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Twitter’s messages during a governor election: abundance of one-way, top-down and auto-referential communications and scarcity of public dialogue
Departamento de Estudios Socioculturales
DESO - Artículos y ponencias con arbitraje
Larrosa-Fuentes, Juan
This paper examined how a public dialogue between citizens and politicians was developed on Twitter within an electoral campaign. This study focused on analyzing the messages that circulated on the Twitter accounts of five candidates that ran for governor in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in 2012. Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms in the western democracies and recently has been an important communication channel in the political field, especially in electoral periods. The questions this study investigated includes: What is happening within Twitter in electoral competitions? How are the users communicating with the politicians? What kind of public dialogue can be found in these communication processes? These questions were tackled through qualitative textual analysis of messages that circulated through the Twitter accounts of five Mexican politicians that competed in an electoral campaign. The major finding indicates that there was a scarcity of public dialogue on Twitter during Jalisco’s local campaigns. Nevertheless there was evidence of an incipient public dialogue between candidates and citizens within Twitter interactions.
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Articles containing Arabic language text, Bahá'í Faith, Religions of the Middle East, Religions
Central figures
Bahá'u'lláh
The Báb · `Abdu'l-Bahá
Key scripture
Kitáb-i-Aqdas · Kitáb-i-Íqán
The Hidden Words
The Seven Valleys
Administrative Order
The Guardianship
Universal House of Justice
Spiritual Assemblies
Bahá'í history · Timeline
Bábís · Shaykh Ahmad
Notable individuals
Shoghi Effendi
Martha Root · Táhirih
Badí‘ · Apostles
Hands of the Cause
Symbols · Laws
Teachings · Texts
Calendar · Divisions
Pilgrimage · Prayer
Index of Bahá'í Articles
The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.[1] There are about six million Bahá'ís in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.[2][3]
According to Bahá'í teachings, religious history has unfolded through a series of God's messengers who brought teachings suited for the capacity of the people at their time, and whose fundamental purpose is the same. Bahá'u'lláh is regarded as the most recent, but not final, in a line of messengers that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Muhammad and others. Bahá'u'lláh's claim to fulfill the eschatological promises of previous scriptures coincides with his mission to establish a firm basis for unity throughout the world, and inaugurate an age of peace and justice, which Bahá'ís expect will inevitably arise.[4]
Bahá'í can be an adjective referring to the Bahá'í Faith, or used as a term for a follower of Bahá'u'lláh. (Bahá'í is not a noun meaning the religion as a whole.) The word comes from the Arabic word Bahá’ (بهاء), meaning "glory" or "splendour".[5]
The Bahá'í teachings are often summarized by referring to three core principles: the unity of God, the unity of religion, and the unity of mankind.[3] Many Bahá'í beliefs and practices are rooted in these priorities; but taken alone these would be an over-simplification of Bahá'í teachings.
The Bahá'í writings describe a single, imperishable God, the creator of all things, including all the creatures and forces in the universe. The existence of God is thought to be eternal, without a beginning or end,[6] and is described as "a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty."[7] Though inaccessible directly, God is nevertheless seen as conscious of his creation, with a will and purpose. In Bahá'í belief, God expresses this will in many ways, including through a series of divine messengers referred to as Manifestations of God or sometimes divine educators.[3] In expressing God's intent, these manifestations are seen to establish religion in the world and to enable a relationship with God.[8]
Bahá'í teachings state that God is too great for humans to fully comprehend, or to create a complete and accurate image, by themselves; human understanding of God is through his revelation via his Manifestations of God.[8][9] In the Bahá'í religion God is often referred to by titles and attributes (e.g. the All-Powerful, or the All-Loving), and there is a substantial emphasis on monotheism, and an interpretation of such doctrines as the Trinity in a symbolic rather than literal sense.[10][11] The Bahá'í teachings state that the attributes which are applied to God are used to translate Godliness into human terms and also to help individuals concentrate on their own attributes in worshipping God to develop their potentialities on their spiritual path.[9][8] According to the Bahá'í teachings the human purpose is to learn to know and love God through such methods as prayer and reflection.[8]
Bahá'í notions of progressive religious revelation result in their accepting the validity of most of the world's religions, whose founders and central figures are seen as Manifestations of God. Religious history is interpreted as a series of dispensations, where each manifestation brings a somewhat broader and more advanced revelation, suited for the time and place in which it was expressed.[6] Specific religious social teachings (e.g. the direction of prayer, or dietary restrictions) may be revoked by a subsequent manifestation so that a more appropriate requirement for the time and place may be established. Conversely, certain general principles (e.g. neighbourliness, or charity) are seen to be universal and consistent. In Bahá'í belief, this process of progressive revelation will not end; however, it is believed to be cyclical. Bahá'ís do not expect a new manifestation of God to appear within 1000 years of Bahá'u'lláh's revelation.[12][13]
Bahá'í beliefs are sometimes described as syncretic combinations of earlier religions' beliefs.[14] Bahá'ís, however, assert that their religion is a distinct tradition with its own scriptures, teachings, laws, and history.[6][15] Its religious background in Shi'a Islam is seen as analogous to the Jewish context in which Christianity was established.[16] Bahá'ís describe their faith as an independent world religion, differing from the other traditions only in its relative age and in the appropriateness of Bahá'u'lláh's teachings to the modern context.[17] Bahá'u'lláh is believed to have fulfilled the messianic expectations of these precursor faiths.
The Bahá'í writings state that human beings have a "rational soul", and that this provides the species with a unique capacity to recognize God's station and humanity's relationship with its creator. Every human is seen to have a duty to recognize God through his messengers, and to conform to their teachings.[18] Through recognition and obedience, service to humanity and regular prayer and spiritual practice, the Bahá'í writings state that the soul becomes closer to God, the spiritual ideal in Bahá'í belief. When a human dies, the soul passes into the next world, where its spiritual development in the physical world becomes a basis for judgment and advancement in the spiritual world. Heaven and Hell are taught to be spiritual states of nearness or distance from God that describe relationships in this world and the next, and not physical places of reward and punishment achieved after death.[19]
The Bahá'í writings emphasize the essential equality of human beings, and the abolition of prejudice. Humanity is seen as essentially one, though highly varied; its diversity of race and culture are seen as worthy of appreciation and tolerance. Doctrines of racism, nationalism, caste and social class are seen as artificial impediments to unity.[3] The Bahá'í teachings state that the unification of mankind is the paramount issue in the religious and political conditions of the present world.[6]
Bahá'í sources usually estimate the worldwide Bahá'í population to be above 5 million.[20] Most encyclopedias and similar sources estimate between 5 and 6 million Bahá'ís in the world in the early twenty-first century.[21][22]
From its origins in the Persian and Ottoman Empires, the Bahá'í Faith had acquired a number of Western converts by World War I. Fifty years later its population had spread throughout the world as a result of Bahá'í pioneering efforts.
According to The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004:
“ The majority of Bahá'ís live in Asia (3.6 million), Africa (1.8 million), and Latin America (900,000). According to some estimates, the largest Bahá'í community in the world is in India, with 2.2 million Bahá'ís, next is Iran, with 350,000, and the U.S., with 150,000. Aside from these countries, numbers vary greatly. Currently, no country has a Bahá'í majority. Guyana is the country with the largest percentage of Bahá'ís (7%).[23] ”
The Bahá'í religion was listed in The Britannica Book of the Year (1992–present) as the second most widespread of the world's independent religions in terms of the number of countries represented. Britannica claims that it is established in 247 countries and territories; represents over 2,100 ethnic, racial, and tribal groups; has scriptures translated into over 800 languages; and has seven million adherents worldwide [2005].[21] Additionally, Bahá'ís have self organized in most of the nations of the earth.
Shoghi Effendi, the appointed head of the religion from 1921 to 1957, wrote the following summary of what he considered to be the distinguishing principles of Bahá'u'lláh's teachings, which, he said, together with the laws and ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas constitute the bed-rock of the Bahá'í Faith:
“ The independent search after truth, unfettered by superstition or tradition; the oneness of the entire human race, the pivotal principle and fundamental doctrine of the Faith; the basic unity of all religions; the condemnation of all forms of prejudice, whether religious, racial, class or national; the harmony which must exist between religion and science; the equality of men and women, the two wings on which the bird of humankind is able to soar; the introduction of compulsory education; the adoption of a universal auxiliary language; the abolition of the extremes of wealth and poverty; the institution of a world tribunal for the adjudication of disputes between nations; the exaltation of work, performed in the spirit of service, to the rank of worship; the glorification of justice as the ruling principle in human society, and of religion as a bulwark for the protection of all peoples and nations; and the establishment of a permanent and universal peace as the supreme goal of all mankind—these stand out as the essential elements [which Bahá'u'lláh proclaimed].[24] ”
Social principles
The following 12 principles are frequently listed as a quick summary of the Bahá'í teachings. They are derived from transcripts of speeches given by `Abdu'l-Bahá during his tour of Europe and North America in 1912.[25] The list is not authoritative and a variety of such lists circulate.[15][25][26]
Unity of God
Unity of religion
Unity of humankind
Elimination of all forms of prejudice
Harmony of religion and science
Independent investigation of truth
Universal compulsory education
Universal auxiliary language
Obedience to government and non-involvement in partisan politics
Elimination of extremes of wealth and poverty
With specific regard to the pursuit of world peace, Bahá'u'lláh prescribed a world-embracing Collective Security arrangement as necessary for the establishment of a lasting peace.
Mystical teachings
Although the Bahá'í teachings have a strong emphasis on social and ethical issues, there exist a number of foundational texts that have been described as mystical.[6] The Seven Valleys is considered Bahá'u'lláh's "greatest mystical composition." It was written to a follower of Sufism, in the style of `Attar.[27] It was first translated into English in 1906, becoming one of the earliest available books of Bahá'u'lláh to the West. The Hidden Words is another book written by Bahá'u'lláh during the same period, containing 153 short passages in which Bahá'u'lláh claims to have taken the basic essence of certain spiritual truths and written them in brief form.[4]
The Bahá'í teachings speak of both a "Greater Covenant",[28] being universal and endless, and a "Lesser Covenant", being unique to each religious dispensation. The Lesser Covenant is viewed as an agreement between a Messenger of God and his followers and includes social practices and the continuation of authority in the religion. At this time Bahá'ís view Bahá'u'lláh's revelation as a binding lesser covenant for his followers; in the Bahá'í writings being firm in the covenant is considered a virtue to work toward.[29] The Greater Covenant is viewed as a more enduring agreement between God and mankind, where a manifestation of God is expected to appear approximately every 1000 years.
With unity as an essential teaching of the religion, Bahá'ís follow an administration they believe is divinely ordained, and therefore see attempts to create schisms and divisions as efforts that are contrary to the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh. Throughout Bahá'í history schisms have occurred over the succession of authority. Bahá'í divisions have had relatively little success and have failed to attract a sizeable following.[30] The followers of such divisions are regarded as Covenant-breakers and shunned, essentially excommunicated.[29]
Bahá'í timeline
1844 The Báb declares his mission in Shiraz, Iran
1850 The Báb is publicly executed in Tabriz, Iran
1852 Thousands of Bábís are executed
Bahá'u'lláh is imprisoned and forced into exile
1863 Bahá'u'lláh first announces his claim that he is the Promised One
He is forced to leave Baghdad for Constantinople, then Adrianople
1868 Bahá'u'lláh is forced into harsher confinement in `Akká, Palestine
1892 Bahá'u'lláh dies at the age of 75 near `Akká
His will appointed `Abdu'l-Bahá as successor
1908 `Abdu'l-Bahá is released from prison
1921 `Abdu'l-Bahá dies in Haifa
His will appoints Shoghi Effendi as Guardian
1963 The Universal House of Justice is first elected
Bahá'í history is often traced through a sequence of leaders, beginning with the Báb's May 23 1844 declaration in Shiraz, and ultimately resting on an administrative order established by the central figures of the religion. The tradition was mostly isolated to the Persian and Ottoman empires until after the death of Bahá'u'lláh in 1892, at which time he had followers in thirteen countries of Asia and Africa.[31] Under the leadership of his son, `Abdu'l-Bahá, the religion gained a footing in Europe and America, and was consolidated in Iran, where it still suffered intense persecution.[32] After the death of `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order with a system of both elected bodies and appointed individuals.
The Báb
Main article: Báb
In 1844 Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad of Shiraz, Iran proclaimed that he was "the Báb" "the Gate"), after a Shi`a religious concept.[32] His followers were therefore known as Bábís. As the Báb's teachings spread, which the Islamic clergy saw as a threat, Bábís came under increased persecution, at times being forced to choose between renouncing their beliefs or being killed.[6] Several military confrontations took place between government and Bábí forces. The Báb himself was imprisoned and eventually executed in 1850.[33]
Bahá'ís see the Báb as the forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, because the Báb's writings introduced the concept of "He whom God shall make manifest", a Messianic figure whose coming, according to Bahá'ís, was announced in the scriptures of all of the world's great religions, and whom Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, claimed to be in 1863.[6] The Báb's tomb is located in Haifa, Israel, and is an important place of pilgrimage for Bahá'ís. The remains of the Báb were brought secretly from Iran to the Holy Land and were eventually interred in the Shrine built for them in a spot specifically designated by Bahá'u'lláh.[34]
Main article: Bahá'u'lláh
Mírzá Husayn `Alí of Núr was one of the early followers of the Báb, who later took the title of Bahá'u'lláh. He was arrested and imprisoned for this involvement in 1852. Bahá'u'lláh relates that in 1853, while incarcerated in the dungeon of the Síyáh-Chál in Tehran, he received the first intimations that he was the one anticipated by the Báb.[3].
Shortly thereafter he was expelled from Persia to Baghdad,[3] in the Ottoman Empire; then to Constantinople (now Istanbul); and then to Adrianople (now Edirne). In 1863, at the time of his banishment from Baghdad to Constantinople, Bahá'u'lláh declared his claim to a divine mission to his family and followers. From this time tensions grew between Bahá'u'lláh and Subh-i-Azal, the appointed leader of the Bábís, culminating in Bahá'u'lláh's 1866 declaration to the general public, as well as to the world's religious leaders and secular rulers. While in Adrianople, he wrote letters to several rulers of the world, including Sultan Abdülâziz, declaring his mission as a Messenger of God. As a result Bahá'u'lláh was banished a final time, to the Ottoman penal colony of `Akká. (Now Acre, in present-day Israel.)[35]
Towards the end of his life, the strict and harsh confinement was gradually relaxed, and he was allowed to live in a home near `Akká, while still officially a prisoner of that city.[35] He died there in 1892. Bahá'ís regard his resting place at Bahjí as the Qiblih to which they turn in prayer each day. During his lifetime, Bahá'u'lláh left a large volume of writings. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book), and the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) are recognized as major theological works, and the Hidden Words and the Seven Valleys as mystical treatises.
`Abbás Effendi was Bahá'u'lláh's eldest son, known by the title of `Abdu'l-Bahá (Servant of Bahá). His father left a Will that appointed `Abdu'l-Bahá as the leader of the Bahá'í community, and designated him as the "Centre of the Covenant", "Head of the Faith", and the sole authoritative interpreter of Bahá'u'lláh's writings.[36][34]
`Abdu'l-Bahá had shared his father's long exile and imprisonment, which continued until `Abdu'l-Bahá's own release as a result of the Young Turk Revolution in 1908. Following his release he led a life of travelling, speaking, teaching, and maintaining correspondence with communities of believers and individuals, expounding the principles of the Bahá'í Faith.[3]
Bahá'í administration
Bahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i-Aqdas and The Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá are foundational documents of the Bahá'í administrative order. Bahá'u'lláh established the elected Universal House of Justice, and `Abdu'l-Bahá established the appointed hereditary Guardianship and clarified the relationship between the two institutions.[34] In his Will, `Abdu'l-Bahá appointed his eldest grandson, Shoghi Effendi, as the first Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.[4]
Shoghi Effendi throughout his lifetime translated Bahá'í literature; developed global plans for the expansion of the Bahá'í community; developed the Bahá'í World Centre; carried on a voluminous correspondence with communities and individuals around the world; and built the administrative structure of the religion, preparing the community for the election of the Universal House of Justice.[3] He died in 1957 under conditions that did not allow for a successor to be appointed.[37]
At local, regional, and national levels, Bahá'ís elect members to nine-person Spiritual Assemblies, which run the affairs of the religion. There are also appointed individuals working at various levels, including locally and internationally, which perform the function of propagating the teachings and protecting the community. The latter do not serve as clergy, which the Bahá'í Faith does not have.[6]
The Universal House of Justice, first elected in 1963, remains the successor and supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, and its 9 members are elected every five years by the members of all National Spiritual Assemblies.[38] Any male Bahá'í, 21 years or older, is eligible to be elected to the Universal House of Justice; all other positions are open to male and female Bahá'ís.
Involvement in society
Monasticism is forbidden, and Bahá'ís attempt to ground their spirituality in ordinary daily life. Performing useful work, for example, is not only required but considered a form of worship.[6] Bahá'u'lláh prohibited a mendicant and ascetic lifestyle, encouraging Bahá'ís to "Be anxiously concerned" with the needs of society.[39] The importance of self-exertion and service to humanity in one's spiritual life is emphasised further in Bahá'u'lláh's writings, where he states that work done in the spirit of service to humanity enjoys a rank equal to that of prayer and worship in the sight of God.[6]
Bahá'u'lláh wrote of the need for world government in this age of humanity's collective life. Because of this emphasis many Bahá'ís have chosen to support efforts of improving international relations through organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. The Bahá'í International Community is an agency under the direction of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, and has consultative status with the following organizations:[40]
United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Bahá'í International Community has offices at the United Nations in New York and Geneva and representations to United Nations regional commissions and other offices in Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Rome, Santiago, and Vienna.[40] In recent years an Office of the Environment and an Office for the Advancement of Women were established as part of its United Nations Office. The Bahá'í Faith has also undertaken joint development programs with various other United Nations agencies. In the 2000 Millennium Forum of the United Nations a Bahá'í was invited as the only non-governmental speaker during the summit.[41] See this article for further information on the relationship between the Bahá'í International Community and the United Nations.
International plans
In 1939, Shoghi Effendi launched a seven year plan for the Bahá'ís of North America , followed by another in 1946.[42] In 1953, he launched the first international plan, the Ten Year World Crusade. This plan included extremely ambitious goals for the expansion of Bahá'í communities and institutions, the translation of Bahá'í literature into several new languages, and the sending of Bahá'í pioneers into previously unreached nations.[43] He announced in letters during the Ten Year Crusade that it would be followed by other plans under the direction of the Universal House of Justice, which was elected in 1963 at the culmination of the Crusade. The House of Justice then launched a nine year plan in 1964, and a series of subsequent multi-year plans of varying length and goals followed, guiding the direction of the international Bahá'í community.[44]
Current international plan
Since the late 1990s, the House of Justice has been directing communities to prepare for large-scale expansion, organizing localities into "clusters", creating new institutions such as Regional Councils and strengthening the various "training institutes". The recently completed five-year plan (2001–2006) focused on developing institutions and creating the means to "sustain large-scale expansion and consolidation" (Riḍván 158). Since 2001, the Bahá'ís around the world have been specifically encouraged to focus on children's classes, devotional gatherings, and a systematic study of the religion, known as study circles.[45] A new focus was added in December 2005 with the addition of "junior youth" classes to the core activities, focusing on education for those between 11 and 14.[46]
The second five-year plan (2006–2011) was launched by the Universal House of Justice in April of 2006; it calls upon the Bahá'ís of the world to establish advanced patterns of growth and community development in over 1,500 "clusters" around the world. It also alludes to a possible tier-election process for Local Spiritual Assemblies in localities with many Bahá'ís. The years from 2001 until 2021 represent four successive five-year plans, culminating in the centennial anniversary of the passing of `Abdu'l-Bahá.[46]
Study circles
Along with a focus on consolidation has come a systematic approach to education and community development.[47] The "study circles" are intended to be sustainable and self-perpetuating on a large scale. Participants complete a sequence of workbooks in small groups, facilitated by a tutor, and upon completion of the sequence a participant can then go on to facilitate study circles for others.[48]
The most popular study program is the Ruhi Institute, a study course originally designed for use in Colombia, but which has received wide use.[49] The first book studies three themes: the Bahá'í writings, prayer, and life and death.[50] Subsequent themes include the education of children, the lives of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, service, and others.[48]
Social practices
The laws of the Bahá'í Faith primarily come from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, written by Bahá'u'lláh. The following are a few examples of basic laws and religious observances,
Bahá'ís over the age of 15 should recite an obligatory prayer each day. There are three such prayers among which one can be chosen each day.
Backbiting and gossip are prohibited and denounced.
Adult Bahá'ís in good health observe a nineteen-day sunrise-to-sunset fast each year from March 2 through March 20.
Bahá'ís are forbidden to drink alcohol or to take drugs, unless prescribed by doctors.
Sexual relationships are permitted only between a husband and wife, and thus premarital or homosexual sex activity is forbidden.
Gambling is forbidden.
While some of the laws from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas are applicable at the present time and may be enforced to a degree by the administrative institutions,[51] Bahá'u'lláh has provided for the progressive application of other laws that are dependent upon the existence of a predominantly Bahá'í society. The laws, when not in direct conflict with the civil laws of the country of residence, are binding on every Bahá'í,[52] and the observance of personal laws, such as prayer or fasting, is the sole responsibility of the individual.[53]
Most Bahá'í meetings occur in individuals' homes, local Bahá'í centers, or rented facilities. Worldwide, there are currently seven Bahá'í Houses of Worship, basically one per continent, with an eighth under construction in Chile.[54] Bahá'í writings refer to an institution called a "Mashriqu'l-Adhkár" (Dawning-place of the Mention of God), which is to form the center of a complex of institutions including a hospital, university, and so on.[4] Only the first ever Mashriqu'l-Adhkár in `Ishqábád, Turkmenistan, was built to such a degree.
Bahá'í marriage is the union of a man and a woman. Its purpose is mainly to foster spiritual harmony, fellowship and unity between the two partners and to provide a stable and loving environment for the rearing of children. The Bahá'í teachings on marriage call it a fortress for well-being and salvation and place marriage and the family as the foundation of the structure of human society. Bahá'u'lláh highly praised marriage, declaring it an eternal command of God, also discouraging divorce and homosexuality, and requiring chastity outside of marriage; Bahá'u'lláh taught that a husband and wife should strive to improve the spiritual life of each other.[55] Interracial marriage is also highly praised throughout Bahá'í scripture.
Bahá'ís intending to marry "should study each other's character and spend time getting to know each other before they decide to marry, and when they do marry it should be with the intention of establishing an eternal bond."[56] Although parents should not choose partners for their children, once two individuals decide to marry, they must receive the consent of all living parents, even if one partner is not a Bahá'í. The Bahá'í marriage ceremony is simple; the only compulsory part of the wedding is the reading of the wedding vows prescribed by Bahá'u'lláh which both the groom and the bride read, in the presence of two witnesses.[4] The vows are "We will all, verily, abide by the Will of God."[57]
The official symbol of the Bahá'í Faith is the five-pointed star, but a nine-pointed star is more frequently used.[58] The ringstone symbol and calligraphy of the Greatest Name are also often encountered. The former consists of two stars interspersed with a stylized Bahá’ (Arabic: بهاء "splendor" or "glory") whose shape is meant to recall the three onenesses.[59] The Greatest Name is Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá (Arabic: يا بهاء الأبهى "O Glory of the Most Glorious!")
The Bahá'í calendar is based upon the calendar established by the Báb. The year consists of 19 months of 19 days, with four or five intercalary days, to make a full solar year.[3] The Bahá'í New Year corresponds to the traditional Persian New Year, called Naw Rúz, and occurs on the vernal equinox, March 21, at the end of the month of fasting. Bahá'í communities gather at the beginning of each month at a meeting called a Feast for worship, consultation and socializing.[6]
Each of the 19 months is given a name which is an attribute of God; some examples include Bahá’ (Splendour), ‘Ilm (Knowledge), and Jamál (Beauty).[4] The Bahá'í week is familiar in that it consists of seven days, with each day of the week also named after an attribute of God; some examples include Istiqlál (Independence), Kamál (Perfection) and ‘Idál (Justice). Bahá'ís observe 11 Holy Days throughout the year, with work suspended on 9 of these. These days commemorate important anniversaries in the history of the religion.
Bahá'ís continue to be persecuted in Islamic countries, especially Iran, where over 200 believers were executed between 1978 and 1998.[60] The marginalization of the Iranian Bahá'ís by current governments is rooted in historical efforts by Shi`a clergy to persecute the religious minority. When the Báb started attracting a large following the clergy hoped to stop the movement from spreading by stating that its followers were enemies of God, and these led to mob attacks and public executions.[32] Starting in the twentieth century, in addition to repression that impacted individual Bahá'ís, centrally-directed campaigns that targeted the entire Bahá'í community and institutions were initiated.[61] In one case in Yazd in 1903 more than 100 Bahá'ís were killed.[62] Later on Bahá'í schools, such as the Tarbiyat boys' and girl's schools in Tehran, were closed in the 1930s and '40s, Bahá'í marriages were not recognized and Bahá'í literature was censored.[61][63]
During the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, due to the growing nationalism and the economic difficulties in the country, the Shah gave up control over certain religious affairs to the clergy of the country. This resulted in a campaign of persecution against the Bahá'ís.[64] They approved and coordinated the anti-Bahá'í campaign to incite public passion against the Bahá'ís started in 1955 and included the spreading of anti-Bahá'í propaganda in national radio stations and official newspapers.[61] In the late 1970s the Shah's regime, due to criticism that he was pro-Western, consistently lost legitimacy. As the anti-Shah movement gained ground and support, revolutionary propaganda was spread that some of the Shah's advisors were Bahá'ís.[65] Bahá'ís were portrayed as economic threats, supporters of Israel and the West and popular hatred for the Bahá'ís increased.[61][66]
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian Bahá'ís have regularly had their homes ransacked or been banned from attending university or holding government jobs, and several hundred have received prison sentences for their religious beliefs, most recently for participating in study circles.[60] Bahá'í cemeteries have been desecrated and property seized and occasionally demolished, including the House of Mírzá Buzurg, Bahá'u'lláh's father.[32] The House of the Báb in Shiraz has been destroyed twice, and is one of three sites to which Bahá'ís perform pilgrimage.[32][67][68]
Even more recently the situation of Bahá'ís has worsened; the United Nations Commission on Human Rights revealed an October 2005 confidential letter from Command Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Iran to identify Bahá'ís and to monitor their activities[69] and in November 2005 the state-run and influential Kayhan[70] newspaper, whose managing editor is appointed by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,[71] ran nearly three dozen articles defaming the Bahá'í Faith.[72] Due to these actions, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights stated on March 20, 2006, that she "also expresses concern that the information gained as a result of such monitoring will be used as a basis for the increased persecution of, and discrimination against, members of the Bahá'í faith, in violation of international standards. ... The Special Rapporteur is concerned that this latest development indicates that the situation with regard to religious minorities in Iran is, in fact, deteriorating."[69]
The Bahá'ís in Egypt also face persecution; on December 16, 2006, the Supreme Administrative Council of Egypt ruled the government may not recognize the Bahá'í Faith in official identification numbers. Consequently, Egyptian Bahá'ís are unable to obtain government documents, including ID cards, birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates, or passports, all of which require a person's religion to be listed. They also cannot be employed, educated, treated in hospitals or vote, among other things. The Egyptian Initiative for Private Rights stated that the press release issued by the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court did not respond to any of the evidence or arguments presented by the EIPR in the case, and that the release only discussed the tenets and beliefs of the Bahá'í Faith, which should have not have affected the court's decision.[73]
Bernard Lewis states that the Muslim laity and Islamic authorities have always had great difficulty in accommodating post-Islamic monotheistic religions such as the Bahá'í Faith, since the followers of such religions cannot be dismissed either as benighted heathens, like the polytheists of Asia and the animists of Africa, nor as outdated precursors, like the Jews and Christians. Moreover, their very existence presents a challenge to the Islamic doctrine of the perfection and finality of Muhammad's revelation.[74]
↑ "Bahaism." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2007. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bahaism.
↑ See Bahá'í statistics for a breakdown of different estimates.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Hutter, Manfred (2005). "Bahā'īs". in Ed. Lindsay Jones. Encyclopedia of Religion. 2 (2nd ed. ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. pp. p737–740. ISBN 0028657330.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Esslemont, J.E. (1980). Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era (5th ed. ed.). Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0877431604. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/.
↑ Bahá'ís prefer the orthographies "Bahá'í", "Bahá'ís", "the Báb", "Bahá'u'lláh", and "`Abdu'l-Bahá", using a particular transcription of the Arabic and Persian in publications. "Bahai", "Bahais", "Baha'i", "the Bab", "Bahaullah" and "Baha'u'llah" are often used when diacriticals are unavailable.
↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 "The Bahá'í Faith". Britannica Book of the Year. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1988. ISBN 0852294867.
↑ Effendi, Shoghi (1944). God Passes By. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp.139. ISBN 0877430209. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/gpb-9.html#gr26.
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Hatcher, John S. (March-December 2005). "Unveiling the Hurí of Love". Journal of Bahá'í Studies 15 (1): p. 1-38.
↑ 9.0 9.1 Cole, Juan (1982). "The Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings". Bahá'í Studies monograph 9: pp. 1–38. http://bahai-library.org/articles/manifestation.html.
↑ Stockman, Robert. "Jesus Christ in the Baha'i Writings". Baha'i Studies Review 2 (1).
↑ `Abdu'l-Bahá (1990). Some Answered Questions (Softcover ed.). Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. p. 113. ISBN 0-87743-162-0 url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/saq-27.html#pg113.
↑ McMullen, Michael D. (2000). The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. pp. pp. 7. ISBN 0813528364.
↑ `Abdu'l-Bahá (1978). Selections From the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá (Hardcover ed.). Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp. 67. ISBN 0853980810. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAB/sab-34-printable.html.
↑ Stockman, Robert (1997). "The Baha'i Faith and Syncretism". A Resource Guide for the Scholarly Study of the Bahá'í Faith. http://bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=stockman_bahai_syncretism&language=All.
↑ 15.0 15.1 "Bahais". Encyclopaedia of Islam Online.
↑ Taherzadeh, A. (1984). The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 3: `Akka, The Early Years 1868–77. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. pp. 262. ISBN 0853981442.
↑ Lundberg, Zaid (1996-05). "The Concept of Progressive Revelation". Baha'i Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation. Department of History of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, Lund University. http://bahai-library.com/?file=lundberg_bahai_apocalypticism. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
↑ McMullen, Michael D. (2000). The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. pp. pp. 57–58. ISBN 0813528364.
↑ Masumian, Farnaz (1995). Life After Death: A study of the afterlife in world religions. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-074-8.
↑ Bahá'í International Community (2006). "Worldwide Community". Bahá'í International Community. http://www.bahai.org/dir/worldwide. Retrieved 2006-05-31.
↑ 21.0 21.1 Encyclopædia Britannica (2002). "Worldwide Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-2002". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/eb/table?tocId=9394911. Retrieved 2006-05-31.
↑ adherents.com (2002). "Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents". adherents.com. http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html#Baha'i. Retrieved 2005-08-28.
↑ World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York, United States: World Almanac Books. 2004. ISBN 0886879108. Though this estimate for Guyana is not confirmed from the official statistics (2002) from the Guyana Bureau of Statistics which place the Bahá'í Faith at 0.07%.
↑ Effendi, Shoghi (1944). God Passes By. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp. 281. ISBN 0877430209. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/gpb-20.html#gr7.
↑ 25.0 25.1 "Principles of the Bahá'í Faith". bahai.com. 2006-03-26. http://www.bahai.com/Bahaullah/principles.htm. Retrieved 2006-06-14.
↑ Cole, Juan (1989). "Bahai Faith". Encyclopædia Iranica.
↑ Taherzadeh, Adib (1976). The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 1: Baghdad 1853–63. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. pp. 96–99. ISBN 0853982708.
↑ Taherzadeh, Adib (1972). The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853983445.
↑ 29.0 29.1 Momen, Moojan. "Covenant, The, and Covenant-breaker". http://bahai-library.com/?file=momen_encyclopedia_covenant#3.%20The%20Lesser%20Covenant. Retrieved 2006-06-14.
↑ Denis MacEoin, Encyclopædia Iranica, p. 448
↑ Taherzadeh, Adib (1987). The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 4: Mazra'ih & Bahji 1877–92. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. 125. ISBN 0853982708.
↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 Affolter, Friedrich W. (Jan. 2005). "The Specter of Ideological Genocide: The Bahá'ís of Iran". War Crimes, Genocide, & Crimes against Humanity 1 (1): pp. 75–114. http://www.aa.psu.edu/journals/war-crimes/v1n1a3.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-31.
↑ Winter, Jonah (1997-09-17). "Dying for God: Martyrdom in the Shii and Babi Religions". Master of Arts Thesis, University of Toronto. http://bahai-library.com/theses/dying/.
↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Balyuzi, Hasan (2001). `Abdu'l-Bahá: The Centre of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh (Paperback ed.). Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853980438.
↑ 35.0 35.1 "Baha'-allah". Encyclopædia Iranica. 1989.
↑ Bahá'u'lláh (1994) [1873–92]. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp.217. ISBN 0877431744. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/.
↑ Taherzadeh, A. (2000). The Child of the Covenant. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. pp. 347–363. ISBN 0853984395.
↑ Stockman, Robert (1995). "Bahá'í Faith: A portraint". in Joel Beversluis (ed). A SourceBook for Earth's Community of Religions. Grand Rapids, MI: CoNexus Press.
↑ Bahá'u'lláh (1991). Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp. 122. ISBN 0877430640. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/PB/pb-61.html#gr1.
↑ 40.0 40.1 Bahá'í International Community (2006). "History of Active Cooperation with the United Nations". bahai.org. http://statements.bahai.org/about.cfm. Retrieved 2006-06-15.
↑ Bahá'í World News Service (2000-09-08). "Bahá'í United Nations Representative Addresses World Leaders at the Millennium Summit". Bahá'í International Community. http://www.bahai.org/article-1-1-0-3.html. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
↑ Danesh, Helen; Danesh, John; Danesh, Amelia (1991). "The Life of Shoghi Effendi". in M. Bergsmo (Ed.). Studying the Writings of Shoghi Effendi. George Ronald. ISBN 0853983364.
↑ Hassal, Graham (1996). "Baha'i History in the Formative Age". Journal of Bahá'í Studies 6 (4): pp.1–21.
↑ Momen, Moojan; Smith, Peter (1989). "The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments". Religion 19: pp. 63–91. http://bahai-library.com/?file=momen_smith_developments_1957-1988.html.
↑ Universal House of Justice (2003-01-17). "17 January 2003 letter". bahai-library.org. http://bahai-library.com/published.uhj/jan17.html. Retrieved 2006-06-15.
↑ 46.0 46.1 Universal House Of Justice (2006). Five Year Plan 2006–2011. West Palm Beach, Florida: Palabra Publications.
↑ Bahá'í International Community (2007-01-17). "Systematic Social Development Investigated". Bahá'í World News Service. http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/500. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
↑ 48.0 48.1 Ruhi Institute (1991). Learning About Growth: The Story of the Ruhi Institute and Large-scale Expansion of the Bahá'í Faith in Colombia. Riviera Beach, FL: Palabra Publications.
↑ "The Ruhi Institute: Statement of Purpose and Methods". 1996-03-18. http://www.bcca.org/services/lists/noble-creation/ruhi.html. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
↑ Ruhi Institute. Reflections on the Life of the Spirit: Ruhi Book 1. Riviera Beach, FL: Palabra Publications. ISBN 89010-01-X.
↑ Universal House of Justice (1991-12-9). "Letter to a National Spiritual Assembly". bahai-library.org. http://bahai-library.org/uhj/law.html. Retrieved 2006-07-11.
↑ Universal House of Justice (1992). "Introduction". The Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp. 5. ISBN 0853989990. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-2.html#gr12.
↑ Walbridge, John (2006-03-23). "Prayer and Worship". bahai-library.org. http://bahai-library.org/encyclopedia/prayer.html. Retrieved 2006-07-11.
↑ adherents.com (2001-05). "Baha'i Houses of Worship". adherents.com. http://www.adherents.com/largecom/bahai_HoW.html. Retrieved 2006-06-14.
↑ Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Warwick (2003-10-12). "Baha'i Marriage". Bahá'ís of Warwick. http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~vickers/warwick_bookshop/pages/marriage.html. Retrieved 2006-06-14.
↑ Bahá'í marriage and family life: selections from the writings of the Bahá'í Faith. Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing Trust. 1997. ISBN 0877432589. http://studycircle.angeltowns.com/marriage.htm.
↑ Bahá'u'lláh (1992) [1873]. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. pp. pp. 105. ISBN 0853989990. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-15.html#gr6.
↑ Effendi, Shoghi; The Universal House of Justice (1983). Hornby, Helen (Ed.). ed. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File. Bahá'í Publishing Trust, New Delhi, India. ISBN 8185091463. http://bahai-library.com/?file=hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n375.
↑ Faizi, Abu'l-Qasim (1968). Explanation of the Symbol of the Greatest Name. Bahá'í Publishing Trust, PO Box No. 19, New Delhi, India. http://bahai-library.com/?file=faizi_symbol_greatest_name.
↑ 60.0 60.1 International Federation for Human Rights (2003-08-01). "Discrimination against religious minorities in Iran". fdih.org. http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/ir0108a.pdf. Retrieved 2006-10-20.
↑ 61.0 61.1 61.2 61.3 Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (2007). "A Faith Denied: The Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran". Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/pdfs/Reports/bahai_report.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
↑ Nash, Geoffrey (1982). Iran's secret pogrom : The conspiracy to wipe out the Bahaʼis. Sudbury, Suffolk: Neville Spearman Limited. ISBN 0854350055.
↑ Sanasarian, Eliz (2000). Religious Minorities in Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. pp. 52–53. ISBN 0521770734.
↑ Akhavi, Shahrough (1980). Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: clergy-state relations in the Pahlavi period. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 0873954084.
↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton Book Company Publishers. pp. pp. 432. ISBN 0691101345.
↑ Simpson, John; Shubart, Tira. Lifting the Veil. London year = 1995: Hodder & Stoughton General Division. pp. pg. 223. ISBN 0340628146.
↑ Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (2006-03-08). "Iran, Islamic Republic of". Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. http://sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/e7b8824bdd987268c1256fa8004a8753?OpenDocument. Retrieved 2006-05-31.
↑ Bahá'í International Community (2005-04-14). "Bahá'í International Community dismayed at lack of Human Rights Resolution on Iran". Religion News Service. http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR041505.html. Retrieved 2006-03-08.
↑ 69.0 69.1 Asma Jahangir (2006-03-20). "Special Rapporteur on Freedom of religion or belief concerned about treatment of followers of Bahá'í Faith in Iran". United Nations. http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/5E72D6B7B624AABBC125713700572D09?opendocument. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
↑ Michael Rubin (2006-01-25). "Iran Means What It Says". Middle East Forum. http://www.meforum.org/article/892. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
↑ BBC News (2005-08-16). "The press in Iran". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4308203.stm. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
↑ Bahá'í International Community (2006). "Summary and Analysis of Recent Media Attacks". Bahá'í International Community. http://www.bahai.org/iranthreat/mediaattacks. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
↑ Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (2006-12-16). "Government Must Find Solution for Baha'i Egyptians". eipr.org. http://www.eipr.org/en/press/06/1612.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
↑ Lewis (1984) p.21
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Momen, Moojan (1994). Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853983844.
Momen, Moojan (2000). Islam and the Bahá'í Faith, An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith for Muslims. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-853984468.
Momen, Moojan (1990). Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853982996.
Townshend, George (1986). Christ and Bahá’u’lláh. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853980055.
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Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
Declaration of the Báb
Martyrdom of the Báb
Ridván
Twelfth Day of Ridván
Other People of Note
The Báb - Forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh
'Abdu'l-Bahá - Bahá'u'lláh's eldest son and successor
Shoghi Effendi - 'Abdu'l-Bahá's eldest grandson and successor
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Mila Falls Interview, Tornados & Glitter
by Nicola Greenbrook | Interviews
You may not immediately recognise the name Mila Falls, but I guarantee you will have heard her music.
Mila (Rachel Lipsitz )
She’s one of a special breed of artists whose songwriting talent lies behind the soundtrack to notable adverts and films but whose name remains mostly under the radar. Having supported the likes of Rudimental, Ella Eyre, Ringo Starr and Van Morrison, successfully collaborated with artists such as DJ Mag worldwide resident Marc Vedo and electronic composer and producer Roger Shar and featured on Boy George’s Hotfingers Talks album, 2017 could be the year this vibrant British singer-songwriter gets the wider recognition she deserves.
Yet, Mila is no musical neophyte. She has been singing and writing songs for the last nine years and has performed hundreds of live shows across the world. Her musical odyssey is one of hard graft, determination and strength through adversity rather than an immediate route to acclaim. Mila realised from an early age the 9-5 was never an option (“I’m far too fidgety!”) and, thankfully, ignored a careers advisor at her school in Norwich who declared music was an unreliable and dodgy option. She took the risk, and at the age of thirteen began DJing and songwriting over instrumental vinyls as well as teaching herself guitar and keys.
Mila Falls (Rachel Lipsitz )
Making the transition from aspiring musician to professional artist was all part of the plan. Rushing back from school to write, DJ and play then acquiring a computer, decks and cheap microphone with money saved from a paper round, Mila admits it was “some kind of obsession – I used to sing so loud that the neighbours used to bang on the wall!” she reminisces. From sixteen years old she was a sessional vocalist and performing in and around her hometown; an age when most of us were still wondering what we wanted to be when we grew up.
Life took a very cruel turn at the age of nineteen when tragically, Mila’s mother passed away while she was recording in a studio. How did such a terrible loss impact on her personally and her career ambitions? “This changed my life and made me take a step back from performing” she reflects. “I lost the love for it and became very introverted”. Admirably, she found the strength to persevere and study music production and sound engineering at Brighton University which led not only to her first cut in a film but also helped her to find the courage to perform again.
When you see Mila on stage – a beautiful and spirited young woman who exudes confidence – it’s difficult to imagine her introverted, but Mila still fights anxiety when performing to this day. What does she do to overcome this I wonder, given live performance is so pivotal to her work? “I like to challenge myself and face my fears and I always try to not let my insecurities limit myself” she explains.
So, after all the hard graft, unimaginable heartbreak and burning the midnight oil, how did it feel to land her first record deal with the iconic Defected Records label, with the deep house track Oh My? “I wrote it with an amazing producer, S.Chu, in about thirty minutes as the ideas came quickly and I loved the beat” she explained humbly. “It was signed to Defected and then was picked up by BBC Radio 1Xtra and Radio 1 – this was a game changer for me in terms of radio exposure”. It was championed by Annie Mac and, asking the obvious I’m sure, I wonder what impact this had. “For an artist, being supported by radio DJs is everything. Without anyone championing your music you can’t really progress. I’m very grateful for everyone who has aired, streamed or bought my music. It means the world to me”.
Mila channels positivity and you get the sense that music courses through her veins; you can almost hear it pulsating. Her accomplished debut album, Remember Me, released in 2015 with guitarist and producer Marius Ptas AKA Slickersson blends a range of sounds from ‘70s funk to ‘80s synth through to ‘90s electronica and this was not an accident. ‘We decided to make an album featuring all of our favourite genres” she explains. Does she have a favourite track from the album? “Remember Me” she says thoughtfully. “It was the first time I had the courage to write a song about my mum dying. I imagined talking to her and this song came rushing out. She was a massive supporter of my music and she’s definitely the reason I had the belief I could become a real singer in the first place”.
Employing this self belief, Mila has been back in the studio recording her second album and I ask her what we can expect from the new record in terms of sound and musical direction. “It’s taking a while because I want it to be right. I want to push my vocal ability a lot more on this record, I would love to collaborate with a few singers too. So far we have about five ‘work in progress” ideas. I need to get to work!” she says.
Not that there can be any doubt about her work ethic. Mila is a musician, sessional vocalist, international songwriter and record-label owner. Phew. How does she keep all the plates spinning and find the energy and motivation? “Last year was rather insane.” she admits sheepishly. “I took a month off in January to visit Lord Howe Island in Australia and clear my head. I’m motivated by performing live and working with fun, kind people. I am very lucky that I get to perform and record songs with people that I call friends. And coffee keeps me going. Yes, definitely lots of coffee.” Maybe it’s the extra caffeine, but Mila is known for great live performance (you must check out a live version of her latest single, Guilty Pleasure) and puts her experience as a sound engineer to good use. “I like to blend dance music with live instruments” she explains. “I like to have live samples triggered on stage and then live drums, bass and guitar on top to give it a high energy sound”.
Possessing great talent and expert knowledge of the industry has led her to perform alongside some of music’s greatest. Being curious (nosey) I ask if there are any memorable moments or anecdotes she could share from her tour life? She’s happy to divulge. “One of the most embarrassing moments was when I was supporting Ringo Starr on tour” she begins. “I was performing acoustically and on the first date the guitarist’s string badly broke on the first song so he had to walk off to try and find a new string. He couldn’t find one and I was left standing in front of thousands of people; I couldn’t think of anything witty to say and I wanted to the stage to gobble me up!”. It hasn’t all been bad though. “Supporting Van Morrison was a life dream complete. My mum used to play his records all the time so to share the stage with him was totally magical. He’s an absolute legend”.
She may have played with the big names, but Mila remains unassuming with an infectious enthusiasm and this is part of the appeal. When I ask her if she still gets excited about hearing her music featured in well-known programmes and adverts the response is resounding. “Hell yeah! I love it. It’s what I dreamt of as a child. My music was on a Channel 4 show and me and the producer were WhatsApp-ing, saying ‘quick, turn on the TV, our music is on a show!’”.
Finally, I ask Mila who has influenced her personally? “I love Lauryn Hill, Brandy, Aaliyah and Eva Cassidy” she muses “and I discovered a band recently called St Paul & The Broken Bones; They really are new age soul music at its finest”. Her daily playlist includes “Miguel, The Weeknd, Raleigh Ritchie and Alice Russell” she explains “but most of the music I blast out in my car is much harder dance music, for example Trentemøller, Steve Bug and Todd Terje”.
As the interview draws to a close, I am moved and inspired by Mila’s story and her zest for life. On her website’s biography, she’s described as ‘like a tornado hit Las Vegas and left a wake of glitter in its path’ (“my cousin wrote it; I thought it suited me as an artist. I’m obsessed with glitter and leave sparkles behind me wherever I go!”) and this is a fitting depiction. After such an exciting 2016, I’m keen to know what’s next and what we can expect from 2017? “I’m booking in more live shows, studio sessions and my new music video will be released shortly” she says animatedly. “I got to drive a vintage Lamborghini Countach in the video which was definitely a life goal ticked off the list. I’m very excited for this video to be released soon!”
Mila tells me each day of her life is different; either gigging, recording in her home studio or away writing songs with producers in U.K. and beyond. Doesn’t sound like a bad life to me – I bet that careers advisor is kicking themselves…
Guilty Pleasure is out now on Went Too Far Records.
Photography by Rachel Lipsitz and Interview by Nicola Greenbrook
Alex Kirby on March 28, 2017 at 9:42 am
Great interview, Nicola!
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“Who Knows What Evil Lurks…? The SHADOW Knows!”
By Jack Goblin, 2nd Nov 2013 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/3nq60dok/
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A retrospective of the American pulp hero the Shadow, the Master of the Night
"The weed of crime bears... bitter fruit!"
The American pulp hero the Shadow started as just a voice; but what a voice.
In 1930, New York publishing house Street and Smith was facing increased competition from other publishers, especially with regard to pulps: Thick magazines printed on extremely cheap wood pulp paper and sold for a dime or quarter. To promote their flagship pulp, Detective Story Magazine, Street and Smith sponsored a radio show featuring readings and adaptions from the magazine and its impressive list of authors, among them Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace. And to introduce the material, the producers decided to have a narrator begin and conclude the show. He was a figure of mystery… authority… power, who they chose to call, “the Shadow”.
Almost from the start this narrator – played first by James LaCurto, but then (and more effectively) by Frank Readick, Jr. – attracted more attention than the readings. People paid attention when the Shadow, in a voice that seemed both omniscient and sinister, intoned, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows!” When he then laughed in a way that gave goosebumps, they were fascinated. They began writing Street and Smith to find out who this ‘Shadow’ was, and were there going to be any stories about him?
This wasn’t exactly the reaction Street and Smith executives had expected. But realizing they had something here, they decided to see what they could do with it. There wasn’t much to work with: The Shadow’s words and laugh, his association with radio and their detective magazine, and the public reaction. Making a general outline – some sort of mysterious detective / crime fighter – they recruited Walter B. Gibson to write the first Shadow book, giving him largely free rein to come up with anything he could.
Gibson was a stage magician, newspaper reporter, and writer who specialized in articles and books on stage magic and magicians, and true crime stories, although he had submitted some detective fiction to Detective Story Magazine. He was a man of considerable imagination, and a powerful sense of the dramatic. Also, a really fast writer and typist. Approximately two weeks after being given the job, Gibson returned to Street and Smith with the first few chapters of a 70,000 word story and a synopsis of the rest to get approval to proceed.
He blew the editors’ socks off.
How to write of a man of mystery about whom nothing is known? By keeping him a mystery, and revealing as little as possible. Rather than focus on the Shadow, Gibson used the magicians’ tricks of misdirection and substitution to make a story in which the character was omnipresent but seldom seen in his true form. And where much of the plot was carried by a proxy hero.
At the start of the book, just as a despondent young man was about to throw himself off a New York bridge into the night-time waters below, he was pulled back with overwhelming strength by a strange figure that was almost part of the darkness. The figure, a hat making his face invisible, offered money, excitement, a chance to make a success of himself, in exchange for absolute obedience and taking great risks. Dazedly, Harry Vincent agreed; and his life became a whirlwind of danger and action.
Over the next few days mysterious messages from what appeared to be a large organization came to him. Unsure what was going on, Harry nevertheless followed instructions, surprising himself with his abilities and resourcefulness – and luck – as he spied on and interfered with what turned out to be a murderous criminal ring. His adventures and efforts sent him traveling from Chinatown to the outskirts of Long Island and all over New York.
Sometimes those adventures went wrong; and when Harry was in danger, or trapped, or on the point of death, suddenly from out of nowhere his benefactor – the Shadow – would appear. Inhumanly quick, strong, skilled, and capable. His face was never seen, being either in shadow or disguised. He could disguise himself as anyone, mimicking looks, voice, gesture, and body shape so well that even close acquaintances and family would be fooled.
Nor was that the end of his abilities. There was no lock he could not open, no wall he could not scale, nowhere he could not go. He spoke foreign languages like a native. He could hide in shadows with a skill that made the most accomplished ninja look like an amateur; anywhere there was darkness, the Shadow might be. He always arrived in the nick of time, fists flying, guns blazing, overwhelming all opposition. Often, he laughed: Laughed in triumph, in mockery, in defiance, in a way that terrified all criminals, and immediately told everyone who they were facing.
His intelligence was superhuman, and – like a chess master or puppeteer - the Shadow directed Vincent and his other agents, taking a hand himself when necessary, until he had learned all he needed to know about the criminal ring and smashed it almost completely. All of this transpired in less than a week.
This, in a story told at top speed, and with massive amounts of atmosphere.
The editors told Gibson to finish the story and start work on the next batch of Shadow novels, he was now the official writer under the house name of Maxwell Grant. The first Shadow pulp came out in April 1931, and the public ate it up. The Shadow was even more wonderful, more astonishing than they had dreamed, and they wanted more… MUCH more. Each new book just seemed to fan the flames of the Shadow’s popularity higher and higher. The demand for Shadow stories was so great that what had originally been a quarterly Shadow magazine was made monthly; then bi-weekly.
And it was still not enough. A radio show started in 1937, and a Shadow comic book and newspaper strip in 1940. There were Shadow movies and serials, and no end of memorabilia. America had embraced the Shadow.
Incredibly, Gibson remained the main (although not the only) writer through all of this, churning out 70,000 word epics every two weeks for most of the next 18 years, as well as collaborating on the Shadow radio show, newspaper strip, and comic. His writing style, imagination, and excellent memory for the imaginary world he’d set up were a very large part of the reason the Shadow was such a hit. Constant promotion and publicity by Street and Smith did not hurt either.
But the real key to the Shadow’s popularity seemed to be that he touched a deep public desire. It was the Depression. It was the end of Prohibition. Gangs ruled in Chicago and other places. People had lost jobs and savings through no fault of their own. Many Americans had little faith in government and the judicial system. Criminals, evil men, the rich, the powerful: They could escape the law through political influence and bribery, or by legal tricky, or by operating behind a mask of respectability, or by running and hiding. But nobody could escape the Shadow. He was incorruptible, unstoppable, apparently omniscient: Retribution personified…a real life Nemesis. He cared nothing for the law, only for justice and people, and he never failed.
Subsequent Shadow books were much like the first. Despite Gibson’s care in keeping the focus off the Shadow and details about him scarce, though, some couldn’t help but emerge, both in the first book and later ones. But were these facts accurate, or deliberate deception on the part of the Shadow or Gibson? People sometimes wound up knowing LESS about the Shadow when they’d read one of his books than before. He had been a WWI flying ace and intelligence agent…or not. The Shadow’s real face was horribly mutilated…or not. The Shadow used the mansion, car, and servants of millionaire Lamont Cranston and looked just like him. Obviously, he WAS Cranston…or not.
In the latter case, DEFINITELY not. At one point the real Lamont Cranston returned home from a long absence overseas to find people insisting he hadn’t been gone at all. As confounding as that was, though, it paled when he encountered a figure who looked just like him. Identifying himself as the Shadow, the figure said Cranston’s identity had been needed in his war against crime, so he’d used his disguise ability to appropriate it while the millionaire was out of the country. He did this not for Cranston’s money, but for his social contacts.
And the Shadow not only expressed no remorse for this epic theft, he calmly told Cranston he had no intention of ending his imposture. So since it would be a problem if TWO Cranstons were around, it would be in the real one’s interests to leave the country again; and stay gone, this time. Naturally Cranston was more than a bit angered by such cheek. But the Shadow was not someone you could argue with, and the next day Cranston resumed his globetrotting. And “Lamont Cranston” remained a man about town, learning things from his friend the Police Commissioner that were most interesting…
That was in the pulps. In the radio series and the movies, with limited time to tell the story, things were greatly simplified. The Shadow WAS Lamont Cranston; none of this doppleganger business. He didn’t slink through shadows, he had the ability to ‘cloud men’s minds’ and become invisible. There was no secret organization, just his girlfriend Margo Lane. Despite all this, or perhaps because of it, the radio show was at least as popular as the pulps.
During the 30′s and most of the 40′s the Shadow continued strong; fighting criminals and criminal gangs, super criminals, mad scientists, master spies and master minds, and anyone who threatened the U.S. or committed crimes. He became even more relentless and remorseless as time went on, and his twin .45 automatics cut down bad guys almost beyond number. Others could talk of rehabilitation of criminals; the Shadow practiced extermination.
But after WWII, increasing costs in publishing, and competition from radio, TV, and comics began making pulps unprofitable. Changes were made but they didn’t reverse the decay, and in 1949 Street and Smith’s pulp line – including the Shadow magazine – ceased publication. The Shadow radio show continued for five more years but in 1954, it too came to an end. Changing social tastes had left the Shadow behind.
But unlike most other pulp heroes, he was not forgotten. Indeed the Shadow’s lone wolf, superhuman, anti-hero archetype lives on in Batman, and a few other comic book and popular characters. Most of the American public know of the Shadow, although they may be hazy on details. And irregularly, there are attempts to resurrect the character and make new stories about him in movies or comic books. But these seldom work well, for the Shadow was a creature of his time. Like his times, he’s become an icon of American society and history.
Not bad for just a voice.
The Pulp Net – A discussion of all things Shadow.
The Night Master by Robert Sampson, Pulp Press, 1982
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cnwriter..carolina
3rd Nov 2013 (#)
great write up Jack...thank you!
joyalariwo
4th Nov 2013 (#)
Very Interesting Jack, didn't know much about the shadow, well I guess I do now, thank you for sharing.
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Grave Story: Frank Betcher (1888-1981)
May 1, 2019 ~ RIP Baseball
Frank Bettger was successful in several careers, but baseball was not one of them. As Frank Betcher, he was a light-hitting infielder who played with the 1910 St. Louis Cardinals. Using his birth name, he went on to write best-selling business books and was considered one of the best salesmen in the country by no less an authority than Dale Carnegie.
Frank Betcher (he said his first baseball paycheck misspelled his name, so he kept it) was born in Philadelphia on February 15, 1888 and started playing as a 19-year old in 1907. He was cut by the Johnstown Johnnies, his first team, because he was lazy. At least, that’s what he claimed later on in life. The reality was that his .186 batting average probably didn’t do him any favors, but his version makes for a better story. Lesson learned, he said he learned to play with greater enthusiasm.
Betcher bounced around a few leagues and hit a solid .276 for Greenville in 1909 (his best career numbers by a long shot). He then spent 1910 as a backup infielder for the Cardinals. He didn’t hit particularly well (.202 batting average, 18 hits, 6 RBIs, and 2 doubles as his only extra base hits), but he played all the infield positions except first base, as well as a couple games in the outfield.
According to his SABR bio, he refused to report to the Cards for Spring Training in 1911 and ended up sitting out that entire season. His decision did not sit well with Cardinals manager Roger Bresnahan. In January, the skipper boasted that should any of his regular infielders falter, “I’ve got a little gentleman named Frank Betcher who can work acceptably at any position and will wallop the leather savagely.” By March, after the infielder had not reported to Spring Training, Bresnahan had his replacement ready with rookie Lee Magee. The Tacoma Times reported that when asked about the holdout, Bresnahan snorted and declared that “Magee is capable of jumping into any infield hole at the time, and that if Betcher does not want to report that he will not be missed.”
Betcher played a couple more years in the minors, but he never hit well enough to come close to the MLB again. Not all his statistics are available, but he hit .179 for Montreal in 1912 and .221 for Galveston in 1913. An arm injury ended his career when he was 26 years old. He hit .228 in his 5 years in the minors, given the numbers that are available.
Retired from baseball, newly wed and going under his birth name again, Bettger became an insurance salesman. He struggled at first and considered quitting after less than a year on the job. He remembered his lessons of playing with enthusiasm from his baseball days and, after rededicating himself to the job, became one of Fidelity Mutual’s best and highest-paid salesmen. He did so well for himself that he was able to retire at the age of 51 and took to the lecture circuit with Carnegie.
Full-page ads in newspapers touted Bettger’s books and his sales strategies. Source: The Boston Daily Globe, May 22, 1950.
Bettger wrote the best-seller How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling in 1949, and it’s still in print today. It contains many of the life lessons he learned in his careers, including the power of enthusiasm, how to conquer fear and several golden rules for closing a sale. His life story, of a failure at 29 to one of the top salesmen in the country in just over a decade, inspired a generation of business owners and salesmen. Carnegie referenced Bettger’s story in his syndicated column and praised the book. “I would gladly have walked from Chicago to New York to get a copy of this book, if it had been available when I started out to sell,” he wrote.
Bettger wrote several other books, including How I Multiplied My Income and Happiness in Selling, and lectured across the country through the 1960s before retiring again. He died on Nov. 27, 1981 at the age of 93. He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
His son, Lyle Bettger, became an actor and made a name for himself on Broadway, in the movies and on television. He had guest appearances on Hawaii Five-O, Rawhide and Gunsmoke and was in numerous Hollywood westerns.
(Note: An earlier version of this article appeared at The Hall of Very Good.)
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John D. Rockefeller (JDR) created the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM) in 1918 as a way to honor and support his late wife’s charitable causes. During its decade-long existence, he donated some $74 million to the Memorial. After a few initial years of conventional charitable giving to Baptist churches and other large organizations like the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and the YMCA and YWCA, LSRM began to pursue goals in the social sciences more congruent with the “scientific philanthropy” of other Rockefeller organizations. Over the next seven years, in fact, LSRM would have a transformative effect on the social sciences by consistently encouraging objective scientific and interdisciplinary investigations while also encouraging practical applications of the knowledge gained through such investigations.
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Beardsley Ruml, a visionary young psychologist, engineered LSRM’s transformation after he became director in 1922 at the age of twenty-seven. Ruml and a staff of young Ph.D.s started their tenure at LSRM by surveying the state of social science research and training. A series of reports and memoranda produced between 1922 and 1924 outlined LSRM’s strategy. “An examination of the operations of organizations in the field of social welfare shows as a primary need the development of the social sciences and the production of a body of substantiated and widely accepted generalizations as to human capacities and motives and as to the behavior of human beings as individuals and groups.”[1] While aiming to advance basic social knowledge, Ruml and his colleagues sought simultaneously to improve the mechanisms for applying that knowledge to solving real world problems.
Memorandum regarding conditions affecting the Memorial's participation in social science, 1924
In 1923 Lawrence Frank, who would later join the LSRM staff, was commissioned to assess the state of American social science, much as Abraham Flexner had assessed medical training nearly two decades earlier. Frank set out to identify the graduate programs providing sound graduate training, opportunities for field work, and promising career trajectories. He found training to be inconsistent, with minimal course work in research methods and very few dissertations based on empirical work. He lamented the absence of research fellowships and limited publishing opportunities.
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LSRM staff members feared that its work would be subject to partisan and ideological criticism. Memories of the Walsh Commission investigations still lingered. Ruml conferred with more experienced Rockefeller officials and drafted twelve principles to guide the Memorial.[2] Six principles were safeguards to keep the Memorial out of the political fray. The first stated clearly that the Memorial would avoid funding groups whose primary task was to advocate for specific legislation. Six additional principles described the kinds of research institutions and projects that would be supported, including fellowships, conferences, publications, and demonstration projects.
The strategies Ruml and his colleagues pursued were familiar ones. They had seen the value of individual fellowships in public health and medicine. LSRM would follow that path, funding fellows in every social science discipline, including 165 foreign fellows, between 1924 and 1928. Like other Rockefeller philanthropic staff, Ruml believed in working with already solid institutions, or “making the peaks higher,” according to Wickliffe Rose.
LSRM’s appropriations totaled about $40 million, over half of which supported social science research. Much of that funding was channeled to a handful of institutions: the University of Chicago ($3.4 million); the Brookings Institution ($2.8 million); the Social Science Research Council ($2.7 million); Columbia University ($1.4 million); the London School of Economics ($1.25 million); and Harvard University ($1.2 million).
LSRM’s Accomplishments
The University of Chicago was LSRM’s most substantial beneficiary and, arguably, its greatest institutional success. Charles Merriam, Robert Park, and Ernest Burgess were supported throughout the 1920s, and their research reflected new developments in political science and sociology as they studied contemporary urban communities and the city’s political institutions. The School of Social Service Administration received over $725,000, and the university received another $1.1 million to build its Social Science Research Building.
At times, LSRM concentrated its funding in particular fields, supporting multiple researchers on several different campuses. Sydnor Walker, a Vassar-educated and Columbia-trained economist who would later continue her career at RF, oversaw LSRM’s efforts to improve training for social workers with grants to the New York and Atlanta Schools of Social Work, as well as to universities, including Tulane University, the University of North Carolina, and Case Western Reserve University.
Child development was a field of particular interest to Frank. He believed the study of child development promised to serve the twin goals of advancing science and improving the welfare of children and families. While “parent education” proved to be a controversial and short-lived fad and was ultimately abandoned, LSRM did build an infrastructure for research and training in child studies by creating child studies institutes at a half dozen universities, including the Universities of Iowa and Minnesota; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Toronto, and Yale and Columbia Universities.
Work in economics also received significant support. LSRM funded the National Bureau of Economic Research, where Wesley Mitchell was doing pioneering work on business cycles and national income accounting. NBER’s early success and ultimate survival owe much to LSRM’s consistent support over a ten-year period, funding that was continued at even more substantial levels by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF). Another struggling institution, the London School of Economics, was virtually transformed with $1.25 million in grants that built facilities, improved its library, supported research projects and the hiring of full-time faculty, and increased the institution's tiny endowment.
Working Across the Disciplines
Early on, Ruml had seen the need for the coordination of work in the social sciences. The old disciplinary associations were not up to the challenge. Merriam and others had begun to see the need for an entity that would coordinate research and foster interdisciplinary projects. In 1923 he and others came together to form the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), which organized problem-oriented committees that proved useful to LSRM and later to the RF. The SSRC served as a locus for exploring new directions in the social sciences and for identifying talented scholars.
The Final Days of the LSRM
In 1927 when Raymond Fosdick began the process of reorganizing all of the Rockefeller philanthropies, LSRM’s days as an independent entity were numbered. There was a growing sense that the various Rockefeller boards, commissions, and institutes would benefit from coordination. Additionally, some Trustees complained about Ruml’s autonomy and his free-spending ways. Fosdick wanted to consolidate all of the various Rockefeller research activities, whether in medicine, natural sciences or social sciences, within the RF.
In May 1928 the committee on reorganization recommended that the Memorial cease to exist as a separate entity. The merger was approved in January 1929. Its programs become part of a new RF Division of Social Sciences under the direction of Edmund E. Day. Some of LSRM’s remaining funds, more than $17 million, were spent on projects in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller. A residual $10 million was used to create the Spelman Fund of New York, which carried on work in public administration and inter-governmental relations for another twenty years.
In its brief life LSRM pushed American social science in new directions: toward more empirical research, quantitatively oriented analysis of data, field work, and demonstration projects. The principles Ruml and his staff articulated between 1922 and 1924 shaped RF work in the social sciences for decades to come.
[1] “General Memorandum by the Director,” by Beardsley Ruml, September 1922, Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC), LSRM, Series 2, Box 2, Folder 31.
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Fourteen points of philanthropy; Thwing, Charles Franklin; 1925-02-15
Letter from M. M. Jones to Beardsley Ruml, 1925 February 19; Jones, M. M.; 1925-02-19
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Unu Electric Scooter
With Sales of Battery Electric Vehicles increasing year on year, it is exciting to see the redesign of the Unu electric scooter.
The Unu is adopting smart technology with smart features including anti-theft protection and digital key sharing. A digital key function built into the accompanying app allows users to share access to the electric scooter with their friends and family. This function also enables neighbourhood sharing schemes to be implemented and managed.
"This [feature] paves the way for micro-sharing for the first time," said Unu co-founder and chief experience officer, Elias Atahi. The anti-theft protection feature allows users to check the location and charging status of their scooter from anywhere.
If the scooter is moved in the absence of the user, the anti-theft technology is activated and the user is alerted to the scooter's location via the app.
The app can also be used to set a destination for navigation. Users are then guided by maps displayed on the integrated screen, meaning they can put their smartphone away whilst on the move.
Two 1.7 kWh batteries increase the scooter's range to 100 kilometres and the mounting of the hub motor in the rear single-sided swingarm frees up space for a larger storage compartment under the seat.
The design has moved on from the retro aesthetic of the original design with a modern soft tech design in matt finish and seven colourways. The seat is much larger with the ability to carry 2 passengers and a larger storage capacity.
The new design features a Bosch hub motor mounted in the rear singled-sided swingarm and removable batteries made by LG. The 1.7 kWh and 10 kg (22 lb) batteries are rated for 50 km (31 mi) of range each. With space for two batteries, the electric scooter has a maximum range of 100 km (62 mi) with 3.4 kWh of battery capacity.
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News Release - September 20, 2007
Cook Medical and Cardica Sign Agreement to Expand Cook Vascular Closure Device Product Family
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Cook Medical, the world's largest privately held medical device manufacturer, and Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC ) today announced that they have expanded their original agreement regarding the development of vascular closure devices. Cook Medical will pay Cardica up to $750,000 for the development of an additional product for the closure device product line.
"We are excited to apply Cardica's innovative product design and development to the next device in our vascular closure product line, as we believe that this technology has the potential to effectively address large and growing market needs" said Brian Bates, senior vice president of business development for Cook Medical. "We plan to launch the first product of the Cook Vascular Closure Device line in Europe in the next six months."
Similar to the original agreement under which Cardica developed the Cook Vascular Closure Device (CVCD), under this amendment Cardica is responsible for product design and pre-clinical development and is entitled to receive royalties on any future worldwide sales by Cook. Cook is responsible for clinical development and regulatory approval, and has exclusive commercialization rights.
"We look forward to expanding upon our excellent working relationship with Cook by broadening our closure device product line using our proprietary microclip technology," said Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Cardica.
The CVCD Advantage for Interventional Procedures
An estimated 8.5 million diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures were performed worldwide in 2006, all of which required access site closure either by manual compression or alternative vascular closure devices and techniques. In approximately 45 percent of these cases, a closure device was used, and that number is steadily increasing. The worldwide market for femoral artery closure devices alone is estimated to be over $750 million by 2008.
The potential advantages of the closure devices developed by Cardica and Cook include a simple user interface, the ability to place it through the same introducer sheath used for the interventional procedure for greater convenience and speed, scalability, and lower cost of goods.
About Cook Medical
Cook Medical was the first company to introduce interventional devices in the United States. Today, the company integrates device design, biopharma, gene and cell therapy and biotech to enhance patient safety and improve clinical outcomes in the fields of aortic intervention; cardiology; critical care medicine; gastroenterology; radiology, peripheral vascular, bone access and oncology; surgery and soft tissue repair; urology; and assisted reproductive technology, gynecology and high-risk obstetrics. Cook won the prestigious Medical Device Manufacturer of the Year Award for 2006 from Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine. For more information, visit www.Cookmedical.com.
About Cardica, Inc.
Cardica designs and manufactures automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn sutures with easy-to-use automated systems, Cardica provides cardiovascular surgeons with the ability to perform rapid, reliable and consistently reproducible anastomoses, or connections of blood vessels, often considered the most critical aspect of the CABG procedure.
Cardica's C-Port® Distal Anastomosis Systems are marketed in Europe and the United States. The PAS-Port® Proximal Anastomosis System is marketed in Europe and Japan and is being evaluated in a pivotal trial in the United States and Europe. Cardica also is developing additional devices to facilitate vascular and other surgical procedures. Go to www.cardica.com for more information.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements, including statements relating to the potential efficacy of the Cook Vascular Closure Device and a second closure device, Cardica's potential receipt of payment from Cook and the future market for vascular closure devices. Any statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts, may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "plan," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "may" and "will" or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause Cardica's results to differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements, including risks associated with the timing and success of pre-clinical studies and clinical trials and market acceptance of the closure devices and Cardica's dependence upon Cook Incorporated for continued development of the device, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in Cardica's SEC reports, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2007. Cardica does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements. You are encouraged to read Cardica's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, available at www.sec.gov.
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DJ O Show: Mentor, activist, motivator
Seven years ago, when Orene Askew first started her DJ business, she woke up after a gig to realize that her townhouse at Squamish Nation was on fire.
The blaze started by accident in her neighbour’s adjoining house, and she woke up in a panic, surrounded by smoke and flames.
“The only thing I thought to grab, because your mind just goes so many places, was my DJ gear,” she said.
“I literally grabbed my laptop and my turntables and just ran out of the house. I didn’t even have any socks on or anything.”
At the time, it was a pivotal moment in Askew’s budding career — she now runs a successful business using her stage persona, DJ O Show.
When she started DJing, she did it with a grant from Squamish Nation Trust to buy the gear, and carved out a niche for herself in a sea of male DJs, showcasing high-energy hip hop and R&B-driven sets.
She quickly became in high demand, playing gigs around Vancouver, Canada and the U.S. She plays everything from nightclub gigs, to weddings, to high-profile festivals — she recently performed at the massive South by Southwest fest in Austin, TX, and the community-run Queer Arts Fest in Vancouver.
As Askew has become more known, DJing has led her to teaching her craft at Vancouver’s School of Remix and mentoring and supporting youth.
She now also does motivational speaking gigs across the country, and has moved into politics as an elected councillor at Squamish Nation.
“It’s the biggest change in our council’s history, eight new councillors, six female and two are from the LGBTQ+ community,” she said.
“It’s a huge turnover, we’re just making history, and it’s a lot of work, but so much fun.”
Since she was elected to a four-year term on council in 2017, Askew, who identifies as two-spirit, has made it a mission of hers to increase LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusivity in her community.
“Another reason why I do two-spirit activism is because my aunt was actually trans,” Askew shared.
“She only lived to be about 44, but it was really tough for her on the reserve. … I wish she could see how it is now. It’s just so much more accepted.”
She sits on the nation’s Pride Committee, and was one of the people behind getting a Squamish Nation float into Vancouver’s Pride Parade last year (something the nation is doing again this year). She is also working on getting both rainbow crosswalks and gender-neutral washrooms in the community.
“Politics is just a completely different world, but I’m glad I’m there just to see it from the inside and to try and help change things,” she said.
“I get to partner with different music festival groups who want to do proper protocol but they don’t know how, really.”
One of the committees she sits on is the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Indigenous council, where she is looking at bringing music training to kids at Squamish Nation.
This month, she will be playing a free two-day Indigenous music festival in Lytton, B.C., called 2 Rivers Remix, where she will be performing as well as hosting a workshop for kids called Diversity Makes Beautiful Music.
“Especially when I’m working with Indigenous youth, I tie it back to the drumming and singing,” she said.
“I always use this analogy … we all have that beat inside of us, we’re all Indigenous, we’ve stood in those lineups drumming, and you get off beat, and then you get back into it. That is DJing right there. And we’ve done that for thousands of years.”
More information about DJ O Show, including her upcoming gigs, can be found at www.djoshow.com. The full lineup and more information about the 2 Rivers Remix festival is available at 2riversremix.ca.
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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is a much looser, more freeform film than its predecessor. It’s remarkably light on plot for a Marvel film, not in the sense that the plot is thin or undercooked, but in that the plot basically doesn’t show up at all until the third act. The first two acts hone in on what was liked most about the first film – the humour, the character dynamics, the space opera imagery. This new approach worked very well for me, it felt like director James Gunn’s more idiosyncratic style was liberated, and the unique talents of everyone else involved in the film (particularly the cast and the visual effects artists) were liberated, when not tied up so much in plot mechanics or setting up other films.
The film has such an increased focus on humour that just going by sheer volume, less of it is going to land in the first film, and I did find some of the humour to feel oddly forced, and Baby Groot was mostly a misfire for me. But the majority of the humour (especially Drax) worked great for me, and I loved the film embracing its comedic nature more. In dispensing with weak villain, strict focus on a generic plot, or clumsy setting-up for future films, all my major issues with the first film were gone, and so I enjoyed this sequel a lot more than its predecessor.
Kurt Russell fitted in very nicely into the cast and world of the film, although some of his scenes with Chris Pratt made Pratt’s comparative lack of acting skill awkwardly noticeable. The new soundtrack was not as memorable or great as the first film’s soundtrack for me personally, but it’s very much in the style of the first movie’s pick of songs, so that all just comes down to personal taste for the songs. The songs all fit the tone of the film, certainly.
When the plot does kick in, in the third act of the film, I was almost disappointed in a way because I’d been enjoying the more relaxed character interactions a lot. But the villain and plot work well and are tied more directly to the characters than they were in the first film. The only big misfire with the plot for me was the big “upping the stakes” moment which just felt so profoundly unnecessary given the ninety minutes or so of film before it. Surely by now the audience for these films can stomach a film that’s stakes aren’t “the whole universe will literally be destroyed if our heroes don’t prevail!”. It felt particularly bizarre given that the rest of the film is so lowkey and focused on character dynamics.
It’s a fun, funny space romp that focuses on what worked best in the first film, while dispensing with most of what worked less well. A well-made sequel, in other words. I give it three post-credits scenes, and a de-aged face.
April 25, 2017 in Movie Reviews.
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Kartick Kumar
Born on 11 November 1936 at Dhaka in Bangladesh, Shri Kartick Kumar received his initial training in Hindustani music from his father Mangal Chandra Das, and was later groomed in the art by Manoranjan Mukherjee, Pandit Ravi Shankar, and others. He also trained in the Surbahar as a student of Shrimati Annapurna Devi, the eminent Guru of the Maihar gharana.
Over the years, Shri Kartick Kumar has won recognition as a distinguished musician; and as Professor of Music in Shanmukhananada Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha, Mumbai, has trained many prominent students. He has also been associated as Panel Member of the Audition Board, All India Radio, New Delhi, and as Invitee Judge at Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata. He was also invited by the Government of the United States of America to perform during the Bicentennial Anniversary Celebration of the United States in 1978, and by the Government of Singapore as Visiting Faculty for a music workshop in 2005. He has many recordings to his credit such as Ragas and Moods; Beyond Surbahar; Ritusamhar; Om Ecstasy and Symphony.
Shri Kartick Kumar has been honoured by several organizations for his excellence in the field of music. He has received many awards and titles including the President's Gold Medal for Music from Dr Rajendra Prasad, President of India in 1958; the Tantri Vilas Award by Sur Singar Sansad, Mumbai (1993); the Sur Ratna by Swar Sadhana Samiti, Mumbai (2000); the Life Time Achievement Award by the Giants International (2008); and the ITC Sangeet Research Academy Award (2009).
Shri Kartick Kumar receives the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for his contribution to Hindustani instrumental music.
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#ChiMayor19—Episode 3: Two Chicagos, One Neglected And Heavily Policed
Kevin Gosztola 2019-02-19
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Activists stage a sit-in in the Chicago Loop on a march demanding police accountability. (Photo: Aaron Cynic)
Listen to the episode of “#ChiMayor19” with journalist Aaron Cynic by clicking the below player:
https://shadowproof.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/03-Two-Chicagos-One-Heavily-Policed.mp3
In conjunction with reporting from journalist Aaron Cynic on the Chicago mayoral election, Shadowproof is producing a limited podcast series, “#ChiMayor19,” featuring Aaron.
A new episode will be posted after each of Aaron’s reports on issues, which grassroots groups believe candidates for mayor must address if they are elected.
The third episode in the series is on the efforts of grassroots activists to force candidates for mayor to take police accountability seriously. It ties in to Aaron’s report published on February 12.
Here is a link to the file for the third episode. It can be directly downloaded to your computer or phone for listening by right-clicking the player.
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Below is a transcript of part of the conversation in the episode.
KEVIN GOSZTOLA: Let’s talk about the issue that the establishment press does not want to dwell on, which is police accountability issues. You talked to some of the activist groups that have led campaigns in the city of Chicago particularly. One of the things that has been a focus of activists has been something called CPAC, which is basically a police accountability council or a civilian board that could review police. How did this become such a focus for activists?
CYNIC: CPAC stands for Chicago Police Accountability Council. This goes back quite a long time. These are folks who are part of an organization called the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. They had proposed this ordinance. It is the most radical police accountability ordinance that certainly I have ever seen, possibly on a national level. It would give this board, which would be elected, the power to hire and fire superintendents. It would give them the power to investigate and prosecute cops who were accused of misconduct. It puts money behind that kind of thing, and there’s a lot more detail and all that kind of thing in here.
It’s one of those things, where you look at it and say this is the real deal. It’s about involving the people in it because Chicago has a very, very long history going back decades or more of oversight organizations that really have had no teeth or have had all sorts of allegations of failing to either investigate or properly investigate or prosecute folks accused of misconduct or brutality, or that kind of thing. Just in the past decade or so, we’ve gone through three different boards. For many years we had the Office of Professional Standards, which then became the Civilian of Police Accountability—not to be confused with this acronym, which is the Chicago Police Accountability Council. Because all of these previous iterations were appointed bodies, which is one of the first issues that people have. These are bodies appointed by the mayor. That is not something that has worked out very well for Chicagoans, since I’ve been alive.
For a long time, folks really ignored it. The city council ignored it. They finally got enough petition signatures and aldermen to put it in the city council, and then it got tied up in a committee for a long time. This is something folks really ignored, both in the city council and the mayor’s office, up until the movement grew after the shooting of Laquan McDonald, which I talk about in the story. McDonald’s death, an African American teenager, shot by a white cop sixteen times—That happened not too far from when Michael Brown was shot in St. Louis, which helped spark a larger national movement. Though it took longer than a year for video to be release, once it was, that video was extremely damning.
It implicated all sorts of people in an alleged coverup, and it cost some high-ranking city officials their jobs. It was also arguably influential in [Mayor Rahm] Emanuel’s decision to not seek another term. So, this particular ordinance, as this movement grew and as this all progressed, CPAC has expanded with it. The folks fighting for this for a long time—we went from a handful of aldermen last election cycle to something like 70 candidates for city council in a group 200 or so who are running. That’s an exponential increase of people who say yes, I support this. I’m into this. It’s been the thing that’s been asked of mayoral candidates in a handful of debates. There are some that express their support, and then there are a handful who maybe don’t support that but still say we do no need reform. We do need to make accountability more of an issue.
All of these things over the past four years have put this issue front and center in an extremely consequential election in the third largest city in the United States.
GOSZTOLA: I notice also in the conversation about police accountability—insofar as it becomes a topic of discussion—there’s a lot of focus on this consent decree that is largely being adopted because the Justice Department did an investigation. A lot of that was inspired by the uproar after Laquan McDonald was killed. It brought attention to a lot of systemic issues with the Chicago Police Department.
I want to add a couple notes for you to comment on—You didn’t really cover this in your piece, but it goes along with what you were raising and helps us do a deeper dive into these issues. The ACLU of Illinois actually has the questionnaire from some of the candidates that are running for mayor. Just a note that the front runner, Bill Daley, did not fill out the questionnaire or answer any of the questions that the ACLU of Illinois had about these critical issues.
Two candidates because they seem to be where people who are more progressive-minded have gravitated toward—you’ve got Amara Enyia, who says the consent decree is not as robust as she would want but that she would work with “community activists, civil rights attorneys, and CPD leadership to implement a radically different code of conduct for the CPD.” That’s a rather radical idea in and of itself for the city. “The contract with the police union would be renegotiated to allow for an easier dismissal of officers with too many complaints on their records.” That’s rather radical when you consider the FOP.
Then, you’ve got what Toni Preckwinkle has to say. She supports the consent decree. Almost all the candidates do, but then she goes a step farther and says she would want “a new reform-minded Superintendent committed to constitutional policing.” And she would fully staff “the Office of Violence Prevention and Criminal Justice to oversee reforms from the Mayor’s Office and [introduce] legislation on Civilian Oversight within City Council.”
CYNIC: Couple things—Amara is one of those candidates, who does support CPAC and openly supports CPAC. When we talk about the consent decree, it’s something that there are a lot of reforms in there, and yes, there are many good ones in there. But in a lot of cases, it’s one of those things where it definitely does not go far enough. We do run the risk of people saying, well, we’ve done this so we’ve done everything we can. Even Bill Daley has said he supports the consent decree, but with a few buts. He said he supports it but it’s going to be expensive to implement and improving organizational culture is difficult and it takes time. This could take a very long time so we need “buy-in” from a superintendent and commanders and rank-and-file. He says he’ll follow the consent decree, and he’s called for requiring more training than the decree.
The decree requires 16 hours of additional annual training, which emphasizes professional development, where he wants 40 hours. The question is whether it is 16 or 40 hours over a year, is that enough? The answer is really no.
You mention the FOP, and I think that’s something that needs to be discussed. The FOP has a lot of influence. Because of the heavy amount of influence that they have, and that they are a body that has existed for so long and shaped how misconduct is mistreated but even how policing is reported—There was a story reported by Yana Kunichoff for the Chicago Reader that highlighted how for the longest time, when it was a police officer shooting a civilian, reporters would be sent to the FOP press guy. The FOP press guy would give a statement. People would report that, and that would be the last that anyone heard of it.
They do hold a lot of sway and influence, and that influences candidates heavily. The FOP opposes CPAC and also put up a lot of resistance toward the consent decree in general. Candidates do not want to be seen as anti-police. They do not want to be seen as trying to make it “harder” for them to do their jobs. So when folks from the community come and say we want oversight and we want changes and those changes are much more radical, you’re going to get that watered down or people saying, well, we’ll do this and then they back pedal.
Just to get the consent decree itself, State Attorney General Lisa Madigan had to sue Rahm Emanuel to get him moving on it. That says how resistant culturally, from a city government perspective all around, folks are to moving toward more accountability. That doesn’t even touch the [lack of] investment in neighborhoods versus the investment in militarized policing. Because of course these things don’t exist in a vacuum and are inherently connected.
For the rest of the interview, click on the player at the top of the post.
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Unraveling the “Secrets of Sand Hill Road” and the VC thought process, with Andreessen Horowitz’s Scott Kupor
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Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos sat down with Scott Kupor, managing director at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to dig into his new book Secrets of Sand Hill Road, discuss his advice for new founders dealing with VCs and to pick his brain on the opportunities that excite him most today.
Scott gained inspiration for Secrets of Sand Hill Road after realizing he was hearing the same questions from different entrepreneurs over his decade in venture. The book acts as an updated guide on what VCs actually do, how they think and how founders should engage with them.
Scott offers Connie his take on why, despite the influx of available information on the venture world, founders still view VC as a black box. Connie and Scott go on to shed some light on the venture thought process, discussing how VCs evaluate new founders, new market opportunities, future round potential and how they think about investments that aren’t playing out as expected.
“[Deciding on the right amount of money to raise] is one of the areas where I think people will rely on convention too much, rather than figuring out what makes sense for them. And what I mean by convention is, they say, “Hey, my friends down the street just raised a $7 million A round, so $7 million must be the right size for an A round.”
The way we try to help entrepreneurs think about it is think about the pitch that you’re going to give at the next round of financing. Let’s say you’re raising a Series A, imagine sitting here 18 or 24 months from now doing the Series B financing, what’s the story you’re going to want to be able to tell the investor then, as to what you accomplished over that last 18 to 24 months?
And then, almost work your way backwards to say, “If that’s the story that I want to tell, and we all agree that’s a compelling story where somebody will come in hopefully, and fund it at a valuation that’s higher to reflect the progress of the business, then let’s work our way back, and say “how do we de risk that?””
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Connie Loizos: Hi, everyone. It’s time to kick off today’s call with Scott Kupor, a managing partner at the venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and more recently, the author of the book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. Thank you so much for making time for us today.
Scott, I’m still in the process of reading the book, but I have to say, much like your colleague, Ben Horowitz’s book, and this is really true, I’m really enjoying it.
Scott Kupor: Well, thank you.
Connie: It doesn’t really feel remotely like work, which I find to be true with the vast majority of business books.
Scott: Well, I appreciate that. I had great help from Ben [Horowitz] in terms of inspiration from his book. So I’m glad to hear that. Thank you very much.
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Duke Law > Duke Law Scholarship Repository > Journals > ALR > Vol. 29 > No. 1 (2012)
Alaska Law Review
The Anchorage, Alaska Veterans Court and Recidivism: July 6, 2004 – December 31, 2010
Jack W. Smith
In July 2004 Anchorage, Alaska started one of the first veterans courts in the United States. That court has now been in continuous operation for over seven years. This Comment briefly describes the steps taken to establish the Alaska Veterans Court and how the court operates. An overview of the characteristics of participants in and graduates from the court is provided, followed by statistics concerning the effect of the court on recidivism. Several potential future areas of study concerning this court are also identified. The Comment concludes by highlighting the importance of the court and by noting that the benefits provided by the court are currently limited by the absence of funding from any source.
Jack W. Smith, The Anchorage, Alaska Veterans Court and Recidivism: July 6, 2004 – December 31, 2010, 29 Alaska Law Review 93-111 (2012)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/alr/vol29/iss1/4
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Elizabeth Olsen Discusses Scarlet Witch’s Connection With The Vision In ‘Captain America: Civil War’
Posted March 11th, 2016 by Ben Silverio
One of the great romances throughout all of Marvel Comics history is the one shared between the Scarlet Witch and the Vision. After first serving together as Avengers, Wanda Maximoff and the synthezoid created by Ultron became an item and eventually married. Then they had twin boys named Tommy and Billy, who grow up to be members of the Young Avengers. But when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe versions of the characters, it’s uncertain whether we’ll see the two find a love connection in ‘Captain America: Civil War’, especially since they’re on opposing sides of this fight. Though it could happen, Elizabeth Olsen puts their relationship in different terms.
During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Olsen spoke about the connection between the Witch and Vision from the comics and the chances of that translating over to the big screen. The actress doesn’t really mention love as the driving factor, but rather there’s a different sort of force bringing the heroes together in the Russos’ upcoming Phase Three blockbuster:
“I think there’s something unique in the fact that her powers come from the same thing that powers him, and that is how we’ve made them have that kind of… that specifically in common, as opposed to it being something else that the comics kind of created, which has been pure romance. But they do have something uniquely special because of that.”
That’s a really interesting angle that I never really considered for the movies. It will definitely be cool to see how these two will deal with essentially “being born” from the Mind Stone. But again, as they are on opposing sides of this looming confrontation between Captain America and Iron Man, it probably won’t be something that’s heavily addressed until later on. Either way, I look forward to see how this element of the story develops as Phase Three progresses.
What do you think about Scarlet Witch and The Vision’s relationship in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Do you think that a romantic relationship will develop just as it did in the comics? Or do you feel like ‘Captain America: Civil War’ is the start of a whole different direction for these two characters that we haven’t seen before? Share your thoughts and theories in the comments below.
‘Captain America: Civil War’ starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, Frank Grillo, Daniel Bruhl, Martin Freeman, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, Emily VanCamp, Paul Rudd, and William Hurt opens in theaters on May 6, 2016.
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Ben Silverio
Ben F. Silverio received a degree from Drexel University in the Screenwriting and Playwriting Program with a minor in Television Production. While at Drexel, Ben co-founded and co-hosted a film review show called The Pretentious Film Majors, which has evolved into a multi-format form of entertainment including blogs, podcasts on iTunes, articles in the school paper, and a potential tv show. Now armed with an extremely expensive piece of paper, Ben can begin climbing the treacherous ladder of the entertainment industry, which he hopes to do while streaming WWE wrestling matches, reading Marvel comics, and blogging about the excessive amount of movies and tv shows that he watches, all on the iPhone that is permanently attached to his hand.
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Wisconsin Sea Grant and National Weather Service Explore Influence of Severe Weather on the Economically Disadvantaged
Brooke Carney / Monday, February 25, 2019
/ Categories: Home Page Carousel, Resilient Communities and Economies, Extension, Social Science, Great Lakes, Wisconsin, Partnerships
Images from New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina are indelible in the nation’s consciousness. The small area was home to some of the city’s more economically disadvantaged people and bore significant losses of life and property.
“The question is, why are the economically disadvantaged more likely to be affected by severe weather? Think about Katrina or other disasters and anecdotally there could be answers but we want to get at the root of that question to ensure that the most effective communication strategies and tools are used to save lives and livelihoods,” said Deidre Peroff, Sea Grant’s social scientist.
Deidre Peroff is Wisconsin Sea Grant’s social scientist who said this project would help those in disadvantaged communities who could be more vulnerable to losing everything they have. Photo: Wisconsin Sea Grant
She was describing a joint project between Wisconsin Sea Grant and Tim Halbach, the warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Sullivan, Wisconsin. The pair are exploring how those who are in lower-income brackets get weather forecasts and warnings. “What technology are they using to receive weather information? If they are getting the information, are they using it? Are they more or less likely than others to take action in finding a safe place during high-impact weather events?,” posed Peroff.
When the effort kicked off in 2016, they planned to target urban, rural and elderly populations. They started in Milwaukee, the most populous area of the state. There, Peroff and Halbach explored these questions through interviews with community leaders, such as those involved in churches or social service organizations that meet the needs of the economically underserved groups. They also used face-to-face surveys with participants.
Since 2016, Tim Halbach with the National Weather Service has teamed with Wisconsin Sea Grant to explore optimum ways to share weather warnings. Photo: Wisconsin Sea Grant
This built trust so Peroff and Halbach could probe such matters as: how does this population receive information about severe weather, do they have an easily accessible “place of safety,” do they respond in different ways depending on the type of weather event, and if they don’t move to safer areas in the face of severe weather what communication efforts could be taken to reduce risk of loss.
“Weather affects everyone, probably more so those who are in difficult situations. We, the National Weather Service, have a lot of ways to communicate to the high-end technical users who have computers, iPads and smart phones in front of them but we don’t spend a lot of time assuring that everyone is getting the information that they need,” Halbach said.
This effort is part of a larger NWS initiative called Weather Ready Nation. The goal is to build resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events. Wisconsin Sea Grant, like many other Sea Grant programs, is a Weather Ready Nation ambassador.
“The National Weather Service has already looked at ways to communicate certain weather conditions, like tornadoes, but this is some of the first work, if not the first, to look at a specific community,” Peroff said.
The pair plans to next move the study to a more rural area of Wisconsin and have applied for a NOAA Collaborative Science Technology and Applied Research grant, which would allow them to accelerate their work.
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Out in Theaters: FOXCATCHER
Home / Reviews / Out in Theaters / Out in Theaters: FOXCATCHER
December 19, 2014 by Matt Oakes
On the most recent season of American Horror Story (Freak Show) there’s a depraved foil by the name of Dandy Mott, a highfaluting, affluent shut-in with a penchant for inflicting violence on those his physical inferior. His tailored suits and slickly oiled part stand in stark contrast to the tattered, deformed calvary of freaks that make up the namesake of the season, but beneath the perfumed facade of opulence and manicured sophistication is a reeking air of base barbarism. His is a most brutish proclivity nurtured utmost by an uninhibited sense of entitlement. In possessing all, nothing has value. Not even human life. With great money comes great power… and little responsibility. As King Joffrey infamously teased, “Everyone is mine to torment.”
Since the most recent economic collapse and subsequent Occupy movement, those in the upper echelon, the “one-percenters”, have become a sort of nationally derided myth. They jet around the world in lavish abandon, attending lush fundraisers, imbibing impossibly priced champagne and banging it out with gaggles of Eastern European models. Maybe slashing the throats of homeless vagabonds every once in a while for good measure. They’ve become caricatures, long teeth and all; braggarts removed from reality; personified wallets who can’t fold into the ebb and flow of middle-class normality. In this folklore view of the uber-wealthy, Patrick Batemans are hiding everywhere. If ever there was a symbol for the recklessly moneyed lifestyle of the criminally wealthy, it’s John du Pont. He’s pretty much the Batman of being a douchey trust-fund baby.
Watching interviews with Du Pont, it becomes immediately clear how out of his depth he is in just about any situation. From charities to coaching, he fumbles his way through his affairs unconvincingly. Writing checks his brain can’t cash. Like a special needs kid quoting Rudy. It’s almost heartbreaking how bad this guy is at being human. Droning on about discipline, responsibility, ornithology, or philately, there’s something to the way he speaks (so soft, so mindless) that makes you want to tune out. That demands it. His patterns of speech may be polished but they’re oh so hollow, like a Kenny G record. He’s basically a walking, talking Ambien with stubby teeth and a quality for malfeasance. There’s no question that were he not quite literally made of money, no one in their right mind would give this loon the time of day.
Foxcatcher follows the true story of du Pont and his relationship with Olympic gold medalists Mark and Dave Schlutz. After winning the top prize for wrestling at the 1984 summer games, Mark (Channing Tatum) still exists in the shadow of older brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo) until mysterious millionaire John du Pont invites Mark to take part in a training initiate known as “Foxcatcher”. While training at du Pont’s world class facility for the upcoming Worlds championship, Mark and Du Pont strike up an odd relationship that doesn’t fit neatly into a coach-pupil/father-son/boss-employee box. At times, their connection is that of an upsetting bromance. It’s odd but in a very specific, unclassifiable way. Picture an out-of-shape bag of man “pinning” down an Olympic athlete – who rightfully can’t mask his disdain for this lesser act of ego-masturbation – and you’ll get a general sense of their relationship. The whipping boy and the mutt seems as close as I can get.
If you didn’t live through the ’80s (or watch the trailer) you might not know how this story ends and I’m not going to spoil it for you here. We’ll just say that things get a little messy. In a first-degree kind of way. But it’s a quietly devastating tale, more than worth the journey.
As Du Pont, Steve Carrell is a frightfully vacuous vessel of self-righteous delusion. So he’s Michael Scott without the punchlines. (That’s what she said!) He’s the kind of guy who pats himself on the back and won’t stop until you join in on the patting. A pasty, flat-faced, shark-nosed, long-gummed mama’s boy with drug-fueled paranoid fantasies, he’s a misanthrope at an arm’s length from reality. Director Bennett Miller approaches his character with similar distance.
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June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of the year.
1.1 Up to 1925
1.2 1926 – 2000
1.3 From 2001
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Observances
Events[change | change source]
Up to 1925[change | change source]
1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor drowns in the River Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1329 - The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine Empire defeat against the Ottoman Empire.
1523 - Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city does not recognize him as successor to Christian II of Denmark.
1539 - Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the council due to war and the difficulty the bishops had in travelling to Venice.
1596 - Bear Island, the southernmost island of Svalbard, is discovered by Willem Barentsz.
1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Zablati, turning point in the Bohemian revolt.
1692 – In Salem, Massachusetts Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials, for alleged witchcraft.
1719 – Jacobite uprising: The Battle of Glen Shiel takes place.
1770 – James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1786 - A landslide dam created by an earthquake ten days earlier, in Sichuan, China, collapses, killing 10,000 people.
1793 - French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the committee of public safety, installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1829 – The Boat Race between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place for the first time.
1838 – Myall Creek Massacre: 28 Australian Aboriginals are killed.
1854 – The First Class of US Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate forces under John B. Magruder defeat a Union force under Ebenezer W. Pierce, in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: A Confederate force under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the Union force under Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1865 – Wagner's opera, Tristan und Isolde first performed in Munich.
1878 - The League of Prizren is founded in the Balkans.
1886 – Mount Tarawera on New Zealand's North Island erupts, killing 153 people and destroys the famous Pink Terraces.
1898 – Spanish-American War: US marines land on Cuba.
1906 – William Hall-Jones replaces Richard Seddon as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1907 - The first Beijing to Paris car rally begins. It is the longest race of its kind in the world.
1916 - Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – World War I: Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks, having been torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1924 – Fascists kill Italian socialist Giacomo Matteotti.
1925 – The United Church of Canada is founded in Toronto.
1926 – 2000[change | change source]
1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.
1935 - The Chaco War ends, as a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on the United Kingdom and France.
1942 – World War II: The Nazis burn the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia.
1944 – World War II: 642 people are killed by German troops in Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Greece, German troops kill 218 people.
1944 – 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player in a Major League Baseball game.
1945 - World War II: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1955 – The foundation stone of CERN, on the Switzerland-France border, is laid.
1957 – John Diefenbaker is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
1967 – The Six-Day War ends.
1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is re-captured on June 13.
1977 - Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1979 - The first election to the European Parliament takes place.
1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight for imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1991 – The American military's Clark Air Base in the Philippines is evacuated, because of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
1991 – Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped by Philip Garrido in California. He holds her captive until 2009, and fathers two daughters with her.
1996 – Peace negotiations begin in Northern Ireland, without the participation of Sinn Féin.
1997 – Fleeing his main stronghold, former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot orders the killing of his former defense chief Son Sen, and of 11 of Sen's family members.
1998 - The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France begins.
1999 – NATO's air war over Kosovo ends, as Serbian forces withdraw.
2000 – Syrian President Hafez al-Assad dies. His son Bashar al-Assad replaces him.
2000 – UEFA Euro 2000 begins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
From 2001[change | change source]
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 - The first director electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Briton Kevin Warwick.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Explorer Rover System.
2003 - Wicked begins on Broadway, later winning 40 awards.
2005 – The Svinesund Bridge between Norway and Sweden is opened.
2014 - Militants from the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", affiliated with Al-Qaeda, take control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
2014 - Reuven Rivlin is chosen to succeed Shimon Peres as President of Israel. He is sworn in on July 24.
2016 - The UEFA Euro 2016 football championship in France begins.
2016 - American singer Christina Grimmie is shot at a concert in Orlando, Florida, and dies later the same evening, aged 22.
Births[change | change source]
1213 – Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
1493 – Anton Fugger, German banker (d. 1560)
1513 - Louis, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1582)
1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1675)
1657 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1921)
1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender"), claimant to the British throne (d. 1766)
1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1716 - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer (d. 1784)
1753 – William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1775 – James Barbour, American lawyer, politician and 19th Governor of Virginia (d. 1842)
1804 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1825 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (d. 1864)
1832 – Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
1832 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (d. 1920)
1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American politician (d. 1930)
1835 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1908)
1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1839 - Ion Creanga, Romanian writer (d. 1889)
1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
1844 - Carl Hagenbeck, German zoo director (d. 1913)
1855 - Charles Allen Culberson, Governor of Texas (d. 1925)
1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian oil baron (d. 1932)
1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch writer (d. 1923)
1865 – Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (d. 1940)
1870 - Constantin Angelescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1948)
1876 - William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German aristocrat (d. 1923)
1887 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (d. 1966)
1891 - Al Dubin, American songwriter (d. 1945)
1894 - Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian-born psychoanalyst and author (d. 1979)
1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1899 - Stanislaw Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (d. 1933)
1901 – Frederick Loewe, German-born composer (d. 1988)
1903 - Theo Lingen, German actor and director (d. 1978)
1904 - Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)
1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
1912 - Jean Lesage, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist (d. 2005)
1916 - Peride Celal, Turkish novelist and short story writer (d. 2013)
1918 - Patachou, French singer and actress (d. 2015)
1918 - Barry Morse, English actor (d. 2008)
1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (d. 2007)
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player and physician (d. 2006)
1920 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (d. 2007)
1921 - Jean Robic, French motorcycle racer (d. 1980)
1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1921 - Oskar Gröning, German SS member (d. 2018)
1922 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
1922 - Bill Kerr, Australian actor (d. 2014)
1923 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (d. 1991)
1924 - Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (d. 2014)
1925 - James Salter, American writer (d. 2015)
1925 - Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player
1926 – Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010)
1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician (d. 2013)
1928 – Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator (d. 2012)
1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author
1929 – Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1929 - James McDivitt, American astronaut
1929 - Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer (d. 2009)
1929 - Yevgeniy Chazov, Russian physician
1930 - Aranka Siegal, Czech-born American writer and Holocaust survivor
1930 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (d. 2017)
1930 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (d. 2013)
1931 - Bryan Cartledge, English diplomat
1931 – Joao Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 - Philipp Jenninger, German politician (d. 2018)
1933 – Georgi Atanasov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1934 - Alois Mock, Austrian politician (d. 2017)
1936 - Eugenio Bersellini, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1938 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress (d. 2011)
1939 - Joe Bossano, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar
1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 - Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor
1942 - Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scottish judge
1942 - Lopo do Nascimento, 1st Prime Minister of Angola
1943 - Simon Jenkins, English journalist
1944 - Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
1947 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (d. 2017)
1949 - Frankie Faison, American actor
1949 – John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1949 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (d. 2015)
1953 – John Edwards, American politician
1953 - Bill Longmuir, Scottish golfer
1954 - Rich Hall, American comedian and writer
1955 – Annette Schavan, German politician
1956 – Rolandas Paksas, former President of Lithuania
1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and football manager
1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician, former Governor of New York
1960 – Mark-Anthony Turnage, English composer
1960 – Maxi Priest, English singer
1961 - Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician
1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 - Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe
1963 - Nadia Hasnaoui, Norwegian television presenter
1963 - Brad Henry, American politician, 26th Governor of Oklahoma
1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician
1964 - Stuart McCall, Scottish footballer and manager
1964 – Kate Flannery, American actress
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
1965 - Veronica Ferres, German actress
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino-American musician and songwriter
1966 – David Platt, English footballer
1967 - Paul Maskey, Northern Irish politician
1967 - Heimir Hallgrímsson, Icelandic dentist and football coach
1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian and writer
1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Helen Young, English television presenter
1969 - Jane Hill, English television journalist
1970 - Chris Coleman, Welsh footballer and coach
1970 - Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director and producer
1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, former Governor of Louisiana
1973 – Faith Evans, American singer
1974 - Dustin Lance Black, American director, producer and screenwriter
1974 - Simon Elliott, New Zealand footballer
1974 - Mohamed Emara, Egyptian footballer
1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1976 - George Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
1978 – Shane West, American musician and actor
1979 - Assi Azar, Israeli television host
1980 - Wang Yaegu, Singaporean table tennis player
1980 - Jessica DiCicco, American actress
1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan
1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
1982 - Laleh Pourkarim, Iranian-Swedish singer
1982 – Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
1983 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress
1983 - Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
1983 - Marion Barber III, American football player
1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
1986 - Keith Harkin, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
1987 – Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer
1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer
1991 - Juan Jesus, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Kate Upton, American model and actress
1994 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (d. 2014)
1996 - Kristjan Ilves, Estonian skier
1999 - Blanche, Belgian singer
2001 – Sasha Obama, daughter of Barack Obama
Deaths[change | change source]
323 BC – Alexander the Great (b. c. 355 BC)
38 – Julia Drusilla, sister of Caligula (b. 16)
223 - Liu Bei, Chinese Emperor (b. 161)
1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Frederick Barbarossa) (b. 1122)
1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
1580 – Luis de Camoes, Portuguese poet
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 – Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-born alleged witch (b. 1632)
1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese King (b. 1736)
1799 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1745)
1811 - Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, German aristocrat (b. 1728)
1836 – Andre-Marie Ampere, French mathematician (b. 1775)
1896 – Amelia Dyer, British murderer of babies (b. 1829)
1898 - Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language
1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician, statistician and politician (b. 1830)
1906 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
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Sliding Filament Theory
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Length-tension relationship
In skeletal muscles
Tension in muscles is composed of the forces generated by many cross-bridge formations. It is the pulling of the actins by myosin heads towards each other that exerts this tension. The magnitude of the tension depends on the frequency of the stimulation and the initial resting length of muscle fibres, of which will be discussed now. Keep in mind that muscle fibres are composed of many sarcomere units. The length of the sarcomeres dictates the overall length of a muscle fibre.
Graph 1. Length-tension relationship of sarcomeres presented in a graphical form.
At 1 on Graph 1, the sarcomere is overly contracted at rest. There is a high degree of overlap between the thin and thick filaments. Muscle contraction causes actin filaments to slide over one another and the ends of myosin filaments. Further muscular contraction is halted by the butting of myosin filaments against the Z-discs. Tension decreases due to this pause in cross-bridge cycling and formation.
As the resting muscle length increases, more cross-bridges cycling occurs when muscles are stimulated to contract. The resulting tension increases. Maximum tension is produced when sarcomeres are about 2.1 to 2.2 μm long, as seen in 2. This is the optimal resting length for producing the maximal tension.
By increasing the muscle length beyond the optimum, the actin filaments become pulled away from the myosin filaments and from each other. At 3, there is little interaction between the filaments. Very few cross-bridges can form. Less tension is produced. When the filaments are pulled too far from one another, as seen in 4, they no longer interact and cross-bridges fail to form. No tension results.
This principle demonstrates the length-tension relationship. Maximal tension is readily produced in the body as the central nervous system maintains resting muscle length near the optimum. It does so by maintaining a muscle tone, i.e. muscles are contracted partially. The myofilaments are also elastic. They maintain enough overlap for muscular contraction.
In cardiac muscles
The length-tension relationship is also observed in cardiac muscles. However, what differs in cardiac muscles compared to skeletal muscles is that tension increases sharply with stretching the muscle at rest slightly. This contrasts with the gradual build up of tension by stretching the resting skeletal muscle (see Graph 4). This may be due to high senstivity of cardiac muscles to Ca2+ or the increase in sarcomere length increases tension on stretch-activated Ca2+ receptors, propagating further Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release due to the increase of Ca2+ from the aforementioned Ca2+ receptors.
Graph 2. Length-tension relationship observed in cardiac muscles.
The optimum length is denoted as Lmax which is about 2.25μm, as shown on Graph 2. Like skeletal muscles, the maximum number of cross-bridges form and tension is at its maximum here. Beyond this, tension decreases sharply.
In normal physiology, Lmax is obtained as heart ventricles become filled up by blood, stretching the myocytes. The muscles then converts the isometric tension to isotonic contraction which enables the blood to be pumped out when they finally contract. The heart has an intrinsic control over the stroke volume of the heart and can alter the force of blood ejection.
Force-velocity relationship
Cardiac muscle has to pump blood out from the heart to be distributed to the rest of the body. It has 2 important properties that enable it to function as such:
It carries a preload, composed of its initial sarcomere length and end-diastolic volume. This occurs before ejecting blood during systole. This is consistent with Starling's law which states that:
"the mechanical energy set free in the passage from the resting to the active state is a function of the length of the fibre."
- Boron et al. (2009, p. 547)
It has to overcome the afterload, which is the arterial pressure that opposes blood outflow from heart.
Graph 3. Force-velocity relationship in cardiac muscles.
At rest, the greater the degree of initial muscle stretch, the greater the preload. This increases the tension that will be developed by the cardiac muscle and the velocity of muscular contraction at a given afterload will increase. Upon stimulation of cardiac muscle, it develops isometric tension without shortening. Once enough tension has accumulated, the muscle can now overcome the afterload and eject the blood it was carrying. Tension however is maintained at this stage.
When the afterload is so large no shortening can occur (as shown on Graph 3 when velocity is at 0 mm/sec at the x-axis; also marked by P0), the afterload forms the isometric tension. Tension is greater in muscle stretched more initially as the preload at a given velocity for muscular shortening. The same muscle with a shorter resting length has a lower tension in comparison. These observations are consistent with the length-tension relationship.
At the hypothetical maximum velocity of shortening (marked Vmax on Graph 3), muscular shortening is consistent and contracts at the fastest rate when there is no afterload.
Nervous system control
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Sarcomeres with slightly different properties!
(Graph 4 - Comparison of length-tension relationships between skeletal muscle sarcomeres and cardiac muscle sarcomeres.)
Graph 1 adapted and modified from Martini (2001, p. 115)
Graphs 2 and 3 adapted from Cambray-Deakin et al. (2011, p. 14-15)
Graph 4 adapted from Boron et al. (2009, p. 546)
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How to think about privacy: my rough notes after reading Mark Zuckerberg say The Age of Privacy is Over
More and more I hear: privacy is dead, over, finished. Case in point: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over. But is it true? If I think about the arguments for privacy being over, or the arguments against privacy, I get something like this:
Privacy is over because people share so much now: it is true, people do share alot more. But while people do share much more, they may also be sharing more selectively. For example, I find that I share alot more information via the various social media available (e,g, blogging, Facebook), but I am also aware of what I do share and where I share it. For instance, I assume everyone can and might read my blog and as a result, I am very selective of what I share there. Unlike Facebook, there is little personal information there. I do (or did) share more information with family and friends on Facebook. However, when I first used Facebook, the understanding I had — supported by Facebook — was that I would have much more control over who could see my information. However, it appears Facebook is reneging on that understanding. As a result, I am sharing less information on Facebook, and I am planning to share less there, and I am encouraging everyone to be mindful and selective of what they share there. I still like sharing information with people using technology, and there are alot of different sites and tools that allow me to do that and I will continue to do that, but I will strive to do it on my own terms.
This not just true for me and my generation, but younger people as well. When I see teens (like my own) sharing information, they often do it cryptically. (And not just teens.) They may do this for exclusive reasons, but they may also do it in order to maintain privacy. They are exerting their rights to control who gets to see information about them. Just like I do and others do with the privacy controls that they have available to them. People like and need privacy.
Another mistake people make is assuming that behaviors that were once private but no longer are therefore equals/means privacy is dead. It is more likely the case that what was once considered shameful or embarrassing or otherwise detrimental to a person now no longer is. I think sexting is a terrible idea, but if enough young people do it, people will eventually shrug, they way they now shrug at ads for birth control or topless beaches. It won’t be that people don’t value privacy: it will just mean that they don’t think such things needs to be private any longer, and dinosaurs like me can complain all they want about sexting because let’s face it, no one wants to see me with no clothes on anyway. 🙂 (No doubt they will also poke fun at me for paying for music on iTunes, too.)
Privacy is over because technology deprives you of it: why is this true? People do put their privacy at risk by adopting new technologies that they can’t/don’t understand or control. However, they make a deal, explicitly or implicitly, with the organizations that they are sharing that information with, be it a business, the government, or some other organization. If customers think that the banks cannot protect their financial privacy, they are going to find other ways to do financial transactions. Indeed, the offering of enhanced privacy becomes a valuable commodity, and companies that offer it will have a competitive advantage. Likewise, if citizens think that the government cannot protect there personal privacy, they are either going to elect a new government or find ways to not share information with the government. Right now criminals do this as a matter of course. However, if people mistrust their government and feel there privacy is being compromised, everyone may do it as a matter of course.
And if they can’t come to an agreeable arrangement with newer technologies that threaten to take away privacy, people will adopt a number of stances to deal with that. One is to hide your identity. People do this often now. Indeed, most people participating in social media use handles without photos instead of using their real name and image. Another way is to adopt proxies of some sort. Any networking technologies — which will more and more come to mean all technology — are open to the use of proxies. If privacy becomes scarce, than proxies will become valuable.
Finally, people will just avoid, not use or misuse technologies that try to rob them of their privacy. It will be a struggle at first, but privacy is an elemental need of people.
Why do you need privacy? You must have something to hide. That may be true, but anyone who thinks that this is all that privacy is about has a limited understanding of the value of privacy. Privacy is not hiding something you have done wrong. Privacy is about controlling your life on your terms. Privacy is about having sovereignty over your life and what you do with it. To illustrate this, let’s take some simple examples.
You need privacy to control your financial affairs: in the course of your life you have to share financial information about yourself with others (e.g., the government, the bank, your employer). However, in a progressive society, it is in your best interests and the society’s best interest to limit how much of that information you share. If you were not able to keep this information private, than in the worst case, criminals would know that you have valuable property, and they may decide to rob you. If you did not have alot of valuable property, people might discriminate against you based on that fact. (Indeed, that happens now to people whose appearance discloses this fact). And regardless of your financial standing, full disclosure of your financial affairs puts you at a disadvantage in all sorts of business dealings and allows you to be taken advantage of. If you can’t mind your own business, others will do it at your loss.
You need privacy to control your identity: If you are not able to keep things like passwords or other information about yourself private, people could find out this information and either use it against you, or they could engage in identity theft and pass themselves off as you. People can also take information about you and by putting it out of context, use it against you to your disadvantage.
You need privacy to escape social norms: Other than a very limited number of people, most people would not want to have their lives filmed and on display 24 hours a day. For it is not just being on display: it is being judged and acted upon based on what you display. You might have a position in society that expects you to behave a certain way in public. (And it could be as simple as being well groomed, conservative and exceedingly polite.) But when you in your own home, you might want to give that up and be another way, even if that other way is relaxed. Privacy allows you to do that. Maybe you want to wear the same sweatpants from Friday night to Monday morning. Maybe you want to dance around in (what to you is) an embarrassing way to some music few people like. Maybe you want to clean your house in the nude! Whatever the behavior is, privacy allows you to do that.
You need privacy to negotiate difficult situations: Likewise, let’s say there was a disagreement in your family, and some people unfairly insist you do not speak to others in your family. You are caught in the middle of an unfair dispute, and you hope to resolve it by talking to both sides. Privacy allows you to do that. Indeed, to be effective in negotiations, privacy is essential.
You need privacy to prevent or reduce prejudice and discrimination: As a young adult, let’s say your friend posts images of you and your friends out drinking and having fun. They post them on Facebook, but just to your friends, because they don’t want everyone to see them. In other words, they want some degree of privacy regarding this. However, one of your friends is related to someone who works for the new company you want to work for, and in doing a search on Facebook, is able to see you out partying. Now, you may be a very responsible individual at work, but this person assumes the worst about you because of these pictures and screens you out of the position. This is not really fair, but because of a lack of privacy, you are stuck.
Likewise, let’s say you are socially conservative and you are a strong supporter of right wing parties in the country you live in. You join some groups on Facebook and you express your political opinions there. As it turns out, the new position you want to go work for in your company is managed by someone whose political views are the direct opposite of yours. That person does a search for you in Google and sees some of the things that you have been saying in the Facebook groups and then finds another reason not to take you on in that role, even though you were a very strong candidate.
You need privacy to express yourself fully: this is again related to norms. Let’s say you wanted to create something that is not harmful, but would be disapproved of by people you normally want to associate with. Maybe you belong to a religious family, but you want to study art and eventually draw nudes. Maybe you want to learn how to become a lawyer, even though your family hates lawyers. And maybe you fell in love with someone who makes you feel more alive than you ever felt before, but you feel constrained from being public with showing this feeling due to censure from others. Privacy again comes to the rescue.
Privacy supports greater equality and greater freedom: In societies where there is a political imbalance, and one side has power over another and lords it over them, privacy can help restore balance. If one sides tries to unfairly prevent the other from seeking a better education or a better deal or a fairer distribution of power, privacy can provide the cover needed to allow change to occur.
Privacy can be abused, too. People can commit crimes and hypocritically treat people badly away from others. But to throw out privacy because of these things is to throw out the baby to get rid of the bath water. Likewise, people can say giving up privacy can be worth it in order to gain all these new technologies or ways of doing things. But I think we can have both the new things and privacy.
Anyway, if you’ve read to here, thanks. There are, without a doubt, better sources on privacy that will argue a much better case for it than what I have done here. If you know of them, please comment here. But even with my limited arguments, I hope you will think about why privacy is important and why self serving people like Mark Zuckerberg is wrong when he argues that privacy is over. I like Facebook, and I would be happy for it to succeed. But it should do so and respect — and that is the key word: respect — people’s wishes and need or privacy.
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10 responses to “How to think about privacy: my rough notes after reading Mark Zuckerberg say The Age of Privacy is Over”
Archimedes Trajano | January 11, 2010 at 2:22 am | Reply
excellent article B!
smartpeopleiknow | January 11, 2010 at 8:30 am | Reply
Thanks, Archie!
Thomas | January 11, 2010 at 12:24 pm | Reply
Very interesting article Bernie. I, however, think the biggest threat to our privacy is the combination of the concentration of our private information in a few companies (Google, Facebook, ISPs, etc) and the government’s ability to force them to turn over this information (increasing with little or no judicial oversight). Generations who did not live through the age of fascist governments are quickly forgetting the lessons learned by those who did.
smartpeopleiknow | January 11, 2010 at 1:12 pm | Reply
Good comments, Tom. You are right: concentration of private information without proper auditing and controls is a serious concern. More and better governance is needed for everyone’s benefit, including the companies and organizations that gather and use the data.
J.MacDonald | January 11, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Reply
A timely & very pertinent article!
Contrary to popular belief, I happen to agree that, privacy is NOT dead.
(At least, not entirely…..yet.)
While one cannot deny that the vast proliferation of information sharing websites and other communications technologies have, undoubtedly and irrevocably compromised the security of private information, we do possess some degree of control. Being cognizant of the virtual omnipresence of prying ears & eyes necessitates the use of absolute discretion, in combination with a well developed sense of propriety.
Sadly, there is more than sufficient proof to substantiate the argument for “mass apathy”, as evidenced by much of the content one sees, for example, in “status updates” & comments on Facebook.
Clearly, a hefty percentage of FB users are either, 1)oblivious to the fact that the information they post, is visible to a much larger audience than they presume, 2)they don’t know about “Privacy settings”, or 3)maybe, they just don’t care. (?)
I have a theory about this, but I’ll tell you about it later….
“privately.”
You are right: we do maintain a degree of control. Indeed, we are constantly negotiating our degrees of privacy both in the technical world and the real world (hence the use of picture windows AND curtains).
I think people do care when the privacy threat is easy to understand (e.g., online banking). But for other things, people don’t appreciate the risk involved (e.g. Facebook, but also things like weak passwords). There is an education of the users of IT that needs to be done.
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royalarbor | August 5, 2010 at 1:04 pm | Reply
I stumbled across this thanks to the automatic generator redirecting from my own blog which revolves around the topic of privacy. Thanks for writing this excellent contemplative piece on privacy.
Certainly, I think you’re right that the measure of privacy is being shifted. I think privacy requires much more effort and human discipline than it used to, and that is why it feels to many like it is dying. Perhaps, just as I believe the major move from manuscript to print did in the 17th century, information forces a change. If privacy is defined by the ability to withhold or not, we are certainly seeing changes.
On the one hand, dissemination – as it always has been – is so hard to control. Whilst it is arguably unfair to see the kinds of discrimination you mention here, if someone photographed in an uncompromising situation has to rely on others to safeguard their privacy for them, that’s not a comfortable place to be. On the other hand, ‘public’ abounds. What doesn’t help the cause, as you note, is the human prerogative to share everything now. We had an election in the UK earlier this year, and the political peer pressure over Facebook appalled me. This sort of thing barely seemed on the radar five years ago, but now it seems the most natural thing in the world to intimidate private boundaries in public boundaries.
The big problem I now have with tools like Facebook is that those who, for their sense of privacy, do not have accounts, get forgotten about far too easily. To be public is more necessary, it seems, and that is a shame. But I do find myself watching very carefully what I share as well, now, and probably just swallow a lot more than I used to. With the spread of companies now claiming to be able to make poor or damaging internet content about individuals as good as vanish, I wonder how heavily they will be using privacy in their marketing push.
I’m nervous about privacy in the future. But I will be an interested spectator at the same time.
smartpeopleiknow | August 7, 2010 at 11:01 am | Reply
Thanks very much for your comments, Keith.
I would argue that anyone who belongs to a tight knit community knows the challenge in maintaining privacy, regardless of how much technology is involved. What has changed with technology is that now the people who are invading your privacy may be people you don’t know, and the ways they are invading your privacy are ways you aren’t sure of. In a small town, inviting the neighborhood busybody into your house is a way to damage your privacy and therefore the way to manage that is simple: keep them out of your house! With the Internet, that gets harder.
Privacy, like freedom, is something that requires eternal vigilance. It is worth it, however. One way we can support that vigilance is talking about the ways others try to take that privacy away. Another way we can do that is communicate ways people can protect their privacy.
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UCLA faculty voice: Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly so paranoid?
December 8, 2017 /in History News /by webteam
Jim Mattis/FlickrSecretary of Defense Jim Mattis meets with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 19, 2017.
James Gelvin
James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCLA. This column originally appeared in the Conversation.
In the past, Saudi Arabia depended upon its enormous oil wealth and the United States for its security. It used the former to buy friends and pay off enemies and potential enemies. It used the latter to guarantee its survival. With a few exceptions, Saudi Arabia did not involve itself directly in the affairs of its neighbors.
Over the course of the past decade, however, that has changed. Saudi Arabia intervened militarily in Bahrain and Yemen. It helped finance the 2013 coup d’état launched by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt. It has supported insurgents in Libya and Syria and put together an international coalition purportedly to fight terrorism. And it led the Gulf Cooperation Council’s campaign against its tiny neighbor, Qatar.
Why the sudden change?
Based on recent developments, it is evident that Saudi Arabian officials assume that they can no longer depend on their traditional security safeguards of oil and U.S. might. They seem to imagine that the only guarantee for their security is their own muscular response.
As a historian of the modern Middle East who has researched and taught about the region for over 30 years, I believe there are three causes for the shift in Saudi Arabia’s security stance: the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, the policies of the Obama administration and the collapse of oil prices.
A perceived threat
Saudi Arabia looked at the Arab uprisings as a potential calamity. The Saudis support the status quo in the region and Saudi-Western leadership there. The uprisings endangered not only Saudi Arabia’s authoritarian allies such as Egypt and Bahrain, but the regional order and the foundations of Saudi Arabia’s legitimacy as well. The uprisings also threatened to expand the realm of democratic and human rights in the region — something which the Saudi regime fears.
Furthermore, the Saudis feared the uprisings would open the way for the expansion of Iranian influence throughout the region. That led to the Saudi intervention into Yemen, where they believe the Iranians have meddled. In reality, local grievances, not Iranian meddling, precipitated Yemen’s current civil war. Saudi Arabia made the same accusation with regard to Bahrain, although a royal commission appointed by the king of Bahrain failed to find any evidence of Iranian subversion there.
Just as serious for the Saudis, the uprisings threatened to empower Muslim brotherhoods and Muslim-Brotherhood-style movements throughout the region. The Saudi royal family believes this movement provides a model for reconciling religion and politics that competes with its own vision of the proper relationship between the two. While the brotherhoods have linked religion and politics, the Saudi royal family has sought to distance one from the other to prevent the emergence of potentially destabilizing Islamist movement. This has been the royal family’s survival strategy since 1932.
At the behest of Abdulaziz ibn Al Saud, the founder of the current Saudi state, Saudi religious scholars have emphasized the doctrine that Muslims should passively obey their leaders so long as those leaders are also Muslim. That is still their position.
The Saudis were outraged by what they claimed was American support for the Arab uprisings. While the American government was, in fact, ambivalent about the uprisings because friendly autocrats have furthered American interests in the region since World War II, the Saudis were outraged that the United States did not give its unconditional support to the authoritarian governments it had long supported.
Saudi Arabia versus Obama
This brings us to the second reason for Saudi paranoia and assertion in the region: the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
Obama sought to reverse the fixation of his predecessor, George W. Bush, on the Middle East. He believed that the United States should focus its attention on East Asia, where the global future will be determined, not on a region as conflict-prone and economically stagnant as the Middle East.
And so Obama was looking to reduce America’s commitments in the region and resolve or at least smooth over conflicts so that the United States could turn its attention elsewhere. This is one of the reasons why he signed the Iran nuclear deal and tried to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Most of all, he sought to have American allies take more responsibility for their own defense.
Obama’s grand strategy, however, made America’s traditional allies in the region fear abandonment. The Saudis found his comment that they would have to learn to “share the neighborhood” with Iran particularly horrifying.
Saudi Arabia’s oil dependency
The final reason for Saudi paranoia has to do with the collapse of oil prices. From June 2014 to April 2016, oil prices dropped 70 percent for a variety of reasons, including a glut in the market, alternative sources for fuel and conservation.
Most economists think the price of oil will rebound, although not to peak levels. But this hasn’t prevented oil-producing states from following the advice of the International Monetary Fund to take steps to diversify their economies.
Saudi Arabia has been particularly receptive to IMF entreaties. In spring 2016, then-Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman unveiled a plan titled “Vision 2030.” “Vision 2030” is hardly innovative. It includes a list of the same tired free-market recommendations that have been applied internationally since the 1970s.
The plan calls for privatizing government assets, including education and 5 percent of the national oil company, Saudi Aramco; reducing and targeting subsidies on oil, electricity and water; introducing an income tax; and creating 450,000 new private sector jobs, among other proposals.
The odds that Saudi Arabia is capable of transforming its economy to become globally competitive in 13 years are not high. This would mean, among other things, discarding the most effective tool the Saudi government has to gain that population’s consent — buying it. When the Arab uprisings threatened to spread to Saudi Arabia, for example, the Saudi government distributed US$130 billion worth of grants to its population to maintain their loyalty. It would also mean ensuring a free flow of information in a country in which transparency on all levels of governance and commerce is rare. In 2017, Saudi Arabia ranked 168th out of 180 countries surveyed in terms of press freedom. Finally, it would mean changing attitudes toward work in a country in which women make up only 22 percent of the workforce — compared to close to 40 percent globally — and foreigners literally do all the heavy lifting.
Muhammad bin Salman has already had to back away from some of the proposals outlined in “Vision 2030.” It is unlikely this vision will be any more successful than Saudi Arabia’s failed Yemen war, for which the crown prince is also responsible.
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NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System
by David Brandt-Erichsen | Sep 14, 2011 | NASA, Space Transportation | 3 comments
NASA announced the following on their website September 14 (no costs were provided):
NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System — an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and opening up new discoveries from the unique vantage point of space.
The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth’s orbit and destinations beyond. Additionally, the SLS will serve as a back up for commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station.
“This launch system will create good-paying American jobs, ensure continued U.S. leadership in space, and inspire millions around the world,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. “President Obama challenged us to be bold and dream big, and that’s exactly what we are doing at NASA. While I was proud to fly on the space shuttle, kids today can now dream of one day walking on Mars.”
The SLS rocket will incorporate technological investments from the Space Shuttle program and the Constellation program in order to take advantage of proven hardware and cutting-edge tooling and manufacturing technology that will significantly reduce development and operations costs. It will use a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propulsion system, which will include the RS-25D/E from the Space Shuttle program for the core stage and the J-2X engine for the upper stage. SLS will also use solid rocket boosters for the initial development flights, while follow-on boosters will be competed based on performance requirements and affordability considerations. The SLS will have an initial lift capacity of 70 metric tons (mT) and will be evolvable to 130 mT. The first developmental flight, or mission, is targeted for the end of 2017.
This specific architecture was selected, largely because it utilizes an evolvable development approach, which allows NASA to address high-cost development activities early on in the program and take advantage of higher buying power before inflation erodes the available funding of a fixed budget. This architecture also enables NASA to leverage existing capabilities and lower development costs by using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for both the core and upper stages. Additionally, this architecture provides a modular launch vehicle that can be configured for specific mission needs using a variation of common elements. NASA may not need to lift 130 mT for each mission and the flexibility of this modular architecture allows the agency to use different core stage, upper stage, and first-stage booster combinations to achieve the most efficient launch vehicle for the desired mission.
“NASA has been making steady progress toward realizing the president’s goal of deep space exploration, while doing so in a more affordable way,” NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said. “We have been driving down the costs on the Space Launch System and Orion contracts by adopting new ways of doing business and project hundreds of millions of dollars of savings each year.”
The Space Launch System will be NASA’s first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago. With its superior lift capability, the SLS will expand our reach in the solar system and allow us to explore cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons and beyond. We will learn more about how the solar system formed, where Earth’s water and organics originated and how life might be sustained in places far from our Earth’s atmosphere and expand the boundaries of human exploration. These discoveries will change the way we understand ourselves, our planet, and its place in the universe.
David Brandt-Erichsen on September 14, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Projected cost for this system is $30 billion up through the first two flights, after which it is slated to fly once a year at a cost of at least $1 billion per flight.
For the cost of those first two flights you could instead buy 300 flights of Falcon Heavy, not including Dragon, so maybe 200 or so flights with Dragon. Dragon is also designed to be able to “land on any solid surface in the solar system” which is not true of Orion.
Is this any way to run a space program? It seems to me the Emperor has no clothes here. The best thing for a human future in space would be to cancel this program.
Robert Sugg on September 14, 2011 at 2:54 pm
70-130 metric tons lifted at a rate of one or two flights per year by a throw away vehicle doesn’t sound like a keeper for either exploration or industry. The rationale doesn’t seem to me to represent either a sustainable pathway for permanent human presence beyond LEO or the high launch frequency necessary to start large economy-boosters like space solar.
It does seem to represent a bureaucratic scramble to keep existing payroll going for constituents who would be better employed working a Gerard K. O’Neill – type rationale.
Dale Amon on September 14, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Yep, ticks all the boxes for the key districts. Pork is go for launch.
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Russia launches international X-ray astronomy mission
A Proton rocket and Block DM upper stage climbed into space Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with Spektr-RG, an astronomical observatory with dual X-ray telescopes developed by Russian and German scientists on the hunt for the signature of dark energy.
Live coverage: Proton rocket lifts off with X-ray astronomy observatory
A Proton rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the Spektr-RG X-ray astronomy mission at 1230:57 GMT (8:30:57 a.m. EDT) Saturday.
Proton rocket, Russian-German astronomy satellite arrive at launch pad
A rocket-transporting railroad car ferried a Proton rocket to its launch pad Friday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final checkouts and testing before the vehicle’s scheduled June 21 liftoff with the Russian-German Spektr-RG X-ray telescope.
WFIRST astronomy mission faces cuts to contain rising costs
NASA has directed the team developing the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a flagship astronomy mission set for launch in the mid-2020s to study dark energy and exoplanets, to reduce the observatory’s scientific capabilities and keep it under a $3.2 billion cost cap.
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Speeches by Topic Topics | Marriage
Marriage is both a foundational unit in society and a sacred religious institution. Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the religious aspect of marriage takes on added importance because members of the Church believe that marriage and family relationships are meant to be eternal—lasting far beyond “‘til death do us part.” Members of the Church also believe that the differing divine natures and responsibilities of men and women complement each other best in a marriage relationship. This religious significance of marriage carries into the sociological realm: members of the Church tend to marry earlier and have lower divorce rates compared to national averages. Marriage is so important to members of the Church that they are performed in temples and are meant to last for eternity. These ceremonies are called “sealings” and are incredibly sacred to Latter-day Saints. The following BYU devotionals address both the social and religious aspects of marriage. Young adults are encouraged by Church leaders to prioritize marriage and family, and within the Church they are taught principles that help foster happy and successful marriages. Such teaching is backed by the work of nationally and internationally recognized scholars in sociology, psychology, and family life who have dedicated their work to studying the causes and effects of a happy, healthy marriage. As stated in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” a declaration delivered by the leaders of the Church in 1995, many of the best and most basic principles needed to create a successful marriage and a happy home are also key principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ: faith, work, compassion, repentance, and forgiveness. Through personal experiences, anecdotes, academic research, and doctrine, speakers in these addresses give examples and advice for implementing these principles into every marriage and family. Their messages are relevant not only to BYU students both married and single, but also to families everywhere seeking to improve their marriages “by study and by faith.”
Jason S. Carroll | April 2, 2019
Good morning, brothers and sisters. For more than twenty-five years, both as a student and now as a professor here at Brigham Young University, I have been personally blessed by many of the messages shared in these devotionals. It is truly a humbling experience to speak with you today. When I first was invited to give a devotional address, I was initially assigned to speak the Tuesday during the week of Valentine’s Day back in February. While I am sure that the selection of this date was simply a practical matter of arranging the schedule, for someone who has spent the last decade te
The Experience of Love and the Limitations of Psychological Explanation
Brent D. Slife | May 16, 2017
It may not surprise you, but I want to declare at the outset that I have been multiply blessed. I want to initially mention an important blessing—this university—and then I would like to dwell on a forty-one-year blessing—my marriage. Those who have received this award in past years have stood here to express their gratitude to BYU, but I feel especially blessed in receiving this award as a non-Mormon. This university has insisted on valuing me regardless of my religious minority status. I am a religious “other,” yet this univers
Disciples of Jesus Christ–Defenders of Marriage
Russell M. Nelson | August 14, 2014
Thank you, President Worthen, for your gracious introduction. Wendy and I are grateful for the privilege of being here on this significant occasion. I bring love and greetings from President Thomas S. Monson, President Henry B. Eyring, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, my beloved Brethren of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and members of the board of trustees. We are grateful for President Kevin J Worthen and President Cecil O. Samuelson, who have presided over the studies of this graduating class. We thank the faculty and staff for their service and tireless striving for excellence.
Marriage, Family Law, and the Temple
Bruce C. Hafen | January 31, 2014
I am honored to be here tonight with all of you. I understand that the J. Reuben Clark Law Society now has more than 10,000 members in more than 100 chapters—plus 135 student chapters—and that a third of the chapters are located outside the United States. That international dimension reminds me of a young man I met recently in the St. George Temple. He was about to leave on a mission to Argentina. I asked him, “Do you speak any Spanish yet?” With utmost sincerity he replied, “I only know one word in Spanish: aloha!” Well, even though aloha isn’t a
To Have Peace and Happiness
Richard G. Scott | September 12, 2010
I have prayerfully prepared a message designed to bring you peace and happiness in a troubled world. I know that the truths it contains provide solutions because my precious wife, Jeanene, and I have proven their worth in our own lives. For you to obtain the maximum benefit from our time together, I suggest that you carefully write down any impressions that come to you. They are personalized messages from the Lord sent through the Holy Ghost for your guidance. Temple Ordinances Strengthen the Family and the Home Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in H
Repentance and Forgiveness in Marriage
Richard B. Miller | January 19, 2010
When couples get married, their love is deep, and they joyfully anticipate the prospect of spending the eternities together. They enjoy having endless talks, going for long walks, and spending time together. It is a wonderful feeling being with someone you love so deeply. Unfortunately, for many couples the bliss of deep love and immensely satisfying companionship that was present when they first got married doesn’t last. Long talks become replaced with frequent arguments, and when not spent fighting, their time together is chara
Unlocking the Door to the Blessings of Abraham
Julie B. Beck | March 2, 2008
What a privilege it is to speak to you, a royal generation, who were chosen before the foundation of the world to come forth at this time to do an important work. I have met many of you during my service in the Church, and I have been impressed by your brightness and goodness. I can picture you now in your gatherings all over the world, from the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries in South America to the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and many European countries. I have even seen you arrive at meetings by the truckload in the Dominican Republic. We learn in the Book of Mor
Push Back Against the World
Kristen M. Oaks | November 4, 2007
Elder Dallin H. and Sister Kristen M. Oaks talk about dating, hope, and how to push back against the pressures of the world by keeping the Sabbath day holy. The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information.
A Gospel of Relationships
Marleen Williams | May 4, 2004
I am very grateful for my affiliation with this university. Five of my children have also enjoyed attending BYU. I remember one of them suddenly becoming aware of changes in his life after he entered BYU following service as a missionary. He had dated in high school and had had a lot of fun just “hanging out” with girls. After his mission he resumed dating and expected the same casual fun and games. He returned from his first postmission date, however, somewhat pale and shaken. When I asked about the date, he replied, “This is not just high school fun and games. These women are playing with
Hanging Out, Hooking Up, and Celestial Marriage
Bruce A. Chadwick | May 7, 2002
The topic I selected to discuss this morning was motivated by a research report I read last summer. A study of young women attending colleges and universities across the United States reported that dating has disappeared from campus, and young women have been left to wander in a social wilderness in their search for Mr. Right. The vast majority of the young women interviewed stated that marriage is a “very important” goal for them. In addition, a majority indicated they hoped to find Mr. Right while attending college. They lamented that
The Right Person, the Right Place, the Right Time
Thomas B. Holman | August 1, 2000
In January of 1972, after eating at a nice restaurant and attending the Osmonds in concert, I asked my wife to marry me. She said, “No.” A little over a month later, as I was walking her home from Church, she said, “Well, are you going to marry me or am I going to have to get a job?” I wisely agreed to marry her. She had, very sensibly, not accepted my invitation too quickly and been careful to make sure she had chosen the right man. She understood President Gordon B. Hinckley’s counsel: “This will be the most important decision of your
How Do I Love Thee?
Jeffrey R. Holland | February 15, 2000
I am delighted to be with you the day after Valentine’s Day and the day before Sister Holland’s birthday. Guess what is on my mind! Guess what I am going to talk about! Yes, I am going to talk about love, because Shakespeare made me do it. You see, it is the fifteenth of February. If it were the fifteenth of March, it would be the ides of March. And everybody remembers what Brutus did to Julius Caesar on the ides of March—and it befell Mark Antony to get back at Brutus in the great funeral oration, the same Mark Antony who let Cleopatra take him for the proverbial trip up the Nile without a
Marriage Is Ordained of God
Brent A. Barlow | October 12, 1999
I am honored to be here today, brothers and sisters, to give this devotional address. Brother Fred Skousen contacted me in the middle of June and asked me if I would be a devotional speaker. I told him I would be honored to do so, and we talked about topics. I said that I had a real concern about what is happening to marriage in America and that I would like to come and talk about that and why we all need to become involved—not only concerning families, which we talk a lot about nationwide, but why we have to have renewed interest in ma
Some of BYU’s Responses to “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
Alan J. Hawkins | June 2, 1998
My address today is related to the topic of strengthening marriages and families. It’s a topic I’m generally comfortable with. But I’m not comfortable—and not just because I feel inadequate to address this audience. Family has been a popular topic for speeches on this campus recently. Both President Bateman and Elder Eyring have recently addressed us on the topic of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (Ensign, November 1995, p. 102). A handful of other General Authority speakers have spoken on campus during the last few yea
The Eternal Family
Merrill J. Bateman | January 6, 1998
Almost three years ago in a Saturday evening session of a stake conference in New York, I listened intently to a young Hispanic sister bear her testimony. As a recent convert she bore witness of the promptings and feelings that occurred during her conversion. She stated: When the missionaries knocked on my door, I saw the smiles on their faces and felt the firm grip of their handshakes. They said they had a message that would bring happiness into my life. At the conclusion of the first lesson they turned to Moroni’s promise in the Book of Mormon. I was surprised. They did not ask
“Loving with the Spirit and with the Understanding”
Marlin K. Jensen | March 28, 1993
My wife and I, brothers and sisters, are very grateful to be here this evening. We are honored–especially honored to have a goodly number of our family here. It is a wonderful thing in life when children begin to eclipse their parents, and we sure feel that way about our children. Before we came here tonight we had a reception with a number of the men and women who serve as leaders in your stakes here at BYU. I was touched by their quality and goodness, and I hope you realize that there are a few things that older men and women know that younger men and women can learn from them. I c
Theodore M. Burton | June 3, 1986
The Great Love Story From my point of view, one of the greatest love stories of all time has never been recognized as such even though it is filled with romance. In fact, when you first read the story, you would probably not recognize it as a love story at all. The reason we pass over this story so easily is that in order for us to recognize love, we must first have a great understanding in our own hearts of what love really is. Love is a peculiar attribute. It very seldom appears suddenly like a mushroom. Usually it grows slowly like a bud that unfolds and develops into a b
“Rejoice in Christ Jesus, and Have No Confidence in the Flesh”
F. Enzio Busche | May 28, 1985
My dear brothers and sisters, I am coming to you today in a very contrite, humble spirit as I am feeling I should address you with some matters of a more delicate nature but which, in my estimation, are of basic importance. I hope that I will be capable of expressing my feelings without being misunderstood—knowing that this can easily happen as I am not expressing myself in my native language. Something of More Importance Some time ago, when I was living in the mission field, the missionaries invited me to come see a couple they had been teaching for some time. The mi
Some Things We Have Learned—Together
Jeffrey R. and Patricia T. Holland | January 15, 1985
Jeff: Each time we have given an address to this student body, we have started off with a moment or two together, usually including a couple of jokes about my father-in-law. Then we have each presented individual messages. Today we are going to do something a little different—we are both going to stay up here because our message today is a shared one. What you see is what you get—the two of us—“The Pat and Jeff Show.” Indeed, we have tentatively entitled our remarks “Some Things We Have Learned—Together” and we hope both the audience and the television camera can handle two of us at
Ten Keys to Successful Dating and Marriage Relationships
Hugh W. Pinnock | May 3, 1981
I come to you concerned and somewhat troubled. My comments this evening are directed to those of you who will dedicate an important part of your earthly lives to making your eventual eternal marriages succeed. The emotions I feel are the deepest love and respect for you and the excitement for your futures as someday you will sit where we now sit and speak where we now speak and lead in areas where we have led, but in many areas where we have not yet led. There is a tendency in life, brothers and sisters, to simplify problems and complic
“And the Greatest of These Is Love”
Gordon B. Hinckley | February 14, 1978
I so greatly appreciated that music. I have never heard a rendering of “I Need Thee Every Hour” quite like that, nor one that has touched me more deeply. I did not know that it was Indian Week at BYU, or I might have spoken of these wonderful people. As it is, I shall speak to them, and to you also wonderful people. It is so refreshing to stand before you. You give life, vitality, and beauty to the present, and assurance to the future. I always come here with a feeling of inadequacy. But today I feel a little more confident. At the close of a recent stake conference a teenage girl ha
Celestial Marriage
Bruce R. McConkie | November 6, 1977
I stand before you tonight in the spirit of this musical number, “I Need Thee Every Hour,” and hope and pray and desire that I may be given utterance by the power of the Spirit so that I may say those things that will please the Lord, that will be the things he would say if he personally were addressing this great congregation at this hour. When I consulted with Brother Lorin Wheelwright, he told me that it would be most appropriate if I spoke on a Thanksgiving theme, since it would fit in well with the music. I decided to do that, and prepared my mind and an outline, and gathered some quot
Celestial Marriage—A Little Heaven on Earth
Robert D. Hales | November 9, 1976
My brothers and sisters, it’s a pleasure to be here today. Many thoughts went through my mind as I prepared for this occasion. I wanted to make sure that I deliver the kind of a message that is going to be helpful. I hope the Spirit will be with me that I might do just that. The subject will be that of marriage, with an eternal perspective. Temple marriage describes the place you go to have the marriage performed. Celestial marriage is being true to the sacred covenants you make in that temple marriage ceremony—livi
Spencer W. Kimball | September 7, 1976
My beloved brothers and sisters: This is an overwhelming situation. I was born in Salt Lake City, but I grew up in Thatcher, Arizona, a great and important place that few of you know about. Many things happened in that little town. We went through the usual, normal experiences. We had the Fourth of July celebrations; we had contests; we had school activities; we had everything that is available in a town of that size. It was a glorious life. Many wonderful young people were my companions. I was always proud of the town and happy to live there. For some forty-five years, that was my h
Marriage is Honorable
Spencer W. Kimball | September 30, 1973
My beloved brothers and sisters of the ten stakes on the Brigham Young University campus, the song that was just sung by the choir so beautifully is my favorite, and I feel tonight that “I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord.” This is a most inspiring group of people, and I would say to you—as you know already—that the eyes of the world are upon you, the students of Brigham Young University. As I’ve come to talk to you tonight, I have come not to entertain you—there are others to do that—but to discuss with you some of the deeper things of the gospel program. Most of you are biological
Agency or Inspiration—Which?
Bruce R. McConkie | February 27, 1973
I’ve been many places with my wife when, as we have met members of the Church, stake presidencies, high councils, and the like, they’ve said to me: “We’re surely glad to meet you, Brother McConkie, and we’re most pleased to have Sister Smith with us.” I’ve assured her that that was all right with me, as long as they didn’t call me Brother Smith. And now that’s happened.* I’ve sought the Lord diligently, as is my custom, to be guided and directed this morning in what ought to be said—sought him both for myself and for you, so that I might speak and you might hear by the power of the H
Boyd K. Packer | April 14, 1970
An eternal marriage is worth every effort it requires. Don’t allow selfishness, petty grievances, or pride to stifle your family’s happiness. The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information.
Choose an Eternal Companion
Bruce R. McConkie | May 3, 1966
The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information.
Commitment to Temple Marriage
Mark E. Petersen | January 3, 1962
Commitment to temple marriage begins with dating worthy Saints. As you date, consider the covenants you intend to make and the home you wish to have. The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information.
New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage
Bruce R. McConkie | April 20, 1960
If we want our marriage to last beyond this life, we must be faithful to the new and everlasting covenant of marriage we’ve made with our spouse and God. The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information.
Building An Eternal Home
Gordon B. Hinckley | November 4, 1959
An eternal home is one where eternal covenants are made and kept. Strive for a temple marriage, and treasure your spouse and children. The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information.
Bruce R. McConkie | November 15, 1955
Five Ideals Contributing to a Happy and Enduring Marriage
David O. McKay | October 11, 1955
Elray L. Christiansen | February 4, 1953
Indescribable blessings come from eternal marriage. This speaker reminds young adults that temple marriage is an essential part of their journey to God. Speech highlight: “The Lord has provided the way and the power and the means and the authority by which the husband and the wife may thus dwell eternally. After its absence from the earth for hundreds of years, the Lord revealed in this dispensation in which we live the eternity of the marriage covenant. . . . This revelation and this restoration makes out of marriage
Whom Shall I Marry?
Spencer W. Kimball | March 4, 1952
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ACE Cash Express Donates $685,125 to March of Dimes
DALLAS, TX – ACE Cash Express, Inc., a leading retailer of financial services, announced today a donation of $685,125 to the March of Dimes in support of programs to improve the health of all babies.
This donation was made through ACE’s annual “Give a Little” campaign where ACE customers are asked to make a donation so that one day every baby will be born healthy.
“We are proud to partner with the March of Dimes in support of giving every baby a healthy start in life,” said ACE President and CEO Jay Shipowitz. “Our associates and customers are dedicated to this annual fundraiser and it is a true testament to ACE’s commitment to give back to the communities where we do business.”
Through the ACE Community Fund – ACE’s corporate giving program that focuses on children, education and financial literacy – ACE has donated more than $2.6 million to the March of Dimes. Since its inception, the ACE Community Fund has donated more than $3 million to charitable organizations throughout the nation.
“Thanks to the support of ACE, more moms will be able to get the information and services they need to have healthy babies,” said Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes. “We are grateful to every ACE store and every ACE customer for their caring and commitment.”
About ACE Cash Express
ACE Cash Express, Inc. is a leading retailer of financial services, including short-term consumer loans, check cashing, bill payment and prepaid debit card services. ACE is the largest owner and operator of check cashing stores in the United States and the second largest owner and operator of short-term consumer loan stores in the United States. As of December 1, 2009, ACE had a network of 1,742 stores in 38 states including the District of Columbia, consisting of 1,668 company-owned stores and 74 franchised stores. ACE focuses on serving consumers, many of whom seek alternatives to traditional banking relationships in order to gain convenient and immediate access to financial services. For additional information about ACE Cash Express, visit www.acecashexpress.com.
About The ACE Community Fund
Established in 2003, the ACE Cash Express Community Fund is the corporate giving program supporting organizations that help children, support education and promote financial literacy, and is focused on giving back to communities where ACE has stores. Each year, ACE sets aside one percent of the previous year’s net profit to support these worthwhile causes through the ACE Community Fund. Since its inception, the ACE Community Fund has donated more than $3 million to charitable organizations throughout the nation.
About March of Dimes
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies. For the latest resources and information, visit www.marchofdimes.com or www.nacersano.org.
Eric C. Norrington 972-550-5032
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Posts tagged ‘Virginia’
Lasting Creatively Told Stories
Coastal Moments
As I continue to work on my next project of writing a novel, I have enjoyed remembering the various legends and ghost stories of the area in which I grew up. A lot of the stories can be found in print or on the web, but I have been unable to find the story in print that was once told, almost 40 years ago, by a local near Sneads Ferry.
Many of the details are foggy, as I was truly young, but I remember that storyteller, aged from the winds of the coast, telling of an undying love between a sailor and his wife. The sailor was aboard a merchant ship that sailed the shores of Virginia and North Carolina. Somehow the sailor saves the woman’s life from being betrothed to a wicked, treacherous man of Virginia. One evening, he sneaks her aboard the ship to set sail for North Carolina. He cares for her and promises her the opportunity of freedom to find her true love. Once in North Carolina, she is happy and filled with dreams. She becomes his bride, but claims it is not enough and promises to repay the gift. Of course, before she can repay, she dies at a young age, and I was told she was buried with a frown of despair due to unfinished business with her husband. As the story goes, the sailor remained a sad loner that lived near her grave and lost meaning to living without her love. Later or perhaps years, her husband refused to leave the area near his home and wife’s grave when a storm was approaching and with warning. A hurricane swept the coastline and took the man from his home to be claimed by the sea, but he grabbed a hold of wood that was floating by and was washed ashore. As I was told, it was her coffin that he had grabbed, and when opened, she had a smile upon her face because she had given back the same gift and saved her husband. It was her love that saved him that day and gave meaning to continue to exist until old age gave him the opportunity to join his wife. The local shared as the ending to the story that it has been sighted, a couple hand-in-hand, both smiling as they gaze into each other’s eyes, walk into the waves, and then disappear.
These stories and legends can stay with me from the memories of how they were creatively told. These stories of the past can give meaning to the present. This story of love goes beyond the fairytale of “happily ever after”, but gives substance and purpose to love. It gives meaning to a Love that can rescue and offers the promise to give, which touches the heart to defend, preserve and protect that which can live forever.
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Column: A WWII letter mystery is finally solved
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Last Sunday, Kathleen Grimmett of Austin, Texas, was on the Internet trying to find information about her parents, Bill and Billie Lamb. Billie was her mother’s nickname; her given name was Vera. Ms. Grimmett’s father was a World War II veteran who wrote hundreds of letters home from France and Germany to his wife in Orlando, Fla.
Her mom, who was born in Montana, loved to draw pictures of cowboys and bucking broncos and women in beautiful gowns.
In doing her Internet search, looking under her parents’ names, she found a story that ran July 27 in the Riverhead News-Review and The Suffolk Times about an extraordinary cache of hundreds of letters from “Bill,” written in Europe in 1944 and 1945 to his wife back home in Orlando. The thick folders of letters also contained dozens of drawings signed by “Billie Phelps.”
Ms. Grimmett did not know much about her dad, who died in 1956 when she was just 3. Her mom, whose maiden name was Phelps, died in 1997 at age 85. It was her desire to find out anything she could about them, and to flesh out their genealogy, that brought her to Google Sunday afternoon.
The documents were found two years ago in the crawl space of a house in Orlando. The owner of the house, John Kurpetski, was selling the house and when he cleaned it out he found the letters and drawings and didn’t know what to do with them. His mother, Pat Kurpetski of Calverton, was visiting her son when he was moving and, knowing they would mean something to a family somewhere, brought the material back. She had them in a closet until sharing with them with these newspapers, where a column headlined: “A WWII mystery: Who made drawings?” appeared over a story about the discovery.
Ms. Kurpetski knew the letters and drawings would be important to someone. She told the editor who called her, “I hope I can find the family they belong to.”
When Ms. Grimmett saw the story, she broke out crying. The letters were written by her father and the drawings were made by her mother, who was born Vera Phelps in Kansas. She moved to Castle Butte, Mont. at age 10 and then to Florida when she was 19. She could not fathom how they’d been left in a house her parents had not lived in for decades, nor could she comprehend how they stayed there, safe and untouched.
That after all this time her father’s letters home and her mom’s Montana drawings will be given to their daughter is, for Ms. Grimmett, fantastic.
“It was a miracle,” she said. “I can’t believe it. I just can’t believe it. I am so happy.”
Vera “Billie” Phelps was born in Montana in 1911 and moved with her parents to Florida as a teenager. She met her future husband, Bill Lamb, who went into the U.S. Army in 1944 and soon found himself in France. As a married couple, they owned the Orlando house and, over the years, Ms. Grimmett never saw a red folder of her mother’s drawings and a bound book of hundreds of her father’s letters home.
A typical letter is one her father wrote from Germany after the surrender, addressed to “Stick,” which was another nickname he had for his wife.
“That referred to ‘stick in the mud,’” Ms. Grimmett said. “My dad died when he was only 42. This will tell me so much more about him. I think it’s a miracle.”
For Ms. Kurpetski, the material being returned to the Lambs’ daughter is a stroke of good fortune.
“When I brought it back from Florida it sat in my house. I wasn’t sure what to do with it,” she said. “This is a very good ending. I’m glad the letters and drawings will find a good home.”
Top courtesy photo: Billie and Bill Lamb in an undated photo.
Correction: Bill Lamb was 42 when he died, not 45. Ms. Lamb died in 1997, not the early ’80s and she was born in Kansas before moving to Montana at age 10.
Steve Wick is the executive editor of the Times Review Media Group. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Congressional Power to Immunize the President Against State Court Litigation
Michael C. Dorf
Cross-posted from Dorf on Law
In a post on Thursday of last week, I noted a friendly disagreement with Prof. Josh Blackman over a question that is, at this point, entirely theoretical. The two of us, along with Prof. Ben Zipursky, were guests on a KPCC radio show to discuss Zervos v. Trump. We all agreed that the NYS trial court judge correctly ruled that the president lacks temporary immunity from suit in state court, an issue that had been left open by the Supreme Court in Clinton v. Jones. Josh and I agreed that Congress could provide the immunity the president sought by statute, but he thinks such immunity could only apply in federal court, not state court, because Congress controls the jurisdiction of the federal courts but has substantially less control over what happens in state court. In response, I wrote:
I don't think that a law granting the president temporary immunity to suits would be about jurisdiction at all. It would be a rule of substantive law, like the provision of federal law that grants service members relief from civil litigation during their service. That law applies in state court and so would a law protecting the president. If Congress has the power to enact such a substantive rule -- as the Court correctly assumed in Jones -- then it could be made to apply in state as well as federal court.
On Friday of last week, Josh published a thoughtful reply in which he raised some objections. Although I fear that he and I may be the only two people in the world who care about this very-likely-to-remain-hypothetical question, here I'll respond in turn. My bottom line is that I think some of the hypothetical cases he raises are indeed problematic, but not in the same way that he thinks.
Before coming to Josh's examples, let me first make my affirmative case a bit more forcefully. We can begin by asking what power Congress exercises when it confers federal immunity -- whether temporary or permanent -- to state law causes of action. Consider the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, which was cited by the SCOTUS in Jones in support of the proposition that Congress, by providing temporary immunity for service members but not for the Commander in Chief, had made a judgment to deny the president such immunity. As I noted last week, the immunity granted by that Act as amended protects against civil suits under state or federal law in state or federal court.
What affirmative power was Congress exercising when it passed and amended the Soldiers' and Sailors' Relief Act? Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution empowers Congress "To raise and support Armies" and "To provide and maintain a Navy." To support and maintain the army and navy (as well as the Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard), Congress can enact legislation removing obstacles to effective service. Private lawsuits against active duty service members may interfere with their service, and the statute provides that, if so, the service members are entitled to temporary immunity. The Act is thus necessary and proper to carrying out Congress's enumerated powers for the national defense.
What about a hypothetical law giving the president a similar temporary immunity? The president has the constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Congress could determine that the distraction of private lawsuits would interfere with the president's ability to do so. That, in turn, would undermine the enforcement of the laws that Congress has enacted pursuant to its various enumerated powers. Accordingly, a law granting temporary immunity to the president would be necessary and proper to carrying out the congressional powers that underwrite the various laws Congress has enacted and given over to executive enforcement.
Crucially, nothing in the foregoing argument turns on where the president (or a service member in the case of the actual law already on the books) happens to be sued or on what the source of the cause of action is. The distraction of litigation--wherever it occurs and based on whatever source of law--is the evil to be addressed by temporary immunity. Thus, in my view, there is clear affirmative power in Congress to provide the president with temporary immunity to civil litigation. Although Josh invokes ostensible limits on congressional power with respect to state court jurisdiction, nothing in the argument I've just described has anything to do with Congress's power to set jurisdictional rules, because the temporary immunity of service members and the temporary immunity of the president (if Congress were to confer it) are substantive rules of law, not limits on jurisdiction.
Against all of this, Josh indicates four sorts of limits. I'll agree in part with two of them and disagree with the other two
(1) Substantive due process. Under Boddie v. Connecticut and related cases, there is a constitutional right to a divorce. Josh asks whether it would be constitutional for Congress to enact a law that had the effect of disabling the spouse of the president from obtaining a divorce for up to eight years. He implies that such a law would violate the spouse's right to a divorce. I agree. (I set to one side the question whether the immunity granted by our hypothetical statute would actually apply if a no-fault divorce were sought by the non-president spouse.)
(2) Procedural due process. More broadly, there may be circumstances in which justice delayed is justice denied. For certain kinds of injunctive relief -- an action to abate a nuisance brought by the owner of property adjacent to property owned by the president, say, -- a too-long delay could amount to a denial of procedural due process.
To be sure, the issue is complicated by the fact that Congress might be able to give a president permanent immunity against some private lawsuits. Despite the maxim for every right a remedy, the law sometimes immunizes all the potential defendants to lawsuits seeking to vindicate legal rights. That, in itself, is permissible. And one might think that if Congress can grant permanent immunity, surely it can take the lesser step of granting temporary immunity. That's probably right, although the greater power does not always include the lesser power.
In any event, however one resolves these issues, the key point with respect to both cases (1) and (2) is that they have nothing to do with limits on the affirmative power of Congress or jurisdiction. We can see that by imagining that state law gave a defendant to a divorce action or other action for injunctive relief a right to delay for four or eight years. The problem then would be a violation of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, directly applicable to the state. In other words, the exact same objection would obtain to the exact same degree, without any action at all by Congress. Thus, the problem in these hypothetical cases has nothing to do with any limits on the power of Congress to limit the jurisdiction of state courts.
(Josh may not disagree. He discusses the due process issue as an "additional problem," so I suspect he thinks this point is not about jurisdiction. But he weaves it into his discussion of jurisdiction, so I'm not sure whether he thinks the due process argument advances his broader view about limits on congressional power regarding state court jurisdiction.)
(3) Tenth Amendment. Josh writes: "Congress . . . lacks the power to divest the state courts of jurisdiction or authority over matters that are not delegated to Congress, but are reserved to the states, and the people." That's right as far as it goes, but it doesn't go very far.
Domestic relations fall within the reserved powers of the states for the most part. That means that Congress could not prescribe a comprehensive national marriage code or child custody law. However, Congress can use the powers it does have to regulate in ways that have an impact on domestic relations or other matters that are otherwise within states' regulatory authority.
For example, federal tax law, ERISA, and numerous other federal statutes create financial incentives and disincentives for marriage, which in turn affect whether people take advantage of state law creating the marriage relationship. More broadly, areas that are reserved to state regulation because Congress lacks general lawmaking authority in such areas can be affected by federal legislation where Congress exercises some enumerated power that intersects the otherwise state-reserved area. And that's exactly what happens with the Soldiers' and Sailors' Relief Act as well as the hypothetical law granting a president temporary immunity from civil lawsuits.
(4) Necessary & Proper. In NFIB v. Sebelius, Chief Justice Roberts invoked a category identified by John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland: "great substantive and independent power[s]" that cannot be inferred via the Necessary & Proper Clause but can only be granted in terms. Roberts thought that issuing purchase mandates was such a power. Josh cites a recent article he wrote in which he contends that stripping state courts of jurisdiction over cases that otherwise fall within their jurisdiction is likewise a great substantive and independent power that Congress lacks. I'm not persuaded, but even supposing Josh is right about this point in general, his argument does not apply here, because, to repeat, in conferring temporary immunity on the president, Congress would not be regulating jurisdiction at all.
We can see the point most clearly by imagining a federal statutory defense to a state law cause of action. Suppose plaintiff, a cigarette smoker who develops lung cancer, sues defendant, a tobacco company, in state court for the state law tort of failure to warn. The tobacco company would successfully bring a motion to dismiss on the ground that its cigarettes were labeled in conformity with the federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act. The federal Act is not an exercise of any purported federal power to control the jurisdiction of the state courts. It's a regulation of interstate commerce, and it pre-empts state efforts via tort law to impose a requirement of additional warnings beyond those required by federal law (as the SCOTUS held in the Cipolone case).
Perhaps a more charitable way of saying the foregoing is that in the very language Josh quotes from his own law review article, he supposes that federal law does not pre-empt state law, so that Congress really is attempting to exercise a power to strip state courts of jurisdiction without supplying any substantive federal law that displaces state law. But that's not true with respect to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Relief Act or our hypothetical federal law granting the president temporary immunity. Those laws pre-empt state law to the extent that state law permits the cases to go forward immediately.
Accordingly, although I think it would be a bad idea and that it won't happen, Congress could, if it so chose, grant the president temporary immunity from civil actions in state as well as federal court during his or her presidency, subject to an as-applied challenge where--as in the divorce and nuisance examples--the denial to plaintiffs of quicker court access would violate substantive or procedural due process.
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Hey, Gov. Rauner, take a look at this billionaire governor who taxed the rich and increased the minimum wage -- Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country (by Carl Gibson)
“…When he took office in January of 2011, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton inherited a $6.2 billion budget deficit and a 7 percent unemployment rate from his predecessor, Tim Pawlenty, the soon-forgotten Republican candidate for the presidency who called himself Minnesota's first true fiscally-conservative governor in modern history.
“Pawlenty prided himself on never raising state taxes -- the most he ever did to generate new revenue was increase the tax on cigarettes by 75 cents a pack. Between 2003 and late 2010, when Pawlenty was at the head of Minnesota's state government, he managed to add only 6,200 more jobs.
“During his first four years in office, Gov. Dayton raised the state income tax from 7.85 to 9.85 percent on individuals earning over $150,000, and on couples earning over $250,000 when filing jointly -- a tax increase of $2.1 billion. He's also agreed to raise Minnesota's minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2018, and passed a state law guaranteeing equal pay for women.
“Republicans like state representative Mark Uglem warned against Gov. Dayton's tax increases, saying, ‘The job creators, the big corporations, the small corporations, they will leave. It's all dollars and sense to them.’
“…Between 2011 and 2015, Gov. Dayton added 172,000 new jobs to Minnesota's economy -- that's 165,800 more jobs in Dayton's first term than Pawlenty added in both of his terms combined. Even though Minnesota's top income tax rate is the 4th-highest in the country, it has the 5th-lowest unemployment rate in the country at 3.6 percent. According to 2012-2013 U.S. census figures, Minnesotans had a median income that was $10,000 larger than the U.S. average, and their median income is still $8,000 more than the U.S. average today.
“By late 2013, Minnesota's private sector job growth exceeded pre-recession levels, and the state's economy was the 5th fastest-growing in the United States. Forbes even ranked Minnesota the 9th-best state for business (Scott Walker's ‘Open for Business’ Wisconsin came in at a distant #32 on the same list). Despite the fear mongering over businesses fleeing from Dayton's tax cuts, 6,230 more Minnesotans filed in the top income tax bracket in 2013, just one year after Dayton's tax increases went through.
“As of January 2015, Minnesota has a $1 billion budget surplus, and Gov. Dayton has pledged to reinvest more than one third of that money into public schools. And according to Gallup, Minnesota's economic confidence is higher than any other state.
“Gov. Dayton didn't accomplish all of these reforms by shrewdly manipulating people -- this article describes Dayton's astonishing lack of charisma and articulateness. He isn't a class warrior driven by a desire to get back at the 1 percent -- Dayton is a billionaire heir to the Target fortune. It wasn't just a majority in the legislature that forced him to do it -- Dayton had to work with a Republican-controlled legislature for his first two years in office. And unlike his Republican neighbor to the east, Gov. Dayton didn't assert his will over an unwilling populace by creating obstacles between the people and the vote -- Dayton actually created an online voter registration system, making it easier than ever for people to register to vote.
“The reason Gov. Dayton was able to radically transform Minnesota's economy into one of the best in the nation is simple arithmetic. Raising taxes on those who can afford to pay more will turn a deficit into a surplus. Raising the minimum wage will increase the median income. And in a state where education is a budget priority and economic growth is one of the highest in the nation, it only makes sense that more businesses would stay. It's official -- trickle-down economics is bunk. Minnesota has proven it once and for all. If you believe otherwise, you are wrong.”
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Posted on Thursday, 14 February 2019 by The Sirocco Times in Hutt River, Obituaries // 0 Comments
PRINCE OF THE OUTBACK: Prince Leonard and his wife, Princess Shirley, pictured in Hutt River. Prince Leonard died yesterday aged 93, joining Princess Shirley, who died in 2013 aged 84.
Havilland, WE, Feb 14 · 2 Sedan 73 – Prince Leonard, a former wheat farmer who established the Principality of Hutt River in 1970, died yesterday. He was 93.
Prince Leonard’s death was announced in a media release by the Hutt River government. He had been admitted to hospital on the weekend due to a chest infection, however despite promising early signs, his condition deteriorated, members of his family were called and remained with him in his last days. Prince Graeme, his youngest son and the reigning prince, said that he remained lucid and aware until his last few hours.
Prince Leonard died at the St John of God Hospital in Geraldton at 9:45am WST (2:45pm SDT) with his family at his bedside. Prince Graeme extended his thanks to those who had provided their support and messages of condolences.
In response to the Prince’s death, the Hutt River government has announced three weeks’ mourning, during which time the border will be closed to visitors until Monday, March 4 (20 Sedan). All Hutt River flags, wherever they are flown, have been ordered to fly at half-mast until the end of the period of mourning.
The Prince of the Outback
Prince Leonard was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on 27 August 1925 (12 Baker 20 BT). Growing up in both Australia’s rugged outback and in urban Fremantle, he left school at the age of 14 and worked as a clerk for a shipping company. At 18, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force, and served in Australia and on Borneo. At a wartime dance, he met Shirley Joy Butler from suburban Perth; they wed on April 19, 1947 (5 Manhattan 1), and were married for some 66 years, until her death in 2013 at the age of 84.
Following the war, he bought a wheat and sheep farm, and eventually expanded it to some 28,500 acres (11,500 hectares) before selling it and moving to Perth, where he built a block of sixty flats. With his sons leaving school and wanting to return to farming, he travelled the state before settling on a farm near Northampton, 517 kilometres (354 miles) north of Perth in 1969.
Prince Leonard and his sons cleared 5,600 hectares and produced 14,700 bushels of wheat before being informed by the West Australian Wheat Board that they would only pay him for ten per cent of it, based on the average production of the past seven years. With no chance of compensation or appeal, Prince Leonard established Hutt River on April 21, 1970 (7 Manhattan 24). He later claimed he took the move to declare independence to prevent the government from compulsorily acquiring more than 9,900 acres (4,000 hectares) of his land.
He remained locked in a series of battles with the Australian Taxation Office over the years. In June 2017, he was ordered to pay more than A$2.7 million in unpaid taxes, while his son Arthur was ordered to pay A$240,000. Despite the numerous legal disputes Hutt River was involved in, its motto of “While I Breathe, I Hope”, and mantra “We’re still here” were kept dear.
Hutt River declared war on Australia in 1977 in response to then-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s “hostility” towards the principality, although this was rescinded a few days later.
Despite the Australian government not recognising Hutt River’s independence, the nation was the subject of a number of news pieces over the years. The nation is featured in a “Separation” exhibition in the National Museum of Australia, while in 2005 the nation was given historic status by the Shire of Northampton, owing to its “high historic and social significance as the site of Australia’s only independent principality.”
Hutt River received a letter from Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 for the principality’s 46th anniversary, in response to Prince Leonard’s congratulations on the Queen’s 90th birthday.
Prince Leonard abdicated after 46 years in favour of his youngest son, Graeme, on February 11, 2017 (27 Plowshare 71), owing to poor health. He had suffered from emphysema for some 20 years.
He is survived by seven children, 22 grandchildren, and 33 great-grandchildren. Plans for his funeral are yet to be finalised, however it was the Prince’s wish that he be cremated and his ashes be scattered.
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There Are Many Ways to Go Greek at Emerson
Hannah Perrin '16 is president of Greek Life at Emerson College.
As the fall semester enters its second month, Emerson College’s eight recognized sororities and fraternities are celebrating the induction of their new pledges.
According to Jason Meier, director of Student Activities at Emerson, the core values of all College-recognized Greek organizations on campus are academics, leadership, service, and brotherhood and sisterhood. He said what makes Emerson Greek life stand out in particular is each chapter’s civic engagement in Boston and beyond.
“We focus on the betterment of ourselves, of Emerson, and of the greater community around us,” Meier said. “There are so many great things that Greek life can bring to a community like Emerson, and we always want to make sure we’re bringing those great things.”
Some of those great things include Kappa Gamma Chi’s annual Emerald Empowerment campaign against violence against women, and Alpha Epsilon Phi’s philanthropic commitment to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Sharsheret, which helps those diagnosed with breast cancer.
Phi Alpha Tau also made national headlines in 2013 when members raised money to cover gender reassignment surgery costs for one of its members.
Kenzie Woodrow ’17, a member of Zeta Phi Eta, said that part of what makes Emerson’s Greek organizations so connected to the community is the relatively small size of the campus.
“It’s a much more intimate experience,” she said. “Think about Emerson students and how we’re so different, so Greek Life here is inherently so different.”
Hannah Perrin ’16, president of Emerson College Greek Life, agrees.
“Emerson Greek Life is unique because we are very small compared to other schools,” she said. “But we are also very similar to Greek Life as a whole because we are all striving for the loyal relationships in our organizations. We want a family who is proud to be a part of our family.”
Kenzie Woodrow ’17, a Zeta Phi Eta member
The sense of community in Emerson’s Greek organizations doesn’t stop when a brother or sister graduates. Fraternities and sororities are lifelong networks of past, present, and future members with unbreakable bonds, which can come in handy when members are looking for internships, post-graduate employment, or even just a friendly face.
Woodrow recalls her trip to Los Angeles during spring break last year. She said she connected with Zeta’s professional chapter in LA, and was able to find places to stay throughout the week because of Zeta alumni.
“Zeta has connected me to so many alumni whom I wouldn’t have met otherwise,” Woodrow said. “Greek Life is really about family at Emerson, and I think that’s what’s important.”
Photos by Victoria Bilcik '17
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Our goal is to improve the understanding and protection of birds and their habitats through monitoring, research and education.
As a globally significant Important Bird Area and “urban wilderness” on the Toronto
waterfront, TTP provides a unique location to monitor bird populations and offer outreach and
education programs.
TTPBRS is an initiative of Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and is operated in partnership with the Toronto and Region Conservation Foundation (formerly The Living City Foundation).
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Birds play an important role in our ecosystems. They pollinate plants, disperse seeds, eat insects and rodents, and are eaten by mammals and reptiles.
They are also indicator species: they are highly sensitive to environmental changes and hazards (think Canary in a coal mine) and can provide early warning that something is wrong. We get this warning by monitoring bird populations over time.
It’s best to undertake population counts when birds are breeding, but, many birds do so in faraway and remote locations. Fortunately, they migrate through accessible regions on the way to winter grounds. As such, we monitor migratory birds to track changes in their populations. Long-term monitoring and analysis guides regional, national and international environmental conservation efforts.
Did you know: Toronto is a migratory bird superhighway. Millions of birds migrate through the city spring and fall.
Did you know: Tommy Thompson Park is a globally significant Important Bird Area. It is a critical stopover point for birds as they migrate over Lake Ontario between Toronto and New York State.
Did you know: There are more than 10,000 species of birds around the world, all with different habitat needs?
Many songbirds breed and winter in remote locations, making it difficult to measure their populations accurately. Therefore, we monitor birds during migration, as they travel through rural and urban areas between their end destinations. Migration monitoring consists of a daily census count and bird banding.
TTPBRS is a member of the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network, one of 26 stations across Canada that collect regular capture (banding) and observation data during spring and fall migration. We submit data to the national bird banding office where it adds to an international database. From there it contributes to reporting on North American bird populations and guides conservation efforts in the Western Hemisphere.
At Tommy Thompson Park we use the migration monitoring data to study stopover ecology and help plan our restoration and conservation projects. We have banded more than 70,000 birds at TTPBRS since opening in spring 2003!
We monitor breeding bird populations and their habitats at Tommy Thompson Park through the Breeding Bird Survey. We attempt to find all bird nests within the park and track their productivity during the summer months. Our historical breeding bird list now contains 70 species! The Breeding Bird Survey results also guide habitat restoration and ecological management at TTP.
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Weekends and holidays from dawn to approximately noon: April 1 to June 9; August 5 to November 12
Did you know: We are only accessible by foot or bike. TTPBRS is approximately 2.5 kilometres from the parking lot.
Park rules: No dogs, no motorized vehicles.
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You can assist local bird conservation efforts by lending your support to the TTPBRS. The long-term operation of TTPBRS and the successful delivery of its programs are dependent on support from the local community. We need support in the form of volunteers and donors.
Volunteers lend valuable assistance to us and in return receive training and a rewarding experience with birds in the field. We typically have space for 20-30 volunteers per year although there are usually no more than 5 vacancies per year.
Volunteers help in many ways, including bird banding and surveys, nest searching, data management, habitat assessment, maintenance, administration and interpretive duties.
Training is provided to those selected as participants in any of our programs. Some of our volunteers who began their training at TTPBRS have gone on to work as biologists across North America including Ohio, British Columbia, Costa Rica and various locations in Ontario.
Since opening the research station we have received a high level of interest in volunteering for our monitoring programs, but unfortunately because space is limited we cannot provide opportunities for everyone in these programs. Applicants with suitable skills and a genuine passion for birds or intend to pursue a career in ornithology are given priority for participation in bird monitoring programs.
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TTPBRS is operated by Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) with support from the Toronto and Region Conservation Foundation (formerly The Living City Foundation), a non-profit registered charity. 100% of your donation to TTPBRS supports our monitoring, research and outreach and education programs.
The Toronto and Region Conservation Foundation is an independently-governed charitable organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the natural environment in the Toronto region. Donations to TTPBRS are gratefully received either on-site at the research station or online donation via the Toronto and Region Conservation Foundation.
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Maine's Beaches are Public Property
cases, insofar as they define ownership of and public rights on intertidal lands, were wrongly decided.
This volume, after exploring many of the errors in the Bell cases, urges Maine’s highest court (or the U.S. Supreme Court) to reexamine the rationale and holding of both Bell cases. Judicial errors, whether of short- or long-standing, can and should be corrected. Delogu firmly believes that a reexamination of the errors and the issues ignored by the Bell courts will lead a reexamining court to conclude that title to intertidal lands in Maine is held by the state in trust for the public, except for small areas addressed in an amendment to Maine’s Submerged Lands Act—areas actually filled at some time in the past pursuant to commercial “wharfing out” needs.
No one chapter ineluctably leads to the conclusion that Maine holds title to its intertidal lands, but taken together they make a compelling argument that this is in fact the case. Each chapter has an extensive set of endnotes (worth reading as one moves through the volume) that complement and support arguments made in the text—all with an eye to prompting Maine’s highest court (or the U.S. Supreme Court) to reexamine and ultimately overturn the Bell cases. This will reestablish in Maine widely shared principles of law—intertidal lands (with limited exceptions) are incapable of private ownership—title to these lands is held by the state in trust for the public, part of the jus publicum.
Published 2017. ISBN: 978-0-9989798-9-2
Orlando E. Delogu received a BS in Economics from the University of Utah as well as an MS degree in Economics and a JD degree from the University of Wisconsin. During these years he worked for the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources; his primary interests were environmental law and urban land use problems.
He and his family came to Maine in 1966 where Orlando joined the University of Maine School of Law faculty. He has been associated with the School for 51 years, 40 as a full-time member of the faculty; 11 as Emeritus Professor of Law.
Beyond his academic responsibilities, Professor Delogu helped found the Maine Civil Liberties Union; served two years on the ACLU’s national board, and two years as MCLU’s 2nd President. He instrumental in hiring the first Executive Director and opening the first MCLU office.
He served on the State Board of Environmental Protection for five years; was elected to the Portland City Council; and served another five years on the Portland Planning Board.
Professor Delogu also has published more than 300 op-eds in the Maine Times, Casco Bay Weekly, Maine Lawyers Review, Press Herald, Forecaster, West End News offering suggestions and critical comment on environmental, land use, and governmental issues of the day.
Going back 35 years he has worked with others in the submission of four Law Court amicus briefs on intertidal land issues and has independently published five major articles addressing aspects of these issues. This background prompted the writing of this volume summarizing Professor Delogu’s confirmed view that Maine’s present intertidal land law is incorrectly decided. He plans to spend the next year speaking and urging that it be corrected.
Richard E. Barringer, Ph.D. (MIT); Emeritus Professor, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine; former Commissioner, Maine Department of Conservation, and former Director, Maine State Planning Office
Here, a distinguished scholar of land use law and ceaseless advocate for the common good makes the case that Maine’s Law Court has failed utterly to protect the public’s right to full use of Maine’s thousands of miles of intertidal lands. Orlando Delogu makes a complete and compelling case, well and thoughtfully argued. It will interest anyone who travels, lives, or works along the coast; who wishes to see our courts better protect public rights; or who simply wishes to enjoy the splendid beauty of Maine.
Edgar A. Beem, BA (USM); MS (Simmons College); Journalist and Newspaper Columnist
For generations, the understanding and practice along the Maine Coast was that the intertidal zone was in the public domain, as it is in most states. Mainers were shocked, therefore, when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 1989 that the only rights they had in the intertidal zone were for “fishing, fowling and navigation.” In “Maine’s Beaches are Public Property” Emeritus Professor of Law Orlando Delogu argues powerfully and persuasively that the Law Court got it wrong and that their decision needs to be reviewed in the public interest. I wholeheartedly concur.
Edwin A. Churchill, Ph.D. (University of Maine, Orono); Expert Witness, Specialist in the history of Maine’s early settlement
The Maine Law Court’s controversial decisions in the late 1980s to privatize Maine intertidal lands after 300 plus years of public use was instantly controversial. Subsequent legal and historical research has revealed much that the court overlooked, ignored, brushed aside or misconstrued in its ruling. Professor Delogu’s book systematically identifies and thoroughly examines the many shortcomings in the court’s deeply flawed decisions. In fact, he indisputably demonstrates that Maine’s beaches have always been open to a broad range of public uses. Well researched and carefully argued, this book is, by far, the single best legal treatise on the subject.
Martha Freeman, Esq., BA (Hampshire College); MS (USM); JD (University of Maine School of Law); former Director, Maine State Planning Office and former Director, Maine Legislature’s Office of Policy and Legal Analysis
In a lifetime of scholarship and public service, Professor Orlando Delogu has done nothing more important than present the case contained in “Maine’s Beaches are Public Property.” For litigants, lawyers, legislators, judges, and state and town officials concerned with questions of intertidal zone ownership in Maine, this book is vital reading. But its greatest gift is to all Maine people who love our coastline. No one should live in exile from the Maine shore. Professor Delogu argues masterfully and persuasively that the historical and legal records are on the public’s side.
Peggy L. McGehee, Esq., BA (Wellesley); MPA (Princeton); JD (Georgetown/ University of Maine School of Law); expertise in land use law with Perkins Thompson law firm since 1980; Co-Author, Maine Civil Remedies (4th ed.)
Professor Delogu’s book is a thorough and laser-clear legal history of the public’s right to use Maine’s beaches. It is also a playbook for both litigants and the Law Court in any future public rights beach case; it persuasively argues for the reversal of the Bell I and II decisions to restore the original pre-Bell rights in the public to use Maine’s intertidal lands for any and all purposes delineated by the Legislature.
Charles H. Norchi, BA (Harvard); J.S.D. (Yale); Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law; Director, Center for Oceans & Coastal Law
I write in strong support of an important book authored by Professor Orlando Delogu, “Maine’s Beaches Are Public Property: The Bell Cases Must Be Reexamined.”As Center Director at the Law School I follow Maine and global coastal issues closely. Professor Delogu’s manuscript is a clarion call for a more equitable balance of public and private uses of Maine’s intertidal lands that only a reexamination of the Bell cases can achieve. This book, though focused on Maine, will earn a wide audience among coastal states in the United States and abroad where citizens seek to accommodate similarly competing demands.
Lee Schepps, Esq., B.S. (Union College, N.Y.); LLB (Southern Methodist University); former Staff Attorney, Maine A.G.’s Office; Co-counsel in Maine’s Public Lots Cases
Orlando Delogu has a long and distinguished career in environmental law and, especially, in matters relating to land use. This book touches directly on a subject of great importance to all those who value and enjoy the coast of Maine. Reconsideration of precedent is never an easy task. This carefully researched, well-argued book makes a compelling case to do so, and deserves wide readership.
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Item 9: Questions of Human Rights Violations in Any Part of the World (Vieques)
Submitted by scottop on 3 April 2003
March 17 - April 24, 2003
Palais des Nations, Geneva
Dominicans for Justice and Peace, in conjunction with Franciscans International and the Human Rights Committee of Dominicans and Franciscans of Puerto Rico, brings to the attention of the UN Commission on Human Rights the situation of human rights of the people of Vieques in Puerto Rico.
Vieques is a 54 square-mile island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is one of Puerto Rico’s municipalities with a population of about 9,400. It is used by the United States Navy, NATO countries and arms manufacturers for military training, as well as the testing of conventional and non-conventional weapons and munitions, including depleted uranium.
The use of Vieques as a testing ground and target practice has been going on for the past 60 years. Bombing is carried out as often as 200 days a year, and at all hours of the day or night. These exercises are a violation of the economic, social and cultural rights of the people of Vieques as well as causing major degradation of the environment. They also have a detrimental impact on the livelihood of the people and serious effects on their health. Among some of the effects, the local economy has stagnated, the health of the residents has been gravely affected, the marine life is destroyed and the air is polluted.
However, we recognize the decision of the United States government to end the sixty years of bombing, war-games and testing of conventional and non-conventional weapons on Puerto Rico's island municipality of Vieques. It is our hope that this will be achieved, as promised, by May 1, 2003.
On the other hand, we express our concern with the failure of the United States to commit itself to remedy the ecological devastation wreaked by those sixty years of war on the environment. Multiple studies show that the presence of highly toxic materials, including depleted uranium and heavy metals continues to endanger the health of the people of Vieques.
It has been admitted that the U.S.S. Killen, presently lying in shallow waters less 900 meters off the coast of Vieques, was used to test nuclear weapons in the Pacific in 1958. This represents evidence of a clear and continuing danger to the life and health of the people of Vieques, as well as an admission that agents of chemical and/or biological warfare and depleted uranium have been used there.
We note the repeated decisions of the courts of the United States deferring to the military when confronted by claims of damage to the environment and human health, and we note as well the lack of access of the people of Puerto Rico to normal democratic channels for expressing their will to those responsible for deciding the fate of the lands and seas of Vieques.
We are also concerned by the refusal of the United States to commit itself to return more than half of all the land of Vieques (19,000 of 33,000 acres) it expropriated, to the people of Puerto Rico, and its determination to permanently place off limits, rather than clean up, its 900 acre "live impact area." These decisions impinge on the Viequenses' right to development and appropriate use of all their lands and resources.
Therefore, Dominicans for Justice and Peace, in conjunction with Franciscans International and the Human Rights Committee of Dominicans and Franciscans of Puerto Rico,
recommends that the UN Commission on Human Rights examine the situation of human rights violations in Vieques,
asks the UN Commission to urge the government of the United States to decontaminate fully all the areas of Vieques it has used and return them to the people so the residents of Vieques enjoy the right to use and develop their lands, seas and natural resources.
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The wind turbine that provides electricity for the operation of Williams Stone Company in East Otis, Massachusetts, dominates the firm's yard. The company had donated adjacent property to the town of Otis for a much larger turbine that would have supplied enough power -- and then some -- for the operation of the town.
Power company fees could jeopardize town turbine project
By Heather Bellow Wednesday, Sep 30, 2015 News 14
East Otis — Deep in the woods here, where wild turkeys conduct busy roadside affairs and where the occasional moose steps out to the sound of screeching tires, the colors turn from the greens and reds of fall to shades of gray at the end of a dirt road, where a company that supplies granite curbing to everyone west of Worcester makes twice its own electricity and adds the runover to the power grid.
Williams Stone Company, Inc. sits on 30 acres “carved out of the wilderness,” as C.E.O. Edwin Williams put it, and fuels its quarrying and stonecutting operation with one continuously running wind turbine that after 6 years of operation has already paid for its $1.7 million price tag. It is a small turbine — small by today’s standards.
A ride around the site in Williams’ pickup reveals row after row of granite slabs; it’s hard to fathom the weight loads involved in this enterprise. The Lee native says he’s done it all in this trade as long as he can remember, working with his father since “before kindergarten.”
The $20 million a year company — “granite by the foot or by the mile” — is a part owner of a vast quarry in Georgia, which supplies 96 percent of the company’s granite, and hauls 400 tons a day, 900 miles by rail, to Westfield before it is trucked to East Otis. Here it is cut and sent as far away as Ohio and Virginia. Closer to home, Great Barrington’s Main Street now sports the Georgia granite variety. The 100-year-old quarry at company headquarters here is comparatively small —this one goes deeper and deeper, and continues, in a Mines of Moria fashion.
The entrance to the Williams Stone Company quarry in East Otis. Photo: Heather Bellow
Williams, whose parents Lester Williams and Verna Stone started the company in 1947, says the turbine fits the company’s commitment to self-containment. The company is now owned by its 45 employees and doesn’t take on debt, which means, for instance, that when the turbine’s recommended gearbox replacement comes up in the next five years or so, the company will shell out for the upgrade, which Williams says he guesses will cost around $225,000. More than half the maintenance, he added, is done by Williams Stone employees.
“We run on cash,” he said.
When Gov. Deval Patrick was in office, he had a grand tour. “I thought he was just going to make a speech,” Williams said, “but he wanted to see everything. It was unforgettable that he took the time.”
A photo of the Williams Stone quarry in 1974.
Two men are manning large computer monitors, in what looks like a control room in the “office.” Beyond it are hard-hat signs and the sounds of machinery. In the conference room, the walls are hung with granite samples and photos of the two quarries from which they come. Engineering plans lay open on the glass table. A dry erase board is filled with quotes, including one from Bill Gates: “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces men into thinking they can’t be wrong.”
Today the turbine is still; it needs preventative work and a repair. In the morning fog it looms eerily; its height is jarring until you get used to it. And it is planted right in the middle of the company’s 30 acres. Williams said it wasn’t a decision to put it in the center, but that’s just how it turned out. He said deciding to get a turbine was like getting married. “We figured it was the right thing to do.” He thinks he chose wisely.
“What mechanical in your life runs continuously, except when the wind doesn’t blow?” Williams said.
“It’s high tech and that scares us. But it’s done a good job so far.”
Good, indeed. There’s no electricity bill. Williams says his company could run on the equivalent of two large highway truck engines. Power beyond what is used is “gravy train,” he added. And the company has a $40,000 utility credit that can be used at some point. “I can apply it to my home bill,” Williams said, as an example. But Williams said the company plans to let it accumulate.
Williams wishes there were more turbines. “What are your options if consumption of electricity increases?” he said, ticking off methods that are now considered unpopular and unsustainable.
Then there are those who don’t want to see or hear a humming turbine in their backyards, even though lots of people come up to the company to have a look at the one here, Williams said. He says turbines need to be sited properly, and that the overall benefit outweighs most complaints by “a certain subversive group that is opposed to any project.”
Ed Williams in his office, gesturing to an aerial view of the Williams Stone operations.
But your average small town crank is nothing compared to the power company, which Williams says “doesn’t like turbines.” Yet to use a turbine, you have to connect to their grid.
These are thorny brambles to hack through. And according to Williams, the Town of Otis has found itself in Prince Charming’s shoes with it’s $6.4 million turbine project — voted on in early August by an 83-12 margin — to put in a giant turbine – far larger than the turbine now at Williams Stone — to run the town and throw off enough extra to sell it to a bunch of other towns and school districts. It was predicted to save the town $100,000 annually and generate enough income to pay for itself.
“I gave the town property next to this one,” Williams said of his donation of 36 acres right next to the Williams Stone property. “It’s a perfect spot, good wind.”
Williams goes on to say that Eversource, the power company whose grid Otis will hook into, is making it “so difficult…artificially expensive” for the town, that the project is now on the rocks. Williams said he thought that Eversource was going to charge the town an excessive amount to get hooked to the grid.
“It’s tragic for something this good,” he said. He said the town should “duke it out” with Eversource.
Eversource is the result of a merger. Three years ago Northeast Utilities and its operating companies Connecticut Light & Power, Public Service of New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts Electric and Yankee Gas merged with NSTAR Electric & Gas.
Otis Building Inspector Larry Gould is also Chairman of Otis’ Energy Committee. He said he was unable to comment because of ongoing negotiations with Eversource.
Eversource spokesperson Priscilla Ress explained the situation from the corporate tower.
“When anyone wants to generate power and connect to the grid, that customer is required by the DPU (Department of Public Utilities) to pay for any modification to the system in order for them to send power to the grid through our electric lines.” Ress said that in Otis, for example, a stand alone wind turbine “will be exporting most of that power, so we have to look at that circuit and make sure that the power can be fed safely through the lines.
The Williams Stone Company wind turbine is located in the center of the company’s operations. Photo: Heather Bellow
“Any project of this size will need new equipment. And it is expensive to build changes to the existing distribution system. The customer has to pay for extensive studies and construction costs.” Ress said that there are rules and a tariff that applies to those feeding the grid, and “it requires the customer to pay these costs because the costs can’t be paid by other rate payers who don’t benefit from a customer owner generation facility.
Ress said that because the Otis turbine will be so much larger than the one at Williams Stone, it will have to handle more of what in power company parlance is known as “load.”
“They’re running wild,” Williams said of the power companies. “They don’t have to answer to anyone.”
At the Statehouse today, there was a hearing to consider a wide range of energy-related bills. Ben Hellerstein, State Director for Environment Massachusetts, said that “Massachusetts has long been a leader in the fight against global warming.
“The good news is that these solutions are at our fingertips. Solar, wind, and energy efficiency are already helping to reduce our carbon emissions, and they are growing rapidly. With the right policies in place, we can meet a large portion of Massachusetts’ energy needs from clean, renewable sources within the next few years.”
If people want to keep consuming power at increasing rates, Williams said, turbines are here to stay.
“If you want to drag your feet,” he added, “you’re going to get run over.”
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Michael Forbes Wilcox says:
Nicely written. I love the opening paragraph.
It’s a shame, though, to hear that bureaucratic nonsense may get in the way of the Otis project. We need more renewable energy. Badly. And if it costs a bit more, so be it. I, for one, would be willing to pay part of the cost of hooking such turbines to the grid. Better that than paying more because the price of natural gas has gone up, as we did last year. Otis shouldn’t be punished for doing something that is good for the environment.
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peter greer says:
Power companies are antiquated heavily regulated utilities that were put in place to deal with fossil fuel generated electricity and making sure when you flip the switch in your home stuff turns on . Distributed energy , in this case from the turbines in Otis don’t fit into their existing infrastructure. Its the catch 22 of renewable energy and the existing grid, and energy pros understand that the utility must be a collaborator and partner in the process. It should not be a surprise that their are set up costs associated with this type of project , There are solutions to the initial cost issues and between the project manager/town , utility and our local politicians this deal should be hammered out. We all want and need more clean energy and just like the electrons that it generates need to find the collaborative path of least resistance
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Barbara Drosnin says:
A new vote is coming up in Otis on October 6th.
There has been much misunderstanding about the turbine in Otis, fueled by outside interference by an anti-wind group, minimal information of changes from the town as the project progresses, and a population that does not want to vote openly about this highly charged proposal.
To set the record straight:
*The cost of hooking the turbine to the grid on the land donated was more than the town could afford. This is why the turbine location was changed, to save money on the hook-up.
*The new site is in a rural residential area where there are a minimum of 27 homes or properties situated in pristine forest. At least five of these homes are less than half a mile from where the turbine is proposed to be built.
*Of the 27 households and properties across the road from the turbine, 99% cannot cast a vote concerning the proposed turbine because they are second home owners. The people most impacted by this project will have no say.
*The town of Otis has not done a full environmental impact study. We, the voters, are left not knowing how clear cutting two acres of forest is going to affect the wildlife, the birds and bats, the trees, or the water surrounding the two acres that abut where this turbine will be. How can a forty story industrial turbine not impact on just about everything within several of miles of it?
The vote on October 6th is an opportunity for Otis voters to either approve or deny the town’s request. Please, Otis voters, come to Town Hall on October 6th to vote. This is your town, this is your decision. Don’t let a ‘quorum’ of 15 people determine the fate of our town.
Barbara Drosnin
1955 Algerie Road
East Otis, MA 01029
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Heather Bellow says:
Today Mr. Williams told The Edge that the land was, indeed, donated, and the town still owns it. But because of an excessive charge of a quarter million dollars to hook the turbine to the grid on that parcel, that parcel cannot be used. Mr. Williams is now working with the town to sell them a different property for the turbine, but as they are still working on it, the price is unknown.
Mr. Gould confirmed that the October 6 vote is to determine whether to allow the town to move forward in acquiring a different piece of land.
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The initial land, near the quarry, was donated. The new piece of property, on Algerie road, is not being donated, it is being sold to the tune of $250,000 to the town. This switch of property occurred over three months ago. Your article is misleading as it seems to say that the site on Lee Westfield is still the site for the turbine. It is not.; that the property on which the turbine is going to be located is donated. It is not. The only current information in your article yesterday is that the cost of hooking up the turbine even on Algerie Road, is going to be beyond what the town can pay.
Hi Barbara. Ed Williams and Larry Gould would not confirm on-record that a new, undetermined site for the turbine is being sold to the town for $250,000, since they are still working on both finding the right property and on the price. When it all washes out, or when those involved are ready to talk, I promise to report the outcome.
“Second home owners can’t vote here” it’s not their primary residence. Many reasons why. Don’t want to give up rent stabilized apartments in NYC. Like being a resident of Florida and lower taxes. Whats with all the complaining about stuff after the fact? Let’s leave areas status quo… Then when they turn into ghost towns we can go somewhere else. CHANGE is good. If you’re not happy then do something about it. We need alternatives to these monopolies (power, cable companies, etc.) with choices it keeps them from razing rates irrationally. Tired of the it’s ok.. Just NOT IN MY BACKYARD.
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Chris Kapsambelis says:
I trash renewables because all the evidence shows that they fail to deliver on any of their promise:
• They are not environmentally friendly.
• They do not reduce greenhouse gases.
• In addition to being very expensive, they are an add-on to our system for providing eclectic power.
• They are a net job loser.
• Large numbers of birds and bats are dying for nothing.
• They cannot and will not replace coal.
• Coal and nuclear is being replaced by new natural gas pipelines to accommodate wind variability.
• The coal will go to China to create worse world pollution.
• The high cost will not decrease in time.
• The money wasted on wind can better be spent researching for real alternatives
The annoyance and ill effects they cause in Falmouth, Fairhaven, Kingston, Scituate and elsewhere in the world is for nothing in return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R931N1rv7Xw&feature=relmfu
You cannot trade the health of wind turbine abutters for those affected by coal.
Call me NIMBY but still, wind is not the answer!
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Heather, we are voting on October 6th to purchase the site on Algerie Road for close to or over $250,000. You can look at the notice to the town issued by the Town Of Otis a couple weeks ago. bd
Will do, Barbara. Thank you.
Janet Sinclair says:
My name is Janet Sinclair. I live in Shelburne Falls. I was informed about your wind project in some round about way. I am not an anti wind group. In Shelburne Falls, we were in favor of a big turbine project before we were against it. The local press, the Governor, our legislators and Mass CEC were all in favor of wind turbines for our town. I consider them to all be “outside” influences” and Mass CEC was handing money to the developer for feasibility studies and other services and funding that would never happen for most other private business ventures. Those who became opposed spoke out and were ridiculed, and I would say almost censored in public meetings.But we kept putting information in front of voters. The information we gave was no more or less slanted than what the powers that be were saying. So we had at least two sides of the story. Otis is now in such a vulnerable situation because you voted to allow the financing of the turbine (who knows if more are planned), you have no local bylaws to protect you, and let’s be clear: there are little to no health or environmental protections for you at the state or federal level. Anow your local officials can pretty much put the turbine(s) wherever they want to. If you don’t want to learn more about why the towns around me voted in bylaws that prohibit large scale wind, then you will make an uninformed decision and believe me, you will be forced to live with any negative consequences. One thing’s for sure, I am not a NIMBY. Good luck to you all.
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Most of the article is based on misconceptions spread widely by the wind industry. The electricity we use is normally scheduled for generation the day before, and distributor companies like Eversource must purchase the power in advance. There is no way for Eversource or anyone else to know how much electricity the Otis Wind turbine will generate in advance, therefore utilities purchase power that has to be discarded whenever the wind turbine starts cranking out power. This raises the overall cost of electricity, and it is a well known fact that the savings that accrue to wind turbine owners are the result of cost shifting to ratepayers in the surrounding community.
The costs to Eversourc for connecting the wind turbine to the grid are real. If the owners do not pay for them, the rest of us will.
Frank Haggerty says:
The crane alone for a gear box replacement is $150,000.00 for a three day minimum. The blades need to be inspected when they come down. If any one single blade needs replacement they all get changed. Take a look at the Portmouth, Rhode Island High School. They had a 1.5 megawatt AAER wind turbine it failed in 2012 after 2 years .It’s still there broken today. Rebuilt gear boxes run around $600,000.00 blades around 1 million each — In general local towns can’t manage a commercial wind turbine 24/7. They leave out maintenance costs and insurance -The wind industry has switched to direct drive wind turbines because of fires in the 200 gallon motor .The direct drive turbines are still experimental
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Revolt: Vermont town votes 274-9 against giant wind turbines
https://watchdog.org/240766/irasburg-rejects-wind-turbines/
This is what happens when a community is informed. I am sad to see that Ms. Drosnin referred to my individual efforts as the work of an anti- wind “group” that were intended to inform the residents of Otis, as a significant cause of confusion for voters. For that, look to your town officials and Mass Clean Energy Center, whose mission it is to support the wind industry with money we are forced to give them every time we pay an electric bill. Both hope that you will remain ignorant of the risks to the well being of your town and your wildlife resources. You owe it to the neighbors of the proposed wind turbine(s) to do your homework before you vote yet again to support this bad project.
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School Book Set
A collection of Books Beyond Words for school and education settings. These books have been selected to cater for young people and children.
Books Beyond Words - Wordless Therapy Storybooks
Thinking in pictures
People who can’t read or who don’t like written words are often very good at reading pictures. That’s why there are no words in these picture stories. These books all tell a story, but they also let the reader tell their own story – the one they see in the pictures. This can tell you a lot about a person’s inner world and their understanding of situations. There is plenty to talk about and each story explores feelings and relationships as well as giving information.
This book set includes:
A Balloon Adventure - Stuart and Zoe are going on holiday in their hot air balloon. A gust of wind catches them by surprise, but with a bit of help the pair are soon back on track. Their trip ends up being a much bigger adventure than they had expected...
A Night in Space - This is a story about Annie, who loves outer space. One night, Annie dreams that she flies to another planet and meets a friendly alien and some space explorers. It's up to Annie and the alien to help the space explorers find what they are looking for...
A Day at the Beach - Friends Ellie, Nadya, Miles and Rob are spending a day at the seaside. They have fun swimming, building sandcastles, eating ice cream and sunbathing. But the friends soon meet a seagull determined to cause mischief...
A New Home in the Community - In this book Stephen goes through all the traumas and thrills of moving. He likes his new home, but not everything is rosy. He makes mistakes and has quarrels, but he discovers that people care and understand, and want to help him feel at home.
Beyond Works Drama Handbook - This book is a short guide to using Books Beyond Words stories in drama group sessions. The books can be used to inspire all kinds of storytelling and drama activities, we’ve outlined just a few. You don’t need to have drama experience to try them out. Different activities may work best for different groups depending on how confident and experienced members are and what story they are using.
Enjoying Sport and Exercise - Enjoying Sport and Exercise tells the story of three people who want to take up a sport and are supported to do so. Jasmine is a wheelchair user who is delighted to find she can play badminton while her mum takes up tai chi; Charlie, who is overweight, discovers dog walking and cricket; James is a runner and with training fulfils his ambition to run a marathon.
Falling in Love - This is a book about two people who are introduced by friends. Mike and Janet get on well and enjoy doing things together. They decide they want to live together, but initially their families try to discourage them. This love story traces the ups and downs of their relationship, until they are able to make a commitment to each other.
Feeling Cross and Sorting It Out - Ben doesn’t like being rushed and when Paul won’t make time for a chat, Ben gets cross and upset. Ben asks Jane for help and she helps them sort it out. Now Paul understands what is important for Ben and what has been worrying him. The story ends with them choosing a new activity to do together.
Food... Fun, Healthy and Safe - This books shows how choosing, cooking and eating food can be fun as well as healthy and safe. It tells the story of Matt and Lynne who want to learn how to prepare food for their friends.
George Gets Smart - This is a story about what can happen to a man when he does not keep himself clean. People do not need to be able to read in order to understand the story. In the book we follow George’s daily life - at home, at work, on the bus and in the pub. George likes being with people and does not understand why they seem to avoid him. He often feels lonely and unhappy, and sometime feels unwell. George’s life changes when he is helped to be clean and to wear appropriate clothes. Not only is he happy about the way he now looks and feels, but his work-mates and friends want to be with him. George enjoys their company, and no longer feels so isolated.
Getting on with Epilepsy - This is a story about what can happen when a person has epilepsy. People do not need to be able to read in order to understand the story. In the book we follow one man’s daily life - on the bus, at work, and out with his friends. We see him having a seizure, going to the doctor, having a brain scan, an EEG, a blood test, and taking daily medication.
Getting on with Type 1 Diabetes - Florence is always thirsty and lacks energy. She is referred to hospital and has lots of tests. She is told she has diabetes and learns how to inject insulin and eat a healthy diet. At the end of the story, we see Florence enjoying time with her school friends again.
Ginger is a Hero - Ginger is a Hero tells the story of Mary and the difficult relationship she has with her neighbour Mrs Hill. Mrs Hill keeps herself to herself and doesn’t like it when Mary takes an interest in her cat, Ginger. But when Mary sees Ginger is locked out in the rain, she wonders why. Ginger leads Mary to Mrs Hill’s window, and they discover the old lady collapsed on the floor. Ginger and Mary’s quick thinking saves Mrs Hill’s life.
Going into Hospital - This book is designed to support patients like Martin and Mary, who are shown going into hospital, by explaining what happens to them there. Martin is having a planned operation and Mary is admitted as an emergency.
Going to Out-Patients - This book is designed to support people before, during and after their out-patient visits. Bill has his broken arm x-rayed, put in plaster and finally his plaster taken off; Anna visits the ear, nose and throat department; Jane has an ultrasound examination.
Going to the Dentist - Matthew eats lots of sugary foods and doesn’t take very good care of his teeth. When Matthew gets toothache he goes to see the dentist. At the appointment, he consents to having a check-up and treatment to get rid of his toothache. When he feels better, Matthew goes back to the dentist to learn how to keep his teeth and gums healthy.
Going to the Doctor - This book shows Jim, Anne and Laura who visit their General Practice for different reasons. The stories look at the ways the doctor and nurse listen to each of them, asking questions, explaining what will happen next and checking their understanding so that they can give informed consent.
Hug Me, Touch Me - Janet is desperate to make new friends and be close to other people, but she just doesn’t know how. When she approaches people in the park and tries to touch them, they are frightened. Janet feels devastated and lonely. With the help of her friend Monica, Janet learns about the right ways to make friends and how to behave safely with people she doesn’t know yet.
I Can Get Through It - The book shows that it is possible to find help and ‘get through it’. One very worrying fact is that often the person accused of hurting the man or woman with intellectual disabilities is not made to appear in court. This may be because the police and the lawyers do not think they can find enough evidence or they do not think that the person with intellectual disabilities would be able to appear in court and be a good witness.
Loving Each Other Safely - Ed wants a girlfriend. But how do you ask a girl out? And what do you do when she says no? Ed finds a girlfriend, but still needs advice as he and his girlfriend grow closer and decide they want to have sex. How can they love safely?
Making Friends - Neil is desperate to make new friends and be close to other people, but he just doesn’t know how. He tries meeting people in the park, but when he approaches them and tries to touch them, they are frightened. With the help of his friend Steve, Neil learns about the right ways to make friends and how to behave safely with people he doesn’t know yet.
Mugged - Have you ever been mugged or do you know someone who has? This story is about a young man called Charlie who is attacked in the street. The book shows how Charlie is helped by speedy police action, Victim Support and back-up from friends, family members and supporters.
Peter's New Home - Peter finds that living with his new friends is fun, but many jobs previously done by Mum now have to be shared among them. In this book Peter goes through all the traumas and thrills of getting ready to move. He likes his new home but not everything is rosy. He makes mistakes and has quarrels, but he discovers that people care and understand, and want to help him feel at home.
Ron's Feeling Blue - This book shows what happens to Ron when he loses interest in doing things because he is depressed. It also shows how he is helped to feel better. Like many other people he is offered counselling. An alternative storyline shows him taking antidepressant medication. Lots of people’s stories will fit this book. It will help if you or someone you know gets depressed.
Rose Gets in Shape - Rose lives on her own and she has picked up some bad habits about eating and taking exercise. Her energy is low and she gets tired easily. When her doctor tells her that her weight is causing health problems, she decides to get in shape. We follow Rose through the struggles and triumphs of her weight loss journey, the new activities she takes up, and the good friends and support she finds along the way.
Sonia's Feeling Sad - Sonia is feeling sad and worried. Her family want to find some help for her and take her to see the doctor. The doctor gives her antidepressant medication. Sonia does not feel better and returns to see the doctor. This time he decides to send her to see a counsellor. After some time to talk about her worries Sonia feels much better.
Speaking Up for Myself - Having both an intellectual disability and being from an ethnic minority group can make it even more difficult to get good services. If you know someone in this situation, you can use this book to help them to challenge discrimination by service providers.
Susan's Growing Up - This is a story about what can happen to a girl when she starts her period. People do not need to be able to read in order to understand the story.
Susan does not understand what is happening to her when she finds blood on her sheets and clothes. She does not tell her mother, but goes straight to school. In the playground, other girls giggle and point at the blood stains. Susan doesn’t know why they are laughing at her. A teacher notices what is happening and calls Susan aside to explain what menstruation is, and how she should look after herself. Susan’s mother provides further reassurance on her return home from school. She shows Susan how to keep herself clean and comfortable. Susan has become a woman, and her mother takes her shopping to celebrate.
The Drama Group - Dean goes to the theatre with his family. He enjoys it so much his friend James encourages him to go to a drama group. He’s very nervous and finds it hard to join in at first. But once he gets to know people he has a really good time, doing both backstage roles and acting. Drama groups are a good way to meet new friends and to take part in a theatre production. You can be an actor, or take on a backstage role – like painting the scenery, lighting, make-up, or stage management. Every role in a theatre production is important – if somebody doesn’t turn up, the show can’t go on.
When Dad Died - When Dad Died takes a gentle, honest and straightforward approach to death in the family. The pictures tell the story of the death of a parent in a simple but moving way.
When Dad Hurts Mum - After her dad is violent towards her mum, Katie is sad and distracted at college. Her teacher supports the family to get the help of an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate and the police. Katie and her mum are kept safe. Katie’s dad is court-ordered to join a group to stop his abusive behaviour.
When Mum Died - When Mum Died takes a gentle, honest and straightforward approach to death in the family. The pictures tell the story of the death of a parent in a simple but moving way. The approach is non-denominational.
When Somebody Dies - Everyone feels sad when somebody dies, and people with intellectual disabilities have the same feelings of grief as anyone else. This book tells the story of Mary, who is very upset when someone she loves dies. She is encouraged by a friend to go and see a counsellor. Her counselling sessions help her to feel less sad.
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England / See & Do
South Coast Culture: Exploring the Galleries of Sussex
By Robert Hugill
Updated: 9 February 2017
A trip to England’s South Coast becomes an artistic exploration for Robert Hugill, as he visits the independent galleries which are making the region a cultural and artistic destination: Towner Art Gallery, Pallant House and the Novium.
Other Side at Towner Art Gallery – © Robert Hugill
Whilst visiting the Brighton Early Music Festival in 2013 we decided to take advantage of the time to explore further afield than Brighton by visiting a couple of the new galleries which have sprung up on the South Coast. Pallant House in Chichester now has a fine new modern wing designed by Colin St. John Wilson, and the Novium is an entirely new museum in Chichester by Keith Williams Architects. Travelling East from Brighton you come to Eastbourne, where the Towner Art Gallery has moved entirely, leaving its cramped but lovely 18th century house and coming to rest in a brand new building by Rick Mather next to the Congress Theatre.
Pallant House in Chichester is a perfectly proportioned Queen Anne House near the Cathedral. It was opened to the public in 1982 with a fine collection of 20th century British art collected by Walter Hussey. (Hussey had been Dean of Chichester Cathedral, a great supporter for the arts and during his career he had been responsible for commissioning both Marc Chagall and Benjamin Britten.) Subsequent collections have only served to expand the museum’s depth in 20th century British art. The gallery was expanded with a modern wing in 2006 which provides for a stylish brick entrance wing next to the Queen Anne house, as well as gallery wings around the rear courtyard, Wilson’s plain white and glass forming an elegant contrast to the classical formality of the rear facade.
In addition to its own collection, the museum has a lively programme of exhibitions and one of the joys of the building are the way sequence of works shown flows nicely, with rooms of works from the Pallant House collection complementing the exhibitions.
Pallant House entrance – © Robert Hugill
In the print room there was a display of work by Eric Ravilious, one of the most significant British artists working in the 1920s and 1930s. Starting with Ravilious’s amazingly detailed woodcuts from the 1920s the display took in his developments in wood engraving, designs for pottery, his first lithograph, of Newhaven Harbour, and a series of elegantly evocative lithographs of high street shops, for the book High Street. His final works were his submarine lithographs, produced just before his death in 1942 whilst working on Air Sea Rescue in Iceland. Part of his work as a war artist, these were elegant yet poignant works.
The gallery has recently acquired on long term loan the Mill House Collection, created by EQ Nicholson in the 1940’s. Elsie Queen Nicholson (1908 – 1992) was the wife of Kit Nicholson (brother of the artist Ben Nicholson, son of the artist William Nicholson), she was a textile designer known for her linocut print fabrics. The Mill House Collection encompasses a variety of pictures by the Nicholsons and their friends. In the Queen Anne dining room were displayed family portraits, Winifred Nicholson’s evocative portraits with their free use of paint contrasting strikingly with the more formal style of her father-in-law, William Nicholson. Winifred was the wife of Ben Nicholson and also included in the display was a rare Ben Nicholson portrait of Winifred and their son Jake.
In the main room of the Queen Anne house were displayed testaments to EQ’s friendships, with paintings and drawings by John Caxton (1922-2009) and Lucian Freud (1922-2011) including a Freud drawing of John Caxton and an ink drawing by Freud of the Nicholson family donkey, plus Ben Nicholson’s hand painted Christmas cards.
Also on display were the gallery’s own holdings of works by Ben and Winifred Nicholson and the rooms were furnished with period furniture, creating a more intimate ambience than many galleries. Upstairs, in what were the bedrooms, were displays of British surrealists such as Eileen Agar and John Tunnard, including Edward Burra‘s surprisingly modern looking The Straw Man (1963), plus a Hepplewhite bed complete with a bedspread owned by Edward James, the great surrealist patron. In an adjacent room we had landscapes by Roger Fry, David Bomberg and John Nash, plus an amazing miniature gallery created in 1934 with original miniatures by artists such as Paul Nash, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell. This miniature gallery was complemented by a modern one completed in 2000 acquired as part of a gift of works from the architect Colin St John Wilson.
To celebrate the gallery’s acquisition of Sean Scully’s Pink Dark Triptych (2011), the modern wing had an exhibition of triptychs by Scully (born 1945). With three galleries covering Scully’s ‘Early Work’, ‘Painting, Prints and Drawings 1990-2005’ and ‘Painting since 2005’ we saw the artists development and the importance of the triptych in his output with Scully’s abstract art fusing abstract expressionism and minimalism.
Next door to the Scully exhibition was the main modern gallery, a lovely top-lit space on the first floor overlooking the elegant rear courtyard of the museum. In this gallery were displayed more recent works by artists such as Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, Graham Sutherland and Eduardo Paolizzi. Paolozzi’s work included the maquette for his statue of Newton, for the British Library which linked to an adjacent display from the Cass Sculpture Foundation of artists maquettes. The Cass Sculpture Foundation runs the nearby Goodwood Sculpture Park and many of the maquettes were for large-scale sculptures at the park, though rather frustratingly there were no pictures of the finished articles.
The gallery has an excellent cafe with seats on the courtyard (weather permitting) and a well-stocked shop, full of fine monographs and artists books.
Whilst in Chichester it is worth visiting The Novium, a striking new building by Keith Williams Architects which is built over the remains of the city’s Roman bathhouse. You can see the bath-house remains, and watch a film of striking scantily clad young men in a re-creation of Roman bathing habits. There are in fact three floors of exhibition space housing the collections of Chichester District Museum with a collection spanning thousands of years of history, with an emphasis on social history, archaeology and geology.
A short walk away from The Novium is Chichester Cathedral, itself the result of over 900 years of history. The original building dates from the late 11th century with the inevitable changes and developments accreting over time to create a building which combines charm with history. The building houses Chichester reliefs, early 12th century pre-gothic sculptures almost unique in English art, and paintings by the Tudor artist Lambert Barnard (more of whose work can be seen at Pallant House). Contemporary art in the cathedral includes paintings by Graham Sutherland, Hans Feibusch and Patrick Proktor, a tapestry by John Piper and a window by Marc Chagall, with much of it commissioned by Walter Hussey. The 14th century tomb of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor inspired Philip Larkin’s poem ‘An Arundel Tomb’.
By contrast the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne a gleaming new building. Rick Mather‘s building takes advantage of the stunning views from the site so that the corridor which bisects both the first and second floors has glorious views from the windows at either end, the cafe on the second floor similarly takes advantage of the location and the view is even visible in the lift! In fact, the lift is almost an attraction in its own right, holding up to 80 people it doubles as a goods lift for large works of art. There is a window which allows you to catch glimpses of the view, a magical journey to the top of the building.
Towner Art Gallery – © David Hughes
The Towner collection started in the 1920s with the bequest of 22 paintings. It grew from Victorian landscapes, to pictures of the Sussex landscape, pictures by Sussex artists and finally non-Sussex artists as well. The abstract artist William Gear (1915 – 1997) was an important influence as curator in the 1950s and 1960s. The gallery houses the largest and most significant body of work by Eric Ravilious. In 2007 the gallery was awarded £1million from Art Fund International to purchase international contemporary art.
The top, second floor, houses the cafe and the space where temporary exhibitions were put on. When we visited it was full of Other Side by the Berlin-based Japan-born performance and installation artists Chiharu Shiota. The installation consists of a labyrinth made from strands of black wool which have been linked together to form a three-dimensional structure at once transparent yet dense (the installation took 15 people 10 days to install). Five doors lead into this labyrinth, this emotional space and each door comes from East Berlin and has its own story. In a sense, it looks like something out of Harry Potter or Alice in Wonderland. For Shiota, the intention is to explore the themes of remembrance, oblivion, dreams and sleep. The gallery had a display board with information about the installation, but the gallery staff was friendly and helpful and spent some time chatting about the art work.
On the floor below are the galleries which display work from the Towner Art Gallery’s own collection, plus the rooms used by the education team. There was a single exhibition, Wonderland which was inspired by Shiota’s installation and consisted of the Towner’s own works selected to explore themes of landscape, space and architecture. The works on display included a pair of new acquisitions, Peter Liversedge’s (born 1973) Winter Drawings from 2010, two pictures of huge bare trees executed in black masking tape to give stark, detailed images which drew you to them.
Towner Art Gallery view from lift – © David Hughes
The display ranged widely, but each image seemed to create its own landscape, whether real or imaginary. Eric Ravilious’s wood engravings were fabulously detailed (and linked to the Ravilious exhibition at Pallant House in Eastbourne). Alan Reynolds (born 1926) was a name new to me, his Moonlit Orchard from 1957 was a magical watercolour in black and white. With Victor Passmore (1909-1998) we were able to see his 1950 picture Sun over Cliffs which contrasted with the two later images on display.
Elizabeth Magill’s (born 1959) Overhead III was an oil of overhead power cables, a view at once unspecific yet almost a landscape in its own right. Test of Courage (2000) by Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967) is a photographic print which takes a small detail of a London street and makes it a complete landscape, making the ordinary and familiar into something theatrical. Other artists included in the exhibition included Julian Opie and Langlands and Bell, as well as an abstract by Sir Thomas Mornington (1902 – 1976), who taught artists such as Euan Uglow at the Slade.
In one of the galleries there was a table and seats with a selection of monographs on the artists in the exhibition, inviting you to sit and read further about the works and their makers.
The gallery has a lively programme of talks with from artists and from curators. The gallery’s collection runs to around 4000 works and there are regularly tours of the Collection Store on alternate weekends.
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www.youtube.com/thenovium
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Report: John Beilein Leaves U-M For Cleveland Cavs
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting on Monday morning that veteran University of Michigan head basketball coach John Beilein (pictured) is leaving Ann Arbor to become the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Adrian Wojnarowski's tweet from Monday morning:
Beilein has been at Michigan since 2007. He led them to a pair of Final Four appearances (2013, 2018), a pair of Big Ten regular season titles (2012, 2014), and two Big Ten Tournament championships (2017 & 2018).
He compiled a 278-150 record in twelve seasons at Michigan. He's won over 700 games in his coaching career, and nearly 600 games at the Division I level at four different schools.
Bill Bender of Sporting News Talks CFB Coaching Rankings
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Matt Holt has been making people laugh most of his life. He's been doing it professionally for nearly 20 years. He displays a quick-wit and razor-sharp delivery along with a very laid back and conversational style on stage. When a comic lives in the moment, no two shows are alike. With his relaxed style, Matt transitions seamlessly from scripted material to of-the-cuff conversation with the audience, leaving them laughing, applauding and gasping for air. Being the youngest of 8 kids, twice divorced and having no health care is what drives Matt to the stage night after night. Matt never misses a chance to laugh at himself, which allows him to break down the barrier between the audience and the performer. It's like sitting down with an old friend and having the time of your life. In addition to his stand up performances, Matt has also kept busy creating one-man shows. In 2014 he wrote and produced his show "Thank You Johnny Carson", which received great reviews. In 2015 he debuted his latest show, "Acting My Age!" Matt has performed with many of the greats in the comedy world: Louis CK, Dave Attel, John Pinette, Ron White, and Jimmy Pardo among many, many more. Matt's latest CD "Acting My Age" can be heard on Sirius/XM radio and debuted on the top ten I-tunes comedy chart.
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Cormac O’Sé was born and raised in Dublin, where he began playing traditional Irish music on piano accordion at the age of 6 while also studying classical music until he was 16.
Traditional music was always his passion, in particular playing for Irish dance, which was a major part of Cormac’s upbringing and early life.
Cormac’s professional dancing career began in 1994 when he was chosen by Michael Flatley to be part of the team of dancers that stunned Europe in the original performance of Riverdance at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Following its successful debut, Riverdance – The Show was developed. Cormac continued touring and dancing with Riverdance for six years, giving more than 2000 performances, across four continents to over two million people.
Cormac received his TCRG in 2006 and is the director of O’Shea Irish Dance. He has brought dancers to Regional, National, and World Championship competitive levels. He is furthermore excited to be carrying on the tradition of sharing the culture, having founded a cultural center in St. Paul, MN for the Celtic Arts of dance, music, arts and language, called The Celtic Junction. The center features rehearsal space and a concert venue primarily for traditional and acoustic music. It is also home to the Center for Irish Music and Irish Fair of MN.
Cormac serves as Regional Representative to CLRG for the Mid-America Region and is an elected member of the Oireachtas committee of CLRG.
Cormac plays music for dancers all over the United States, Australia, UK and Ireland at feiseanna. He has released three albums of feis music under the name Feistunes with fellow musician Brian O’Sullivan.
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Curious Objects: Secret History of a Windsor Chair
Sammy Dalati October 29, 2017 Curious Objects
Photograph courtesy of Michael Pashby Antiques
Benjamin Miller, host of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, interviewed Michael Pashby of Michael Pashby Antiques about a Windsor chair with interesting history. Made about 1790 by Gillows, it’s composed primarily of ash and has a sycamore seat. Listen to the full episode here, on iTunes, or on SoundCloud, and read the transcript below.
Michael Pashby had a long career in the magazine publishing industry in both Europe and North America, which included being president and publisher of Arts and Antiques Group. In 1992 Pashby founded Michael Pashby Antiques in New York, which advises international clients and trades in fine English furniture with specializations in early oak and walnut, colonial pieces, and the works of Gillows of Lancaster and London.
Benjamin Miller: [00:00:09] Welcome to the very first episode of Curious Objects and the stories behind them, brought to you by The Magazine ANTIQUES. I’m your host, Ben Miller, and today I’m talking with a New York City dealer named Michael Pashby. Michael handles superb English furniture, but we’re speaking about a piece with humble connotations: a Windsor chair, made by a company that I’ve come to think of as the Ikea of 18th century. I don’t mean the quality, but their vertical integration of materials manufacturing and distribution. So it’s a really interesting slice of history, and Michael is a true connoisseur and he taught me a lot I didn’t know about the complexity of this seemingly simple form. If you’d like to see a picture of the chair I encourage you to visit themagazineantiques.com where you’ll find images and links. Now, this is a new podcast and I’m counting on your feedback to make it better. So if you have suggestions for guests or comments on an episode or anything else you’d like to say, please send an e-mail to podcast@themagazineantiques.com. I will read your e-mail and I will do my best to respond. I really appreciate it. Finally, it will really help me to get the word out and share stories like this with more people if you leave a rating on iTunes or whatever app you’re using to listen. Okay, let’s get started.
Benjamin Miller: [00:01:29] Michael Pashby, thanks for joining me.
Michael Pashby: [00:01:31] My pleasure.
Benjamin Miller: [00:01:32] We are here to talk about a chair.
Michael Pashby: [00:01:35] We are. And it’s a very simple chair and it’s commonly called a Windsor chair, and it’s very simple one but has a very interesting story behind it.
Benjamin Miller: [00:01:45] And for the benefit of our listeners who unfortunately can’t see us through this microphone, could you give a physical description of that chair?
Michael Pashby: [00:01:53] Well, it’s what one would normally understand as a Windsor chair. It’s got four legs, obviously, but these are particularly well-splayed legs so it gives it stability. It has spindles to the back, a hooped back, a curved arm, a flat, curved seat—shaped seat—and it’s got a very interesting stretcher to the base which is a very shallow curve to the stretcher with supports going to the rear legs. And all of the legs have got very, very fine turning to them. So, it’s a standard Windsor chair. A Windsor chair is a very interesting thing because most of them are not from Windsor. This type of chair was made in the area of the Thames Valley. The market town of the Thames Valley was Windsor, and chairs were moved to other parts of the country through the market town. And because it was on the Thames they could be shipped to any part of London or elsewhere in the country.
Benjamin Miller: [00:02:52] So the name “Windsor” actually relates to their commercial distribution rather than the actual point of origin.
Michael Pashby: [00:02:57] And I think people at the time said, “oh the chair’s from Windsor, and over time chairs which were made in Wales or in the north of England all became known—because of the distinctive look at these chairs—they all became known as Windsor chairs. But this one is made of indigenous woods, it’s made of beech, ash—primarily of ash. And ash was a very good wood to be steamed and turned, and the seat is, interestingly, is of Sycamore which would indicate that the chair actually had been painted at some stage. Because if it was a much higher quality piece it would have either been elm to the seat, or cherry, something that was more expensive. Now what’s interesting about this chair is it’s made by Gillows.
Benjamin Miller: [00:03:43] Right, and this is a firm that you collect a variety of objects from. Is that right?
Michael Pashby: [00:03:45] Correct. I mean, some years ago I became interested in Gillows because I’d seen so much of their furniture and it was of such high quality and yet no one really knew or understood them. They weren’t a household name [like] Chippendale, Sheraton, Mayhew—any of those major makers were. And I was looking into it: Why doesn’t this company have more of a profile? It’s really quite interesting. First is, because they were very, very protective of the things that they made, and other companies, well, like Chippendale for instance, published many books of his designs.
Benjamin Miller: [00:04:26] Sure, books that are still used by carpenters today.
Michael Pashby: [00:04:29] Books that are still used. And most of the furniture makers who are so well-known today are well-known because of their publications. Gillows never published a thing.
Benjamin Miller: [00:04:38] Was that to protect their trade secrets do you think?
Michael Pashby: [00:04:41] I think it was. I mean, they are a fascinating company! When I started to look into them . . . they were a company that started around 1730 and it was interesting because they were Catholics. The Gillows family was Catholic, and if you remember back in the . . . “if you remember” . . . if you THINK back to those times.
Benjamin Miller: [00:04:58] I remember, of course.
Michael Pashby: [00:04:59] Of course you do. You know, Catholics were not the most popular people in England. There were the insurrections trying to put the Jacobites back on the throne. So they weren’t the most popular people in England.
Benjamin Miller: [00:05:09] To say the least.
Michael Pashby: [00:05:10] To say the least. However, they were from the north of England, up in Lancaster, in the way north of England, and they did have the following of the Catholic nobility and the Catholic gentry in the north of England, and they made a very good business being patronized by fellow Catholics and they also developed what I would say was probably one of the first totally integrated multinational companies in producing their furniture.
Benjamin Miller: [00:05:39] Really?
Michael Pashby: [00:05:40] They bought the woods in South America for the fine furniture they were using [making?], they owned the ships that went out to harvest the woods in South America—they brought them back—they had designers on their staff, they had the factories making the furniture, they had decorators and upholsterers. They controlled every part of the installation of the furniture.
Benjamin Miller: [00:06:03] We’re talking about a very large operation, then.
Michael Pashby: [00:06:05] It grew into a very large operation. As things politically in England calmed down and they became more prominent, they started a huge shop in London and they began stamping their furniture. It was a very rare thing to do in England, to stamp furniture, or even label furniture. They stamped “Gillows Lancaster” on some of their furniture.
Benjamin Miller: [00:06:27] Can I pause you here and ask about the practice of stamping furniture? In many of the decorative arts, artisans like to take credit for their work, put their mark on pieces. Of course, in silver, which is my field, that was legally required.
Michael Pashby: [00:06:41] That was legally required.
Benjamin Miller: [00:06:41] But why would a firm like Chippendale not want to mark their pieces? Wouldn’t that be free advertising for them?
Michael Pashby: [00:06:48] It would be free advertising, but they didn’t. Some people did, some people did put their trade labels on furniture, but there’s only . . . there was Gillows and then later on Holland and Son, who is another maker but more into the nineteenth century, they stamped their furniture as well. It was a very rare thing in England. It was common, obviously, in France. You had to stamp your furniture in France. What you do see in England, and particularly on Gillows furniture as well, is you see sometimes initials stamped on them, and the initials were nothing to do with the fact that it was made by Gillows; those were the journeymen stamping their own initials on the furniture. And the reason they did that was Gillows became such a huge enterprise that they employed pieceworkers all over the country to make things. They would supply drawings for them to follow and the piece makers would make the work. They stamped their work so they could get paid for it.
Benjamin Miller: [00:07:44] Ah, interesting.
Michael Pashby: [00:07:45] Yes.
Benjamin Miller: [00:07:45] So there was almost like turning in your paystub.
Michael Pashby: [00:07:48] Exactly right. So they could say, “Well, six pieces came from this person. We know how much we owe them.”
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Benjamin Miller: [00:08:24] And so is this Windsor chair stamped?
Michael Pashby: [00:08:26] This Windsor chair is not. Going back to Gillows, Gillows stayed in the family. It was in the family, in the Gillows family, until the Regency period, around 1815–1816, at which time they sold it to the managers of the company. The family sold it to the managers of the company, and it continued in production until late in the nineteenth century, about 1895.
Benjamin Miller: [00:08:50] Really? At which point it was 150-year-old company.
Michael Pashby: [00:08:52] It was a 150-year-old company, yes. Or more. At which time it had declined and it was taken over by its competitor who was called Waring. From that time on, they made reproduction furniture of prior periods and—
Benjamin Miller: [00:09:06] Reproducing things that had previously been made by the same company.
Michael Pashby: [00:09:10] Correct.
Benjamin Miller: [00:09:10] You see this with Stickley, for example, in modern times.
Michael Pashby: [00:09:13] Exactly right. Unfortunately, Waring and Gillow set up furniture retailers in every town in England, and it was medium quality furniture for the middle class. And so when people saw the name Gillows they didn’t think of it as fine furniture at that time. And so it was not particularly popular to buy Gillows furniture even if it was 200 years old. When Waring and Gillows finally went out of business, which was in the mid ’50’s, what was discovered was a trove of records. They kept records of everything: all of their customers, all of the invoices, all of the designs they made—[a] vast inventory of design. Well, historians are now . . . there have been a number of books published recently about the Gillows history and furniture and design, and there’s still a lot more work to be done. But this chair, an exact design for this chair . . . there are two designs for this chair that were found in the archives: one for about 1796, and one for, I think, 1805–1806. No one outside of Gillows has published or has produced chairs of this particular shape, this particular design.
Benjamin Miller: [00:10:25] Hence the attribution.
Michael Pashby: [00:10:27] Hence the attribution. And what’s fascinating about it, when you go over it, it’s got a sycamore seat which means it must have been either painted or stained initially because it’s not an expensive piece of wood and so it would need to have been painted at the time. If you were making a chair that was of fine quality wood you would use an elm seat at least, and you would have had maybe elm in there, oak in there, beech to the . . . maybe beech to the legs and it would have aged in a different way. What we have found out since doing some research on these is that Gillows, because they were such a entrepreneurial type of company . . . when you’re sending ships to the Caribbean to buy wood, you don’t want to send an empty ship to the Caribbean. You’re sending things in that ship, unloading, and then bringing the wood back. What Gillows did was they shipped furniture. They were a major supplier to South America and North America through the Caribbean. Gillows used their bases in the Caribbean mainly in, I believe, in Jamaica. And there are invoices in their records showing that they sent a lot of Windsor chairs to the Caribbean. Now when they sent those, rather sensibly they didn’t send them as chairs, they sent them in component pieces. They had the pieces turned, they didn’t paint them because if you painted it, it would get chipped. They sent them down and the furniture was like the old Ikea then, I suppose. They were sent down and they were assembled in the Caribbean, and then they used agents in South America and the southern states to sell the furniture on. What I find interesting is that when these would have been painted, either they would have been stained or they would have been painted in green, or some other color (red, white), and one must assume that plenty of these can be found somewhere in America. They haven’t been, because I don’t think people know that these chairs are here and they must be assumed, because of their rather odd shape as well, they may well be assumed to be American—
Benjamin Miller: [00:12:27] American made . . .
Michael Pashby: [00:12:28] American made.
Benjamin Miller: [00:12:29] Interesting.
Michael Pashby: [00:12:30] Particularly if they are painted. Because people wouldn’t necessarily look at the woods. They look at the paint. And they may have been painted in in the US or in . . . I mean they supplied Argentina, they supplied all over the place down there—
Benjamin Miller: [00:12:44] That’s so interesting. You know, of course, we have a similar problem sometimes in silver when unmarked English pieces are thought to have been made by American silversmiths.
Michael Pashby: [00:12:53] Absolutely.
Benjamin Miller: [00:12:53] Which in many cases would seem to make them a lot more valuable.
Benjamin Miller: [00:12:57] So there’s a certain motivated reasoning for collectors to want their unmarked silver to be American rather than English.
Michael Pashby: [00:13:03] I like talking about this chair because it is . . . it’s a Windsor chair, which is, you know, a middle-class piece of furniture. It’s not an important piece of furniture, so no one is going to look at it with any great eye, generally, and try to work out all the history of it.
Benjamin Miller: [00:13:20] Right. No, this was the Ikea of the 1790s.
Michael Pashby: [00:13:23] It was the Ikea of the 1790s and it was also a normal piece of furniture. It was just . . . and would people have kept these? Probably not. They may have been handed down, but they weren’t of any . . . they weren’t a great cabinet, they weren’t a great chest of drawers, dining table. It was an ordinary country piece of furniture. But it has a fascinating history and it is so distinctive in the way that it looks that it would be easy to recognize these in American furniture. I haven’t seen them but I’m now beginning to look.
Benjamin Miller: [00:13:51] If listeners keep their eyes peeled maybe they’ll find some samples.
Michael Pashby: [00:13:54] But they need to find . . . they need to find the design source, not just what it looks like. But it is a wonderful chair. When I looked at this, as well, this particular chair had been painted, the wood had been covered in—or had been filled with—a white-lead filler, and underneath . . . to find out if a chair has ever been painted you have to turn it upside down because no one, no one cleans . . . there’s generally very little wear around the tops of the legs of the paint. And this one, it had green paint and at least two layers of green paint on it. There was also a date of 1870—I think it was 1876 or ’78—painted on the bottom which is presumably when someone did a paint job on it. And it finally had a black varnish applied to it, and that black varnish would indicate that it was in England because black varnish was applied to a lot of furniture in the late Victorian times in deference to Queen Victoria after Prince Albert died and lot of furniture was turned black, and was painted, or varnished in black as a memorial to Prince Albert. This piece, it had been in England certainly through the 19th century but it has been to America. One is bound to be able to find these in America and I suspect that they have been attributed as American furniture for some time because no one has really seen the design source until recently.
Benjamin Miller: [00:15:22] What would that do to the value of a piece that had previously been thought to be of American manufacture?
Michael Pashby: [00:15:28] I don’t know what it would do to the value of the piece. Once one knows the maker of something it’s always going to increase interest in the piece. Whether that increases value, I don’t know.
Benjamin Miller: [00:15:38] Sometimes it’s less important who, in particular, is responsible than just having a story about the piece to begin with.
Michael Pashby: [00:15:45] Well, I think every piece of furniture has a story. I mean it’s just finding it. Every piece of furniture you see which is an antique has been through so many owners—or maybe not, maybe just one—but generally have been through a number of owners. And just looking at the surface of the piece, the surface tells a story of it. With, “Has it been touched/has it not been touched; has it been in one position in a house the whole time.” When you see seventeenth century pieces the first thing you always look at is the feet because you know that they were on a stone floor, that someone was mopping around them. So you expect them to—
Benjamin Miller: [00:16:19] They’ve been pushed in and pulled out and kicked and jostled—
Michael Pashby: [00:16:23] —And you expect to see stains to the feet, at the very least, or rot to the feet because of so much water interaction. If you don’t see that then you get seriously worried about the piece.
Benjamin Miller: [00:16:37] I think I don’t mop my floors enough.
Michael Pashby: [00:16:41] Well you can create the seventeenth century effect, though, let’s say. No, but I mean that’s terribly important when you’re looking at a piece: to see, Does it have all the right indications of what it should have?
Courtesy Michael Pashby Antiques
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Benjamin Miller: [00:17:45] This idea of every piece of furniture having a story—would you say that’s what draws you to the discipline?
Michael Pashby: [00:17:50] I think so and I think what draws me to the discipline is the quality of the workmanship that went into the piece originally; the change in design; the utilitarian functions of the piece—some of which don’t exist anymore. But the way people worked with their furniture. When you go back to the very earliest times, I mean, it was a table and a few chairs. The things you see most of, though, were the chests, which were to keep valuables, to keep linens, and to be easy to move things around. When you were moving from the court to your country estate, or to . . . you were going out with the army and you would take a chest. There are thousands of chests still extant.
Benjamin Miller: [00:18:34] And you do handle a good deal of campaign furniture.
Michael Pashby: [00:18:38] I handle campaign furniture as well, which I like immensely. I like it because it was the ingenuity of, How do you create the same living conditions when you’re going off to war in Africa or India and you’re representing the empire? How do you take all that same comfort with you? And you know we talked before, not on this, but we talked before about something called Brighton Buns.
Benjamin Miller: [00:19:06] Yes.
Michael Pashby: [00:19:07] Which are fascinating things! You needed to have light. Wherever you were you needed light. Therefore, you needed candles. Obviously, people would take candlesticks with them. If you take candlesticks and they are packed in a boat and then you strap them on the side of an elephant and you have people carrying them up the side of a mountain, guess what? They get crushed. And so a super design came up, a very simple design called Brighton Buns. You could dismantle your candlesticks, place them in the bases, they screwed together, and they were in such a shape that they couldn’t be crushed.
Benjamin Miller: [00:19:40] They looked more or less like a doughnut.
Michael Pashby: [00:19:42] They looked like a doughnut. In England in particular, because so many people were being sent to so many parts of the world—whether it be America, India, Australia, or wherever—they wanted to take modern comforts with them because in most places they were going to there were no suppliers. So there were a number of companies in England that specialized—and Gillows actually took part of that market, as did many other companies—of supplying collapsible, fold-up furniture: chairs which could fold flat, dining tables which could seat twelve but would fold into a case, beds—every sort of need that a gentleman or a lady would need in their travels in India or Australia could be fitted into a small packing case, basically, and could be reassembled on arrival.
Benjamin Miller: [00:20:30] I have to say that strikes me as a particular English-ism: wanting to ride an elephant all day long and then sit down for a cup of tea at the end.
Michael Pashby: [00:20:37] I also know that Napoleon, for instance, had huge amounts of campaign furniture commissioned for his comfort when he was off conquering the rest of Europe.
Benjamin Miller: [00:20:50] Okay, not only the English.
Michael Pashby: [00:20:51] Not only the English. Napoleon as well and I think some other people as well. I think there is some American campaign furniture that is still extant as well.
Benjamin Miller: [00:20:59] Can I ask you a couple of questions about your own story? What was it that . . . you’ve talked a little bit about what motivates you about antique English furniture. How did you get into that? Did you grow up surrounded by antiques?
Michael Pashby: [00:21:09] I did. I did when I lived in England. It was in the house. I was never rich enough to be able to buy it as a young person. I, actually . . . what I did was I went into the publishing industry, initially, and I ended up . . . I had a number of magazines related to the arts field, including a magazine about art and antiques, I had a magazine in Japan, [and] I was constantly traveling to promote the magazine and find advertisers, and I was in this world so much and I just loved touching the pieces and seeing the pieces, and they reminded me so much of what it was like at home and everything else, and one day I just decided that’s what I want to do. It never occurred to me that it was really a business.
Benjamin Miller: [00:22:03] That followed later.
Michael Pashby: [00:22:03] I just thought this is a brave thing to do. And I thought, Of course one does this.
Benjamin Miller: [00:22:07] What a wonderful way to end up in a job.
Michael Pashby: [00:22:09] Exactly. And you learn as you go along. And I learned . . . the one thing I learned was, don’t buy on price, buy on quality, and always, always, always buy exactly what you love. The only times I’ve really made a mistake is when I look at something and I think, I really could sell that soon, and I know people will want that. I don’t like it myself but I know I’ll sell that. And I’ve still got a warehouse full of those pieces.
Benjamin Miller: [00:22:37] Well it’s hard to talk passionately about something that you aren’t passionate about.
Michael Pashby: [00:22:42] That’s right. You’re absolutely right I’m sure someone else may be able to sell that, but not me.
Windsor chair by Gillows of Lancaster and London, c. 1790. Ash with sycamore seat. Courtesy Michael Pashby Antiques.
Benjamin Miller: [00:23:15] Well, now we are talking . . . our listeners are hearing us through the Internet. The Internet has had some serious ramifications for the way that art dealers and antique dealers do business. How has that changed your business over the last ten or twenty years?
Michael Pashby: [00:23:31] I would say that it’s more in the last, actually, five, five to seven years that its had a real impact, because that really has been the growth of the number of websites. I mean the first thing is there is huge transparency now.
Benjamin Miller: [00:23:45] Price transparency.
Michael Pashby: [00:23:46] Price transparency and you can see, virtually, how many pieces there are of any type of item out there. Well, someone once SAID it was rare, [now] you just type that in there and you find that there are a 127 of those being offered for sale around the world. A good analogy with that is I remember many years ago after Andy Warhol died the thought was they’re going to produce the catalogue raisonné of Warhol work. And people were very worried about it because Warhol was incredibly prolific, second only to, I guess, Picasso in the twentieth century. The worry was if you knew that there were 126 similar paintings of Marilyn Monroe, the one you’ve got sitting on your wall doesn’t seem so special anymore. But when the catalogue raisonné was produced. it actually had the opposite effect. Because what it did was it gave people certainty, saying, “I know there’s 126,” you know, “I know there’s going to be no more coming on the market”. So it gave people a certain amount of certainty and it was—
Michael Pashby: [00:24:50] I mean, you’re always going to have the catalogue raisonnés out there for an artist. It didn’t damage his market. In fact, the Warhol market actually went up.
Benjamin Miller: [00:24:57] Now it can make it more difficult for a dealer to buy well.
Michael Pashby: [00:25:01] However, you have a much greater world of finding things. I mean I have been able to find things in South Africa, in Australia, in southern Portugal, for God’s sake, in South America—furniture which maybe only fifteen or twenty years ago I would never been able to find.
Benjamin Miller: [00:25:19] But someone put a picture of it on the Internet.
Michael Pashby: [00:25:21] Someone put a picture on the Internet, it’s an auction happening there, or a person’s . . . I see an image of someone’s house in one of those places and I see a piece of furniture which I think I would like. I can go out and I can contact those people. So everyone can do that. There’s more transparency in pricing which is good and it’s bad. Ultimately, what dealers do is they add value to the piece in the end. Because when a dealer will sell something a dealer is always going to ensure that they’ve edited. I mean, I see hundreds and hundreds—as you do—hundreds and hundreds of pieces all the time. I’m choosing one, two, or three out of those hundreds. And they have to be the best. They have to be the best. So I’m not offering people a wide range of quality. It’s all of a similar quality. So the work has been done. That’s in the end where we make our profits. We make our profits by providing that value and editing for the collector and for the customer.
Benjamin Miller: [00:26:17] What is one mistake that collectors make that you would caution them to avoid?
Michael Pashby: [00:26:23] I think the biggest mistake a collector will make is purchasing without advice. For us, this is our business. We are recognized experts in certain areas. Collectors often will buy something because the price is right, they’ve been told the story, they like it, whatever it may be. They don’t think and they don’t understand how to look at condition. They may not understand if it’s a rare piece or if it’s common piece. Condition is terribly, terribly important. Many people do not know how to really judge that. And I think when a private person, a collector, buys, for instance, at an auction, they have the feeling that if they’re buying at an auction, they must be getting a bargain. Nothing is furthest from the truth because they have to remember they were the last person to bid if they bought it. That means they paid the highest price for it of anyone who was looking at the piece.
Benjamin Miller: [00:27:15] And all it takes is two people making a mistake.
Michael Pashby: [00:27:17] Two people making a mistake. And that is not uncommon, let’s put it like that. As you know and I know.
Benjamin Miller: [00:27:24] Indeed!
Michael Pashby: [00:27:24] And so when a dealer drops out there’s a reason why the dealer is dropping out.
Benjamin Miller: [00:27:28] That is a good thing to watch out for.
Michael Pashby: [00:27:30] It is indeed.
Benjamin Miller: [00:27:31] Well, Michael Pashby, thank you so much for talking with us. Is there anything else you’d like to add?
Michael Pashby: [00:27:34] No, but I’d love to do this again.
Benjamin Miller: [00:27:37] Fabulous!
Michael Pashby: [00:27:37] Okay!
Benjamin Miller: [00:27:45] That’s it for today. Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks again to Michael and thanks to all of you for listening. As I said before, your ratings on iTunes are a huge help as are your e-mails to podcast@themagazineantiques.com. Curious Objects is a podcast from The Magazine ANTIQUES. Today’s episode was edited by Sammy Dalati and our music is by Trap Rabbit. I’m Ben Miller and I’ll catch you again next month.
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TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
As journalist, Chrystia Freeland chronicled global wealth dividers.
By Jeremy J. Nuttall 14 Dec 2015 | TheTyee.ca
Jeremy J. Nuttall is The Tyee's Parliament Hill reporter in Ottawa. Find his previous stories here. This coverage of Canadian national issues is made possible because of generous financial support from our Tyee Builders.
Chrystia Freeland's financial journalist credentials made her a star candidate for the Liberals. Photo: Joseph Morris. Creative commons licensed.
Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over those of workers and governments.
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The winners, say high profile critics, will be captains of global finance and others already so moneyed they've earned the moniker plutocrats.
That's a class of people Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland knows extremely well. Plutocrats is the title she gave her 2012 book about how they are sucking up riches for themselves as income inequality grows. Freeland takes readers into the world of the super-rich, who play by different rules and lead opulent and vastly different lives than the rest of the human race.
The former reporter for the Financial Times goes at the wealthy and powerful hard, pointing out how their success is coinciding with the destruction of "everyone else."
That puts Freeland in an interesting position, to say the least, as she mulls whether and how to manage passing the TPP, which was negotiated in secret by the recently ousted Conservative government, but endorsed by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the election.
TPP as inequality accelerator
Freeland must be aware of criticism, coming from a range of respected sources, that the TPP will widen the wealth gap in developing countries as well as the U.S. and Canada.
"If the Trans-Pacific Partnership is enacted," Robert Reich, secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, has warned, "big corporations, Wall Street, and their top executives and shareholders will make out like bandits. Who will the bandits be stealing from? The rest of us."
Foreign Policy magazine published a piece in July arguing the TPP is harmful to developing economies, including inhibiting their ability to use state-owned enterprises to boost some sectors of their economies.
And Robert E. Scott, director of trade and manufacturing at the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, told The Tyee the TPP will increase the wealth gap in the West as more jobs are outsourced.
The profits from such moves only go to those who own stock in the companies sending their labour elsewhere, Scott said.
He said international trade deals pitting western workers against low-wage labour abroad has forced millions of Americans into unemployment or in jobs making smaller wages. The TPP will only increase the trend, he said.
"Even if trade were balanced we stand to lose the good jobs," he said of the United States. "Manufacturing pays more than alternative jobs in the economy."
The deal will increase the current $150 billion trade deficit the U.S. already has with TPP nations rather than shrink it, he argues. The impact will be harder if China and South Korea join in the future.
Friday the United Steelworkers Union adopted a resolution urging Canadian and American governments to reject the agreement.
"The TPP will only continue the failed trade policies of the past that have valued corporate profits, wherever obtained, over the interests of job and opportunity creation here at home. The USW will put every effort into defeating the TPP," said the international union in a release.
In Plutocrats, Freeland seems to agree with that analysis.
"Both globalization and technology have led to the rapid obsolescence of many jobs in the West; they've put western workers in direct competition with low-paid workers in poorer countries; and they've generally had a punishing impact on those without the intellect, education, luck or chutzpah to profit from them."
'Crony capitalism'
In 2013 Freeland gave a Ted Talk in Scotland about the problem of the income gap growing not just in the West, but all over the world. (You can join 1.6 million others in watching it here.)
Near the beginning of her speech, Freeland points out Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have as much wealth combined as the bottom 40 per cent of the United States.
"We're living in the age of surging income inequality, especially at the top," she told the Ted crowd. "What's driving it and what can we do about it?"
Freeland blames privatization, anti-union legislation and deregulation as some of the reasons wealth has been bleeding to the top and creating a new aristocracy.
"A lot of these political factors can be broadly lumped under the category of crony capitalism -- political changes that benefit a group of well-connected insiders but don't actually do much good for the rest of us," she said. "In practice getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult."
She pointed to how hard it has been to tweak banking regulations after the 2008 crisis, or getting companies to pay as much tax as members of the public. These issues unite both the left and right, she said.
Helping out that crony capitalism are globalization and technology, which can make people extremely rich quickly. But that's not enough for the new super-rich, she said.
"Once you have the tremendous economic power that we're seeing at the very, very top of the income distribution and the political power that inevitably entails it, it becomes tempting as well to start trying to change the rules of the game in your own favour," she said.
"It's what the Russian oligarchs did in creating the sale of the century privatization of Russia's natural resources. It's one way of describing what happened with deregulation of financial services in the U.S. and the U.K."
That kind of power is leading to the hollowing out of the middle class in the West as the wealthy lean on governments for legislation that helps them become richer, she said, which has led to the offshoring of western jobs enabled by trade deals.
Hearing from the mega-rich
If Freeland still holds such concerns, none of them are on display in how the Liberal government is characterizing the TPP.
"The elimination and reduction of tariffs offer the prospect of new and enhanced market access opportunities for Canadian producers, manufacturers and processors," said the Global Affairs Canada website Friday. "Preferential access to foreign markets through tariff liberalization will make Canadian goods more competitive in those markets."
Scott cautions he's seen politicians in the past change their tune once they are given the direction of their political overlords.
And no one could mistake Freeland's Plutocrats for a radical call to arms against capitalism, which she had said is "the best prosperity-creating system humanity has come up with so far" if in need of "retooling." In her book, she musters admiration for those cornering so much of the world's wealth, finding them to be "hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition." But the rich, she reminds, truly are different from the rest. They "have an ambivalent attitude toward those of us who haven't succeeded quite so spectacularly."
That's apparent in the views some plutocrats shared with Freeland. As a Guardian review of her book noted:
"'I think the ultra-wealthy actually have an insufficient influence,' says one billionaire Republican donor. Another says taxes should be virtually abolished, arguing that the government should pay the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for their contributions to society. 'It's that top one per cent that probably contributes more to making the world a better place than the 99 per cent,' he concludes outrageously."
The Tyee sought comment from Freeland on whether she and her government intend to promote, change or scuttle the TPP. No response yet, but if she does grant an interview, we will ask her, in addition, to give her take on the treaty in the context of her book.
In the meantime, here is a quote from the conclusion of Plutocrats that would seem relevant:
"Trying to slant the rules of the game in your favour isn't an aberration, it is what all businesses seek to do. The difference isn't between having virtuous and villainous business people, it is about whether your society has the right rules and policing able to enforce them."
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Chinas cultural relics
Post on 10-Aug-2014
Chinese history and overview of art with pictures.
CIP /; . 2004.9 ISBN 7-5085-0456-9 . . . . K87 CIP2004018379 31100088 200491 200491 7209651/16 55 10.75 ISBN 7-5085-0456-9/K509 85.00
Contents CONTENTS Prelude ................................................. 1 1 Painted Pottery ............................... 3 2 Jade Artifacts ................................. 15 3 Bronze Ware ................................... 27 4 Figurines ......................................... 43 5 Mausoleum Sculptures of Stone ... 63
6 Tomb Carvings and Murals ............ 75 7 Grotto Temples and Formative Art of Buddhism ............................. 91 8 Gold and Silver Artifacts .............. 109 9 Porcelain ....................................... 119 10 Furniture .................................... 137 11 Lacquer Works ........................... 147 12 Arts and Crafts .......................... 155
1 Prelude The Chinese civilization is one of the four most ancient in the world. Relative to the Egyptian, Indian and Tigris-Euphrates civilizations, it is characterized by a consistency and continuity throughout the milleniums. Rooted deep in this unique civilization originating from the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys, a yellow race known as the Chinese has, generation after generation, stuck to a unique cultural tradition. This tradition has remained basically unchanged even though political power has changed hands numerous times. Alien ethnic groups invaded the countrys heartland numerous times, but in the end all of them became members of a united family called China. Cultural relics, immeasurably large in quantity and diverse in variety and artistic style, bespeak the richness and profoundness of the Chinese civilization. These, as a matter of fact, cover all areas of the human races tangible culture. This book classifies Chinas cultural relics into two major categories, immovable relics and removable relics.Immovable relics refer to those found on the ground and beneath, including Prelude
2 ChinasCulturalRelics ancient ruins, buildings, tombs and grotto temples. Removable relics include stone, pottery, jade and bronze artifacts, stone carvings, pottery figurines, Buddhist statues, gold an silver articles, porcelain ware, lacquer works, bamboo and wooden articles, furniture, paintings and calligraphic works, as well as works of classic literature. This book is devoted to removable cultural relics, though from time to time it touches on those of the first category. Far back in the 11th century, when China was under the reign of the North Song Dynasty, scholars, many of whom doubled as officials, were already studying scripts and texts inscribed on ancient bronze vessels and stone tablets. As time went by, an independent academic discipline came into being in the country, which takes all cultural relics as subjects for study. New China boasts numerous archeological wonders thanks to field studies and excavations that have never come to a halt ever since it was born in 1949. This is true especially to the most recent two decades of an unprecedented construction boom in China under the state policy of reform and opening to the outside world, in the course of which numerous cultural treasures have been brought to daylight from beneath the ground. Readers may count on this book for a brief account of Chinas cultural relics of 12 kinds pottery, jade artifacts, bronze ware, figurines, carvings on stone tablets, murals, grottoes and formative art of Buddhism, gold and silver artifacts, porcelain, furniture, lacquer works, and arts and handicrafts articles. Well concentrate, however, on the most representative, most brilliant works of each kind while briefing you on their origin and development. Unfortunately, the book is too small to include many other kinds of cultural relics unique to China, for example those related to ancient Chinese mintage, printing and publication of Chinese classics, traditional Chinese paintings and calligraphy. To cite an old Chinese saying, what we have done is just a single drop of water in an ocean. Despite that, we hope youll like this book, from which we believe youll gain some knowledge of the traditional Chinese culture.
3 Prelude Origin of pottery art Development of painted pottery Decorative patterns on painted pottery of the Yangshao culture Painted patterns on Yangshao pottery (1) Painted patterns on Yangshao pottery (2) Painted patterns on Yangshao pottery (3) Prehistory pottery later than those of the Yangshao culture 1Pained Pottery
4 ChinasCulturalRelics Among all cultural relics found in China, what we categorize as pottery was the first to come into being. Archeological documentation shows that the earliest pottery ware discovered so far was produced about 10,000 years ago. It is in fact a pottery jar found in the Immortals Cave in Wannian County, Jiangxi Province, south China. The jar is also the oldest in such conditions as to allow a restoration in its entirety. Origin of poery art For people in the earliest stage of human development, it is earth on which they lived that gave them the earliest artistic inspiration. That may explains how the earliest pottery was made. The process seems pretty simple: mixing earth with water, shaping the mud by pressing and rubbing with hands and fingers until the roughcast of something useful was produced, placing the roughcast under a tree for air drying and then baking it in fire until it becomes hardened. Before they began producing clay ware, prehistory people had, for many, many milleniums, limited themselves to changing the shapes of things in nature to make them into production tools or personal ornaments. For example, they crushed rocks into sharp pieces for use as tools or weapons, and produced necklaces by stringing animal teeth or oyster shells with holes they had drilled through. Picture shows a white pottery vessel of the Longshan culture, which was unearthed at Weifang, Shandong Province.
Pained Pottery 5Pottery making, however, was revolutionary in that it was the very first thing done by the human race to transform one thing into another, representing the beginning of human effort to change Nature according to Mans own design and conception. Prehistory pottery vessels are crude in shape, and the color is inconsistent because their producers were yet to learn how to control the temperature of fire to ensure quality of what they intended to produce. Despite that, prehistory pottery represents a breakthrough in human development. Regretfully, scholars differ on exactly how and when pottery making began. According to a most popular assumption, however, prehistory people may have been inspired after they found, by accident, that mud-coated baskets placed beside a fire often became pervious to water. Development of painted poery At first, pottery vessels were produced just for practical use, as their producers had no time and energy to spare to decorate their products for some sort of aesthetic taste. Among the earliest pottery ware unearthed so far, only a few containers have crude lines painted red round their necks. As life improved along with development of primitive agriculture, people came to have time to spare on undertakings other than for a mere Picture shows a pottery jar of the Yangshao culture that existed 5,600 years ago, which was unearthed at Dadiwan, Qinan County, Gansu Province. The upper part of the jar takes the shape of a human head.
6 ChinasCulturalRelics subsistence crop farming, hunting, animal raising, etc. While still serving peoples practical needs, pottery became something denoting peoples pursuit of beauty as well. Painted pottery came into being as a result, representing a great leap forward in the development of potterymaking. Among prehistoric relics we have found, painted pottery ware are the earliest artifacts featuring a combination of practical use and artistic beauty. Painted pottery making had its heyday 7,000-5,000 years ago, during the mid- and late periods of the New Stone Age. The most representative painted pottery ware, mostly containers and eating utensils, were produced in areas on the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River including what is now Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, on which decorative lines and animal figures painted in color are found. Without furniture with legs, prehistory people just sat on the ground when they ate or met. For this reason, decorative patterns and figures were painted on parts of a pottery vessel fully exposed to view for example, the part below the inner or outer side of the mouth of a bowl and, in some cases, decorations on the inner side extending to the bottom. On a basin with an extruding belly, we find decorative patterns below and on the fringe of the mouth and above the curve. In comparison, no decoration is seen below the curve because people sitting on the ground can hardly see that part. In the case of a large basin, decorative patterns are found inside, on the upper side of the inner wall. These are not on the outer wall, because people sitting round the basin cannot see it. Decorative patterns are found on the outer wall of a jar, mostly on the shoulder or above the belly. Small Picture shows a pottery pot produced 4,500-3,000 years ago, which was unearthed at Qinan, Gansu Province. It features a slender neck and a painted pattern resembling the face of a pig.
Pained Pottery 7 bottles in the shape of a gourd have decorative patterns all over them. Decorative paerns on painted poery of the Yangshao culture Painted pottery of the Yangshao culture is recognized as the most representative of the prehistory painted pottery found in China. Back in 1921, ruins of a primitive village were found at Yangshao Village, Mianchi County, Henan Province, which were to be identified as belonging to a highly developed matriarchal society existed in central China. Many cultural relics have been unearthed from the site since then. Included are pottery utensils for daily use, which are valued not only for their cultural importance but also for the workmanship with which they were produced. Earth to be used for making the roughcasts with was rinsed and, for that, most products are of the same color as their roughcasts. To be more precise, products produced with roughcasts of fine mud Here is a painted pottery bowl of the Dawenkou culture that existed 4,500-2,500 years ago. It was unearthed at Peixian County, Jiangsu Province. Picture shows a pottery jar identied as of the Majiayao culture, which was produced 3,300-2,900 years ago. It was unearthed at Lintao County, Gansu Province.
8 ChinasCulturalRelics Painted pottery jars produced 3,000-2,000 years ago, which belong to the Majiayao culture.
Pained Pottery 9 are red, and those produced with roughcasts of fine mud mixed with fine grains of sand are brownish red. Most decorative patterns were painted in black, and the rest in red. Sometimes a thin layer of red or white coating was applied to the roughcasts, on which decorative patterns were then painted, in order to ensure a greater contrast of the colors. The Yangshao culture dates back to a period from 5,000 years BC to 3,000 years BC. Primitive sites and ruins found later in other parts of central China are culturally similar to the Yangshao ruins. For that, the Yangshao culture has been recognized as synonym of the culture prevalent in central China during the matriarchal clan society in a region with Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan as center while encompassing Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Qinghai, as well as parts of Hubei. Painted paerns on Yangshao poery (1) In 1957, the so-called Miaodigou branch of the Yangshao culture became known with excavation of a primitive site at Miaodigou in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, which archeologists believe existed during the transition of the Yangshao culture to the Longshan culture. Painted pottery utensils found at Miaodigou were produced around 3,900 years BC. Flying birds, distorted bird patterns done with crude Picture shows a painted pottery cup produced 3,000-2,000 years ago. Identied as of the Tanshishan culture, the cup was unearthed at Minhou, Fujian Province. Picture shows a painted pottery pot in the shape of a boat, a relic of the Yangshao culture that existed 4,800-4,300 years ago. It was unearthed at Baoji City, Shaanxi Province.
10 ChinasCulturalRelics lines and frogs in a style of realism are the main patterns on them. Fish and distorted fish patterns, sometimes with fishing net patterns, characterize pottery utensils found at Banpo in Shaanxi Province. Archeologists believe these represent another branch of the Yangshao culture, which is earlier than the Miaodigou branch. Images of frogs are painted on the inner side of pottery basins found at Banpo, and deer are the only animal figures on Banpo pottery ware. Painted paerns on Yangshao poery (2) What merit even greater attention, however, are painted pottery utensils found at a place also called Miaodigou on the foot of Mt. Huashan in Shaanxi. These are beautiful with strings of decorative patterns painstakingly designed and arranged. Research has led to the discovery that the workmen first used dots to mark the position of each pattern on the roughcast of a utensil, and then linked the patterns with straight lines or curved triangles to form a decorative belt vigorous and rhythmic in artistic style. A careful viewer wont miss those lines cut in intaglio or relief, forming rose flowers, buds, leaves and stems. Pottery utensils of the same Yangshao culture that are found in different places invariably have different theme patterns for their decorative belts. Nevertheless, patterns with rose flowers as the theme decoration are found on pottery of all Produced 4,800-4,300 years ago, this pottery basin is one of the cultural relics unearthed at the Banpo ruins of the New Stone Age in Xian, Shaanxi Province. The decorative pattern features a human face with two sh in the mouth.
Pained Pottery 11 types, indicating an inherent link of theirs. Painted paerns on Yangshao poery (3) Discovery of the Banpo Neolithic Village in 1954 is regarded as an important supplement to studies of the Yangshao culture. Ruins of the primitive village that existed over a period from 4,800 BC to 4,500 BC are in perfect conditions. Decorative patterns on pottery utensils unearthed from there take the shape of human faces, fish and deer and other animals, and archeologists link them to witchcraft characteristic of primitive religions. One example is a pottery kettle with the ends bent upward and fishing net-like patterns painted on its body obviously modeled after a primitive dugout canoe which, archeologists say, expresses hope of its producer for a good catch and should have something to do with primitive witchcraft. Mysteries surrounding some human face-like patterns remain to be cracked. Most faces, so to speak, are round and have straight noses and long, narrow eyes with triangular dunce...
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pyschological horror
Psychics, Sadness and Mystery in Assayas’ Personal Shopper
Posted on March 12, 2019 March 11, 2019 by vfdpixie
It’s no surprise that death is devastating for those in mourning. Missing loved ones who have passed on comes in many forms but most of us would confidently say that faith (or lack thereof) aside, we don’t really know what happens to our soul after the physical body ends. In Personal Shopper, we see one woman’s struggle with the death of her twin brother and her belief in the afterlife. It brings to light deeper questions about life and death staged before the backdrop of Paris, the fashion world, and its trappings.
Maureen (Kristen Stewart) works for a self-centered celebrity and socialite Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten) as a personal shopper. Her job is to find the latest and greatest in high fashion and bring it back to her famous employer since her high profile makes it impossible to shop anonymously. Maureen has also recently lost her twin brother Lewis to a heart defect she also suffers from. His surviving partner Lara (Sigrid Bouaziz) wants to sell their house, but Maureen who is a medium, insists that Lewis will send her a sign from beyond, so she spends a few nights in his crumbling house waiting for him to appear. He was a medium like her, so her determination is fueled by his once stronger psychic abilities and their vow to make contact from the other side. When she does contact the spirit world, she also receives mysterious text messages topped off with an unexpected murder that stops her in her tracks. Maureen’s quest for answers becomes more confusing, leaving her in a state of shock and floundering for answers.
Kristin Stewart as Maureen waiting for a sign.
Personal Shopper is a horror, a film noir, a psychological thriller, and a ghost story. It is all of the above and none of the above at the same time, embracing and defying genre. Director Olivier Assayas created a film that’s in a class of its own using art, history and old school paranormal beliefs with 21st century technology and lifestyles to illustrate Maureen’s search for her brother’s spirit. It’s this artistic take that kept me riveted despite the slow burn pace.
Assayas captures Maureen’s loss well, and he also conveys the loneliness of this technological age we live in with Skype and smartphones being key methods with which she communicates. Even when she is with someone physically or electronically, she is separate, guarded, or unsure; from her shopping excursions to her Skype dates with her boyfriend. The smart phone as a thing of necessity in this day and age to stay tethered to this world also becomes an agent of isolation and intense paranoia when Maureen pleads with a nameless messenger behind the texts to reveal themselves. Assayas takes a now commonplace device and gives it a more otherworldly, sinister presence.
Personal Shopper is also a lesson in how Maureen grieves. She throws herself into her work even though she flat out hates her fashionable job, but Paris is her main connection to her dead brother so she stays there as she waits for a ghostly sign, not ready to let go. The world of fashion is a fleeting one; rarely delving deeply into the reality around it. Her psychic abilities seem to be stunted as she moves between posh shops in London and Paris to serve Kyra in this superficial arena. It shows how she herself seems like a spirit as she is lost between real life, the supernatural, the fashion world, and her uncertainty with what she believes and how she is perceived. Her only moment of self-awareness comes when the mysterious messenger asks her to do something forbidden, and she taps all too briefly into her desires in her confused and somewhat desperate state. It’s a strange moment in the film, but it makes sense as her character searches for a right fit, so to speak, in environments that while not hostile, aren’t hospitable to her either.
The look of the film is really beautiful. Yorick Le Saux, the cinematographer for Only Lovers Left Alive, does a wonderful job capturing the contrast of the dingy streets and stark sophistication of Paris. He is skilled at making the most of each setting, representing streetscapes and boutiques in their truest and most tangible forms. For anyone that has visited the City of Lights, you’ll feel nostalgic for its frenzied energy.
My only issue lies with the text messages and some of the ensuing actions asked of Maureen. While I really enjoyed these suspenseful interludes and there is definitely a point to them, they were problematic with some details that still remain unclear when the storyline makes a sharp turn. Stewart’s stellar performance as a tortured, uncertain and lost character written for her by Assayas, evokes a surprising amount of emotion that overshadows any inconsistencies in the narrative however, as you watch this poor soul wait for her brother to tell her something, anything as proof of an afterlife.
Personal Shopper is an artistic take on a ghost story and focuses on one woman’s uncertainty when mortality comes into question. See this film for it’s beautiful photography, a haunting performance from Stewart and an interesting albeit imperfect story about grief and the afterlife.
(Previously published on Rosemary’s Pixie.)
Posted in ReviewsTagged afterlife, film noir, ghost story, ghosts, grief, Kristen Stewart, mortality, mourning, Nora von Waldstätten, Olivier Assayas, Only Lovers Left Alive, paranormal, Paris, Personal Shopper, pyschological horror, Sigrid Bouaziz, thriller, Yorick Le SauxLeave a comment
mother! and the Art of Sacrifice
Posted on February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 by vfdpixie
Yet another festival film has divided the masses in the way of Darren Aronofsky’s latest film Mother! Making its rounds in Europe and playing TIFF 2017 in Toronto; and much like previous TIFF premiere The Witch from over a year ago, critics and viewers either love or hate this allegorical masterpiece that confounds the horror genre and elevates the artistic experience.
A married couple live in a secluded house in the countryside. This rambling manor is a restoration project for the young wife (Jennifer Lawrence) and a place for solitude and concentration for her writer husband (Javier Bardem). While she is his muse, he is still looking for inspiration and having difficulty putting pen to paper, but when a stream of strangers come to their door looking for a place to stay, things start to change. These guests are unwanted by the writer’s wife, disturbing her solitude and her vision for the home; yet they fuel and invigorate her husband, creating a fervour that will soon divide them in their lifelong pursuits.
Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) and Him (Javier Bardem).
Photo credit: IMDb
When my boyfriend and I showed our tickets to one of the theatre staff, she immediately let us know that we could get a refund within the first half hour of the film. The staff member felt she had to warn us about the disturbing nature of the film, as many movie-goers thought it was a family drama because of the title. With that red flag waved before we even sat down in the theatre, I wasn’t sure what we were about to witness, but I was scared I might find something to take issue with. This apprehension also came from some earlier discussion during TIFF about the age difference between Jennifer Lawrence’s character only know as Mother, and her husband Him, played by Javier Bardem. The May/December coupling was something to think about as it mirrored the real-life relationship of Aronofsky and Lawrence, but I couldn’t condemn the film simply because of that one detail without having seen it. I tend to avoid any reviews until I’ve seen the film and written my own thoughts about it, and I made an extra effort to avoid as many articles as I could with Mother! I did see a few snippets of review headlines screaming the film’s shortcomings or brilliance in a few choice words, making me even more curious. My final verdict, although I tried in vain to find something to dislike about Mother!, is one of complete adoration for such a brilliant film.
There is so much to say about Mother! and so many layers to explore that I imagine theology, psychology, film and sociology PhD students will have at it for decades. Aronofsky himself has said in several interviews that this film is about Mother Earth and her destruction but you can see other themes based on the artist and religion. Whether you believe the film to be about the perishing earth, art, or the Bible, there is a common thread that shows the struggle of creating and the sacrifice that the creator and those around them must endure.
*Some may find the next part of this review/analysis spoiler-filled, so reader be warned.*
As a creative person and someone who values solitude, I felt Mother’s horror as intruders destroyed her sanctuary. Her experiences are very close to a recurring nightmare I used to have about constant, unwanted visitors, and I felt her husband’s frustration with not being able to create, desperately looking for an outlet or inspiration. When the intruders start to fuel his creativity, allowing the floodgates to open and his masterpiece to unfold, it’s a wave that many an artist or writer wants to capture and ride forever, constantly feeding the ego with praise and celebrity.
Mother and her husband are fairly archetypical in nature. The rosy-cheeked, blonde, blue-eyed representation of Mother Earth/Mary/the female side of creativity is young, vibrant and innocent, just the type of personification that is needed to feed the creativity of her older, more worldly husband. Aronofsky has said that Rosemary’s Baby was among the influences for the film, and like Rosemary Woodhouse, Mother is used for her spouse’s gain without her being in on the larger scheme of things, but here there is a cyclical feel to her life and death. She will not be forced to choose to look after her child like Rosemary, in fact, Mother is in constant opposition to what is happening around her even though she is a major part of the cycle. She is there to tend to the home while her husband creates, but her efforts will be overshadowed and thwarted by intruders. Her role is so utterly mired in the feminine and her partner so male, that the yin and yang of their relationship and power dynamics, while stereotypical, are poignant. Her desire to have children and bear fruit like Mother Earth is stunted by her husband’s own overbearing God-like desire to create and be adored, and when she does have a child, it is taken from her for his own egotistical reasons, to placate his worshipers who have supported Him in his work and who treat his writings like scriptures, confirming his role as an all-seeing, all-knowing deity.
Mother’s experience is very relatable as she struggles with her intuition. Her need to restore the house, listening to and nurturing its spirit is acknowledged but not heeded and she is placated by thin excuses or shunned for not going along with the crowd. At times her physical voice is drowned out by the chaos as her hard work is destroyed. The insecurity that comes with the terror of being completely alone in your pursuits needs a strong person to stand up for what they believe in. She does this over and over again, as she sacrifices herself not as a victim but as a martyr and saviour, only to be resurrected in this weird and crazy cycle of life.
Technically speaking, I really enjoyed the camerawork that was reminiscent of the long takes in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman and the claustrophobic close-ups and tracking shots of Mother like in Rosemary’s Baby. It gives us Mother’s perspective and we witness the action along with her. We were also in the dark with her, getting no clues as the audience, save for some biblical references like Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel (played by Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian and Domhnall Gleeson respectively); as well as the birth and devouring of Mother’s son seemingly symbolizing the sacrifice of Christ as one interpretation.
I must mention a wonderful surprise (at least for me!). Stephen McHattie appears as the zealot; a rabid follower of the writer’s work, stirring up the masses to worship the word of the writer. Those who know me, know I love Mr. McHattie, so to see him in such a spectacular pageant of a film made me love and respect him even more. And speaking of pageants, I had the sense that Mother! could somehow work as a stage play with the exaggerated chaotic action, and I would love to see that in the future.
I really can’t tell you how to react to Mother! only what I’ve seen and experienced as I immersed myself in this film. Yes, you can see obvious influences of the Bible, Rosemary’s Baby, Birdman (in my opinion for the cinematic style), and all the other films mentioned by Aronofsky himself, but these influences melded to create something that is unique, new and quite simply brilliant. Whether you see it as a creationist story, an 11th hour commentary on the state of the earth and environment as the director intended, a modern-day scripture about the artist ego, sacrifice and their art, there are allegories and symbolism for days in this film. It’s not to be missed.
[Previously published on Rosemary’s Pixie]
Posted in Essays, ReviewsTagged Alejandro González Iñárritu, allegory, archetypes, Birdman, Brian Gleeson, chaos, climate change, Darren Aronofsky, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, intruders, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mother Earth, mother earth goddess, Mother!, pyschological horror, Rosemary Woodhouse, Rosemary’s Baby, Stephen McHattie, symbolism, the Bible, The Witch, TIFF 2017Leave a comment
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TED (Film Review)
05/08/2012 Rob Simpson film, Film Review Leave a comment
Rob Simpson
Creator Seth McFarlane has achieved success comparable to South Park and the Simpsons. Alongside his TV shows, he has carved out a career as a hugely accomplished voice actor, which got him a role on Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy 2 as Johann Kraus. Now in 2012, he has added another string to his bow with his directorial début, Ted.
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and the vocal talents of McFarlane is Ted, the story of John Bennett and his best friend. Ted isn’t just any best friend he is a Teddy bear that was brought to life by the wish of a lonely child one Christmas. 20-something years later, Ted (McFarlane) and John (Wahlberg) are still best friends who spend their time watching movies, getting stoned and messing around. All to the annoyance of John’s girlfriend Lori (Kunis), who has had enough of her boyfriend’s immaturity, inevitably she gives John the ultimatum of choosing between herself and Ted.
The truth of the matter is the story couldn’t have less value. The unique selling point of Ted is that this is a Seth McFarlane film; millions of fans will be making the trip to the cinema to see the same sense of humour as Family Guy, American Dad and the Cleveland Show. Even if that wasn’t the selling point, the story is of little significance. Although stylistically a fable, it treads the ground of the bromance where a friendship is broken up by a ‘meddlesome’ woman, and ultimately the characters learn something about themselves and the importance of the people in their life.
Funnily enough, the same could be said of his TV work, many of his episodes are thin premises to hang the comedy. Keeping in touch with the TV ties, there is a B-story, which traditionally is there to add further meaning to the central narrative through line, or just to give the other characters something to do. Here if feels like a tool to pad out the running time as the obsessive father strand with Giovanni Ribisi adds nothing to the film but time and the under-rated actors’ awkward energy.
Far from a strong début, it’s the comedy that decides whether it is sink or swim for McFarlane. As far as the international market is concerned, Seth McFarlane (or Fuzzy Door) productions are among the best of a small group of shows. There is also the argument that because his day job is in animation he can get away with a lot more, because no matter how offensive his jokes may be they are being delivered by a baby, a talking dog or maybe even an Alien. As a movie, Ted has no such comfort zone. Even though comedy is entirely subjective, it does very little to differentiate itself in an over-crowded market. Those jokes that would be fine on TV become mean-spirited without the animated avatars, especially the gags about 9/11 and the Chinese stereotype. It would be one thing if these mean-spirited digs where crude enough to be offensive, but they aren’t they’re boring.
It would be churlish to condemn Ted as a comedy without laughs; nay it would be a lie. There are a good few laughs scattered around the 106 minute running time. Those being the job interview, Flash Gordon, the Thunder Buddies song, the aftermath of the prostitute scene, an airplane! reference and a kid getting punched in the face. For many that might be enough, especially when each of those moments was accompanied by a belly laugh. However, anybody familiar with McFarlane’s style will know that he champions rapid-fire jokes and pop culture references and for that approach to jump to the big screen and to only get 6 laughs, it simply isn’t enough. Even the ever reliable Patrick Stewart’s silly narration didn’t help.
The writing might be erratic at best, but as a director and a technical exercise Ted should be applauded. Take the titular character, McFarlane’s voice work is as exemplary as ever. Then there’s the technology, not once did it occur that the actors were talking to a tennis ball for an eye-line, the enchanted Teddy bear has a presence in the world. A fight scene is a melting point of technical prowess and burgeoning directing talent. A talent that makes great use of his cast, with Wahlberg on fine comedic form, as is Kunis even if she rarely gets the opportunity to be as funny as the boys.
Strengths, weaknesses and wasted opportunities aside, Ted suggests great promise. If Seth McFarlane can differentiate himself like he has in the TV market, he may make something appreciated by a more diverse audience than the Family Guy fan base. This is precisely how to sell Ted, for fans of Family Guy.
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Elderly Drug Mule Busted by CBP in Arizona
10:11 am June 14, 2018
TUCSON, ARIZONA — June 14, 2018
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports a man was took in custody by CBP officers in connection to a failed drug smuggling attempt at Arizona’s Port of San Luis.
Officers referred a 65-year-old man for additional questioning as he attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico Sunday afternoon in his Chevy van. Following an alert by a CBP canine to a scent its’ trained to detect, officers discovered more than 46 pounds of meth, worth more than $138,000, and 2.5 pounds of heroin, worth more than $44,000 from within the vehicle’s roof.
The drugs, vehicle and the suspect were arrested by CBP. They would be turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
According to the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 667,000 people aged 12 or older were current users of methamphetamine. This number represents 0.2 percent of the population aged 12 or older. About 9,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 were current methamphetamine users. This number corresponds to less than 0.1 percent of adolescents being current methamphetamine users. The number of people aged 12 or older, who used heroin in 2016, is 948,000. 11.5 million people aged 12 or older in 2016 misused prescription pain relievers.
Monitoring the Future Study shows that 0.7% of 8th Graders 0.9% of 10th and 1.1% of 12th Graders used Speed.
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› Nov. 5 — More than 100 employers will attend USM’s first Fall Job Fair
Nov. 5 — More than 100 employers will attend USM’s first Fall Job Fair
Danielle Vayenas, USM Director of Communications and Media Relations
danielle.vayenas@maine.edu, 207-780-4150 / 207-239-5715 (cell)
Daniel Hartill, USM Communications and Media Relations Specialist
daniel.hartill@maine.edu, 207-780-4744 / 207-333-9910 (cell)
**Student/corporate partners available for interview at 11:00 a.m. at the check-in table.
11/8: More than 100 employers will attend USM’s first Fall Job Fair
The University of Southern Maine will feature more than 100 employers from a variety of industries — including technology, travel, health care, the arts, retail and government — at its first Fall Job Fair in Portland.
The free, public event will include opportunities for students, alumni, and the public to meet employers, inquire about jobs and develop professional relationships and networks.
Where: USM Sullivan Gymnasium, Portland campus
When: Thursday, November 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Who: Free and open to the public
Situated in Maine’s economic and cultural center, the University of Southern Maine (USM) is a public university with 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students taking courses online and at campuses in Portland, Gorham and Lewiston-Auburn. Known for its academic excellence, student focus and engagement with the community, USM provides students with hands-on experience that complements classroom learning and leads to employment opportunities in one of the nation’s most desirable places to live.
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HAROLD C. MOYNELO, JR., ENS, USN
Harold Moynelo, Jr. '45
Date of death: July 30, 1945
Harold Clifton Moynelo, Jr.
From the hubbub of life in Washington. D. C, Hal came to the country club on the Severn, Bancroft Hall. His main ambition, that of wearing a Naval Academy ring, has been realized. Whatever he did he did in a big way, as his intramural sports' opponents quickly found out. When it came to dragging, he not only led the field but also played it. He liked them all, blondes, brunettes, and redheads: and the feelings were mutual. Variety, evidently, is the spice of life. Equally at home on an athletic field, in a bull session, or at a social function, he made a host of friends and will continue to do so.
Battalion Lacrosse 4, 3, 1; Battalion Pushball 3, 1; Spanish Club 4, 3; Boat Club 4, 3, 1; Radio Club 3, 1.
The Class of 1945 was graduated in June 1944 due to World War II. The entirety of 2nd class (junior) year was removed from the curriculum.
Robert was lost at sea when USS Indianapolis (CA 35) was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945.
He has a memory marker in Georgia.
Harold is mentioned several times in a recounting of the aftermath of the sinking.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal
From Hall of Valor:
(Citation Needed) - SYNOPSIS: Ensign Harold C. Moynelo, Jr. (NSN: 0-389853), United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct during World War II
General Orders: American Battle Monuments Commission
Action Date: World War II
Service: Navy
A collector has Harold's posthumous Purple Heart.
Robert Billings ’45 was also lost in the sinking.
John Cummins '45 was also in 10th Company.
Harold is one of 59 members of the Class of 1945 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
← Robert Billings '45
Henry Oates '45 →
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USS Indianapolis (CA 35)
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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Statistics - D215731A
Salary: £35,210 - £43,266 per annum (Lecturer Grade F)
£40,792 - £54,765 per annum (Lecturer Grade G)
£50,132 - £63,810 per annum (Lecturer Grade H)
Closing Date: 11 August 2019
Applications are invited for THREE positions in Statistics / Statistical Data Science within the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics from September 2019, or such other date as may be agreed. The positions are open to researchers in all areas of statistics or statistical data science.
The Statistics group seeks excellent researchers and dedicated teachers who will strengthen or complement our existing areas or who may further broaden our range of expertise. At Newcastle we have a wide span of interests in statistics. Research themes include Bayesian methodology for complex models; big data, scalability and computation; biostatistics; stochastic systems biology; and spatial and environmental statistics. Candidates should have strong research records and should have excellent teaching potential and communication skills.
We have many opportunities for statisticians to engage with researchers across a wide range of disciplines. We are part of the Alan Turing Institute and are linked with the Newcastle-based National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD). We are partners with the School of Computing in the development of a new MSc in Data Science and are heavily involved in the University development of Newcastle Helix, a £200 million project bringing together academia, the public sector, business and industry on a new site in the heart of the city.
You will be expected to carry out and publish high-quality research in statistical methodology, contribute to other collaborative research programmes and play a role in the teaching and administrative activities within the School.
Our aim is to employ a rich mix of people with different backgrounds that will help us to:
· bring new ideas and different perspectives to both teaching and research;
· refresh our engagement with one another and challenge our thinking;
· enhance our collegiate environment;
· provide more diverse role models, attract a wider range of bright, active and engaged students
and enhance our pastoral care.
We are keen to attract applicants who:
· will actively contribute to all aspects of the School;
· see a wide range of options in their own work and that of the School;
· are enthusiastic and committed to new ventures and innovations in both teaching and research.
All applicants who fulfil the criteria are welcome. We are keen to offer opportunities, where possible, to people from groups who are currently underrepresented in mathematical sciences in the UK.
Post Available: 3 X Open Ended Full Time Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Statistics / Statistical Data Science. Start date from September 2019 or such other date as may be agreed.
Please direct informal enquiries to Dr Tom Nye, tom.nye@ncl.ac.uk
For more information about the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, please visit: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths-physics
Click here for full Job Description
Further particulars can be found here.
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CNN Obtains Tape of Trump, Cohen Discussing Payment for Playboy Model’s Story
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WASHINGTON — CNN has obtained a tape in which Donald Trump and his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, discuss buying the rights to Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story, in which she alleges she had an affair with Trump.
CNN ran the audio of the recording on Chris Cuomo’s primetime show. The network obtained the recording from Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, who also appeared on the program.
McDougal alleged that she had an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006. In the recording, made in September 2016, Trump and Cohen discuss acquiring the rights to her story from American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer. AMI is headed by Trump’s friend David Pecker. The Enquirer never ran the story.
“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David,” Cohen is heard saying, apparently a reference to Pecker.
Trump asks, “What financing?” He is heard saying “pay with cash,” and Cohen says “no no,” and then Trump says “check.” But it is difficult to determine what else was said in that portion of the audio to put it entirely in context.
The tape was among about a dozen recordings that were seized by the FBI during a raid on Cohen’s office in April.
Davis defended his client and suggested that Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had misrepresented the contents of the tape. He has said that no payment was ever made.
“This is about honesty versus false disparagement of Michael Cohen. Why is Giuliani out falsely disparaging Michael Cohen? Because they fear him,” Davis said. He said that when Trump said “cash,” it was Cohen who said “no, no, no.”
On Fox News on Tuesday, Giuliani insisted that on the tape Trump says “Don’t pay with cash.” “There’s no way the president is going to be talking about setting up a corporation and then using cash, unless you are a complete idiot and the president is not an idiot,” Giuliani said.
A spokesman for American Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
American Media said in April that it had reached an “amicable resolution” with McDougal. She sued the company in March, claiming that she was paid $150,000 by AMI for her limited life rights but restricted in talking to the media.
“Ms. McDougal has always been free to talk about her relationship with President Trump — at least since her 2016 amendment of her contract with AMI — as her 90 minute interview with Anderson Cooper made clear,” the company said. They also announced an agreement to feature her on the cover of Men’s Journal in September and to publish columns written by her.
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January 6, 2019 7:05PM PT
Patricia Arquette Apologizes for ‘Unplanned’ Golden Globes F-Bomb
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Patricia Arquette apologized for dropping an f-bomb while accepting her Golden Globe for lead actress in a limited series for Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora.”
“I didn’t plan that. It was an unplanned f-bomb,” she said. “I’m so sorry.” She held up her trophy and joked: “You can’t take it back, can you?”
Arquette won for her extraordinary performance as Joyce Mitchell in the true story of a woman who helped two inmates stage a prison break in upstate New York in 2015. Arquette gained more than 40 pounds for a role that was anything but glamorous.
“I felt so free,” Arquette said. “I never once heard this refrain that I have heard so often in my career — ‘Is she likable enough? Is she attractive enough?'”
Mitchell is a large woman who was unabashedly sexual, which made the role appealing to Arquette. She echoed the calls of other Globe winners for the entertainment industry to remain vigilant in striving for diversity in all aspects of the biz.
“I’m glad to see some of these films being given opportunities,” she said. “Hollywood always responds when they see so much revenue coming from it. Diversity is starting to pay off for Hollywood.”
Arquette said the focus on pay and gender parity should extend beyond Hollywood. She said she’s encouraged by the wave of women legislators elected in recent months at the state and federal level.
“We have a lot of moms out there who are sole breadwinners or primary breadwinners for their families,” she said. “We have to look at equal opportunity and equal pay. I’m excited about how many we have coming into the House.”
Although Arquette had been nominated on the television side of the Globes ballot three times before (for her starring role on broadcast drama “Medium,” consecutively between 2006 and 2008), this was her first win for a small-screen role. Arquette has one more nomination and win from the film side of the ballot (for “Boyhood” in 2015).
Arquette beat Amy Adams (“Sharp Objects”), Connie Britton (“Dirty John”), Laura Dern (“The Tale”), and Regina King (“Seven Seconds”).
(Danielle Turchiano contributed to this report.)
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Revisiting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commision (FERC): A Mothers Plea
June 30, 2015 April 20, 2016 / WECAN International / Leave a comment
Blockadia- The Beyond Extreme Energy Action in Washington DC. Photo via Erik McGregor.
We are honored to share this article written by Harriet Shugarman, Executive Director of Climate Mama and honored WECAN U.S Women’s Climate Justice Initiative Steering Committee Member, and Linda Reik, scientist, mother, and New York resident.
We are your mothers and your sisters. We are your neighbors, your co-workers and your friends. At different times in our lives we have been called farm worker, engineer, professor, economist, scientist, daughter, and mommy. What we have never been called, until now is: pipeline and fossil fuel infrastructure expert, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authority, activist or terrorist.
Blockadia- The Beyond Extreme Energy Action in Washington DC. May 2015. Photo via Harriet Shugarman.
These are new names for us, as we work to understand what is happening in our communities. We are listening closely as we hear repeated accounts about children who are ill, crops that are failing, tainted water, farm animals whose progeny die young, incessant noise, dust and smells in the air, and declining property values which threaten our ability to insure our homes and businesses.We have begun to think of creative ways to have our voices heard, as we try to raise the alarm that few citizens and even fewer elected officials are listening to. We are now discovering that our actions have been noticed, but rather than working with us to drill down on the facts, they have caused some government bodies to label us as possible “terroristic threats.” (See end of document for links)
Blockadia- The Beyond Extreme Energy Action in Washington DC. May 2015. Photo via Harriet Shugarman
By necessity we have come to know the ins and outs of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the names of pipelines and their routes, where they connect, if they are attached to a compressor station, if they are headed for an LNG export facility, what bodies of water they are going to cross under, and more often than not, we also know their FERC projects docket numbers.
We are watching as FERC has been thrust into a hugely important role of overseeing the expansion of our country’s natural gas extraction. According to the FERC website there is no review of FERC decisions by the President or Congress, maintaining FERC’s independence as a regulatory agency, and providing for “fair and unbiased decisions.” In addition, the website states: “the Commission is funded through costs recovered by the fees and annual charges from the industries it regulates.”
This last sentence bears serious consideration. FERC’s annual budget, which was over $304 million in 2014, is 100% dependent on the fees and charges it assesses to the industry it regulates. FERC regularly holds educational seminars and events with industry allowing for easy access to FERC commissioners and staff. Yet, as public citizens, it is very difficult, if not impossible for us to meet with FERC officials and speak at FERC meetings.
To be sure, FERC currently has the authority and wide latitude to interpret the rules under which the Commission was established. In August 2014, Cheryl LaFluer, then FERC Acting Chair, and now FERC Commissioner, more clearly defined this role: “What we have said is that we believe under [the National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA] that we look at the direct project impacts, we do not do a cradle-to-grave, molecule-by-molecule analysis of where a fuel is coming from, what’s going to happen at the end of the ship when it goes off to the other side of the Earth and what other fuel it displaces.” Continuing,LaFleur said: “We don’t believe that’s in our authority or in our role under NEPA.”
LaFleur was also quoted at a National Press Club event on January 27th saying: “I believe meeting the goals of the Administration’s Clean Power Plan will also lead to construction of a lot of new natural gas generation.”
So, here too, we are watching with disappointment and concern as the Clean Power Plan, set up to lower our country’s heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions and to act on climate change, has as one of it’s four established pillars anchoring the President’s climate plan – shale gas, a fossil fuel. Natural gas – a fossil fuel that the world’s climate scientists have told us must stay in the ground if we are to have hope for a livable future – is instead being promoted as a viable climate “solution.”
Federal rules allow for the dramatic expansion of shale gas production in our country, and gut previous rules for reporting and protecting us from toxic chemicals; effectively exempting the gas and oil industry from regulations that all other industries must adhere too. As long as industry complies with the rules, the bigger picture – our health, clean water, clean air, our security and our future, doesn’t count. The mandate and reach of FERC must be revisited and revised by Congress. We must connect the dots at all levels and jump into the future now, there is no bridge, there is only a cliff. There is no Planet B.
This wasn’t part of our plans when we put down roots in our communities and birthed our children. But this is where we find ourselves now; experts on technical topics we never imagined as we work feverishly to sound the alarm. Our children are watching.
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WECAN Joins 63 Groups Calling On President Obama To Reject Enbridge’s Illegal Alberta Clipper Tar Sands Scheme
WECAN International is one of 63 environmental, Indigenous, and inter-faith groups who sent a letter to President Obama last week, demanding an end to the back-room approval of the Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline expansion project. In the letter we call for follow-through on mandated environmental reviews and express our serious concerns about threats to land, water, climate action, and Indigenous rights. Check out the press release and letter to the President below.
For Immediate Release: June 18, 2015
A letter from 63 national, regional, and local groups demands that the tar sands pipeline project be held to the same standard as the proposed Keystone XL
Washington, DC — In a letter sent to President Obama this morning, 63 environmental, tribal, and faith groups called for a full environmental review of the proposed Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline expansion, expressing serious concerns about the project, which threatens land, water, and climate and tramples on tribal rights.
The groups urged the president to hold the project to the same legally required review process as Keystone XL, and to reverse a decision made by the State Department last year to illegally allow Canadian oil giant Enbridge to use a backdoor scheme to increase the amount of dirty, climate-polluting tar sands flowing through the Great Lakes region.
The full text of the letter and list of signers is below:
Subject: Environmental Review of the Enbridge Alberta Clipper Pipeline Expansion
We applaud your Administration’s commitment to combating climate change. On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we thank you for ongoing efforts to prioritize what we believe is the most pressing issue of our time. To that end, we also look forward to an imminent rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
At the same time, we are deeply concerned by the State Department’s recent authorization of pipeline company Enbridge’s plan to dramatically increase the amount of tar sands they are importing across the border via their Alberta Clipper and Line 3 pipelines. Enbridge’s plan allows them to blatantly skirt environmental reviews that even the State Department has previously said were necessary.
In 2012, Enbridge announced plans to nearly double the amount of tar sands crude oil it brings across the border on its Alberta Clipper pipeline, from 450,000 bpd to 800,000 bpd. Pumping this increased amount of tar sands crude under higher pressure would increase the risk of a tar sands spill in the Great Lakes region and would jeopardize important regional water resources, including the headwaters of the great Mississippi River. This increased pipeline capacity would also trigger more development of destructive, high-carbon tar sands fuel. Therefore, the State Department correctly determined that it must evaluate these and other environmental impacts before deciding whether to allow Enbridge to expand Alberta Clipper’s flow of tar sands crude into the country.
Alberta Clipper and Line 3 also run directly through the 1855 Treaty Territory where indigenous and tribal members live and work. This territory is used by tribes for hunting, fishing, and gathering. Native plants, including wild rice, animals, and sites within the territory traditionally have been important to members of native tribes for subsistence, spiritual, medicinal, and other purposes. The territory is also used for other important tribal spiritual and cultural practices. Tar sands expansion would put all of these tribal resources at risk.
For the above reasons, the State Department correctly determined that it must evaluate these and other environmental impacts before deciding whether to allow Enbridge to expand Alberta Clipper’s flow of tar sands crude into the country.
Rather than wait for this requisite environmental review and permitting process to run its due course, Enbridge decided it would immediately increase the flow of Alberta Clipper by diverting the oil onto an adjacent pipeline for the actual border-crossing, then diverting the oil back to Alberta Clipper just south of the U.S.-Canada border. Enbridge claimed that the Department’s permit for the adjacent pipeline, Line 3, which was built in 1968 withoutany environmental review, does not contain express language limiting its capacity.
Unfortunately, in early 2014, State Department staff acceded to this scheme following several closed-door meetings with Enbridge.
The Department has both the authority and obligation to reverse this decision. The Department should not be complicit in an interpretation designed to attack its own authority and undermine its review process. Rather, the Department must stand by the environmental review that it indicated was legally obligated when this expansion was first announced, and prevent Enbridge from moving forward until that full review process is complete. Failing to do so would compromise the presidential permitting process, would limit public input and transparency around this process, and would undermine the Administration’s expressed commitment to addressing climate change.
It is the duty of your Administration to decide whether cross-border tar sands pipelines are in the national interest, and you have made clear that you take that duty seriously. The State Department simply cannot allow Enbridge to dictate the outcome based on a back-door scheme to avoid full review. The Alberta Clipper expansion must be held to the same national interest and climate standards as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
We therefore call on the State Department to withdraw its back-room approval of the Alberta Clipper expansion, and complete its ongoing environmental review of the project before allowing any more climate-polluting tar sands crude oil to be imported.
Cc: U.S. Secretary of State, John F. Kerry
Mother Earth Cries Out & We Must Listen and Act Boldly – Reflecting on Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment
Blog by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International Co-Founder & Executive Director
Photo by Emily Arasim
Pope Francis’s new encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, is a powerful tool for the climate movement, and has created a critical space inviting other world leaders to step up and take bold action to address the root causes of the crisis we face. We must recognize however, that this is not just a tool for the movement, but also a tool of the movement, with statements echoing years of peoples organizing worldwide.
Pope Francis calls not just for climate action, but also for climate justice, recognizing that human poverty and vulnerability is intimately tied to environmental degradation. He espouses an integral ecology that embraces the deep interdependence of the Earth, human society, and the economy. The encyclical is also a call for a fundamental shift in our collective consciousness and understanding of the world and our place in it- requiring movement from a global society of destruction and consumption, to one of care and connection to our collective home, our Mother Earth.
“This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted,” Pope Francis writes.
Critically, Francis explains that real change means bringing together three worldviews that have been divided for too long in modern societies: scientific knowledge, spirituality, and Indigenous understanding. He calls for the voices of the world’s Indigenous peoples to be at the center of all climate discussions and actions, recognizing that we have so much to learn from these cultures that have maintained their connection to the land. The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network could not agree more, as we are advocating for action based on four Guiding Principles: Rights of Women, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Nature and Rights of Future Generations.
Pope Francis does not waiver in his criticism of the corporate interests driving environmental degradation, nor the politicians facilitating their destruction. He calls for immediate action to keep fossil fuels in the ground, a bold transition to a clean energy future, and climate solutions free of inappropriate market mechanisms.
The encyclical opens the door further to addressing the urgency of global warming and touches on how this crisis is giving us the opportunity (or perhaps rather forcing us) to entirely redesign our economic systems and ways of living with the Earth and each other.
We humans invented our economy, we built it, and we can build it again in a very new way. In fact, we must if we want to survive and thrive. As we head into the redesign, we need to look at the very DNA of our economic and legal structures regarding nature in order to truly address systemic changes and root injustices.
Many climate justice leaders around the world are working to define a just, new economy, and we see many echoes of the key ingredients they have outlined within Pope Francis’ statements. The new economy must take into account social, gender, Indigenous, economic and environmental justice. It must transition out of the endless material growth paradigm that forms the foundation of the capitalist system, returning to a lifeway that is based on the carrying capacity of the Earth and the laws of Nature. Our new economic and social paradigm must be based on different concepts of wealth, development and well-being, and must take into immediate consideration the health and rights of frontline communities and the worlds most vulnerable peoples.
The Pope’s Laudato Si questions the belief that humans are here to control and dominate life on Earth, and in this we see an important opening for the implementation of the Rights of Nature worldwide. A Rights of Nature legal framework recognizes the Earth’s inherent right to exist and flourish, not as a resource for humans, but as a living entity in and of itself. Activities that harm the ability of ecosystems and natural communities to thrive and naturally restore themselves are thus illegal violations of the Earth’s rights, allowing for a depth and strength of action that decades of conventional environmental protection laws have yet to deliver.
While we applaud the Pope for his leadership and unwavering stance, as a women’s climate justice organization we must pause and stand firm in asserting that there is still much work to be done to address the patriarchal worldview that this encyclical still portrays, evident in the peppering of old paradigm comments on gender and sexuality. The document fails to make the connection that violence against Mother Earth begets violence against women, and that, until there is universal women’s equality and respect for women’s human rights, we will not resolve the existential crisis we now face. Women are the most negatively impacted by climate change and environmental degradation, yet they are key to solutions. Click here to read more in the Women’s Climate Action Agenda.
That said, this is the first time that a global figure of such authority has spoken so openly and directly about the depth of the climate catastrophe, false solutions, root causes, inequities, and systemic change, and for this we truly commend him. Thank you Pope Francis!
WECAN International at the Coalition Climat 21 Gathering in Paris
For the past three days the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) has been on-the-ground in Paris, France participating in a Coalition Climat 21 organizing session with a diverse group of leaders, united for collective action before and during the United Nations COP21 climate negotiations happening in Paris this December.
Coalition Climat 21 is composed of over one hundred associations, networks, social and environmental NGO’s, trade unions, youth groups, and grass roots organizers, joined together with the goal of creating a strong civil society voice and popular movement pushing for climate justice and ambitious action during the COP21 negotiations and beyond.
Payal Parekh, 350.org Global Director & Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International Executive Director.
The June strategy session served as a platform for groups from around the world to share their movements, network with allies, and strengthen plans for events, demonstrations, and other calls to action happening worldwide over the next few months and in Paris during COP21.
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP leader & honored WECAN US Women’s Climate Justice Initiative Steering Committee member with Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International Executive Director.
While on-the-ground, WECAN International participated in a Women and Gender mobilizing session and had the opportunity to lead a workshop on Rights of Nature and the International Rights of Nature Tribunal which will be happening in Paris in December.
Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network speaking about Indigenous rights and climate change.
“This year is one of the most critical years for addressing global climate change. If we do not act now, we risk catastrophic impacts that will effect all we hold dear,” explained Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International co-Founder and Executive Director, “COP21 will thus likely be the most important UN climate negotiation of our time. The decisions and actions to protect the Earth and next generations laid out by COP21 international agreements will have a profound impact on our global trajectory. The peoples movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground and bring real change is dynamic and strong, and we must demand and work ceaselessly to insure that world governments step up and answer their citizens calls. We all need to look upward to the sun and wind for a just transition, with frontline communities leading the way.”
Blog by Emily Arasim, WECAN International Communications Coordinator
‘We are all Solar Sisters’ – Women for 100% Renewable Energy Training Recap
June 9, 2015 April 20, 2016 / WECAN International / 1 Comment
On June 2 and 4, 2015 the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) held the first in a series of online trainings presented as part of the new U.S. Women’s Climate Justice Initiative. Launched with the goal of building a collective voice for U.S. women advocating for climate justice and action in the lead up to COP21 climate negotiations, the 2016 U.S. elections and beyond, these free education and advocacy sessions strive to provide the resources and support needed for women to become effective climate leaders in their communities, and at the national and global scale.
The first training, ‘Women for 100% Renewable Energy- From Installation to Advocacy’ centered on a few key questions including:
What policies are most important to advocate for in the transition to 100% renewable energy?
What is distributed/decentralized energy and how do we realize it?
How do we move to install solar in our own homes and communities, including for low-income women?
‘Women for 100% Renewable Energy’ featured presentations by Angelina Galiteva and Diane Moss of Renewables 100 Policy Institute, Cathleen Monahan of Grid Alternatives, Allison Archambault of EarthSpark International, Lynn Benander of CoOp Power, and Robert Styler of Powur, with an introduction and moderation by WECAN International Executive Director, Osprey Orielle Lake. Full biographies are available here.
WECAN International and Renewables 100 Policy Institute advocating for 100% renewable energy at the Peoples Climate March in New York City, September 2014.
Osprey Orielle Lake opened the June 2nd training with a warm welcome and brief discussion of why women are so central in this stage of the human journey, as we move to address the climate crisis. Focusing in on one very tangible indicator, Osprey explained that in the United States women make approximately 80% of all consumer choices, giving them a powerful ability to direct fossil fuel divestment, clean energy choices and investment, and community-led grassroots transitions.
Osprey also opened the floor to a discussion of a central training topic; what does an equitable transition to renewable energy entail? She explained that a justice framework calls for renewable energy that is accessible to all peoples, that works with respect for Nature’s needs and diversity, and that does not pursue any false solutions, such as large-scale hydropower, nuclear energy, or shale gas.
She also spoke about the concept of a Just Transition and how a fair and sustainable low-carbon economy must care for workers, families and communities currently involved in conventional fuel production, ensuring that they do not bear the brunt of the transition to new ways of producing wealth.
Concluding her introduction, Osprey drew attention to the fact that the U.S represents 5% of the world population, yet produces upwards of 26% of global carbon emissions.
“As one of the world’s biggest carbon polluters, the US has a historic and current responsibility to lead the way to a clean energy future. But simply transitioning to renewables will not solve our problems, we must also dig deeper to address over-consumption and unequal distribution, analyzing how we can live better, not more,” she explained.
Angelina Galiteva, Renewables 100 Policy Institute
Angelina Galiteva, co-Founder of the Renewables 100 Policy Institute, presented first, providing a big picture look at why we must transition, what progress has already been made, and how women can work to further this transformation.
According to Angelina, we need to focus on 100% renewable energy because it is achievable, because it is an environmental imperative, and because dirty energy lies at the root of all of our problems, from poverty and inequality, to health, war, and climate catastrophe.
“Its very clear that pollution is not free,” Angelina commented, explaining that the fossil fuel industry is the worlds second largest water user, a primary source of water and air contamination, and a creator of huge wealth disparities. The pursuit of 100% renewable energy on the other hand, creates jobs, improves quality of life, mitigates climate change, and can bring energy security and environmental justice.
Angelina provided data to show that there is absolutely no technologic or physical barrier to 100% renewable energy, but rather, only issues of “political and investment will”.
To power the world with solar we need only 0.07% of global land area, and capturing just two minutes of the solar radiation that hits the Earth each day can power the world for a year. Not only could this provide clean and reliable energy, but it could also bring power to the 1-2 billion people who still do not have access to electricity.
“Local action matters,” and is driving the transition, with 8 countries, 55 cities, 58 regions, 9 utilities companies, and 21 nonprofits and educational and public institutions representing more than 52.8 million people already committed to a 100% renewable transition. On a good day, grid power from renewables is reaching more than 40% in California, and we have the demand, knowledge, and community support needed to bring this to fruition in communities across the U.S. and the world.
“We are all solar sisters,” Angelina concluded as she passed the floor to Renewables 100 Policy Institute co-Founder, Diane Moss.
Diane Moss, Renewables 100 Policy Institute
Diane provided further insight into some of the 100% renewable victories already taking place, highlighted key policies to push for, and provided tips for successful organization.
Burlington, Vermont and Greensburg, Kansas have both achieved 100% renewable electricity, and many other U.S counties have firm commitments, including Aspen, Colorado by 2015, Palo Alto, California by 2017, Georgetown, Texas by 2017, East Hampton, New York by 2020, San Diego, California by 2030, and Hawaii by 2045.
According to Diane, some of the important initiatives that U.S. women can advocate for include policies that:
set zero net-energy building targets
streamline the permitting process for renewable energy installs
promote and allow net metering
cut direct and indirect subsidies for conventional energy sources
educate and train citizens of all ages in clean energy and green job development
Diane explained that the first and most successful 100% renewable campaigns have come from communities that have promoted cooperation between activists, businesses, and the government. She also suggested that, whether at the household or global scale, 100% renewable energy projects be pursued with a set of short, medium, and long-term goals, with plenty of milestones to celebrate along the way.
Cathleen Monahan, Director of the Single-family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH) Program at GRID Alternatives, spoke next.
Cathleen Monahan, GRID Alternatives
Cathleen and GRID Alternatives focus on solar accessibility for low-income communities for a few reasons. For one, solar installation can result in an 80% average reduction in monthly electricity bills. Secondly, the homeowners who can least afford clean energy are often the ones living in closest proximity to toxic conventional production.
After discussing the importance of renewables in a social justice context, Cathleen provided a look into some of the technical aspects of solar configuration and installation, including an overview of the parts of a solar energy system, different designs for mounting, options for connection (batteries vs. grid connected), selecting a contractor, financing your project, and tips for where to place your panels, which sizes to use, and system set up in different microclimates.
Cathleen also shared information about GRID Alternative’s Women’s Solar Initiative, which as gotten more than 1,000 women out on job sites to learn about solar energy. More information about opportunities to volunteer on a solar install with a powerful all-female team is available here.
Allison Archambault, Earthspark International
Allison Archambault of Earthspark International opened the second day of training on June 4, joining the call from Haiti. She discussed the three keys to 100% renewable energy; storage, integration, and demand management. The later was of particular importance in her presentation, which busted the myth that supply must equal demand. Rather, Allison explained, in a sustainable renewable energy model, we should work to adjust demand to meet supply. For example, if we know that the grid will be strained in the afternoon on a hot summer day, we can work to pre-cool homes, thus re-distributing demand to function in harmony with the flow of energy production.
By building renewable energy infrastructure in optimal locations, using a mix of complementary technologies, and using smart grids to bring demand into equilibrium with supply, we can create “clean, local, efficient, affordable, reliable energy systems”- the CLEAR choice. Community micro grids were also discussed as key component of a resilient energy system, functioning independently of the bigger grid with on-site generation and storage.
Concluding her presentation, Alison spoke with participants about the idea of shifting from being consumers to ‘prosumers’, and discussed the sense of empowerment and connection that develops when individuals and communities re-claim local power and begin contributing back to a renewable energy grid.
Lynn Benander, Co-op Power
Lynn Benander of Co-op Power spoke second, presenting the strategy of consumer owned energy cooperatives, as modeled by the Co-op Power network already up and running across New England. Participants in the New England renewable cooperatives come from multiclass and multirace backgrounds, promoting justice and diversity as the first step in sustainability and the clean energy transition.
Using the locally owned coop model, every community can decide what direction they want to take- be it solar, wind, biomass, or geo-thermal- and work to ensure that energy is created and distributed in a just and inclusive way. In bringing power back into the hands of residents, deep and sustained local economic development becomes a real, powerful possibility. According to Lynn, women are playing a key role on every level of community renewable energy development- as purchasers, activists, policymakers, supporters, organizers, and builders.
She also shared the Co-op Power ‘5 Years to Energy Freedom’ plan, which asks people to pledge to reduce energy consumption by 50%, and then work towards using renewables to supply the other half.
Lynn ended her presentation with a powerful assertion that the only precedent to the renewable energy movement is the abolition movement, with both striving to address economic injustice and root causes of unequal power and poverty dynamics. In fighting for 100% renewable energy, we are thus furthering the work of the important movements that have come before us.
Robert Styler of Powur spoke with training participants last, expanding upon Lynn’s sentiment that a virtually unprecedented movement is taking place. In his words, “the greatest transfer of wealth in history is happening now, from the fossil fuel industry to clean energy entrepreneurs like you.”
Robert Styler, Powur
“Concentration of power is a disaster,” Robert commented, highlighting how the pursuit of renewable energy gives us an opportunity to reverse this trend by decentralizing both energy production and wealth creation. Despite being up against big obstacles, Robert explained that we are at a tipping point, with even the big banks and head of the Federal Energy Regulation Committee conceding that renewable energy is well on its way to making fossil fuels obsolete.
Robert provided background on the Solar City program which is installing a new solar system in the U.S. every three minutes, and discussed the ways that Powur is working to make financial support accessible for homeowners and organizations leading the renewable energy transition through an ingenious new fundraising system.
Thanking WECAN International and training participants for allowing him to present, Robert expressed his deeply held belief that the shift to a just and healthy world will be one led by women, and supported by men.
During the question and answer segments of the two-day training participants and speakers engaged in discussion about passive solar and the promotion of net-zero energy homes, how to modify the renewable energy tax credit system so that it benefits low-income communities, and the need to address campaign contributions so that big utility and fossil fuel companies cannot continue to push dirty energy. They discussed the need for carbon taxes, the potential of geo-thermal, how to promote renewables in high-density urban centers, and the power of focusing on your own zone of influence while educating others and taking personal steps to further the 100% renewable energy transition.
‘Women for 100% Renewable Energy- From Installation to Advocacy’ was presented by the WECAN International Women’s Climate Justice Initiative (WCJI). More information about future education and advocacy sessions is available on the WECAN International webpage. The next free online training- ‘Health & Climate Change: What Is At Stake, What Can Be Done’ will be held on June 23rd and 25th. To register for WCJI updates and calls to action, please click here.
Women for 100% Renewable Energy Training Resources:
The Guardian- ‘Fossil Fuels Subsidized By $10m A Minute, Says IMF’
Youtube- ‘Elon Musk Debuts the Tesla Powerwall’
Citizen Climate Lobby
Vote Solar
Solar City
Women’s build volunteer opportunity with GRID Alternative
Kid Wind Curriculum for kids grade K-12
Wind For Schools Project
Solar Sisters
Angelina Galiteva Training Powerpoint
Diane Moss Training Powerpoint
Cathleen Monahan Training Powerpoint
Allison Archambault Training Powerpoint
Robert Styler Training Powerpoint
Blog by Emily Arasim, WECAN International Communications Coordinator & Project Assistant
‘Women, an Unstoppable Force’ – WECAN at the Regional Bay Area Its Time 2015 Network Convening
June 8, 2015 April 20, 2016 / WECAN International / Leave a comment
On May 2nd, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) Co-Founder and Executive Director, Osprey Orielle Lake, spoke at the local ‘It’s Time 2015 – A Partnership Summit to Elevate Women’s Leadership’ in San Francisco, California.
Osprey’s speech is presented below in its entirely, in the hope that its powerful message and insights will inspire more women to discover the agency they hold, and to begin applying their diverse skills and interests towards the fight for climate justice and solutions worldwide.
Hello dear friends and allies,
I would like to talk with you about two main points today. The first, that the climate crisis is urgent and that we have only a very small window of time to take bold action. The second, that women can and are making a significant difference in changing our current trajectory concerning global warming.
Last September, I was asked to present at a forum in New York about climate change and health impacts. At the forum a panel of scientists were reporting on their research concerning the harmful effects of increasing CO2 emissions on pregnant women and their growing babies.
It was almost too difficult for me to comprehend the fact that as a species, we are literally weighing the very health of our babies against a destructive system that values money above the well-being of the lives of our children and the planet as a whole.
In this moment it became poignantly clear to me, once again, that we have really gone off the cliff, and that we absolutely must stand up to stop this insanity and build a healthy world for our children and all the species of this magnificent Earth.
Right now we are on a trajectory that has made 2015 the hottest year on record, with extreme weather events already leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. We have been experiencing a massive drought in California where I live, and water and food shortages are intensifying globally.
If we continue with business as usual, the climate disruptions that we are creating will continue to lead, quite literally, to fatal changes in the very web of life itself.
Meanwhile, as citizens of the United States, we live in country where climate denial still prevails despite the fact that we are looking at the greatest existential crisis that humanity has ever faced. Just yesterday Congress passed a bill to decrease funds for NASA at a time when we need science more than ever.
It is from this landscape that the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network was born, and what we are seeing across our international network is the power of women rising up to face this challenge in truly remarkable ways.
While women are the most negatively impacted by climate change and environmental degradation, they are also key to solutions. Women are central stakeholders in re-visioning a new way of living with the earth.
WECAN International is working with women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Middle East/North African Region, across Latin America, and beyond and the things we are seeing are incredible. Women saving seeds, women developing small-scale solar businesses, women planting trees to heal destroyed lands, women building resistance movements to keep fossil fuels in the ground, protect their territories, and so much more.
This year WECAN is launching a Women’s Climate Justice Initiative here in the United States, and I invite all of you to unite with us. We have started this initiative in recognition of the fact that the US represents approximately 4% of the world’s population, yet we are producing upwards of 25% of the world’s carbon emissions–this tells me we have a real responsibility to act.
There is so much good work we can do together, so here is a sample of what the U.S. initiative includes:
A Women for 100% Renewable Energy campaign.
Calls to action to advocate with frontline and Indigenous women such as those living in the Bakken oil fields where a huge amount of devastating fracking is happening.
Strategizing to ensure we vote in climate leaders in the 2016 election.
Wide scale education and advocacy about environmental injustice and frontline communities.
No matter what issues you are involved with, we invite your collaboration because we firmly believe that the root cause of the climate crisis is the unjust nature of current social and economic systems. All of our issues are unequivocally linked.
The old, dominating structures of inequality must go, as exemplified by the fight to end the fossil fuel era.
As some of you may know, this year is a pivotal time, with international U.N. Climate Negotiations happening in Paris in December. There has never been a more crucial moment to send a powerful message to leaders from U.S women, and from women around the world: Enough is enough, it is time to move to immediately begin leaving fossil fuels in the ground and to transition to a clean, just, decentralized, democratized, and sustainable energy future.
We, as women, must continue to stand up to fight for the rights of our communities and nature. As we say at WECAN International: WE CAN act now, WE MUST act now. And we must demand this from our leaders.
Certainly Nature, our Mother Earth, is not waiting for politicians to negotiate. And there is no way that we can argue or buy our way out of the climate crisis or the laws of the natural world.
It is time for us to respect these natural laws, to respect the rights of Mother Earth, and this is something I feel we women understand deep in our bones.
What continues to inspire me is that we have many successful women’s movements to draw upon: the power of the Chipko Movement in India where women saved entire forests, the Suffrage Movement, the Rural Women’s Movement, and the Liberian Women’s Peace Movement to name a few.
When women are united, we have a profound ability to create an unstoppable force, and that is just what we need to face the climate crisis.
As a global network, women are calling for system change, not climate change. We are asking, ‘does it make any sense to try to protect the Earth and heal damaged ecosystems by further subjecting Nature to the very systems, like our current economic structure, that caused the damage in the first place?’
We need climate justice and we need to have the courage to change everything about how we are living with each other and the Earth, and I am certain women can and will lead the way.
Osprey Orielle Lake speaking at the local ‘It’s Time 2015 – A Partnership Summit to Elevate Women’s Leadership’ in San Francisco, California.
With 2015 UN Climate Negotiations Underway in Bonn, the Women & Gender Constituency Is Speaking Out In A Powerful New Position Paper
Members of the Women & Gender Constituency in Lima, Peru during COP20. Photo via WEDO.
The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), one of nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has just released a comprehensive and powerful new position paper on the 2015 New Climate Agreement.
The position paper was developed with input from 15 women’s and environmental organizations and a civil society advocacy listserve of over 100 women activists and gender experts across several national, regional, and global networks.
As stated in the paper:
“For the Women and Gender Constituency the objective of the 2015 climate agreement is an ambitious global partnership among countries, committing to the highest level of emission reductions needed to match what scientific research says is needed to prevent catastrophic climate change, working together within the principle of equity and common but differentiated responsibility, to protect, respect and fulfill human rights for all, to support adaptation to already incurring climatic shifts, to respond to the loss and damage already suffered, and to create a just and sustainable future for all.”
The position paper calls for an equitable, gender-responsive climate agreement that:
Keeps global temperature rise well below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Promotes human rights and gender equality.
Ensures sustainable development and environmental integrity.
Requires fair, equitable, ambitious and binding mitigation commitments in line with the principles of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR).
Calls for urgent and prioritized adaptation action and resources that respond to the most vulnerable countries, communities and populations.
Demands a sustainable energy paradigm that prioritizes safe, decentralized renewable energy systems that benefit people and communities.
Ensures adequate, new, additional and predictable climate finance for developing countries.
Provides resources to reconcile loss and damage already incurred from climate inaction.
Ensures full, inclusive and gender-equitable public participation in decision-making.
Ensures that all climate change related actions respect and protect biodiversity and nature.
Protects and fulfills the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Ensures that climate policies and actions establish a just transition of the workforce that creates quality jobs and guarantees decent work standards for all.
Ensures that mitigation strategies rely not only on technologies and markets, but rather include wide-ranging structural and lifestyle changes.
Members of the Women & Gender Constituency strategizing in Lima, Peru during COP20.
The paper spells out specific policies and strategies for achieving each of these objectives, and boldly denounces false solutions to the climate crisis, including technology-dependent and market-centric mechanisms such as REDD+, geo-engineering, shale gas, and nuclear power.
Crucially, the document stresses that the knowledge of Indigenous communities, women, and other frontline stakeholders must guide policy makers, and asserts that, “ecological sustainability, food sovereignty, decent work and people’s empowerment,” must be central tenants of all proposed strategies.
The Women and Gender Constituency is presenting this position paper in Bonn, Germany at the inter-sessional UN Climate Negotiations currently underway, and will continue to use it as a key advocacy tool the lead up to COP21 and the finalization of the 2015 New Climate Agreement later this year in Paris.
The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) is honored to advocate with the Women and Gender Constituency, and to have the opportunity to collaborate in forming interventions and position papers during this critical moment for climate action.
Please click here to download the full ‘Women and Gender Constituency: Position Paper on the 2015 New Climate Agreement’.
Blog by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International Executive Director and Emily Arasim, WECAN International Communications Coordinator
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Navigating the VA Claims Process
Shana Dunn and Travis James West | West & Dunn, LLC | January 20, 2016
When considering attorney representation in a VA disability claim it’s important to understand what stage of review your particular case is in and what filing deadlines apply. VA believes its process to be non-adversarial in the early stages and does not allow veterans to be represented by an attorney until VA had a chance to decide the claim.[1] By law, a veteran may not retain legal representation until after this initial decision is made. Unfortunately, VA’s communications are commonly long and difficult to understand, leaving many veterans wondering what the status of their claim is and what they need to do to continue.
The simplest way to determine the status of your claim is to look at the most recent decision you received regarding your claim. Decisions will initially come from the VA Regional Office, then from the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, and finally from an appellate court, such as the Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims.[2]
In most circumstances there are three types of decisions issued by the VA Regional Office – a Rating Decision, a Statement of the Case, and a Supplemental Statement of the case. Each of these types of decisions will require the veteran to meet specific deadlines in order to preserve his or her right to appeal a negative outcome.
The Rating Decision is the first decision you will receive after filing your claim. In most circumstances this will be construed as a final decision from VA giving rise to appellate rights.[3] After you receive this decision you are permitted by law to hire an attorney to advocate on your behalf as you pursue your appeal. If you wish to appeal a Rating Decision you have one year to do so.[4]
The Statement of the Case is the second type of decision issued by a VA Regional Office. A Statement of the Case will be issued only after you have timely appealed your Rating Decision. In it, the VA will provide a more detailed explanation for its Rating Decision. If you are still unsatisfied with the outcome of your claim you must file a substantive appeal using the VA Form 9 within 90 days of the Statement of the Case to continue the appeal. You may still submit additional evidence at this point for VA to consider.
The third type of decision issued by a VA Regional Office is a Supplemental Statement of the Case. This type of decision will only be issued if you file additional evidence following the Statement of the Case. The Supplemental Statement of the Case will address that additional evidence. If you receive a Supplemental Statement of the Case before you’ve filed a Substantive Appeal from the original Statement of the Case, then you will generally have sixty days from the date of the Supplemental Statement of the Case to file the VA Form 9. If the substantive appeal has already been filed, then there are no additional timelines.
After receiving your VA Form 9 the VA Regional Office will certify your appeal to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, sometimes called the BVA, in Washington, D.C. It can sometimes take three years or more after filing your appeal for this to take place. Once this occurs you will receive a letter from the Board of Veterans’ Appeals informing you that your appeal has been placed on the Board’s docket and that you have 90 days to submit additional evidence. This is your last opportunity to submit new evidence and make new arguments. For this reason it is very important to have high quality representation from an attorney or a Veterans’ Service Organization at this point.
After BVA issues a decision on your appeal you have 120 days to appeal to the Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims. If you appeal to the Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims the process will be considered adversarial as a matter of law. This means that VA will actively try to defend its denial, and that it no longer has a duty to assist you with developing your claim. VA will have a lawyer working to uphold the decisions VA has previously made.
If you previously filed a claim with VA and you’d like to revisit it but you have missed the filing deadlines to appeal then you must reopen your claim. If you wish to hire an attorney you will have to wait for VA to issue another rating decision before you can do so.
[1] This article refers to hiring an attorney for a fee. A veteran may be represented free of charge by an attorney or any number of veterans service organizations prior to VA’s first final decision.
[2] Other appellate courts that review VA decisions include the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Supreme Court.
[3] Occasionally VA will issue a decision containing a proposed rating. In this circumstance VA is notifying you that they are planning to take some action to reduce your benefits in the future. Proposed ratings are not final decisions. They are supposed to be followed by a final decision not less than 60 days after the date of the proposal.
[4] Please note that the calculation of the one year deadline starts from the date of the notification letter enclosing the decision, which is sometimes dated months after the date of the actual decision.
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AALRR Attorneys Prevail in Lawsuit That Holds All Interior Space in an Apartment Building is Assessable for Purposes of Developer Fees
Under Education Code section 17620 et seq., school districts are authorized to levy a fee against construction within the school district’s boundaries. The purpose of these fees, known as developer fees, is to offset the costs incurred by school districts to provide school facilities for the new students resulting from the new development. For residential projects, the city or county must calculate “all the square footage within the perimeter of a residential structure” and provide the calculation to the school district. The school district then levies the fee on the development project.
With regard to apartment projects, some developers believe that only the square footage of the individual apartment unit may be counted. In turn, these developers have argued that interior hallways and storage areas inside the apartment building were exempt from developer fees.
On March 29, 2018, in the case of 1901 First Street Owner, LLC, v. Tustin Unified School District, Case No. G054086, the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth District, held that California cities and counties must include all of the area within an apartment building in calculating “assessable space” for purposes of assessing developer fees under Government Code section 65995. In so holding, the Court ruled that such internal areas include not only the apartment unit, but also interior hallways, storage rooms, mechanical rooms, fitness centers, and lounges that are within the perimeter of the residential structure. Government Code section 65995 also lists specific areas that must be excluded from the calculation of “assessable space.” In that regard, the Court held that excluded “walkways” refer to an “external walkway, not an interior hallway.”
This opinion may have major implications in the amount of developer fees that a school district can levy on residential development within its jurisdiction.
Should you have any questions or comments regarding this case, or the levying of developer fees, please contact in Southern California Wendy H.Wiles (wendy.wiles@aalrr.com) or Jeff Frey (jeff.frey@aalrr.com) or for Northern California Lisa Allred (lallred@aalrr.com).
This AALRR publication is intended for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon in reaching a conclusion in a particular area of law. Applicability of the legal principles discussed may differ substantially in individual situations. Receipt of this or any other AALRR publication does not create an attorney-client relationship. The Firm is not responsible for inadvertent errors that may occur in the publishing process. ©2018 Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo.
Wendy H. Wiles
wendy.wiles@aalrr.com
Jeffrey W. Frey
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Utility: Workers at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station finish refueling in record time
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station's operator says employees completed a recent refueling and maintenance outage of one of the plant's three reactor units in record time.
Arizona Public Service Co. says workers reconnected Unit 3 to the electricity grid late Saturday after an outage that lasted 28 days and about 18 hours.
The outage was about four hours shorter than the plant's previous record set during a Unit 2 outage in 2014.
APS says it has now had three refueling and maintenance outages of less than 30 days and says industry data puts the average length of such outages at U.S. reactors in 2015 at over 36 days.
Palo Verde began operation in 1986 and is located about 50 miles west of downtown Phoenix.
Officials are set to meet Thursday to discuss the state of the plant and emergency preparedness.
Copyright 2016 Scripps Media, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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ACSM Positions & Policy/
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Read ACSM's current Viewpoint on climate change and active transportation
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The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom—1950
“ON JESUS’ RIGHTS”
Questions From Readers
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom (Study)—2017
Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
Kings for a Thousand Years Without Successors
God’s Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached
Your letter of the 16th instant for attention of Grant Suiter has been referred to us for reply.
We can do no better than refer to some reputed authorities, since you dispute the correctness of what has been published in The Watchtower. The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible (revised edition of 1944), under “Genealogy”, page 198, column 1, says among other things respecting the problems connected with Jesus’ earthly ancestry in the line of David: “A readier solution of the problem on the lines of this theory is that the table in Matthew contains the LEGAL successors to the throne of David, while that in Luke gives the maternal ancestors of Joseph. . . . after Zerubbabel the two lines separated. The family of the elder son, in whom the title to the throne inhered, at length became extinct, and the descendants of the younger son succeeded to the title. . . . the table in Matthew gives the genealogy of Joseph and exhibits him as heir to the throne of David, while the table in Luke gives the genealogy of Mary and shows Jesus to be the ACTUAL son of David. . . . Jesus, according to Luke, is grandson of Heli, Mary’s father, and thus a lineal descendant of David. . . . In the genealogy as given in Matthew, chapter 1, appears the entry, ‘After the carrying away to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel.’ The 2 genealogies are intelligible, if this notice in Matthew be understood as a broad declaration in genealogical form denoting LEGAL, succession to the throne. The title passed from Jechoniah on his death to Shealtiel, a lineal descendant of David.” Under “Jesus Christ” the same Dictionary says (p. 303, col. 1): “The Messiah was to be the son of David; and so Joseph, his legal father, and probably mother, his actual mother, were descended from David. . . . [col. 2] The enrollment of the Jews, however, evidently took place after the Jewish method, by which each father of a household was registered, not at his dwelling place, but at the place where his family belonged in view of its ancestry. Hence Joseph had to go to Bethlehem, the original home of David. Mary accompanied him.”
McClintock & Strong’s Cyclopædia (1882) says, under ‘Genealogy” (page 773, col. 2, of Volume III): “Grotius . . . supposes that Luke traces the NATURAL Pedigree of Christ, and Matthew the LEGAL. This he argues on two grounds: . . . Dr. Barrett . . . states his own hypothesis, viz., that Matthew relates the genealogy of Joseph, and Luke that of Mary. He supposes a sufficient reason, that after Matthew had given his genealogical table another should be added by Luke, fully to prove that Christ, according to the flesh, derived his descent from David, not only by his supposed father Joseph, but also by his real mother Mary. . . . In constructing their genealogical tables, it is well known that the Jews reckoned wholly by males, rejecting where the blood of the grandfather passed to the grandson through a daughter, the name of the daughter herself, and counting that daughter’s husband for the son of the maternal grandfather (Numbers 26:33; 27:4-7) . . . The evangelist Luke has critically distinguished the REAL from the LEGAL genealogy by a parenthetical remark: ‘Jesus being (as was reputed) the son of Joseph (but in reality) the son of Heli,’ or his grandson by his mother’s side.”—page 774, col. 1.
If Mary told her husband Joseph that the angel Gabriel had advised her that God would give her son Jesus the throne of his father David (Luke 1:32), then we can be sure that Joseph, who proved himself a godly, obedient man, would readily adopt Jesus as his legal heir as concerns his interests in the title to the throne of David. The Watchtower said Joseph could do this, because the Bible does not directly state or record that he did so, though this is implied. But by natural birth through David’s great-granddaughter Mary Jesus was naturally the “son of David”, and thus naturally Jesus inherited rights to the throne of David; it was in full harmony with Jesus’ NATURAL descent from David that Gabriel could tell Mary that God would give Jesus the throne of his NATURAL father David.
In the Bible genealogies that seem dry to the average reader are very important; God would not have cluttered up his Word with genealogies if they were not important, especially this one on David’s line. Ofttimes a point that seems small and insignificant is very important and vital, but may be entirely overlooked by the superficial, reader. Hence The Watchtower went, as you say, “so far afield in his attempt to prove a point that needs no proof.” God gives attention to and is faithful to fine points, and it magnifies him to bring out these fine points and show how accurate he is. Hence it was a real requirement for Jesus to become the “son of David.” that he be a NATURAL descendant of that ancient king. If Jesus had been of another family than David’s, the mere anointing of Jesus with the holy spirit would not have made him the “son of David”. His consecrated followers are also anointed with holy spirit to reign with him, but these are not spoken of as “sons of David” in Scripture; they have a connection with David only as they become members of Christ’s body. No genealogy is given of King Melchizedek, but Jesus, because he was anointed with holy spirit, is not Scripturally spoken of as the “son of Melchizedek”, but by God’s oath he is made a “priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek”. (Ps. 110:4) Correspondingly Jesus, in being the “seed of Abraham”, was also naturally a descendant of the patriarch. All these things add to the proof of Jesus’ identity.
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Our sad welcoming word. The tribute to Boris Nemtsov.
He is one of the most vigorous, charismatic, charming, magnetic and passionate personalities in Russian politics. He is straight, honest and incorruptible. He is a very bright star. His energy and his enthusiasm constantly move us forward. He has always lived on the edge. He never gives up. He is one of the few free persons in our enslaved country. He is undoubtedly a grand historic figure. He will always be alive in our hearts, in the cause he believed in and that we promise to continue.
Boris Nemtsov was shot in the back on February 27, 2015. Strangely, those words are easier to believe in than the words he is not alive. Easier, because it’s a shock but not a surprise that Putin’s Russia assassinates its opponents and because a mafia state operates like that. We remember Listiev, Yushenkov, Starovoitova, Politkovskaya, Shchekochikhin, Litvinenko, Estimirova, Magnitsky and others. We let the regime take us out one by one. When is our red line, our rubicon?
Isn’t it time for the Russian opposition and civil society to stand up and confront the corrupt and criminal regime? It is enough to keep silent, pretend we are fine or act in half-measures. Boris has devoted himself fully to the fight for our freedom.
He has had a dream of a Free Russia. Let’s combine and multiply our efforts! Our country is owned by a gang of crooks and thieves, murderers of people like Boris and thereby the killing of our dignity and future.
The loss of Boris is huge and incomprehensible. He is a hero. He is a martyr. But let’s not let his death be in vain. Let’s make Russia Free. He wanted it. We deserve it. Let’s take our country back.
The person, time and location of shooting were not a coincidence. Boris’s shooting was symbolic. He was one of the few consolidating figures in the Russian opposition. He was an opposition figure of a global level.
He was a visionary. He was killed coldly near the Kremlin and on the eve of a big protest rally. In our long, Russian history our rulers liked to execute their rivals near the Kremlin. It’s a clear signal to all the dissenters: leave or you’ll be in jail or murdered. It’s a clear signal to the entire country, to its law-enforcement structures and to the public as well. Like a metastasis it will leak from Moscow to the regions: it’s ok to get rid of your political opponents. It nourishes the atmosphere of hatred and intolerance. It destroys our society.
We have established the Free Russia Foundation because we have a strong vision of Russia After Putin, the vision of the country that still has hope for a democratic future. We have started it because we deeply understand how bad the situation is in our homeland and how strong the pressure is that the government places on any person with a free mind.
This hope is fading from day to day. If we don’t fight for changes today, it might be too late tomorrow.
Russians, wake up! Let’s build a successful society and stop being a global threat, invading neighbors and killing our own people. The murder of Boris is a bitter loss for all of us – those of us, like him, are dreaming of a Free Russia.
Let’s make Russia free! Join us today! Together we can make it happen.
The Free Russia Foundation team
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Home » NewsBlog » Mountains in monochrome: Mari Yarmolinski captures the “loud silence” of Northern Italy
Mountains in monochrome: Mari Yarmolinski captures the “loud silence” of Northern Italy
Born in Russia, raised in Israel, and currently based in Italy, Mari Yarmolinski is an Israeli visual artist working illustration, design and photography. And the latter fits right in with her life as an “eternal traveller”, she says.
“For me, photography allows the immediate capture of moments while travelling. It describes daily life and enhances my relationships with people I meet on my path by giving me an insight into their reality.”
And rather than clashing with her illustration and design work, it complements it beautifully. “Illustration has this imaginary aspect; design work addresses a need or solves a problem; photography completes the story with images,” she reasons. “At times, these elements are amalgamated in one piece of work, while at others, each has its own rhythm and place.”
The mountains of Montana
One of her recent projects is a photo series created during a visit to a town in Northern Italy called Montana (not to be confused with the US state) and represents for her an emotional sense of what it means to be Italian.
“The pictures were taken in the mountains of Corno D’Aquilio last Christmas,” she explains. “It was the first time we’d experienced a holiday, had dinner and lunch (including Hanukkah celebration) with our adoptive Italian families. They have shown us Italian life: what it means, how it feels and what inspires them.
“One of the beautiful things is their strong connection to nature; any free time is spent with family and friends at the lake, mountains, sea parks or any kind of outdoors. These quiet days were a perfect opportunity for mountain walks and exploring our relationship with this country and land.”
Monochrome makeover
The original photographs were taken in colour, but after review, Mari decided to change them into black and white. “It’s strange, but the black and white images seem much more colourful to me,” she says. “I see an endless variety of shades and the absent colours are actually even more present than in a colour photograph.
“Black and white highlights the composition, puts the place in the front of the story, shows a really specific perspective and most importantly, gives the light a character and a ‘body’,” she explains.
“Although the moment is frozen, it almost seems like the images are in a constant movement. You can feel the importance of light in the pictures, which reflects its significance for the land, the atmosphere, the plants and on life as a whole.”
For her, the pictures express the “loud silence” of the area. “The higher and further you climb, the weaker your memory of the city. Your thoughts and daily life begin to recede, and only then, you start to hear the mountains, the trees, the grass, the lake; you become attuned to nature. It brings calmness and freedom and one feels a part of something indescribably bigger.”
A week in Antwerp
Mari got to feed her wanderlust further recently, in the company of D.A.T.E. (Discover Antwerp Through Experience), a project that brings together international creatives to discover the city and collaborate on an exhibition (you can see what she created for that here).
“The week in Antwerp was truly inspiring,” she says. “I was really surprised to see how Antwerp is breathing art, music, design, fashion and great healthy food, and how there is a strong sense of a creative community.
“I came back filled with inspiration and new project ideas,” she adds. “It has renewed my drive and confidence to create and express ideas in any form or shape, and to constantly combine personal artistic projects with good professional work, independently as well as collaborating with others.”
Creative Boom Go to Source
Author: Tom May
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Home » Article » Human Papillomavirus: determination of oncoprotein E7 in high risk HPV 16 and 18 and less oncogenic HPV type 11
Open PDF Human Papillomavirus (HPV) AssayNotes
Human papillomavirus (HPV) belongs to Papillomaviruses, a diverse group of DNA-based viruses that infect the skin and mucous membranes of humans and a variety of animals. Over 100 different human papillomavirus (HPV) types have been identified on the basis of difference in the virus genome nucleotide sequences (e.g. type 1, 2 etc.) Today genital HPV infection is one of the most widespread sexually transmitted diseases. Approximately 20 million people around the world are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. In accordance with WHO information, genital HPV infection was a reason of over 99% of cervical cancer cases, i.e. about 1.4 million women were affected worldwide and 239 000 of them died each year.
All HPVs are transmitted by skin-to-skin contact. A group of about 30-40 HPVs is typically transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. Some sexually transmitted HPVs, types 6 and 11, may cause genital warts. However, other HPV types which may infect the genitals do not cause any noticeable signs of infection.
Persistent infection with a subset of about 13 so-called “high-risk” sexually transmitted HPVs, including types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 68 — different from the ones that cause warts — may lead to the development of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN), penile intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), and/or anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN). These are precancerous lesions and can progress to invasive cancer. HPV infection is a necessary factor in the development of nearly all cases of cervical cancer.
The HPV lifecycle begins from infection of epithelial tissues through micro-abrasions. At this point, the viral genome is transported to the nucleus and establishes itself at a copy number between 10-200 viral genomes per cell. A sophisticated transcriptional cascade then occurs as the host keratinocyte begins to divide and become increasingly differentiated in the upper layers of the epithelium. The viral oncogenes, E6 and E7, are thought to modify the cell cycle so as to make them amiable to the amplification of viral genome replication and consequent late gene expression. In the upper layers of the host epithelium, the late genes L1 and L2 are transcribed/translated and serve as structural proteins which encapsidate the amplified viral genomes.
Advanced ImmunoChemical offers a wide spectrum of monoclonal antibodies specific to oncoprotein E7 of “high-risk” HPV types 16 and 18 as well as of less oncogenic HPV type 11. MAbs can be used in routine immunoassays (direct or indirect ELISA, sandwich immunodetection systems, Western blotting). Some MAbs display high specificity to definite type of HPV while others can be used for determination of E7 proteins for all four types of viruses. Please visit our website at www.AdvImmuno.com.
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On 23 September 2010 the Reliability Panel (Panel) commenced its annual review of the performance of the National Electricity Market for the 2009-10 year. On 23 December 2010 the AEMC published the Final Report for the Annual Market Performance Review 2010, in accordance with clause 8.8.3(k) of the National Electricity Rules. The Final Report was submitted by the Reliability Panel (Panel) in accordance with clause 8.8.3(j) of the Rules.
On 23 September 2010 the Reliability Panel (Panel) commenced its annual review of the performance of the National Electricity Market for the 2009-10 year. On 23 December 2010 the AEMC published the Final Report for the Annual Market Performance Review 2010, in accordance with clause 8.8.3(k) of the National Electricity Rules (Rules). The Final Report was submitted by the Reliability Panel (Panel) in accordance with clause 8.8.3(j) of the Rules.
On 28 September 2010 the AEMC provided the Panel with Standing Terms of Reference for this review. The review focuses on the performance of the market in terms of reliability of the power system and the power system security and reliability standards. In conducting this review, the Panel followed the Terms of Reference issued by the AEMC in accordance with clause 8.8.3 of the Rules.
On 4 November 2010 the Panel published the Draft Report for stakeholder consultation. The Panel invited submissions from interested parties by Wednesday, 1 December 2010. The Panel did not receive any submissions.
The Panel scheduled a public meeting for Thursday, 18 November 2010. This meeting was cancelled as there were no registered attendees at that time.
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Home / News and Events / Accelerating the implementation of PIDA through private sector participation: Launch of the Continental Business Network
Accelerating the implementation of PIDA through private sector participation: Launch of the Continental Business Network
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) participated at the Validation Meeting for the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Acceleration Strategy Action Plan (PAS) and the preparatory meeting for the launching of the Continental Business Network (CBN) held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, from April 9 to 10, 2015. The Bank’s delegation was led by Mohammed Hassan, Coordinator for the ICA for Africa, and comprised Shem Simuyemba, Chief Infrastructure Economist, and Mtchera Chirwa, Chief Infrastructure & PPP Specialist, from the NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade Department.
The PAS aims to fast-track the implementation of a number of the priority PIDA projects, specifically, the 16 projects agreed at the Dakar Financing Summit (DFS) held in Dakar, Senegal, in June 2013 which constitute projects ready for acceleration. These include the Sambangalou hydro-power project in West Africa; the Batoka Gorge hydro-power project in Zimbabwe; the Serenje-Nakonde road in Zambia, which is part of the North-South Corridor; and the Dar-es-Salaam Port expansion project in East Africa, among others.
The objective of the meeting was therefore to discuss the proposed Action Plan for implementing the PAS. The meeting considered progress, next steps and areas of NEPAD and other partners’ intervention required to move these projects forward to preparation and financing. The Bank’s head of delegation delivered a statement of support and commitment to the PIDA projects and acceleration processes on behalf of the Vice-President of Operations, Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration, Solomon Asamoah.
The CBN is intended to be a high-level advocacy and investment platform for increased private sector participation in PIDA financing/investment and implementation, and more generally as a forum for addressing challenges and opportunities relating to the development of Africa’s infrastructure. The meeting discussed the rationale and possible set up and operational modalities for the CBN which is set to be launched on June 1, 2015 at the World Economic Forum Africa Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. The Bank is expected to be a key member of the CBN and has continued to play a critical role in the implementation of PIDA, Africa’s highest priority infrastructure programme intended to interconnect the continent through priority transformational infrastructure projects in energy, transport, ICT and trans-boundary water.
Speaking at the meeting, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, the Chief Executive Officer of the NEPAD Agency, commended partners including the Bank for supporting the PIDA process and observed that, “The partnership in the delivery of PIDA must extend from the public to the private sector by involving Africa’s business leaders to engage in results-driven dialogue with political leaders and policy-makers so as to create a conducive environment for private sector participation in infrastructure financing in Africa.”
Shem Simuyemba
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14. R & J REHEARSAL REPORT
May 21, 2018 / Aaron Snook
There was a hope that there would be more of these, but I'll be lucky to get two or three completed. The following was written three weeks into the rehearsal process and two weeks out from opening night.
After over four years of script and music development and over a year of dreaming and strategizing here in Asheville, we are on an irreversible course towards the opening of the full production of The Ballad of R & J in downtown Asheville, North Carolina on June 2. That’s impossible to wrap my head around, so I’ve taken the day by day approach to keep steady on the course. That said, I’ll give myself this brief moment to step back and share before plunging back in.
First, I have to talk about this fine cast. The talent was evident in the audition room, but when the sum total of time spent together is less than a get-to-know-you coffee, you can never truly know. Moreover, I’m asking people who don’t know me from Adam to not only trust my vision of the play, but the experimental production as well. Compound that with slightly non-traditional methods and an ever-present irreverence to a classical approach to Shakespeare, and I thank my stars they’re not only still coming to rehearsal, but coming completely bought in. They are the true gift of this process. While I’ve had two wonderful versions of the cast in the workshops, I’ve never had the opportunity to deepen the work beyond first choices. Brand new discoveries are being unearthed about this play and these characters that four years didn’t reveal and it’s the actors that are giving it to me. With three weeks behind us, a cohesive ensemble is developing and I’m ecstatic to journey onwards with this team.
1. ENSEMBLE: (L TO R) Anna Lyles, Sonia D’Andrea, Chloe Zeitounian, Carter Bostwick, Shawn Morganlander, Daniel Henry, Claudia Sturgell, Charlie Wilson (not pictured: Jeff Untz, Jane Halstrom, Elizabeth Bagby)
Second, the Show Truck. Since its inception, it has been both vital to our delivery system and a mystery in its execution. Arnel Sancianco, the initial designer of what was then called the Stage Wagon (then Boxcar Theatre, now Show Truck) created this gorgeous, spot on design and yet admittedly had no idea how to build it. That was totally fair and yet I had no idea how to go about finding someone to take it on. That, my friends, is when Serendipity touched me on the shoulder. Flashback to the AMC’s first project, An Appalachian Christmas Carol, and I desperately needed a third team member, whose description was somewhere in between a stage manager and a puppeteer. Over the weeks leading up to crunch time, I had been through three possibilities and was now staring down not having anyone at all. I sent an email to a local theatre ally, Michelle Carello, who then forwarded it on to folks she knew, and lo and behold at the eleventh hour, I received an email from one Alex Smith. Not only was he a great collaborator for that project, but I came to understand he was a man of many talents. One talent, in particular, was building things and he just happen to be starting a fabrication company, whose first project became the Show Truck. Single-handedly, he built our beautiful mobile stage that debuted at the Creative Intervention of Carolina Lane and now rests in the middle of my lawn in its rehearsal position. Needless to say, we are absolutely fortunate to have Alex on our team.
Finally, a brief word about the process with much more to come later. It’s been a dream, but certainly not without its challenges and the biggest one has been having rehearsals at home. It’s a blending of worlds that has huge advantages in the commute, the rent, and the scenery. Like much of this process, the choice was easy, but the execution has had its difficulties. Most of that has fallen on my wife, Simone, and our daughter, Matilda, and I owe them the world for it. Try explaining to a three-year old that all these people are coming over to work and need to focus on their job, which is…playing pretend. Just yesterday, she yelled down to the stage, “Daddy, I think you’re working AND playing.” What could I say? She was absolutely right.
tags / The Ballad of R & J, Show Truck, Arnel Sancianco, Alex Smith, An Appalachian Christmas Carol, Creative Intervention of Carolina Lane, Working AND Playing
Newer / June 12, 2018
15. R & J OPENS
Older March 06, 2018
13. SHOW TRUCK
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EXCLUSIVE: Rory Feek says GRAMMY nomination is 'like winning the lottery'
Sophie Schillaci
Jan 19th 2016 12:27PM
Rory and Joey Feek are "still smiling" over their surprise GRAMMY nomination.
"When you love country music as much as we do, to even be nominated for a Grammy for Best Duo/Group Country Vocal Performance is like winning the lottery," Rory tells ET.
WATCH: Rory Feek Details Wife Joey's 'Excitement and Tears' After Learning of GRAMMY Nomination
The couple is nominated alongside Blake Shelton and Ashley Monroe; Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay; Brothers Osborne; and Little Big Town.
"Those artists are stars -- at least to us, they are," Rory says. "Joey and I feel like we're just regular folks -- the kind that buys and listens to those artists' records. So to be nominated for an award like this with them is such an honor."
The GRAMMYs ceremony is set for Feb. 15 in Los Angeles, just two days before the couple's daughter will celebrate her second birthday. It's fitting, since their daughter, Indiana, stars in the video for their GRAMMY-nominated song, "If I Needed You."
See more photos of the adorable couple:
Joey Feek and Rory Feek together on stage
NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 09: Rory Feek and Joey Feek of the band Joey & Rory perform on the Chevrolet Riverfront Stage during the 2013 CMA Music Festival on June 9, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon IV/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 07: Musicians Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek of Joey & Rory arrives at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 06: Musicians Joey Martin Feek and Rory Lee Feek attend The ACM Experience during the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the Orleans Arena on April 6, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jerod Harris/ACMA2013/Getty Images for ACM)
LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 07: Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek perform at Las Vegas Convention Center on December 7, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mindy Small/FilmMagic)
INDIO, CA - APRIL 24: Joey Feek (L) and Rory Feek of Joey + Rory perform as part of the Stagecoach Music Festival at the Empire Polo Fields on April 24, 2010 in Indio, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
Rory Feek and Joey Feek of the band Joey and Rory attend the 'Country Strong' premiere at Green Hills Cinema on November 8, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon IV/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS - APRIL 17: Musicians Rory Feek (L) and Joey Martin of Joey + Rory perform onstage at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards concerts at the Fremont Street Experience during the on April 17, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
TWIN LAKES, WI - JULY 18: Joey Martin Feek and Rory Lee Feek (R) of singer/Songwriter duo Joey + Rory perform at the 17th Annual Country Thunder USA music festival on July 18, 2009 in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 16: (L-R) Singer Joey Martin Feek and Rory Lee Feek attend the 2009 CMT Music Awards at the Sommet Center on June 16, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 16: Singer Joey Martin Feek and Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory perform on stage during the 2009 CMT Music Awards at the Sommet Center on June 16, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS - APRIL 04: Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek of Joey & Rory pose Backstage Creations at the 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards Day 1 on April 4, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mark Sullivan/WireImage) *** Local Caption ***
LAS VEGAS - APRIL 06: Joey Martin (L) and Rory Feek of Joey + Rory perform during the 44th annual Academy Of Country Music Awards All-Star Jam held at the MGM Grand on April 6, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/ACM2009/Getty Images for ACMA)
NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 30: (L-R): Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek attend the 60th annual BMI Country awards at BMI on October 30, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Erika Goldring/FilmMagic)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MARCH 31: Joey Martin Feek of the musical duo Joey + Rory performs onstage at the ACM Experience at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on March 31, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jerod Harris/ACMA2012/Getty Images for ACM)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MARCH 31: (L-R) Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek of musical duo Joey + Rory perform onstage at the ACM Experience at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on March 31, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jerod Harris/ACMA2012/Getty Images for ACM)
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 07: Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek of Joey and Rory attend the 2011 SESAC Nashville Music Awards at The Pinnacle at Symphony Place on November 7, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Ed Rode/WireImage)
NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 28: Joey + Rory are Joey Martin Feek, Rory Feek accept 'Vocal Duo of the Year' at The 17th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on October 28, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for CCMA)
NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 28: Joey + Rory are Joey Martin Feek, Rory Feek perform at The 17th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on October 28, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for CCMA)
LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 03: Musicians Joey Martin Feek (L) and Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory arrive at the 46th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards RAM Red Carpet held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/ACMA2011/Getty Images for ACM)
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 10: Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek of Joey + Rory attend the 44th Annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 16: Joey Martin Feek of Joey + Rory attends the 58th Annual BMI Country Music Awards at BMI on November 9, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for BMI)
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 09: Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek of Joey + Rory attend the 58th Annual BMI Country Music Awards at BMI on November 9, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BMI)
Joey Martin Feek and Rory Lee Feek of Joey and Rory attends the 'Country Strong' premiere at Green Hills Cinema on November 8, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Beth Gwinn/FilmMagic)
"I made the video right after Indy was born as a way to share this special gift that God had given us with others," Rory says. "I still watch that video all the time. It's not a music video, it's a piece of our life set to music. Most all of our videos actually are. This one is just the most special because our little Indy was the guest star!"
WATCH: Rory Feek Has 'No Desire to Go on Singing or Performing' Without Joey
The career milestone comes at a bittersweet time for the family, as Joey continues bravely battling cancer. In recent updates on his blog, This Life I Live, Rory has admitted that his wife's condition continues to "decline." He recently wrote, "I'd like to tell you that she's doing great and is going to beat this thing. But I can't."
Meanwhile, Joey + Rory are set to debut their latest album -- Hymns and Stories That Are Important to Us -- on Feb. 12.
"This is the last record that Joey and I will ever get to make and the last songs we'll ever get to sing together," says Rory. "I have no desire to go on singing or performing without her."
WATCH: Blake Shelton Calls Rory and Joey Feek 'Inspirational'
Outside of performing, Rory is a well-known songwriter, penning hits like "Some Beach" for Shelton and "A Little More Country Than That" for Easton Corbin, among others.
"When I first moved to Nashville, I was fortunate to get to spend a lot of time and write a couple of songs with the late, great Waylon Jennings," Rory recalls. "At his house, on his end table, he had a GRAMMY Award. I remember being in awe of him and the award, thinking that a GRAMMY was something that was too far out of our reach.
"I'm sure both Joey and I, through the years, have thought to ourselves, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if...?' But honestly, we've not dwelled on it," he continues. "We've always taken the approach to just do what we do in the most honest way we can, and believe that good things will come of it. I'd say this is one of the very, very, very good things!"
They may be competitors at the GRAMMYs, but Shelton had no shortage of kind words for the couple when ET caught up with him in November. See the interview below.
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Sex selective abortions worry Azerbaijanis
Almost 10 percent of female births are prevented due to preferences for boys in a trend that alarms demographers.
by MJ del Valle & Zaka Guluyev
Critics of prenatal sex selection warn of the consequences of big gender imbalances [MJ del Valle/Al Jazeera]
Baku, Azerbaijan - After giving birth to a baby girl, 24-year-old Shana knew what to expect the second time she became pregnant.
"When we found out that the second baby was going to be another girl, my husband said that he didn't want her and I was forced to have an abortion. It was already three months and 10 days. They anaesthetised me and cut the foetus out of me."
Shana's second daughter was one of thousands of girls aborted in Azerbaijan every year.
According to a 2012 report by the Guttmacher Institute, Azerbaijan has the highest total abortion rate in the world, with women having on average 2.3 abortions in their lifetimes. Between 2005 and 2009 almost 10 percent of potential female births in Armenia and Azerbaijan did not occur because of prenatal sex selection, another report found.
The oil-rich country has one of the world's worst records in sex-selective abortions, according to a report for the UN. In normal circumstances, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. In Azerbaijan, the ratio in 2011-12 was 116 boys for every 100 girls. In some parts of the country, such as the Ganja region, the ratio is as high as 120 to 100.
It is not rare to hear of women who continue to have abortions until they give birth to a boy. Statistical trends also show that sex-selective abortions rose steeply when ultrasound testing became more common in the 1990s.
Shunned for having a girl
From a small women's shelter in the heart of Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, Shana told Al Jazeera in a soft voice how she had been happy and in love when she married her husband. But like others living at the shelter, she was rejected for not giving birth to a boy.
"My marriage was good until I became pregnant, and did not give in to the pressures of having an abortion because the baby was a girl. Then my husband sent me to my mother's house, and said he was going to take lovers to get a baby boy," she said. Shana's daughter, Leman - now a happy, piano-playing child - was ignored and disowned by her father and his parents from the time she was born.
I have seen men turning their heads and leaving the room without saying goodbye. Sometimes, if it is the first daughter, men are more or less ok, but when it is the second daughter, often he is not ok.
- Tarana Hasanova, gynaecologist
The rejection often begins with an ultrasound taken at the 12th week of pregnancy. Tarana Hasanova, a gynaecologist at Baku's Policlinic Number 1, told Al Jazeera about the reactions she has seen after announcing that the foetus is a girl: "I have seen men turning their heads and leaving the room without saying goodbye. Sometimes, if it is the first daughter, men are more or less ok, but when it is the second daughter, often he is not ok."
Will new legislation help?
Walking though the wide, clean halls of Baku's main maternity ward, Faiza Aliyeva, the national coordinator for reproductive health in Azerbaijan, said she tries to change mindsets when she holds master classes for gynaecologists. "I tell them to react by saying something like, 'You are lucky! It's a great thing to have a girl. She will look after you in your old age.' That's what I told couples too as a practicing doctor."
India's solution to its own gender problem has been to ban testing for sex in the 12th-week ultrasound. But enforcement is difficult, says Dr Luis Mora of the United Nations Population Fund. Cheap kits make it possible to test for sex without a doctor's supervision. And some Azerbaijanis believe that withholding information about the gender of a baby would be a step too far. "It would be a violation of human rights," says Aliyeva.
Musa Guliyev, the deputy chairman of the Committee on Social Policy, told Al Jazeera that Azerbaijan's parliament plans to discuss a new legislative package on reproductive health this fall. Under the proposed legislation, any woman pursuing an abortion after the 12th week of pregnancy must have her case subjected to a medical commission that will decide whether the abortion has been sought on non-medical grounds, or for reasons related to the foetus' sex.
Guliyev believes such legislation is the only way to ensure that Azerbaijan's long-term demographics are not thrown out of kilter. The UNFPA has also warned of the consequences of a shortage of women, including the risk of human rights violations such as abduction, the trafficking and sale of women and girls for the purpose of marriage, and sexual exploitation.
The key, say reformers, is to take a holistic approach to the country's reproductive problems, rather than focusing solely on abortion. By teaching teenagers about sex and making contraceptives more readily available, Aliyeva argues, the government will cut the total number of abortions of foetuses of both genders.
Meanwhile, the case of South Korea has been commonly used as a successful example of how imbalanced sex ratios can be reversed.
By the mid-1990s, South Korea's sex ratio at birth was similar to Azerbaijan's today. But by 2007 it had declined to 107 males born per 100 females. South Korea based its strategy on a multidisciplinary approach: Legislation against prenatal sex detection was passed and effectively put into force; a mass media campaign called "Love your daughter" was launched; and new measures were passed to encourage gender equality. These new policies were aided by South Korea's economic boom, which helped women join the workforce and thereby achieve more autonomy.
Tradition trumps religion
It remains to be seen whether legislation will be able to change ingrained cultural prejudices in Azerbaijan. Legal systems in countries in the Caucasus region grant equal rights to men and women, but for many people of both genders, it is simply a matter of pride to have a son to perpetuate the family’s lineage. This preference runs so deep that not even Muslim and Christian teachings against abortion can limit the practice.
From his office in Baku, surrounded by piles of books, Islam expert Sahin Hesenli told Al Jazeera: "A daughter is the gift of God. The Quran states that a man that takes care of several daughters has a place in heaven."
But Shana tearfully recalls that her ex-husband's reaction was much different from what Hesenli would have expected. "After Leman was born, my husband did not want to give us money," she said. "He said that she wasn't his child and even asked to do a paternity test because he was sure that he could not have a girl. My mother-in-law also said that her son should have had a boy, not a girl."
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Hidden state: Inside North Korea
Fault Lines gains rare access into North Korea and examines the impact of US policies on the secretive nation.
08 Mar 2016 13:23 GMT North Korea, Kim Jong-un, Politics, United States, War & Conflict
More to this story
Historian: 'Kim Jong-un looks funny, he is overweight and sometimes does strange things. But he is smart.'
North Korean defector: Exposing reality 'most powerful form of resistance'
North Korea is still a flash point. We're still at a state of war with North Korea.
Ambassador Joseph R Detrani, Intelligence and National Security Alliance
The leadership of the most secretive state on the planet changed hands in 2011 when Kim Jong-un became the Supreme Leader of North Korea following the death of his father.
Kim's approach to relations with the United States and the international community has been described as erratic.
Since he came to power, he launched a long-range rocket, carried out a nuclear test and has been accused of orchestrating a cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
Fault Lines looks at life under the leadership of Kim Jong-un and his relations with the US through on-the-ground access in Pyongyang, exclusive interviews with recent defectors, and insight from experts and scholars.
This documentary first aired on Al Jazeera English in January 2015.
North Korea opens its doors, a little
North Korea will build Special Economic Zones but will investors risk it?
Business & Economy, China, North Korea, Russia, South Korea
Former foes unite against Pyongyang's rule
In a twist of fate, defected North Korean prison guard and former inmate join hands to create change.
Politics, US & Canada, China, North Korea, Russia
North Korea's 'good life'
North Korea is a reclusive state but Al Jazeera was granted access to portray daily life in the Northeast Asian nation.
North Korea, Asia Pacific
North Korea's cyber-gap
North Korea's survival depends on keeping internet access limited to the privileged few.
Science & Technology, US & Canada, China
North Korea: An 'act of war' over a movie?
Sony's decision to pull the film 'The Interview' has more to do with business and profit than with national interests.
Politics, Arts & Culture, US & Canada
What is China's strategy for North Korea?
The key dilemma for Beijing is the question of retaining its historical commitment to N Korea to ensure its survival.
Politics, US & Canada, China
Scholar Andrei Lankov discusses why North Korea will reform economically, but not politically, and why he expects any change in the secretive state to be accompanied by a tightened grip on its citizens
Business & Economy, Politics, Human Rights
A woman who was tortured in her homeland tells of what drove her to seek asylum in South Korea
Human Rights, North Korea, South Korea
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Members Lose ‘Street Survivors’ Film Lawsuit
Dave Lifton
A federal court has ruled against the estates of three deceased members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and founding guitarist Gary Rossington in their attempt to prevent former drummer Artimus Pyle and Cleopatra Records from distributing a movie about the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the band.
Rolling Stone reports that the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has unanimously overturned a lower court's decision from last year which said Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash violated a 1988 agreement that prevented individual members from taking part in any project aimed at exploiting the group's tragic history. They are allowed, however, to tell their own life stories.
The suit was filed in June 2017 by Rossington, the only original member still in the band, and the estates of Ronnie Van Zant and Steve and Cassie Gaines – the three musicians killed in the crash. An injunction was granted two months later but the appellate court has now ruled that, based on the wording of the pact, Pyle couldn't be prevented from retelling the crash from his own perspective.
“That crash is part of the 'history' of the band, but it is also an ‘experience’ of Pyle with the band, likely his most important experience,” the ruling noted. “Provisions of a consent decree that both prohibit a movie about such a history and also permit a movie about such an experience are sufficiently inconsistent, or at least insufficiently specific, to support an injunction.”
Evan Mandel, who represented Cleopatra, told the Washington Post that “the band fails to appreciate the irony of singing about freedom while attempting to use a secret gag order to prevent other artists from expressing views with which the band disagrees. The court’s decision is a victory for filmmakers, artists, journalists, readers, viewers, and the marketplace of ideas.”
With the ruling, Cleopatra can now release the movie, which has a reported budget of $1.2 million.
Next: A Complete Guide to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Lineup Changes
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Literary Birthday – 30 May – Ray Cooney
Happy Birthday, Ray Cooney, born 30 May 1932
Ray Cooney’s Six Rules for Writing Farce
In the beginning there is THE PLOT. I’m not searching for a ‘comedy’ plot or a ‘funny’ storyline. I’m searching for a tragedy. Farce, more than comedy, is akin to tragedy.
THE CHARACTERS must be truthful and recognisable. Again, this is why the audience laughs. The characters are believable – it is the situations that are slightly out of the ordinary; ordinary people who are out of their depth in a predicament which is beyond their control and they are unable to contain – tragedy again.
The ability to RE-WRITE is essential. My farces are pure concoctions. I never get it exactly right the first time. The original script is comparable to a middle-of-the-range Ford motor car. By the time it appears on the West End stage it must have acquired the precision, the elegance and the comfort of a Rolls Royce.
CASTING is vital. Because of the laughter my kind of play invokes, it is sometimes thought that ‘comedians’ serve farce well. Invariably, disaster! Farce needs actors and actresses who can play tragedy, but also they must have the technique, the stamina, the precision and the dexterity that farce demands. And, almost above all, they must have generosity of spirit. Farce is teamwork. You can’t have selfish actors pulling attention at the wrong moment.
A rule personal to me is REAL TIME. The two hours spent in the theatre by the audience is two hours in the existence of the characters in the play. No fade-outs. No passage of time between Acts 1 and 2. When the curtain rises on the second act the characters are exactly how we left them at the end of Act 1, and the action is continuous.
Finally, never underestimate the intelligence of THE AUDIENCE. Several people who first read Run For Your Wife (including my own wife) said, ‘It’s very funny but the complications become so convoluted that I had to keep going back to the script to check what was what, who was who and who’d said what to whom.’ That, of course, was reading the play. Farces have to be performed, not read.
Here endeth the lesson according to Ray Cooney …
Ray Cooney is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run For Your Wife, ran for nine years in London’s West End.
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Where the elite go to buy their second passport
by Bloomberg News | July 23, 2018
Cheaper than a Gulfstream, nimbler than a superyacht, a second passport – or a third, or fourth - has become another trophy for the ultra-wealthy.
Even self-styled citizens of the world, it seems, need a Plan B. Plus, that gold Maltese coat of arms looks classy. One must keep up, after all.
Wealthy buyers “are looking for security” said Christian Kalin, chairman of Henley & Partners, which provides citizenship advice and publishes rankings such as the Quality of Nationality Index (France is No. 1). They want peace of mind in case of a revolution or other upheaval in their home countries, he said.
While many nations, the U.S. included, allow legal residents the chance to apply for citizenship after meeting certain criteria, only 10 countries permit outsiders to acquire citizenship outright. Most require payment in the form of a direct investment, typically in property or a local business.
Conveniently, eight of them are classified by the IMF as offshore financial centers, though Kalin said stability, not tax avoidance, is what motivates most buyers. That and bragging rights.
“If you have a yacht and two airplanes, the next thing to get is a Maltese passport,” he said. “It’s the latest status symbol. We’ve had clients who simply like to collect a few."
But not all pay-for-your-passport deals are created equal.
The hefty US$23.75 million to become a citizen of Austria requires you to actively invest in the local economy, although as your Austrian citizenship falls under the government’s privacy laws it isn’t published or reported anywhere, not even to other countries.
As a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Grenada’s citizens have visa-free access to 141 countries, including China.
Newly-minted citizens of Saint Lucia – a process which costs is a steal at just US$100,000 – aren’t even required to live there or even visit.
Malta imposes no taxes on your worldwide income or assets, although money brought into the country is taxed at a flat 15 percent.
But Vanuatu could take the cake for value: the South Pacific island-nation levies no personal, corporate, estate or capital gains taxes, while its government website advertises the country as as “a great tax haven.”
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What research reveals about workplace injuries in Missouri, nationwide
Aaron Sachs & Associates, P. C. Jan 26, 2013
Recent research has provided both employers and employees alike with specific data concerning workplace injuries: where they happen, why they happen, and how often they happen. When examined together, these studies provide an overview of American occupational health - and some of the findings might surprise you.
What kinds of jobs are the most dangerous?
Federal data reveals that workers at nursing and residential care facilities report the highest incidence rate of non-fatal workplace injuries, at 14.7 injuries per 100 full time workers. Other industries with high injury rates include travel trailer and camper manufacturing, fire protection, skiing facilities and iron foundries. Surprisingly, workers at petroleum refineries were at the other end of the list, reporting 0.7 injuries per 100 full time workers. In terms of fatal workplace incidents, fishing workers, logging workers, pilots and farmers reported the highest death rates.
Does geography affect workplace injury incidence rates?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 3.1 million nonfatal workplace injuries reported by Americans in 2010, meaning the overall U.S. incidence rate is about 3.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers. An estimated 59,000 U.S. workers died in 2007, while approximately 44,000 Americans died in car accidents; 41,000 died of breast cancer; and about 29,000 died of prostate cancer.
In terms of individual states, Maine has the highest injury incidence rate on record, with about 5.6 injuries per 100 full time workers. In contrast, Washington D.C. has the lowest injury rate at only 1.9 injuries per 100 full time workers. Missouri, Utah, New Mexico, Alabama and Florida are the only other states that have reported incidence rates lower than the national average.
How much do workplace injuries cost the United States?
A 2012 study revealed that injuries and illnesses contracted at work cost the U.S. approximately $250 billion dollars per year. That's $31 billion more than all direct and indirect costs associated with all forms of cancer. It's also $76 billion more than costs associated with diabetes, and $187 billion more than expenses associated with strokes.
"It's unfortunate that occupational health doesn't get the attention it deserves," said author J. Paul Leigh, professor of public health sciences at the University of California, Davis. "The costs are enormous and continue to grow. And the potential for health risks are high, given that most people between the ages 22 to 65 spend 40 percent of their waking hours at work."
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magazine Jan 15, 2010
by Susan Tallman
Frau Fiber, aka Carole Frances Lung: Manufacturing Moholy in Weimar (detail), 2009, painted diagram with cotton uniform, 78 inches in diameter. Photo James Prinz. All photos this article, unless otherwise noted, courtesy the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Galleries.
“Bauhaus” can conjure a lot of things: an arty embrace of industry, a style of smoothly conjoined geometries, a constellation of early 20th-century European art stars. But first and foremost, the Bauhaus was a school. Its primary objective was not the creation of coveted streamlined classics but the establishment of a new pedagogical model, one that saw design in terms of social and material problem-solving. In 1919 Walter Gropius set the goal as creating “a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists.” His famous pedagogical diagram lays out the curriculum in concentric rings: on the outside, a foundation year, and, at the core, mastery; these are linked through intermediate bands of theoretical and material studies (wood, metal, weaving, color, etc.). The school was meant to do more than improve the shape of teapots. A “building of the future,” it was to “combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form, and . . . one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.”1
It is easy enough to scoff today. Experiential learning, studying across disciplines and working closely with materials never came close to delivering a classless utopia. Yet 90 years on, these practices, essential to the training of artists and designers, constitute a legacy that is more active in the world than the historical style put on view in most Bauhaus exhibitions.
Tapping into that legacy is the ambitious goal of “Learning Modern,” an exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), in cooperation with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Mies van der Rohe Society, in which projects by more than a dozen contemporary artists,2 architects and designers have been brought together in the SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries, fashioned from the gutted interior of Louis Sullivan’s landmark Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company building.3 A legacy that consists of experiences and principles is a difficult thing to put on display, and if “Learning Modern” is, by museum standards, sprawling, untidy and incomplete, that was part of the plan. For its semester-long duration it has functioned as laboratory, classroom and exhibition. The overall design was the outcome of a “Bauhaus Labs” summer course; projects came and went in the space, many of them fabricated in collaboration with students, alumni and faculty of SAIC and IIT.4
The city of Chicago has strong claims as a Bauhaus legatee. In 1937 László Moholy-Nagy, who had taught at the school from 1923 to ’28, arrived to set up the “New Bauhaus” (later the Institute of Design, and eventually incorporated into IIT). Mies van der Rohe, the final director of the Berlin Bauhaus (1930-33), took charge in 1938 of the architecture program at IIT (then the Armour Institute of Technology), where he built his low-slung glass and black-steel masterpiece, S.R. Crown Hall (1956), and solidified his reputation as an oracle of modernism. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the city’s dominant architectural firm, established in 1936, earned the sobriquet “three blind Mies” for its allegiance to the master, and became famous for its part in the global proliferation of “glass box” office towers.5 Chicago was the place where Bauhaus idealism wedded corporate modernism.
That slide from utopia to midtown is one of many threads running through “Learning Modern,” where visitors are greeted with wall-size versions of Gropius’s diagram overlaid by signage in the International Typeface Corporation’s “Bauhaus” font, designed in 1975. (The font is also used in the 2-foot-high letters Kay Rosen mounted on the gallery’s support columns in her installation, Divisibility, 2009.) This is not a show about “authenticity” or the formal resonance between generations. Much of the art—installations, interactive sculptures and video—relies on technologies too young to have made it into Gropius’s diagram. And for most of the participants, the trademark forms of modernism offer not inspiration, but citations. Carole Frances Lung remade the red coveralls Moholy-Nagy affected when teaching and hung them on the wall for visitors to try on; in a dual-channel video titled Projection (2008), Andrea Fraser enacts the two sides of a mock psychotherapy session while seated in a 1958 Arne Jacobsen egg chair. In the virtual touch-screen playground, Infinite Sprawl (2009), by Mark Anderson, Mark Beasly and Matt Nelson, visitors manipulate “words about modernism” that are transformed into “modernist” building blocks.
For other artists, modernist landmarks are lenses for regarding overlooked histories. In the sculpture Crown Hall/Dragon House (2009), for example, Angela Ferreira suspends a tall, spectral steel skeleton of Mies’s masterpiece over an abstracted rendering of a building in Mozambique by the eccentric architect Pancho Guedes. A complex installation by Narelle Jubelin and Carla Duarte, Key Notes (2009), pulls half-a-dozen historical threads together in 14 vast tricolor wool panels whose form is meant to echo the floating fabric panels of Lilly Reich, an early collaborator with Mies. The colors are drawn from Goethe, the Bauhaus and a turn-of-the-century Sydney department store, while the panels’ dimensions precisely replicate those of Sullivan’s windows behind them, on which are written footnotes from a text about Moholy-Nagy’s pedagogy that was studied by all the participants in “Learning Modern.”6
For Catherine Yass’s Descent (2000), a video camera was lowered 800 feet from a crane at a fog-bound Canary Wharf construction site; shown upside down and slowed down, the world of corporate office towers is wreathed in an aura of ponderous threat. Iñigo Manglano- Ovalle’s video Always After (The Glass House),2006, presents the act of sweeping up shattered glass as an elegy for losses unspecified. It helps to know that the glass was once the window-wall of S.R. Crown Hall: when the building was renovated in 2005, IIT auctioned off the window-breaking rights on eBay. The winning bid came from Dirk Lohan, an architect and Mies’s grandson, who got to swing the sledgehammer at a formal demolition ceremony.7
Gropius’s “crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith” is now old and showing some cracks. In Modernity Retired (2008-09), Staffan Schmidt interviewed five elderly architects (Alfonso Cararra, Natalie de Blois, Ken Isaacs, Gertrude Kerbis and Peter Roesch). Speaking with Kerbis, Schmidt draws her out on the gender politics of architectural firms in the ’50s and ’60s. Kerbis points out, philosophically, that it was simply a sexist era, but Schmidt makes it clear from his own comments that he believes modernists should have been different—that the movement should have fulfilled its promises. Modernism had its signal failures; the movement draws as much finger-pointing as retrospective romanticism.
Among the architects and designers here, however, essential Bauhaus attitudes toward materials, technology and human perception still seem to hold sway. Vintage Bauhaus forms are revitalized in Arturo Vittori’s astrolabelike sculpture Atlas Coelestis (2009) and in the light installations of Helen Maria Nugent and Jan Tichy, in which projected light plays over a variety of surfaces and structures in a series of small chambers, built like chapels off the main space. Thom Faulders’s AmesSpot (2009) is a high-tech update of the “Ames Room” illusion in which a tilted floor and trapezoidal walls conspire to change the apparent size of things within a space. When one stands inside Faulders’s room, it is experienced as a Day-glo, podlike space with a crazily sloping floor, but a live-feed of the interior projected on a wall several feet away shows a space with all the rectilinear sobriety of a television newsroom, in which only the people are bizarre. The team of Joshua Cotton, Justin Nardone and Douglas Pancoast created odd plastic buoylike devices that twitch and rock on the floor in response to sound (SonoTroph, 2009).
The contributions of two figures from an earlier era raise more profound questions. A re-creation of Ken Isaacs’s Knowledge Box, first built in 1962, occupies center stage in the exhibition. Featured on the cover of Life magazine that year, the Knowledge Box became something of a ’60s icon. A stand-alone plywood room fitted inside with two dozen carousel slide projectors, it is a cubical projection surface in which floors, walls and ceiling are wrapped in a constantly changing patchwork of photographic images. A similar audio mash-up of spoken word and music is played through headphones. With its engineered sensory overload and purposeful destruction of linear narrative—its matrix of multiply related bits of information—Knowledge Box is a precursor to psychedelic light shows as well as the Internet (with the critical difference that within the Knowledge Box the viewer has no controls).
What does such trippiness have to do with the Bauhaus? As it happens, the original Knowledge Box was constructed in Mies’s Crown Hall. More importantly, Isaacs’s dream—to produce a new kind of consciousness through a combination of technology and solid carpentry—would have been familiar enough to Gropius:
build a new way of learning, learn a new way of thinkingand think a new way of building. This grand scale of purpose is palpably absent elsewhere in “Learning Modern.” But the Knowledge Box is a reminder that ambition and realization are two different things. The idea of the Knowledge Box was widely disseminated, but the chance to experience it physically remained rare. Isaacs, who also designed modular DIY “Living Structures,” strove to make work that was transformative, accessible and materially modest, but his influencenonetheless remains that of a “visionary” architect.
The exact opposite is true of the work of the industrial designer Charles Harrison, represented here by beautiful drawings of televisions, alarm clocks and sleds, as well as his 1958 View-Master 3D Model G slide viewer, an object conceived with no grand aspirations that nonetheless provided entertaining expanded vision to millions. Harrison spent most of his career at Sears, Roebuck and Co. churning out designs for sewing machines, hair dryers and lawnmowers, all of them pragmatic, graceful and affordable. He developed the plastic garbage can, permanently altering the sound of garbage collection day across the globe. Harrison’s career seems in some ways the ultimate fulfillment of the Bauhaus’s promise, including Gropius’s vision of design as a tool of liberation: initially refused a job at Sears because he was African-American, in the 1960s Harrison became the company’s chief designer and first black executive.
Isaacs and Harrison shared a faith in the transformative potential of objects outside the studio. Most of the work in “Learning Modern,” by contrast, seems carefully designed to function in art spaces, for art audiences. Which makes Bio-Line (2009), by landscape architect Walter Hood, all the more remarkable. Bio-Line is a weirdly wonderful sculpture, garden and air filtration system in one. Running through the space under the exposed air ducts, it consists of a linear web of aluminum loops cradling hundreds of soft white fabric cups, each of which nurtures a mistletoe cactus poking tiny tendrils over the edge.
If you happen to look up, you see Bio-Line stretched overhead, looking industrial and ethereal, like a cloud with braces. Below and around it soundtracks rumble, talking heads chatter, sculptures wiggle, and students spread drawings out or hammer away at moveable walls. In the midst of all this, it is easy to miss Bio-Line as it goes about its business, silently exchanging oxygen for CO2. You might see all the activity in the show as merely distracting. Or you can think of it as the real subject here, a reminder that no matter how elegant the final product may be, learning is always a mess. After all, to paraphrase Moholy-Nagy, the purpose of any school should be to keep man, not the product, as the end in view.
Currently On View“Learning Modern,” at the School ofthe Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Galleries, through Jan. 9. (Click here to view Official site)
1 Walter Gropius, “Bauhaus Manifesto,” Bauhaus Archiv, www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhaus1919/manifest1919.htm.
2 In addition to the artists mentioned, the show included a small retrospective of the clothing designs of Claire McCardell; Travis Saul’s ongoing series of sculptures produced with a 3-D printer in response to viewer behavior; the screening of the video What’s the Time in Vyborg? by Liise Roberts; a musical performance in which the color-panel installation of Narelle Jubelin and Carla Duarte is “played” by Jon Brumit; a rotating selection of student video works; and poetry readings.
3 Built as a department store at the end of the 19th century, the building, featuring open steel framing and large windows, pioneered structural ideas essential to modernism. It is also situated at the center of the Chicago city plan, the point from which all street addresses count up east or west, north or south.
4 The exhibition was co-organized by SAIC and the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mary Jane Jacob, SAIC executive director of exhibitions, told me that the show evolved through a “shared process of inquiry” among various students, artists and faculty members.
5 Paul Goldberger, “House Proud: Mies van der Rohe and Robert Venturi at Three Museums,” New Yorker, July 2, 2001, www.newyorker.com/archive.
6 The text used was by Alain Findeli, “Moholy-Nagy’s Design Pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946),” Design Issues VII, no. 1, Fall 1990, pp. 5-10.
7 A label explains that it was Crown Hall, while in a separate video Manglano-Ovalle explains the identity of Dirk Lohan.
SUSAN TALLMAN is a Chicago-based writer and art historian.
by Glenn Adamson
The retrospective exhibition of the weaver Anni Albers that began at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and then traveled to Tate Modern in London, has been greeted from all sides as a revelation. Read more
Learning from LA/LA: Critical Pedagogy at Pacific Standard Time
by Mashinka Firunts
Three remarkable exhibitions showcase heterogeneous tactics for aesthetic and political organizing through dialogical exchange, pedagogical intervention, and embodied acts of resistance. Read more
More Of Less
by A.E. Benenson
Working with molecular structures, LA-based artist-entrepreneur Sean Raspet makes artworks in the form of food substitutes and artificial flavorings, thereby challenging conventional cuisine and its socioeconomic system. Read more
Object Lessons From the Bauhaus
by Joan Ockman
In a show now at New York's MoMA—a museum that was instrumental in canonizing the Bauhaus—some misconceptions are corrected and others left unchallenged. Read more
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TT: Alan Gilbert’s challenge
September 16, 2009 by Terry Teachout
Alan Gilbert makes his debut tonight as the New York Philharmonic‘s music director. I wish him the very best of luck.
Here’s part of what I wrote about his appointment in Commentary when it was announced two years ago. I haven’t changed my mind since then.
If you care about the continuing fate of symphony orchestras, museums, ballet, opera, and theater companies, and all the other costly institutions that were the pillars of American high culture in the twentieth century, you must accept that these elitist enterprises cannot survive without the wholehearted support of a non-elite democratic public that believes in their significance.
Leonard Bernstein and Beverly Sills apprehended this, and did something about it. Perhaps more than any other American classical musicians of their generation, they did their best to communicate to ordinary middle-class Americans the notion that the fruits of high culture are accessible to all who make a good-faith effort to understand them. While that may not be strictly or wholly true, it is largely true–and an ennobling idea. I would not be greatly surprised if Sills in particular is remembered for delivering this message long after the specifics of her performing career are forgotten.
Alas, the message has to a considerable extent been forgotten by the orchestra that Bernstein led. To be sure, the New York Philharmonic, like all American orchestras, works hard at cultivating new audiences–but since Bernstein’s time, its efforts in this direction have rarely involved its music directors. Neither Kurt Masur nor Lorin Maazel made any serious attempt to reach beyond the purview of their regular duties to communicate the significance of classical music to a mass audience. Like most conductors of their generation, they saw their job as purely musical, and took for granted that its value would be appreciated by the larger community they served.
Alan Gilbert will not have that luxury. Instead, he must start from scratch. He must realize, first of all, that mere exposure to the masterpieces of Western classical music does not ensure immediate recognition and acceptance of their greatness–least of all when those doing the exposing make it clear that they expect young audiences to like what they are hearing, on pain of being dismissed as stupid.
This condescending attitude is part of the “entitlement mentality” that has long prevented our high-culture institutions from coming fully to grips with the problem of audience development. Too many classical musicians still think that they deserve the support of the public, not that they have to earn it. One of the signal virtues of America’s middlebrow culture was that for the most part it steered clear of this mentality. Its spokesmen–Bernstein foremost among them–believed devoutly in their responsibility to preach the gospel of art to all men in all conditions, and did so with an effectiveness that our generation can only envy.
I sincerely hope that Alan Gilbert will prove to be a great conductor. But I have no doubt that it is far more important to the future of classical music in America for him to be a great communicator, one who finds new ways to do what Leonard Bernstein did so superlatively well in the days of the middlebrow. And I suspect that his will be the harder task: to make the case for high culture to a generation that is increasingly ignorant, if not downright disdainful, of its life-changing power and glory.
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"It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl" (2012)
"It Is No Dream" examines the life and times of Theodor Herzl, who was responsible for creating the political movement that led in 1948 to the founding of the Jewish state. Theodor Herzl--an assimilated Jew, a successful playwright and author, born into a traditional but mostly non-religious family in Budapest in 1860--was changed by the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, which he covered as a journalist in 1895. Herzl became convinced that the only answer to the anti-Semitism that was spreading across Europe was the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Biblical homeland of the Jewish people. He wrote a political treatise entitled “Der Judenstaat” or “The Jewish State” that became an international bestseller, laying out his ideas for creating a new Jewish state.
"It Is No Dream" follows Herzl as he meets with kings, prime ministers, ambassadors, a sultan, a pope and government ministers in his quest to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Narrated by Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley and starring Academy Award Winner Christoph Waltz as the voice of Theodor Herzl, "It Is No Dream" features rare archival film footage of the period and never before seen stills and artifacts.
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After a long, full life filled with generosity and purpose, The Rev. Bruce E Penn, aged 90, passed away peacefully on March 9.2019. He was born in New Hyde Park, New York on July 4, 1928 the son of Harold V. and Dorothy (Cooley) Penn. Bruce graduated from Central College, New Brunswick Theological Seminary and Rutgers University with degrees in History and Theology. After graduating from seminary in 1953, he became a pastor in the Reformed Church in America, serving perishes in Coeymans, N.Y., Whitehouse Station, N.J., Albany, N.Y., and Wallkill, N.Y. Bruce was a very caring man who loved to serve others. During his ministry, he found opportunities for community service and was involved in starting a daycare, a food pantry, and a community library.
Bruce retired from the ministry in 1991, and he and his wife, Patricia, moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina, where he became an active member of the Trinity Presbyterian Church. In retirement Bruce continued to volunteer in the community.
Time spent with family and friends at his summer home on Cranberry Lake in the Adirondack Mountains brought him great joy. While there, he loved keeping busy with building projects, sitting on the deck, and enjoying the peace and tranquility of his surroundings.
He will be missed by his wife of 64 years, Patricia (Jenkins), his daughter Betsy Little (Robert) of Whitefish, ON, son Jonathan Penn (Susan) of Castleton, N.Y., and son Thomas Penn (Kristina) of Hendersonville; grandchildren Robert O’Rourke, (Darlene), Claire Kennedy, (Korey), Thomas Penn, Jake Penn, Andrew Penn, Kevin Little, and Matthew Little. Bruce is also survived by his brother Robert Penn of Scotia, N.Y.
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Snowboarder Elena Hight is ready to explore life outside the halfpipe
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Elena Hight looks on during X Games Aspen 2018.
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Famed big mountain snowboarding icon Jeremy Jones is known for his backcountry escapades. Last spring, he took to the John Muir Wilderness in California for his latest film, Teton Gravity Research’s “Ode to Muir,” and wanted to bring along someone outside the norm.
So he asked Olympic halfpipe snowboarder Elena Hight, who lives in nearby Tahoe, to come along for the ride. Turns out, that experience ended up being somewhat life-changing for the former X Games champion.
“I’ve always really loved all aspects of snowboarding, but really getting into the backcountry and learning more about the big mountains has always intrigued me,” Hight said in a recent interview with The Aspen Times. “That really sparked the transition and solidified the fact that I really want to pursue this side of snowboarding and challenge myself in a new way.”
This might have been the final nail in the coffin for Hight’s exit from the halfpipe world. Currently 29, Hight has spent the better part of 15 years competing in the pipe. She’s won multiple X Games medals, including her breakthrough gold in 2017. She competed in both the 2006 and 2010 Olympics and is a former Burton U.S. Open champion.
Much like icon Kelly Clark, who recently announced her retirement from the sport and took one final ride down the X Games superpipe before Saturday’s contest at Buttermilk, Hight is moving on. She opted out of X Games this year in favor of a trip to Japan with TGR, where she is to be featured in an upcoming film.
Hight is hardly retiring from snowboarding, but her halfpipe days are likely going to be replaced with backcountry expeditions and a lot of more freeriding.
“The ‘Ode to Muir’ was definitely the first big expedition I’ve ever done. It really was eye opening. It was a couple of days in when I realized just how much I was learning and how really at peace and connected I felt being out in the mountains,” Hight said. “Obviously, Jeremy Jones is the godfather of this stuff, so I was learning from the best person I could possibly learn from and really felt like it was the place that I was supposed to be.”
In “Ode to Muir,” Hight certainly seemed out of her element compared to Jones. She wasn’t completely comfortable with the splitboard and camping in the cold and snow didn’t seem to bring her much joy. But by the end of the film she seemed to have gone through a transition that has remained well beyond the final credits.
“Coming up in the competition scene was really a dream come true and being able to contribute to women’s snowboarding and push the limits where I could and challenge myself was all I ever hoped to do,” Hight said. “I feel like everything is falling into place for me and I’m really excited for this next chapter of filming and stepping into the backcountry. I think it’s going to be a real fun next couple of years.”
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Defence’s journey: remembering to bring Australians along
1 Mar 2019|Brendan Nicholson
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This essay is from ASPI’s election special, Agenda for change 2019: Strategic choices for the next government. The report contains 30 short essays by leading thinkers covering key strategic, defence and security challenges, and offers short- and long-term policy recommendations as well as outside-the-box ideas that break the traditional rules.
Restrictions imposed by a succession of governments have significantly reduced the ability of the ADF and the broader Defence organisation to tell its story to the Australian people. That has important implications for the incoming government’s ability to bring the public along with it as it spends $36 billion-plus annually running Defence—and $200 billion on equipment in the decades to come.
Progressive changes and excessive control have made it harder for the ADF to build a coherent narrative around its activities. That will affect areas such as recruitment. If the ADF is to maintain the strong public profile that it will need to crew new surface warships, submarines and aircraft and to maintain the strength of the army, this stranglehold on information must be loosened.
Allegations of crimes by a small number of soldiers in Afghanistan highlight the need for transparency and accountability. And the enormous spend of public money on defence requires transparency both to increase the likelihood of success and to sustain public support on an issue they have yet to be briefed on.
With notable exceptions, a long line of ministers has overseen an accelerating process of change, which has handed more control over information to politicians and their staff while limiting the military’s ability to speak.
This has had little to do with operational security and a lot to do with avoiding the possibility of a minister being caught out or embarrassed by enquiries from the media or questions in Senate hearings.
Contact with the media has been moved away from the uniformed side of Defence and placed in the organisation’s ‘strategic centre’. Some of the most experienced liaison officers have been ‘let go’.
Long-term communications advisers to senior officers who had built strong professional relationships over many years—to Defence’s benefit—have been told they’re not to talk to journalists or ministerial staff.
The system has built into it a very high level of risk aversion, which means some media requests are actively blocked.
Restricting or shutting down the flow of information from and about Defence is likely to reduce contestability and the fluency of discussion and debate, not just publicly but within the organisation. These are key elements of the intellectual culture and contest of ideas that a modern military needs to grasp advantages in a dangerous and technically competitive world.
And it limits the amount of open-source material available to academics and other researchers who play important roles in informing decision-makers and the public debate.
Defence personnel, uniformed and civilian, are increasingly telling any journalist who approaches them that the journalist must send a formal request to Defence Media and that ‘You’re probably wasting your time.’
Control has been tightened progressively, despite strong advice that the public needed to be much better informed about the ADF.
When the government launched the process that produced the 2016 defence white paper, it set up an expert panel that led public consultation.
The panel’s report, Guarding against uncertainty: Australian attitudes to defence, warned that, while there was goodwill towards the military, the public didn’t have a strong understanding of the ADF. ‘The consultations revealed a clear need for enhanced efforts to raise public awareness of Defence roles and missions, how it performs these tasks and the underlying policy rationale’, the panel said.
There was a sense that information was too controlled and a general view that Defence personnel were unable to communicate with the public on matters of fact or routine activity or to promote positive stories. Many people told the panel that they wanted to see personnel engaging more directly with their communities, for example through open days at bases, public talks or university lectures.
Defence needed to be less risk averse and more proactive in its public communications, including through the use of social media, the panel’s report said.
Basically, the public has said it wants more and better information out of Defence. Since then, policy and operational changes within Defence have made things worse.
Members of the media are increasingly being painted within Defence as the enemy, and personnel have been told that if they talk to a journalist without reporting the contact then they’ll be disciplined.
This makes it much harder for journalists to do their job. Under deadline pressure, they’ll find other ways to get information. Editors, seeing delays as unnecessary, bureaucratic and political, will opt to run a story without a Defence response if the response doesn’t arrive in time. If the story is inaccurate, then the damage has been done.
If forced to operate in an information vacuum, the media will find something to fill it. Those stories won’t necessarily come from smart and well-informed generals, admirals, air marshals or departmental secretaries. Some will be accurate and painstakingly assembled by conscientious journalists. Others will come from aggrieved personnel or from someone who thinks they overheard something on a bus.
The journalists most disadvantaged by the way things are set up at present are those who do their checks and try to get the story right.
A disturbing number of innocuous stories have been referred by Defence to the Australian Federal Police for leak investigations, not because national security has been placed at risk but because the issue raised might be politically embarrassing.
The process that’s stifling control of the Defence message may be an unintended consequence of the First Principles Review’s key recommendation that to create ‘one Defence’ it would be necessary to establish a ‘strong strategic centre’. Talk of this strategic centre was thrown around a lot when Defence communications personnel were told about the changing structure and restrictions on who could deal with the media. That’s bizarre, given that one of the underpinnings of the review was a need for Defence to engage more positively with risk.
A dissenting view isn’t a mutiny. A force designed to defend the nation should be able to live with—and we hope take note of—some debate and dissention.
Quick wins
The incoming government should acknowledge that the public wants and deserves better transparency and that to develop the future force requires ‘bringing the public on the journey’.
The government and/or Defence should also:
acknowledge that greater transparency is also consistent with key reviews, such as the First Principles Review
announce that Defence will reset its communications culture and is committed to building a more effective working relationship with the media
investigate how to work better with journalists in a way that recognises the media’s independence, Defence’s need to protect classified information and the public’s right to transparency
return the freedom to interact with the media to the uniformed ADF and to a wider number of people—military and civilian—across the Defence organisation; the organisation’s own complexity, along with that of the environment it operates within, demand this type of delegated, agile response within concise strategic direction
free up ADF officers commanding units and institutions to talk to the media on matters of fact
ensure regular, detailed and attributable media briefings on ADF operations and major projects.
The hard yards
Defence, and the incoming government, need to address what appears to be an inbuilt fear of the media within the Defence establishment and build in much greater tolerance for spirited academic or intellectual exchange, as has typically been seen in the US—at least before the arrival of the Trump administration. To be fair, this fear of the media is, in part, a reaction to examples of ‘gotcha!’ and poorly informed reporting. Defence already has a system in place for correcting inaccurate stories.
reverse the changes in procedure that are stifling the ADF’s ability to communicate and to respond to media enquiries
provide the political leadership and courage to break down a Defence culture that’s wary and risk averse about getting its message out. Accept risk. Accept that in the short term bad-news stories create negative headlines, but in the longer term openness builds trust and understanding
relax the rigid controls on contact with the media. It’s rare to find any member of the ADF, or the broader Defence organisation, who’s other than completely loyal to the organisation
ensure the public has better access to information about conflicts where ADF members are sent into harm’s way
encourage senior uniformed officers to speak publicly about what they and their services are doing, with ministers who back them and see more diverse voices as helpful in dealing with complex challenges
promote essay competitions among young officers to get them used to offering ideas.
Defence should re-establish the position of a dedicated media spokesperson, with an empowered staff across Defence, who can interact freely with journalists.
It should also increase the number of ‘embeds’ in operational areas for members of the media. Countries such as the US and Canada have long accepted that visits to their camps by journalists are normal. So should we.
Brendan Nicholson is defence editor of The Strategist. Image courtesy of the Department of Defence.
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Isaiah 7:21 Now it will come about in that day that a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;
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Isa 7:21-25. THE COMING DESOLATE STATE OF THE LAND OWING TO THE ASSYRIANS AND EGYPTIANS.
21. nourish--that is, own.
young cow--a heifer giving milk. Agriculture shall cease, and the land become one great pasturage.
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The Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 6:1-3 - In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
Isaiah 9:1-7 - Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil. For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be with burning [and] fuel of fire. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Isaiah 53:1-7- Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
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Bible Survey - Isaiah
Hebrew Name - Yeshayahu "Yah is salvation"
Greek Name - Esaias (Greek form of the Hebrew)
Author - Isaiah (According to Tradition)
Date - 760 BC Approximately
Theme - The kingdom of the Messiah
Types and Shadows - In Isaiah Jesus is the suffering servant
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. Discovered at Calah now in the British Museum. The Obelisk stands nearly 7 feet tall and is about 2 feet thick. On each of the 4 sides there are 5 panels with carvings of various kings bringing tribute to king Shalmaneser III. The second panel from the top of the obelisk reveals king Jehu of Israel bowing at the feet of Shalmaneser of Assyria. This is the same Jehu who is mentioned in Scripture, and this carved relief is the only image in all history of one of the Hebrew kings. On the panel Shalmaneser is offering a libation to his god. The cuneiform text around the panel reads:
"The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri: I received from him silver, gold, a golden bowl, a golden vase with pointed bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets, tin, a staff for a king [and] spears."
The Jehu Panel on the Black Obelisk
Summary of The Book of Isaiah
Isaiah prophesied during one of the worst times in the history of Israel. The Israelites had become so corrupt God was going to remove them out of His sight. He raised up the Assyrian army to be an unmerciful, barbaric, ruthless, an unstoppable war machine. Their military tactics are still applauded today by those who understand the art of war. God called them from their distant land to come and destroy the Jews living in the north, and take them away from their homeland. Isaiah was living in Judah, in the city of Jerusalem during a time when King Uzziah had died. Isaiah prophesied during the reign of King Uzziah, King Jotham, King Ahaz, King Hezekiah, and probably King Manasseh of Judah. His prophetic ministry lasted from about 760 BC until about 720 BC. Isaiah chapter 6 records a powerful vision that Isaiah received of God the King on his throne, and the king called Isaiah to prophesy to His people. This was Isaiah's call to ministry as a prophet of God and it is interesting that it was at a time when king Uzziah had just died. King Uzziah was faithful servant of the Lord and people felt secure under his leadership, but when he died there was almost a panic. This is when the Lord showed Isaiah who was really on the throne. Isaiah was terrified at the sight of God's holiness (Isaiah 6) and when the Lord called him and asked him who will go with this message and Isaiah said "here am I, send me." Isaiah warned Jerusalem about her idolatry, and her foreign alliances, but they scorned him. They did not listen to his warnings and quickly destroy their instruments of idolatry. He prophesied about the Assyrians who would destroy the northern kingdom, they were also good to come to Jerusalem but God would deliver them. But he also told them that eventually the city will be destroyed and captured by the Babylonians, and that a Persian ruler named Cyrus would release the Jews from captivity. Isaiah prophesied more about the Messiah than any other book in the Old Testament. He also described in great detail the blessings of the future kingdom of the Messiah. His coming would be as a lion bringing the day of God's wrath, but he would also first come as a savior who would die for the sins of the people. This was Isaiah's message, the humility and beauty of the Savior. - The above text is © Rusty Russell - Bible History Online and must be sourced for use on a website.
"Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah Isaiah 53:4-6
The book of Isaiah contains the prophecies of Isaiah who was the son of Amoz (Isaiah 1:1). Isaiah prophesied during the reign of King Uzziah, King Jotham, King Ahaz, King Hezekiah, and probably King Manasseh of Judah. His prophetic ministry lasted from about 760 BC until about 720 BC. Isaiah chapter 6 records a powerful vision that Isaiah received of God the King on his throne, and the king called Isaiah to prophesy to His people. This was Isaiah's call to ministry as a prophet of God and it is interesting that it was at a time when king Uzziah had just died. King Uzziah was faithful servant of the Lord and people felt secure under his leadership, but when he died there was almost a panic. This is when the Lord showed Isaiah who was really on the throne. Isaiah was terrified at the sight of God's holiness (Isaiah 6) and when the Lord called him and asked him who will go with this message and Isaiah said "here am I, send me."
The word prophet in the Hebrew means a "mouthpiece", and Isaiah was truly the mouthpiece of God. He was entirely dedicated to this cause even in the midst of rejection (Isaiah 6:9-13). As his ministry developed he warned the people about various problems within the kingdom. Judah had gone through many reforms, but had become corrupt along the way forgetting about the great privilege of being chosen by God, and their religious ceremonies became vain rituals. Uzziah's son Jotham succeeded his father on the throne and try to encourage the people to worship Yahweh, but failed to break down the high places of idolatrous worship. After him Ahaz followed on the throne of Judah and he was determined to bring about the heathen idolatrous practices of the nations around him. He was rebuked by Isaiah and chose to lead the people further into idolatry which ultimately would bring about their ruin. Then Hezekiah came to the throne and he was the greatest king to ever reign in the southern kingdom of Judah. He began ruling by "removing the high places and breaking down the pillars, and cutting down the Asherah (2 Kings 18:4, 22). Hezekiah restored faith in Judah and the people celebrated in Jerusalem a Passover that would be remembered forever in history. Isaiah was respected as a prophet of the Lord and King Hezekiah made Isaiah famous in the land and his prophecies were encouraged. But the kingdom of Judah had not fully recovered from their past ways. It was during the time of Hezekiah that the northern kingdom of Israel, Judah's brothers, were carried away into captivity in 722 BC. Judah had barely escaped destruction by paying heavy tribute to the Assyrian king. Later Sennacherib of Assyria sent his armies to destroy many nations and their lands and he came to the land of Judah to reproach the living God (2 Kings 19:16). When Hezekiah heard the words of the king of Assyria he sought the Lord and prayed. That night the angel of the Lord (God himself) came into the camp of the Assyrians and slew 185,000 soldiers (2 Kings 19:35). King Sennacherib returned back to his palace at Nineveh without his mighty army and while he was worshiping his gods, two of his sons slew him with the sword. Many of the details surrounding this event have been verified historically with the discovery of Sennacherib's Hexagonal Prism discovered among the ruins of ancient Nineveh. It contains the war campaigns of this king and this time period and can be seen today on display in the British Museum in London. The Southern Kingdom of Judah had their moments of glory during certain times after this, but it was just a matter of time until the seeds that had been sown would reap a harvest of destruction. Judah would come to an end and Jerusalem and her Temple would be destroyed, which took place in 586 BC under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Isaiah had prophesied throughout this whole time period and even spoke of the coming kingdom of the Messiah.
There is little information about the personal life of the Prophet Isaiah. He was married to a woman called the "prophetess" (Isaiah 8:3), she bore him two sons (Isaiah 7:3 and Isaiah 8:3). According to Jewish tradition Isaiah was martyred by the wicked King Manasseh who placed him in the hollow trunk of a carob tree and was sawn in two. many believe also that it was Isaiah who was referred to in the book of Hebrews in the New Testament regarding a hero of faith "sawn asunder" (Hebrews 11:37).
Was There a Deutero-Isaiah or Second Isaiah?
There have been many critics who challenged the historicity of the Scriptures, and implied that the Bible is not the word of God. This is also true with the book of Isaiah, critics have identified problems in the books unity and authorship. A large number of critics make a case that Isaiah 1-39 and Isaiah 40-66 are two separate books written by two entirely different men. They refer to the second book as "Deutero-Isaiah" or "Second Isaiah" and they speculate that it was written during the Babylonian captivity, and the people that the author is addressing our different than in the first book. They also maintain that Isaiah is never mentioned as the author in the second book. but there are too many reasons for believing that Isaiah was the author of the whole book from Isaiah 1 through Isaiah 66. Jewish history and Jewish tradition never recognized anything other than one book, and one author. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls identify Isaiah as one scroll, and thus one book. Judaism and Christianity also recognize Isaiah as one book and one author. The writing style of Isaiah is seen throughout both sections, and the people who are being addressed would apply more to Judah went to those captive in Babylon. There is also mention of Temple services in existence, which were not in existence what they were captive in Babylon. For these reasons and others, and for the fact that Jesus never recognized more than one Isaiah we must conclude that Isaiah was the author of his one book. It is important to understand this about the book of Isaiah because critics are always looking for something in which they might attack the Bible, especially the book of Isaiah because there are so many prophecies pointing to the life and ministry and even the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Quick Reference Map
Map of Israel and Judah in the Book of Kings (Click to Enlarge)
The contents of Isaiah may be outlined as follows :
Outline of the Book of Isaiah
Section 1: Isaiah 1:39
1 ) Prophecies centered around Judah and Jerusalem (Isaiah 1:1-12:6). Included in this section are a description of the glories of the Messianic Age (Isaiah 2-4 ) and the account of the call of Isaiah (Isaiah 6 ). In Isaiah 7-12, although Isaiah is dealing primarily with various invasions which threaten Judah, reference is made to the wonderful child "Immanuel" and to the glorious age when a king of the Davidic line would institute a benevolent rule over a world without discord and wars.
2 ) Prophecies of judgment on the foreign and hostile nations of Babylon, Philistia, Moab, Damascus, Ethiopia, Egypt, Dumah, Arabia and Tyre (Isaiah 3-23 ).
3 ) The Apocalypse of Isaiah: the judgment of God against the world's sin and the ultimate destruction of the earth (Isaiah 24-27). Despite the dreadful nature of the punishment which was to come, this section is marked by a note of triumph and trust (see Isaiah 26).
4) Prophecies concerning the relations of Judah and Jerusalem to Egypt and Assyria (Isaiah 28-33). In this section is contained a series of six messages of woe, directed first against one and then another of the weaknesses of Judah's national life (Isaiah 28:1-29; 29:1-14; 29:15-24; 30:1-17; 31:1- 32 : 20; 33 : 1-24). The character of the Messianic Age is also further described (Isaiah 32:1-18).
5 ) The doom of Edom and the redemption of Israel (Isaiah 34-35). Isaiah 35 is a beautiful picture of the ultimate triumph of the spiritual Zion.
6 ) The reign of Hezekiah (Isaiah 36-39 ). This section is in the nature of an historical appendix recording the overthrow of the Assyrian army (Isaiah 36- 37), Hezekiah's sickness and recovery (Isaiah 38), and containing a prophecy of the Babylonian captivity (Isaiah 39 ).
Section II: Isaiah 40-66
7 ) God's sovereign and providential control over history, which will be manifest in his ultimate overthrow of Babylon at the hands of Cyrus (Isaiah 40:18). Two passages of especial interest in this section are the first "suffering servant" passage, apparently alluding to the office of the Messiah (Isaiah 42:1-9), and Isaiah's sarcastic appraisal of the folly of idol worship (Isaiah 44:6-23).
8 ) The redemption which is possible through suffering and sacrifice (Isaiah 49-55).. This division centers mainly around the three "suffering servant" passages which it contains The first is concerned with the difficulty of his task and his rejection by those to whom he is sent (Isaiah 44:1-13). The second (Isaiah 50:4-9) speaks of the obedience and trust of the "servant" and the blessings which are to follow his work. The third is the classic passage from Isaiah 52:13-53:12, which describes the life, suffering and ultimate triumph of the servant.
9 ) The triumph of the kingdom of God and God's universal reign (Isaiah 56-66). The sins which are prevalent in Isaiah's day are discussed in chs. 56-59. A glorious song of the Messianic Age fills Isaiah 60-62. The book closes, with a prayer for mercy and pardon (Isaiah 63-64) and God's answer to this prayer in the form of the promise of a new heaven and a new earth (Isaiah 65-66).
Quick Reference Maps - Isaiah
Judah During the Time of Hezekiah
The New Babylonian Empire and Isaiah
Sites and Events in 2 Kings
Israel and Judah - The kingdoms of Israel and Judah during the period of the kings can be seen on this map. After Solomon had died there was a civil war and 10 tribes took to the north and were called the northern kingdom of Israel, and every king was evil and forsook the LORD. The remaining 2 tribes stayed in the south and were called the southern kingdom of Judah, several of those kings trusted in the LORD.
Mesha's Kingdom - The Bible reveals that Mesha, the king of Moab rebelled against Jehoram the king of Israel (2 Kings 3:4-5). Jehoram requested the help of Judah and Jehoshaphat allied with him, he sought Elisha the prophet and victory was predicted, only because of the faith of Jehoshaphat. Mesha sought the god Chemosh and sacrificed his own son (2 Kings 3:27).
Israel and Syria Naaman the leper, captain of the Syrian army was healed by a miracle at the command of Elisha the prophet (2 Kings 5). At that time Aram (Syria) was a dominant fighting machine in the north under the leadership of Ben-Hadad, who was later murdered by Hazael (2 Kings 8:15).
Syria at Its Height - 2 Kings 10 reveals that Hazael of Syria smote all the coasts of Israel and the east Jordan territory expanding the kingdom of Damascus. Jehu knew that he would need to rely on a foreign power for help and he turned to Shalmanessar IV, King of Assyria.
The Kingdom of Jeroboam II - 2 Kings 14:25 indicates that Jeroboam II, fourth king from the line of Jehu, brought the northern kingdom of Israel to its greatest extent in the north. This was just after Syria was severely crushed by the Assyrians who had recently returned home to regroup.
Habor, the River of Gozan - In 2 Kings 17:6 the Bible says that the King of Assyria (Sargon II) conquered Samaria and took away the remaining inhabitants of Israel as prisoners to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gorzan, and in the cities of the Medes. The river of Gorzan is identified as the river Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates river which flows into it from the north from southern Turkey.
The Cities of Samaria and the Surrounding Lands - The Bible records in second Kings 17:24 that the King of Assyria (Sargon II) brought colonists from many of the cities within the Assyrian Empire: Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed the inhabitants within the cities of Samaria to replace the children of Israel who would been taken into captivity.
The Assyrian Empire When Sennacherib Came to Power - Israel was destroyed, Judah was left and Hezekiah a man who sought the LORD had come to power in 720 BC. He offered tribute to Sennacherib but Jerusalem was was still a target for the Assyrian ruler.
The Assyrian Empire During the Reign of Esarhaddon - Esarhaddon marches into Egypt and extends the Assyrian Empire. 2 Kings 19
Necho Battles Josiah - Pharaoh Necho on his way to the Euphrates slays King Josiah at Megiddo. 2 Kings 23
The Captivity of the Ten Tribes - The ten tribes in the northern kingdom of Israel were conquered by the Assyrians in 722 BC and taken to the land of Assyria as captives.
Judah Captives in Babylon - The remaining remnant of Judah were taken as prisoners to Babylon as predicted by Jeremiah the prophet.
The Babylonian, Mede and Persian Empires - Pharaoh Necho is defeated by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon who also destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC. Later the Mede and Persian Empires defeated Babylon and governed the world in the sixth century BC until Alexander the Great.
Isaiah Resources
The Divided Kingdom
The Northern Kingdom of Israel
The Southern Kingdom of Judah
The Assyrian Captivity
The Return From Babylon
More About the Book of Isaiah
Isaiah in the Picture Study Bible
Timeline of the Ancient World
Back to the Old Testament
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HIV PrEP Montserrat - Beauty Montserrat
HIV PrEP Montserrat. HIV is a potentially - deadly immune disorder that leaves people at risk for cancer and even progression into AIDS. The disease leaves the person’s immune system significantly impaired. New treatments like PrEP reduce the chances of high-risk people from developing HIV.
For those that are, for any number of reasons, at high risk for contracting HIV, there are now treatment options that will significantly reduce the likelihood of developing this disease. While much has been done to educate and reduce the risk of developing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), it is still an issue that many in Montserrat are dealing with.
Incidence, Symptoms, and Risk Factors for HIV
Regular std screening is highly important and where the first signs of a problem can be detected. There are many places in Montserrat that one can access free or reduced cost std screenings. There has been much emphasis put on educating people on the risk factors of HIV, but it still affects tens of millions of people worldwide.
The UN Global HIV and AIDS statistics fact sheet for 2018 shows that there are some 36.9 million people living with this disease in 2017. Of these tens of millions suffering from HIV, only 27.1 million suffering was getting treatment for the disease.
If you show any common HIV symptoms, you should consult a medical professional immediately for an HIV test. The sooner it is caught, or those who are at high risk are made aware, the less likely that severe adverse effects will result. What follows are some of the most common symptoms of HIV include:
Flu-like symptoms are one of the most common and fastest showing effects of the disease
Unexplained fatigue
Swollen lymph nodes
This makes it difficult to diagnose as these symptoms are quite common with many other issues as well. If you are at high risk of developing HIV, it is recommended that you regularly get tested to ensure that it is caught. According to the US government website about the virus, some 1 in 7 people living with HIV in the US is unaware they have it. Not only does this put them at risk for further problems, but it also increases the likelihood that the disease will also be spread to others. When untreated, HIV can turn into full-blown AIDS, cancers, and other immunodeficiency disorders.
There are a variety of factors that will put someone at a higher risk of developing HIV. Where one lives in, works in, sexual partners, behavioural factors, and so on, will all play a role in the likelihood of someone developing this virus. Simply living in an area where there is a high incidence of people with HIV puts one at increased risk of getting the virus themselves. There are communities in Montserrat where there is a much higher than usual prevalence of HIV and these are the highest risk areas.
Sexual activity is, of course, one of the most common ways that the disease is spread, making women who have sex with men and gay men at a higher risk for HIV than other populations. This issue also seems to disproportionately affect communities of colour as well. Drug users, particularly those who use intravenously, are also at high risk. Sharing needles, outside of unprotected sex, is the most common way that HIV is transmitted to different people.
Though it is less common, HIV can also be transmitted via oral sex. Sometimes, a mother who has HIV may pass the virus onto her child in utero. Sharing food with someone who has HIV can rarely lead to the transmission of the virus through the exchange of oral fluids. Blood transfusions can also rarely lead to the transmission of the virus when the blood donor is unaware they have the virus. Additionally, exposure to bodily fluids from wounds or blood can also lead to the spread of the virus.
Prophylaxis Treatment
The virus, though scary and serious, does not have to be a death sentence. Medical breakthroughs and new treatments are making it easier than ever before for those who are at high risk of developing HIV, or who have already been infected, live a better, healthier, and safer life. One of the most promising treatments is what is called prophylaxis. There are two main types of prophylaxis treatments: HIV PrEP and HIV PEP.
We will be focusing on the first type of treatment for the bulk of this piece, so let's first touch on what HIV PEP is. The word prophylaxis simply refers to a drug designed to prevent or protect the patient from disease. PEP refers to "post-exposure prophylaxis." As the name implies, this is a treatment that is given to someone who has been exposed to HIV but has not yet developed the virus. In order for these medications to be effective, they need to be started no more than 72-hours after being exposed to the virus.
HIV PEP is not a treatment for those who are regularly exposed to the virus. It is intended as an emergency measure. The medications are more effective the sooner you begin taking them after being exposed to the virus. Most often, the drugs are taken for a 28 day period of time. This is, in no way, intended to be used as a prevention method. However, it is highly recommended that you seek HIV PEP treatment if you have been exposed to HIV through:
Consensual intercourse
Sharing of needles
Exposure via work or other means
You will need to see a medical professional at various times throughout the treatment and once the course of medications is complete, you will be brought in for HIV and possibly other screenings to ensure that the treatment has been successful.
PrEP Treatment
HIV PrEP is a treatment option for people who have not been infected with the virus but are at high risk of developing the virus due to lifestyle and other factors. Basically, this is a preventative treatment that helps to reduce the likelihood of someone developing the virus even when at high risk for it. This is effective for people who have partners that have the virus but do not have it themselves.
Medication treatment, like Truvada, is taken daily as a means of preventing the virus from infecting the body. When taken as prescribed on a daily basis, these treatments are actually incredibly effective at preventing the transmission of the virus. These drugs can reduce the likelihood of getting the virus from sexual intercourse by some 90% and from intravenous drug usage by 70%. Doctors also note that when these drugs are combined with other preventative measures like condoms or clean needles, the risk of developing the infection is reduced even more.
PrEP treatment is ongoing for as long as one is exposed to the virus. It must be taken regularly and as prescribed for it to be effective. It is a daily medication and not akin to a vaccine. These drugs work by keeping enough of the medication in the bloodstream on a daily basis to fight off any exposure one might have to the virus. This is why skipping even one dose can significantly reduce the effectiveness of these drugs. It is imperative that they are taken daily, as prescribed.
These are relatively new drugs. A combination medication called Truvada was approved for use in 2012 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At this time, this is the only drug on the market that is approved as an HIV PrEP treatment. Many lawmakers in the US, and around the world, are calling for an increase in availability and education about HIV PrEP treatment options as they have been so effective at preventing the transmission of the infection from HIV-positive people to their partners.
There are few known side effects associated with PrEP drugs, which is definitely not the case with most HIV treatment options. Nausea is one of the only commonly reported side effects and this usually subsides as the body gets used to the medicine. There have been no noted long-term side effects from people who have been taking these drugs for as long as five years.
Studies surrounding the use and effectiveness of these prevention drugs find that lack of awareness and access are still major problems. Many people, particularly low-income individuals, sex workers, are unaware that these options exist and they may lack the resources to access this vital treatment. Lawmakers around the world will need to address to barriers to access via ignorance and lack of ability to afford said medications. There is hope that the widespread availability of these kinds of drugs could significantly reduce the transmission of the virus and reduce the negative impacts it has on society.
As of this writing, availability and awareness of these medications outside of the United States is lacking. These drugs have been found to be so effective, however, that the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidelines recommending the use of this treatment as an effective way to manage the world problem with HIV and AIDS.
These drugs have been shown to be incredibly cost-effective, especially when compared with the costs of HIV and AIDS treatment. When someone takes PrEP drugs, they take them for the duration of their exposure to the virus. If they change partners, quit doing drugs, move, etc., and are no longer at risk, they will be able to discontinue their use of the drug. For those who have already developed the virus, lifelong, often expensive, antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are required. It is obvious that prevention makes the most sense in both a fiscal and health sense.
In 2016, the UN General Assembly issued a declaration that they would provide some three million at-risk people with PrEP drugs by 2020. This is great, but it isn't enough. And unfortunately, by the end of the year in 2016, only 100,000 people had signed up for this program. This is large because access to and awareness of this as a treatment option is incredibly limited outside of the US as noted above. Numerous other programs looking to expand access to and the availability of these drugs are underway in the US and many other places around the world.
It is also important to note that while PrEP drugs are highly effective at preventing people exposed to HIV from developing the virus, it is not effective protection from other sexually transmitted diseases and infections. Regular STD screenings are still highly recommended even for those who are taking these preventative drugs.
Through the years, HIV awareness has spread. Education has done much to inform people of what puts them at risk of developing this virus. However, while education has done much, there are still tens of millions of people who have this virus and countless more who are exposed to the virus on a yearly basis. New forms of treatment like HIV PEP and HIV PrEP drugs have the potential to significantly reduce the transmission and progression of HIV. These drugs help those who have been exposed or to those who may have partners that are HIV-positive from developing the virus themselves. These treatments are incredibly effective when taken as prescribed, saving countless lives and improving the outcomes for countless more.
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Elliot weighs op Apple's Jade Punchestown optionsPosted on Friday 12th April 2019 @ 11.55
Trainer Gordon Elliott has revealed Apple's Jade has three options ahead of the Punchestown Festival.
Elliott's charge won her first four races of the season in convincing fashion, with her narrowest margin of victory 11 lengths, but then disappointed on the big stage at Cheltenham.
The nine-year-old finished 30 lengths behind winner Espoir D'Allen in the Champion Hurdle, having been the pre-race favourite, but then showed a return to form at Aintree.
Trainer Elliott is now considering his options ahead of a tilt at the Punchestown Festival in what will be Apple's Jade's final race of the campaign.
"I wouldn't say Apple's Jade was at her best at Aintree, but she still ran very well to finish a close third in a Grade One," said Elliott, as reported by Sky Sports.
"She's come out of the race in good shape and the plan is to head to Punchestown. She's got three Grade One entries over a range of trips and we'll just see how she is closer to the time before making a decision what race to head for.
"She didn't match the level of form she showed earlier in the season, but it was still a major improvement on Cheltenham and hopefully we will have her at her best for her final race of the season."
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Rhythmus 21
When Hans Richter produced a compilation of his avant-garde films from the early 1920s, he titled it according to its central theme, ‘Film ist Rhythmus’ (Film is Rhythm). Rhythmus 21 is today considered a key modernist film. Like Rhythmus 23, the film consists of pure visual ‘moving art.’ Suggested by the theory of musical counterpoint, it is a ‘ballet’ of black, white, and a few grey geometric shapes that, as Richter put it, move in a rhythm that remains uniform throughout the entire image. Entr’acte, made in 1924 by René Clair and Francis Picabia, was conceived as a cinematic interlude to a ballet production. Despite the fact that it had a plot, it was included in the famed 1925 Berlin cinema program ‘The Absolute Film.’ In its dynamic montages and collages, the materiality of the black-and-white film images becomes evident. Man Ray’s Emak Bakia, subtitled a ‘cinépoéme,’ and Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse, shot in 1926 by René Clair’s brother, Henri Chomette, push even further into the abstraction of the film frame. In the furious moving camera (shot in the Paris metro) and kaleidoscopic estrangement of the familiar, the filmed reality dissolves into a pure portrayal of light and movement.
Germany (through 1945) 1921, 4 min
Hans Richter
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Spotlight On Serena Ryder
Autumn DeWilde
Serena Ryder is back, and bigger, than ever. And she's certainly feeling better -- about everything. After four well-received albums, the Canadian singer-songwriter releases her latest set, "Harmony," on Tuesday (Aug. 27), nine months to the day after it came out in the Great White North.
Ryder is riding the success of its first single, the buoyant and anthemic "Stompa," which was her first Top 10 on the Canadian Hot 100 and spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the U.S.-based Triple A airplay chart. That was enough to convince Capitol Records, her new U.S. label following her departure from Atlantic, to push "Harmony" forward from a planned October release, partly to also take advantage of Ryder's current road trek with OneRepublic.
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"What's going on is pretty amazing," Ryder says. "I've never quite experienced anything at quite this level before, so it's really exciting, and I just want to be out there playing the music."
These days Ryder is happy to be playing music at all.
After promoting her 2008 album "It's O.K.," Ryder ironically went "through a really severe clinical depression" that led to a four year gap before "Harmony." "I was putting a little too much weight on myself," she explains, "trying to articulate what I'd been through in life and what I'd gone through and find some sort of answers about what we're doing and why we're here instead of just having fun and enjoying music.
"Finally I realized that what I wanted to do more than anything else was just have a good time and write music for the sake of writing music and sing songs for the sake of singing songs."
In that regard, "Stompa" was "an experiment" for Ryder, who co-wrote the tune with "Harmony" co-producer. Jerrod Bettis.
"That song brought me to a whole other level," Ryder says. "There was no weight in writing 'Stompa.' I just came in with a guitar riff and showed it to Jerrod, and literally within three hours we had the song written and finished. There was no preconceived idea or expectation. We just wrote something.
"And it just works. We had a really great energy working together, and that spared the rest of [the album]. It felt like you've been slapped in the face, but in a good way. It's exactly what I needed at the time."
It was what Capitol needed, too, according to Vice-President of Marketing Wendy Ong. "She's been on EMI Canada for a few years, and we've always been very fascinated and interested in her," Ong says. "Stompa" was particularly impressive. "It's such an incredible single and video."
Despite a strong track record, a loyal following and plenty of critical acclaim, Ong says Capitol's strategy for Ryder was "to start from scratch" and treat her like a new artist, albeit one with some history. "In the past five years her sound has changed quite significantly," Ong explains. "Previously she was more of a folk singer, I would now. Now she's made this incredible transition. She's gone through some life changes and come out a much stronger and more positive person. That really comes across on this incredible pop-rock album."
Ong says Capitol is now pushing to cross over "Stompa" to the mainstream pop market, while sync opportunities "keep getting stronger and strong." The song has already been licensed for episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" and a Cadillac commercial. Now, Ong says, the sports world is taking notice. "This song is resonating with sports teams across the country," she says. "We're fielding interest from various football and basketball teams, and particularly hockey." Capitol is also trying to line up Ryder performances at some games in the future.
"I think she's really going to hit mainstream America as we continue working this album," Ong says.Meanwhile, a second single from "Harmony" -- "What I Wouldn't Do" which, like "Stompa," also hit No. 8 on the Canadian Hot 100 -- is just out, along with a video that premiered on VH1. Ryder is mixing headline shows with OneRepublic dates through September 8, then has a one-off with the Goo Goo Dolls on Sept. 11 in Minneapolis before she's slated to hook up with Michael Franti & Spearhead.
"My favorite part is being on the road; that's where it feels like these songs really live," Ryder says. "I love making records, but being on stage is where I'm more comfortable than anywhere else."
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Crime & Scandal
Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme: 6 of His Famous Victims
In 2009, the financial advisor pled guilty to running the biggest investment fraud the world has ever known, with many notable names as his clients.
Eudie Pak
Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
December 11, 2008, was the beginning of a financial nightmare for thousands of people after word got out that financier Bernie Madoff was arrested for running the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
While the media initially touted Madoff's fraud as having run upwards of $50 billion, prosecutors would later raise the estimate to $65 billion among his 37,000 victims, who ranged from prominent figures in business and media and hardworking, everyday people to nonprofit charities.
Many of his victims emerged to share their stories as part of a larger narrative of the shocking fraud, it was his celebrity clients who made the biggest headlines.
Some public figures chose to stay relatively quiet about their association with Madoff. Before her death in 2016, Hungarian-born actress Zsa Zsa Gabor had reportedly lost between $7 to $10 million from investing with the money manager, while Hollywood bigwig Steven Spielberg's Wunderkinder Foundation also took a substantial hit, although the dollar amount was never disclosed.
Still, other prominent figures decided to speak out about their financial losses and what they learned from the experience. Among them are actors and couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Dreamworks Animation chief executive Jefferey Katzenberg, actor John Malkovich, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, and broadcaster Larry King.
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon at a screening of 'The Edge of Seventeen" on November 9, 2016, in Los Angeles, California.
Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
Known to be a low-key Hollywood couple, actors Bacon and Sedgwick became front and center news when the scandal broke, as they had been one of the first celebrities known to have reportedly lost millions of dollars investing with Madoff.
"I see him as a sick man," Sedgwick told Piers Morgan on CNN in 2012. "And I see us as adults who made a choice. And I see a lot of people who are so much worse off than we are..."
Years later, Bacon echoed his wife's sentiments about the scandal. “It was a bad day," Bacon admitted to The Guardian during an interview in 2017. "But pretty quickly we were able to see all the things we had as opposed to whatever we lost, and those are the biggest cliches: children, health, love, a nice home. So we got through it together. I don’t think about Madoff, like, at all.”
He also added that the "real victims" were those who lost their entire life savings. “I think there’s a good cautionary tale there, to be cognizant of what’s happening with your money.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg at the 'Megamind' premiere on November 29, 2010, in Paris, France.
Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Just like Bacon and Sedgwick, Dreamworks Animation executive Katzenberg, known for producing hits like the Shrek and Kung Fu Panda franchises, endured a substantial financial loss, which he described as "painful and humiliating." Although he also refused to discuss the actual dollar amount that was taken from him and his charitable organization, Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation, the charity had estimated assets of over $22 million before the scandal broke.
The Los Angeles Times would later uncover that Katzenberg had lost $20 million. Both he and Spielberg shared the same business manager, who made investments with Madoff on their behalf.
"The first time I heard the name Bernie Madoff was about three weeks ago," Katzenberg told reporters in January 2009. "What it has done to other people is terrible. It's destroyed many people's lives. People that I know."
Elie Wiesel at a press conference after an Interfaith Leaders delegation meeting at the United Nations on October 27, 2004, in New York City.
Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Before his death in 2016, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel was another famous figure taken in by Madoff's criminal enterprise. And when the news hit, Wiesel didn't take the loss lightly.
Describing Madoff as "one of the greatest scoundrels, thieves, liars, criminals," Wiesel and his wife, Marion, had lost their life savings of $12 million, along with $15 million from their nonprofit organization, Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
"Could I forgive him? No," Wiesel told a media panel in New York City in 2009 regarding Madoff. "To forgive, first of all, would mean that he would come on his knees and ask for forgiveness. He wouldn't do that."
Wiesel explained that a wealthy trusted friend, who had been friends with Madoff for five decades, introduced the two of them. After Wiesel met with Madoff multiple times, he went on to get advice from other financial experts before entrusting his personal finances with Madoff.
In 2012 he reflected back on his experience during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. “[My wife and I] looked at each other, and our reaction was, ‘We have seen worse,'” Wiesel said. “Both she and I have seen worse.”
Once news spread about his foundation's financial troubles, Wiesel said he was taken aback from the public's reaction.
“All of a sudden, we began receiving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters and donations, small donations, from all over America, Jews and non-Jews,” Wiesel told Oprah. “The American people are so generous. … We received hundreds of them, and that helped us.”
John Malkovich at Michael Bastian's Fall 2010 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on February 14, 2010, in New York City.
Photo: Paul Warner/WireImage
When actor Malkovich lost his investment of $2 million dollars to Madoff, he — like fellow actors Bacon and Sedgwick — put his problems into perspective.
“I don’t view it as a negative experience…," he told Details magazine in 2013. “To me it was, ‘You think you have a bunch of money – and you don’t.’ So what? Most people don’t (have a lot of money). I think it kind of reconnected me to how most people live all the time. And, unlike a lot of people that were involved in the Madoff thing, I could just go back to work, and it was fine.”
So would he say anything to Madoff if he had the opportunity? Malkovich told Vanity Fair, in his classic cool demeanor, not particularly.
“I only met Mr. Madoff once, many years ago. He seemed very pleasant. But, you know, I don’t think I’d have much to impart," he told the magazine in 2013. "For me, in all honesty, it was a good life lesson."
In the end, Malkovich reportedly received $670 thousand of his investment back.
Photo: M. Caulfield/WireImage
King met Madoff through his childhood friend Fred Wilpon, owner of the New York Mets. At the time, King and his wife were looking for a reputable investment firm, and Wilpon suggested he look into Madoff but warned King that the money manager was known for being selective about his clientele. King experienced Madoff's choosiness firsthand, as the latter accepted King into his firm but not King's brother.
When Madoff was arrested in 2008, the broadcasting legend suffered a $700K loss but thankfully, was able to recover it within a few years.
"If I could interview one person on the planet, it'd be Bernie Madoff and the obvious [question] would be 'Why? Why did you do this to people?'" King said.
King's friend, Wilpon, would come out of the Madoff scandal much worse off, taking a hit of $500 million.
Eudie Pak is a New York City-based editor/writer.
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill: constructive ambiguity or a political choice not yet made?
The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill pdf
Which legal rights derived from EU law will we keep or lose when the UK exits the EU? This question is of fundamental importance. Yet the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill (the “Brexit Bill”) fails to provide a clear answer. Either the Government has not really thought about it properly; or, more probably, there is one of two truths that dare not speak its name and, as Henry Kissinger would have it, the Bill is a deliberate “constructive ambiguity”.
The question of automatic lapse of EU rights upon Brexit was much-debated, but ultimately somewhat parked, in the Miller litigation. The EU-related rights were put into three categories and debated as such (see the majority decision at ¶¶57-61). But the UK Government accepted that there were at least some rights which could not be replicated in UK law (¶63), and therefore discussion of the detail was limited (¶¶64-66). As is well known, the Government made much of its intention to enact a “Great Repeal Bill” which “…will repeal the 1972 Act and, wherever practical, it will convert existing EU law into domestic law at least for a transitional period” (¶34, see also ¶¶94, 263).
The Brexit Bill has now been presented to Parliament to serve as this “Great Repeal Bill”. It raises a rather large question as to what the words “wherever practical” in the above quotation were really intended to mean. Indeed, it is hard to see that the Government can possibly mean the Bill to have the effect it would currently appear to have.
The intended effect is the retention of much of EU law, at least for a transitional period. Clause 1 would repeal the European Communities Act 1972, and clauses 2 and 3 would preserve the effect of both “EU-derived domestic legislation” (i.e. domestic provisions implementing Directives and other EU obligations) and “direct EU legislation” (i.e. EU instruments with direct applicability, most notably Regulations, whether EU Regulations or Commission Regulations). The point of interest for present purposes emerges, however, most clearly from clause 4. The meat of this clause provides (with our bold emphasis) as follows:
“Any rights, powers, liabilities, obligations, restrictions, remedies and procedures which, immediately before exit day—
(a) are recognised and available in domestic law by virtue of section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972, and
(b) are enforced, allowed and followed accordingly, continue on and after exit day to be recognised and available in domestic law (and to be enforced, allowed and followed accordingly).”
This is a critical clause. Ostensibly, it is the means by which to fulfil the promise of the Government that EU rights “…would be re-enacted as ordinary rights in primary legislation” (Miller, ¶58). The Government considers that it will catch many of the most important rights which EU law confers: the Explanatory Notes say that it will preserve, for instance, “directly effective rights” deriving from Treaty provisions on the free movement of goods (TFEU Articles 34-36), the freedom to provide services (TFEU Article 56), the state aid rules (TFEU Articles 107-108) and the equal pay provisions (TFEU Article 157).
Clause 4 necessarily assumes that these rights will remain meaningful as domestic rights if “recognised” and made “available” in domestic law after exit day. It “continues” in domestic law a whole series of EU rights without itself making any further provision or adjustment to ensure that those rights will have any practical bite after “exit day”.
But this skates over the fact that the enforceability of almost all of the EU rights in question depends expressly upon the UK being member of the EU, or the person being a citizen of the EU, or there being an effect on trade between Member States. This simple, but fundamental, point can be explained by reference to some examples amongst the very Treaty provisions identified by the Government in the Explanatory Notes as ones which it wishes to preserve:[1]
(i) Discrimination: The general Treaty prohibition against discrimination is embodied in Article 18 TFEU which provides “Within the scope of application of the Treaties, and without prejudice to any special provisions contained therein, any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited.” But discrimination in the UK after exit day will not be “within the scope of application of the Treaties”.
(ii) Free movement of goods: The right of UK citizens under Article 34 of the TFEU, as continued by clause 4 of the Bill, would be to enforce a provision which states: “Quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between Member States.” The UK will not, however, be a Member State after exit day. Moreover, under the famous Dassonville formulation measures of equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions must have an actual or potential effect on trade between Member States. What meaningful right could this provision ever confer in circumstances where, after exit Day, the UK is no longer a “Member State”? What quantitative restrictions could be imposed by the UK Government which would operate between Member States? The “right” enjoyed “immediately before exit day” would appear to mean very little after it.
(iii) Free movement of services: The same questions arise in relation to Article 56 which concerns the free movement of services. Article 56 provides that “…restrictions on freedom to provide services within the Union shall be prohibited in respect of nationals of Member States who are established in a Member State other than that of the person for whom the services are intended”. The UK will no longer be a member of “the Union” and so no restrictions under UK law could possibly be prohibited by this Article. The continued right is meaningless.
(iv) State aid: The right of UK citizens under Article 107 of the TFEU, as preserved by clause 4, would be to enforce this prohibition: “Save as otherwise provided in the Treaties, any aid granted by a Member State or through State resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall, in so far as it affects trade between Member States, be incompatible with the internal market.” The UK will not be a Member State after exit day, nor will it be in the internal market, and so this provision will cease on its face to have any application to the UK at all.
(v) Equal pay: The continued right under Article 157 TFEU states that “Each Member State shall ensure that the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value is applied.” It will, on its face, cease to apply to the UK after exit day.
As can be seen simply from their text, none of these provisions will make any sense once we have left. Or, seen another way, they will make perfect sense, but simply have no possible application.
The same problem of unintelligible rights arises from the porting over by clause 3 of much so-called “direct EU legislation”, that is EU Regulations and Decisions addressed to the UK. A good number of such Regulations, despite being directly applicable, are drafted in terms that make frequent and substantial allusion to Member States or the scope of EU law.[2] Take the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679/EU), a topical and very important example. This is a critical and long-negotiated EU instrument replacing the Data Protection Directive and destined to be central to the digital economy. Its territorial scope is set by Article 3 which confines its operations to “the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union”; Article 2.2(b) further provides that the Regulation does not apply “in the course of an activity which falls outside the scope of Union law”.
In the case of “EU-derived domestic legislation”, preserved by clause 2, the basic textual problems are less acute, precisely because the obligations in a Directive have been transposed into a purely domestic context. In the analytical scheme used by Miller these are “category (i) rights” which present the least textual problems in preservation. However, even here the problems of intelligibility are significant, albeit of a different nature: the problem is more that such domestic legislation is predicated upon common EU institutions or procedures, or regimes of mutual cooperation or mutual recognition which will no longer work: anyone in doubt of this should read, for instance, the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1916) and then ask “how is this to work outside the EU/EMA?”
Given these structural features the question arises “what in fact does clause 4 preserve?”. There are two possible analyses:
(1) The first possibility is that Clause 4 preserves little, if anything, after exit day: the text of the Treaty articles and the suchlike is carried over, but they are all on their face inapplicable if the UK is no longer a member.
(2) The second possibility is that all the references to “Member States”, “the Union” the “internal market” and so forth in retained EU law and rights must be read as including – or perhaps even as limited to – the UK.
If the latter is correct then, as we explain below, it would represent a political choice of remarkable significance which has, so far as we are aware, barely been debated. Before coming to that, however, we will address the first possible interpretation.
The first analysis: clause 4 in fact preserves little, if anything after exit day
The first analysis of clause 4 is that there are in fact no current Treaty rights which are, to use the language of that clause, currently “available in domestic law by virtue of section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972”, other than Article 308 TFEU[3] and possibly Article 101 and 102 TFEU, which will actually be preserved in any meaningful way after exit day. The references to “Member States”, “the Union” the “internal market” mean exactly what they say; they will not include the UK after exit day; and so the rights are practically meaningless.
Precisely the same point would arise in relation to (formerly) directly effective provisions of Directives. Such obligations are by legal definition directed at Member States alone: such “vertical direct effect” arises only because the Defendant is or is part of the Member State. So these too would fall away on exit day. Likewise also the general principles of EU law, which include EU fundamental rights principles (before their codification in the Charter): these can only operate “within the scope of EU law” as CJEU cases consistently reaffirm. As such, all of the rights and (corollary) obligations at which clause 4 purports to be directed would, on this interpretation, be incapable of application after exit day. Equally, there would probably be surprisingly little preserved by clause 3, given the way Regulations are drafted.
On this analysis, say that the free movement of goods or state aid rules, or the GDPR, do not work or, in the language of clause 7 “[fail] … to operate effectively” or are “deficient” upon exit day. In that event, the Minister may pass correcting secondary legislation under clause 7. Such interpretation is borne out by the way in which the term “deficiencies in retained EU law” used in clause 7(1) is defined in clause 7(2), in particular clause 7(2)(a) which applies to retained EU law which “contains anything which has no practical application in relation to the United Kingdom or any part of it or is otherwise redundant or substantially redundant”.
Given the contents of clause 7, this reading of the Act at first sight appears the more natural, indeed inevitable. But there are at least four significant consequences if this is right.
The first is that such a reading would make clause 4 strikingly light on content. It would indeed be something close to a misdirection, since there would be nothing to bite upon. The misdirection would be profound, not least because the Explanatory Notes to Clause 4, suggest at §§87-92 that clause 4 does have meaningful effect and that a long list of directly effective Treaty provisions “would be converted into domestic law as a result of this clause”,[4] before going on to note at §91 that “any directly effective rights converted into domestic law as a result of this clause would be subject to amendment or repeal via statutory instrument made under clause 7”. A fairer account would acknowledge the limitations built into such rights (as above) and recognise that no right (or virtually no right) would be meaningfully converted, such that every EU Treaty right will require modification using clause 7 or clause 17 powers, if it is to continue at all.
The second consequence would thus be that, on this analysis, clause 4 meaningfully operates only as a hugely wide enabling provision for secondary legislation under clause 7 (and the suite of other widely drawn powers of secondary legislation): as noted above, the non-functioning or incoherence of former EU rights specifically justifies the making of consequential secondary legislation. The (huge) extent of the now-unworkable rights would set the subject-matter of the responsive powers of secondary legislation. This means that the material scope of those delegated powers has few boundaries.
If these first two points are correct, this goes significantly beyond the critique of clause 4 made by Professor Mark Elliott in his comments on the Brexit Bill,[5] where he suggests that the saving effected by clause 4 is uncertain because of problems of reciprocity. The point is more basic: there would, in practice, be no surviving rights, which would lapse with membership; only a large body of unworkable or redundant retained EU law, creating correspondingly large delegated powers to replace it.
The third consequence would be that the appearance of continuity or stability that the Brexit Bill carefully cultivates is unwarranted. Directly effective rights are a substantial part of EU law and its effective enforcement; yet, simply put, direct effect is not continued, or at least the rights no longer have any meaningful content. This is a potentially significant problem. The Brexit Bill expressly continues the principle of supremacy of EU law over laws made before exit day (clause 5), and makes the retention of EU law “subject to” that basic rule of supremacy (see clauses 2(3), 3(5) and 4(3)). It is quite difficult to see, however, how supremacy can operate sensibly if the main “pillars” of the legal order which is being retained have ceased to make any sense. Treaty rights, and the four Treaty freedoms in particular, are the intellectual cornerstone of single market legislation, and often operate to fill in any gaps or to drive the purposive interpretation of secondary EU legislation. Much of the EU lawyer’s toolkit, for instance, is based on two key interdependent concepts: supremacy and direct effect. The direct effect of Treaty provisions, Regulations and Directives gives the supremacy doctrine teeth, and enables either a Marleasing interpretation or, in an extreme case, disapplication of domestic law (e.g. by an EOC declaration) to be used to solve both types of problem. It is far from obvious how these sorts of problems are to be resolved if the guiding Treaty provisions are inapplicable to the UK or make no sense in their retained form.
The fourth consequence would be that the loss of directly effective rights would affect the interpretation after exit day of EU secondary legislation, and by extension EU-derived domestic legislation. Unless some variant of the second analysis considered below is adopted, and the UK is treated ‘as if’ it were still part of the EU for the purposes of its domestic law, such EU legislation becomes incoherent or potentially so, once retained by clause 2. Why? Recitals to market-harmonising Directives invariably track back to, rely upon and then build from the underlying Treaty rights of relevance; then, the substantive provisions of the Directive invariably build upon the directly effective Treaty provision’s framework, adding flesh to its bones. Yet if the directly effective Treaty right in question has ceased to make any sense (unless and until any clause 7 legislation is made), how is such legislation be read, at least after exit day? How does one give (or does one give) effect to original legislative intent, when the underlying Treaty right or obligation itself has fallen away, or has been altered?
The second analysis: clause 4 requires “retained EU law” to be construed as if the UK were still a Member State
The profound problems we identify above would tend to suggest that clause 4 has to be read in a different way.
Given the apparent legislative intent as embodied in the Explanatory Notes, the most obvious alternative construction would be to read clause 4 as having a wider effect: that when it says that Treaty rights and the suchlike “continue” after exit day, this means every time one encounters in retained EU law expressions such as “Member States”, “the Union”, the “internal market”, one has to read them all as including the UK.
The legal and political consequences of such an interpretation would, however, be remarkable. It would create a “one way Brexit” under which the UK would be adopting a wide-ranging suite of continued protections for nationals and companies of the remaining 27 EU Member States, without any guarantee of reciprocity at all. Take the free movement of goods as an example. Article 34 of the TFEU prohibits, as we set out above, all “[q]uantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect … between Member States.” The notion of a measure having “equivalent effect” has been interpreted extremely widely by the CJEU so as to prohibit all manner of things. It has held, for instance, that a restriction on the keeping of bees, applying exclusively to an island constituting only 0.3% of Denmark’s land area, was in principle an interference with the free movement of goods. If the alternative interpretation of clause 4 is correct, then the UK Government will remain prohibited by law from imposing any restrictions on the importation of goods from the EU, whilst the remaining 27 countries of the EU will cease to be bound by any reciprocal obligation. It is true that this could be solved by post-Brexit primary or secondary legislation.[6] But again, therefore, the “continuation” of the right would remain, in effect, the simply laying down of a marker for future rules in the area.
The freedom to provide services is a further example. Were clause 4 to be read as requiring Article 56 TFEU to be read as if the UK were still a Member State, Article 56 would continue to prohibit any pre-Brexit primary legislation from doing anything to inhibit, say, French nationals or companies from exercising rights to provide cross-border services after exit day, whilst France would be free to take whatever measures it wishes against British nationals and companies. It may be, of course, that this is all to be dealt with by the transitional deal. The Prime Minister has indicated in her Florence speech on 22 September 2017 that the UK desires a transitional deal until 2021. But it appears that Parliament will be asked to enact clause 4 well before there is any certainty on the content of that deal.
Furthermore, there are some Treaty rights which would continue to look very strange even if the expression “Member States” were interpreted as including the UK. The prohibition on state aid, for example, prohibits “any aid granted by a Member State” but only “in so far as it affects trade between Member States”. This makes sense as a Treaty provision in a supranational legal order. It makes little sense as legislation of the UK Parliament. On its face, the provision would make it contrary to UK statute for, say, Lithuania to grant a state aid in a manner which distorted competition in trade between it and Latvia. The obvious way to solve this problem would be to construe “Member State” as meaning only the UK and “trade between Member States” as meaning trade with the EU27. But this would be a dramatic alteration of the ambit of this rule under the guise of interpretation.
The alternative possible reading of clause 4 – a bare “as if” approach – would thus meet the four concerns identified above, and provide for real continuity of rights and obligations within the UK. But it would create a one-sided system of law in many cases: EU27 persons, goods, services, companies, competitors and so forth might be treated more generously in the UK than their UK analogues in the EU27.
A constructive ambiguity, or a political choice not yet made?
Such a critical ambiguity seems unlikely to have arisen by accident. It may be that clause 4 allows the Brexit Bill to seem to be all things to all people. To “Remainers” the apparent promise to continue EU rights, until they are reconsidered by Parliament at its leisure, softens the blow. To “Brexiteers” (and they are amongst the most long-term and careful students of the actual contents of the EU Treaties) clause 4, read with the textual limitations in the underlying EU rights, is a promise of a substantially clean slate.
Whichever of the two possible interpretations of clause 4 is correct, it is hardly satisfactory that such an important, indeed fundamental, choice is apparently to be left to the Courts as a matter of interpretation. The Brexit Bill is one of almost unparalleled constitutional (and economic) significance. The legislation must be clear as to how (if at all) the relevant EU rights are to be preserved. The choice discussed above is one which needs to be debated in Parliament. Ideally, the Brexit Bill would follow the format of the Human Rights Act and annex those directly effective EU rights that it actually intends to preserve, or at least the most important ones thereof. Crucially, the Bill needs to explain what Courts are intended to do when, after exit day, they are asked to apply a provision which has no obvious textual application in the UK at all. The selection of the proper interpretative response to this scenario would involve, in essence, some very large and effectively political choices about what kind of Brexit our Parliament wishes to see.
Such clarity is of critical importance given the historic significance of such Treaty rights and the policy implications as to the various ways in which they may or may not be continued as general, organising constitutional principles, used, at the very least purposively to interpret retained EU law and, perhaps (as now), other domestic legislation. For nearly forty years such rights have been used as tools of policy and legislation, and failing that of litigation, to ensure that all UK legislation regulating or affecting commercial activity respects and is aligned with the common boundaries they shape. In this way EU membership has required the UK to be a certain form of market economy (shaped by the four freedoms) operating within certain parameters, accompanied by (or checked by) certain social guarantees (such as equal pay). Such directly effective Treaty rights have for instance reshaped domestic tax law, ended direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of nationality, tackled pay discrimination, and guaranteed rights to run cross-border businesses. These Treaty rights are social and economic rights of constitutional importance. The continuation or not of any of these economic and social rights, and the degree to which they are constitutionally entrenched, is not a minor matter suited to be left to secondary legislation or judicial inference in litigation, but is at the heart of the type of economic and social polity the UK will be after Brexit.
[1] We take directly effective Treaty rights unlikely to be addressed, in part or in whole, in the seven Bills which will in due course accompany the Brexit Bill. So, for example, exclude from consideration the provisions of free movement of persons since immigration will be the subject of a dedicated Bill and will, we suppose, make comprehensive provision for this subject.
[2] Equally, a good number of Regulations do not have such jurisdictional fault lines, for instance Council Regulation 207/2009/EC on the Community trade mark; and the Recast Judgments Regulation 1215/2012. But even here there are frequent (albeit non-jurisdictional) references to “Member States” or reliance upon mutual recognition/mutual enforcement that render the regime incoherent.
[3] This confers legal personality on the EIB and operates sensibly even when the UK ceases to be a Member State.
[4] Admittedly the list is somewhat suspect given its inclusion of, for instance, Articles 120-126 TFEU on economic cooperation and Article 325 of cooperation to combat fraud which self-evidently are not directly effective.
[5] See his blog “The Devil in the Detail: Twenty Questions about the EU (Withdrawal) Bill” and “The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: Initial Thoughts”, particularly in his comments on clause 4; and see the House of Lords Constitution Select Committee (to which Prof Elliott acts as adviser), 3rd Report of 2017-19, European Union (Withdrawal) Bill: interim report, at §27.
[6] Because post-Brexit domestic legislation, seeming primary or secondary (in all its guises) would be supreme after exit day: see Clause 5(1).
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Buy a house in southeast Queens for under $400,000
115-69 224th St. in Cambria Heights and 91-09 1⁄2 138th Pl. in Jamaica have been renovated with city funds and are being sold by Habitat for Humanity.
May 23, 2018 - 12:00pm
Habitat for Humanity is now accepting applications to buy one of two houses in southeast Queens for less than $400,000.
The houses, fixed up with city funding, are in Cambria Heights and Jamaica. The Cambria Heights house is a two bedroom at 115-69 224 St., set aside for two- to four-person households making $55,000-$83,450 a year. It is equipped for people with mobility-related disabilities, and priced at $296,100.
The Jamaica property is a three bedroom at 91-09 1⁄2 138 Pl., reserved for three- to six-person households making $60,300-$96,850 a year. It's set to cost $356,400.
Applicants must have no more than $184,351 in assets to qualify. That amount includes a 1 percent down payment, which is required. You also must use the house as your primary residence if you get it, and you can't have bought residential real estate in the past.
The Cambria Heights house is compact and brick, with a small front and backyard and a wheelchair ramp. It's on a residential block a short walk from the Nassau County line. An express bus stops four blocks away and takes about an hour and a half to get into Midtown. The Queens Village and St. Albans Long Island Rail Road stops are both a little less than two miles away.
The Jamaica house is in a row of attached houses, across the street from a playground, and bordered on one side by an MTA utility lot. That end of the block makes a T at the Jamaica LIRR train yard. As a result, it's about a five minute walk to the Jamaica LIRR station, as well as the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue J, Z, E subway station.
To request an application, email [email protected] with "ADA Home Mobility or Audio/Visual" in the subject line, or call (646) 779-8846. You can also request an application by mail by sending a self-addressed envelope to Habitat Queens Phase II, Homeownership Department, 111 John St., 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10038. Applications must be postmarked by June 30th, 2018.
Habitat for Humanity is holding an informational session on the application process on Thursday, May 24th, at 6 p.m., at the Habitat office, 111 John St. To attend, email [email protected] with your name, phone number, and email, and the date of the session.
Note: Brick Underground is in no way affiliated with New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. For more on city-sponsored homeownership opportunities, click here. For more details on this particular lottery, click here. For information about "affordable" rental opportunities, visit NYC Housing Connect.
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BRIDGE supports women’s political participation in Peru
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BRIDGE supports women’s politicians in Peru
A good two years after BRIDGE was first introduced in Peru (TtF in Nov 2007), BRIDGE came back to this fascinating and complex country in October this year for a series of two BRIDGE Workshops.
One of these was a week-long course titled “Towards the strengthening of equal opportunities for political participation in Peru”, held in Lima from 5 – 9 October. The course came as the last stage of a three-month long capacity-development program organized by the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (National Electoral Tribunal) and the Peruvian Ministry for Women and Social Development, for the benefit of Peruvian political parties, regional political movements and civil society organizations. The workshop was held with the technical support of International IDEA and funding from the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development) and the two organizing institutions.
All 30 participants to this course were Peruvian and had been selected on the basis of their outstanding performance during the e-learning phase of this capacity development programme. They belonged to 13 different political parties represented, 12 regional movements (different status than political parties but running as well in sub-national elections) and 4 CSOs.
The Workshop was facilitated by a team of five: Nicolas Garrigue (IDEA Consultant), as lead facilitator, Carlos Coronel (Colombia) & Alexandra Pravatiner (JNE, Peru), as Workshop Facilitators, and two semi-accredited Peruvian facilitators: Virgilio Hurtado Cruz and Miriam Isabel Pena Niño, also from the JNE. Both of them received their full accreditation during this 5-day event. This brings the total number of Peruvian facilitators to 4 and Spanish-speaking facilitators to 15 individuals.
The workshop’s focused on analyzing the supply and demand aspects of women’s participation in the political life of Peru. How can women participate and why does democracy needs more participation of women? The two facets of political participation, as simple citizens and as elections candidates, were looked at. Barriers to participation in both situations were listed and explained. Although Peru is one of the most progressive countries in Latin America when it comes to women’s political representation, it’s still a mere 23% of elected offices that are held by women, while the women’s quota legislation sets the objective at 30% . For example, only 3% of the country’s mayors are women. Since voting is compulsory in Peru (like in Australia), the turnout rate among registered women is high (83%) but the issue lies with the rate of registration which is said to be very low in certain remote & indigenous areas.
Participants devised strategies to motivate women’s civic & political participation through civic education campaigns and to facilitate women’s access to political candidacies through the adoption of affirmative action policies inside parties, especially regarding the making of candidates lists. On the end of the workshop, participants finalized project proposals to support specific action plans supporting a higher equality of opportunities for political participation for women in the Peruvian society. Participants showed a high level of motivation to learn and practice, and were enthusiastic about the BRIDGE training methodology. Many asked for a TtF to be conducted soon so that they can replicate the Modules among their party affiliates. For a first workshop targeting non-EMB participants and tackling issues beyond electoral processes, this workshop opened the way to a wider expansion of BRIDGE on the Latin American continent.
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Marc Jacobs Set to Open First Beauty Store In New York
By Michelle King
Best. Beauty. News. Ever. As you already know, Marc Jacobs has launched a line of beauty products, currently available exclusively at Sephora. But now, bless that little designer's heart, he's opening up a store on Bleecker Street in Manhattan.
WWD reports that the Marc Jacobs store with stock the 121-piece collection, as well as the Marc Jacobs signature fragrances.
Currently, Jacobs is only planning on opening the one store in New York, but don't lose hope. He told WWD, "It depends on how it does. When we launched Bookmarc, I thought it would be the only one, and then we opened one in LA and in Paris and in London. And we’re about to open one in Tokyo. At practically every store I’ve underestimated the amount of people who will come."
Get ready for your new favorite beauty store, Manhattan.
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Deluxe’s Method Studios Contributes VFX Magic to WB’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
Expanding the wizarding universe of Harry Potter, Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts and Where ...
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Expanding the wizarding universe of Harry Potter, Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” follows magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as he attempts to track down mag...
Expanding the wizarding universe of Harry Potter, Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” follows magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as he attempts to track down magical creatures that have escaped from his suitcase and into 1920s New York, while tensions mount between wizarding and non-wizarding communities. To bring the story, crafted by author J.K. Rowling to life, the production VFX supervisors, Tim Burke and Christian Manz, enlisted an arsenal of creative talent to handle the film’s visual effects, including Deluxe’s Method Studios. Method contributed to the opening and closing shots, in addition to environmental and creature work. The studio also reimagined the look of the distinct “apparate” and “disapparate” effects from the Harry Potter films through which a wizard magically teleports into or out of a scene.
Andrew Hellen, VFX Supervisor, Method Studios, said, “Production wanted the ‘apparate’/’disapparate’ effect to have more a of a 3D feel than in past films, so they asked some of the vendors to redesign the effect, retaining the essence of the original but with even more dynamic movement. We came up with a rhythmic particulate effect that follows a bit of a corkscrew pattern, almost like a whirlpooling Picasso painting that snaps together, and our concept was ultimately selected. It looks completely different from every angle, adds a lot of dimension to scenes and was a blast to devise.”
Method employed the ‘apparate’ effect in a full-CG point-of-view fly-through shot, covering several blocks of a grungy Manhattan tenement neighborhood, with the character finally appearing near a recreation of the historic Woolworth Building. Artists peppered the sequence with digital crowds and various CG elements like flapping laundry, using period photographs for reference and tonal accuracy. “We referenced a lot of old maps from New York circa 1920. It’s such an iconic area, and we wanted to retain that authenticity, inject the appropriate amount of chaos while making sure any creative historical deviations didn’t distract from the story,” Hellen explained.
On the creatures side, Method handled the shot of Newt bottle-feeding a young marmite – a tentacled cross between a dust mite and squid with a transparent body. Production provided live action plates with the actor, and Method artists added the CG creature to the shot, digitally wrapping 10-foot long tentacles around Newt and creating an underwater feel.
Newt transports his magical menagerie in an unassuming suitcase that he’s able to walk down into, entering a ‘zoo,’ with each creature housed in a different environment. The backgrounds surrounding each pen appear to be realistically painted canvases, but with a moving, magical quality. Method’s team created a mangrove swamp within the suitcase environment, and incorporated creatures from four other VFX studios into the final composite. Method also created the snowy environment that is supposed to contain the Obscurus – a particularly evil creature that has escaped. Largely shot on greenscreen, artists added mountains, trees and a frozen lake, giving them a brush-stroked feel and layering them with animated snow.
“We spent a lot of time going back and forth with production and other VFX studios involved to figure out who was doing what, and the entire process worked surprisingly well. Everyone was very open about sharing materials and doing whatever was needed to complete a shot in which a flying Billywig gets eaten by a Doxy which in turn gets eaten by a Fwooper; it turned out beautifully,” said Hamish Schumacher, VFX Supervisor, Method Studios.
Directed by David Yates, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Allison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo and Colin Farrell. For more information, visit http://www.fantasticbeasts.com/.
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Editor’s Note: The price of evolution
Photo: Ian Nichols.
The Editor's Desk
Giles Morris
10/02/13 at 8:54 AM
How much would you pay to save someone you love? Everything? How much, then, to save something you love from being lost forever? Depends on the value of the thing in question, right? Yet another magic mushrooming of the Internet spore is our obsession with price points. Forget coupon clipping, from E*Trade to eBay, you can play Alan Greenspan and split pennies buying diapers. When a shop fire in Bangladesh kills hundreds, you wonder about the cost of the wicking weave on your back and then buy it anyway along with a pair of brightly colored, featherweight kicks. No sweat, you’ve got to be fast to stay ahead in this dirty old rat race.
Then there’s the stuff that’s priceless. Not your kid’s first smile, maybe, but a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary you believe in or maybe keeping the doors open at your favorite local newspaper. How much is that worth? The bots want you to be impulsive. They know what you like. Buy it now with one click. They’ll take a billion pennies no one else wants and build another factory.
This week’s feature examines a forward-looking conservation program that Albemarle County started a few years back to save parcels of land with rare biological value. It’s exactly the type of initiative that got cut when the real estate bubble burst. How do you, as a taxpayer, value a steep shady grove where the trillium flower grows if you’ll never be able to see it? Isn’t the law of nature to let evolution run its course?
In that spirit I’m writing to let you know that we’re discontinuing The Rant, a staple in the paper for just over a decade. You’ve got one more week to rant to your heart’s content. In the meantime we’ll be asking you some questions and hoping you have the answers.
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“Disgusted with the heat and dust of the babylonish brick-kiln of New York, I came back to the country to feel the grass.” So wrote Herman Melville to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, in 1851, and having endured many a sweltering summer in New York City I’ve always enjoyed that quote. But the
The real power struggle in Charlottesville, as a reporter for The New York Times astutely observed in a story about Mayor Nikuyah Walker last year, is not between left and right. It’s “between those who want Charlottesville to go back to the way it was before the rally, when a Google search
We’re a city that can’t seem to escape our statues, and at Monday’s City Council meeting they were on the agenda again—this time, the West Main monument to Lewis and Clark, with the figure of Sacagawea at the men’s feet, either cowering or tracking. Paul Goodloe McIntire, who commissioned the
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With over 900 farms in Albemarle County alone, several well-attended farmers’ markets per week, and more than a handful of CSAs, Charlottesville has a thriving local food scene. But one thing that’s missing, says Little Hat Creek Farm’s Heather Coiner, is grain. Coiner started the Common Grain
I’m not much of a basketball fan—okay, I’m not a basketball fan at all—but I love a comeback story, and the UVA men’s team’s journey from last year’s humiliating defeat to this year’s championship is as good as it gets. You’d have to be made of stone to be unmoved by the nail-biting excitement
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Last Wednesday evening, as former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu was telling a sold-out book festival crowd that the backlash against removing Confederate monuments was “not about the statutes,” and that white supremacists were “having a field day” under President Trump, Charlottesville
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Countless studies have found that parents are less happy than non-parents (who, after all, are free to spend their weekends sleeping late, pursuing activities they enjoy, and having uninterrupted conversations). But American parents, it turns out, have got it particularly bad. A 2016 study
In 1986, a young lawyer and UVA grad named Rick Middleton left his job at a national environmental nonprofit in D.C. and moved to Charlottesville. With two other lawyers, a three-year grant, and a small office on the Downtown Mall, he established the first environmental advocacy organization
A 75th wedding anniversary is so rare that the U.S. Census Bureau keeps no statistics on it, Mary Jane Gore tells us. Estimates are that fewer than 0.1 percent of marriages make it to 70 years or more. So this Valentine’s Day week, we tell you about Bill and Shirley Stanton of Afton, who
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February is Black History Month, a time when schools across the country dutifully trot out lessons about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. In 2015, a minor firestorm ensued when Orange County High School students connected the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives
The tail end of January can be a tough time of year. It’s cold and gray. The rush of holidays is over, with nothing looming on the horizon except the questionable occasion of Valentine’s Day. Spring seems ages away. While you may deal with this turn of events like me (read: wearing out your new
“If Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence,” my 7-year-old asked me the other day, “why did he have slaves himself?” The notion that “all men are created equal” was a radical and noble idea, and it still is, if you take “men” to mean “human beings.” But back then, as I struggled
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For the past three years, I have pictured you out there, The Reader, and written these weekly letters to you (this being the last one, I promise), even though I know they can’t possibly get through, since you aren’t you at all, but many, many people going about the business of life in this
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Inquire below to book Jenny Fleiss
CEO & Co-Founder, Jetblack / Co-Founder, Rent the Runway
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Jenny Fleiss: Biography at a Glance
Leading Jetblack, the first start-up in Walmart's tech incubator, which is reshaping the way consumers shop through one-to-one, highly personalized experiences
Co-Founder and Board Member of Rent the Runway, an 11 million member startup that pioneered dynamic ownership in the fashion industry by enabling women to rent designer clothing
Rent the Runway is one of only 20 female-led "unicorn" companies in the U.S. to achieve a $1B valuation
Co-Founder of The RTR Foundation, a guest lecturer at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Harvard Business School, an advisor to several female founded start-ups and a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council
Named one of Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30," Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" and "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs" and Fast Company's "Most Influential Women in Technology"
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Jenny Fleiss: Transforming Retail
Jenny is an entrepreneur and intrapreneur, founding two scaled digitally native businesses from scratch: Rent the Runway and Jetblack. Jetblack is the first portfolio company within Walmart’s technology incubator. As CEO and Co-Founder of Jetblack, she is disrupting traditional e-commerce with a personal shopping service over text message and voice. In Jenny’s role, she is also helping shape innovation more broadly within Walmart. Previously, Jenny co-founded Rent the Runway, an 11 million member startup that pioneered dynamic ownership in the fashion industry by enabling women to rent designer clothing. Rent the Runway is one of only 20 female-led "unicorn" companies in the U.S. to achieve a $1B valuation.
During her time at Rent the Runway, Jenny wore many different hats, serving as President, Head of Logistics, Head of Business Development and Head of Special Projects. Jenny remains a Rent the Runway board member and adviser.
Jenny has been honored with numerous recognitions including: Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”; Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” and “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs”; and Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology.”
Jenny earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. She is co-founder of the RTR Foundation, a proud advisor to and investor in several startups and is a guest lecturer at Yale, Princeton, NYU, Columbia and Harvard Business School. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and three children.
Entrepreneurship – The Story of Rent the Runway
How did Rent the Runway go from a simple idea to a $1 billion unicorn company that is disrupting an entire industry? The story of Rent the Runway is packed with teaching moments that every entrepreneur can apply to accelerate the growth of their own business. Jenny takes audiences through her entrepreneurial journey, breaking down exactly how to uncover valuable customer insights, tap into the world’s most powerful marketing strategies, create magnetic customer loyalty, and build a disruptive brand from the ground up.
Intrapreneurship – How Innovative Companies are Transforming from the Inside-Out
As new technologies disrupt industries faster than ever, driving change from within is critical to success. Now leading Walmart’s first tech incubator, Jenny has created a template for innovation within the world's largest retailer. She reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds to grow revenue, drive innovation, and transform themselves into unstoppable forces.
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Our world has been transformed by tech-driven solutions that promise efficiency and hyper-personalization. But as technology becomes embedded into every aspect of our lives, the feeling of human touch takes on the critical role of establishing trust and comfort with consumers. How do successful companies balance AI with a humanized experience to create customer loyalty? Drawing from her experience leading Jetblack to harness the power of machine learning and conversational commerce, Jenny shares her roadmap to the ultimate hybrid experience.
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Is Jeff Bezos About To Become...NOT...The Richest Man In The World?
February 8 at 4:34 AM
Bezos feels he is being blackmailed for political motives, so he has decided to try and get ahead of it:
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Rudridge has supplied buff sandstone to the Horse Guards Parade.
Rudridge supplies stone for important renovation
Rudridge’s Brentford branch has assisted in the renovation of Horse Guards Parade in central London.
This opportunity was made available to Rudridge by its customer Loughlin Civil Engineering, which was working for VINCI Facilities. VINCI was originally contracted to complete the work by the Royal Parks Department in London.
Neville Holness, senior sales executive at Rudridge’s Brentford branch, said: “The stone used for the project was buff sandstone, sourced from Woodkirk Stone, an outstanding company based in Yorkshire and established over 100 years ago. This company is recognised for a wide range of diverse projects, including prisons, cathedrals and other city-centre paving schemes, so I knew it would be perfect for the job.
“It was important to make sure that the material sourced was not only of excellent quality and had the desired look, but also blended with other materials in the surrounding areas. The same stone is now being used adjacent to Buckingham Palace at the Queen Victoria Memorial.
“It took a lot of time and effort to make sure the correct decision was made, but I am really pleased with the finished look and am proud to have worked on such a prominent project.”
Duane Long, group sales manager for Rudridge, added: “At Rudridge we pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering quality products and services to all our customers and clients. This means that all our staff work incredibly hard, and in the case of this project, really went the extra mile to make sure the finished item was perfect.
“Neville and the team did a fantastic job and have really done Rudridge proud. Thank you to them once again.”
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Femme nue debout
Alternate titles: Nu; Nu féminin
Rewald: (897) 1898–99; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi: (710) c.1895; Rivière: 1898; Reff: 1898–99 (MoMA)
36 1/2 x 28 in. (92.7 x 71 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4458, nu de femme, 92 x 73 cm (6000/10000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 278, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1898
Bathers and Nudes:
female nude(s) / femme nue(s) »
Wall decoration:
baseboard »
chair rail / dado »
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, and Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Feb. 12, 1907)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (May 19, 1908)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (1908);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Private collection, New York;
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 5, 2002, No. 20, ill.; bought in;
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 8, 2012, no. 50, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, The Nude in Painting, 1946, no. 35, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 58, ill., lent by Wildenstein.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 8–May 8, 1948, no. 8, ill., as Nu féminin, lent by anonymous.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Les Fauves, October 7, 1952–January 4, 1953, no. 2. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, May 2–31, 1953. Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco.
1953b Paris
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Figures nues d'école française depuis les maîtres de Fontainebleau, 1953, no. 33, ill., as Nu.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 47, ill., lent by anon.
Musée de l'Athénée, Geneva, De l'impressionisme à l'école de Paris, July 16–September 29, 1960, no. 11, dated 1896.
1979–80 London and traveling
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, no. 46, ill., (dated 1898–99), lent by Private collector, U.S.A. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, May 25–September 1, 1980.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 76, ill.
2000 Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, Le Nu au XXe siècle, July 4–October 30, 2000, ill.
2004–05 Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 62, as Femme nue debout, The Perisset Trust, Grand Cayman.
2008–09 Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Picasso et les Maîtres, October 8, 2008–February 2, 2009, ill.
2015–16 Minneapolis and traveling
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, October 18, 2015–January 16, 2016, no. 13, ill. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, February 17–May 22, 2016.
Hausenstein 1913
Hausenstein, Wilhelm. Der nackte Mensch in der Kunst aller Zeiten und Völker. Munich: R. Piper10, 1913, fig. 571.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 69, ill.
Larguier 1925
Larguier, Léo. Le Dimanche avec Paul Cézanne. Paris: L'Edition, 1925, p. 80, ill.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." Amour de l'Art, no. 12 (December 1926), p. 416, ill.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 84, fig. 48, pl. XXXVI.
D'Ors 1930
D'Ors, Eugenio. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 6.
Zervos 1931
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture." Cahiers d'Art, no. 4 (March–April 1931), p. 203, ill.
Peschcke-Koedt 1933
Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Statusopgorelse i Malerkunsten." Samleren 14 (1933), p. 183, ill.
Di San Lazzaro 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 12.
D'Ors 1936a
D'Ors, Eugenio. Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 12.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 710, ill. vol. II as Nu féminin.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 145, listed (analysis p. 387).
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 38, fig. 38.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 60, ill.
Brion 1974
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 79.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), fig. 118, fig. 7.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 41, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 897, ill. vol. 2 as Femme nue debout.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne, Baigneuses et Baigneurs. Thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 285, no. 86 (listed) as Femme nue debout.
Dittmann 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbol. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 185, ill. in b/w.
Conisbee 2006c
Conisbee, Philip. "The Atelier des Lauves." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 238, fig. 14 as Femme nue debout.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 369; vol. 2, p. 235 as Femme nue debout.
Record last updated November 27, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Femme nue debout, 1898–99 (FWN 694)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=871 (accessed on July 17, 2019).
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A project which aims to raise the profile of Selsey's fishing industry will launch this year thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £35,800.
Selsey Town Council successfully bid for the money for its Sea's The Day project with support from the Selsey fishery, Chichester District Council and the Manhood Peninsula Partnership to help secure the grant.
Sea's The Day aims to create a permanent record of the local fishing industry by recording the fascinating stories and memories of fishermen and their families, and using them to create a short film and accompanying book. The daily working lives of local fishermen will also be captured in a series of photographs.
People will be encouraged to eat local fish thanks to a series of special recipe cards which will be produced using local crab and lobster recipes.
The project will then culminate in a special exhibition at The Novium Museum in Chichester next year. West Sussex Record Office has kindly agreed to curate the exhibition and will then look after all the information gathered for the project.
Mike Beal, Chairman of Selsey Town Council says: "We are extremely grateful to National Lottery players for this significant grant - we can't wait for this project to get underway.
"The story of fishing in Selsey is one that hasn't been told before, and so by documenting the lives and memories of local fishermen we hope to rekindle people's knowledge about it. We have been working closely with the Selsey fishery which has been advising us about what will work and who to approach as part of the project.
"Sea's The Day is the product of work carried out over the last two years, looking at how to boost the local economy. The fishing industry is one of the things that makes Selsey really special, and so one of the recommendations was to raise its profile so that fishing here can carry on for future generations. The project will also support work being done on the Selsey Vision by both us and the district council."
Councillor John Connor, Cabinet Member for Environment at Chichester District Council says: "Receiving this Heritage Lottery funding will make such a difference to how people view fishing in the area. Fishing is so important to the economy of Selsey and the surrounding area, so we are really glad to be supporting this exciting project.
"While Selsey is renowned in top London restaurants for the quality of its crab and lobster, locally there is a real lack of awareness about how vital this industry is to Selsey. Over the years a lot of knowledge about the local fishing trade has been lost and this project aims to rejuvenate interest and pride, and get people buying and cooking local fish in their kitchens."
Heritage Lottery Fund applications are assessed in two rounds. Seas the Day has been granted support by the Heritage Lottery Fund, allowing it to progress with its plans. Detailed proposals are then considered by HLF at second round, where a final decision is made on the full funding award of £35,800.
Thanks to National Lottery players, the Heritage Lottery Fund invests money to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about - from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife.
Photo credit: © John Periam/Fishing News
Date of release: 26 June 2018
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