyx krater
Date: late 4th century B.C..
Dimensions: Height: 21 1/32 in. (53.42 cm)
Diameter: 22 1/4 in. (56.515 cm)
Medium: Ceramic with black slip
Credit Line: Lent by the Republic of Italy
Culture: South Italy (Campania), Greek
Object Number: 135.2012.3
Deaccession Criteria: Restitution/Returned to rightful owner: the work has been legally requested for restitution.
Gianfranco Becchina is a Sicilian antiquities dealer who has been convicted in Italy of dealing in stolen antiquities. Becchina started dealing in antiquities from his premises in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s. In May 2002, the Carabinieri, in collaboration with the Swiss police, raided his storage facilities in Basel, recovering thousands of objects in various stages of restorations, photographs of artifacts, and other documents. In April 2012 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized two works that were associated with the investigation of Becchina. According to the Carabinieri, Gianfranco Becchina has been identified as one of the most prolific known traffickers of Italian cultural heritage, and all property that has been shown to have been illicitly trafficked by Becchina is subject to confiscation.
PURCHASE INFORMATION: Dealer: Ward & Co.
PROVENANCE SUPPLIED: Swiss private collection
PUBLISHED REFERENCES:
Dallas Museum of Art: Year in Review 2005–2006, annual report, p. 32 (ill.).
EXHIBITION HISTORY:
DMA collection galleries, March 2006–present
PROPOSED METHOD OF DISPOSAL: Long-term loan to DMA, if approved by Italian government; eventual return to Italy
CRITERIA FOR DEACCESSIONING: A request from the Italian government for restitution, with compelling evidence, including photographs, that object was looted and/or illegally exported
Evidence including photographs confiscated by the Carabinieri from Becchina’s warehouses in Basel, Switzerland
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Articles by Emily Warner
Emily Warner is a freshman English major with a minor in Communication. Born and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina, Emily loves having the opportunity to call Charleston her new home and is excited to see where this part of her journey will take her. Emily is an active member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, where she has made lifelong friends and has enjoyed participating in several philanthropic opportunities and countless fun experiences. Emily loves to go on adventures here in Charleston, exploring this beautiful city and making the most out of what it has to offer. She also loves traveling, and hopes to study abroad in the near future. A lover of all things English and literature, Emily’s dream is to become a journalist or writer, where she can immerse herself in doing what she loves.
Trumpcare spells higher premiums for most Americans
Emily Warner
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Attention to prevention
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Photos and design by Jaquan Leonard. Some women pop a tiny pill every day. Others go through a five minute procedure in a doctor’s office. Still more wear a patch, a ring, a diaphragm, or get a shot or implant. Each of these technologies aims to sidestep one of the most basic elements of human…
NASA discovers seven new planets, three within habitable zone
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39 light years away inside the Aquarius constellation, at least seven planets orbit an ultra-cool dwarf star star 12 times less massive than our sun. Only slightly larger than Jupiter, the star was discovered by the Spitzer telescope and the TRAPPIST observatory. According to Rebecca Brinch, a sophomore double major in physics and astrophysics, scientists…
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On Feb. 17, President Trump visited one of Boeing’s newest facilities in North Charleston where the company unveiled a new version of the 787 Dreamliner. The president congratulated Boeing employees, calling the new airplane “beautiful,” and even stating how much he loves South Carolina. President Trump stressed the importance of manufacturing products in the U.S….
Clemson professors protest Trump executive order with fast
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From Feb. 5 to Feb. 12, two Clemson professors began a Fast Against Silence, in protest of President Trump’s executive order preventing immigrants and refugees from 7 predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika and Dr. Todd May began the fast on Sunday, Feb. 5 on the steps of Sikes Hall,…
Henry McMaster named South Carolina’s 117th governor
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On Jan. 24, former Lieutenant Governor Henry McMaster succeeded Nikki Haley, becoming South Carolina’s 117th governor. His succession came as a result of former Governor Haley’s confirmation as the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations. McMaster is not new to the political sphere – he has worked as a legislative assistant to Republican U.S….
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On Tuesday, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations. During the hearing, Haley announced her official position on the all-important issue of Russia, as she declared the Russians to be guilty of war crimes in Syria. In the hearing, Haley stated “Russia is trying…
Dylann Roof gets death penalty in final ruling of Mother Emanuel shooting
Local, National, News and Politics, State, State
“I just finally decided I had to do it. Somebody had to do something. ‘Cause, you know, black people are killing white people every day.” This is the final explanation Dylann Roof offered in his police confession to killing nine worshippers at Mother Emanuel church on June 17, 2015. Any words of mine directed to…
The potential presidential cabinet
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#notmypresident sweeps country in weekend of protests
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Early Wednesday morning, many people became anxious as they saw the televised map of America slowly taken over by red, one swing state after another flipping for Trump. Students chewed their nails and downed their drinks. So many voters, we would later find out, cast a ballot for the candidate they believed to be the “lesser of two…
Controversy over jury, video in Michael Slager trial
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In-fighting tears apart the GOP
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The phrase “October surprise” came about during the 1972 presidential election. The term describes a shocking maneuver made by one party to discredit the other, late in the campaign. Sex scandals, secret deals and the like usually deliberately take place in October, because they have a greater influence over voters’ ultimate decisions. In other words, October…
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I’ve lost my appetite
Another silly, self-contained story. Don’t know exactly where it came from but it was fun to write.
The teenage girl screamed as if her lungs would burst. She dragged herself along the cabin floor, clawing at the splintered boards with her nails. Her legs, rubbery and useless, trailed behind her. The blood spilling from the deep gash across her abdomen was making her movements sluggish. She was operating on pure fear and adrenaline. It was almost over.
Jason advanced stoically and raised his machete, but a sound behind him made him stop. It was the sound of metal on wood; something was… spinning? He turned to look behind him.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
Michael shrugged. He was sitting at the rough-hewn kitchen table, whirling his butcher knife on its surface as if he were playing Spin the Bottle.
Jason pointed the blade at the girl. “Are you going to help me with this, or what?” Below him, the girl shrieked. Jason put his boot on her cheek and pressed down. “Hey, shush for a second. I can’t hear him.” She whimpered. He looked at Michael. “You said we were going to do this together.”
Michael spun the kitchen knife again. When it stopped, he picked it up by the handle and appraised it before driving its point into the table with a loud thunk. The sound prompted the girl to renew her wails, though it was clear her cries were diminishing.
“It looks like you have this all under control,” Michael said.
Jason couldn’t see Michael’s face under the mask but could tell he was pouting. He increased the pressure on the girl’s face. The screams dissolved into sobs. “Shh,” he said again. “You’re being rude.” He looked at Michael and pointed at the girl. “You want to finish her off?”
Michael shrugged and then shook his head.
“What’s your problem, Michael? We were looking forward to this. You were looking forward to this. ‘New group of teenagers,’ you said. ‘Camping trip,’ you said. ‘Fresh meat,’ you said.
“I know,” Michael said, wrenching the knife from the wood and setting it on the table. “I guess I…”
“What?” Jason asked. “You guess what?”
“I guess I’ve lost my appetite.” Michael leaned in his chair and rocked on its back legs. The chair threatened to collapse, and Michael righted it.
“Appetite?” Jason said, looking down at the girl. She was barely moving. The blood from her belly had spread in a crimson circle around her body, seeping into the floorboards. “You want to eat her? Huh. That’s new,” he said.
Michael shook his head. “No, I don’t want to eat her. God, you’re so literal sometimes. I just mean that… I don’t know. This used to be really fun. And now it just seems like…”
“Does this have anything to do with your annual review?” Jason removed his foot from the girl’s face. Only her fingers twitched. He walked to the table, leaving behind a trail of sticky red boot prints, and sat down. “Is that what this is about?”
“I don’t know,” Michael said. “Maybe. Yes. I don’t know.” He began to spin the knife again, and Jason flattened his palm on the blade to stop its rotation.
“Look,” Jason said. “I know your review was a little rough this year—“
Michael scoffed and turned away. “A little,” he said.
“—But at your level,” he continued, “we just expect a little more. I mean, no one is better with a knife than you are, but you know, branch out. Be a little creative.”
“Creative? What do you call a corn harvester?” Michael was breathing heavily. Jason thought it must be pretty humid under the mask by now.
Jason lowered his voice. “I’d call that creative. Honestly, that’s how you got a ‘meets expectations’ this year. If it hadn’t been for that, well.” He trailed off. “Now, take Freddy—”
Michael threw his hands up. “Oh, here we go. Freddy the golden boy. Mr. Freddy Scissorhands. Freddy, Freddy, Freddy. I can’t compete with that. The dude can enter dreams!”
Jason nodded. “Sure, but he doesn’t just enter dreams. I mean, the guy is a genius at killing kids. He could just show up and stab them with his hand, but he’s an artist. He turns them into cockroaches and then kills them. You see the difference?” Michael grumbled something under his breath.
Jason cocked his head at the girl. “Come on, man. Let’s finish her together. I’m sure we can find something creative to do to get ahead start on your mid-year review. Maybe you could eat her! What do you say?”
Michael shuffled his body on the chair and exhaled deeply. It rasped inside the mask. “All right. Let’s do it.”
Jason clapped Michael on the shoulder. “That’s my man! Let’s do this!”
Michael pulled himself from the chair while Jason went back to the girl and picked up his machete. Michael joined him. They raised their weapons.
Jason paused. “Wait a minute.” He nudged her right leg with a boot. He dropped the blade to his side with a sigh of exasperation. “Well, shit. She’s already dead.”
Author KeriPosted on January 25, 2018 January 26, 2018 Categories 750 wordsLeave a comment on I’ve lost my appetite
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'Letter to James A. Briggs, November 13, 1859' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 5'
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Lincoln, Abraham, Nicolay, John G., ed, Hay, John, ed
Abraham Lincoln historical digitization project
'Bill to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia, January 16, 1849' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2'
'Letter to E. B. Washburne, December 13, 1860' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6'
'Letter to Mr. Williams, March 1, 1845' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1'
Lincoln, Abraham, Nicolay, John G, ed, Hay, John, ed
'Letter to John Bennett, January 16, 1846' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1'
'Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln at Ottawa [CONCLUDED]' in the 'Quincy Daily Whig and Republican'
Quincy Daily Whig and Republican, Lincoln, Abraham
'Address at Troy, New York, February 19, 1861' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6'
books, speeches
'Opinion on the Illinois Election Law' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2'
'Letter to Edward G. Miner, February 19, 1858' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2'
'Autobiographical Memorandum Given to Artist Hicks, June 14, 1860' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6'
books, autobiographies
Letter to Governor William H. Bissell from Lincoln Concerning a Pardon for Samuel and James Jones
manuscripts (document genre), letters (correspondence)
'Letters to Simon Cameron, January 13, 1861' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6'
'Letter to William H. Herndon, June 22, 1848' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2'
'Speech in the United States House of Representatives, January 12, 1848' in 'The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1'
'Inaugural Address of President Lincoln' in the 'Illinois Daily State Journal, 05 March 1861'
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Illinois Daily State Journal, Lincoln, Abraham
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Eelco Wagenaar: The Artist as User
Mentor: Alena Alexandrova
Independent reviewer: John Byrne
In this thesis I focus on the question - how to maintain or regain a sustainable and autonomous position as an artist? The research stems from the realm of media art, dealing with interactivity, and is the written result of a research that I have been doing the last two years. It represents my current view on the topic.
I am myself an artist in the realm of media art and to support my practice I have a part time job in the field of engineering. Rethinking this combination made me question how to maintain an autonomous position as an artist in the current climate of neo-liberalism, where budgets and funding are cut rigorously. The issue of loss of autonomy seems to be urgent especially in the field of media art where the struggle of survival is even harder then in most other art forms. At the current the art world tends to be seen as having a parasitical connection to society.
The research is based on theory from various fields. The range of fields is from art and media theory, system dynamics in specific to science in general. A connection is made between the different theories from different fields. These connections are supported by examples from the art world.
As (media) art is a practice of relations, the practice of art should be used to engage science and society. This role of the artist seems to be currently unclear. It would be in the benefit of art, science and society to have a balanced relational dependency between these three autonomies. The research shows that it is possible to see art as a multifaceted practice simultaneously at work in several different registers partly in the domain of art, partly in the field of sciences, and humanities, and still be part of the social construct of everyday life and also having influence on this social construct.
A very interesting and highly insightful essay on the possibility of artistic autonomy within contemporary society. Wagenaar experiences taken from working in technological based industrial development to outline a very personal take on the relationship of artists to technology, interactivity and social intervention. Waganaar's first chapter, on the possibilities and conditions of interactivity in media art lays a very clear grounds for the development of ideas concerning the shifting/changing roles of artworks to audiences in contemporary society. This then allows Waganaar to analyse the shifting and changing roles of art's relationships to a developing technological culture and society in his second Chapter. Issues of commodification, crossdisciplinarity and long term strategy (as opposed to more tactical solutions) are evaluated here. In the final Chapter, Waganaar deploys a personal knowledge of systems dynamic analysis, feedback loops and response diagrams to build up a beautifully illustrated argument that art/artists should
position themselves as the link between a double helix like co-dependence of science and society. One of the key strengths of this essay is its continual illustration through a wide range of visual and critical sources – from Dan
Graham, Warhol and the Artist Placement Group to Sven Lutticken's 'Three Autonomies' and Deleuze's 'Society of Control. If there is a weakness in this essay it resides in the over use of this material to illustrate/back up a set of
arguments which teleologically arrive at the final conclusion. The helix conclusion could have been arrived at much earlier in the essay, perhaps forming an initial proposition, which could then have been tested and evaluated more rigorously against the evidence deployed. J.B.
John Byrne is currently Co-Director of Static Gallery and Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) Fine Art Course at Liverpool School of Art and Design.
Over the last fifteen years Byrne has published internationally on issues of art, technology and popular culture.
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In this list, you will find explanations of some terms frequently used in connection with Information Security. These will be explained in as simple terms as possible.
An older programming interface developed by Microsoft to reuse components which facilitate the provision of content (e. g. videos and games) on websites. The new Microsoft «Edge» browser does not support ActiveX, constituting an unofficial Microsoft announcement that this technology is now obsolete.
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
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An intrinsically legal way of financing «free» software. This is either implemented via ad banners inside the actual software, or via the installation of additional third party software.
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Is a character coding containing 95 printable and 33 non-printable characters. The printable characters include the Latin alphabet (A-Z, a-z), the ten Arabic numerals (0-9) as well as some punctuation marks (sentence symbols, word symbols) and other special characters.
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The allocation of permissions. Based on permissions, authorisation is granted to access resources (e. g. files, software, payments, etc.) after successful identification and authentication.
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With software, this word usually denotes non-documented access which allows manufacturers (or third parties) to access users’ software or data from the outside. There is also malware which is able to open a back door. This allows criminals to access a computer and then use it for their own ends, e. g. to join a bot net.
Data back-up, where electronic information (data) is copied to an external storage medium (e. g. an external hard drive). Back-ups are generally run at regular intervals. There is a distinction between an incremental back-up, where only changes since the last back-up are saved, and complete back-ups.
This is the smallest information unit in electronic data processing, equivalent to a yes/no decision or 0/1 in a digital data record.
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Let me tell you, I’m such a big sucker for the underdog, for the dedicated musicians and artists that keeps on doing what they love and never give in an inch and refuses to compromise what they do. Lordi started out as far back as 1992 but it would take them 10 years to release their debut album Get Heavy in 2002. For the first few years and albums – the follow up The Monsterican Dream came out in 2004 – Lordi were, to most parts of the world, an underground phenomenon that despite writing catchy hard rock tunes and having a number one single in Finland for “Would You Love A Monsterman” from the debut. The guys went all in on creating a big horror theater with masks and huge costumes that made Kiss, Alice Cooper and W.A.S.P. look like a kids’ masquarade in comparison. Also, the guys showed that they could write some really catchy and hitty songs that bore much resemblance to bands such as Bon Jovi, Europe, late 80’s Kiss, stuff that easily could (should?) have been hits but they weren’t strangers to pure heavy metal either, a good mix that could satisfy both fans of the heavier stuff and the more soft and poppy fans. The thing is, I often wonder if the big costumes and masks were a hinder for the band in the beginning, that maybe they would have had their hits if they were just a regular band. But things would change drastically for the band. Back in 2006, against all odds the band participated in the Finnish version of the Eurovision Song Contest and what was even more surprising, they also the won the whole ESC. The fact is, Lordi actually won that contest bigger than any other act in ESC’s history – the artist on second place didn’t stand a chance. But that was also the band’s downfall. Overnight, the whole world knew who Lordi were and the song in question, “Hard Rock Hallelujah” became a monster (sic!) hit all over the world. But in tow of the contest came the fact that Lordi became a circus, one for small kids – a Lordi gig wasn’t underground anymore and their early fans probably had it with sharing venues with whole families that came just to hear THAT song and had no clue what the band was all about. In just a few years, Lordi had went from an underground heavy metal band to huge to a band that most rockers didn’t wanna know and it has since then been almost shameful to admit that you like the band. Nothing is more untrue for a true rocker than being a Lordi fan. How ridiculous.
But that’s not the band’s fault and you have to give it to them, they have never stopped doing what they love to do and they have never apologized for anything. Today, Lordi is fighting against the hard winds and they have problems getting booked because they’re not a draw anymore. An example, this year they were booked to play Sweden Rock Festival – at noon, as the first band of the day. At 12 o’clock, when the sun was shining and the skies were bluer than blue, they went on stage to try to create a monster show. Not an ideal time for a band like Lordi, but they did it because what else could they do? I really feel sorry for them because I think they deserve more. But what is more worrying is that the quality of their music has also gone down. The albums they released after The Arockalypse (2006) has been less and less interesting and it feels like they have been running on empty and writing a lot of songs on repeat. Deadache (2008) was ok, but Babez For Breakfast (2010) and To Beast Or Not To Beast (2013) were uneven products that just went in one ear and out the other. Their last album Scare Force One (2014) was a small step up but nowhere near the glory days of their first three records. Any hope for the new one then? Well, never underestimate musicians that really loves what they do and are determined to break the cycle, so sure, why not. it’s worth checking out anyway, just to make sure.
The album opens with the intro “SCG8 One Message Waiting” which is a message on an answering machine by a psychopath giving instructions on what will happen to said person. It’s a scary and disturbing message that would give anyone the creeps if it was real. First real track is called “Let’s Go Slaughter He-Man (I Wanna Be the Beast-Man In The Masters Of The Universe)” – how’s that for a song title, huh, folks? The tune is the kind of pop-metal we’re used to from this band, but this song is way better than anything they have released in a very long time. It’s full of dark hooks and catchy melodies and the black sense of humor is pivotal in a song like this – a winner. With “Hug You Hardcore”, Lordi goes in a more heavy metal way with a say, not very kids-friendly topic. Still it comes with a very catchy and memorable refrain. It’s chosen as the first single / video and it comes in two versions, one censored and one uncensored. A pretty brave move if you’re looking for a hit single. It’s a damn good song, though. “Down With The Devil” is also clearly single material. This is a melodic hard rocker with clear influences from Alice Cooper and King Diamond and a chorus that could have been written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child back in the day. And it contains a cowbell! What’s not to love about all that? Brilliant stuff, I tell you. “Mary Is Dead” is a slower paced, ballad-like tune with some very heavy Black Sabbath like riffing. It sure has a blues influence but also in the mix there is some early 90’s melodic rock – a really good song that sticks. The core of “Sick Flick” is clearly heavy metal and it has a riff that comes right out the Accept box, but it also comes with a Alice Cooper vibe and a very pop chorus that nails itself right to the brain. Yes, when Lordi plays their cards right, they’re a damn good band. “None For One” is a straight forward pop-metal song with a catchy and hot refrain, very memorable stuff. And that’s the end of part one.
Yes, the album is divided in two parts where the second part is meant to be some kind of rock opera or a conceptual story about the classic movie monsters as vampires, zombies, lycanthrope and witches. Sounds cheesy? Well, maybe, but it is very much in store of what Lordi is all about, isn’t it? Also, this is the first time they have put together something like this so let’s see how it goes. It opens with another intro called “SCG VIII Opening Scene”, a more traditional intro that sounds like a soundtrack to a horror movie which kind of fits this little horror story. The real opening track “Demonarchy” is fast, aggressive heavy metal with some catchy melodies but the sound just goes on without really leaving a mark. Good, but a little forgettable. “The Unholy Gathering” is great, though. It starts as an Accept influenced heavy ballad, but it soon turns into a real metal track with some cool licks borrowed from Megadeth. The melody is very direct and memorable and the mix of metal and catchiness makes the song stand out. “Heaven Sent Hell On Earth” is a hard metal track but with the 80’s keyboards and the pop melodies always present. And there are some thrash metal influences squeezed in for good measure as well. A bombastic chorus really nails the tune and I must say, I really dig this. “And The Zombie Says” is an in-your-face full-blown metal track with a big punch and a striking melody. Mr Lordi’s high-pitched screams reminds me not so little of one Udo Dirkschneider. It’s an ok song, but it has a problem taking off for real. “Break Of Dawn” has some major Judas Priest influences but also some King Diamond influenced breaks – very atmospheric and theatrical – a great tune. The grande finale is called “The Night The Monsters Died” and is a slower paced metal goes pop tune with a horror cinematic feel. The chorus is brilliant, catchy and sticky without being cheesy. There’s also a more direct and fast heavy metal part that is all Priest meets Accept. An awesome track and a glorious way to end this rather grandiose project.
Some people might call the second leg of the record a bit pretentious and maybe, they’re right but the thing is, Lordi totally gets away with it. As an album, this is easily the best album they have made since the first three records. As a matter of fact, this might just be the best album to date. Not only are the songs very well written and almost every one of them has a refrain that catches on like super glue and just refuses to let go, but there is also a spark and a fighting spirit here that has been lacking for so many albums now. All of this makes me feel a little sorry for Lordi because I have the feeling that no matter how good albums they make, minds of naysayers will never be changed anyway. To many, Lordi will always be a kids act, not to be taken seriously as true musicians which is a shame. Once again, I believe that if they had changed their name, removed the masks and released this album without the horror theme, it could probably have been treated with more respect, but at the same time, I’m glad that they stuck to their guns and that they haven’t changed for anybody. That shows guts and as Alice Cooper once sung – the world needs guts. For the open-minded – this is a record highly recommended.
Other Lordi reviews:
Scare For One
To Beast Or Not To Beast
Babez For Breakfast
1. SCG8 One Message Waiting
2. Let’s Go Slaughter He-Man (I Wanna Be the Beast-Man In The Masters Of The Universe)
3. Hug You Hardcore
4. Down With The Devil
5. Mary Is Dead
6. Sick Flick
7. None For One
8. SCG VIII Opening Scene
9. Demonarchy
10. The Unholy Gathering
11. Heaven Sent Hell On Earth
12. And The Zombie Says
13. Break Of Dawn
14. The Night The Monsters Died
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