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Tag Archives: Prasad Studios
VFXing its Way…
May 4, 2009 May 4, 2009 by Shashwat DC | Leave a comment
Bollywood, the largest film industry in the world, has finally come to terms with computing power, as more and more filmmakers are jumping on the VFX bandwagon for cost or for glory.
Babubhai Mistry is a name not many are able to recall; even in Bollywood. The few that do, are completely oblivious to Babubhai’s (as he was fondly known) state of affairs; whether he alive or is no more. And yet, just a few decades back, he was a star in his own right, dubbed as the ‘trick scene director’, he was the person who made it possible for Hanuman to lift the Gandhamadan mountain or Hatimtai to fly on a magical carpet in Hindi films. For over 50 years, Babubhai was the man who gave wings to film maker’s and viewer’s fantasies, he was India’s premier special effects director with around 300 films to his credit as director or special effects cinematographer. Many dub his most active years, from 40s to 70s, as the age of the mythologicals (in another words, the age of special effects).
Till around 1970s, Indian and Hollywood films were more or less the same in terms of usage of technology and output. When Babubhai made Mahabharata in the 60s, around the same time Hollywood saw the release of The Ten Commandments, Benhur or the King of Kings. There wasn’t a major difference in the way action sequences were displayed in these movies.
All that changed with the emergence of George Lucas on the international scene. Lucas’ Star Wars in the 1970s opened the realm of possibilities with the use of robotics and computer effects. Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg brought to life aliens in E.T., dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, sharks in Jaws and alien machines in War of the Worlds. Hollywood had discovered the magic of computers and was eagerly trying to redefine the realm of possibilities.
Finally, Peter Jackson went a notch higher, the Lord of the Rings trilogy proved what modern high-end computing can achieve. And if that was not enough, he put life in the giant ape King Kong. Visual Special Effects or VFX in Hollywood is getting bigger and bigger by the day, every year big blockbuster movies are released that heavily rely on VFX to pull the audiences.
In sharp contrast, Indian films lagged as filmmakers persisted with the same old techniques. The reluctance to adopt computing platform resulted in a yawning gap between Indian films and the ones made in Hollywood. So, while the two were on the same level till the 70s, over the next 2-3 decades, Hollywood raised the level of moviemaking to such an extent that the comparison itself seemed laughable.
Posted in: Feature: Indian IT | Tagged: Babubhai Mistry, Bollywood, Prasad Studios, Special Effects, Tata ELXSI, vfx
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General strike call from Occupy Oakland
After a vicious police assault and a mobilization that forced the city to retreat, Occupy Oakland has called for a general strike. Todd Chretien explains what comes next.
AFTER RECLAIMING Oscar Grant Plaza in front of Oakland's City Hall, Occupy Oakland activists voted 1,484 to 46 to call for a general strike on Wednesday, November 2. "Don't go to work, walk out of school, say no to debt and austerity," are some of the slogans for the day.
The call for a general strike arose from the specific situation of the police attacks in Oakland--officers from the city's force and more than a dozen different departments unleashed a savage attack on Occupy protesters, causing critical injuries to one protester, a member of Veterans for Peace, who was struck in the head by a tear gas canister.
But the call for a day of action on November 2 is about more than Oakland--it is an important new step for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement around the country.
For the last two weeks, police and city officials from the East Coast to the West have become increasingly aggressive in their attempts to intimidate occupiers. If Occupy Oakland can turn back the police violence with a large action on November 2, then hopefully what happens in Oakland won't stay in Oakland.
Members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 at an Oakland rally calling for justice for Oscar Grant (Oriana Bolden)
As luck would have it, the last citywide general strike in the U.S. took place in Oakland in 1946. But can it happen again on just a week's notice?
What would a general strike look like in Oakland?
First off, many Occupy Oakland activists realize there are big obstacles to overcoming years of demoralization and fear among workers and students, so participation in the November 2 call is bound to be uneven. But looking into Oakland's recent past gives us some clues about what is possible.
On May 1, 2006, tens of thousands of immigrant workers participated in the "Day Without an Immigrant" protests, marching down International Boulevard. It wasn't officially called a strike, but whole neighborhoods, especially the Latino sections in Fruitvale and East Oakland, poured out into the streets.
In 2009, when a BART police officer killed Oscar Grant III just after midnight on New Years Day, between 3,000 and 5,000 marchers, predominantly young African Americans, marched from City Hall to the County Courthouse, facing off with police for hours in exactly the same intersections where Occupy Oakland is marching today.
On March 4 of last year, thousands of Oakland public school students from grades K through 12, along with their teachers, school staff and parents, participated in a day of action against education budget cuts--along with thousands of community college and university students who walked out of classes and marched through their neighborhoods and campuses.
A wave of campus occupations swept through many Bay Area institutions of higher learning around that time to protest the cuts.
Oakland high school students have a powerful tradition of walking out of class to stand up for immigrant rights, funding for public education and affirmative action, and against police brutality.
So there are many recent precedents for filling the streets of Oakland to stand up for social justice.
What about organized labor?
Will unions participate in the Occupy Oakland call for a general strike?
Oakland teachers are working under an imposed contract, rammed down their throats by Superintendent Tony Smith and the school board. This is the same school district leadership that voted on October 26 to close five elementary schools, despite the protests of hundreds of teachers, parents, students and a contingent of hundreds from Occupy Oakland.
The Oakland Education Association, which represents public school teachers, has made funds available to support Occupy Oakland. The union's executive board will meet on October 28 to decide what actions to take on November 2--activists are hoping for a strike call.
The most powerful union in Oakland is the dockworkers of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10. They control the giant Port of Oakland and the billions of dollars of merchandise that passes through there every week.
The ILWU had its beginnings in a general strike in San Francisco in 1934 that involved over 100,000 workers in dozens of industries.
Since then, the ILWU has had a long and proud history of taking job actions to defend their own wages and working conditions, but also in solidarity with other struggles, including protesting South African apartheid, the war in Iraq and the murder of Oscar Grant.
ILWU Local 6 represents warehouse workers in the East Bay, including a large group mostly immigrant recycling workers who work at Waste Management. When WM locked them out in 2007, along with Teamsters Local 70 garbage truck operators, they organized mass, militant picket lines that showed their potential power.
The East Bay hotel workers union UNITE HERE Local 2850 is one of the most active and militant unions in all of California. Max Alper, an organizer for the local, was snatched up by police when they raided Occupy Oakland--after he gave a speech widely circulated on YouTube.
Early on Wednesday morning, the Alameda Central Labor Council issued an emergency statement condemning the Oakland crackdown, reading in part:
Mayor Quan and the City Council are on the wrong side of history. It is clear that what occurred in Snow Park and Frank Ogawa Plaza this morning is nothing but silencing the voices and stomping out the rights of Americans. Participants of Occupy Wall Street are now in their ninth week of declaring that "we are the 99 percent" because our system is desperately, decisively out of whack--the top 1 percent is pocketing massive profits and dominating our politics while everyone else struggles to make ends meet.
The council was discussing what attitude to take towards the general strike call as this article was being written.
Across the Bay, San Francisco Central Labor Council Executive Director Tim Paulson rushed out a message of support for Occupy San Francisco when police threats against their encampment on the waterfront escalated. Paulson wrote: "We support your presence in San Francisco. People should and will raise their voices to oppose the banks, mortgage houses, corporations and the Republican Congress--all who are dismantling our Democracy and destroying our Jobs!"
The California Nurses Association, based in Oakland and a part of the newly formed National Nurses United, has a long record of standing up to bullying politicians. When former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to push them around, they mobilized tens of thousands of nurses to Sacramento and forced him to back down. In fact, the CNA has been planning for weeks for a mass demonstration and direct action in San Francisco's financial district for November 3.
Service Employees International Union Local 1021, the largest public employee union in the region, is headquartered in Oakland. Last year, a reform slate swept the union elections, and it has been attempting to take a more aggressive stance in bargaining against austerity and budget cuts by mobilizing and educating the rank and file.
And the list goes on--AFSCME university workers, UAW graduate students, community college faculty, building trades and Teamsters Local 70 members at the enormous UPS hub. As the saying goes, "Oakland is a union town."
But will it be possible to put this whole mass of workers into motion so quickly? The best way to look at the question is not what can't be done, but rather what can be done in the next six days.
The Alameda Labor Council could authorize its affiliated locals to participate in whatever way those locals see fit. It could make it clear that the council want its locals to turn out en masse for the rally in front of City Hall. Where official strikes are prohibited by clauses in contracts, there are always ways to work around those--and this just might be the time to ignore those clauses.
Rank-and-file workers and shop stewards should call meetings during lunches, break times and shift changes to discuss plans for participating. If your union leadership opposes the action or doesn't do anything to organize it, take matters into your own hands.
Debate over strategy
Certainly there will be disagreement within the movement about how to organize. One central issue will be many union leaders' allegiance to the Democratic Party--and, of course, Mayor Jean Quan is a member.
Clarence Thomas, speaking as the national co-chair of the Million Worker March, a campaign initiated by the membership of ILWU Local 10 in 2004, addressed this debate inside the labor movement:
The call for a general strike by the General Assembly is indicative of the energy in the fightback now being carried out by the 99 percent--that is to say, by the workers. This is consistent with the actions taken by workers in Wisconsin who fought against Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on collective bargaining.
But as we saw there, those efforts were redirected by labor leaders loyal to the Democratic Party into recall efforts against Republican politicians. They want to avoid taking the fight to the point of production or services, but the rank and file want to take action. We have to appreciate how the Democratic Party has served as a shackle for the labor movement, and the labor movement has not yet broken free from it.
Asked if he thought this reality might short-circuit the general strike call on November 2, Thomas replied: "The call is appropriate, and Oakland will be shut down. I'll be there, and I'll be bringing as many people with me as possible."
What you can do in the next six days
Tens of thousands of high school and college students study within easy marching distance of Oakland's City Hall. They can start planning now to build the November 2 general strike.
Churches can alert their congregations. Nonprofit organizations can phone-bank their members. Immigrant rights, anti-eviction, civil rights and youth organizations can call out their members.
We can go street to street and knock on doors, pass out thousands of leaflets on BART and AC Transit bus lines. We can ask small businesses to post notices in their windows and close up shop for the day on November 2. Whole families should come. Everyone can flood their social networks with the message. We can all make signs and banners.
It's been a long time since we've had a general strike in the United States, so this one won't be perfect. But if they can do it in France and South Africa and Chile and India and Greece, why can't we start learning how in Oakland?
At a minimum, it seems certain that we will march downtown in numbers so great that the police will have to back off from further attacks.
Bay Area residents tend to prefer staying on their side of the Bay, but this is the time to get over any geographical hang-ups. If you live anywhere from Sacramento to Richmond to Napa to San Francisco to San Jose to Santa Cruz or Watsonville, consider this an invitation to come spend the day with the 99 percent in Oakland.
Nationally, plans are in the works to make November 2 a national day of solidarity with Oakland.
November 2 won't be a total general strike, but it can represent an important step in building the fight against the 1 percent. And on November 3, we can assess how we did, and learn from what went right and what went wrong.
But over the next six days, we should do everything we can to mobilize the power of the 99 percent for a day of strikes and action on November 2.
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R BRITNE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 424-34-6249 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died January 1990. Research in ZIP Code 35653.
R LEIHY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 520-18-9356 (indicating Wyoming) and, Death Master File says, died March 1988. Research in ZIP Code 66046.
R A BAUMGARTNER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 380-20-5074 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 27 May 2003. Research in ZIP Code 94523.
R A A BALL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 455-58-8313 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 24 October 2006. Research in ZIP Code 71483.
RACHEL BARNES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 222-16-2302 (indicating Delaware) and, Death Master File says, died March 1980. Research in ZIP Code 19801.
RACHEL H CROSBY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 247-38-2539 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 23 October 2004. Research in ZIP Code 29488.
RACHEL J BROOKE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 116-16-1226 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 21 January 1992. Research in ZIP Code 13905.
RAE A SCHONDEL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 288-20-0085 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 31 August 2002. Research in ZIP Code 08560.
RAE ALLYNE SCHONDEL was born 27 May 1926, and died 31 August 2002, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20020051406
Rafael Villafane was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 5770 Stirling Rd, Hollywood, Florida 33021. Florida voter ID number 117969340. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2016.
Rafael Villafane-Asia, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: KOREA, was born 27 May 1926, died 7 July 2011, and was buried in Section 39, Site 3168 in South Florida National Cemetery in Lake Worth, Florida, United States of America.
RAFAELITA R MONTEMAYOR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 463-26-0057 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 02 November 2005. Research in ZIP Code 78589.
RALPH DICHTER was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 7292 Angel Falls Ct, Boynton Beach, Florida 33437. Florida voter ID number 112270084. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 May 2017.
RALPH DICHTER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 077-18-3183 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 20 August 2007. Research in ZIP Code 33437.
RALPH DICKSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 422-20-6789 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died 30 March 2005. Research in ZIP Code 35811.
RALPH GUTKNECHT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 211-14-3805 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 26 December 2007. Research in ZIP Code 34135.
RALPH HERNANDEZ was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 550-30-8767 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 20 July 1992. Research in ZIP Code 93223.
RALPH MARBURY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 428-30-2207 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died July 1977. Research in ZIP Code 39648.
RALPH MOOK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 507-44-4848 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died January 1980. Research in ZIP Code 68423.
RALPH PICKUS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 134-14-5910 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 18 March 2002. Research in ZIP Code 06357.
RALPH STEPHENS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 419-26-5774 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died December 1978. Research in ZIP Code 35967.
RALPH B NEADERLAND was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 113-32-2245 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 19 March 2013.
RALPH E HAROLD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 226-22-7421 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 08 June 2002. Research in ZIP Code 10456.
RALPH E SMITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 469-30-6644 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died 05 August 2003. Research in ZIP Code 60068.
RALPH L GROVE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 230-24-1509 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 22 June 2007. Research in ZIP Code 22664.
RALPH L NICHOLS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 244-26-0711 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 15 July 1993. Research in ZIP Code 27013.
RALPH R HEPINSTALL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 364-26-1493 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 29 September 2000. Research in ZIP Code 48328.
Ralph T. Davis, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: KOREA, was born 27 May 1926, died 2 August 1999, and was buried in Section 29, Site 1457 in Dayton National Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, United States of America.
RALPH T DAVIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 287-20-9467 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 02 August 1999. Research in ZIP Code 44111.
RAMIRO GARCIA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 456-34-9476 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died June 1986. Research in ZIP Code 78586.
RAMON LOPEZ was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 459-42-3120 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died September 1986. Research in ZIP Codes 78520 and 78521.
RAMONA T HEISKELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 199-20-0601 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 24 July 2010.
RAMON G PEREZ was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 116-16-7501 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 26 July 2011.
RANDOLPH SMITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 215-20-2498 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died May 1987. Research in ZIP Code 21620.
RANULFO MOLINA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 459-36-3155 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died December 1973.
Ranulfo P. Molina, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 31 December 1973, and was buried in Section F, Site 822 in Houston National Cemetery in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
RAY BACON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 559-38-6272 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died August 1987. Research in ZIP Code 93307.
RAY BARNETT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 403-20-8852 and, Death Master File says, died April 1968.
RAY RUSSELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 524-24-5903 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died May 1981. Research in ZIP Code 80003.
RAY E WALKER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 245-32-6212 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 26 April 2010.
RAYMA E RICH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 512-20-6075 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 07 May 2008. Research in ZIP Code 97367.
RAYMOND BRYANT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 239-36-8683 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died September 1983. Research in ZIP Code 28570.
RAYMOND CARMACK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 412-34-3043 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 06 October 2003. Research in ZIP Code 37763.
RAYMOND DUNBAR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 533-20-2169 (indicating Washington) and, Death Master File says, died June 1960.
RAYMOND EDWARDS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 453-36-2080 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died April 1984.
RAYMOND HEIM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 389-20-6625 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died March 1967.
RAYMOND JOKALA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 387-20-5574 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 18 June 1997. Research in ZIP Code 53172.
RAYMOND POMPA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 567-32-4110 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 30 October 2010.
Raymond Smith, Rank: PFC, Branch: US MARINE CORPS, War: KOREA, was born 27 May 1926, died 14 January 2012, and was buried in Section 1, Site 113 in Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
RAYMOND SMITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 195-12-4523 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 14 January 2012.
RAYMOND SOLOMON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 560-26-9291 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died December 1976.
RAYMOND A MESERVE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 034-14-2789 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 26 January 2002. Research in ZIP Code 01702.
RAYMOND A WENGER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 190-18-9945 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 14 November 1990. Research in ZIP Code 19406.
RAYMOND B ANDRYSZCZYK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 117-16-4484 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 26 January 2009. Research in ZIP Code 12302.
RAYMOND B RICHARDSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 560-38-6559 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 21 May 1994. Research in ZIP Code 56358.
RAYMOND D COOK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 551-30-1714 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 06 August 2000. Research in ZIP Code 95966.
Raymond D. Miller, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 8 May 2008, and was buried in Section 11, Site 872 in Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Seville, Ohio, United States of America.
RAYMOND E STRINGFELLOW was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 296-20-6942 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 05 March 1990.
Raymond Edward Russell was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 11122 Brooklawn Dr, Hudson, Florida 34667. Florida voter ID number 106632867. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2019.
RAYMOND G BRADLEY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 352-12-3621 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 14 June 1991.
RAYMOND G SZYMANSKI was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 384-20-3437 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 15 April 2004. Research in ZIP Code 34135.
RAYMOND GERALD SCHELL was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 811 Coconut Palm St, Largo, Florida 33778. Florida voter ID number 106803122. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2019.
Raymond J Connell was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2950 Se Ocean Blvd, 126-1, Stuart, Florida 34996. Florida voter ID number 105822808. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2019.
31 July 2014 voter list: Raymond J. Connell, 2950 SE Ocean Blvd, 124-6, Stuart, FL 34996 Florida Democratic Party.
RAYMOND J COYNE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 143-20-4477 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 04 January 2003. Research in ZIP Code 08759.
RAYMOND J HATTON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 354-12-4576 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 03 August 2001. Research in ZIP Code 60046.
RAYMOND J MCDERMOTT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 068-18-1091 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 18 May 1971.
RAYMOND J PETERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 360-12-9190 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 08 March 1979.
Raymond Jerome Hatton, Rank: S1, SN, Branch: US NAVY, US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 3 August 2001, and was buried in Section C1-13, Row B, Site 2 in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois, United States of America.
RAYMOND JOSEPH COYNE was born 27 May 1926, and died 4 January 2003, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20030001324
RAYMOND L ANDERSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 227-30-4103 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 31 August 1988. Research in ZIP Code 23223.
Raymond Leroy Anderson, Rank: TEC 5, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 31 August 1988, and was buried in Section 23, Site 1032 in Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Virginia, United States of America.
RAYMOND R WOODIE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 246-26-6850 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 13 February 2012.
RAY W MOOK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 505-72-1354 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died 15 January 1996. Research in ZIP Code 68402.
R D EDWARDS was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1912 W Franklin St, Quincy, Florida 32351. Florida voter ID number 104234873. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2016.
R D LEASER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 456-30-0652 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died April 1976.
REBECCA F WOMBLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 229-28-2786 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 30 July 2002. Research in ZIP Code 23320.
REECE E BLAKE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 245-22-1177 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 11 January 1995. Research in ZIP Code 00000.
REED LEE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 310-24-9506 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died May 1972.
Regina A. Silkie, wife of James E. Silkie Sr, was born 27 May 1926, died 23 October 2014, and was buried in Section 28, Site 437 in Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts, United States of America.
REGINA H JACOBS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 206-14-0028 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 29 June 2005. Research in ZIP Code 17509.
REGINA M BRIDGETTS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 111-18-6936 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 01 December 1995. Research in ZIP Code 11230.
Regis F. Campbell, Rank: CPL, Branch: US ARMY AIR FORCES, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 16 October 2013, and was buried in Section 3, Site 742 in National Cemetery Of The Alleghenies in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
REGIS F CAMPBELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 172-20-0615 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 16 October 2013.
RENA D ABRISHAMIAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 567-28-4399 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 28 August 1996. Research in ZIP Code 94010.
RENA F BYERS was born 27 May 1926, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2438 Se 32Nd St, Okeechobee, Florida 34974. Florida voter ID number 106145939. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 28 February 2017.
RENEE CHASNOFF was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 356-22-4358 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died July 1997. Research in ZIP Code 06518.
RESANE HUDGINS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 432-44-7704 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died 27 April 1997. Research in ZIP Codes 63115 and 63112.
RETA M. HOFFMAN was born 27 May 1926, and died 7 December 2001, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20010069581
REVA D MILLER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 239-52-5545 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 25 April 1993. Research in ZIP Code 27017.
REX JARVIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 235-32-3608 (indicating West Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died March 1986. Research in ZIP Code 44136.
REX YORK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 401-58-0026 and, Death Master File says, died June 1979. Research in ZIP Code 42167.
REYNOLD F BREDA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 092-18-4611 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 23 January 2011.
R G MCCANNON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 578-28-2539 (indicating District of Columbia) and, Death Master File says, died 30 April 1994. Research in ZIP Code 27265.
Rhoda E. Girvin, wife of William Gilmore Girvin, was born 27 May 1926, died 19 April 1997, and was buried in Section 14, Site 228 in Ft. Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
RHODA R LEAKE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 494-22-7020 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 13 July 1999. Research in ZIP Code 63462.
RICARDO CASTRO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 572-79-1160 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 15 December 1995. Research in ZIP Code 92114.
RICHARD BOTHUN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 537-20-1864 (indicating Washington) and, Death Master File says, died March 1973. Research in ZIP Code 94025.
RICHARD BRODIE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 033-18-0251 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died March 1966.
RICHARD CHATHAM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 243-32-7380 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died May 1984. Research in ZIP Code 28670.
RICHARD CODY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 507-20-7234 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died December 1983. Research in ZIP Codes 55433 and 55434.
RICHARD DAVIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 025-12-0506 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died October 1977. Research in ZIP Code 02322.
RICHARD GENTILE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 350-12-3389 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died April 1978.
RICHARD GRAHAM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 409-20-1503 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 30 August 2004. Research in ZIP Code 10606.
RICHARD HARGRAVES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 001-22-3522 (indicating New Hampshire) and, Death Master File says, died 25 April 2004. Research in ZIP Code 91367.
RICHARD JUDGE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 222-14-4109 (indicating Delaware) and, Death Master File says, died November 1973.
RICHARD MILLARD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 190-18-7671 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 02 February 2013.
RICHARD RADECKI was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 377-32-7317 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 06 September 2008. Research in ZIP Code 48146.
RICHARD SCHULZ was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 515-22-6393 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 25 August 1991.
RICHARD WEAVER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 094-20-4427 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died January 1987. Research in ZIP Code 12138.
RICHARD A FAY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 347-18-7623 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 12 October 2005. Research in ZIP Code 87113.
Richard A. Reichert, Rank: SK3, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 16 March 2010, and was buried in Section A2, Row C, Site 135 in Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York, United States of America.
RICHARD A SMITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 245-26-0163 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 08 January 2013.
RICHARD A TYSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 339-32-4857 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 28 August 1997. Research in ZIP Code 34292.
RICHARD C BARGON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 064-20-7589 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 24 June 2011.
RICHARD C FINK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 270-20-0068 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 25 August 2002. Research in ZIP Code 44870.
RICHARD C HIMMELBERGER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 208-18-7447 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 04 September 2005. Research in ZIP Code 19565.
RICHARD C MITCHELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 477-18-6906 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died 03 May 2008. Research in ZIP Code 59044.
RICHARD C WILSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 519-16-2653 (indicating Idaho) and, Death Master File says, died 28 February 2001. Research in ZIP Code 98903.
RICHARD D TOWNE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 306-30-1834 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 10 July 2006. Research in ZIP Code 46140.
RICHARD E KNAPPENBERGE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 478-22-4604 (indicating Iowa) and, Death Master File says, died 16 September 1997. Research in ZIP Code 89103.
RICHARD E PIERCE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 342-20-6035 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 08 August 1973.
RICHARD E WHITTEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 185-14-7988 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 20 March 2000. Research in ZIP Code 16301.
RICHARD H CHAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 548-20-5512 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 26 October 2004. Research in ZIP Code 95822.
RICHARD H GRIFFITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 220-18-9849 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died 04 November 2008. Research in ZIP Code 30115.
RICHARD H SALM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 398-14-3427 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 08 January 2000. Research in ZIP Code 54937.
RICHARD J CLARK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 399-16-8979 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 29 May 2008. Research in ZIP Code 31040.
RICHARD J STEPHENSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 204-16-1265 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 17 October 2011.
RICHARD J THAXTON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 379-20-4225 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 24 October 1988. Research in ZIP Code 48077.
Richard John Borgerding, Rank: COXSWAIN, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 26 April 2016, and was buried in Section CC9, Row B, Site 29 in Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan, United States of America.
RICHARD K. Jewett was born on 27 May 1926 and he registered to vote, living at 29 Greenleaf Avenue in Darien, Connecticut 06820-3207
RICHARD L COCO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 359-18-9489 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 15 July 1996. Research in ZIP Code 60183.
RICHARD L FROST was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 114-16-2991 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 03 March 2003. Research in ZIP Code 14150.
RICHARD L HESS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 721-03-0684 (indicating Railroad Board) and, Death Master File says, died 09 February 2004. Research in ZIP Code 10928.
RICHARD L NADA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 363-26-1543 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 14 October 2009. Research in ZIP Code 48315.
Richard Lorin Smith was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 993 Palmer St, Rockledge, Florida 32955-2345. Florida voter ID number 101070519. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 73 Westminister St Apt 315 Bellows Falls VT 05101-1574. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 December 2017.
RICHARD M CLELAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 193-12-9760 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 13 March 2008. Research in ZIP Code 17055.
RICHARD M PIELA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 158-16-9450 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 04 September 2003. Research in ZIP Code 15212.
RICHARD M SOHRWIDE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 436-22-5964 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died 29 October 2003. Research in ZIP Code 70601.
RICHARD O EHMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 333-26-3679 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 08 January 1997. Research in ZIP Code 60924.
RICHARD O REANDEAU was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 523-26-4230 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 06 July 2005. Research in ZIP Code 95127.
Richard R. Haselman, Rank: SGT, Branch: US ARMY AIR FORCES, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 16 April 2012, and was buried in Section 28B, Site 1033 in Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington, United States of America.
RICHARD R HASELMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 468-20-7616 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died 16 April 2012.
RICHARD R MORRIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 033-12-5053 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 05 April 1997. Research in ZIP Code 01571.
RICHARD R ZAHS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 388-22-3395 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 19 August 1998. Research in ZIP Code 54870.
RICHARD S HINES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 442-20-2368 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 04 August 2002. Research in ZIP Code 75062.
RIFFI BRETT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 122-20-0791 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 13 November 1996. Research in ZIP Code 11803.
RISK GAYED was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 524-40-4511 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 08 August 2003. Research in ZIP Code 68528.
RITA DARZEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 157-20-1571 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 16 May 1999. Research in ZIP Code 07704.
RITA MORALES was born 27 May 1926, and died 2 March 2003, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20030009160
RITA MORALES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 084-32-5142 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 02 March 2003. Research in ZIP Code 08084.
RITA ANN T. Bujnovski was born on 27 May 1926 and she registered to vote, living at 18 Byron Avenue in Ansonia, Connecticut 06401-1302
RITA C MATHIA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 059-20-7238 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 24 June 1994. Research in ZIP Code 23405.
RITA E JENNINGS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 567-32-0879 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 27 April 2007. Research in ZIP Code 92649.
RITA F MATLOCK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 166-20-0073 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 21 August 2011.
RITA L GOODNIGHT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 521-28-5822 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 07 September 2003. Research in ZIP Code 80211.
Rita L. Hoffman, wife of William S. Hoffman, was born 27 May 1926, died 25 September 2018, and was buried in Section AB7, Row 11, Site 2 in Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery in Cheltenham, Maryland, United States of America.
RITA M HOFFMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 033-14-3476 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 07 December 2001. Research in ZIP Codes 07950 and 07801.
RITA T GALVAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 464-40-1486 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 13 November 1996. Research in ZIP Code 78046.
RITA W. TOMKO was born 27 May 1926 and registered to vote, giving the address 8206 NEWPORT AVE, PARMA, OHIO 44129
RITO V MEJIA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 551-56-6991 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 01 January 2003.
R J RUSSELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 415-32-0850 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 07 July 2012.
R J WILLIAMS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 250-22-5834 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 05 April 2007. Research in ZIP Code 29817.
ROBBIE HARRIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 252-34-5874 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died April 1976.
ROBERT BLAKE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 137-20-9076 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died February 1984. Research in ZIP Code 07840.
ROBERT BOTSFORD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 542-22-3247 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died October 1971.
ROBERT BRECKON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 364-24-6274 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 17 July 2005. Research in ZIP Code 34428.
ROBERT BROWNER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 256-30-6342 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 16 April 1999. Research in ZIP Code 30909.
ROBERT BUTCHER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 293-20-2158 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died March 1986. Research in ZIP Code 33402.
ROBERT CAGLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 253-34-7594 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died June 1972.
ROBERT CARR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 143-16-9585 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died September 1976. Research in ZIP Code 08030.
ROBERT CLAY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 032-14-5825 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 03 October 2007. Research in ZIP Code 02132.
ROBERT FARRELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 208-16-6460 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died January 1987. Research in ZIP Code 33431.
ROBERT GASKINS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 237-30-6186 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died June 1977.
ROBERT GIBBARD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 363-26-9775 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 09 January 1997. Research in ZIP Code 48756.
ROBERT GITELMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 119-18-1718 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died March 1985. Research in ZIP Code 10471.
ROBERT HARKINS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 215-24-3981 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died January 1983. Research in ZIP Code 21050.
ROBERT HESS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 190-12-4724 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died March 1971.
ROBERT HOEFLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 317-20-9545 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died March 1985. Research in ZIP Code 06430.
ROBERT HOOPER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 378-20-9428 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died September 1984. Research in ZIP Code 48503.
ROBERT HOUSMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 033-16-5722 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died May 1984. Research in ZIP Code 33160.
ROBERT KNABBE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 068-18-1359 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 14 October 2005. Research in ZIP Code 12075.
ROBERT KRAMER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 195-12-9627 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died June 1982. Research in ZIP Code 33321.
ROBERT LANGTHORNE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 384-16-3710 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died November 1979. Research in ZIP Code 43229.
ROBERT MACMILLAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 537-22-5658 (indicating Washington) and, Death Master File says, died November 1987. Research in ZIP Code 98006.
ROBERT MALONE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 343-20-6963 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 22 April 2004. Research in ZIP Code 60619.
ROBERT MAY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 426-52-3558 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died January 1975.
ROBERT MCENTEE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 269-20-0461 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died November 1985. Research in ZIP Codes 44111 and 44135.
ROBERT MCGUINNESS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 115-18-7391 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died April 1968.
ROBERT MEADORS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 405-24-1275 and, Death Master File says, died 22 June 2002. Research in ZIP Code 40769.
ROBERT MURPHY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 387-20-5907 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 22 May 2004. Research in ZIP Code 53227.
ROBERT MUSTACCHIO was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 3300 N State Road 7, Box 171 B, Hollywood, Florida 33021-0000. Florida voter ID number 101287118. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 May 2012.
ROBERT NEWMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 462-05-1501 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died April 1971.
ROBERT PASSIEU was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 210-14-0757 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died June 1985. Research in ZIP Code 15321.
ROBERT PAULSEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 353-16-2749 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died May 1984. Research in ZIP Code 93436.
ROBERT PETERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 353-12-2473 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died January 1980. Research in ZIP Codes 60126 and 85251.
ROBERT REESE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 189-20-3774 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died June 1980. Research in ZIP Code 19380.
ROBERT SCHRIVER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 129-22-7596 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died November 1983. Research in ZIP Code 14094.
ROBERT SHELTON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 227-22-8241 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died October 1987. Research in ZIP Code 24503.
ROBERT SPILKER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 492-20-9486 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died April 1985. Research in ZIP Code 85044.
ROBERT SUTHERLAND was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 227-24-6694 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 07 July 1995. Research in ZIP Code 24283.
ROBERT SVAHN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 458-28-2810 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 03 November 1995. Research in ZIP Code 77546.
ROBERT VILLANUEVA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 461-26-1996 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died July 1974.
ROBERT WEIDENMILLER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 347-16-6221 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died June 1958.
ROBERT WHITE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 298-14-7989 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died December 1985. Research in ZIP Code 44312.
ROBERT WIMMERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 491-20-9119 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died May 1982. Research in ZIP Code 75229.
ROBERT ZER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 410-40-6312 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died October 1977. Research in ZIP Codes 38106 and 38632.
Robert A. Bridgewater, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 22 September 2012, and was buried in Section 6A, Site 835 in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois, United States of America.
ROBERT A BUCKINGHAM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 224-22-8745 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 29 December 2006. Research in ZIP Code 37416.
ROBERT A HUGHES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 280-20-3424 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 22 May 1995. Research in ZIP Code 92117.
ROBERT A JENSEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 549-32-8519 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 17 February 1998. Research in ZIP Code 91344.
ROBERTA MACALMON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 112-16-9851 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 07 November 2004. Research in ZIP Code 80920.
ROBERT A RUPP was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 470-22-1184 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died 18 April 2002. Research in ZIP Code 99224.
ROBERT A SNAPPER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 134-14-7308 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 15 March 2002. Research in ZIP Code 33983.
ROBERT A TERRELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 433-32-4217 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died 20 April 1996. Research in ZIP Code 70653.
ROBERT A VAUGHAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 245-26-7835 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 30 November 2000. Research in ZIP Code 27536.
ROBERT A VICTOR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 381-26-9436 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 30 December 1989. Research in ZIP Code 48031.
ROBERTA B MIDKIFF was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 231-28-0995 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 24 May 2000. Research in ZIP Code 23605.
ROBERTA J RIDGEWAY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 285-22-8871 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 18 April 2010.
Robert Alan Buckingham, Rank: S1, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 29 December 2006, and was buried in Section DD-5, Site 306 in Chattanooga National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America.
ROBERTA M JOHNSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 306-22-4154 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 08 July 2004. Research in ZIP Code 46216.
Robert B. Villanueva, was born 27 May 1926, died 18 July 1974, and was buried in Section AG, Site 2328 in Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, United States of America.
Robert B. William was born 4 March 1869 in and died 27 May 1926 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, U.S.A., according to Number 078-2534 Box D2458.
ROBERT C BINDER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 500-24-9786 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 20 September 2006. Research in ZIP Code 63005.
Robert C. Kesner, Rank: S1, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 30 September 2008, and was buried in Section 46, Site 1950 in National Memorial Cemetery Of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America.
Robert C. Laugen, Rank: PVT, Branch: US ARMY AIR FORCES, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 28 November 2008, and was buried in Section 58, Site 460 in National Memorial Cemetery Of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America.
ROBERT C MANNING was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 015-22-0850 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 28 May 1996. Research in ZIP Code 89502.
ROBERT C MCGRIFF was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 424-20-3052 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died 17 November 1991.
Robert Charles Manning, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 28 May 1996, and was buried in Section 2B, Site 510 in Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nevada, United States of America.
ROBERT D BENNETT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 220-16-6441 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died 27 October 1992. Research in ZIP Code 92071.
ROBERT D BRADY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 538-26-2079 (indicating Washington) and, Death Master File says, died 06 April 2009. Research in ZIP Code 98951.
Robert D. Frybarger, Rank: CPL, CPL, Branch: US ARMY AIR FORCES, US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, KOREA, was born 27 May 1926, died 11 December 2013, and was buried in Section 623, Site 577 in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida, United States of America.
ROBERT D HOLSINGER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 211-18-4713 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 16 February 1996. Research in ZIP Code 16803.
ROBERT D KAY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 151-14-5056 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 01 July 1999. Research in ZIP Code 29461.
ROBERT DUANE FRYBARGER was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 8014 Clearmeadow Dr, Spring Hill, Florida 34606. Florida voter ID number 104386107. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2013.
ROBERT E ASTRUC was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 262-42-3282 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died 30 September 2006. Research in ZIP Code 92675.
ROBERT E BABER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 377-20-7939 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 07 February 2007. Research in ZIP Code 48167.
ROBERT E BOMBARD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 030-18-3572 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 28 June 2003. Research in ZIP Code 03077.
ROBERT E CLARK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 477-22-2574 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died 27 June 1988. Research in ZIP Code 76134.
ROBERT E EIBAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 399-12-7695 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 08 March 1996. Research in ZIP Code 85301.
ROBERT E ENDERLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 297-12-8988 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 18 October 2009.
ROBERT E JOHNSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 294-20-7820 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 15 April 2001. Research in ZIP Code 44682.
ROBERT E JOHNSTON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 412-24-1029 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 25 April 2013.
ROBERT E KANE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 025-18-0810 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 21 September 2009. Research in ZIP Code 01754.
ROBERT E LABECK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 048-14-2249 (indicating Connecticut) and, Death Master File says, died 18 May 1997. Research in ZIP Code 06277.
ROBERT E LAWRENCE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 429-40-9991 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died 15 January 2014.
ROBERT E MCCROCKLIN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 314-20-3620 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 19 December 2004. Research in ZIP Code 93031.
ROBERT E MCDANIEL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 511-18-4434 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 26 December 1997. Research in ZIP Code 67211.
ROBERT E MCGINNIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 570-34-9015 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 16 June 2003. Research in ZIP Code 50250.
ROBERT E REYNOLDS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 190-18-2054 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 11 December 2006. Research in ZIP Code 17339.
ROBERT E SIMPSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 524-28-5141 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 14 April 2005. Research in ZIP Code 81640.
ROBERT E WHERRY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 414-22-2213 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 12 November 2000. Research in ZIP Code 37167.
Robert Francis Murphy, Rank: S1, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 22 May 2004, and was buried in Section C-C, Site 209 in Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove, Wisconsin, United States of America.
ROBERT G BOECK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 115-16-0149 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 27 November 1993. Research in ZIP Code 14215.
ROBERT H BARTELS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 126-16-1367 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 04 March 2013.
ROBERT H KELING was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 491-24-7504 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 07 February 2014.
ROBERT H WICKWARE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 384-20-3426 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 09 April 1999. Research in ZIP Code 48066.
ROBERT J CHRISTMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 181-24-0257 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 10 December 1992. Research in ZIP Code 19464.
ROBERT J FOHNE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 361-18-3027 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 12 February 2013.
ROBERT J HAYES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 478-28-1431 (indicating Iowa) and, Death Master File says, died 18 December 2008. Research in ZIP Code 52653.
ROBERT J KAUFFMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 365-20-8362 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 05 June 2008. Research in ZIP Code 53147.
ROBERT J MCGUIRE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 221-14-7936 (indicating Delaware) and, Death Master File says, died 23 December 1988. Research in ZIP Code 93446.
ROBERT J MCNATTON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 312-24-7339 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 09 August 2007. Research in ZIP Code 47711.
ROBERT J MUTCH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 130-16-8269 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 10 October 1999. Research in ZIP Code 34452.
ROBERT J PERKINS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 410-46-4759 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 30 April 1999. Research in ZIP Code 44105.
ROBERT J ZITUR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 470-22-0853 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died November 1991.
Robert James Gaskins, Rank: BTG3, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, KOREA, was born 27 May 1926, died 27 June 1977, and was buried in Section E, Site 19-A in Camp Nelson National Cemetery in Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States of America.
ROBERT K LAMM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 180-20-3421 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 05 August 1996. Research in ZIP Code 33903.
ROBERT L GARDNER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 337-24-7583 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 06 November 2004. Research in ZIP Code 61554.
ROBERT L HOFFEND was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 114-14-4519 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 15 October 2007. Research in ZIP Code 33462.
Robert L. Siegmann, Rank: PO 3, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 16 February 2010, and was buried in Section I, Site 4165 in Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America.
ROBERT L SIEGMANN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 104-18-9634 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 16 February 2010. Research in ZIP Code 37922.
ROBERT L SKAAR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 358-18-7524 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 11 March 1988. Research in ZIP Code 61045.
Robert Lee Dowling was born 27 May 1926, died 25 March 1993, and was buried in Section A Lot 176 Grave 002 of College Stattion Cemetery in College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
Robert Louis FitzGerald, Rank: TEC 5, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 6 December 2005, and was buried in Section BB, Row C, Site 31 in Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California, United States of America.
Robert M. Nichols was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 21924 King Henry Ave, Leesburg, Florida 34748. Florida voter ID number 104773429. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 May 2012.
ROBERT M NICHOLS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 202-14-3502 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 22 November 2012.
ROBERT N DUPONT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 026-20-1843 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 09 December 2011.
Robert Oliver Botsford, Rank: END2, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, KOREA, was born 27 May 1926, died 19 October 1971, and was buried in Section U, Site 175 in Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
ROBERT P GRIJALVA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 549-38-3661 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 10 November 2000. Research in ZIP Code 85053.
ROBERT P MARNICK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 276-20-9161 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 07 February 1998. Research in ZIP Code 93003.
ROBERT P SALOMON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 131-18-2050 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 20 January 2014.
Robert Pahl Johnson, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 15 June 2001, and was buried in Section 55, Site 4463 in Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California, United States of America.
ROBERT PERRY GRAY was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 9855 Se 175Th St, Summerfield, Florida 34491. Florida voter ID number 105612958. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2019.
31 December 2013 voter list: ROBERT P. GRAY, 9855 SE 175TH ST, SUMMERFIELD, FL 34491 No Party Affiliation.
ROBERT R BARR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 318-20-0583 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 20 April 1974.
ROBERT R BLACKER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 305-20-7928 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 29 October 2000. Research in ZIP Code 45424.
ROBERT R RUDGE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 207-16-5318 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 27 July 2002. Research in ZIP Code 15235.
ROBERT R SMITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 233-32-9535 (indicating West Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died November 1989. Research in ZIP Code 45669.
Robert Thomas Heath was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 4109 W De Leon St, Tampa, Florida 33609. Florida voter ID number 110359994. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2014.
ROBERT V FOREST was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 020-22-5879 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 27 July 2005. Research in ZIP Code 70607.
ROBERT V WOOD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 304-22-0754 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 26 May 1996. Research in ZIP Code 47302.
ROBERT W CAMPBELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 357-24-6818 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 03 August 2001. Research in ZIP Code 61834.
ROBERT W HARRINGTON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 111-20-1333 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 21 June 2009. Research in ZIP Code 11961.
ROBERT W HULL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 128-16-8643 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 21 December 2013.
Robert W. Maher, Rank: S1, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 31 December 2011, and was buried in Section 628, Site 419 in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida, United States of America.
ROBERT W TROYER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 365-30-1933 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 30 March 2004. Research in ZIP Code 49659.
ROBERT W WALKER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 201-24-2183 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 05 November 2005. Research in ZIP Code 16686.
ROBERT W WELCH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 725-10-9123 (indicating Railroad Board) and, Death Master File says, died 12 July 1996.
ROBIN THWAITES SWEENEY was born 27 May 1926, and died in New Jersey, United States of America 24 February 2015, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20150012220
Robt Bridges was born 27 May 1926, died 9 December 2003, and was buried in Section B Lot 196 Grave 1 of Sunset Cemetery in Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.A.
ROCCO LALLA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 106-32-4078 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died May 1978. Research in ZIP Code 12010.
ROCCO J STRAMAGLIA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 127-16-7983 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 05 June 1989.
RODNEY L GREENWOOD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 389-24-0189 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died 29 March 1988. Research in ZIP Code 59422.
RODOLFO RIVERA-MEDIN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 581-01-6812 (indicating Puerto Rico) and, Death Master File says, died 17 December 1995. Research in ZIP Code 00733.
Rogelio Velazquez was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 201 Sw 87Th Ter, Plantation, Florida 33324. Florida voter ID number 123886411. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 January 2018 voter list: Rogelio Velazquez, 8588 NW 18Th Pl, Coral Springs, FL 33071 Florida Democratic Party.
ROGER A VANSICKLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 278-20-3458 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 13 November 1990. Research in ZIP Code 43613.
ROGER E FLUCK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 136-20-7098 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 10 November 2006. Research in ZIP Code 18972.
ROGER F JOHNS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 267-24-4555 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died June 1991.
ROGER LEE Butler was born on 27 May 1926 and he registered to vote, living at 156 Wintonbury Avenue E103 in Bloomfield, Connecticut 06002-1964
Roger P. Bernier was born 27 May 1926, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2420 Silver Pointe Cir, Apt 410, Leesburg, Florida 34748. Florida voter ID number 104943605. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 May 2013.
ROGER P RISHEL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 127-18-3466 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 18 March 1997. Research in ZIP Code 13210.
ROLAND FECTEAU was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 006-26-4079 (indicating Maine) and, Death Master File says, died 03 December 1995. Research in ZIP Code XX953.
ROLAND H WEIDE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 342-24-2172 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 13 July 1996. Research in ZIP Code 60060.
ROLAND R ROWE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 552-36-2837 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 30 December 2001. Research in ZIP Code 01749.
ROLAND W TOWNSEND was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 206-14-9516 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 06 January 2007. Research in ZIP Code 48706.
ROLLIE M GOODRICH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 361-12-5171 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 16 May 2012.
ROLLIN USHER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 522-26-0594 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died September 1984. Research in ZIP Code 92054.
Rollin H. Dougla was born 13 August 1848 in Wisconsin to a mother whose maiden name is McCord and died 27 May 1926 in Worth County, Iowa, U.S.A., according to Number 98-0456 Box D2600.
ROMANO AUSBROOKS was born 27 May 1926 and registered to vote, giving the address 7715 MELROSE AVE, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44103
RONALD MCGLADE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 258-26-6939 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died February 1975. Research in ZIP Code 36904.
RONALD O DOOLIN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 500-20-8850 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 14 April 1991.
ROSA SANDOVAL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 585-56-2452 (indicating New Mexico) and, Death Master File says, died 22 January 2002. Research in ZIP Code 87553.
Rosa I. Babigian was born 27 May 1926 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 110 Grassmere St, Warwick, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 02889-1918. Her telephone number is 1-401-739-1163.
Rosa I Flores Capblanco was born 27 May 1926, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2350 N Central Ave, #114-15, Kissimmee, Florida 34741. Florida voter ID number 113803794. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 22 October 2014.
ROSALIA A SCHMITZ was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 321-24-6100 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 18 December 2008. Research in ZIP Code 61032.
Rosalie M. Burks was born 27 May 1926, died 15 April 2004 in Lexinton Healthcare Center, and was buried in Section WA Lot 0989 Grave 2 of Walnut Ridge Cemetery in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A. by undertaker: E. M. Coots' Sons.
ROSALIE M BURKS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 314-26-1075 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 01 April 2004. Research in ZIP Code 47129.
ROSALIE M FERGUSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 513-18-7052 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 28 June 2008. Research in ZIP Code 66104.
ROSALIND A LORWIN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 194-22-7774 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 24 December 1992. Research in ZIP Code 92014.
ROSA S COOK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 240-70-4253 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 13 July 2010.
ROSCOE RUTLEDGE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 417-30-5404 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died March 1983. Research in ZIP Code 48837.
ROSCOE STEMBER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 466-26-4882 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died December 1987. Research in ZIP Codes 77086 and 77331.
Rose A. Mathew was born 26 January 1865 in Iowa to a mother whose maiden name is Atkinson and died 27 May 1926 in Polk County, Iowa, U.S.A., according to Number 077-07615 Box D2436.
ROSE B FURMAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 038-16-6707 (indicating Rhode Island) and, Death Master File says, died 01 July 1988. Research in ZIP Codes 02886 and 02910.
ROSE J. GRZIB was born 27 May 1926, and died in New Jersey, United States of America 12 August 2008, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20080059040
ROSE L BELK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 350-14-0343 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 12 September 2010.
Rose Marie Barker, wife of Richard Louis Barker, was born 27 May 1926, died 8 May 2018, and was buried in Section MD, Site 199 in Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
ROSEMARIE J DESALVO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 128-16-1139 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 25 April 2005. Research in ZIP Code 13203.
ROSEMARY ALBRECHT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 524-20-7614 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 23 August 1991.
ROSEMARY BURKE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 507-26-8226 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died 11 June 1992. Research in ZIP Code 68727.
ROSEMARY DISTLER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 114-16-7245 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died January 1987.
Rosemary McCormick, wife of Robert J. McCormick, was born 27 May 1926, died 16 January 2015, and was buried in Section K, Site 3967H in Marietta National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, United States of America.
Rosemary Tomasulo, wife of Joseph A. Tomasulo, was born 27 May 1926, died 23 January 2005, and was buried in Section V, Site 6434 in Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York, United States of America.
ROSEMARY TOMASULO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 108-18-9663 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 23 January 2005. Research in ZIP Code 11565.
ROSEMARY R BURKE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 506-76-0435 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died June 1992. Research in ZIP Code 68727.
ROSEMUND M COMLEY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 311-20-5525 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 21 March 1988. Research in ZIP Code 46227.
ROSETTA MCCORKLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 440-28-5962 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 05 December 2006. Research in ZIP Code 74365.
ROSIE BRACAMONTE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 564-34-8091 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died November 1977. Research in ZIP Code 95111.
ROSIE M NEAL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 244-32-2024 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 09 October 2007. Research in ZIP Code 28216.
ROSINA MAY Wielk was born on 27 May 1926 and she registered to vote, living at 87 West Clark Street in West Haven, Connecticut 06516-3544
Rosina May Wielk was born 27 May 1926, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2236 Orkney Dr, Leesburg, Florida 34788. Florida voter ID number 104967306. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 87 W Clark St West Haven CT 06516. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2019.
31 March 2016 voter list: Rosina M. Wielk, 2236 Orkney DR, Leesburg, FL 34788 Florida Democratic Party.
ROSS E MILLER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 171-28-9787 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 26 January 2011.
ROUSE L SIMPSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 449-34-6159 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 23 May 1991.
ROY CHILDERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 494-20-3279 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died October 1969.
ROY ERLANDSEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 072-22-4614 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died December 1980.
ROY OWEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 421-22-1532 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died June 1985. Research in ZIP Code 35126.
ROY SILCOX was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 267-36-4593 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died April 1991. Research in ZIP Code 32091.
ROY B MORGAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 409-24-0698 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 24 October 2010.
ROYCE G MCGREGOR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 551-30-3134 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 21 June 1996. Research in ZIP Code 94599.
ROYCE R HUDSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 250-34-8514 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 25 March 2002. Research in ZIP Code 29388.
ROY G PIXLEY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 069-20-2807 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died January 1990. Research in ZIP Code 33617.
Roy P. Erlandsen, Rank: TEC 5, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 25 December 1980, and was buried in Section 7, Site 2294 in Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton, New York, United States of America.
ROY Q HOGDEN SR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 456-20-4392 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 13 October 1988. Research in ZIP Code 77630.
R T MILES was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 303-20-8306 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 22 April 2002. Research in ZIP Code 33862.
RUBEN WHISENHUNT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 431-24-4972 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died June 1976. Research in ZIP Code 71943.
RUBY BODEM was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 302-20-6894 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 14 October 1990.
RUBY DREHER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 461-34-4719 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died June 1985. Research in ZIP Code 93706.
RUBY HAFFORD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 413-44-1001 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 30 June 2003. Research in ZIP Code 60639.
RUBY ROGERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 247-64-9247 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died January 1983. Research in ZIP Code 27260.
RUBY A FOLEY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 229-24-6257 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 06 June 2001. Research in ZIP Code 33767.
RUBY E GORDON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 508-26-0601 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died 13 January 2001. Research in ZIP Code 51103.
Ruby E Shelton was born 27 May 1926, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 888 E 6Th St, Englewood, Florida 34223. Florida voter ID number 102551330. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
RUBY G BELLISON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 213-20-4177 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died 06 September 2003. Research in ZIP Code 21075.
RUBY J CHAMBERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 402-30-2171 and, Death Master File says, died 28 April 1999. Research in ZIP Code 41073.
RUBY J SMITH was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 423-46-5733 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died 27 June 2011.
RUBY J WINTERS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 426-72-8445 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died 01 November 1991. Research in ZIP Code 38732.
RUBY L BELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 318-26-4170 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 03 May 2007. Research in ZIP Code 71038.
RUBY R ROE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 352-20-7755 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 01 March 2003. Research in ZIP Code 62095.
RUBY W BASS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 231-26-8740 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 30 October 1997. Research in ZIP Code 23336.
RUDI POEPPEL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 026-30-7077 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 04 July 1999. Research in ZIP Code XX732.
RUDOLPH I REGALADO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 458-30-3467 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 02 February 1995. Research in ZIP Code 78223.
RUDOLPH J SALVATI was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 069-24-9123 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 02 December 2001. Research in ZIP Code 10920.
RUDY A MAAS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 554-40-9216 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 15 July 2005. Research in ZIP Code 95963.
RUDY R LEZA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 463-32-5788 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 21 March 1994. Research in ZIP Code 78207.
RUFUS E BUCHANAN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 409-30-7454 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 05 May 2005. Research in ZIP Code 37185.
RUPERT A DAVID was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 580-01-2960 (indicating Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico) and, Death Master File says, died 03 August 1990.
RUSSELL FENNELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 258-32-3977 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died March 1975. Research in ZIP Code 33476.
RUSSELL ROWE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 524-18-8802 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died September 1967. Research in ZIP Code 90005.
RUSSELL B BALL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 568-28-6445 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 27 April 1994. Research in ZIP Code 94509.
RUSSELL C STANAWAY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 173-24-9113 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 27 August 1991.
RUSSELL D SNYDER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 193-24-1929 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 30 May 2005. Research in ZIP Code 18066.
RUSSELL J BRUZZONE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 572-24-9497 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 10 June 2001. Research in ZIP Code 94549.
RUSSELL K KNIGHT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 016-20-8542 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 26 November 2009. Research in ZIP Code 01915.
Russell K. Williams, Rank: F1, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 1 July 1998, and was buried in Section 26, Site 2212 in Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton, New York, United States of America.
RUSSELL K WILLIAMS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 144-14-9274 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 01 July 1998. Research in ZIP Code 11713.
RUSSELL L CHANDLER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 494-22-0177 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 25 October 2013.
RUSSELL L ETEN was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 242-28-6301 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 10 July 1997. Research in ZIP Code 27215.
Russell S. Kirby, Rank: S1, Branch: US NAVY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 27 May 1926, died 4 September 2008, and was buried in Section C-9, Row B, Site 5 in Houston National Cemetery in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
RUTH BEEBE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 127-54-9993 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 18 May 2010.
RUTH GALENSON was born 27 May 1926, and died in New Jersey, United States of America 16 November 2010, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20100057718
RUTH GALENSON was born 27 May 1926, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 3551 Amalfi Dr, West Palm Beach, Florida 33417. Florida voter ID number 112282448. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 66 SEVENTH ST EDISON NJ 08837. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 December 2013.
RUTH GENIS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 207-18-6395 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died December 1987. Research in ZIP Code 15216.
RUTH HILSER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 087-20-4418 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 21 October 2003. Research in ZIP Code 33927.
RUTH IZZO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 146-20-2280 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 02 February 1997. Research in ZIP Code 07202.
RUTH JEWELL was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 305-76-9030 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died March 1986. Research in ZIP Code 46901.
RUTH LAMBERMONT was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 304-26-5774 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 07 June 2007. Research in ZIP Code 47438.
RUTH PETREY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 402-36-7402 and, Death Master File says, died September 1980. Research in ZIP Code 40409.
RUTH WEITZMAN was born 27 May 1926, and died in New Jersey, United States of America 20 October 2016, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20160056593
RUTH A MENGLE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 467-32-8568 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 19 November 1997. Research in ZIP Code 78412.
RUTH A TAYLOR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 587-44-4925 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died 29 June 2000. Research in ZIP Code 39170.
RUTH ANN BANEY was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 174-22-7273 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 24 February 1993. Research in ZIP Code 15235.
RUTH ANNA NOVOTNY was born 27 May 1926, and died in New Jersey, United States of America 4 January 2011, according to New Jersey, U.S.A. death index entry number 20110000551
Ruth Annamay Williams was born 27 May 1926, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 2429 Kings Lake Blvd, Naples, Florida 34112. Florida voter ID number 115966022. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 September 2017.
RUTH B POPO was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 215-20-9165 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died 08 March 1998. Research in ZIP Codes 21742 and 21740.
RUTH C AGAR was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 026-20-3751 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 10 July 2012.
RUTH C FERGUSON was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 200-20-9377 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 27 July 2013.
RUTH E HICKS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 534-20-6528 (indicating Washington) and, Death Master File says, died 04 December 2001. Research in ZIP Code 97524.
RUTH E LINK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 377-22-0621 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 04 October 2011.
RUTH E LOMAX was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 239-38-4238 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 20 June 2006. Research in ZIP Code 98408.
RUTH H DURTSCHE was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 517-22-9720 (indicating Montana) and, Death Master File says, died 02 January 2014.
RUTH H SCHULTZ was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 572-24-7749 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 01 April 2006. Research in ZIP Code 94579.
RUTH K STARK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 078-24-7597 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 12 July 2005. Research in ZIP Code 01887.
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RUTH L FREDERICK was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 403-28-4076 and, Death Master File says, died 06 January 2004. Research in ZIP Code 42431.
RUTH M BURGHARD was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 723-01-0923 (indicating Railroad Board) and, Death Master File says, died 17 August 2012.
RUTH M HARTING was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 127-18-8933 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 28 January 1990.
RUTH M PRIEST was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 404-28-2534 and, Death Master File says, died 28 April 1999. Research in ZIP Codes 40769 and 48210.
RUTH M SANNA was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 286-22-1318 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 17 February 2005. Research in ZIP Code 44122.
RUTH N DOBBS was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 570-22-9059 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 29 January 2000. Research in ZIP Code 85344.
RUTH P SWISHER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 296-20-2108 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 16 February 2014.
R V ILER was born 27 May 1926, received Social Security number 573-24-6970 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 15 January 1988.
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British Need for Raw Materials for Increased Productivity
The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada), 14 Dec 1951, p. 137-144
Rootes, Sir William, Speaker
A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto.
Important issues to be taken into account with regard to Britain regaining her balance of trade, including the subject of raw materials. The new Government in Britain. The contribution Great Britain has made to the industrialisation of the world. The burden she has carried in the last two World Wars. New heart put into the old country with the return of a conservative Government that is liberal minded. Taking up the tools to re-establish the United Kingdom's position. The problems of importing. Britain's increased exports to Canada, but also increased imports. The Government's attempt to cut imports to Britain and why this is being done. Four competing needs of the British Government: home consumption, investment, defence and exports. The need to increase exports while holding home consumption to a minimum. A hard outlook for Britain's workers. Rationing still going on in Britain. The need for imports of raw materials for Britain's defence programme, with an illustrative example in the field of steel. The Dollar Exports Council, created to give particular attention to increasing the U.K.'s trade with North America. Composition and membership of the Council. What Britain needs from Canada in terms of raw materials, and also research. What Britain has to offer in terms of new aircraft and the jet engine. Pioneering the first commercial jet air line in England. The British fighting in Malaya, and policing the Suez Canal. The need for North America and Europe to pull together and work for the common cause of maintaining or increasing the standard of living of our people, and the preservation of peace. The Sterling area of trade. The promise by the British Government of more housing for its people. The goals of a higher standard of living, but also for less barriers, freer trade within the Commonwealth, and the liberalisation of world trade as far as possible. Canada as a land of opportunity. A request for Canadians to buy British goods on the basis of quality, and value for money. A concluding quote from the President of the Board of Trade, the Right Hon. Mr. Peter Thornycroft, member of Mr. Churchill's inner cabinet and a key pin when it comes to trading.
United Kingdom - Economic conditions
Canada - Commerce - United Kingdom
"BRITISH NEED FOR RAW MATERIALS FOR INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY"
An Address by SIR WILLIAM ROOTES
Chairman, The Dollar Export Council
Joint meeting with The Canadian Club of Toronto
CHAIRMAN: The President, Mr. D. H. Gibson.
MR. GIBSON: Our speaker will be introduced by Mr. J. Gerald Godsoe, President of The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto.
MR. GODSOE: We in this City have always taken pride in our closeness to the Mother Country, but I doubt if we have ever before felt closer than we do at this time following the complete and triumphant conquest of our hearts by Their Royal Highnesses, the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. It is against this backdrop that we warmly welcome our overseas visitor of today.
Sir William Rootes, at an age when most men of success are just beginning to see a goal in sight, already has to his credit achievements that are many. He comes to us today as a great Empire and Commonwealth builderat a time when we could do with more such men. He comes to us as a man who has served his country in two world wars with honour to her and distinction to himself, and who is now serving her again in an hour of need, publicly as Chairman of the Dollar Export Council, and privately as one whose business alone is responsible for one per cent. of Britain's exports. He comes to us as an industrialist who has made a noteworthy success in one of the most competitive industries in the world, and who in the process has acquired so many companies that I am sure Ford and General Motors lock up their doors and go for cover whenever they hear of his arrival on this continent. And he comes to us as a great internationalist who I am told sells his products in 119 countries in the world (and I never before knew there were so many countries in the world) and who visits and is at home in each of these countries.
Add to all this a warm and enriching personality, an unusual ability for making friends and a very real capacity for public service, and we come to realize that Britain has not yet lost her happy faculty of breeding great men.
SIR WILLIAM ROOTES: I notice that I am asked to speak on materials. Whilst this-as I will endeavour to bring out-is one of the paramount problems that we in Britain have to deal with, there are, obviously, other important issues to be taken into account in regaining our balance of trade. As you are all aware, we have a new Government-a Government that has come into power not by making rash promises or by outbidding its opposition, but rather one that has made it clear that the people of the United Kingdom have yet to make further sacrifices.
For long Britain has made a great contribution to the industrialisation of the world. It has carried a great burden in the last two World Wars; and, together with other members of the Commonwealth and British Empire, has had on both occasions to make major contributions by standing alone. Indeed when it comes to Britain I submit that her sacrifices in the common interests have been greater than she should have borne. And this is the major reason why we found ourselves faced with so many economic problems since the end of the second world war.
With the return of a conservative Government that is liberal minded, new heart has been put into the old country. The spirit of the people is such that given the materials they will take up the tools to re-establish the United Kingdom's position. The task is great. Indeed the Chancellor of the Exchequer said recently that if we could not narrow the dollar gap the United Kingdom would be a land of bankruptcy, idleness and misery. In saying this he knows that the Government will receive support regardless of political party.
As you know, we are confronted with the problems of importing in order to live and produce; and let me say immediately that there is full recognition of the great help we have received from our friends, and your neighbour that lies to the south-as well as from this great country of yours. During the first nine months of 1951 Britain's exports and re-exports to Canada were increased by 22% over the same period of 1950. However, the cost of Britain's imports from Canada during this period were increased by nearly 40%.
The Government has let it be known that they will endeavour to cut imports by E 350 million, and that this is being undertaken not only in Britain's interests but also in the interests of her partners. The policy of our treasury is to tighten credit, lower Government expenditure and do its best to hold inflation; for we are today spending at the rate of £ 700 million a year above our earnings. What is more the Conservatives entered office to find the cupboard bare in all respects.
There are today four competing needs:
Home consumption, investment, defence and exports It is obvious, therefore, that if we are to re-establish out economy, and carry out the very great defence programme that we have before us, our exports must be increased. Whilst at the same time we must hold our home consumption to a minimum.
This is a hard outlook for our workers, for amongst other things it must not be overlooked that the people in Britain are still on rations. Owing to stockpiling and world inflation we have to deal with a big increase in the cost of our import bill. At the same time it is essential we increase our imports of materials in order to carry out not only our export but our defence programme. It may well be that we are trying to do too much; that some adjustment in the vast contribution we intend to make towards defence may have to be made. The great thing to ease this, and to achieve our programme is to see that we have sufficient steel and non-ferrous metals to enable us to use the capacity of our factories to a fuller extent.
For instance, 70% of the armaments programme falls on the engineering industry. At the same time the engineering industry as a whole is the greatest contributor to our exports. Lack of steel in particular causes continual frustration and stoppages within our works, with the result that the wages of our workers, and our overhead charges do not bear proper relation to output. Whilst working hours have increased to 47.9 per week they have not been effective hours so far as output is concerned. The shortages of materials has brought about too much waiting time, and has lowered the tempo of production. Therefore, in my opinion, I can say without hesitation that more materials are the first essential to increased exports and the maintenance of rearmament in order that we can achieve higher output without raising costs.
Today not only the instruments of war but the necessary every day needs have become more complicated; require more materials and often more man-hours to produce. In the field of steel we in the United Kingdom have always relied upon imports from the continent, and indeed, over recent years, from the United States.
These supplies have been cut.
We have found ourselves, on the continent, competing with North American industry in the purchase of supplies; which has meant that, not having the dollars, we have had to forego this source of easing our materials position. What is more, our scrap position has been acute. For there again there have been vast dollar purchases.
The fact that we have been exporting our engineering products to such a high degree--thereby starving our home market--has, in effect, meant, that we have been deprived of what normally, would have been our own source of scrap supply.
One of the greatest things the United States can do at this stage is to sell us steel, for as you know their output is prodigious.
The Dollar Exports Council has been created to give particular attention to increasing the U.K.'s trade with North America. It is comprised of some of our best industrialists and businessmen working with the aid and assistance of the United Kingdom Government. It includes members who have been enlisted both in Canada and the U.S.A. in order that it may have the closest contact and co-operation on this side of the Atlantic. And I am glad to say that Mr. James Duncan, President of the Canadian Dollar-Sterling Trade Advisory Council, who has done so much-indeed an outstanding job-to contribute to our mutual problems in the Dollar-Sterling field; and Mr. Forbes, the President of the Canadian Association of British Manufacturers, are two of its members; and are present with us today. I wish to thank both these gentlemen for their public spirit in coming forward at this time of our crisis.
The Council will also include high level officials of the Treasury, the Board of Trade and Ministry of Supply, who will make themselves available to discuss matters where the Government can help. Britain's economic circumstances today make all exports important. But let me emphasise the Dollar area comes first. And I should tell you that Sir James Turner, who represents the farmers in Britain, is a member of the Board and is a strong supporter of the policy we intend to pursue, which is not one of export only, but of exporting in order that we can import more.
In Canada you have much that we require-grain, flour, fruit, meat, newsprint, lumber, non-ferrous metals and ore. Whilst we in turn, in the past, have had much to offer you, including the great majority of the pioneers of your country. For the future, apart from goods, there is research, the "know-how" and the technique of manufacture. For let it not be forgotten many things that are widely used in the western hemisphere originated in the United Kingdom. For example, penicillin, radar, television; whilst at the moment both U.S.A. and Canadaindeed the world-recognize that we have much to offer them in regard to new aircraft and the jet engine. For they now rank among our dollar earners.
Further, we in England are pioneering the first commercial jet air line. This means that within a given time there will be quicker and greater facilities for travelling, which in turn will mean a greater interchange between the peoples of the world-and this alone can lead to better understanding of each other's problems. It is significant that where freedom of worship, freedom of speech, and the desire for peace prevails, countries accept one another; that where communism is rife, travel and free interchange of ideas are impossible. This question of communism is the western world's number one problem.
Just as the United Nations are fighting in Korea so are the British fighting in Malaya. Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, a distinguished member of our cabinet, who is in the East at the moment, has already said that great courage will be required by our people to overcome the situation there, and that there is no quick solution.
Again, Britain has the burden at the moment of policing the Suez Canal. The defence of that area has been imposed upon British forces for a long time; but this, being an international waterway is as much an international responsibility as is the fight against communism in Korea. Let me emphasise that this must not be allowed to drift, with consequent threats to lawful commerce and peace.
All this means that the North American people and those of Europe must pull together, and work for the common cause of maintaining or increasing the standard of living of their people, and the preservation of peace.
In this the British Commonwealth, alongside the U.S.A. has a full part to play. The British Isles is the bulwark, the aircraft carrier, the atom bomb base; and in consequence it strengthens the whole defence of Europe and North America. You and we have the same Monarch. You recently had Elizabeth, Princess of Canada, with the Duke, through your country. The reception you gave them made a deep impression at home.
You will shortly be receiving a visit from our Prime Minister, the man who, together with his government colleagues, is determined to remove some of the controls that have been imposed upon the U.K. and to give free enterprise and the business man the opportunity of doing a better job.
Never let it be forgotten that whilst we respect and look up to the Dollar, the greatest trading area in the world is the Sterling area. And the headquarters of this still remains London. It may often be necessary for us to export the products of Middlesborough to Malaya, in order that we may help the total overall dollar position; for not only does North America purchase from the U.K., but from the other sterling areas of the Commonwealth. We, within the Dollar Exports Council, intend to be open-minded; to be aggressive. I am here to learn, and let me say that by the contacts I have made with the great stores in the U.S.A. I have been much encouraged. I find appreciation of the quality of our products. They find our integrity high. Inspection of our goods before shipment is such that they are profoundly impressed. But what is more, without exception, I found they were going to send more buyers than ever to the U.K. and to our Great British Industries Fair to be held in the Spring. U.K. motor manufacturers for instance have suffered with others in the recent volume of sales, but we are not retracting from this market, we are here to stay; and at your great Canadian National Exhibition I am now able to announce we are haying a U.K. Motor Show, including a widest possible range of products.
There is one thing regarding which our government has made a promise and will make a determined effort to fulfill. That is, the provision of more houses. For years now young married couples in the U.K. have found it almost impossible to start their life in their own abode. Rather have they had to share houses, or live with their in-laws or brothers and sisters. It is an intolerable state of affairs; and only breeds discontent and unhappiness.
The goal is to work not only for a higher standard of living for our people, but also for less barriers, freer trade within the Commonwealth, and the liberalisation, as far as possible, of world trade.
Canada is the land of opportunity. It may well be that we in Britain have committed sins of omission in the past; but with the change of heart that has been born with the change of government we intend to give evidence of our determination to win through. I ask that in our Dollar Export Drive the people of this great country will give us all the help they can in the purchase of British goods. Not on the basis of charity, but on the basis of quality, and value for money; and thereby continue to increase the trade between our two countries to the maximum, which is so vital to the stabilisation of the economy of both.
In conclusion I would like to read you this message from the president of the Board of Trade, the Right Hon. Mr. Peter Thornycroft, who is a member of Mr. Churchill's inner cabinet and a key pin when it comes to trading:
"I am delighted to learn that the Dollar Exports Council has been assured of the support of leading Canadian businessmen. I know how much our trade with Canada owes to the encouragement and assistance in recent years of farsighted Canadians and Canadian organizations. There could be no more appropriate place to say this than in Toronto. You may assure our Canadian friends that the present government attaches supreme importance to the development of British exports to Canada as a means both of expanding the mutually advantageous trade between us, and of strengthening all the links which bind us together. I know that there are difficulties. We must work together to surmount them".
THANKS OF THE MEETING were expressed by Mr. R. M. Barbour, President of The Canadian Club of Toronto.
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Rule Your World! - print version
Finding Freedom & Living Profitably
In 2007, Harry Browne's widow discovered a box in their storage building containing eight large reel-to-reel tapes labeled, "The Art of Profitable Living, Harry Browne, 1967, Long Beach and Hollywood, California." After listening to the master tapes she was convinced that others would find the thought-provoking course as beneficial to them as it was to her. So the tapes were transferred to CDs and offered for sale as a 20-CD album retitled, "Rule Your World! Finding Freedom and Living Profitably". About six years ago this exciting course was then made available as a downloadable twenty-hour audio course. It is now available as a downloadable eBook.
The course, an eight lecture series, examines individual happiness, morality, decision-making, developing a code of conduct, freedom, and many other important topics.
The course's concepts, on which Harry's principles were based, were developed by him beginning around 1953 when he was only twenty years old. A dozen years later, when he presented the course, he was already a top-notch speaker who spoke without notes, moved along at a rapid pace, and fielded questions brilliantly in the question and answer periods that followed the lectures. More importantly, each lecture was full of thought-provoking ideas with applications that had never before been made in public.
In Harry's own words....."I put your principles on the block to see if they hold up on the foundation on which they're based."..... "I pin your beliefs against the wall, invade your mind, and disturb your views"..... "I examine principles, make applications, and then see how they work in areas of decision making, religion, love, marriage, sex, working for freedom, parent/child relationships, unraveling complicated decisions, etc."
Although over forty-five years have passed since Harry presented this course, his philosophy of life, ideas, and principles are as relevant today as they were in 1967.
Even if you've read How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Harry's 1973 self-help book that explains how individuals can take responsibility for their own lives) and/or listened to the 20-CD version of Rule Your World! your life will be forever enriched if you read this print version of the course.
Important course tips and suggestions, which should be read prior to listening to the first lecture, are available at www.HarryBrowne.org by clicking on: "Rule Your World! Course Instructions." There you'll find valuable course tips in Harry's own words regarding listening to the course out of context, acting on the course material, making the course valuable, communication throughout the course, suggested goals, and definitions used in the course.
Rule Your World! will provide you with the tools you need to live your life the way you see fit. It will put you on the path to a freer, happier life, it will inspire you to take greater responsibility for your life — to quit focusing on the shortcomings of others and use the sovereignty you have to take control of your own life and make the most of it. Rule Your World! can make your life much freer and happier.
In Harry's first lecture he asks....."Could anything be more important than getting a clean start now?" Then later he exclaims....."What treasures could possibly be greater than the freedom to act on your own life. You can be you ~ because there is no one who has a claim on you any more!"
COURSE SPECIFICS
Harry believed that....."Your happiness is the highest goal you can have in life."
In this course Harry asks you questions such as:
Do you know who you are?
Do you see clearly what it is you want in life and how you can get there?
Do you have a proper understanding of the nature of life, ethics, and justice?
Do you know how to make clear-cut decisions?
Do you know how to discover new things that might be more meaningful to you in your life?
Do you know what assets you have to work with?
Do you have a code of conduct?
Do you understand the actions of others?
Do you have a clear-cut workable understanding of morality?
Do you know why you're afraid?
Do you know how to get the courage to do what is necessary to get what you want in life?
During this course Harry will help you:
1. Find yourself, and discover what would really make you happy in this world.
2. "Start from zero" to construct your morality that will add meaning to your life.
3. Become the authority and absolute final decision maker in your life.
4. Develop a standard to make clear-cut decisions as to how to deal with others.
5. Determine what kind of consequences come from your acts.
6. Decide now how to respond in a time of crisis.
7. Find freedom from others and the government.
8. Discover a respect for honesty, truth, and relevancy.
Harry will help you discover:
1) Who am I? 2) Your morality 3) The nature of life 4) Yourself 5) Other people 6) How to have the good 7) How to deal with the bad 8) How to Protect Yourself 9) How to develop standards for dealing with others 10) Do the bad rule the earth? 11) Your relationship to the group 12) The nature of ethics 13) The consequences of your acts 14) The nature of justice 15) How to make decisions 16) How to solve problems 17) What is outside your control 18) How to prove what you can't see 19) Freedom 20) Your relationship to children 21) Your own domain 22) The ultimate goal 23) The ultimate relationship 24) The ultimate moment 25) The nature of marriage 26) Your own code of conduct 27) How to choose 28) A way of life
You'll also learn:
1) Techniques for constructing your own morality. 2) Why Harry thought there is little positive value in the Golden Rule, and how his "Silver Rule" (be the kind of person with whom you want to associate) can be applied more profitably in your life. 3) How to escape any box that entraps you. 4) How to deal with and react to the mistakes you make. 5) Harry's definition of an individualist. 6) How to have the freedom to act positively instead of being continually in the position of protecting the status quo from getting worse. 7) How to reduce the essential elements of your life to things that have relevance and meaning in your life. 8) The 6 elements of decision-making. 9) Why Harry thought positive thinking was no more than wishing on a star. 10) How to weigh your vulnerabilities. 11) The 3 evils in our manmade justice system. 12) Why a free society is another form of government. 13) How today can be your Declaration of Independence.
NOTE: This PDF contains some blank pages to ensure that once printed the first page of each new section is on a new, right-hand side page. This will enable you to place each section of the book in a binder with tabs making it more digestible to read and carry with you one section at a time.
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Home › Reviews › A&E Theatre Reviews › Sonny Kelly Is Amazing in The Talk: Do Not Miss It!
Sonny Kelly Is Amazing in The Talk: Do Not Miss It!
By Pamela Vesper and Kurt Benrud • February 1, 2019
The Talk is a one-man (20-or-so-character) show, written and performed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate student Sonny Kelly and directed by UNC artist-in-residence Joseph Megel, and co-produced the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance and the Bull Dog Ensemble Theater, in association with the UNC Department of Communication. Playing two more weekends (through Feb. 10th) at The Fruit (Durham Fruit and Produce Co.) in Durham and Feb. 14-17 in UNC’s Historic Playmakers’ Theatre, it deals with “the difficult conversation a father must have with his son in a racialized America.” As audience members, we quickly became part of the conversation, a conversation that is highly informative and thought-provoking, without becoming overly didactic. More importantly, however, the gravity of the subject matter does not rob the show of its entertainment value.
Sonny Kelly is nothing short of amazing as he alternates between speaking directly to the audience (often soliciting and evoking response) and conducting conversations among his various characters onstage. Donning a pair of sunglasses, Kelly becomes a police officer. With a pair of 1950s “women’s glasses,” he becomes his own grandmother. Adding a baseball cap, he is a different person-from-his-past. And so on. Modulations in his voice and changes in both body-language and facial expression also serve to signify different characters (most of whom are delightfully endearing). And there is a magic in the way that Kelly manages to make us feel his connection to several of these characters.
The script has a recurring motif: Kelly himself sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, with his hands on the steering wheel — “ten o’clock, two o’clock” — (remember that phrase). This is the posture in which Kelly had found himself, dropping his son off at school, when a radio news report of the 2015 “Baltimore riots” prompted his son to ask a question that served to “open a can of worms” in Kelly’s mind, leading first to “the talk” with his son and eventually to this poignant piece of theater.
The set, designed by Rob Hamilton, is surprisingly versatile. Prior to show time, it seemed to define a mere three separate acting areas. However, aided by shifts and shadings of the lighting (designed by Elizabeth Grimes Droessler), Hamilton’s set affords Kelly with a plethora of locations. A few very nice touches are worth noting: the “fractured” flooring that helps define two distinct interiors and the placement of one chalkboard and two projection screens upstage. Speaking of projections: we also tip our hats to Zavier A.L. Taylor for thoroughness, appropriateness, and versatility — ’nuff said!
Stacks of books (courtesy of costume and property designer Lakeisha Coffey) appear in various places on the set, and Kelly “reads” from several of them as he invokes the likes of W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, The Bible, Julian Shakespeare Carr, Barack Obama, and many more. Names such as Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, and Rodney King, not surprisingly, find their way into this conversation. Kelly tells us that “The truth can be uncomfortable,” but he continues by quoting The Bible: “The truth will set you free.”
The top-of-the-show song, “Brown Baby” (possibly Nina Simone?), poignantly sets the mood, and an post-show discussion with Kelly tops off a very rewarding evening.
From the Department of Picky-Picky: As we left the theater feeling enriched, enlightened, and inspired, we found ourselves fearing that the audience that most desperately needs to participate in this conversation will not be attracted to attend.
NOTE: Sonny Kelly is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Performance at UNC. He is the recipient of multiple awards for scholarship and teaching.
SECOND OPINION: Jan. 30th Raleigh, NC News & Observer preview by Kenrick Cai: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article225104120.html; Jan. 27th Raleigh, NC CVNC review by Alan R. Hall: https://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=9255; Jan. 23rd Durham, NC Indy Week mini-preview by Byron Woods: https://indyweek.com/events/sonny-kelly-the-talk/; Jan. 9th Durham, NC Duke Chronicle (student newspaper) preview by Nina Wilder: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/01/the-talk-brings-the-discussion-surrounding-police-brutality-to-the-stage; and Jan. 9th Hillsborough, NC WHUP/104.7 FM interview with playwright Sonny Kelly, conducted by Wayne Leonard for “Lights Up!”: https://whupfm.org/episode/lights-up-1-9-19-permanent-archive/ (starts at the 45:30 minute mark).
The Street Signs Center for Literature and Performance and Bull Dog Ensemble Theater, in association with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Communication, presents THE TALK, a world premiere written and performed by Sonny Kelly and directed by Joseph Megel, at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31, 8 p.m. Feb. 1 and 2, 2 p.m. Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Feb. 8 and 9, and 2 p.m. Feb. 10 at The Fruit (Durham Fruit and Produce Co.), 305 S. Dillard St., Durham, North Carolina 27701; and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Feb. 15 and 16, and 2 p.m. Feb. 17 in Historic Playmakers Theatre, 122 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
TICKETS: $15 Thursday and $20 Friday-Saturday, with $2 discounts for seniors, active-duty military personnel, and veterans; $10 tickets for adults under 35 for all shows; and $10 tickets for UNC students, faculty, and staff for the Chapel Hill shows.
BOX OFFICE: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=bet.
GROUP RATES: streetsignscenter@gmail.com.
SHOW: https://www.piedmontperformancefactory.org/now-playing, https://www.bulldogdurham.org/the-talk, https://www.facebook.com/events/2003304659783210/.
VIDEO PREVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1uxPkyjSk.
Street Signs Center for Literature and Performance: https://www.piedmontperformancefactory.org/streetsigns, https://www.facebook.com/streetsignscenter/, and https://twitter.com/streetsignsctr.
Bull Dog Ensemble Theater: https://www.bulldogdurham.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/BulldogEnsembleTheater/.
The Fruit: http://www.durhamfruit.com/, https://www.facebook.com/305sdillardst/, and https://twitter.com/durhamfruit (directions [scroll down]: http://www.durhamfruit.com/).
Historic Playmakers Theatre: https://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/ros_venue/historic-playmakers-theatre/, and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Historic-Playmakers-Theatre/365898173502001, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playmakers_Theatre (directions: https://www.google.com/maps/).
NOTE: There will be audience talkbacks and panel discussions following each show.
The Talk (play): https://www.sonnykelly.com/the-talk and https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/749970_cbf2fe09559047278963faedcb55fa4b.pdf (Sonny Kelly’s web pages) and https://comm.unc.edu/event/the-talk-2/2019-01-24/ (UNC Department of Communication web page).
Sonny Kelly (playwright): https://www.sonnykelly.com/ (official website), https://comm.unc.edu/people/department-graduate-students-2/sonny-kelly/ (UNC Department of Communication bio), https://www.facebook.com/sonny.kelly (Facebook page), and https://twitter.com/SonnyKelly3 (Twitter page).
Joseph Megel (Pittsboro, NC director, artistic director of StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, and artist-in-residence in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Communication): https://www.piedmontperformancefactory.org/leadership (Piedmont Performance Factory bio), https://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/joseph-megel/ (UNC Department of Communication bio), https://www.facebook.com/joseph.megel (Facebook page), and https://twitter.com (Twitter page).
Pamela Vesper has been a Raleigh resident for more than 20 years. A local attorney for licensed professionals, when she’s not in court, Pam can be found watching or participating in local theater productions or enjoying the vibrant Raleigh music and craft beer scene. She also loves indie and foreign films and was an anchor on the local cable show, Movie Minutes. Pam has an opinion on just about everything; just ask her. Kurt Benrud is a graduate of Cary High School and N.C. State University, and he has taught English at both. He first became involved in local theater in 1980. He has served on the board of directors for both the Cary Players and the Cary Playwrights’ Forum. He is also a volunteer reader with Triangle Radio Reading Service. Click here to read their reviews for Triangle Review and Triangle Arts and Entertainment.
Tagged as: Bull Dog Ensemble Theater, Durham Fruit and Produce Co., Historic Playmakers Theatre, Joseph Megel, Sonny Kelly, StreetSigns Center, StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, The Fruit, The Talk, UNC Department of Communication
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Sonny Kelly
February 1, 2019 • 12:36 PM
Thank you Pamela and Kurt for seeing my work with your hearts and minds! I stand encouraged by this affirmation and challenged by your call to get this talk happening in more heterogeneous settings. I will press into that purpose! By the way, my wife sings the vocals of “Brown Baby” and “Ella’s Song” in the show. She will be exceedingly pleased to know that her voice conjures thoughts of the great Nina Simone!
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1934-35 Montreal Canadiens Howie Morenz Jersey
On this date in 1937, the Montreal Canadiens retired the first sweater in club history, the #7 of the late Howie Morenz, who had died at age 34 following a heart attack while hospitalized for a broken leg suffered in a game five weeks earlier. Morenz had played for Montreal for 12 seasons, winning three Stanley Cups, two Art Ross Trophies and three Hart Trophies.
Howie Morenz's #7 jersey hangs in his locker in the Canadiens dressing room following his death in 1937
The Canadiens would not retire another number for 23 years when the iconic #9 of Maurice Richard was raised to the rafters of the Montreal Forum following Richard's great career, which included him becoming the first player to score 50 goals in 50 games, as well as winning eight Stanley Cups and one Hart Trophy.
Richard's game worn #9 jersey
Eleven years on, the Canadiens would honor the great Jean Beliveau by ensuring no one else would wear his #4. Beliveau would play 20 seasons with Montreal, score over 500 goals, retire as the club's all-time leading scorer and the NHL's leading playoff scorer, play in 14 All-Star Games, win an Art Ross Trophy, a Conn Smythe Trophy and a pair of Hart Trophies on his way to winning ten Stanley Cups and serve as team captain longer than any other player.
Beliveau wearing his #4 captain's jersey
Henri Richard's #16 was next to be set aside on December 10, 1975 after his career which included his record 11 Stanley Cups, which still stands today, and more than 1,000 career points. He also holds the record for Most Games Played in club history and was also a team captain for the Canadiens.
Henri Richard poses with his home and away #16 sweaters
Both Guy Lafleur and defenseman Doug Harvey had their numbers retired in 1985. Lafleur's #10 received the honor on February 16, 1985 after his career, which included five Stanley Cups, 1,246 points which makes him the all-time leader in Canadiens history, over 500 goals, the club records for most goals in a season with 60 and most points in a season with 136. He was also the first player to have 50 goals and 100 points in six consecutive seasons and the fastest player to reach 1,000 career points. He won three Art Ross Trophies, two Hart Trophies, three Pearson Awards and a Conn Smythe trophy while a member of the Canadiens.
Lafleur pictured in front of his #10
#2 Doug Harvey was honored with his sweater retirement early the following season on October 26, 1985. The seven-time winner of the Norris Trophy played 14 seasons with Montreal, winning six Stanley Cups in the process.
Doug Harvey's #2 is retired in 1985
It would be another ten years before Jacques Plante's #1 was raised to the rafters. Plante played for Montreal for ten seasons, winning six Stanley Cups, including five in a row. Plante was a winner of the Hart Trophy once and six Vezina Trophies while a member of the Canadiens. He is also credited for wearing the first modern goalie mask.
Plante's banner hangs in the rafters with the other retired banners
Following Plante's jersey retirement, it would be an additional ten years before the Canadiens would honor another player in the same manner.
As part of their Centennial celebrations, the Canadiens announced a series of sweater retirements to take place over the course of the next five seasons. Having retired just one number in 20 years, the Canadiens began to make up for lost time by retiring the #12 for two men, Dickie Moore and Yvan Cournoyer on November 12, 2005. Moore was a two-time Art Ross Trophy winner who once held the single season scoring record with 96 points. In 12 years with the Canadiens, Moore won six Stanley Cups.
Cournoyer skated for the Canadiens for 16 years, including being named team captain. He won a Conn Smythe Trophy and won ten Stanley Cups while with the Canadiens. At the time of his retirement in 1978, he was fourth on the all-time Montreal scoring list.
Cournoyer holds up a signed #12 Canadiens jersey
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion's #5 came next on March 11, 2006. Geoffrion's colorful nickname is a result of his invention of the slapshot. He played 14 seasons in Montreal, won the Calder Trophy, two Art Ross Trophies, the Hart Trophy and six Stanley Cups. Sadly, he passed away on the day his number was retired.
The ceremony to retire Geoffrion's #5 just hours after his passing
The 2006-07 season saw the retirements of #18 for Serge Savard and #29 for goaltender Ken Dryden. Savard became the first defenseman to win the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1969. He also was named the winner of the Bill Masterton Trophy in 1979 and won eight Stanley Cups in 15 seasons with Montreal.
Serge Savard's #18 rests in the rafters in Montreal
Dryden's career was shorter at eight seasons, but during those years he won the Calder Trophy, the Conn Smythe Trophy (before winning the Calder!), five Vezina Trophies and six Stanley Cups.
Ken Dryden and his family watch is banner being raised in 2007
Larry Robinson and Bob Gainey were honored in 2007-08. Robinson's #19 rose to the rafters in honor of his 17 seasons with Montreal which included two Norris Trophies, a Conn Smythe and six Stanley Cups. In 1976-77 he finished the year with a +120 rating, the second highest in history, and one of only two seasons ever over +100.
Robinson's #19 is retired
Bob Gainey's #23 was retired following his 16 seasons with Montreal which saw him capture four Selke Trophies. While his list of awards is not as lengthy and his point totals not as high as his fellow honored Canadiens, his role as a defensive forward was a key component to the five Stanley Cups Montreal won during Gainey's time with the Canadiens.
Gainey's #23 is raised to the rafters
Patrick Roy was welcomed back into the Canadiens family on November 22, 2008. Roy is the youngest winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy at age 20. In 12 seasons in Montreal, Roy won three Vezina Trophies, four Jennings Trophies, two Conn Smythe Trophies and two Stanley Cups.
Patrick Roy poses with his banner
Finally on the date of the Canadiens centennial, December 4, 2009, the jerseys of both #3 Emile Bouchard and #16 Elmer Lach were surprisingly retired as part of the festivities that evening. Lach played 14 seasons for the Canadiens as part of the famed "Punch Line" with Maurice Richard and Toe Blake. He won two Art Ross Trophies and the Hart Trophy as well as three Stanley Cups. At the time of his retirement in 1954, he was the league's all-time leading scorer.
Bouchard, a defenseman, was captain of the Canadiens for eight seasons during his 15 years with Montreal, which included four Stanley Cup titles. He was the first Quebec-born player to wear the "C" for Montreal. The QMJHL's Defenseman of the Year trophy is named in his honor. At the time of Bouchard's sweater retirement, Canadiens player Ryan O'Byrne was wearing #3, but surrendered it as part of the ceremony, permanently changing to #20.
Lach and Bouchard have their numbers retired in 2009
With the recent run of sweater retirements, the Canadiens have now taken 15 numbers out of circulation in honor of 17 players. Only numbers 6 and 8 remain in the single digits, resulting in an unprecedented number of Canadiens wearing non-traditional jersey numbers higher than #30.
In keeping with the current trend of wearing a patch on the occasion of a jersey retirement, the Canadiens have worn special patches on the players jerseys during the game following their recent jersey retirements.
Alexi Kovalev wearing a patch on the occasion of the retirement of Bob Gainey's #23
Today's featured jersey is a 1934-35 Montreal Canadiens Howie Morenz jersey. This jersey is on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. His was the first of 15 numbers retired by the Montreal Canadiens.
The Canadiens first wore their "CH" logo (with the "H" standing for "hockey") back in 1916 and it appeared on the sleeves for the first time in 1924 when the club wore a globe on the front of their jerseys to symbolize their status as world champions. The following season the logo returned to the chest, but the smaller version of the logo remained on the left sleeve through 1935.
In a wonderful ceremony on the occasion of the clubs 100th Anniversary, many of the men who have had their jerseys retired by the Canadiens took part in a special pre-game warmup and then participated in the remainder of the celebrations that evening, which included the unexpected retirement of Bouchard's #3 and Lach's #16.
Labels: Beliveau Jean, Cournoyer Yvan, Dryden Ken, Geoffrion Bernie, Harvey Doug, Lafleur Guy, Montreal Canadiens, Morenz Howie, Plante Jacques, Richard Henri, Richard Maurice, Robinson Larry, Roy Patrick
1975-76 Minnesota Fighting Saints Dave Keon Jersey
Despite their short life, the Minnesota Fighting Saints popularity influenced several subsequent teams at various levels, including the Dubuque Fighting Saints (1980-2001) of the United States Hockey League, the Danville Fighting Saints (1986-1989) of the All American Hockey League and the St. Paul Fighting Saints (1992-93) of the American Hockey Association. A new version of the Dubuque Fighting Saints began play in the USHL in 2010 and continue to play today, having won a championship in their first season of play in 2011.
The San Angelo Saints who were members of the Central Hockey League from 2002-2005 and the Spruce Grove Saints of the Alberta Junior Hockey League are the relocated St. Albert Saints a franchise which can be traced back to 1963 with several different names. Spruce Grove is continues to play to this day.
Today's featured jersey is a 1975-76 Minnesota Fighting Saints Dave Keon jersey. After Keon came to an agreement to join the Ottawa Nationals of the fledgling WHA in 1972, the deal fell apart and he signed a three year contract to remain in Toronto and led the team in goal scoring in 1972-73, which included his 297th goal as a Maple Leaf, passing George Armstrong and Frank Mahavolich as the franchise's all-time leading goal scorer.
Having fallen out of favor with Maple Leaf's owner Harold Ballard by the end of his contract, Keon jumped to the rival WHA and signed with the Minnesota Fighting Saints. When the Fighting Saints folded, Keon was unable to return to the NHL because the Maple Leafs still held his NHL rights and owner Ballard wanted too steep a level of compensation from any NHL club signing him, effectively locking Keon out of the NHL.
With only the WHA as an option, Keon signed with the Indianapolis Racers for the remainder of the season. He was traded to the new incarnation of the Minnesota Fighting Saints for the following season, only to see that version of the franchise again fold during before the completion of the season. He once more found some stability when he joined the WHA's New England Whalers, where he would play for the remainder of his career, three seasons in the WHA and three more finally back in the NHL following the merger in 1979.
It was during the 1979-80 season that Keon, then 40 years old, was occasionally on a line with both Gordie Howe (age 50) and Bobby Hull (age 41). When both Howe and Hull retired, Keon was the oldest player in the NHL for his final two seasons before retiring after the 1981-82 season at age 42.
Keon's final totals were 396 goals and 590 assists for 986 NHL points and another 102 goals and 189 assists for 291 points in the WHA, the Calder Trophy, two Lady Byng Trophies, a Conn Smythe Trophy, eight NHL All-Star Game appearances and four Stanley Cups as well as being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986.
Labels: Keon Dave, Minnesota Fighting Saints
Quite often in the minor leagues teams will create special one-off jerseys for various special occasions such as theme nights, tribute nights or holidays, such as Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve or today's annual observation of Halloween.
The jersey production method of dye-sublimation, which allows for all manner of intricate details to be printed onto jerseys, lends itself perfectly to they eye-catching, or occasionally eye-searing, special occasion jerseys.
Two of the best Halloween jerseys we've ever seen are the efforts by the 2009-10 Hannover Indians of the 2nd Bundesliga, the second level of German professional hockey, in 2009 and the 2008 creation of the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League.
This 2009-10 Hannover Indians Halloween jersey, as worn by American Nick Martens, is a downright spooky affair, featuring a series of skeletons, some with feathers on their heads in keeping with the team's nickname, wandering through a graveyard as a large flock of bats circles overhead at sundown. The primary skeleton even sports a hockey stick, showing some thought went into this design and it just wasn't some clip art chosen because it fit the Halloween theme.
Another well chosen element was the choice of the always creepy but fun font "Blood of Dracula" for the player's names and numbers, as well as the team name on the back and the motto on the front of the jersey reads "Indians geben niemals auf!", which translates to "Indians never give up!", which is additionally appropriate for the walking dead.
Fortunately for the jersey designer, the club's main sponsor, Kofler Energies, just happens to have the appropriate orange and black as their corporate colors!
The other favorite jersey on our list is the 2008-09 Binghamton Senators Halloween jersey, as worn by center Zack Smith, who is currently playing for the parent club, the Ottawa Senators of the NHL.
Rather than making the expected black jersey, the Senators opted for a lighter jersey which features many of the usual halloween icons, such as the jack o' lanterns on the lower sleeves, a spooky castle with circling bats and a large spider on the lower body, whose subtle web covers the majority of the jersey. The look is completed by choosing the font Ironwood, which evokes thoughts of a gothic dungeon in a spooky castle.
Even the team's main crest doesn't seem out of place, as the angry, cartoonish Senator on the front is rather scary looking and the colors aren't too far off from the color palette of the rest of the package.
While many of the top professional leagues have not embraced the use of special occasion jerseys for games, at times NHL clubs have been known to occasionally create a unique set of jerseys worn in pre-game warmups, like those worn by the San Jose Sharks in 2007 and the New York Islanders in 2009, which were later auctioned off for charity, with John Tavares' jersey raising $1,701.79.
The San Jose Sharks 2007 Halloween themed warmup jersey
The New York Islanders 2009 Halloween themed warmup jersey
The Sharks have once more created a special Halloween jersey this year, and wore it in practice. They jerseys were then auctioned off on October 27th and 30th, with one remaining one being sold through NHL Auctions.
The San Jose Sharks 2010 Halloween themed practice jersey
Even if clubs in the NHL choose not to wear special jerseys on this day, it's at least an opportunity for their ice girls to have some fun and dress up in costume.
Today's video segment features the man who did more to make the goalie mask famous than Jacques Plante, Jason Voorhees in a surreal interview with Arsenio Hall.
Next, the Florida Panthers Ice Dancers performance from Halloween 2009. Full credit must be given for doing those high kicks on ice without wiping out. Just how do they do that?
Here's a quick video with some of the best costumes worn to games by NHL fans.
Next, Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke and crew perform a Halloween favorite with the help of "The Monster", Jonas Gustavsson.
Finally, a tribute to the Boogeyman on Halloween.
Labels: Binghamton Senators, Halloween jerseys, Hannover Indians, humor, Specialty jerseys
2005 United States National Team Phil Housley Jersey
Today's featured jersey is a 2005 United States National Team Phil Housley jersey. Internationally, Housley played for the United States in the 1984 and 1987 Canada Cups, the World Championships in 1982, 1986, 1989, 2000, 2001 and 2003 and captured a gold medal in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
Here is the rock solid Housely absorbing a blow from Sergei Fedorov and quickly skating away while Fedorov is shaken by the collision.
Here Housely plays for the United States in the 1984 Canada Cup versus Dominik Hasek and Czechoslovakia and gets an assist with a blast from the point.
Labels: Housley Phil, USA
On this date way back in 1947 Gordie Howe, then of the Detroit Red Wings wore #9 for the first time. As a rookie in 1946-47, Howe had worn #17, but before the start of the 1947-48 season the previous wearer of #9 for the Red Wings, Roy Conacher was sold to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Red Wings trainer Lefty Wilson encouraged Howe to switch to #9, pointing out that a lower sweater number meant a lower and more comfortable bed on the trains then used for travel by all the NHL teams, as the sleeping berths were assigned according to the player's numbers.
Also on this date in 1970, 23 years later, Howe became the first player in NHL history to reach 1,000 career assists during the Red Wings 5-3 victory over the Boston Bruins when he recorded two assists, plus a goal, at the Olympia in Detroit. Before you ask, he did not have a fight that night to complete a "Gordie Howe Hat Trick".
Howe would finish his career with 975 goals and 1383 assists for 2358 points combined from his time in both the NHL and his six seasons in the WHA.
Bonus(?) Jersey: Following the iconic Red Wings jersey of all time, we must unfortunately present one of the worst. This is Cameron Frye's Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe jersey as worn in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
The first issue we have with this jersey is the main crest on the front which is rotated more than any main crest in over 90 years of Red Wings history. Perhaps the crests used to be occasionally sewn on at less of an angle than we have become accustomed to, as evidenced by today's featured jerseys, but we've never seen one do a wheelie before.
Or is it suffering from a flat tire?
The main problem we have with this jersey is, of course, the name on the back.
Howe, in his entire time in Detroit, never wore a jersey with his name on the back as the Red Wings did not use names on the backs of their white jerseys until 1973 and they did not appear on the red jerseys until 1977, a full seven seasons after Howe had left Detroit. Even then, it's not vertically arched like the names on the backs of Red Wings jerseys have been since 1982 and the movie was released in 1986.
And let's not forget the fact Cameron wore the jersey with khaki Dockers and loafers! Please.
Then there is the fact he spent the entire day in the city of Chicago, home of your Blackhawks, parading around in a hated Red Wings jersey. They were lucky to have escaped Wrigley Field with their lives...
Labels: Detroit Red Wings, Ferris Bueller, Howe Gordie
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The Greatest Goalie Mask Ever
We are going to have a bit of a departure today and feature not a jersey, but a mask, which feels appropriate with today being Halloween.
Yes, tomorrow is the 50th Anniversary of Jacques Plante wearing the first full face goalie mask in an NHL game, so everyone on The Internets will be talking about his mask tomorrow, so we've decided to beat everyone to the punch by a day and talk about a different mask - worn by a very different individual.
In our opinion, the Third String Goalie Award for The Greatest Goalie Mask Ever goes to Gilles Gratton's mask from 1976 when he was with the New York Rangers - The Lion.
Or is it a Tiger?
It depends on who you ask. The guy who created it, or the guy who wore it!
Drafted 69th overall by the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL, Gratton began his professional career with the Ottawa Nationals of the WHA in 1972 and finished with an above .500 record (25-22-3) for a team that finished below .500. He would move with the franchise when they relocated to Toronto, and renamed the Toros, and post a 56-44-4 record over the next two seasons. Gratton was a member of Team Canada in the 1974 Summit Series which pitted the WHA All-Stars against the Soviet National Team.
The 1975-76 season would see him make his NHL debut for the St. Louis Blues, but only appear in 6 games after he left the team and attempted to rejoin the Toros.
It was in 1976 that Gratton would unleash The Greatest Goalie Mask Ever while playing for the New York Rangers.
Gratton, known as "Gratoony the Loony" for such things as refusing to play when the moon was in the wrong part of the sky and another time claiming pain from an injury he suffered as a solider in a previous life! Among the past lives he's claimed to have lived include a 15th century Spanish conquistador and a Mayan priest. Released by the Rangers, he quit hockey at the age of 24 and spent three years in India and the next 20 or so moving around Europe.
Gerry Cheevers is credited with starting mask decorating with his iconic "stitch marks" mask, but it was still essentially a plain white mask decorated with nothing more than a permanent marker. At the time Gratton came to the Rangers, masks were generally painted with simple designs, not usually more elaborate than stripes in team colors or designs based on elements of team logos.
Artist Greg Harrison's design skills began to become more bold and ornate, as evidenced by Gilles Meloche's Cleveland Barons "Coat of Arms" mask, Gary Simmons "Cobra" mask and Gary Bromley's frightening "Skull" mask, but the peak of the goalie masks was reached with Harrison's mask for Gratton in 1976.
Some say the mask is of a lion, including Harrison who designed the mask, but Gratton insists that it is a tiger. Either way, it was years ahead of it's time for 1976 and influenced many subsequent mask designs, such as Andy Moog's Bruins "Bear" mask, Curtis Joseph's "Cujo" mask and Brian Hayward's "Shark" mask. It was so revolutionary, so striking and so unlike anything else that had come before in it's realism that it even made Time Magazine on it's debut.
It's also one of the last of it's kind, as in 1977 Dave Dryden came to Harrison with the idea for the hybrid mask, a mask with a large facial opening covered by the wires from a cage. The combo mask would be perfected by 1979 and quickly became the standard, altering the canvas for mask painting forever by forcing the artists to work around the now gaping hole in the center.
Here is a nice documentary video on players from the WHA, which begins with Gratton and goes on to discuss many other players of the WHA, including of course the players who were the inspiration of the Hanson Brothers of the movie Slap Shot.
Bonus Jersey: You just knew that somehow, someway we were going to find an excuse to post a jersey today.
Today's Bonus Jersey is a 1974 Team Canada Gilles Gratton jersey from the second Summit Series between the WHA All-Stars and the Soviet National Team.
Similar to 1972 when Team Canada's jerseys all read "CANADA" on the back where you would normally find the player's name, in 1974, since players in the WHA were now being signed from Sweden and other European countries in addition to the Canadians and Americans, the jerseys for the WHA All-Stars in 1974 all had "INTERNATIONAL" across the back.
Labels: Goalie Mask, Gratton Gilles, New York Rangers
1975-76 Boston Bruins Johnny Bucyk Jersey
Johnny Bucyk ranks as one of the most successful yet overlooked hockey players in NHL history.
He began his road to the NHL in 1951 when he joined the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Canadian Junior Hockey League for a single playoff game. He returned to the Oil Kings for the next two seasons, scoring 67 points in 33 games in 1954 and went on to win the prestigious Memorial Cup, before moving up to the Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League for the 1954-55 season, scoring 30 goals and 88 points in 70 games.
Buyck while with the Edmonton Oil Kings
That performance earned Bucyk his chance to debut in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings in 1955. Life in the NHL was not the same, as Bucyk competed in 38 games and managed just a single goal and eight assists for nine points. In his second season in Detroit he fared better, scoring 10 goals in 66 games.
A rare shot of Bucyk in a Red Wings jersey
That would prove to be the end of Bucyk's time in Detroit however, as he was traded to the Boston Bruins when the Red Wings reacquired goaltender Terry Sawchuk, whom they had dealt to Boston just two years prior.
His arrival in Boston back in 1957 would begin an affiliation with the organization that continues today, more than 50 years later. While it looked at first that Bucyk had arrived in Boston at a good time, evidenced by going to the Stanley Cup Finals in his first season in Boston, things would quickly turn sour for the club following a first round elimination in the 1959 playoffs, as the Bruins would spend the majority of the 1960's out of the playoffs, missing the postseason eight consecutive years, five of which were as the league's doormat buried in last place waiting for the arrival of Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito.
An early Bucyk hockey card following his trade to Boston
Still, Bucyk's personal numbers were incredibly consistent throughout, as eight of his ten seasons were between 52 and 66 points. During that period, Bucyk, a big player for his era a 6', 215 lbs., led the Bruins in scoring in 1962, 1963, 1965 and 1967, a season in which he was team captain.
1966-67 was also the season that the Bruins would begin to climb out of the depths with the arrival of Orr, followed by Esposito the following season. Bucyk would never again lead the Bruins in scoring, but the arrival of Orr and Esposito would ignite a scoring revolution that would propel Bucyk to personal bests never before imagined.
In a hilarious photo, Johnny Bucyk poses with goaltender Eddie Johnston and Bobby Orr as they pose with pucks indicating their career goal totals, Bucyk having just reached 300, Johnston still stuck at zero and Orr at 78!
Esposito's first season with Boston saw Bucyk reach 30 goals for the first time ever and eclipse his personal best season total with 69 points as the Bruins returned to the playoffs for the first time since the 1950s. Two seasons later he would equal the 69 points, but raise his goal total to 31. During the postseason, 11 more goals would follow as Bucyk scored 19 points in 14 games as the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 29 years. As the Bruins had no captain from 1967 to 1973, Bucyk, as the assistant captain with the greatest seniority, was the first to hoist the cup during the championship celebration.
Bucyk raises the 1970 Stanley Cup
1970-71 was a memorable one for Bucyk, as he would join the exclusive ranks of the 50 goal scorers, as he became the only the fifth player to accomplish the feat, only to be overshadowed by teammate Esposito's record shattering 76 that same season. Bucyk added 65 assists to surpass the 100 point mark for the only time in his career with 116 as Bruins Esposito (152), Orr (139), Bucyk and Ken Hodge (105) finished 1-2-3-4 in league scoring! When it came time to hand out the hardware at the conclusion of the season, Bucyk was named the recipient of the Lady Byng Trophy thanks to his season total of a mere 8 penalty minutes in 78 games.
This card commemorates Bucyk's first Lady Byng Trophy
Although his personal point totals were all down somewhat, his 83 points were still his second best season to date, his 20 points in 15 playoff games were key to the Bruins capturing the second Stanley Cup of Bucyk's career in 1972.
His offensive numbers would rise once more in 1972-73 when Bucyk scored 40 goals for only the second time in his career and his 53 assists propelled him to a 93 point season, including scoring his 1,000th career point, only the seventh player to reach that illustrious total.
He was again named team captain of the Bruins in 1973, a position he would hold until 1977. Following his 116 point season in 1971, Bucyk was a very consistent, productive player, averaging 83 points per season, and never below 75. 1973-74 saw the Bruins again return to the Stanley Cup Finals and Bucyk collect the second Lady Byng Trophy of his career after again finishing with just 9 penalty minutes. Amazingly, Bucyk was not awarded the Lady Byng in 1972, a season in which he was penalized a total of just 4 minutes, a mark equalled by the winner Jean Ratelle.
Bucyk in the classic "wide angle lens hockey pose" while captain of the Bruins
"I played physical but clean hockey," said Bucyk. "Most people think that the only reason a player wins the Lady Byng is because he is gentlemanly, but I had the ability to play physical and not draw penalties. I contributed offensively and stayed out of the penalty box."
On this date in 1975, Bucyk would again join an exclusive club when he became only the seventh player to reach 500 career goals, a tribute to his longevity, as he reached the 500 goal plateau in his 1,370th game. Of the 41 players to date to reach 500 goals, only Ron Francis would anyone require more games than Bucyk with 1533. Bucyk scored 20 goals or more in 16 of his 23 seasons.
Bucyk celebrates his 500th goal
He would play two more seasons before retiring at the age of 42 due to chronic back problems as the Bruins all-time leader in goals (556), assists (813) and points (1,369) as well as career games with 1,540. He was also the fourth leading scorer of all-time as well as the leading scorer among left wings and third in games played at the of his retirement.
The Bruins retired his #9 in 1980 and he became a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981.
"Having my Number 9 retired at the Boston Garden in 1980 was outstanding. It’s very exciting to see your number hanging there along with all the other great players. It’s the greatest honour a player can get."
Today's featured jersey is a 1975-76 Boston Bruins Johnny Bucyk jersey, as worn the season Bucyk joined the 500 goal club.
What sets this Bruins jersey apart is the lack of not only the colored shoulders of the previous style, discontinued for the 1974-75 season, but also the lack of the bear head shoulder patches, which would arrive for the following 1976-77 campaign and would remain in place all the way through the 1994-95 season. Names on the back would not arrive until the 1977-78 season.
All of that adds up to today's featured jersey variation of completely blank shoulders only being used for just two seasons, 1974-75 and 1975-76, the season of Bucyk's 500th goal.
Today's video segment begins with Johnny Bucyk Night in Boston, when the celebrate his 50 years with the organization.
Here, Bucyk scores a goal on February 25, 1971, igniting a Bruins outburst that results in the three fastest goals in NHL history at just a lightning fast 20 seconds!
Finally, a profile of Bucyk from the excellent Legends of Hockey series.
Labels: Boston Bruins, Bucyk Johnny
1939 NHL All-Star Eddie Shore Jersey
Prior to the NHL All-Star Game being an annual affair, which began with the first annual game in 1947, three previous benefit games took place featuring a team of NHL All-Stars on one side of the contest.
The third and final of those benefit games took place on this date in 1939 in memory of Babe Siebert, a former NHL player who had recently been named head coach of the Montreal Canadiens who drowned in Lake Huron while swimming before he began his new job as coach.
Babe Siebert from his playing days with the Montreal Maroons
To benefit his family, a game was organized by the Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Maroons, both of whom Siebert had played for during his career.
Siebert as a Montreal Canadien
Held in the Montreal Forum, 6,000 fans attended the game between the Montreal Canadiens and a team of NHL All-Stars, raising $15,000 for Siebert's family.
The program from the Babe Siebert Memorial Game
Syl Apps, of the Toronto Maple Leafs, scored four points, one goal and three assists, in a 5-2 win for the All-Stars over the defending Stanley Cup champion Canadiens.
"Busher" Jackson and Eddie Shore were named to the All-Star team, the only two players to appear in all three of the Benefit Era games, as well as referee King Clancy, who had participated in the first two benefit games as a player.
The All-Stars got on the board first with a pair of goals in the first period, first by Bobby Bauer from Apps and Johnny Gottselig at 8:30 followed by Shore for the All-Stars at 10:07, also from Apps and Gottselig.
Apps got his goal at 2:05 of the second from Bauer before Montreal got on the board when Earl Robinson scored on an assist from George Mantha and Ray Getliffe at 5:49.
The All-Stars get that one back two minutes later when Gottselig scored at 7:49 from Apps and Art Coultier and widened their lead to 5-1 when Earl Seibert (note the different spelling from Siebert) scored an unassisted goal at 11:21. Louis Trudel closed out the scoring at 19:15 of the second period when he scored on the All-Stars Frank Brimsek from Polly Druin and Rod Lorrain, as there was no scoring in the third period. Wilf Cude took the loss in goal for the Canadiens. Gottselig would finish the game with a goal and two assits.
Today's featured jersey is a 1939 NHL All-Star Eddie Shore jersey as worn in the Siebert Memorial Game on this date in 1939. This wool sweater was used just the single time during the All-Star contest and has survived in immaculate condition. Shore left it behind in his locker in New York after retiring while a member of the New York Americans after spending the majority of his career with the Boston Bruins.
Bonus jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1937 Montreal All-Stars Babe Siebert jersey as worn in the 1937 Howie Morenz Memorial game just two years prior to the Babe Siebert Memorial Game.
The Morenz game featured a team of NHL All-Stars taking on a team comprised of All-Stars from the Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Maroons following Morenz's death following a severely broken leg suffered during a game and a subsequent heart attack while still hospitalized for the broken leg.
Labels: NHL All-Star Game, Shore Eddie, Siebert Babe
2000-01 New Jersey Devils John Madden Jersey
On this date in 2000, the New Jersey Devils traveled to Pittsburgh to take on the Penguins. It was the Devils 9th game of the season and they brought a 5-2-1 record into the game as well as a three game winning streak. Pittsburgh, meanwhile, stood at 5-3-1 after starting their season with a pair of games in Tokyo, Japan, tied with the Devils with 11 points atop the Atlantic Division.
Martin Brodeur got the start in goal, while Jean-Sebastien Aubin got the nod for Pittsburgh.
Turner Stevenson got the scoring started with with a goal from Sergei Nemchinov and John Madden at 2:02 of the first period to put the Devils up by one.
The same line struck again at 4:45, this time with Madden scoring from Nemchinov and Stevenson. Randy McKay put the Devils up by three when he scored on the power play at 12:32 from Bobby Holik and Colin White at 11:18. Before the period ended, McKay scored his second off a goal post from Ken Sutton and Holik at 19:30 to send the Devils into the locker room with a stout 4-0 lead.
Madden scores his first goal of the night
The second period began with Garth Snow taking over in goal for Pittsburgh and he held the Devils off the scoreboard for half a period until Madden scored his second at 11:10 on Nemchinov's third assist. The rout was on when McKay completed his hat trick at 12:32 from Brian Rafalski. It was the third hat trick of his career.
McKay completes his hat trick
Five minutes would pass before McKay scored his fourth of the night on a rebound off the back boards on a shot from Patrik Elias with the second assist from Rafalski at 17:44 before Madden made good in his bid for his first career hat trick with assists from Stevenson and Sutton at 18:57, putting the Devils out of reach at the end of 40 minutes 8-0.
McKay celebrates
Clearly owning the hot hand, their teammates kept feeding McKay and Madden the puck in the third period and Madden converted from a bad angle with assists from Ed Ward and Jim McKenzie for his fourth goal of the night at 15:55 of the third period to tie New Jersey's largest margin of victory ever at 9, accomplished twice before.
Madden matched McKay's four goals with 4 minutes to play
When Madden scored his fourth goal, he and McKay became the first teammates to score four goals in a game since Odie and Sprague Cleghorn did it for the Montreal Canadiens way back on January 14, 1922, a gap of over 78 years.
Odie and Sprague Cleghorn during their final season in
Montreal wearing their 1924-25 World's Champions sweaters
Madden and MaKay's four goals in a game also tied a team record held by Pat Verbeek since February 28, 1988.
Lost in the offensive fireworks was Broduer's shutout on 21 saves and McKay nearly stole the spotlight from Madden when he hit the pipe in the third period, just missing his fifth goal of the night.
McKay was named as The First Star of the Game despite Madden having five points in the game. "Randy's goals were much more fashionable than mine, so I'm sure they gave it to him for that even though I had one more point than he did." Madden needled after the game.
McKay was the first star of the game despite
being outscored by Madden
"I was in the right spot in the right time tonight, and it seemed like every time I got in the open, someone got me the puck," McKay said. "It was one of those nights where every time I touched the puck, I felt I had a shot. The last one, it came back to me, flat as could be, right in my wheelhouse and I had an open net to shoot at. Every time I came back to the bench, Bobby Holik was shaking his head. He couldn't believe it."
Holik concurred, "That's because he didn't just get goals, he got pretty goals, three of them. I was like, 'whooooo'. They weren't just going in, the goalie had no chance on them. It was hard to believe."
The reason for the extra celebration and incredulous reaction was that McKay was not known as much of a goal scorer and generally was a member of the Devils "Crash Line" of checkers and grinders. In his nine previous season in New Jersey, he averaged 12 goals a season with a career high of 24. After his four goal outburst, McKay would score just 16 goals in the Devils 73 remaining games.
"I scored one, I was happy with one," Madden Said. "The puck was coming my way."
"I would like to say I'm sorry to the people who bought tickets," Penguins coach Ivan Hlinka said. "I would like to say thanks to the people who stayed to the finish. I believe we ware not a bad team like tonight. I hope we will show our face over the next game and the next week."
Penguins defenseman Bob Boughner went farther, saying, "Maybe we should all take money out of our next checks and pay all the fans who stayed to watch the rest of that game. It's a joke."
Today's featured jersey is a 2000-01 New Jersey Devils John Madden jersey as worn during his record tying four goal game against Pittsburgh on this date in 2000.
This game was played back in the era when the home team traditionally wore white jerseys, but with the increasing number of colored alternate jerseys now in use, the visiting teams often had to wear white on the road to accommodate the home teams wearing their third jerseys, as was the case in the game where Madden and McKay each scored four goals, as Pittsburgh had just reintroduced the skating penguin logo on their new alternate jerseys in 2000-01.
In order to eliminate the need for the road teams equipment managers to have to pack two sets of jerseys for road trips, the rule was changed for the 2003-04 season onwards, where the road team would nearly always wear white, regardless of the home team was wearing their dark home jersey or colored alternates. There are of course always exceptions to this rule, but in general it made life easier for the traveling equipment managers league wide.
Today's Bonus jersey is a 2000-01 New Jersey Devils Randy McKay jersey. The Devils jersey is on it's way to joining the Canadiens, Red Wings and Blackhawks as one of the longest tenured iconic jerseys in the NHL, as team president Lou Lamoriello steadfastly remains against any changes to the Devils jersey adopted in 1992, including the adoption of an alternate jersey for the Devils.
Today's video segment begins with a McKay overtime game winner in the 1995 playoffs, in what was until then a scoreless tie against the Boston Bruins.
In this next clip, Madden seals a win over Patrick Roy and the Colorado Avalanche in the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Labels: Madden John, McKay Randy, New Jersey Devils
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Despite their short life, the Minnesota Fighting Saints popularity influenced several subsequent teams at various levels, including the Dubuque Fighting Saints (1980-2001) of the United States Hockey League, the Danville Fighting Saints (1986-1989) of the All American Hockey League and the St. Paul Fighting Saints (1992-93) of the American Hockey Association. A new version of the Dubuque Fighting Saints began play in the USHL in 2010-11 and immediately won the USHL championship in 2011 and again in 2013.
The San Angelo Saints who were members of the Central Hockey League from 2002-2005 and the Spruce Grove Saints of the Alberta Junior Hockey League are the relocated St. Albert Saints a franchise which can be traced back to 1963 with several different names.
Today's featured jersey is a 1972-73 Minnesota Fighting Saints Ted Hampson jersey. Hampson had a long career in hockey which began with the Flin Flon Bombers in junior hockey in 1954-55 and included winning the Memorial Cup in 1957. He criss-crossed North America, playing for Providence in the AHL and Vancouver in the WHL and then back to Rochester, New York of the AHL before making his NHL debut with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1959-60. He then played three seasons with the New York Rangers from 1960-61 to 1962-63 before a move to the Detroit Red Wings organization.
His first three seasons were spent mainly with the Pittsburgh Hornets of the AHL before playing in Detroit in 1966-67 and half of 1967-68 before a trade sent him to the Oakland Seals, where he would be named the second ever recipient of the Bill Masterton Trophy at the conclusion of the season for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.
Hampson would play three more seasons with Oakland, including setting an NHL career best with 26 goals and 75 points and appearing in the NHL All-Star Game in during the 1968-69 season before being dealt late in the 1970-71 season to the Minnesota North Stars. After playing the 1971-72 season with the North Stars, Hampson would move across the river to St. Paul to join the brand new Fighting Saints of the WHA for the league's debut season of 1972-73, where Hampson would be named the team's captain due to his veteran leadership and win the WHA's first "Most Gentlemanly Player" Award.
After three and a half seasons the Fighting Saints would fold due to financial difficulties. Hampson them finished out the 1975-76 season with the Quebec Nordiques. After sitting out two seasons, he would return to the ice in 1978-79 with the Oklahoma City Stars of the CHL for 23 games and make token appearances of 3 and 6 games in 1979-80 and 1980-81 before his playing days were completed for good.
Labels: Hampson Ted, Minnesota Fighting Saints
1959-60 Montreal Canadiens Maurice Richard Jersey
On this date in 1942, Maurice Richard made his NHL debut with the Montreal Canadiens - while wearing #15. He scored his first NHL point just 36 seconds into the game with an assist against the Boston Bruins at the Montreal Forum. He would score 5 goals in 16 games that season before establishing himself as an NHL regular the following season when he led the Canadiens with 32 goals while playing in 46 of Montreal's 50 games, which was good for 6th place in the league goal scoring race, just six back of league leader Doug Bentley's 38. He also added 12 goals in nine playoff games to earn his first Stanley Cup ring.
He set the hockey world on it's ear the following season, as in just his second full season in the NHL he not only led the league in goals but accomplished the unthinkable by becoming the first man to ever score 50 goals in 50 games, a feat that took 36 years to equal and only four other men have ever duplicated.
Richard came back down to Earth the following season with just 27 goals, which included passing the 100 goal mark, as well as earning his second Stanley Cup, but rebounded with a strong 45 tallies in 1946-47 to lead the league in goals for a second time and be named the Hart Trophy winner that season. Scoring was down league wide in 1947-48, as Richard managed just 28 goals to finish just five back of league leader Ted Lindsay's 33.
After just 20 goals in 1948-49, which allowed him to surpass the career 200 level, Richard had another strong season with 43 goals in 1949-50 to beat Gordie Howe by eight to win his third goal scoring title. He backed that up with a nearly identical 42 goals the following season, bested only by Howe's 43.
He netted 27 in 1952 to leave the 300 plateau in the distance and 28 more in 1953 as he won his third Stanley Cup. 1953-54 was the first of three consistent seasons with 37 (to lead the league). He became the first man to ever reach 400 career goals when he scored 38, which tied for the league lead with teammate "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, in 1954-55.
Richard scored another 38 goals in 1955-56 and got his fourth consecutive season over 30 with 33 in 1956-57, a season which saw him named team captain and lead the Canadiens to the first of five consecutive Stanley Cups under his captaincy.
The 1957-58 season saw him limited to just 28 games due to an Achilles tendon injury, but it was enough to allow him to score 15 goals that season, including his milestone 500th goal in 1957, making him the first man in NHL history to reach the magical 500 goal plateau at a time when no other player had ever reached 400 career goals!
Richard's career was now winding down and his final two seasons were curtailed by injuries, limiting him to 42 games and 17 goals in 1958-59 and his final season rose to 51 games and 19 goals to put his final career regular season goal total at 544 as well as 82 additional playoff goals as he won eight Stanley Cup rings.
Richard at the conclusion of the final game of his career with the 1960 Stanley Cup
Following his career, the Richard would become only the second Canadiens player to have his sweater number retired when Montreal raised Richard's #9 to the rafters in 1960, following Howie Morenz, whose #7 was retired following his death from a heart attack five weeks after being hospitalized after breaking his leg during a game.
Today's featured jersey is a 1959-60 Montreal Canadiens Maurice Richard jersey. This jersey is from Richard's final season and features the captain's "C" on the left chest.
The iconic Canadiens jersey would remain essentially unchanged throughout the entirety of Richard's career, with the largest "change" being the addition of numbers to the sleeves in 1958.
Here is footage from Maurice Richard's 500th goal.
Here is a look back at Richard's career on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his 500th goal.
Labels: Montreal Canadiens, Richard Maurice
1989-90 Buffalo Sabres Phil Housley Jersey
Today's featured jersey is a 1989-90 Buffalo Sabres Phil Housley jersey. The Sabres wore this style from their inaugural 1970-71 season through the 1995-96 season. Naturally, there were a few variations along the way which will allow collectors to date various jerseys, as the Sabres began life with lace up collars and no names on the back. Names arrived in 1977, shoulder logos and v-nick collars in 1978 and much bolder arm and waist striping in 1983.
After a change to an entirely new identity package in 1996, including new team colors of black and red, the Sabres classic jersey returned as an alternate jersey in 2006 and an updated version appear again as an alternate in 2008, which then became the team's primary jersey in 2010.
Bonus jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 2005 United States National Team Phil Housley jersey. Internationally, Housley played for the United States in the 1984 and 1987 Canada Cups, the World Championships in 1982, 1986, 1989, 2000, 2001 and 2003 and captured a gold medal in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
In today's video secion, Housely plays for the United States in the 1984 Canada Cup versus Dominik Hasek and Czechoslovakia and gets an assist with a blast from the point.
Labels: Buffalo Sabres, Housley Phil, USA
1985-86 Washington Capitals Mike Gartner Jersey
Mike Gartner , born on this date in 1959, started his pro career with the Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association, having just turned 19 years old, below the NHL minimum age of 20 at the time.
His 27 goals and 52 points that season for the Stingers got the attention of the general mangers in the NHL, and Gartner was drafted 4th overall by the Washington Captials in the summer of 1979 following the demise of the Stingers as well as the WHA.
As a rookie with the Capitals, Gartner scored 36 goals, beginning a streak of 30 goals or more seasons that would eventually reach into the mid 90's.
In ten seasons with the Capitals, Gartner would average 39.7 goals per season and never less than 35 until the 1988-89 season when he was traded to the Minnesota North Stars 56 games into the season while currently at 26 goals. He would, however, score an additional seven goals in Minnesota to keep his streak going at ten seasons.
After enjoying so much stability in Washington, Gartner's time in Minnesota would be brief, as he was dealt to the New York Rangers after 67 games in 1989-90, but not before scoring 34 goals with the North Stars. After joining the Rangers, he would add 11 more to his season total which allowed him to reach the 40 goal mark for the sixth time.
Three consecutive 40 goal seasons in Manhattan followed, which included scoring his 500th NHL goal during the 1991-92 season. He would later surpass the 600 goal barrier as well as 1,000 points, prior to Gartner once more being on the move, this time to his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs. His 28 goals in 71 games in New York and the six he scored in 10 games with the Maple Leafs pushed his 30 goal streak to an NHL record 15 consecutive seasons.
The strike shortened season of 1994-95 only allowed Gartner to play in 38 games, limiting him to just 12 goals and unfairly ending his streak of 30 goal seasons at 15, a league record which still stands today and would not be tied until 2007 by Jaromir Jagr.
Back to a full season schedule in 1995-96, Gartner would run his 30 goal season total up to 16 with 35 goals. The Maple Leafs would trade Gartner to the Phoenix Coyotes in time for their first season in the desert, having just relocated from Winnipeg. There, Gartner would achieve his 17th season of 30 goals or more in his career, also a league record and one which has never been equalled. His second goal of the night was also the 1,300th point in his NHL career.
Gartner would play one final season in the NHL with Phoenix. He would play in 60 games and score 12 goals, which included his 700th career goal, on the fifth player to ever reach that mark.
His final career totals are 708 goals, good for sixth all time, and 627 assists for 1,335 points.
While Gartner set records for his consistent goal scoring, he was probably better known for his speed, winning the always popular and high profile "Fastest Skater Competition" at the NHL All-Star Game each of the three times he entered, including 1993 when he scored four goals and was named the MVP of the All-Star Game.
During his career he would play in seven NHL All-Star Games and following his career he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001 and his #11 was retired by the Capitals in 2008.
Today's featured jersey is a Gartner's featured jersey is a 1985-86 Washington Capitals Miek Gartner jersey. This jersey features the five stars down the sleeves, which the Capitals jerseys had from 1974-75 until 1982-83 until going to just four stars for two seasons until reverting back to five again for the 1985-86 season.
Bonus jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1991-92 New York Rangers Mike Gartner jersey which features NHL 75th Anniversary patch on the upper left chest, while every other club, save the Philadelphia Flyers, wore the patch on their upper right chest. Having a unique patch placement when compared to other clubs is a common occurrence for the Rangers, due to the "R" of the diagonal Rangers cresting on their jerseys occupying the traditional location for patches. In general, the Rangers place additional patches on their right shoulder, but have used the left shoulder on occasion as well, as was the case with the 9/11 memorial ribbon patch.
Patches worn on the right shoulder include the Stanley Cup 100th Anniversary, the 1994 NHL All-Star Game, 1994 Stanley Cup Finals, the Rangers 75th and 85th Anniversary patches.
The only time the Rangers were able to join the flock was in 1999-00 when the NHL 2000 patch was a horizontal design, short enough to fit above the "R" in the space remaining.
Here is a great career retrospective of Mike Gartner's career on the occasion of his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, followed by his speech. The audio is a tad bit distorted, but still listenable.
Labels: Gartner Mike, New York Rangers, Washington Capitals
1993-94 New York Rangers Mike Richter Jersey
After playing for the United States at the 1985 World Junior Tournament, Mike Richter was drafted 28th overall by the New York Rangers before he began his college career at the University of Wisconsin for the 1985-86 season, after which he was named the WCHA Rookie of the Year.
That same season his international experience grew with appearances at both the World Juniors and the World Championships. He returned to Wisconsin for another season in 1986-87 which was followed up with another trip to the World Championships.
His 1987-88 season began as a member of the United States National Team in preparation for the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. At the conclusion of the games, Richter joined the Colorado Rangers of the IHL for the remainder of the season, as well as all of the following 1988-89 season, during which the name of the club was changed to the Denver Rangers.
He made his NHL debut on October 19th, 1989 as a member of the New York Rangers. He made 23 appearances for the blueshirts as well as seeing action in 13 games for the Flint Spirits of the IHL.
He spent the entire 1990-91 season in New York, splitting time with his goaltending partner John Vanbiesbrouck, going 21-13-7. Prior to the start of the next NHL season, Richter was the number one goaltender for the United States team at the 1991 Canada Cup tournament. He again divided the playing time down the middle with Vanbiesbrouck for the 1991-92 Rangers, who captured the President's Trophy for having the league's best record.
Richter and goaltending partner John Vanbiesbrouck
The 1992-93 season for the Rangers was one of disappointment, as they failed to qualify for the playoffs. Richter also suffered an injury which limited him to 38 games and saw him return to the minors when he spent 5 games with the Binghamton Rangers of the AHL on a rehab assignment. With the Rangers out of the playoffs, Richter was able to return to the World Championships for the first time in six years for the United States.
Prior to the 1993-94 season, the NHL expanded by adding two clubs, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Florida Panthers. As part of the rules of the expansion draft, existing clubs could only protect one goaltender, and the Rangers elected to keep Richter, as Vanbiesbrouck would be traded away.
Now the clear number one goaltender, Richter's games played shot up from a previous high of 45 to 68, which allowed him to set a career best record of 42-12-6. Despite not having any player in the top 20 in scoring, and in fact were led in scoring by a defenseman, Sergei Zubov, the Rangers shot back up the standings to once more claim the President's Trophy with 112 points, a 33 point improvement over the previous year. During the postseason, the Rangers swept the New York Islanders in four, eliminated the Washington Capitals in five and survived a dramatic seven game series over the New Jersey Devils before taking a 3 games to 1 lead over the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks came back to force a Game 7, which the Rangers won by a score of 3-2 to win a memorable Stanley Cup, the Rangers first since 1940.
If that weren't enough, Richter was also named to the second NHL All-Star Game of his career that season and was named the game's MVP on home ice in Madison Square Garden.
After the strike-shortended 1994-95 season, groin problems caused Richter to miss 23 games over two separate occasions during the 1995-96 season, which cut his games played back to 41. Richter showed he was fully healed prior to the 1996-97 campaign by leading the United States to it's greatest hockey triumph since 1980 as the US won the 1996 World Cup of Hockey in a hard fought three game final over Canada. Richter's outstanding play earned him the tournament MVP award to go with his gold medal.
He saw action in 61 games that season and won 33 of them, one of two seasons with 30 wins or more for his career. His workload with the Rangers reached an all-time high when he took to the ice 72 times in 1997-98. During that season, the NHL took a break from it's schedule for the first time ever, which allowed Richter and the other stars of the NHL to participate in the Olympics for the first time ever. As if his workload wasn't enough with the Rangers, Richter now travelled to Japan and played an additional four games for the United States.
For the 1998-99 season, he played in 68 games, followed by 61 the following season. On January 8, 2001, Richter set the all-time Rangers record for games played with 598, and ten days later became the winningest goaltender in franchise history with his 267th win following a 2-1 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
During the 2001-02 season, Richter again led the Rangers goalies in games played with 55 and totaled 24 wins, his seventh season with 20 or more wins. He also made his final international appearance for the United States, earning a silver medal on home ice at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
He played in 13 games of the 2002-03 season, which included his becoming the first Ranger goaltender to reach 300 wins on this date in 2002 when Petr Nedved scored at 2:20 of overtime in a 3-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes. His career came to a premature end when he suffered a skull fracture and concussion, which necessitated his retirement.
"I was hoping to get it earlier in my career. A couple of injuries the last few years and not as many wins as we wanted was a disappointment. But I'm glad I've been able to stay with this organization long enough to set it with one team. It's really a temporary thing," Richter said. "It's something you'll dwell on a little bit more after your career is done. There has been a lot of great teams and a lot of great players that I have been associated with. For me, it's a great thing we got 300, but nothing is more important to me than 301."
He did get win #301, as his final career totals stand at 301 wins and 24 shutouts in 666 games, a Stanley Cup, a World Cup and an Olympic Silver Medal. He still holds the Rangers goaltending records for games played, wins, single season appearances and wins.
Following his career, his #35 jersey was retired by the Rangers in 2004 and he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008.
Today's featured jersey is a 1993-94 New York Rangers Mike Richter jersey as worn during that magic season when Richter was the MVP of the NHL All-Star Game and went on to win the Stanley Cup, ending the Rangers 54 year wait. This particular jersey has the 1994 NHL All-Star Game patch on the right shoulder, the customary position for additional patches on Rangers jerseys, as the diagonal cresting fills the customary spot on the upper right chest where most teams wear extra patches.
This year is naturally more closely associated with the Stanley Cup championship, and for the finals, the All-Star Game patch was replaced by the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals patch, the smallest version of the finals patch ever worn in deference to it's location on the shoulder of the Rangers jersey.
This style Rangers jersey can be traced back to the club's origins in 1926, although there has been some evolution in fonts, as well as a couple of ill-fated attempts to adopt a new style, the blue jersey with the team name diagonally across the front has been in use now for all but three of the club's 86 years.
Bonus jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1996 Team USA Mike Richter jersey as worn in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey as Richter was named the tournament MVP as the Americans won the gold medal. This short-lived "waving flag" style is very sought after by collectors and was only sold at retail in the home white version, making the blue ones very desirable, as they were only produced for use by the team itself, obviously making for an extremely limited supply.
Today's video segment is an excellent tribute to Mike Richter.
Next, is Richter in a commercial for ESPN.
Here, Richter becomes the all-time Rangers leader in wins following a dramatic overtime goal by Brian Leetch.
Finally, another commercial featuring Richter, this one for Wendy's hamburgers.
Labels: New York Rangers, Richter Mike, USA
1914-15 Vancouver Millionaires Hugh Lehman Jersey
One of hockey's early pioneers, Hughie Lehman was born on this date in 1885.
Lehman, a goaltender, began his hockey career with the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Ottawa Valley Hockey League in 1903. He played in Pembroke for three seasons, including posting an 8-0 record in 1905-06. He was known as a strong skater and good puck handler.
In 1906-07, Lehman moved to the Canadian Soo of the International Professional Hockey League for one season before returning to Pembroke in 1907-08. He joined the Berlin Professionals of the Ontario Professional Hockey League in 1908-09.
The next season was a busy one for Lehman, as he played for the Galt Professionals in two games during their challenge for the Stanley Cup against the the dominant Ottawa Senators. He played the regular season with Berlin (now known as Kitchener), which resulted in a second Stanley Cup Challenge in just two months, this time against the current cup holders the Montreal Wanderers. His puck handling skills even including scoring a goal once while playing in Berlin, something that would not happen in the NHL for another 70 years!
Following the 1910-11 season, Lehman packed his bags and moved west in order to play for the New Westminster Royals of the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
Hugh Lehman wearing the W of New Westminster
It proved to be a good move for him, as the Royals won the championship in their first season. After two more seasons with New Westminster the club folded and Lehman found a home in Vancouver with the Millionaires.
While up to this point in his career Lehman had not put together a remarkable season since his 8-0 season in 1906, the Millionares stormed the PCHA with Lehman playing every game on his way to a 13-4 record. As champions of the PCHA, the Millionaires earned the right to host the NHA Champion Ottawa Senators, who they swept three games to none, earning Lehman the Stanley Cup.
The 1915 Stanley Cup Champion Vancouver Millionaires
He would play seven more seasons with the Millionaires, winning two more PCHA titles in 1918, 1921 and 1922, but the Millionaires would fall short in their quest for another Stanley Cup.
Lehman would continue to play for Vancouver over the course of the next four seasons, but the club were now known as the Vancouver Maroons. Two of the four seasons were as part of the PCHA, where the Maroons were league champions, including the 1922-23 season in which he went 16-8-1. In his 13 PCHA seasons, Lehman was named an All-Star ten times.
The Maroons joined the Western Canada Hockey League in 1924-25, which was shortened to the Western Hockey League for 1925-26.
When the WHL collapsed, Lehman joined the expansion Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League for their first ever season. At the age of 41, he played 44 games that year, 14 more than he ever had previously, and finished with 19 wins, a career high, 22 losses and 3 ties.
The 1926-27 Chicago Black Hawks
The following season he had played in four games when Black Hawks owner and manager Frederic McLaughlin drew up some plays for the team. Lehman reacted by calling it "the craziest bunch of junk I've ever seen." When Lehman was called to McLaughlin's office afterwards, he was expecting the worst. It would turn out that Lehman had played in his final game, as McLaughlin appointed him as the Black Hawks new head coach!
Lehman was was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958.
Lehman is memorialized in a mural in his home town of Pembroke, along with fellow Hall of Famers and Pembroke natives Harry Cameron (left) and Frank Nighbor (right)
Today's featured jersey is a 1914-15 Vancouver Millionaires Hugh Lehman jersey. No original Millionaires jerseys are known to exist and most Millionaires memorabilia was lost when their home rink, the Denman Arena, burned down in 1936.
Bonus jersey: Today's Bonus jersey is a 2008-09 Vancouver Giants throwback 1915 Vancouver Millionaires jersey as worn on November 21, 2008 when the Giants held a "Stanley Cup Legends Night". The Millionaires won their only Stanley Cup in 1915 wearing the original version of this jersey.
This jersey style was revived once again by the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL when they wore this same style in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Vancouver Millionaires on March 16th, 2013 and again on March 2nd, 2014 in the Heritage Classic against the Ottawa Senators inside the BC Place football stadium.
Today's featured video is a departure from the norm, a music video featuring photos and archival footage of the Vancouver Millionaires as part of a music video for a song entitled "The Vancouver Millionaires".
Our next video is a report of the Canadian junior team the Vancouver Giants wearing throwback 1915 Millionaires jerseys, including cream colored hockey pants. Good stuff!
Finally a news report about a Vancouver Millionaires replica jersey being donated to the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame.
Labels: Lehman Hughie, Vancouver Millionaires
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Doug Favell's Halloween Pumpkin Mask - The First Painted Mask in NHL History
Jacques Plante ushered in a new era of goaltending back on November 1, 1959 when, after being struck in the face with a shot by the New York Rangers hard shooting Andy Bathgate, he was assisted off the ice, leaving behind a trail of blood.
"He had been struck in the face and it opened up a cut from the corner of his mouth all the way up through his nostril," related Red Fisher of the Montreal Gazette.
With no backup goaltenders on the roster in those days, there was a 21 minute delay while Plante was stitched up. When he finally returned to the bench, he told head coach Toe Blake, "I'm ready to go back in but I have to wear my mask." He was allowed to wear the mask, which he had been wearing in practice, and Montreal went on to win the game 3-1.
A bloodied Jacques Plante wearing his mask after being badly cut in 1959
Before the next game Blake did not want Plante to wear the mask, to which Plante replied, "If I don't wear the mask, I'm not playing." Having been a four time All-Star, four time Vezina Trophy winner and five time Stanley Cup champion at that point in his career - the mask stayed.
Others quickly followed Plante's lead and goalies who did not wear a mask soon became the exception to the rule, with the last in the NHL being Andy Brown in 1974.
Andy Brown of the Penguins with his unprotected face down among the sticks
While Gerry Cheevers was the first to wear a decorated mask on November 8, 1967 in a game vs. the Rangers when he wore a mask with the first of his trademark stitches drawn on it with a marker, it is Doug Favell who is credited with having the first painted mask in the NHL, which debuted on this date, Halloween, in 1971.
Favell tells the story of how the first painted mask came to be, taken from the Marek vs. Wyshynski podcast from October 31, 2014:
"It just came from bantering in the morning because it was Halloween. We were all kidding around in the room and somebody said "If you're going to the party tonight, you have to dress up" and somebody was kidding me, and someone said. "Favey, why don't you show up tonight as a goaltender?" I said, "Maybe I'll do that," so the kidding started.
As I was getting ready to leave, I said to Frank Lewis, who was our trainer. "Frank, with tonight being Halloween, why don't we put orange on the mask? Can you paint orange on the mask? We'll paint it orange like The Great Pumpkin," because back then Charlie Brown and The Great Pumpkin were a big thing. "Why don't we paint it like a pumpkin tonight for Halloween?"
"Yea, I can do that," Lewis replied. So he took it home that afternoon and painted it orange and I came back that night and wore it. And the funny thing is, we're all so superstitious that if we hadn't won that night, we beat L. A. 4-1, I'd have probably just painted it white again. If we'd have lost, I'd have said "That's it. It's not good," but we won and got going, got on a little streak, and I said, "This is a pretty good thing." It was that simple.
Some players said it was a distraction because it was fairly bright. An ophthalmologist said, "Your eye will attract." I thought it was an advantage because your eye would naturally go to the brightest thing, so in that flash, they would look at my mask instead of looking at the net, so I thought it was an a distraction and I felt I needed whatever I could get to distract the shooters, so I went with it and next year we painted the starburst on it, which was a design and was even more of a distraction to the shooters.
While doing our research for this story we did uncover some contradictions and discrepancies in various versions of Favell's stories recounting the origins of his first painted mask. At times Favell has stated his mask debuted in 1970, and other times 1971. Favell's pumpkin mask would not have debuted against the Kings, as he recalled above, as Philadelphia played host the Montreal Canadiens in a game won 5-3 by Philadelphia on Halloween night in 1971. The Flyers did defeat the Kings 3-1 just before Halloween on October 29, 1970, so perhaps this is where some of the confusion comes from…
Additionally, the "little streak" story does not hold up well, as the Flyers lost their next three games and went 2-7-3 over November 1971. The club actually did not have a winning month until five months later in March. If the mask had debuted in 1970, the story is much the same, with Philadelphia going 4-6-1 in November of that year.
Favell's story on the end of the solid orange pumpkin mask, thanks to a late Buffalo Sabres goal on the final game of the season, took place on April 2, 1972 when Gerry Meehan won the game for the Sabres with just four seconds remaining, has been consistently told by Favell, and dates the orange mask to the 1971-72 season. reaffirming its debut as being on Halloween in 1971.
Favell debuted with the Flyers during the first year of league expansion of 1967-68. During his early days with Philadelphia, he wore a Terry Sawchuk style mask before changing to his Ernie Higgins produced mask for the 1971-72 season, the style which he would have famously painted orange on Halloween in 1971 after having the new, white mask for less than two months, which leaves photos of Favell in his plain white mask as a rarity.
Favell's mask in its original plain white color
Following its humorous orange paint job on October 31, 1971, the Favell's mask would remain solid orange for the remainder of the season through the fateful last second goal against Buffalo to close out the 1971-72 season.
Taking the concept of painting his mask as a distraction to shooters farther for the next season, Favell would wear his new "starburst" design beginning in 1971-72 through the 1972-73 season, his last with the Flyers.
Favell in his striking new design, which ushered in the era of bold graphics
A trade in the summer of 1973 sent Favell to the Toronto Maple Leafs, but before leaving for Toronto, Philadelphia trainer Lewis painted Favell's mask with a blue maple leaf on the forehead and surprised him with it when he came to collect his equipment from the Flyers according to Favell.
Favell's mask with it's fourth and final paint scheme, or so we thought...
Favell continued to wear the same mask, now sporting its fourth different paint scheme, counting its original plain white, until 1974 when he got a new, more protective mask by renowned mask maker Greg Harrison which featured a larger, more centered maple leaf design which covered his eyes, nose and mouth.
Favell's new Harrison mask, with its larger maple leaf paint scheme
Favell's original Higgins mask, the one first painted solid orange and now sporting a blue maple leaf, was then lent to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto due to its place in hockey history as the first painted mask. This is where the story takes a turn for the bizarre…
In 2011, game worn hockey equipment dealer Frank Servello noticed the mask the hall had on display was not Favell's original mask, but a replica painted in the same manner. Favell was easily able to confirm the Maple Leaf mask on display was not his original due to details about the mask on display which did not match the one he had used, repaired and modified.
It turns out, at some point, and no one knows when, Favell's original mask, painted with the maple leaf, was stolen from the hall, repainted twice, and then later anonymously returned to The Hall, looking very different from when it left.
Favell's original, but now repainted Higgins mask was then put on display by the hall with its red droplet shape on the forehead, red nose and red under the chin, which is generally referred to as the "clown mask", as a vintage mask, but in no way identified as being Favell's, as no one at the hall apparently knew.
It was then that a member of the Vintage Goalie Mask Discussion Page recognized the similarities between the clown mask and Favell's missing original in August of 2011 and posted his impression of the clown mask likely being Favell's missing mask.
Notified by Servello that his original mask, now repainted, was likely in the possession of The Hall of Fame, Favell met with the hall to first identify his original mask based on his modifications and repairs, and reclaim its possession 37 years after first loaning it to the hall for display.
The mask then underwent a restoration process, which revealed first flames over the right eye of the mask as well as a predominantly black paint scheme, which unfortunately adhered to the blue paint of the maple leaf design, rendering that design unsalvageable.
But once the black paint was removed, and the maple leaf design with it, the third version of the mask, the starburst pattern from 1972-73 was revealed, proving it was indeed Favell's original Higgins mask and the first painted mask in NHL history, complete with some of its previous orange paint from Halloween night in 1971 exposed to further document its place in NHL history.
Here are photos from GameUsedMasks.com showing the restoration of Favell's mask, the first painted mask in NHL history, taking it from its twice vandalized state down to its sunburst paint scheme of 1972-74.
And here is the final restoration down to the sunburst mask (with some of the earlier brighter orange paint revealed on the forehead, showing the mask's history), the first mask with a painted design. This is where they chose to stop the painstaking process of removing the layers of paint which were added to the mask while it was out of the possession of the Hall of Fame.
Here is a Toronto radio interview with Favell from 2011 on the day he got his original, now repainted mask back from the Hall of Fame.
Here is another feature on Favell and his mask from Hockey Night in Canada.
Labels: Favell Doug, Goalie Mask, Philadelphia Flyers
2002 NHL All-Star Game Mark Parrish Jersey
After winning two consecutive Minnesota State High School championships with the Bloomington Jaguars, Mark Parrish joined the St. Cloud State Huskies of the WCHA. As a freshman, he scored15 goals and 30 points in 1995-96. That performance caught the attention of NHL scouts and Parrish was drafted that spring in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Avalanche. During his second season with the Huskies, Parrish scored 27 goals and 41 points in 35 games.
He left St. Cloud after two seasons to join the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League for 1997-98, where, serving as team captain, he scored a goal per game with 54 goals in 54 games on his way to a 92 point season to lead the team in scoring. He also played in a single game for the New Haven Beast of the American Hockey League, where he continued his season long goal-per-game pace by scoring a goal in his only game for New Haven!
Aside from two games for New Haven in 1998-99, Parrish spent the entire season with the Florida Panthers of the NHL who had acquired his rights in a trade in March of 1998. He made an immediate splash during his rookie season, scoring two goals within six minutes of each other during his first game on October 9, 1998 in a 4-1 Panthers win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Seven games later, the Panthers travelled to Chicago to face the Blackhawks. After Rob Niedermayer opened the scoring on a power play just 59 seconds into the game, Parrish scored against Chicago's Mark Fitzpatrick one a second power play at 11:03 from Ray Whitney and Gord Murphy. Parrish then scored his second of the game at the 14:28 mark, still in the first period, from Whitney once more.
The Blackhawks opened the second period with Jeff Hackett in goal and scored twice in the period to close the gap to 3-2, still in favor of Florida. In the third period, Niedermayer and Radek Dvorak restored the three goal margin for the Panthers before Doug Zmolek replied for Chicago to make it 5-3 for Florida.
Parrish then completed his hat trick at 17:45 with yet another first assist from Whitney and a second from Dave Gagner. Remarkably, with Florida on the power play to close out the game, Parrish scored again with seven seconds remaining from Gagner and Niedermayer for a four goal game in only his eighth NHL contest on this date in 1998.
Parrish while with the Panthers versus his future club the Islanders
Four more times during his rookie season Parrish would have two goal games and finished the season with a total of 24 goals and 37 points. He would play one more season for Florida, increasing his totals to 26 goals and 44 points in 1999-00 until being sent to the New York Islanders, along with Oleg Kvasha in exchange for Olli Jokinen and goaltender Roberto Luongo.
While he only scored 17 goals in his first season with New York, he rebounded in 2001-02 with 30 goals, 30 assists and 60 points - all career highs while improving from a -27 to a +10. Included in his 30 goals were a pair of hat tricks. His fine season was rewarded with an appearance in the 2002 NHL All-Star Game.
Parrish had his best career season while with the Islanders
Three more consistent seasons with the Islanders would follow, scoring 23, 24 and again 24 goals before a late season trade in 2005-06 would send Parrish to the Los Angeles Kings for the remaining 19 games of the season, where he would add 5 more to bring his season total to 29, just shy of tying his career best.
Parrish during his brief time with the Kings
With his contract now expired, the free agent Parrish signed to play with his hometown Minnesota Wild for the 2006-07 season. He would play two seasons for the Wild, which included being named the team captain on three occasions as a part of the club's monthly rotation.
Parrish spent two seasons with his hometown Wild
Unsigned for the 2008-09 season, he would sign with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL, but after just three games, he was back in the NHL with the Dallas Stars, making his debut with the club similar to the way he began his career in Florida, recording a hat trick during his Dallas debut on November 7, 2008, the fourth of his career. After scoring 8 goals and 13 points for the Stars after his hot start, Parrish was not resigned by Dallas and once more became a free agent.
Parrish made a splash during his first game with Dallas, scoring a hat trick
Starting the season without an NHL contract, he signed by the Norfolk Admirals of the AHL, where he played in 56 games with 17 goals and 51 points before the Admirals parent club, the Tampa Bay Lightning brought Parrish back to the NHL for 16 games at the end of the 2009-10 season.
Parrish while with the Norfolk Admirals
The 2010-11 season was a similar repeat, as he played nearly the entire season with the Portland Pirates of the AHL, where he had a fine season with 51 points in 56 games, which earned him a brief, late season call-up by the Buffalo Sabres, where he would conclude his NHL career with 2 games. His final NHL totals were 216 goals and 171 assists for 387 points.
A are shot of Parrish while with the Sabres
He was signed with the Ottawa Senators organization for the 2011-12 season and was assigned to their Binghamton Senators farm club, where he scored 15 goals and 30 points in 51 games before announcing his retirement.
The final season of Parrish's career was spent with Binghamton
Internationally, Parrish played for the United States on six occasions, beginning with the World Junior Championships in both 1996 and 1997, earning a silver medal in 1997 as he contributed 5 goals and 7 points in 6 games. His next tournament for the US came at the 1998 World Championships. He played in two more World Championships in 2001 and 2005, when he scored 5 goals in 6 games. His international career was capped off by appearing in his first Olympics in 2006 in Torino, Italy.
Zach Parise and Parrish celebrate a goal at the 2005 World Championships
Today's featured jersey is a 2002 NHL All-Star Game Mark Parrish jersey from his all-star appearance during his career season of 2001-02 when he set personal bests in goals, assists, points and hat tricks.
2002 saw a continuation of the World vs. North America format for the NHL All-Star Game which debuted in 1998 to promote the upcoming participation of the NHL stars in the 1998 Olympic Games. This was the first year of this jersey template, with the World wearing dark red and the North Americans in blue. This jersey template would return again in 2003, with the colors adjusted to the North Americans wearing white and the World now donning the blue jerseys.
This all-star jersey has a story to tell, with the patch on the front identifying it as being from the 2002 NHL All-Star Game held in Los Angeles, the patch on the left shoulder signifying Parrish's nationality as being American, while the right shoulder carries a New York Islanders logo indicative of Parrish's NHL club.
One unusual feature of this jersey is the lack of sleeve numbers, but the addition of the player number on the lower left side of the front of the jersey, a style which did not catch on among NHL clubs.
Bonus jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1996-97 St. Cloud State Huskies Mark Parrish jersey. At the time, the Huskies home white jersey was a virtual copy of the classic Montreal Canadiens jersey, only this time with a clever take on the Canadiens iconic "CH" logo by swapping out the "H" for an "ST". This gave the Huskies an instantly familiar appearing logo that says "hockey" at first glance, but rewards the viewer on closer inspection. Additionally, while the jersey pattern is the same, the Huskies employ red, black and white as team colors, allowing them to avoid the criticism of simply copying the NHL club's jersey stitch for stitch.
St. Cloud took a different approach to their road jersey, going in an entirely different direction than Montreal's iconic red jersey with it's blue chest stripe, and created a menacing all black jersey, but still in a simple, classic style.
Extra bonus jersey: Today's extra bonus jersey is a 2005 United States National Team Mark Parrish jersey as worn during the 2005 World Championships. In 2005 Nike revised all the jerseys for the teams participating in the IIHF World Championships, and the United States were given an entirely new look, retiring the style which was worn at the 2002 Olympics and 2004 World Cup. This template was based on the 1997-98 St. Louis Blues alternate jersey, which was late promoted to their primary jersey and used through 2006-07.
An effective and attractive look for the USA, this jersey sadly was only used for the 2005 Worlds as the new Nike Swift template, fabric and construction was introduced for the 2006 Olympics the following year, giving this style an all too short lifespan.
Today's video section is Parrish completing one of his four career hat tricks, this one while with the Islanders in 2001-02, the best season of his career.
Next, a brief but exciting collection of Parrish highlights while with the Minnesota Wild.
Finally, Parrish's amazing debut hat trick for the Dallas Stars.
Labels: NHL All-Star Game, Parrish Mark, St. Cloud State, USA
1983-84 Bemidji State Beavers Joel Otto Jersey
Born on this date in 1961, Joel Otto, attended Bemidji State University beginning with the 1981-82 season. He scored 52 points in 31 games as a freshman and followed that up with a 33 goal, 61 point season in 1982-83. After winning their, and Otto's third consecutive Northern Collegiate Hockey Association regular season championship in 1983-84 season, during which Otto increased his point totals yet again with a 75 point season, the Beavers advanced to the NCAA Division II championship series, where they swept Merrimack in a best-of-three series by scores of 6-3 and 8-1.
Otto (#24) as a member of the Beavers
Having gone undrafted by the NHL, Otto was signed by the Calgary Flames organization who assigned him to their minor league affiliate, the Moncton Golden Flames of the AHL for the 1984-85 season. There, Otto easily adapted to the next level of play, scoring 27 goals and 63 points in 56 games, which earned him a callup to the Calgary Flames for the final 17 games of the season as well as three playoff games. Following the elimination of Calgary from the playoffs, Otto was called upon to make his international debut for the United States at the 1985 World Championships, playing in 86 games that season, nearly three times as many as he had during his final year of college the year before.
In the NHL to stay, Otto played in 79 games with the Flames during 1985-86, racking up 59 points thanks in part to a career high 25 goals. The Flames once again qualified for the playoffs, where they went on a run all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals, giving Otto and the Flames 22 games of valuable playoff experience.
Otto, at 6' 4", was a strong two-way player, able to score, win faceoffs as well as play in a checking role to contain the Flames strongest opponents, often drawing duty neutralizing the Edmonton Oilers' Mark Messier. Otto posted his second consecutive 50 point season in 1986-87, and later that summer Otto once more suited up for the United States in the 1987 Canada Cup.
Otto battling Steve Smith of the Oilers
He would extend his streak of 50 point seasons to four over the next two campaigns, which included his second 20 goal season with 23 in 1988-89. The Flames would earn the President's Trophy for having the league's best regular season record with 117 points from a 54-17-9 record.
The Flames would survive a seven game series against the Vancouver Canucks when Otto scored in overtime of Game 7. The Flames would then sweep the Los Angeles Kings and reach the finals by eliminating the Chicago Blackhawks in five. A rematch of the 1986 finals against the Montreal Canadiens awaited them. The teams split the first two games in Calgary and did the same in Montreal. Back in Calgary, the Flames won 3-2 and captured the only Stanley Cup in franchise history with a 4-2 win in Game 6 back in Montreal. During the playoffs, Otto scored 19 points in 22 games, fourth on the club.
The 1989 Stanley Cup Champion Calgary Flames
For 1989-90, an early playoff exit allowed Otto to once again participate in the World Championships for the United States for a second time. Prior to the 1991-92 season, he was invited to join the Americans for the 1991 Canada Cup, where he scored four goals in eight games.
After four more seasons in Calgary, which included his fifth 50 point season in 1992-93, the rebuilding Flames allowed Otto to leave as a free agent, and he subsequently signed with the Philadelphia Flyers after a dozen seasons with Calgary.
His first season with Philadelphia in 1995-96 was his best offensively, as he scored 41 points. Prior to the start of the following season, Otto was a member of Team USA at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, where the Americans defeated Canada in a best-of-three final to achieve their finest result since the 1980 Olympics.
Otto (right) and Keith Tkachuk with the 1996 World Cup trophy
Back with the Flyers for the 1996-97 season, they rolled through the playoffs, reaching the finals with a 12-3 record, only to fall to the Detroit Red Wings.
The 1997-98 season would be the last for Otto in the NHL, but not without once again wearing the jersey of the United States, as the league took a break from it's regular season schedule to allow it's star players to compete in the 1998 Olympics in Japan.
Otto retired at the conclusion of the 1997-98 season with 943 games played, 195 goals and 313 assists for 508 points and 1,934 penalty minutes and a reputation as a talented two-way player and leader.
Today's featured jersey is a 1983-84 Bemidji State Beavers Joel Otto jersey. The Beavers hockey program dates back to 1946 and won seven NAIA national championships between 1968 and 1980. They then moved to the NCHA and won five NCAA Division II and one Division III national titles between 1984 and 1997.
Otto's #24 being retired by Bemidji State
In 1999, the Beavers moved into Division I and qualified for the NCAA Division I tournament for the first time in 2005 and once again in 2006.
2009 would see Bemidji State return to the NCAA's, which began with an upset of #2 ranked Notre Dame. They then won their regional with a 4-1 win over Cornell to advance to their first ever Frozen Four, where their Cinderella story came to an end with a 4-1 loss to the Miami RedHawks.
The next chapter in BSU hockey came in 2010 when they were accepted as members of the WCHA, thanks in part to their new arena, the 4,700 seat Bemidji Regional Events Center.
To purchase your own retro Bemidji State Beavers jersey, please visit our friends at VintageMinnesotaHockey.com.
Bonus Jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1988-89 Calgary Flames Joel Otto jersey as worn during the season Otto won the only Stanley Cup of his career. The Flames jersey style remained unchanged in 1980 when the team relocated from Atlanta, aside from the necessary logo change from a flaming "A" to a "C". It would remain in use through the 1993-94 season.
Labels: Bemidji State University Beavers, Otto Joel
1993-94 Toronto Maple Leafs Felix Potvin Jersey
The Toronto Maple Leafs opened their 1993-94 season by hosting the Dallas Stars at the Maple Leaf Gardens on October 7, 1993. Dave Andreychuk scored the first Toronto goal of the season at the 17:26 mark of the first period on a power play from Doug Gilmour and Nikolai Borschevsky. Andreychuk would score again in the second period for a 2-1 Maple Leafs lead before a run and gun third period saw Dallas tie the score at 2:56 before the Maple Leafs scored three times in less than six minutes to take control of the game. Borschevsky got his first at 3:43 followed by Hall Gill 34 seconds later. Robert Pearson gave Toronto a 5-2 lead and team captain Wendel Clark put the final nail in the coffin with an empty net goal at 19:09 for a final score of 6-3 win for the home team with the win going to Felix Potvin in goal.
Two days later Potvin out dueled the Chicago Blackhawks' Ed Belfour in a 2-1 Toronto win, with Potvin making 29 saves to Belfour's 23. Gill's second period goal evened the game at 1-1 and Clark got the game winner from Jamie Macoun at 10:49 of the third.
The very next day Toronto hit the ice in Philadelphia against the Flyers. They fell behind 2-0 before they caught fire and goals by Nolan Baumgartner, Pearson and a pair by Andreychuk in under seven minutes gave the Maple Leafs a temporary two goal advantage. The Flyers fought back to tie the game in the third, but John Cullen beat Flyers goaltender Tommy Soderstrom with less than two minutes remaining to give Toronto their first road win of the season.
Three days later, on October 13th, the Washington Capitals traveled to Maple Leaf Gardens, where they were rudely greeted by the host Maple Leafs, who led by 2 after the first period thanks to Pearson's third and fourth goals of the season. After Washington got on the board to make it 2-1 early in the second, Peter Zezel, Clark and then Andreychuk made the score 5-1 for Toronto and chased Don Beaupre from the Capitals goal before Clark's second of the game and Borschevsky made the final score 7-1 for the Maple Leafs. Potvin made 27 saves on 28 shots for his fourth win of the young season.
Rob Pearson
Two days later, the Detroit Red Wings came to Toronto to begin a home and home series with the Maple Leafs. Gill, Bob Rouse and Doug Gilmour's first two goals of the season staked the home team to a 4-0 lead and ended the night for Detroit starting goaltender Chris Osgood. The teams traded goals later in the second period to make it 5-1 after two periods. Detroit scored the first goal of the third period before Gilmour completed is hat trick at 18:18 of the third with a shorthanded, empty net goal. The Red Wings scored a meaningless goal with one second remaining in the game to make the final score 6-3.
The teams met again the next day in Detroit with Vincent Riendeau, who came on in relief of Osgood the night before in Toronto, getting the start in goal for the Red Wings. By the end of the first period Andreychuk, with his seventh goal of the season, and Cullen gave the Maple Leafs all the goals they would need as Potvin limited Detroit to one goal on 33 shots for his second win in two days.
Three days later the Hartford Whalers would take the lead over the Maple Leafs 1:10 into the game. The high powered Toronto offense would take control of the game from there, as Andreychuk, Gilmour, Dave Ellet and Mike Krushelnyski, the latter two with their first goals of the season, would end another goaltender's night early as Frank Pietrangelo would be yanked in favor of Mario Gosselin at 5:09 of the second period. Gosselin then surrendered third period goals to Clark, twice, and Glenn Anderson, his first of the season. Hartford scored a second goal with less than two minutes remaining in the contest to bookend the seven Maple Leaf goals.
Glenn Anderson
The Maple Leafs made their first ever trip to Florida on October 21st to face the expansion Panthers, who gave Toronto all they could handle. Both teams scored in the first period, with the red hot Andreychuk scoring his ninth goal of the season. Florida opened the scoring in the second before Pearson and Kent Manderville countered for the Maple Leafs, who led 3-2 after two. Florida tied the game at 13:16 of the third and regulation ended deadlocked. Facing overtime for the first time, Toronto pulled out the victory when Pearson's 6th goal of the season won it for the Maple Leafs at 2:17 which allowed Toronto to tie the NHL record for the most consecutive wins from the start of a season with eight. Getting his first start of he year, Damian Rhodes got the win after making 26 saves for the Maple Leafs.
Damian Rhodes
October 23rd saw Toronto remaining in the state of Florida, having made the trip up to St. Petersburg to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Mark Osborne was the hero of the night for the Maple Leafs as he scored his first goal of the season at the 10:49 mark of the second period and added his second goal of the game at 6:55 of the third for an insurance goal as Toronto blanked Tampa Bay 2-0 behind 25 saves by Potvin to claim the record for most consecutive wins to start a season with nine.
The Maple Leafs then had four days off to before having to travel to Chicago to face the Blackhawks for the second time on this date in 1993. The first period passed with no scoring as Potvin made 12 saves and Belfour only faced 6 shots. After Chicago scored early in the second period, Toronto responded just over a minute later when Borschevsky tied the game with his 3rd goal of the season. Clark scored his 7th of the year at 12:22 and added his 8th at 18:48 on a power play. At the 5:55 mark of the third period Manderville extended the Maple Leafs lead to 4-1. A goal by Chicago midway through the final period made the final score 5-2 for Toronto despite the Blackhawks holding a whopping 48-24 edge in shots on goal.
Nikolai Borschevsky
The win extended the Pat Burns coached Maple Leafs NHL record for Most Wins From the Start of a Season to 10, a record which still stands today. It was equalled by the 2006-07 Buffalo Sabres, who required three shootout wins.
Head Coach Pat Burns
The streak would end two days later with a 5-2 loss in Montreal, but was followed by a five game unbeaten run of 2 wins and 3 ties to put them at 12-1-3.
The streak of ten straight wins put the Maple Leafs on top of the Central Division with 20 points, 6 clear of the Dallas Stars (6-3-2) at 14 points. Toronto outscored their opponents 45-20 with goaltender Potvin getting 9 of the wins with Rhodes having the remaining one. During the record setting streak, Andreychuk led the team in goals with 9, followed by Clark with 8 and Pearson with 6 and one hat trick, that belonging to Gilmour.
Dave Andreychuk
A 1-7-1 stretch in late December and finishing the season 5-8-1 allowed the Red Wings to catch them for the Central Division title. The Maple Leafs were seeded third in the Western Conference Playoffs behind Detroit and Pacific Division champion Calgary Flames, despite the Maple Leafs having 98 points in the standings vs. 97 for the Flames.
Toronto was paired with Chicago in the conference quarterfinals and defeated the Blackhawks in six games before outlasting the San Jose Sharks in seven. Their season then came to an end in the conference finals when they were defeated by the seventh seeded Vancouver Canucks. The teams split the first two games in Toronto and then the Canucks won the next three on home ice in Vancouver before the series could return to Maple Leaf Gardens.
Today's featured jersey is a 1993-94 Toronto Maple Leafs Felix Potvin jersey. as worn by Potvin as the Maple Leafs set the record for Most Consecutive Wins From the Start of a Season with ten. This style of Maple Leafs jersey was first used in 1992-93 and was inspired by their 1991-92 Turn Back the Clock throwback style worn for the NHL's 75th Anniversary season.
So popular was the retro jersey that the Maple Leafs kept it's striping pattern (first appearing on their 1934-35 jerseys) and used the TBTC jersey's retro leaf crest (originally used in 1938) as their secondary shoulder logos. This was paired with their modern logo first used in 1970-71 for a classic look that has remained essentially unchanged since.
The retro leaf shoulder logos were replaced in 2000-01 when a "TML" monogram appeared with the addition of silver trim to the back numbers. There have been some variations in fonts for the names and numbers and a temporary loss of the waist stripes as a result of the transition to the new Reebok Edge jerseys in 2007-08, but not only did the retro leaf shoulder logos return, but so did the excellent addition of a lace up white neck collar when the waist striping returned in 2010-11, giving Toronto a beautiful timeless look, thanks in part to a return to the one color names and numbers used on today's featured jersey.
Bonus jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1993-94 Toronto Maple Leafs Doug Gilmour jersey as worn by Gilmour during the Maple Leafs record setting streak. Gilmour would go on to lead Toronto in scoring that season with 111 points, good for fourth overall in the NHL that season and second in assists with 84.
Today's video section begins with Potvin flashing the leather and robbing everyone in sight. Rock on!
Next, Felix the Cat duking it out with Ron Hextall just because we can't resist a good goalie fight.
Here is a tribute to Gilmour on the occasion of his jersey #93 being honored by the Maple Leafs.
Doug Gilmour Part 2
Finally, the rock 'em, sock 'em Clark leaves a path of destruction in his wake with his Old Time Hockey style.
Labels: Gilmour Doug, Potvin Felix, Toronto Maple Leafs
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It moves me!
In 1814, about a week after the city of Washington had been badly burned, British troops moved up to the primary port at Baltimore Harbor in Maryland. Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in the Harbor on September 13th to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes who had been captured during the Washington raid.
The two were detained on the ship so as not to warn the Americans while the Royal Navy attempted to bombard Fort McHenry. At dawn on the 14th, Key noted that the huge American flag, which now hangs in the Smithsonian's American History Museum, was still waving and had not been removed in defeat. The sight inspired him to write a poem titled Defense of Fort McHenry.
The poem was eventually set to music that had originally been written by English composer John Stafford Smith for a song titled "The Anacreontic Song". The end result was the inspiring song now considered the national anthem of the United States of America. It was accepted as such by public demand for the next century or so, but became even more accepted as the national anthem during the World Series of Baseball in 1917 when it was sung in honor of the brave armed forces fighting in the Great War. The World Series performance moved everyone in attendance, and after that it was repeated for every game. Finally, on March 3, 1931, the American Congress proclaimed it as the national anthem, 116 years after it was first written.
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
It never ceases to move me.
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Larissa Kyzer: What's in a Name?
Among the many idiosyncratic things that people know about Iceland is that the country has an official naming committee, or Mannanafnanefnd, which dictates what names people can and cannot give their children. In case you didn’tknow this, however, let me fill you in on the basics.
The basic rules for Icelandic names are as follows:
The name must decline according to the rules of Icelandic grammar.
The name must be spelled according to Icelandic conventions.
The name must “not cause the bearer embarrassment.”
Girls must be given names that are considered female; boys must be given names that are considered male.
No one can have more than three names.
The naming committee also maintains a list of approved names. And if you want to name your child Jón Þór or Anna María (the most popular first-middle name combos for males and females in 2014), this really poses no problem.
If you want to name your child something a little more unusual, however—a very old family name, a foreign name, or even a name that you just made up yourself—then you have to apply to the committee for permission. If you’re in luck and the petition is approved, well then, your name is added to the register and generations of Icelanders should be able to use it ever after. But if rejected, you either have to pick a new, approved name or make due with your child being referred to as “Stúlka” or “Drengur” (Girl or Boy) on all of their official documents for the foreseeable future. (For more on this purgatorial namelessness, see the finally resolved case of Blær Bjarkardóttir Rúnarsdóttir or the as-yet-unsettled case of siblings Harriet and Duncan Cardew.)
As you might expect, the naming law has irked many Icelanders over the years, not least Reykjavík’s former mayor who once called it an “unfair, stupid law against creativity” and recently went so far as to have his own name legally changed to Jón Gnarr (from Jón Gnarr Kristinsson) in Texas because the naming committee rejected his petition to “take up a new surname.” On the other hand, defenders of the naming law argue that it safeguards both Iceland's linguistic heritage, and also protects children from having embarrassing, unpronounceable, or unwieldy names. (This issue will not be leaving the public eye any time soon: a new bill has been introduced to parliament proposing that the naming committee be dismantled all together.)
I'm not going to stage a lengthy argument for or against the law here, because regardless of how I feel about the naming committee or the naming law itself, I can't help but be fascinated by process through which a name is rejected or approved. The naming committee publishes all of the petitions it reviews, along with the rationale for each decision, on their website. Some of these are rather lengthy, and many seem to contradict each other. And so with the most recent batch of decisions coming out last week, I thought I'd take an opportunity to look a little more closely at some names that have made the cut (or haven’t) and why.
Rejected:
Bad news first.
Huxland (requested 2014)
Huxland ran into trouble because the committee believed it wasn't consistent with Icelandic grammar. “In the first place,” reads the decision, “the name Huxland looks like a middle or family name.” In Iceland, the explanation continues, there are some family names that are also used as given names, such as Smári or Viðar. But these names have essentially been grandfathered in—there are enough examples of them being used in both ways throughout Icelandic history that they've created a precedent for themselves. But there is no tradition of geographical or topographical suffixes, such as fjörð (fjord), fell (hill; mountain), or, as in the case of Huxland, land (land; earth; country), being used in given names—just in last names or middle names.
Furthermore, the decision continues, based on the suffix -land, Huxland would bea neuter word, and having a neuter-gendered noun as a personal name is not in keeping with the Icelandic naming system.
Joakim (requested 2015)
At first look, Joakim appears to be more in line with Icelandic spelling conventions than its other common international spellings—Joachim or Joaquim—since the letters C and Q (as well as W and Z) were removed from the Icelandic alphabet in the 70s and 80s. Nevertheless, this name wasn’t seen to comply with spelling conventions. Per the decision, the vowel combination 'oa' is not found in Icelandic names—a more appropriate Icelandic spelling would be 'óa' (that's an accented 'ó'—a separate letter with a separate pronunciation in Icelandic). The committee suggested that the name could be approved if the adjusted spelling were implemented instead.
But the problems don't end here for Joachim. Because in addition to spelling discrepancies, the name is also rather clearly of foreign origin. A provision exists within the naming law to protect foreign names which were adjusted to match Icelandic spelling conventions and adopted in past centuries, going back to the first Icelandic census in 1703. A primary way for the naming committee to determine a foreign name appropriate for use in the modern day is to refer back to old census records and confirm that at least one of the following conditions is met:
The name is currently borne by at least 15 Icelanders
The name is currently borne by 10-14 Icelanders, the oldest of whom is at least 30 years old
The name is borne by 5-9 Icelanders, the oldest of whom is at least 60 years old.
The name is borne by 1-4 Icelanders and appeared in the 1910 or 1920 census.
The name isn't currently borne by any Icelanders, but appears in at least two censuses between 1703 and 1920.
Poor Joakim didn’t meet any of these qualifications, and so was rejected twice over.
Other recent rejects
Fletcher (2014) doesn’t decline in Icelandic and neither does Clinton (2014), which also didn’t comply with spelling conventions, as it starts with a ‘C.’
Eldflaug (2013) is the Icelandic word for ‘missile’ or ‘rocket.’ Although there is a precedent for common nouns to be used as names in Icelandic, the committee stated that it was uncommon for tools or other pieces of equipment to be used thusly. Moreover, while the name was actually being requested by an adult woman to use herself, if approved, it could have been chosen for children. It was thought that such a name could cause a child embarrassment.
Aðalvíkingur (requested 2015)
Directly translated, this name means ‘Chief/Head/Main Viking,’ although the applicants specifically explained that it is meant to be a combination of the male names Aðalsteinn and Víkingur. It was rejected in 2012 because of the committee’s sense that it didn’t conform to existing naming conventions of using the prefix ‘Aðal-’ in place names, such as Aðalvík (Main Bay), and also because it was essentially too unwieldy. This decision was, however, reconsidered on the grounds of some rather convoluted grammatical explanations, as well as the fact that there was an Icelandic man with the name in 1954.
Auður (requested 2013)
Auður is actually a very common female name in Iceland—1,086 women had the name as of 2014. In this case, however, the petitioners wanted to use it as a boy’s name. First, it had to be determined that the name could decline as a masculine name as well as a feminine one. This wasn’t a problem because the common noun, auður, which means ‘wealth’ or ‘riches,’ already exists as a masculine noun. So while a woman named Auður would decline her name one way (Auður, Auði, Auði, Auðar), a man’s name could be easily differentiated with its own, masculine declension (Auður, Auð, Auði, Auðs).
Next, it had to be determined that a) the name wouldn’t embarrass the bearer, and b) that it really qualified as a man’s name, as boys are not allowed to be given ‘girls’ names’ or vice versa. Here, Mister Auður was successful as well, since his name is already recognized as being masculine (in the noun form, if not as a name), and secondly, because men named Auður were found to be listed in the Book of Settlements and in the Saga of Hörður.
Other recent approvals:
Christel (2013): Although this name begins with a ‘Ch’, which doesn’t conform to spelling conventions, there were, luckily, seven people in the National Register with the name, the oldest of whom was born in 1928. As such, there is a precedent for its use, and that overrides the spelling issue.
Jagger (2014): I very much doubt that there is a historical precedent for the name Jagger in Iceland, but this wasn’t mentioned in the committee’s approval. The name can be declined, and on that basis, was approved.
Þyrnirós (2013): This means thorned rose, and is the Icelandic name for the fairy tale character known in English as Sleeping Beauty. It declines very easily in Icelandic, as the word rós (rose), as both a noun and a name, is very common.
Larissa Kyzer is a writer and student of the Icelandic language at the University of Iceland. She currently lives in Reykjavík with her partner Mark and blogs about life and language-learning at ethandthorn.wordpress.com.
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The Only Democracy? » Human Rights Activists in the Crosshairs » Letter from an Israeli military prison
Letter from an Israeli military prison
December 13th, 2010 | Add a Comment
from Abdallah Abu Rahmah.
Ed’s Note: As I participated in the December 10th TIAA-CREF Day of Action on Human Rights Day, I felt I had gained a new holiday to my calendar. At the end of the day, as I was unwinding, I received this letter from imprisoned leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah over email, and saw it posted at sites such as Huffington Post. It is a common observation among those of us who work for human rights here in the United States that we would likely be imprisoned or worse for doing the exact same kind of work as Palestinians. This letter brought the point home much more forcefully for me. My daughter just turned three. When I think of all that I would have missed in her life had I been imprisoned for the past year, her newly long and articulate sentences, her starting school, her greater ability to sleep at night and control her body, I am shaken. I hope I would have the courage that Abdallah Abu Rahmah, his family, and so many others to do this work facing those risks. Here is the message in full.
A year ago tonight, on International Human Rights Day, our apartment in Ramallah was broken into by the Israeli military in the middle of the night and I was torn away from my wife Majida, my daughters Luma and Layan, and my son Laith, who at the time was only nine months old.
As the coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements I was convicted of “organizing illegal demonstrations” and “incitement.” The “illegal demonstrations” refer to the nonviolent resistance campaign that my village has been waging for the last six years against Israel’s Apartheid Wall that is being built on our land.
I find it strange that the military judges could call our demonstrations illegal and charge me for participating in and organizing them after the world’s highest legal body, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, has ruled that Israel’s wall within the occupied territories is illegal and must be dismantled. Even the Israeli supreme court ruled that the Wall’s route in Bil’in is illegal.
I have been accused of inciting violence: this charge is also puzzling. If the check points, closures, ongoing land theft, wall and settlements, night raids into our homes and violent oppression of our protests does not incite violence, what does?
Despite the occupations constant and intense incitement to violence in Bil’in, we have chosen another way. We have chosen to protest nonviolently together with Israeli and International supporters. We have chosen to carry a message of hope and real partnership between Palestinians and Israelis in the face of oppression and injustice. It is this message that the Occupation is attempting to crush through its various institutions including the military courts. An official from the Israeli Military Prosecution shamelessly told my Attorney, Gaby Lasky, that the objective of the military in my prosecution is to “put an end” to these demonstrations.
The crime of incitement that I have been convicted of is defined under Israeli military decree 101 regarding the prohibition of hostile action of propaganda and incitement as “The attempt, verbally or otherwise, to influence public opinion in the Area in a way that may disturb the public peace or public order” and carries a 10 year maximal sentence. This definition is so broad and vague that it can be applied to almost any action or statement. Actually, these words could be considered incitement if they were spoken in the occupied territories.
On the 11th of October of this year I was sentenced to 12 months in prison, plus 6 months suspended sentence for 3 years, and a fine. My family and I, especially my daughters, were counting the days to my release. The military prosecution waited until just a few days before the end of my sentence before appealing against my release, arguing that I should be imprisoned longer. I have completed my sentence but remain in prison. Though international law considers myself and other activists as human rights defenders, the occupation authorities consider us criminals whose freedom and other rights must be denied.
In the year that I have spent in prison, the demonstrations in Bil’in, Naalin, Al Maasara, and Beit Omar have continued. Nabi Saleh and other villages have taken up the popular struggle. Within this year, the International campaign calling for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions of Israel until it complies with International law has grown considerably, as have legal actions against Israeli war crimes. I hope that soon Israel will no longer be able to ignore the clear condemnation of its policies coming from around the world.
In the year that I have spent in prison, my son Laith has taken his first steps and said his first words, and Luma and Layan have been growing from children to beautiful young girls. I have not been able to be with them, to walk holding their hands, to take them to school as they and I are used to. Laith does not know me now. And my wife Majida has had to care for our family alone.
In 2010 children in Bil’in and throughout the West bank are still being awakened in the middle of the night to find guns pointed at their heads. In the year that I have spent in prison, the military has carried out dozens of night raids in Bil’in with the purpose of removing those involved in the popular struggle against the occupation.
Imagine if heavily armed men forced their way into your home in the middle of the night. If your children were forced to watch as their father or brother was blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken away. Or if you as a parent were forced to watch this being done to your child.
This week the door of our cell was opened and a sixteen year boy was pushed inside. My friend Adeeb Abu Rahmeh was shocked to recognize his son, Mohammed, whom Adeeb had not seen since he himself was arrested during a nonviolent demonstration 16 months ago.
Mohammad smiled when he saw his Father, but his face was red and swollen and it was clear that he was in pain. He told us that he had been taken from his home two nights previously. He spent the first night blindfolded and shackled, being moved from one place to another. The next day after a terrifying, disoriented, and sleepless night he was taken to an interrogation room, his blindfold was removed and an interrogator showed him pictures of people from the village. When questioned about the first picture he told the interrogator that he did not recognize the person. The interrogator slapped him hard across the face. This continued with every question that Mohammad was asked: when he did not give the answer that the interrogator wanted, he was slapped, punched and threatened. Mohammad’s treatment is not unusual.
Young boys from our village have been taken from their homes violently and report being denied sleep, food, and water and being kept in Isolation and threatened and often beaten during interrogation.
What was unusual about Mohammad is that he did not satisfy his interrogator and with competent representation was released within a few days. Usually children, just because they are children, will say whatever the interrogator wants them to say to make such treatment stop. Adeeb, myself, and thousands of other prisoners are being held in prison based on testimonies forced or coerced out of these children. No child should ever receive such treatment.
When the children who had testified against me retracted what they said in interrogation and told the military judge that their testimonies where given under duress, the judge declared them hostile witnesses.
Adeeb Abu Rahmah and I are the first to be convicted with incitement and participation in illegal demonstrations since the first Intifada but, unfortunately, it does not seem that we will be the last.
I often wonder what Israeli leaders think they will achieve if they succeed in their goal of suppressing the Palestinian popular struggle? Is it possible that they believe that our people can sit quietly and watch as our land is taken from us? Do they think that we can face our children and tell them that, like us, they will never experience freedom? Or do they actually prefer violence and killing to our form of nonviolent struggle because it camouflages their ongoing theft and gives them an excuse to continue using us as guinea pigs for their weapons?
My eldest daughter Luma was nine years old when I was arrested. She is now ten. After my arrest she began going to the Friday demonstrations in our village. She always carries a picture of me in her arms. The adults try to look after her but I still worry for my little girl. I wish that she could enjoy her childhood like other children, that she could be studying and playing with her friends. But through the walls and barbed wire that separates us I hear my daughter’s message to me, saying: “Baba, they cannot stop us. If they take you away, we will take your place and continue to struggle for justice.” This is the message that I want to bring you today. From beyond the walls, the barbed wire, and the prison bars that separate Palestinians and Israelis.
Abdallah Abu Rahmah gets one year in prison despite international outcry
A year in jail not enough punishment for protesting
Filed under: Human Rights Activists in the Crosshairs · Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Bil’in, Ofer Prison, Protests Against the Wall
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The Book You Have to Read: “Cutter and
Bone,” by Newton Thornburg
(Editor’s note: Consider this Rap Sheet bonus day. Rather than presenting just one new installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books, you’re getting a twofer. The first selection--and the 10th entry in our series-- comes from Kirk Russell, the San Francisco-area author of three tense eco-thrillers: Shell Games [2003], Night Game [2004], and Deadgame [2005]).
There was a film, Cutter’s Way (1981), so it’s not as though Newton Thornburg’s 1976 novel, Cutter and Bone, completely fell through the cracks. And there was a reissue in 2001 with an introduction by George Pelecanos, but I wonder how many of those were sold. Cutter and Bone seems to have faded into that other century and stuff that happened once; yet I don’t think anyone I’ve read before or since caught a moment in time so well. Thornburg nailed something about a California I knew post Vietnam, a place with an empty, angry angst in some of the guys coming home. He wrote to something irretrievable.
At the story’s center there’s Richard Bone, a former ad man who has abandoned his family and career and moved to California, where he can live along the distant borders of ever having to care about anything ever again. He gets drunk. He gets high. He’s still narcissistic enough to keep his body intact, so he can get by as a gigolo. And then there’s Alex Cutter, seriously injured by a Claymore mine in Vietnam as well as by the subsequent reconstructions of his body. Pelecanos quoted Thornburg’s memorable description of Cutter in his 2001 intro:
What a sight the man made, what a celebration of the grotesque: the thinning Raggedy Ann hair, the wild hawk face glowing with the scar tissue of too many plastic surgeries, the black eye over the missing eye and the perennial apache dancer’s costume of tight black pants and black turtleneck sweater with the left sleeve knotted below the elbow, not pinned up or sewed but knotted, an advertisement, spit in your eye.
One night, Bone witnesses a young woman’s body being dumped into a trash can; and later, looking at a newspaper photo of a corporate magnate, he thinks he recognizes a similarity to the man whose silhouette he saw in darkness and from a distance, throwing away what he thought at the time might have been golf clubs. Even after blurting, “It’s him,” Bone would have blown it off and purposefully forgotten the girl. But for Cutter, just the similarity to the corporate magnate in that newspaper photo--the “cornpone millionaire” J.J. Wolfe of Missouri--is enough, and even Bone’s backtracking doesn’t change things. As Cutter puts it,
“Look, man, I know you. I was there, remember? The second you saw that picture, it was all over your mug--that first split second before you had time to think, to sickly the thing o’er with the pale cast of apathy.”
Cutter and Bone go back and forth on whether it was Wolfe that Bone saw. They read that the murder victim was a high-school girl, popular, a cheerleader. But this isn’t about the victim. It’s about what happened to Cutter in Vietnam and to the country he knew. It’s hatred of all the J.J. Wolfes in the world and all the people who got America into Vietnam and what Cutter sees in their corrupt impunity. He asks Bone,
“Are we going to do something about it?”
“Not me. What would a man like that be doing with a cheerleader?”
However, Bone still wants no part of this trouble, and Cutter is not exactly saying they ought to bring Wolfe to justice. Cutter and Bone is not a book about a crime and the restoration of social order. Cutter wants revenge against a thing he knows he’ll never really reach. He says to Bone,
“I just want to know, that’s all. If it was him.”
“Cause I don’t like him, that’s why.”
So they investigate and a crime gets solved. What doesn’t get solved is what’s irreversibly lost, and so hauntingly written about by Thornburg. And then there’s the last paragraph of the novel, maybe one of the all time greats in crime fiction.
Next Friday, San Francisco author Louise Ure will have the pleasurable task of choosing her own “forgotten book” for this page. I’m always drawn in by Ure’s protagonists. They never feel fake. They’re fiercely independent, but the real hook and a very compelling one in her writing is an underlying humanity. It radiates from Forcing Amaryllis (2005) and The Fault Tree (2008), her first two novels, and I’m sure it’ll also be there in Liars Anonymous, her third.
READ MORE: “Newton Thornburg’s Novel Cutter and Bone Is Published on September 13, 1976,” by Phil Dougherty (HistoryLink); “When Adaptations Go Bad--Cutter’s Way,” by Chip Smith (Unfit for Print); “Friend and Foil,” by Philip Herrera (Time); “Cutter’s Way (1981),” by Andrew Nette (Film Noir of the Week).
Labels: Books You Have to Read, Newton Thornburg
pattinase (abbott) said...
I think that's the second time Cutter and Bone has been chosen. Have to run that one down.
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Sheryl Crow’s New Album of Collaborations Features an All-Star Cast of Country Stars
Sheryl Crow released the art and track listing for her upcoming album of collaborations, Threads, which is set to drop on Aug. 30. The 17-song album features collaborations with a number of country artists, including Maren Morris, Chris Stapleton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Margo Price, Jason Isbell, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill. Sheryl…… MORE
Darius Rucker & Friends Help Raise $425,000 for St. Jude With 2019 Concert & Golf Tourney
Darius Rucker is a man on a mission. With his 10th annual Darius & Friends Benefit Concert on June 3 at the Ryman Auditorium and golf tourney on June 4, Darius surpassed $2 million raised for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This year’s concert, auction and golf tourney raised more than $425,000 for St. Jude,…… MORE
Maren Morris & Stevie Nicks Team Up With Sheryl Crow for New Single, “Prove You Wrong” [Listen]
Maren Morris and Stevie Nicks lent their vocals to Sheryl Crow’s new single, “Prove You Wrong,” which will impact country radio on June 17. The new single will be featured on Sheryl’s upcoming duets album, Threads, which is set to be released this summer. The 17-song offering includes collaborations with Johnny Cash, Keith Richards, Joe…… MORE
CMT Awards Add Performers Luke Combs, Keith Urban, Zac Brown Band, Sheryl Crow, Brett Young & More
CMT announced an additional round of artists scheduled to perform at the CMT Awards on June 5: Boyz II Men, Brandi Carlile, Brett Young, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Luke Combs, Sheryl Crow, Tanya Tucker, Trombone Shorty and Zac Brown Band. Previously announced performers include Carrie Underwood, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke…… MORE
Marty Stuart’s “Late Night Jam” to Feature Dierks Bentley, Sheryl Crow, Steve Miller & More During CMA Fest Week
Marty Stuart’s 18th annual Late Night Jam will return to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday, June 5 at 9 p.m. CT. The event, in association with Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music, will take place during CMA’s Music Festival week and feature a hand-picked lineup of musicians and entertainers, including Steve Miller, Sheryl Crow, Dierks…… MORE
Sheryl Crow Releases Powerful New Johnny Cash Duet, “Redemption Day” [Watch Video]
Sheryl Crow brought Johnny Cash back to radio airwaves on April 19 with a little editing ingenuity. Sheryl released a re-booted version of her song, “Redemption Day,” in the form of a duet with the Man in Black. After touring war-torn Bosnia with First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1996, Sheryl penned “Redemption Day” and included…… MORE
George Strait, Vince Gill, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack, Sheryl Crow & More to Perform at Willie Nelson Tribute Concert
An all-star cast of performers will hit the stage to pay tribute to country icon Willie Nelson at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Jan. 12. The tribute concert—Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw—will feature performances by Alison Krauss, The Avett Brothers, George Strait, Jack Johnson, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack, Lyle Lovett,…… MORE
Watch Rachel Reinert “Play It Forward” by Covering Sheryl Crow’s “Strong Enough”
Rachel Reinert, formerly of Gloriana, stopped by the Nash campus last week to chat with Elaina Smith for her Women Want to Hear Women podcast (you can listen here). One of the podcast’s segments—“Play It Forward”—beckons the featured artist to perform a song from another female’s catalog. For her Play It Forward, Rachel covered Sheryl…… MORE
“Women Want to Hear Women With Elaina” Featuring Rachel Reinert
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve heard from Rachel Reinert, who was part of Gloriana from 2008 to 2016. Now, Rachel is doing her own thing as a solo artist—and she has a cool new single, “Cool.” Rachel stopped by the Nash campus earlier this month and chose Women Want to Hear Women…… MORE
Watch Sheryl Crow Perform the National Anthem Before Game 7 of the Predators 2nd Round Playoff Series
During the Nashville Predators 2017 playoff run to the Stanley Cup Finals, the Preds brought out some of country music’s biggest starts to sing the national anthem on their home ice, including Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Vince Gill, Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, Kelly Clarkson, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Dierks Bentley and Faith…… MORE
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How can ethical market economies be encouraged to reduce the gap between rich and poor?
IMF estimates Gross World Product will grow 3.1% in 2016 and 3.4% in 2017. Meanwhile, concentration of wealth is increasing, income gaps are widening, employmentless economic growth seems the new norm, return on Investment in capital and technology is usually better than labor, and future technologies can replace much of human labor; hence, long-term structural unemployment is a “business as usual” surprise free forecast.
However, the gap between advanced and developing economies is expected to keep diminishing, with the emerging market and developing countries continuing to grow considerably faster, given their increasing labor force and expanding markets potential, versus the advanced economies, which are mostly replacement markets. As their economic power grows, local brands are also increasingly taking over foreign companies, further consolidating the economic and political positions of their countries, and unfolding new opportunities. Building on the success of the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals will further engage the international community to reduce inequality within and among countries, by a more comprehensive approach that includes social, economic and environmental dimensions along with increased accountability.
Poverty is decreasing around the world:
By 2030, the global middle class is expected to grow by 66% – about 3 billion more consumers with increased purchasing power and expectations.
According to the World Bank, the share of people in the world living on less than $1.9 a day fell from about 44% (1.99 billion people) in 1981, to 35% (1.85 billion people) in 1990, 12.4% (some 891 million people) in 2012, 10.7% (767 million people) in 2013, and the UN SD goal is to eliminate in by 2030.
The number of people in the developing world living on less than $3.1/day declined from 2.9 billion in 1990 to 2.1 billion in 2012; the population of people in developing country has increased from 4.4 billion to over 6 billion over that period.
The ILO reports that the number of working poor has also declining globally; from the early 2000´s to 2015, the number of workers living below $1.9/day declined from 33.2 per cent to 12.0 per cent, while the number of the workers living below $3.1/day declined from from 57.3 per cent to 27.9 per cent over the same period.
ILO estimates that the rate of workers living in extreme poverty conditions will continue to decrease to some 7% by 2020.
According to UNDP’s Multidimensional Povery Index, about 1.5 billion people — a third of the population of the 91 countries covered by the index — live in multidimensional poverty and another 800 million people are highly vulnerable to it, and over 80% of the world's population lack comprehensive social protection.
In the framework of the 17 SDGs to end all forms of poverty everywhere, the target is to reduce world's extreme poverty to below 9% by 2020 and no more than 3% by 2030. Going beyond reducing poverty, the SDGs require countries to adopt fiscal, wage, and social protection policies to reduce inequality and have the society at large benefit of increasing prosperity.
Economic gap among countries is diminishing: World output passed $100 trillion (PPP) in 2013, reached almost 108 trillion in 2014, and is expected to be close to 150 trillion by the end of 2020. The average annual growth rate has been 3.4% over the past three years and the IMF projects a steady economic growth of 3.5% in 2015, 3.8% in 2016, and 4% in 2020, while the World Bank expects a global economic growth at an average of about 3.3% through 2017.
Developing countries growing faster: although the rate of growth of emerging market and developing economies has slowed down from an average of 7.4% in 2010 to 4.5% in 2014, IMF forecasts a continued growth at 4.3% in 2015, 4.7% in 2016, and 5.3% in 2020, considerably higher than the rate of growth of advanced economies
Advanced economies slow recovery: 1.8% economic growth in 2014 is projected to slowly pick up to 2.4% in 2015 and 2016, and 1.9% in 2020.
The share of world GDP (PPP) of G7 countries has been decreasing from over 50% in 1990, to some 33% in 2014 and expected to further decrease to 29% in 2020, while that of emerging markets and developing economies has been increasing from 36% in 1990 to 57% in 2014 and pass 60% in 2020.
GDP of the BRICS is expected to reach $36.43 trillion in 2015, surpassing that of the G7, which is projected to be some $35.86 trillion.
In 2014, the BRICS established the New Development Bank headquartered in Shanghai with a regional center in Johannesburg, and a $100 billion Contingency Reserve Agreement to provide liquidity protection to member countries in case of need.
The PwC projects that by 2050, the world's three biggest economic powers (PPP) will be China, India, and the U.S., each of them with a GDP greater than the next three largest economies (Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico) combined.
Per capita income gap will persist for the foreseeable future: Given the low economic starting point and their high population, emerging market and developing economies still have a long way to go for reducing the GDP per capita gap.
GDP per capita of emerging market and developing economies grew at 3.5% in 2014 and is expected to continue at 3.1% in 2015, 3.6% in 2016 and 4.2% in 2020. This means that their GDP per capita will increase from $10,120 in 2014 to $13,841 in 2020.
GDP per capita in advanced economies will grow considerably slower compared to emerging market and developing economies, at 1.3% in 2014 and projected at 1.9% for 2015 and 2016, and 1.5% in 2020. This means that their average GDP per capita (PPP) will grow from $44,588 in 2014 to $54.861 in 2020.
Inequality is increasing globally and within countries: Increasing concentration of wealth is one of the main factors undermining the rich-poor gap reduction. The 2014 World Economic Forum identified income disparity as the most likely global risk over the next decade, while in 2015, unemployment and underemployment were seen as being both likely and serious.
UNDP indicates that over the past 20 years, within-country income inequality increased by 9% in the developed countries and 11% in developing countries.
About 75% of the households of developing countries are living in societies with higher income inequality today than in the 1990s. It notes that continuing current inequality trends versus the ‘best-ever’ inequality rate of each country could mean an extra 1 billion people living below the $2 per day poverty line in 2030.
Credit Suisse shows that by mid-2014, global wealth has reached $263.2 trillion, or some $56,000 per adult; however, $115.9 trillion of it is owned by the top 0.7% of the world population.
Oxfam International remarks that if the 2010-2014 trends continue, by 2016, the richest 1% of the people will have more than all the rest of the world together. In 2014, the wealth of 80 billionaires equaled the total wealth of the bottom 50%, compared to 388 billionaires in 2010; their combined wealth reached $1.9 trillion--an average of $24 billion each, while the average wealth of the adults of the bottom 50% is barely $784.
Across the OECD, the average income of the richest 10% of the population versus the poorest 10% is almost 10:1 today, compared to 7:1 in the 1980s and 9:1 in the 2000s.
The ratio between wages and profit is increasingly and dangerously imbalanced, undermining long-term economic prosperity. Although financial leaders are placing inequality and structural reforms on the top of the world policy agenda, effective action has yet to be seen. Meanwhile, the 1% versus 99% movement entered the consciousness of the planet and question the integrity of financial leaders and the fairness of the current economic system calling for changes toward more sustainable prosperity.
Agriculture: is the second-largest source of employment in the world, with almost 35% of the workforce (over 1 billion people worldwide). Its contribution to global GDP is only 6%, compared with 31% for industry and 63% for the service sector. The Bali Package adopted by the WTO in December 2013 is expected to address the “tariff quota”, land-use programs, export subsidies, and other measures that will improve developing countries' access to world markets, while also addressing their food security.
Unemployment: the economic slowdown and the prolonged "jobless recovery" lowering demand, might continue to affect unemployment. The ILO reports that:
In 2014, some 201 million people were unemployed worldwide, 30 million more than before the beginning of the economic turmoil in 2008
If current trends continue, global unemployment might reach over 212 million by 2019
The most affected are the youth – aged 15–24, with some 74.5 million looking for work in 2014.
Although some 40 million net new jobs are expected to be created yearly over the next five years, this does not meet the needs of an estimated 42.6 million people expected to enter the labor market every year.
About 75% of the workers worldwide do not have a stable employment relationship.
Some 48% of all employment is "vulnerable", with most of those people having limited or no access to social security or secure income.
While the number of self-employed and new forms of work is increasing, ILO found that often these are vulnerable, with low or no income or social security (e.g. globally, 52% of employees are affiliated to a pension scheme, but only 16% of the self-employed.)
About 21 million people are victims of forced labor, which generates and estimated $150 billion in illegal profits per year.
The Global Slavery Index shows that more than 35.8 million people live in modern-slavery conditions worldwide.
Employment opportunities: While unemployment persists, many businesses lack qualified workers. Hence, a better collaboration is needed among the private sector, civil society, government agencies, and education institutions to create the human capital with the qualifications needed by today's and tomorrow's job markets.
ILO notes that some estimates show that spending 1.2% of GDP on active labor market policies could create an additional 3.9 million jobs in the developed economies and the EU region.
Over 3 billion people connected to the Internet and more than 7 billion mobile subscribers provide an environment with unprecedented economic opportunities--limitless markets and possibilities for self-employment and SMEs to find markets rather than applying for jobs.
New technologies and innovations are empowering people around the world, create new forms of business, raise productivity and free up important time for increasing human creativity and living standards. However, radical changes in the concept of work and profit sharing are needed so that the entire society benefits of the potential introduced by automation and AI. Some experts forecast that 50% of today´s occupations in corporations might no longer exist by 2025. This implies life-long learning and creative intelligence to continuously adapt to the fast changing technologies as well as to the new socio-economic structures of the evolving sharing economy.
Trade is an important instrument to reduce the economic gap among countries: Presently, a third of goods cross national borders, and over a third of financial investments are international transactions. WTO indicates that in 2014, world trade increased at 2.8%. The value of world merchandise was $18.9 trillion in 2014, an only 0.7% increase compared to the previous year, given the falling price of some primary commodities; meantime, the value of commercial services increased 4%, to $4.85 trillion.
Exports from developing countries grew at 3.3%, versus 2.2% from developed countries, while imports of developing countries grew at 2% compared to 3.2% of developed ones.
The newly emerging-market middle class continues the development process through increasing local demand, while also moving lower-value jobs to other developing economies, thus spreading the prospects for global prosperity.
Tax systems and financial regulations have not kept up with the complex growth of financial instruments requiring adjustments to ensure fairness.
Many WTO agreements contain “special and differential treatment” provisions that favor developing countries;
the Aid for Trade initiative continues to help developing and least-developed countries to effectively participate in the global trading system;
the Enhanced Integrated Framework has been extended until 2022
the Trade Facilitation Agreement became operational in November 2014 to ensure that developing and LDCs get the help they need to develop their border procedures
the trade finance facilitation programmes support over $20 billion of trade transactions by SMEs in poor countries.
However, the overall participation of LDCs in world exports remains marginal, at 0.7%, and with more than 70% of their merchandise exports dependent on a few main products.
Although cautiously, WTO estimates that the world trade will grow at 3.3% in 2015, and 4% in 2016.
Some McKinsey scenarios show that by 2025, global flows could more than double or even triple compared to today, reaching $54 trillion to $85 trillion, due to growing participation of the emerging economies.
Financing development and reduce the rich-poor gap:
According to UNCTAD, FDI decreased 8% in 2014 compared to 2013, to an estimated $1.26 trillion. Given the continuous global financial fragility and geopolitical turmoil, previous forecasts of $1.75 trillion for 2015 and $1.85 trillion for 2016 might be too optimistic.
Since 2012, FDI flows to developing countries are being higher than those to developed countries. In 2014, FDI to developing countries rose another 3%, to $704 billion, representing 56% of the global FDI
China, with $128 billion, become the world's top FDI recipient
FDI to developed countries decreased another 14%, to an estimated $511 billion.
In 2014, developing Asia has become the world's largest investor region.
Investment from trans-national corporation (TNC): in 2014, investment from TNCs from developing countries increased 30% compared to previous year, reaching some $500 billion, while that from developed countries TNCs at $792 billion was similar to the previous year.
Official development assistance (ODA) by the 28 DAC countries reached $135.2 billion (net) in 2014, a 66% increased in real terms compared to 2000. Five countries continue to exceed the UN target of 0.7% ODA/GNI ratio.
Some 66% of the ODA is bilateral, being directly channeled to partner countries.
A DAC survey on donors’ plans for programmed aid to heavily aid-dependent countries revels that the declining trend in funding might continue to 2018, although ODA makes up some two-thirds of external finance to least-developed countries.
OECD is also increasing its efforts to curb economic and financial crime, including illicit financial flows out of least-developed countries, that has major impact on development and financial sustainability.
A better coordination among donor countries and programs is needed in order to assure long-lasting progress; although there are about 50 fragile states that depend on aid for a stabilization, between 2003 and 2012, 22% of all ODA to fragile states went to Afghanistan and Iraq.
South-South cooperation continues to increase, reaching 10-15% of total official aid in 2013, although in real terms it is estimated to be much higher, as the valuation of their services tends to be lower than that of western contractors.
According to Ex-Im, medium- to long-term financing to developing countries from OECD members was $97.9 billion in 2013, a 22% decrease compared to 2012, while that from China, Brazil, India, and Russia increased 10%, reaching $55.4 billion (out of which China accounted for at least $45 billion.)
Remittances--which are about three times the ODA and an important source for improving living standards in recipient countries--continue to grow steadily, given increased mobility of workers around the world.
Worldwide remittance flows are estimated to have exceeded $601 billion in 2015, out of which $441 billion to developing countries. The World Bank estimates remittances at some $610 billion in 2016 and $636 billion in 2017, out of which $459 billion, and $479 billion respectively to flow to developing countries.
The SDGs stipulate that by 2030, transaction costs of migrant remittances be reduced to less than 3% and remittance corridors with costs higher than 5% be eliminated.
Crowdfunding is estimated to have reached $5.1 billion in 2013, and the World Bank estimates that crowdfunding investment in the developing world might be up to $96 billion by 2025, of which $50 billion in China.
Geoeconomic transformation: The landscape of geoeconomic power is changing rapidly with the increasing influence of emerging economies, of multinational enterprises, and regional and local economic transformations.
Half of the world's major economies are multinationals; these businesses play a crucial role in poverty alleviation and building a sustainable economic system.
New geopolitical economic alliances are changing: the G20 is already G35+, the Group of 77 now includes more than 130 countries encompassing over 60% of the world’s population, the WTO has 161 members (accounting for 98% of the world trade)
Out of the total 603 regional trade agreement notifications, some 400 have been in force at the end of 2014, with about half of them happening over the past decade.
As regional trade agreements interlock, the scope and spectrum of multilateral trade processes will continue to expand, increasing productivity and living standards in many developing countries, mainly through outsourcing of manufacturing and service jobs to low-wage high-tech economies.
By 2025, 66% of world´s economic growth is expected to be driven by the world’s richest 600 cities (measured by absolute GDP). Out of the 25 top growth-contributing cities, 21 will be in emerging economies (a significant number of them in China), compared to today's 4 of the 25 wealthiest cities located in the developing world.
Unless better urban policies, over the next 20 years, the number of city dwellers might reach five billion (60% of the world’s population), the majority in the developing world.
Approximately 1 billion people in 96 countries now belong to a cooperative, according to the International Co-operative Alliance.
New measures of progress: New indicators that look beyond GDP are being developed, which measure progress and prosperity form multiple aspects, including social and economic inclusion, governance, and the environment. They help understand the interplay among various factors and assist policymakers with setting priorities, reshape economic policies, and improve governance. Some of the most popular new indicators considered are: Human Development Index, the Better Life Index, the Sustainable Governance Indicators, the State of the Future Index.
Richer countries used to send money, talent, and equipment to help poorer countries with mixed results; pay-for-performance is now being explored.
Long-term strategic plan for equitable economic development: The world needs a long-term strategic plan to develop a global partnership between rich and poor.
Some long-needed economic reforms could provide new funding sources for a harmonious and sustainable development, to reduce income inequality, and eventually create a basic guaranteed income for everyone to have a decent living-standard.
OECD calls for policies which ensure that wealthier individuals and multinational firms pay their fair share of taxes.
Some estimate that a tax on international financial transactions might generate up to $250 billion per year.
Outlaw tax havens, which are one of the most significant lost government financing sources. Tax Justice Network estimats that tax heavens harbored some $21-32 trillions at the end of 2010 (almost 10 trillion owned by only 100,000 people). A conservative (no growth rate applied) projection to today's GDP would mean $30-$40 trillion, or some 25% of world's GDP. Hence, outlawing tax havens could generate some $10-$15 trillion (considering a 30% tax) for social and economic programs.
Global Financial Integrity estimates that illicit outflows from developing and emerging economies totaled some 6.6 trillion between 2003 and 2012, at an average yearly growth rate of 9.4% (over twice the global GDP growth.) In 2012 (latest year with available data), the illegal capital outflows from these countries were estimated at $991.2 billion, including tax evasion, corruption, and other illicit activities; that's almost 8 times the total ODA for that year.
The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR)--a WB and UNODC partnership to identify and return of stolen assets--estimates that some $5 billion has been recovered in the period 1995-2010.
Some argue that an endowment to help finance the SDGs by the 1,826 billionaires that have a net worth of $7.1 trillion, with a 5% payout ratio would generate $355 billion a year.
A dividend on the wealth growth of the richest individuals--as an adjustment of income to productivity growth-- could be another important source to help address income and development gaps.
The UN Global Compact has more than 12,000 participants, including over 8,000 businesses in about 145 countries, combining business interests with global priorities to help poverty alleviation, climate change mitigation, and women’s empowerment, while protecting children’s and labor rights, and fighting corruption. Such Conventional approaches to poverty reduction (technical assistance and credit) that work in low- and middle-income stable countries do not work in fragile countries, which need stability first. The Post-2015 development agenda envisions increased partnerships among all actors, mainly with the private sector, emphasizing the role and accountability of large corporations concerning their social and environmental impact.
Ethical market economies require improved fair trade, increased economic freedom, a "level playing field" guaranteed by an honest judicial system with adherence to the rule of law and by governments that provide political stability, a chance to participate in local development decisions, reduced corruption, insured property rights, business incentives to comply with social and environmental goals, a healthy investment climate, and access to land, capital, and information.
Challenge 7 will be addressed seriously when market economy abuses and corruption by companies and governments are intensively prosecuted and when the inequality gap — by all definitions — declines in 8 out of 10 consecutive years.
Sub-Saharan Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's second-fastest growing region, with half of today's 30 fastest-growing economies. If these trends continue, there could be one billion people in the middle class by 2060, up from today's 313 million people (34% of the region’s population). However, half of the current middle class is significantly dependent on African diaspora; remittances to the region are projected to reach $33 billion in 2015--more than Africa receives from foreign aid--and continue to grow to to $34 billion in 2016 and $36 billion in 2017, highly facilitated by the adoption of mobile money transfer services.
Since the late 1990s, Africa experiences sustained economic growth of about 5% annually. The IMF projects that Africa will be the world’s second-fastest-growing region in the period to 2020. The AfDB projects that the economic growth is more broad-based, driven by increased continental trade and domestic demand, and infrastructure development. Yet, current per capita income levels remain low due to population growth and high income disparities—100,000 people hold 80% of the wealth, according to AfDB.
Although for the first time since 1981, less than half (48%) of Sub-Saharan Africa's population is living below $1.25/day; the number of the region's extremely poor doubled over this period, from 205 million to 415 million in 2011, representing about 35% of the world's extreme poor. The WB optimistic forecast is that extreme poverty rate will fall to between 16% and 30% by 2030. Also, the average income of the extremely poor remains at approximately half of the $1.25/day threshold, with the region having the countries with the highest rates of intensity of deprivation of population living in multidimensional poverty and the countries with the highest inequality in the world—Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, DRC, Niger, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea.
Since one in every three births will be African by 2050, and almost one in three children under the age of 18 will also be African, unless jobs creation and new forms of cyber self-employment increases considerably, poverty and social instability could be rampant.
Dependency on commodities with fluctuating prices, lack of infrastructure, and rampant corruption make economic growth and development challenging. FDI to Africa rose from $15 billion in 2002 to $42.5 billion in 2014. China is Africa's largest trading partner, financier of infrastructure, and lender to its governments. Intra-African trade continues to account for only 10% of exports on the continent and is too weak to be an incentive for changing trade patterns. This might change with the Continental Free Trade Area expected to be set in 2017, and a regional financial integration planned by 2025 (although the African Central Bank and a single African currency expectations have been postponed to 2030).The trade finance programme introduced by theAfDB in 2013, able to support up to $1 billion in trade at any time, has been expanded in 2015 to further help SMEs across the continent.
There is an increase in the promotion of small and micro enterprises through policies and funds, but township and local innovation systems are also needed to help reduce the rich-poor gap. Urban farming in the Democratic Republic of Congo is converting many unemployed people into small farmer entrepreneurs. Meantime, approximately 56.2 million hectares (5% of Africa’s agricultural land) is subject to land-grabbing, further threatening the livelihoods of the already poor.
For a steady development, the region should address in a systemic way its complex challenges: poor governance, corruption, high birth rates, gender inequality, income and location biases, weak infrastructure, high indirect costs, armed conflicts, environmental degradation and climate change, poor health conditions, and lack of education.
Middle East and North Africa:The MENA region has extraordinary potential for development given its young workforce, oil-rich countries, and economically-strategic position -- between booming Asia, fast-developing Africa, and advanced Europe. However, chaotic geo-politics with years-long turmoils across the region, volatility of oil prices, and slow pace of reforms impede a sustainable social and economic development. The drop in oil price from$110 a barrel in June 2014 to less than $55 at the end of March 2015 hugely impacted the budget of the oil-exporting countries that are based on redistribution of oil revenues rather then a sustainable economy. After the 2013 and 2014 economic slow down (at 2.3% and 2.4 % growth respectively), the IMF forecasts continued modest economic growth at an estimated 2.7% in 2015, 3.7% in 2016, and some 4% in 2020.
In some Arab countries, 50-80% of the workforce is employed by the public sector. Unemployment has been increasing over the past years, reaching 9.1% for male and over 21% for female in 2014. Youth unemployment is over 27% and ILO projects that it might reach 28.6% in 2018. The Arab Labor Organization estimates that a 1% increase of unemployment rate reduces GDP by 2.5%. Some 2.2 million people of the region live in modern slavery, with prevalence of over 1% in Qatar, Syria, UAE, and Iraq.
Remittance inflows to MENA are expected to grow from an estimated $53 billion in 2015 to $55 billion in 2016 and $57 billion in 2017. Egypt accounts for some 40% of total remittance inflows to the region.
The Arab Spring created momentum for building a more open economy and democratic society, but economic reforms are slow or non-existent across the region. Structural reforms and change of mentality to develop opportunities and the entrepreneurial spirit of the youth, and to create a climate favorable to SMEs are imperative.
Israel's strong economic development continues thanks to a favorable entrepreneurship climate and great support to innovation.
Asia and Oceania: Asia's economy surpassed that of the EU or NAFTA and although the historic speed and volume of Asia's economic growth has begun to slow, it remains a major factor in the geoeconomic transformation. Asia's middle class is expected to grow from the current 500 million to 1.75 billion by 2020. The ADB projects that developing Asia will maintain its GDP growth at 6.3% in 2015 and 2016, similar to 2014, while the WTO expects Asia's exports to continue to outpace the rest of the world, at rates of 5% in 2015 and 5.4% in 2016. In 2014, developing Asia continued to be the word's largest FDI recipient, with $493 billion, and has also become the world's largest investor region, with $440 billion.
The region has $4 trillion in fiscal revenues, $6 trillion in private savings, and the region’s richest had $35 trillion financial assets in 2013.
China is now the world's largest economy (in ppp terms) but the IMF expects its economic growth to slow down from 7.42% in 2014 (considerably slower than the average 9% since the global financial crises) to 6.8% in 2015 and 6.3% in 2016 and 2020, while the Economist Intelligence Unit is expecting China's economic growth to slow down to 5.9% in 2018. This may not keep pace with employment needs and China's leader's goal to double its GDP and income per capita for both urban and rural residents by 2020. China has more than one million millionaires and adding more than any other county. Although China brought more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history, reducing its extreme poverty rate from 84% of population in 1981 to 12% today, some 80.8 million people are still living in multidimensional poverty and 19% of the population is near multidimensional poverty.
India has 26% of the world's extremely poor ($1.90/day), and about 632 million people in multidimensional poverty (health, education, living standards composite index) . However, India's middle class has grown to over 300 million people, unemployment rate is only about 5% -- some 45 million people unemployed, and the IT sector which employs about 2.2 million directly and 8 million indirectly is expanding rapidly. India's economic growth is expected to continue, from 7.4% in 2014 to 7.8% in 2015, and 8.2% in 2016, as result of structural reforms.India has a National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme under which a villager who needs work is guaranteed hundred days of work in a year at the fixed minimum wage. This programme is a decade old, and the government has spent the equivalent of US $ 52 billion dollars on this program in the 2006-16 period.
ILO notes that over 90% of workers in China and India are without permanent contract.
India and China are the world's largest remittance receivers, with $70 billion and $64 billion respectively, in 2014. Remittances to East Asia and Pacific region are projected to continue to grow from an$123 billion in 2015 to $130 billion in 2016 and $135 billion in 2017, while those to South Asia are projected to reach 120 billion in 2015 and grow to $126 billion in 2016 and $132 billion in 2017. Remittances are extremely important to some countries such as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, where they exceeded 6% of GDP in 2013.
In Bangladesh, some 50% of the population--75.6 million people-- are in multidimensional poverty.
The 10 ASEAN economies are expected to experience a combined economic growth of 4.9% in 2015 and 5.3% in 2016, with the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), with China and India the largest investors by far, is expected to be operational by the end of 2015. China, Japan, and South Korea are negotiating a Free Trade Agreement. This would be one of the biggest free trade areas, accounting for 70% of Asia's and 20% of the world’s GDP, and representing 35% ($5.4 trillion) of world's trade. A larger Asian economic integration with ASEAN, an Asian Monetary Union, and an Asian Union are also in discussion. The search for lower labor costs and China starting to outsource manufacturing continues the intraregional restructuring.
The informal economy remains widespread across Asia, with rates in some countries of South and South-East Asia up to 90% of total employment. Structural financial reforms are needed to support further development and investment. Increasing geopolitical tensions in the Asian region, plus corruption, organized crime, pollution, growing rich-poor divides, potentials for increasing shortages of water, energy, and food make continued poverty reduction difficult. Natural disasters and the effects of climate change are threatening the development and the very existence of entire Pacific communities. Thus, there are speculations that the Asian economy as-a-whole might not surpass a middle-income level in the foreseeable future.
Japan remains the most developed country in the region. Its economy, complicated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, is expected to improve after a 0.1% contraction in 2014, by a 1% and 1.2% growth in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
Europe: The EU is one of the richest regions in the world with a GDP of €14 trillion (~$15.6), but concerns remain about eurozone countries' debt and direction of fiscal policy. The economy is expected to grow by 1.5% in 2015 across the EU, but only 1.1% in the eurozone, where unemployment is projected to remain at about 11%. Across the EU, unemployment rates vary from around 27% in Greece and Spain, to about 5% in Austria and Germany, but youth unemployment is close to 50% in some countries. The EU estimates annual youth unemployment costs at €153 billion in lost wages and taxes; however, the program of guaranteed jobs within 4 month after ending formal education has yet to be implemented by countries. The EC's €315 billion Investment Plan designed to provide economic stimulus could create over 2.1 million new jobs by mid-2018, notes the ILO. However, since the 2008 economic turmoil, labor protection has generally decreased. The divide between the creditor countries in the north and the debtor nations in the south continues to widen.
The eurozone leaders adopted a set of short- and long-term measures to save the euro and stimulate economic growth and are discussing several proposals, including a financial transaction tax across the eurozone, more centralized supervision of banks, issuance of eurobonds, and enacting a common minimum corporate tax to reduce losses to tax havens across the region. The crisis also triggered negotiations over structural reforms, which might include a tighter political integration with more solidarity and concessions on fiscal sovereignty. The Market in Financial Instruments II reform is intended to regulate financial markets and commodity prices across the EU, to prevent market distortions and abuse. The economic costs incurred by corruption in the EU are estimated at €120 billion (~ $163.8 billion) a year (close to the total EU annual budget), and some 40% of the companies participating in an Eurobarometer survey consider corruption, nepotism, and patronage to be an impediment for doing business. This is expected to be addressed by the comprehensive anti-corruption package adopted by the EC in 2011.
Collectively, the EU is the world's largest aid donor, for a total of €58.2 (~$65) billion in 2014 (including the European Investment Bank contribution), with five countries--Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, and the UK--exceeding the UN 0.7% ODA/GNI ratio. The EU's 11th European Development Fund that entered into force in 2015 totals €30.5 (~$34) billion, dedicated to financing development cooperation projects until 2020 in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, and Overseas Countries and Territories to help eradicate poverty and achieve the SDGs. With only7% of the world’s population, the EU accounts for around 20% of global trade, is the world's third largest investor region with $286 billion in 2014. FDI inflows to the EU were $267 billion in 2014, a 13% increase compared to 2013.
Economic growth of the CIS (excluding Russia), after a slow 1.9% in 2014 and an expected 0.4% in 2015 is projected to pick up to 3.2% in 2016 and 4.3% in 2020.
Russia is the world's largest country and has the fifth largest economy, but its recent economic development has been severely affected by low commodity prices, falling foreign investments, Western sanctions imposed in 2014, and restricted access to foreign loans and new technology.After a 0.6% economic growth in 2014--the lowest since the recession--its GDP is expected to contract by 3.8% in 2015 and 1.1% in 2016, to eventually pick up to 1.5% in 2020. Unemployment rates passed 5.5% in the first quarter of 2015. In February 2015, the government allocated 2.3 trillion rubles to an anti-crises plan. However, due to internal constraints such as unfavorable business environment mainly to SMEs, too much bureaucracy, and high inflation, it is difficult to stimulate growth. In 2014, FDI from the Russian Federation accounted for 92% of the total $55 billion flows from transition economies.
Latin America:Even though the region's middle class has grown 50% over the past decade, it remains a highly unequal society, with the richest 10% receiving about 48% of total income versus the poorest 10% that is only getting some 1.8%, and with continued social segregation based on income, geographical area or indigenous status. Nevertheless, during the 2000s, inequality declined considerably, including between rural and urban incomes. Yet, aWorld Economic Forum survey has found that on average, 64% of Latin Americans think that their country's economic system favors the wealthy, with the rates varying from 86% in Chile, to 32% in Venezuela. Chile and Mexico are the OECD countries with the highest income inequality. In Brazil and Mexico, inequality is at the lowest level since the 1960s when data records started. Some 40% of social inequality reduction is due to lower wage inequality, increasing number of skilled workers, and increased minimum wages, while another 13%-20% is due to more progressive government transfers. Decreasing inequality also accounts for 33%-50% of the poverty reduction in the region. The share of people living below $1.25/day dropped from approximately 12% for the last two decades of the 20th century to 6% now. However, the continuous economic deceleration since 2011 is expected toincrease unemployment from 6% in 2014 to 6.2% in 2015 according to ILO/ECLAC.
Remittances are an important source for poverty reduction in some countries. Inflows are expected to grow from estimated$66 billionin 2015 to$69 billion in 2016 and $71 billion in 2017. Mexico, with $25 billion received in 2014 was the largest recipient of the region and 4th largest in the world.
Brazil reduced the number of people living in poverty from 41 million in 2002 to 15.7 million in 2013; the middle class increased by 42 million people since 2003, and income per capita grew by 78%; it pledges to continue creating an investment-friendly economic environment and to use its rich natural resources to improve living standards sustainably. Peru has reduced its poverty rate from 59% in 2004 to 28% in 2012, but lack of opportunities increases the number of Young "backpackers" working in drug-trafficking. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) pledged to continue the efforts for poverty eradication and reduction of inequalities by increasing regional economic, social, and political integration.
After a decreasing rate of 1.3% in 2014 and an estimated 0.9% in 2015 (compared to 2.9% in 2013), IMF projects the region's economic growth to remain relatively slow, at 2% in 2016 and 3% in 2020. According to OECD, less than 4% of state revenue is generated by personal income taxes, compared with 27% in industrialized countries, while VAT is placing an additional burden on poor customers. The “shadow economy” is estimated to be about 40% relative to the formal one.
Fiscal and economic reforms are improving stability, although country and regional policies increasingly focused on national interests and ethical behavior might affect future foreign investments. After four years of consecutive growth, in 2014, FDI decreased by 19%, to a total $153 billion (from 190 billion in 2013) mainly due to the fall in commodity prices. The EU is the main development partner of the LAC region, its first investor, and second trading partner and their relations continue to strengthen. China becomes an increasingly important player in the region and it might become LAC's largest trading partner by 2017, as it continues major investments and expansion of trade with different countries (including a proposed $20 billion to finance infrastructure in the region), and its regular participation in regional forums, including CELAC.
North America: 84% of people working in the US today will still be on the job 10 years from now and 66% will still be there in 2035; however, if artificial general intelligence is created in 2030, this percent could change. The U.S. slow but steady economic recovery keeps it as the leading world economy and is likely to continue to be so for the foreseeable future, mostly due to its entrepreneurial spirit that encourages creative intelligence, and welcoming policy for immigrants with advanced technical degrees.GDP is expected to continue growing, from 2.2% in 2013 and 2.4% in 2014, to 3.2% in 2015. By November 2016, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 4.9%, although youth unemployment is 12%, many of whom finished university with high debts and few jobs matching their qualifications.
Raising the minimum wage is long over due. The first three years of economic recovery (2009-2012) benefited mostly the rich, with the average income of the top 1% increasing 36.8%, while that of the bottom 99% fell by 0.4%, continuing to widen the rich-poor gap. In 2011 and 2012, the official poverty rate was 15% (46.5 million people), 2.5% higher than in 2007, before the recession. A World Economic Forum survey has found that North Americans see increasing inequality as the most important challenge facing their region. From 1978 to 2013, for the top 350 U.S. firms, the compensation of CEOs increased 937%, versus 10.2% growth for a typical worker’s compensation, with the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio reaching 511-to-1 in 2013 (compared to 20-to-1 in 1965).
Meantime, since 2000, the gap between GDP and employment growth has been widening, increasing concerns over technology eliminating more jobs than it creates. One projection estimates that automation might replace 45% of jobs in the U.S. over the next 20 years, most of them at the middle tier. Increasing profits at the expense of lower wages is not sustainable and undermines markets at home, as well as people's confidence in the system.
The U.S. is the world's top investor, with $337 billion in 2014, but its inflows dropped to $86 billion, putting it on 3rd place after China and Hong Kong. Its trade deficit is over $500 billion, some 70% of it from business with China. The U.S. continues to provide the largest single country ODA, for a total of $32.73 billion in 2014.
Although controversial, potential trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with hundreds of amendments and the Trans-Pacific Partnership might open new global economic opportunities. Intra-NAFTA (Canada, Mexico, and USA) trade has tripled over its 20 years of existence, helping continental economic integration.
The most important economic engines of Canada are the small businesses, representing some 98% of all businesses and employing over 60% of the workforce. Altogether, SMEs employ some 90% of the Canadian workforce. The Business Barometer Index shows a nationwide relatively high small business confidence of 60.6 average, varying from 73.5 in British Columbia, to 45.7 in Alberta (where oil-dependency impacts the entire economy). However, some argue that Canada's income gap is widening, with the richest 10% holding some 60% of financial assets, more than the rest of 90% of Canadians combined, while the poorest 20% own less than 1% of the wealth and have more debt than assets. The livelihood of 400+ remote communities in the boreal and Arctic regions remains problematic and unaddressed. The merger of the Canadian International Development Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Development indicates a new approach to aid, by also including commercial and foreign-policy objectives to programs, rather than exclusively humanitarian ones.
Graphs expressing the global situation:
Poverty headcount ratio at $1.25 a day (PPP) (% of population)
GNI per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international $)
Economic Income Inequality (% income share of the richest 1%)
Graph using Trend Impact Analysis; it is part of the 2012 State of the Future Index computation (See SOFI 2012)
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Description: Arame Art Gallery was founded in 2003 in Yerevan by art collector and promoter Aram Sargsyan (PhD).
The “Mashtots” branch of Arame Art Gallery opened in 2012.
Our two Galleries, located right in the Center of Yerevan, are pleased to offer you the finest selection of original paintings by internationally renowned Armenian artists, whose works are sold exclusively through Arame Art Gallery.
Since its foundation Arame Art Gallery has been organizing many exhibitions and taking part in prestigious international art expos in USA, Europe, Middle East and Gulf countries.
Arame Art Gallery has been actively engaged in the publication of books and catalogs devoted to Contemporary Armenian Art.
Apart from the two Galleries in Yerevan, Arame Art Gallery also has branches in Los Angeles and Beirut, which are doing an important work in the promotion of Armenian Art.
At present Arame Art Gallery collaborates with over 40 painters and sculptors, whose art is highly appreciated, forming part of collections of many renowned museums and galleries.
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Chapter 18 -- Civic and Political Awareness
An account given in the history taken from the cornerstone of the old church tells of agrievance the property owners had against Thomas Judd and the Nevada Land and Livestock Company concerning the amount of water that constituted a share. On Oct. 12, 1901, Apostle Anthon H. Lund, Elder I. C. McFarlane, and President Edward H. Snow came out from Utah to meet with Thomas Judd and the aggrieved citizens of Lund and Preston. The misunderstanding came about because the directors of the Land and Livestock Company planned to sell 4,400 acres of land, which was more than the available water warranted. It came out at the meeting that Thomas Judd had already persuaded the board to cut the amount to 3000 acres. The citizens agreed to cooperate, the acreage was again cut to 2600 acres, and confidence in the company and its agent was restored.
It is significant that the church, not civil authority, was the mediator in this case, which reflects back to the early years of the church's role in the government of the Utah Territory. But with the church's avowed support of civil authority, it was inevitable that a political awareness should grow along with the growth of the colony. The schools were administered under the principle of the separation of church and state, the post office was run by the federal government, property was recorded, assessed and taxed according to civil law, and as an unincorporated town, its legal affairs were under the jurisdiction of county government, namely, the county commissioners. So in addition to being linked with Ely and the rest of the county economically, it was also linked politically. Ely had been the county seat of White Pine since 1887 when it was moved from Hamilton.
It is probable that the political preferences of the people were already set before they came to Nevada. In any case the town was split along party lines in much the same ratio as the rest of the state with a little preponderance of Democrats. Like the rest of the state, too, they had a tendency to cross over party lines in their voting with the exception of a few hard line party members who, in all probability, voted straight ticket throughout their lives. Such a political figure was J.J. Gubler, hard-core Republican, whose influence came to have an impact not only locally but county wide and state wide as well. So the people voted for their president, senators, congressman, state and county officials like citizens anywhere else. They were just as vociferous as other Nevadans in their support or opposition to Free Silver, Woman Suffrage, Prohibition and later repeal of Prohibition, which, in those years, were the issues confronting Nevada voters. When legalized gambling and liberal divorce laws became state policy, they had only indirect impact on the valley.
More to the point were local issues and town and county officials. Moses Harrison was made Justice of the Peace in 1902 and served the county as well as the town in that capacity. Others who served as Justice of the Peace were Albert Gee of Preston, Allen Wakeling Sr., William H. Ivins, Roderick D. McKenzie, Milton Gardner, Merrill Gubler and C. L. Rowe.
Three White River citizens served as county commissioners, Martin Petersen of Preston,Allen Wakeling Sr. and J. J. Gubler of Lund. Mart Petersen was elected and served as assembly man from White Pine County in 1944. John Whipple served as assembly man in 1948.
Almost always there was a deputy sheriff appointed in the area, although, in the early days his duties consisted mostly of maintaining order at the dances. Over the years Albert Gee, Tom Windous, Herbert Allred of Preston, Rennie Whitehead, Ed Hendrix, Will Hutchings, Ed Fawcett, Neil Gardner and Clinton Scow of Lund, have served as deputies. Gradually the duties of the office have increased and its scope has broadened so that Robert Bartlett, who is the deputy now, is an active member of a police force that serves the whole county and provide sefficient service, including ambulance service to the town.
Up to the time the Peabody Plan was adopted and the local schools were put under county administration, a number of the town people served as school trustees. Some of the first who served were Allen Wakeling Sr., Moses Harrison, Robert Reid, Jacob Gubler, David Gardner,and Heber Smith. A number of local people have taught in the local schools. The first of these was Orin Snow followed in those early years by Ethel Smith (Matheson), Jessie Reid (Burgess), Mazie Reid (Ashby), and LaVeta Harrison (Gibson).
Since the county plan for education has been in operation, Arthur N. Carter served for sometime on the school board. More recently Philip Carter has served on a seven-man county school board with singular success and has accomplished much for the local and county schools and for education in general.
In connection with the schools, P.T.A. is another civic service organization that has performed a needed function for the town. It has acted as a go-between with the School Board,the State Department of Education, the County Commissioners and others, raised money for desirable educational projects not otherwise provided for, scholarship funds, etc. Two recent P.T.A. presidents who performed valuable services in connection with the restoration of the high school are Mike Gardner and Bob Bartlett.
Farm Bureau and the Extension Service are other agencies that have made significant contributions to the economic, educational and cultural life of the town, with their help in farm management, sewing, food preservation etc. Marilda Whitlock, of Preston, David and Ruth Gardner, George Fawcett, Belle Gardner, Arthur Carter, Vance and Sara McKenzie, Harriet Ivins are names connected with this service.
Over the years, in times of crisis or need, the town has resorted to the mass meeting, that foundation of the democratic process that harks back to Colonial America. At such times they have formed committees to investigate, report, make contacts, and find solutions to the problem in question. This method has accomplished a number of needed improvements. Not the least of these was the return of the high school after numerous town meetings over a two year period suggested various methods of attacking the problem and united the people in a concerted effort of total dedication.
Out of the town meeting also came the idea for a Town Council. This body has been instrumental in enlisting the support of the County Commissioners in a number of projects which include oiling and improving town streets and improving and maintaining field lanes and roads. Recently a highway maintenance station has been located at the north end of town with the necessary buildings and facilities.
The recently completed Community Center is a result of the efforts of the Town Council with the cooperation of the County Commissioners. This building was obtained through the Economic Development Administration, a government Public Works project. It will provide a place for civic functions of a social, athletic, cultural and educational nature. The citizens feel that its particular value will be the contribution it makes to the school and town athletic programs. In any case its potential to provide expanded school facilities when necessary fills a pressing need. Some people who have served on the Town Council are Frank Reid, J.L.Whipple, Jeff Gardner, Ricky Hendrix, Ron Horsley, and Laine Hendrix. County Commissioners whose cooperation made a number of these improvements possible are Dr.Kendall Jones, Douglas Hawkins, Tom Collis, Dean Brunson and Raymond Urrizagga.
Neil Jensen who spent his early years in Preston has served the county faithfully and efficiently as County Recorder for many years.
In recent years several local people have served on the Soil Conservation Board, Van Petersen of Preston and Max Reid at the state level, Van Gardner and Vance McKenzie on the A.S.C. committee.
Ernest Gubler and Jesse Gardner served as chairmen of the county B.L.M. Advisory Board for a number of years.
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Welcome to Women’s Health In Women’s Hands
We’ve been online for over 10 years; our website has a long-established history as a hub for education and resources relevant to women’s health, particularly reproductive health and rights and self-help. You'll be introduced to our work with many feminists and women’s health groups as well as independent research on women’s health. Prepare to be excited, informed and challenged.
The Women’s Health In Women’s Hands vision:
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands is dedicated to a world where every aspect of healthcare that impacts female bodies, especially reproduction and sexuality, is under the collective and individual control of each body’s owner through feminist-controlled health care institutions.
Use these three simple steps to get to know us & let us get to know you
Step 1: Get to know who we are
We are feminists.
Carol Downer is the visionary behind WHWH and began her activist career in the movement for civil rights and local politics in California during the 1960s. She became active in the women's liberation movement in 1969.
The Women’s Self Help Movement: Carol Downer’s cervix starts a nationwide movement.
In 1969, small women’s health groups started up around the country at the local free clinic, many of the women, including Carol, wrote books on women’s health and did research to expose dangerous methods of birth control.
At one meeting, Carol used a speculum, mirror and flashlight to show her cervix and Self Help was started. The Los Angeles group introduced Self-Help to hundreds of women at the National NOW conference in Marina del Rey. These women invited Lorraine Rothman and Carol Downer to come to their communities, and several self-help groups were organized at each stop all over the country. These Self-Help groups and over the years, hundreds more, provided a place where women could see their cervices, talk about their reproductive health care, and learn from each other's health experiences.
Women have used Self Help developed by Carol and her co founders to set up health projects around the world.
You can read more about Carol, the movement and her co founders on our About, and Our History pages.
WHWH intention:
To educate on how to perform vaginal self-examination and deal with everyday health problems experienced by females.
To share the collectively-gained knowledge about female reproduction and sexuality by feminist health activists today and from the last five decades to today.
To present political analyses of societal forces that oppress females, and to put forth strategies and tactics to overcome these sexist forces.
To inspire, connect and support females everywhere to form self-help groups to learn about their bodies.
To equip females with knowledge and networking resources to start health projects, such as health clinics, research studies, programs, conferences and media outreach programs aimed at changing sexist medical practices.
The WHWH website has a vast amount of information for you so we have a number of ways for you to connect with us to stay up to date with what’s happening.
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AIR T, INC. BRINGS LEGAL AFFAIRS IN-HOUSE BY NAMING MARK JUNDT AS GENERAL COUNSEL
by AIRT | May 30, 2018 | Press Release
Denver, NC — Wednesday, May 30, 2018 — Air T, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRT), a diversified holding company with operations in air cargo, aviation ground support equipment and services, and aircraft engine and airframe parts sales, today announced that Mark Jundt, formerly Principal Legal Counsel of CHS Inc. International business operations and Global Litigation, has joined Air T as General Counsel reporting to CEO Nick Swenson, effective immediately. Mr. Jundt will be based in Air T’s executive offices in Minneapolis.
Air T Chairman and CEO, Nick Swenson, commented, “We are thrilled to welcome Mark to our team. He’s a proven leader with outstanding judgment and broad management, transaction and regulatory experience. Given our growing scale and plans to build upon Air T’s proven value creation strategy, it makes financial and strategic sense to centralize legal affairs with a strong in-house counsel. We are confident that Mark will enhance the success and cost effectiveness of our legal efforts as Air T pursues new investment opportunities and supports the operational success of our existing businesses.”
Mark Jundt, commented: “I am excited to join Nick and Air T’s leadership team, as they have built an impressive, diversified platform for growth that is rooted in a commitment to exemplary long-term shareholder stewardship. I look forward to supporting the continued expansion of the company and its focus of creating sustained, long-term growth from strong, cash flow generating businesses.”
Mr. Jundt brings 15 years of legal experience and accomplishment in mergers, acquisitions, litigation, risk-management, securities law and commercial arrangements. Prior to joining Air T, Mr. Jundt served as Principal Legal Counsel, International and Global Disputes, for CHS Inc., a Fortune 100 company and the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative in the global energy, grains and foods business, with over $30 billion in annual revenue. Jundt was responsible for advising CHS senior leadership on legal, regulatory and risk management. He also oversaw and managed CHS’ internal lawyers and legal departments throughout South America and Europe.
Prior to CHS, Mr. Jundt oversaw Litigation and Employment Law at RSM, an international accounting firm based in Minneapolis, MN. Mr. Jundt began his career as a commercial attorney at Blackwell Burke in Minneapolis, supporting many of the firm’s Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Jundt hails from North Dakota, where he obtained a B.S. in Business at North Dakota State prior to earning his juris doctor degree from Hamline University School of Law. Mr. Jundt is a passionate volunteer and contributor to many cancer-related causes.
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Show Me the Money (South Korean TV series)
Show Me The Money is a South Korean television rap competition series held annually. First held in 2012, Show Me the Money has grown in popularity through its four seasons.The concept of the show is to select a group of promising rappers from open auditions and whittle down that number through various assignments, with contestant survival dependent on the "producers," a group of experienced rappers who also serve as mentors. Eventually the rappers are divided into small teams headed by those producers. From there each contestant will face a different team's rapper in head-to-head single-elimination rounds where survival in the competition is dependent on votes from a live studio audience. In the third and fourth seasons, there was also a "Revival Round" in which contestants previously eliminated had a chance to continue in the competition.Season 1 (2012)The first season of SMTM was won by Loco, now signed to AOMG. This season comprised mostly amateur and underground rappers. The producers of the season were MC Sniper and the group Garion.Season 2 (2013)The second season of SMTM split the contestants into two hip hop crews. The contestants were more well-known and established within the hip hop community, notably including LE of idol girl group EXID, Jucy of idol girl group EvoL, Mad Clown, and Swings of crew Uptown. The winner of the second season was Soul Dive (소울다이브).
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› Art & Architecture › Neighborhood › Opinion › L Train Not Shutting Down—But Will 14th Street?
L Train Not Shutting Down—But Will 14th Street?
Web Admin February 4, 2019 Art & Architecture, Neighborhood, Opinion
By Arthur Z. Schwartz
Back in 2016 the MTA did an Environmental Assessment of its now abandoned plan to shut the L Train down for 15 months, so that it could do electrical repairs in the Canarsie Tunnel. That 200-page report had a half page about mitigation. It said to add some more trains going north and south in Brooklyn and add “a few more busses on 14th Street in Manhattan.”
Then in 2017, the bike rider advocacy group, Transportation Alternatives (TA for short) announced a contest. “Let’s use the closure of the L Train as an opportunity to change the face of 14th Street.” They got dozens of design entries and gave the prize to someone who proposed a “Busway” which also included cross-14th Street bike paths, where all vehicles would be barred.
Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Polly Trottenberg is a big fan of TA. Somehow, six months later, DOT announced a far more extensive Mitigation Plan, which included a 14th Street Busway and a two-way cross-town bike path on 13th Street. Our community was broadly united against the plan, because it was going to throw cross-town traffic on 12th Street, 13th Street and 15th to 20th Streets. On 13th it was impossible to see how there could be two bike lanes and any room for vehicles. Every Block Association in South Chelsea and North Greenwich Village/West Village, united as the 14th Street Coalition. It organized meetings, demanded changes from the DOT, MTA, and public officials, and then filed a Federal Lawsuit alleging violation of Federal environmental laws, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) because of the plan’s lack of attention to the disabled and the elderly.
That lawsuit got settled, after the MTA agreed to add four elevators at 14th Street and 6th Avenue, and the Feds required a new Environmental Assessment (EA) addressed to the Mitigation Plan. But that EA, though 1000 pages longs, was a fraud, in part because it didn’t consider doing work on weekends and at night, and in part because it threw out a bunch of statistics about increased bus and bike demand which were created out of very thin air. Part of what was presented was that the changes were “temporary,” and would be rethought once the shutdown was over. So, we went back to Court, arguing that the State Environmental Law was being violated. (Your author is the Coalition’s lawyer.)
Flash forward to January 2019. DOT has moved bus stops on 14th Street, added SBS bus equipment (for faster boarding), painted all sorts of weird traffic lanes, banned all left turns all the way across 14th Street, closed Union Square West, changed the direction of University Place between 14th and 13th Street, and created one-way, 16 ft. bike lanes all the way across 12th and 13th Streets. And then the Governor pulls the plug on the 15-month shutdown and says work will go on, one tube at a time, on nights and weekends.
Our community is the great place it is because 60 years ago Jane Jacobs led a fight against another DOT Commissioner, Robert Moses, who wanted to run a highway down 5th Avenue. Jane believed in community planning. In her classic book about city planning, she said: “We shall have something solid to chew on if we think of City neighborhoods as mundane organs of self-government. Our failures with city neighborhoods are, ultimately, failures in localized self-government. And our successes are successes at localized self-government… There exists no inconceivably energetic and all wise “They” to take over and substitute for localized self-management.” Then she addressed the difficulty in standing up to City Hall: “It is not easy for uncredentialed people to stand up to the credentialed, even when the so-called expertise is grounded in ignorance and folly.” The shutdown crisis was being used to take away the vibrancy of localized self-planning in Chelsea and the Village.
Wanting to regain community control, I went to DOT and said, “now that your plan isn’t needed, let’s put things back the way they were, and our lawsuit will go away.” But DOT’s response has been: “we are studying the issue, we have to assess the impact of the reduced service between 10pm and 5am.” Total malarkey (that’s an old Yiddish term.) What is really going on is that Commissioner Trottenberg wants to implement her busway anyway. (I call it “Polly’s Folly”) And although her bike lanes are largely unlawful truck parking zones, which Mayor de Blasio says he can’t police, she wants to keep the largely unused/blocked bike lanes too. The Coalition, in Court, proposed a new round of statistical study, by an independent expert, real consultation between the DOT and the four affected community boards AND with the block associations, and a 45-day warning before DOT takes one step further.
As WestView goes to press, DOT’s response has been silence…
Anyone up for a mass purchase of Yellow Vests????
Arthur Schwartz is the Village Democratic District Leader and President of Advocates for Justice.
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Edhi’s body being taken to National Stadium for Namaz-i-Janaza
Edhi's mortal remains reached National Stadium for Namaz-i-Janaza
KARACHI, July 9 (APP): The body of eminent social worker
Abdul Sattar Edhi, who expired in Karachi on Friday night, is being taken from Kharadar to the National Stadium for `Namaz-i-Janaza’.
The coffin of the legendary social worker has been wrapped in the national flag.
The Namaz-i-Janaza is expected to be attended by a very large number of people from all walks of life.
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the Namaz-i-Janaza at the National Stadium. Strict security arrangements have also been made on the occasion.
The eminent social worker will be laid to rest at Edhi Village
where he (Edhi) had prepared his own grave some 25 years ago.
According to his son, Faisal, it was the will of his father that
he be laid to rest in the same dress which he was wearing at the time of death.
It was also his will that if any of his organs could be transplanted to any needy, this be transplanted as he would feel happy.
However, due to Edhi’s age except for the cornea no organ could be donated.
The cornea of Edhi Saheb has been donated, Faisal added.
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Getty Research Institute Launches African American Art History Initiative, Acquires Betye Saar’s Archive
By Andy Battaglia Posted 09/25/18 4:52 pm
Betye Saar.
ASHLEY WALKER/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES
The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles has launched a new African American Art History Initiative with $5 million allocated for the creation of what a press release calls “a major center for the study of African American art history.” The initiative’s first big move: the acquisition of the archive of American artist Betye Saar.
The new initiative will fund a dedicated curatorship in African American art history; a bibliographer with a focus on the subject; research fellowships; an oral history project dedicated to recording the stories of African American artists, scholars, critics, collectors, and dealers; and institutional collaborations to digitize archival collections and conceive conferences, publications, and more.
In a statement, James Cuno, the president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, said, “The Getty is making a strong, long-term commitment of unprecedented breadth to the field of African American art history. The study of African American art history is fundamental to a comprehensive understanding of American art history. We aim to bring our resources, talents, and relationships together to promote advanced research in an area of American art that has been underfunded and under researched.”
Saar’s archive, the first to be acquired as part of the new program, joins those of other African American artists in the Getty’s collection, including Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, and Mark Bradford. About Saar, Andrew Perchuk, the acting director of the Getty Research Institute, said, “She played a large role in our exploration of postwar Los Angeles art that became Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, and this acquisition is a particularly meaningful way for us to launch the African American Art History Initiative.”
In the announcement, Saar herself said, “ ‘Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without’ was a common saying during my childhood. . . . I am very pleased that the Getty Research Institute shares my desire for ‘saving things’ and that they will be providing a home for many of my collections so that they will be accessible by scholars, the arts community, and the generally curious alike.”
Joining the African American Art History Initiative as a senior consultant is Kellie Jones, whose 2017 book South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s charts the migratory history of black artists making their way west and working in new and catalytic ways in California. In the announcement, Jones said, “The Getty is telling the world, through its actions, that American art has many facets. . . . In partnering with other institutions, including historically black colleges, we are also creating community through scholarship. I’m especially excited to think about the educational possibilities, at all levels, that will come out of this work.”
In addition to Jones, the initiative’s advisory board also includes noted collector Pamela Joyner, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art director Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey, Hammer Museum curator Erin Christovale, and University of California, Irvine, professor Bridget Cooks, among others.
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Sri Lankan fisher people call on Card Ranjith to mediate with the government
by Melani Manel Perera
The government wants to build a tourist resort on Negombo Lagoon that will include a seaplane port. The construction would destroy the livelihoods of thousands of people. Two activists are arrested and then released. The local Church backs the fisher people in their demands.
Colombo (AsiaNews) – Christian fishermen at Negombo Lagoon have called on newly appointed Card Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, to mediate the dispute that has put them on a collision course with the government. They want to save the area they inhabit from a tourist project that would devastate the lives of thousands of people. A special meeting was held last night at the auditorium of the Centre for Social and Religious.
The Alliance for the Protection of Negombo Lagoon outlined the latest developments in the case and the possible consequences of the ‘Seaplane’ project, which would see the construction of tourist resort with a seaplane port.
One of the members of the Alliance, Herman Kumara, said that the project would destroy the lagoon. “At the moment, government has taken a step back due to pressure from the people; however, this is temporary. We realised this when police arrest of two leaders of the campaign, Aruna Roshantha and Marcus Fernando, after they handed out leaflets last Saturday at Negombo Town”.
Even though the Seaplane project will negatively affect the lives of more than 15,000, the government appears bent on realising it. Locals are largely involved in fishing. If the new scheme goes ahead, their livelihood will be compromised by the tourist resort.
“We are living in a militarised country. We do not know what will happen to the others within few days.” Kumara said about the Negombo area.
Released on bail after his arrest, Aruna Roshantha said at a press briefing that the government is trying to stop the protest and win over the opposition.
“The authorities are very nice to us these days. They ask whether we need any financial assistance, fishing gear or assistance,” he said, “but we are not going to stop.”
Milina Kumari, an activist with a local fisher organisation, “Sri Vimukthi”, said that they found out about the project through the Church.
“Our priests helped us a lot. They are with us. But we need more attention and real mediation by the Church leadership,” she said. “I thanked the archbishop, Card Malcolm Ranjith, for asking the government to negotiate with the fishermen,” she added. “We humbly thank Archbishop [for what he has done], “but we also strongly urge him not to wash his hands by just appealing to the relevant authority in the government or to the Sri Lanka Navy to discuss this issue with us. We urge Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith to mediate to this trouble situation because 99 per cent of all the fisher people are Catholic”.
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The television series that shot Johnny Depp to stardom makes the leap to the big screen in this reboot starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) have the kind of faces that could let them pass for teenagers. Eager to prove themselves as effective policemen, the pair join the Jump Street program and go undercover to investigate a high-school drug ring. Now, the only thing more daunting than the prospect of taking on violent adolescent dope slingers is the possibility of experiencing the torture of their teenage years all over again. Ice Cube, Brie Larson, and Rob Riggle co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Based on the best-selling young-adult novel by author Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tells the dark tale of a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who is selected to compete in a vicious televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a post-apocalyptic society fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. In the future, North America is no more. In its place has risen Panem, a divided nation split into 12 districts. Every year, each district selects a teen of each gender (called “Tributes”) to test their worth in a competition known as the Hunger Games, which are broadcast across the nation as entertainment, and to reinforce the government’s total power. When her younger sister is selected as District 12’s latest “Tribute,” Katniss volunteers to take her place, and trains under hard-drinking former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) to sharpen her killer instincts. Now in order to survive the game and emerge the victor, this young combatant must put all of her skills to the ultimate test. Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Norbit director Brian Robbins re-teams with that film’s star, Eddie Murphy, for this comedy about a smooth-talking man who discovers that he has only 1,000 words left to speak before dying. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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2010 4.2 FSI V8 engine Audi R8 Spyder review and pictures
Posted on Friday, 2 July 2010 , 08:07:46 byVeronica
Filed under AudiCabrioletSuperSportGermanSupercars
The new Audi R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro is powered by the same 4.2L FSI V8 making 430-hp with a maximum torque of 317 lb-ft. The car can sprint up to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.8 seconds, while it reaches a top speed of 299 km/h (185.79 mph).
The Audi R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro comes with R tronic sequential manual gearbox.
The Audi R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro - fascinating dynamics
V8 engine with 316 kW (430 hp), quattro all-wheel drive standard
Lightweight and quiet cloth top with electrohydraulic drive
Aluminum body with large components of carbon fiber composite
Audi is adding another model to its R8 high-performance sports car lineup: Hot on the heels of the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro comes another model with a V8 engine. The 4.2-liter FSI produces 316 kW (430 hp) and launches the open-top two-seater to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.8 seconds on its way to a top speed of 299 km/h (185.79 mph). The engine is mated to the R tronic sequential manual gearbox; quattro permanent all-wheel drive is standard.
The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro has a lightweight cloth top with a fully automatic drive. Its body is an aluminum Audi Space Frame with large-area components of carbon fiber composite material. A fit and finish typical of Audi, excellent everyday practicality and optional high-end technologies - from LED headlights to seatbelt microphone - complete the profile of the model athlete.
Superior power: the engine
The free-breathing 4.2 FSI is a high-performance engine such as can be found in racing. It delivers an experience that enthralls all of the senses - with spontaneous, voracious throttle response, with its easy revving, with hefty torque, prodigious power and sonorous, voluminous music.
The V8 accelerates the R8 Spyder from zero to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.8 seconds and on up to a top speed of 299 km/h (185.79 mph). Both values apply for the manual transmission and for the R tronic. At Audi, dynamics also always means efficiency. The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro with the R tronic consumes on average 13.9 liters of fuel per 100 km (16.92 US mpg); fuel consumption with the manual transmission is 14.9 liters per 100 km (15.79 US mpg). A recuperation system that recovers energy during braking is standard. The forced oil pump of the dry sump lubrication system features various suction and discharge stages for load-dependent operation.
The 4.2 FSI, which is also used in this form in the R8 Coupe, produces 316 kW (430 hp) from a displacement of 4,163 cc - 73.5 kW (103.2 hp) per liter. At the nominal engine speed of 7,900 rpm, the long-stroke (bore x stroke 84.5 x 92.8 millimeters [3.33 x 3.65 in]) engine's eight pistons travel 24.1 meters (79 ft) each second. The electronic rev limiter kicks in at 8,250 rpm. The V8 delivers 430 Nm (317.15 lb-ft) of torque to the crankshaft between 4,500 and 6,000 rpm, with at least 90 percent of peak torque available between 3,500 and 7,500 rpm.
The compact V8, which is hand-assembled at the engine factory in Gy�r, Hungary, has the classic cylinder angle of 90 degrees and weighs just 216 kilograms (476 lb). Its crankcase is made of an aluminum-silicon alloy using the low-pressure die casting method, which ensures particular homogeneity. The high silicon content makes the cylinder barrels extremely resistant to wear.
A bedplate structure gives the crankcase its high rigidity and optimal vibration behavior. The cast iron bearing bridges reduce its thermal expansion and thus keep the play at the main bearings of the crankshaft within tight limits. The forged crankshaft, the forged steel connecting rods and the forged aluminum pistons are extremely lightweight, yet strong. The dry sump lubrication system with its separate oil tank enables the engine to be installed very low while also ensuring the supply of oil to the engine even under extreme lateral acceleration.
The high-revving V8 FSI draws its fuel from an FSI gasoline direct injection system - typically Audi. The common rail unit injects the fuel at up to 120 bars of pressure. The fuel mixture is swirled intensely in the combustion chambers and thus cools the walls. This allows a high compression of 12.5:1, for increased performance and efficiency. The 32 valves are actuated via roller cam followers by four camshafts, each of which can be moved through 42 degrees of crankshaft rotation. They and the ancillaries are driven by zero-maintenance chains running on the back side of the engine.
The 4.2 FSI breathes through straight aluminum velocity stacks 23 centimeters (9.06 in) in length integrated into the dual intake system. The intake plenum is made of lightweight plastic. Vacuum-actuated flaps controlled by the engine management system are integrated into the intake ports. They cause the air to move with a roller-like rotation (to "tumble"), which increases the efficiency of the combustion process.
The dual-branch exhaust system features dual tailpipes. The exhaust system components and the pipes of the manifold have been designed for low backpressure and are very light. The exhaust flaps in both tailpipes open at higher load and engine speed for an even fuller sound.
Dynamic: the drivetrain
The Audi R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro comes standard with a manual six-speed transmission. It works together with a compact dual-disc clutch and can be shifted extremely precisely and easily with short throws. The shift lever is made of polished aluminum, the open gate of stainless steel.
The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro is optionally available with the R tronic, a highly efficient sequential six-speed transmission. Shift commands are transmitted electrically; a hydraulic system changes the gears and manages the clutch. The R tronic offers both an automatic and a manual mode, both of which allow the driver to choose between two shift programs.
In manual mode, the driver changes gears using the joystick on the center tunnel or with the paddles on the steering wheel. At high load and engine speed, gear changes take less than a tenth of a second. The Launch Control program ensures optimal starts. It controls the engine speed and the engagement of the clutch to accelerate the open-top two-seater with the ideal wheel slip.
The quattro permanent all-wheel drive delivers the engine's power to all four wheels. Together with the locking differential on the rear axle, it provides significantly greater traction, stability, cornering speed and precision. The four powered wheels seem to claw into the asphalt at the exit of the corner, and the driver can get back on the throttle sooner than in a car with rear-wheel drive.
Due to the mid-engine layout, the quattro all-wheel drive system in the R8 Spyder is a special design with a strong rear bias. The transmission, which is mounted behind the longitudinally installed V8, has an auxiliary drive for a cardan shaft running past the engine to the front.
A viscous coupling distributes the torque at the front axle. During normal driving, it sends roughly 15 percent of the torque to the front wheels and 85 percent to the rear wheels. If the rear wheels begin to slip, an additional 15 percent is quickly sent to the front. A locking differential at the rear axle further improves dynamics. It provides up to 25 percent lockup when accelerating and up to 45 percent when coasting. If a wheel on one of the axles should slip, it is braked by the EDS electronic locking differential.
The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro is 4.43 meters (14.53 ft) long, 1.90 meters (6.23 ft) wide and 1.24 meters (4.07 ft) tall - it has a wide, hunkered-down stance on the road as if ready to pounce. Its dynamic proportions, the sculpted design and the passenger cell situated far to the front with the flat windshield visually underscore the mid-engine concept. The large vertical air intakes are athletically sculpted out of the flanks, and the shadow contour of the rear end forms a powerful wave above the wheels.
An elliptical crease encircles the long back and provides visual structure. When viewed from above, it combines the passenger compartment and the engine into a single unit. Two arched cowls in glistening silver give the back a powerful profile. They taper from the bulkhead to the spoiler lip, and each includes six integrated air vents. Another wide discharge vent is located between the cowls.
Numerous other touches - from the single-frame grille painted in high-gloss black to the exposed gas cap of solid aluminum - document the Audi designers' great attention to detail.
The headlights are technical works of art - this applies to the standard xenon plus units and even more so for the optional LED headlights, which use light-emitting diodes for all lighting functions. Their reflectors resemble open mussel shells, and the daytime running lights appear to be a homogeneous strip extending along the lower edge of the headlight. One of Audi's greatest innovations, the LED light, has a color temperature very similar to that of daylight, making it easier on the eyes when driving at night. It also impresses with a long service life and extremely low energy consumption.
The rear of the R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro features LED tail lights as standard equipment. The exhaust system terminates in dual tailpipes on both the left and the right. The rear spoiler, which extends automatically at 100 km/h (62.14 mph), and the fully lined underbody generate a downforce that presses the high-performance sports car firmly to the road. With a drag coefficient of 0.37 and the small front surface area of 1.99 m2 (21.42 sq ft), however, the two-seater still glides easily through the wind. Audi applied a lot of the knowledge gleaned in motorsport to the flow of air around and through the body.
Audi offers the R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro with a choice of three colors for the top: black, red and brown. The body is available in the solid finishes Ibis White and Brilliant Red; the metallic finishes Suzuka Gray, Teak Brown, Ice Silver, Jet Blue and Aurum Beige; and the pearl effect finishes Daytona Gray, Sepang Blue, Lava Gray and Phantom Black. The windshield frame is coated with anodized aluminum.
Just 215 kilograms (474 lb): the body
Equipped with a manual transmission, the R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro weighs only 1,735 kilograms (3,825 lb) (including driver), and just five kilograms (11 lb) more with the R tronic. The decisive factor for this low weight is the aluminum body, which features an Audi Space Frame (ASF) design.
The body in white consists of three wrought components: Extruded aluminum sections comprise 75 percent; vacuum-cast nodes 8 percent; and the aluminum panels that are integrated into this skeleton with friction connections make up the remaining 17 percent. The body is largely assembled by hand with the utmost precision.
The open superstructure features special reinforcements in the area of the sills, the center tunnel, the rear bulkhead, the floor and both the A and B pillars, yet still only weighs 216 kilograms (476 lb). The high stiffness of the ASF body, which includes a co-supporting engine frame of ultra-lightweight magnesium, provides the foundation for the dynamic handling, superior crash safety and high vibrational comfort of the Audi R8 Spyder. The body tops its segment in terms of lightweight quality - the relationship between weight, size and torsional stiffness.
The side panels of the open-top two-seater are made of ultra-lightweight carbon fiber composite material (CFRP), as is the large cover over the roof compartment. They are produced using a new method called resin transfer molding (RTM). In addition to being faster and more energy-efficient than conventional production in an autoclave, RTM also yields superior surface quality. The use of carbon fiber composite enables weight savings of up to 60 percent over conventional steel components and also permits greater design freedom.
Lightweight and convenient: the cloth roof
The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro has a cloth roof - a classic feature typical of Audi and without compromise for a high-performance sports car. The soft top's approximate weight is a mere 42 kilograms (93 lb); it thus keeps the vehicle's weight and center of gravity low. The top takes up little space when open, and is a harmonious design element when closed. It tapers off to two long, slim fins that extend to the trailing edge of the car and have an elongated contour similar to the fixed roof of the R8 Coupe.
The outer skin of the top is a leakproof textile fabric. A headliner covers the frame, which is made primarily of die-cast magnesium and aluminum. The soft top is fully suitable for high-speed driving. When driving at moderate speeds with the top up, interior noise levels in the R8 Spyder are barely higher than in the Coupe. The cloth top has an electrohydraulic drive that uses a system of actuators, hinges and hooks to open and close the top within 19 seconds, even while driving at speeds up to 50 km/h (31.07 mph). When opened, the 1.7 square meters (18.30 sq ft) of fabric folds in a Z-shape into its storage compartment over the engine. The CFRP compartment cover moves on two seven-joint hinges. The precise mechanical interaction of the two components is a pleasure to watch.
The heated glass window, which is separate from the cloth top, is lowered into the bulkhead between the passenger compartment and the engine compartment. It can be raised and lowered at the press of a switch, with the soft top up or down. An additional wind deflector comes standard. It latches into the bulkhead behind the seats in two steps and keeps the cabin nearly draft-free at speeds of up to roughly 200 km/h (124.27 mph).
The top with its rear-window module, the storage compartment, the cover and the rollover protection system forms a premounted assembly. It is inserted into the ASF body at the manufacturing plant at Audi's Neckarsulm site, where the R8 Spyder is built, lending the body additional stiffness.
Located in the bulkhead is a rollover protection system comprising two strong, spring-loaded sections that shoot up within 0.2 seconds when needed. In the event of a side impact, head/thorax side airbags in the backrests protect the passengers. Full-size airbags stand at the ready in the event of a head-on collision. In a rear-end collision, the integral Audi head restraint system reduces the risk of whiplash injuries.
Technical expertise: the chassis
Mesmerizing emotions embedded in perfect technical expertise - the R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro is an integrated system of speed. It steers spontaneously, almost reflexively, into corners and takes them with stoic composure. The limit is very high and easily controlled. The hydraulic rack-and-pinion power steering connects the driver intimately with the road. With a steering ratio of 16:1, it is sporty and direct, but never nervous in its response.
The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro has a wheelbase of 2.65 meters (8.69 ft). Its axle load distribution is 43:57 percent; the track measures 1.64 meters (5.38 ft) up front and 1.60 meters (5.25 ft) at the rear. Forged aluminum double wishbones - a principle borrowed from race car construction - locate the wheels. Their rubber-metal bearings divert the lateral forces precisely into the body while at the same time ensuring high longitudinal elasticity. The setup provides for surprisingly good comfort in everyday driving. A dedicated sports suspension is available as an option.
Another option for the R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI is Audi magnetic ride adaptive damping. The system uses magnetic fields in the hydraulic shock absorbers to adjust their response to road conditions within milliseconds and adapt to the driver's style. There is a choice of two basic characteristics. During fast cornering and when braking, the control unit reduces body pitch and roll through the targeted increase of damping force at the individual wheels.
The R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro rolls on 18-inch wheels shod with 235/40 tires up front and 285/35 tires in the rear. A tire pressure indicator is standard. Audi offers optional 19-inch wheels in a variety of designs - monochrome or two colors, polished or in titanium look.
Behind the wheels are powerful disc brakes measuring 365 millimeters (14.37 in) in diameter up front and 356 millimeters (14.02 in) in the back. To quickly dissipate the heat, they are internally ventilated, perforated and composed of two pieces - stainless steel pins connect the steel friction rings to the aluminum caps.
Black, eight-piston calipers grab the front discs, with four-piston calipers used in the rear. The 19-inch wheels are optionally available with perforated carbon fiber-ceramic discs that are extremely lightweight, robust, long-lived and corrosion-free.
The open high-performance sports car has a specially configured stability system on board. With the touch of a button, the driver can activate a sport mode that permits exciting but safe oversteer when the gas is applied while exiting a corner. The ESP together with the anti-slip control can also be deactivated completely for dynamic driving.
Luxury and dynamics: The interior and equipment
Three strengths characterize the interior of the Audi R8 Spyder 4.2 FSI quattro: the uncompromising quality with respect to the use and finish of the materials; the generous amount of room; and the high degree of practicality.
Drivers and passengers of any size find an ideal seating position in the sport seats with their pronounced side bolsters. The ring of the leather multifunction sport steering wheel is flattened. Visibility is good, with narrow A-pillars ensuring a large diagonal view to the front. Another advantage in everyday driving is the luggage compartment - there is space under the front hatch for 100 liters (3.53 cu ft). A storage box with three bins is located behind the seats.
A large arch, the "monoposto", encircles the interior, which is distinctly oriented toward the driver. The controls are clearly and logically structured; the standard automatic air conditioning system is specially matched to the needs of open-top driving. The driver information system integrates a lap timer for recording circuit times. Most of the interior is a sportily cool black; many controls shine in aluminum look.
Among the highlights of the standard equipment are seats covered with Fine Nappa leather, the aluminum door sills, the concert radio system with seven speakers, the xenon plus headlights, the LED tail lights, the automatic air conditioning system, the alarm system, the automatic top, the rollover protection system and the wind deflector. Metallic paint and heated seats are also standard.
Audi also offers an array of fine options - power seats, an interior lighting package, hill hold assist, cruise control, deluxe automatic air conditioning, a storage package and the high-beam assistant. All leather for the seats is colored with pigments that reflect the infrared component of sunlight, greatly reducing the heating of the interior.
Multimedia options include an excellent sound system from Bang & Olufsen with 450 watts of power, the Audi music interface for easily connecting an external player and a Bluetooth cell phone preparation. The navigation system plus is characterized by its MMI operating logic and a high-resolution 6.5-inch display. It can be combined with a reversing camera.
An enticing innovation from Audi is the seatbelt microphone for the hands-free unit and the speech dialogue system, which makes it possible to talk on the phone even with the top down on the highway. Both seatbelts house three small, flat microphones. At least one of them is ideally positioned relative to the speaker when the belt is on. There is a fourth microphone in the windshield frame.
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According to Plutarch, Osiris was born on the 361st day of the year. Like Christ, he traveled a great deal. He became King of Egypt and “tamed [his subjects] by music and gentleness, not by force of arms.” Plutarch recounts that he was betrayed by the powers of darkness and slain and dismembered. “This happened,” he says, “on the 17th of the month of Athyr, when the sun goes into the Scorpion.” His body was placed in a coffin from which, two days later, he rose. Every year thereafter, in commemoration of his resurrection, an image in a coffin was brought out before the worshippers who would greet it, crying, “Osiris is Risen.”
The Creator god, worshipped by the Peruvians, was also described as one who travelled widely across his country, teaching the people. Unlike most of the others, Viracocha was not killed and resurrected. Instead, he simply left the continent, by walking across the Pacific Ocean.
So great are the similarities between the lives and deaths of the so-called gods, or great spiritual leaders, that it is impossible to resist the suggestion that the appearance, time and time again, in different parts of the world, of such nearly identical figures was far from coincidental. Indeed, it seems as if each of these men had been chosen, perhaps as a savior, more likely as an initiate, to get out among the people and undergo virtually identical experiences.
When it is recalled that every one of these figures lived in, or relatively near, a pyramidal area, Manly P. Hall’s description in The Secret Teachings of All Ages of the ritual enacted in the Great Pyramid takes on fresh significance:
In the King’s Chamber was enacted the drama of “the second death.” Here the candidate, after being crucified upon the cross of the solstices and the equinoxes, was buried in the great coffer. . . .
The candidate was laid in the great stone coffin, and for three days his spirit freed from its mortal coil wandered at the gateways of eternity. . . . Realizing that his body was a house which he could slip out of and return to without death, he achieved actual immortality. At the end of three days he returned to himself again, and having thus personally . . . experienced the great mystery, he was indeed an initiate one who beheld and one to whom religion had fulfilled her duty bringing him to the light of God.
Hall also writes:
The King’s Chamber was ... a doorway between the material world and the transcendental spheres of Nature. . . . Thus in one sense the Great Pyramid may be likened to a gate through which the ancient priests permitted a few to pass toward the attainment of individual completion.
It has been suggested by one theorist that the “few” who were permitted to pass were the survivors of the Atlantean Civilization, sent out by the priests to bring enlightenment to the people of the particular region in which, or near to which, there was a pyramid. In each instance, the “initiate” would travel the country, teaching, comforting and healing the people and then, in a mysterious fashion, vanish. In every case, however, twelve disciples, or apostles, would be left behind to insure that the memory of the teacher, now called a god, or savior, by the people, would be kept alive, and his teachings preserved for posterity.
A tantalizing suggestion, but one which leaves a number of questions unanswered. For instance:
Why was the ritual always so precisely the same why did the initiate have to be born at the same time, die in the same manner, etc.?
Were there a number of Atlantean colonies around the world perhaps one at each pyramidal site? Or was there just one, which had mastered the science of air travel and which flew around the world, from pyramid center to pyramid center, picking up new initiates and bringing knowledge to the people of the earth as it travelled?
What happened to the members of this highly technologized society? Did they die out? Were they killed in some natural disaster? Or might they still be alive in some still unknown and inaccessible part of the world?
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July 4th is upon us again. The traditional time for cookouts, fireworks, trips to the beach or lake, and just some general fun in the sun. Few folks know that the 4th is more than a celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It also marks the date that two of our greatest leaders, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, died just a few hours, and miles, apart from each other in 1826.
Besides being great political figures, both leaders had some thing else in common. They were Unitarians, as were Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, and Thomas Paine just to mention a few. If you included Deists, you could add Washington, Madison, and Monroe to that list. However, most of the Founding Fathers were Episcopalians or Presbyterians, or at least raised in one of those two Protestant religions.
As an interesting aside, according to “The Very Rich Book” by Jacqueline Thompson, both Episcopalian and Presbyterian are considered to be the faith of the “ruling elite” in American. Well, maybe. But did you know that 22 of 43 presidents were of either Episcopalians or Presbyterians? 57% of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence were Episcopalians, while 23.2% were Congregationalists and 21.4% were Presbyterians. 29% of the Signers of Confederation were Episcopalians, while 19% were Congregationalists and 9% were Presbyterians. Of those attending the 1787 Constitutional Convention as delegates, 56.4% were Episcopalians, 29.1% were Presbyterians, and 14.5% were Congregationalists. In short, 54.7% of the Founding Fathers were Episcopalians, while 18.6% were Presbyterians, and 16.8% were Congregationalists.
One of the distinctions between “Mother England” and our newly created country, which was incorporated in the Bill of Rights, was the refusal to establish an official state religion (though not everyone agreed). In England at the time, as in most countries, there was an official religion, though other religions were “tolerated” to varying degrees, depending on the whims of the King or Queen.
In England, to be a member of government, one had to be male, free and white of course, a landowner, and a member of the Anglican Church (which in this country took the form of the Episcopalian Church). The Founding Fathers seemed to think that one’s religion, or lack of religion, was no one's business. The Founding Fathers were, in varying degree, Christian to be sure, but their objective was to make this new found nation a safe haven for all people, regardless of faith.
How would they feel about the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Well, they would certainly oppose any attempt to establish an official religion, be it a specific faith or a more generic “Christian” nation, they would have had no trouble with those two little words (which were added by President Eisenhower during the Cold War of the late 1950’s to show a distinction between America and the “godless” Communists.) since they fully believed that this country came into being through the providence of the Divine. They would also have no trouble with those who simply skipped over the words altogether. It was a matter of individual choice.
The same goes for prayer in school. They wouldn’t mind a minute or two of silence to pray (or not), either alone or in a group. They would have opposed any attempt to force that prayer on everyone. It would have been their opinion that it’s your choice when, where or if to pray and to what God. They also wouldn’t have a problem with a Nativity Scene or Christmas tree on the Court House lawn, so long as people of other religions were allowed the same courtesy. Not to allow a display of faith, I think, would have roused their anger. Speaking of displays, I can’t imagine any of them opposing a display of the Ten Commandments. After all, it’s the basis of our legal system, and the foundation of Western Civilization.
What about abortion? This is quite possibly one the most divisive issues in our society today. There’s no doubt they witnessed the high infant and mother mortality rate. Child birth was a risky business, as it is still in many parts of the world today. I can imagine they would oppose any attempt by the government (or individuals) to impose, by law or intimidation, their opinions/values on someone else on this or any other matter, regardless of whether or not they agreed with it. I suspect too they would favor saving the mother’s life above all if it was in danger, which in their day, was sometimes the case. In the end, I think they’d be in same quandary as many of us are today.
Without a doubt, they would be appalled by government today, especially at the influence of money. I think they’d reconsider paying that “tea tax” if they could see us now. Did you know that the Founding Fathers opposed the creation of political parties? They believed parties would soon become dominated by special interests groups, which would, in time, come to control government at the expense of the people. Of course, parties did happen, and fairly soon after the nation was founded, but it never stopped their distain for them. I think they’d be really ticked at the power corporate interests have over the government. I can easily imagine most of those revolutionaries being card carrying union members today! I think those like Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin, and others would agree with me in that, regardless of party, once you’re elected and take that oath of office, you’re no longer a “Democrat” or “Republican” or any other party. You’re a “Representative of the People”…all of them.
What about immigration and language? They would have had great sympathy for those seeking freedom in all its forms. However, they would demand that the sovereignty of this nation be respected, and people follow the rule of law for entering this county. As for language, they understood that to form a nation, we had to create certain “commonalities”, one of which was language. There would have been no question in their minds that English was the language of this country. On another point, prior to the Declaration, these men considered themselves British; subjects of the Crown. What they did was treason, and they knew it. To have been caught would surely mean to be hanged. By signing the Declaration, they were saying to England, and to the world, that they were henceforth Americans. There would be no tolerance for the “hyphened American”. They had come too far and sacrificed to much.
As Jefferson acknowledged late in his life, he had been a part of a unique moment in history; surrounded by individuals uniquely qualified for their particular role. He went on to say that what they achieved was for their time, based on their experiences and he hoped that we, as a nation, would take what that did and adapt it to the needs of our time. What they wrote wasn’t, as Jefferson put it, “infallible and unerring Holy Script”. Although we have a tendency to place these men on a pedestal and create myths about them (like Washington and the Cherry Tree, or that he never lied), they were far from flawless. They spoke of freedom, and yet mercilessly took land from Native Americans and promoted what amounted to as genocide. They spoke of equality, and there was slavery. Let’s not forget as well that women had little role in politics, let alone the right to vote. But, perhaps they felt these were issues for another time, and that creating a nation was work enough. They hoped future generations would take their experiment and improve upon it, and so we have tried, sometime with success and sometimes not. So, as you enjoy your Fourth of July, take a moment to reflect on what those brave men (and women) tried to accomplished for us all those years ago.
Posted by Paul Hosse at 7/04/2006 10:52:00 AM
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What is the G20?
The G20 is an international forum, made up of 19 countries and the European Union, representing the world’s major developed and emerging economies. Together, the G20 members represent 85 % of global GDP, 75% of international trade and two-thirds of the world’s population.
Because of its size and strategic importance, the G20 has a crucial role in setting the path for the future of global economic growth.
The G20 started out in 1999 as a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors. Following the global financial crisis in 2008, the urgent need for a meeting of the G20 at the Leaders’ level emerged. For the first time in November 2008 in Washington D.C., G20 Leaders convened and managed to coordinate fiscal, monetary and economic policies to put the global economy on a path to recovery. Since then, the G20 has organically evolved, transforming itself from a global firefighter into a unique international forum to address long-term structural challenges.
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the G20. At this important juncture, the G20 has an important mission to uphold the true value of multilateralism, and the OECD continues to support this endeavour.
The Role of International Organisations in the G20
At the invitation of each Presidency, key international organisations participate in G20 meetings to provide substantive inputs and enrich the discussion. The OECD has acted as a strategic advisor to the G20.
The OECD participates in all G20 Working Group meetings and provides data, analytical reports and proposals on specific topics, often jointly with other relevant international organisations.
The OECD has been working closely with the IMF on national growth strategies and the structural policy agenda as part of the Framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, with the ILO on youth employment, with the World Bank, UNDP and other international organisations on development, with the IEA on fossil fuels, and with the WTO and UNCTAD on monitoring investment and trade protectionism.
The OECD: Active Partner and Strategic Advisor to the G20
The OECD supports the G20 process in many stages:
Helping to define the agenda by developing narratives
Providing policy options by preparing evidence-based analysis and reports
Forging consensus across the membership around Presidency’s priorities
Strengthening the global governance by setting global standard on key issues.
Ensuring that legacies and commitments from previous Presidencies are monitored and delivered.
Angel Gurría
OECD Secretary-General
The OECD contributes to all stages of preparation of G20 Summits. The Global Governance and Sherpa Unit, under the supervision of the OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, Gabriela Ramos, plays an essential role in coordinating and ensuring coherence and relevance to all the Organisation’s contributions to the G20. At the highest political level, the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría participates in the Leaders’ Summit while Gabriela Ramos is involved in the preparatory Sherpa negotiations and the OECD Chief Economist, Laurence Boone represents the OECD at Finance Deputies meetings.
Gabriela Ramos
OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20
Contact Sherpa Office
Nicolas Pinaud, Head of Sherpa Office - [email protected]
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Stories from Monday, September 25, 2017
Larry Eugene Phillips (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
Larry Eugene Phillips, 64, Greencastle, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Born July 28, 1953 in Greencastle, he was the son of Emerson and Mary (King) Phillips. He was a veteran, having served in the United States Army. Larry served the Lord in ministry at the Family of God, Roachdale, and retired from the Wastewater Treatment Plant, Greencastle, where he had worked several years...
Marilyn Marie Albright Mathis (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
Marilyn Marie Albright Mathis passed away on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 at Mission Hospital in Mission, Texas. Marilyn was employed as a bookkeeper for 17 years in the Brazil location of the Terre Haute Gas Co., currently known as Vectren. Affectionately known as "Mim," Marilyn was a kind, generous, loyal person who brought everlasting joy to her family and friends. Mim was a very devoted wife who was a gentle and loving caregiver and partner. She was the best of moms with patience that never ended...
David Lee Baker (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
David Lee Baker, 78, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at his home in Rockville, Ind., after a long battle with cancer. He was born to Paul and Mildred (Keesling) Baker of Anderson. David, who wanted to do his part in the Vietnam War after graduating high school, joined the Marine Corps and served eight years...
Thomas 'Tom' Patrick Schmalix (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
Thomas "Tom" Patrick Schmalix, 68, of Belle Union, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, at his residence. Tom was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of William and Janet Schmalix. He was a 1967 graduate of Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. He also attended Indiana State University...
Semis damaged in crash near Fincastle (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
FINCASTLE — Two semis were damaged and traffic was reduced to one lane Monday morning in a wreck at U.S. 231 and County Road 900 North. Exact details are forthcoming from the Putnam County Sheriff's Department, but semi tractor pulling a tanker appears to have rear-ended another that was pulling a box trailer...
Helen 'Susie' Drawbaugh (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
Helen (Susie) Suzanne Drawbaugh, 79, died peacefully on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Wilkes Barre, Pa., surrounded by her loving husband. Susie was born on Oct. 18, 1937 in Indianapolis. Susie graduated from Broad Ripple High School and married her high school sweetheart, Thomas Earl Drawbaugh, shortly after...
Richard Lee Farrow (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
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Judith Ann Means (Obituary ~ 09/25/17)
Judith Ann Means, 70, Brazil, got her miracle on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Brazil, on Sept. 2, 1947 to the late Carl and Midge (Treash) Stultz. Judy graduated from Brazil High School in 1965, married LaVern Means on April 24, 1966, and later graduated from Harold's Beauty Academy...
Female visitor arrested for trafficking at Putnamville (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
PUTNAMVILLE -- The 41-year-old wife of a Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF) offender has been arrested following a reported several-month investigation over alleged illegal drug activity between husband and wife. The facility's Office of Investigations and Intelligence (OII) and especially Investigator Robert Evans had been investigating Offender Samuel Hopson and his wife Angela for several months, PCF officials said...
At the Library for Sept. 26-30 (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
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Putnam Scanner for 9-26-17 (Police Logs ~ 09/25/17)
County Jail Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Sunday • At 8:52 p.m. John Stephen Brown, 64, Bainbridge, was lodged at the jail for resisting law enforcement and public intoxication. • At 1:15 a.m. Danny Allen Burchett, 42, Greencastle, was taken into custody for domestic battery possession of methamphetamine, possession of a synthetic drug and reckless possession of paraphernalia...
Walking can serve many purposes (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
Walking is a popular form of physical activity — and good for your health. Only half of all American adults get the recommended amount of physical activity. Lack of physical activity is directly related to the occurrence of adult obesity and overweight. ...
Franklin Street Dental joins The Hometown Dental Group (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
A Greencastle dental practice is back under local ownership, with a 2010 DePauw University graduate joining the practice. Greencastle Hometown Dental recently welcomed Franklin Street Dental to The Hometown Dental Group, owned by Dr. Dennis and Emily Knuth...
Sen. Crane not seeking Rokita’s seat (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
District 24 State Sen. John Crane --who represents the northern half of Putnam County from the middle of Washington Street in Greencastle north -- has announced that he will not be seeking the 4th District U.S. Congressional seat in 2018. The 4th District covers 16 counties, including both Putnam and Hendricks counties, where Sen. Crane currently serves. That congressional seat will be vacated by Congressman Todd Rokita who is seeking to unseat Sen. Joe Donnelly in 2018...
Getting Their Kicks (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
As teammates celebrate around him, Greencastle senior Simon Foss holds up the WIC boys’ soccer championship plaque following the Tiger Cubs’ 4-0 victory over Brown County Saturday afternoon at Dee Monnett Field.
‘Angel of Death’ Orville Lynn Majors dies in prison at 56 (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
MICHIGAN CITY -- Orville Lynn Majors, the so-called “Angel of Death” serial killer, has died in prison while serving a 360-year sentence for six west-central Indiana homicides committed while a nurse at Vermillion County Hospital. The Indiana Department of Correction Monday afternoon issued a press release saying Majors, 56, of Linton, experienced fatal medical problems Sunday afternoon at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City...
Special music events surround Yo-Yo Ma’s visit to Greencastle Sept. 26-Oct. 1 (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
The performance Putnam County residents have long been anticipating — when legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma returns to town to open the 2017-18 Green Guest Artist series — is happening this week. Although the 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 concert by Ma has already sold out, several exciting musical events will herald the renowned artist’s return to Greencastle, including DePauw Film Studies’ free screening of “The Music of Strangers,” the award-winning film about the founding of Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble (Tuesday, Sept. ...
Tough course, hot weather make golf regional difficult (High School Sports ~ 09/25/17)
FRANKLIN – Putnam County girls’ golfers concluded their seasons on Saturday in the Roncalli Regional on an oppressively hot day. Greencastle placed 16th in the team standings, while at-large individual players Taylor Dixon (98) of North Putnam and Sammie Shrum (118) both fell short of advancing to the state finals as individuals...
DePauw stays undefeated with 51-24 win (College Sports ~ 09/25/17)
Wooster scored on the game’s first possession, but DePauw scored on five straight possessions on the way to a 51-24 North Coast Athletic Conference win. The Tigers moved to 3-0 overall and 2-0 in the NCAC in their home opener, while the Fighting Scots dropped to 3-1 overall and 2-1 in conference play...
Bland records sprint car victory at Lincoln Park Speedway (Professional Sports ~ 09/25/17)
PUTNAMVILLE – As the 2017 season winds down at Lincoln Park Speedway, the Putnamville oval hosted a doubleheader weekend with a full slate of racing action. On Saturday night, Jeff Bland Jr. capped a big weekend with a sprint car victory that came on the heels of a win Friday at Bloomington Speedway. ...
PREP ROUNDUP: Clover boys, Cub girls win Tiger Cub Invitational; Wilson, Kallem run 1-2 (High School Sports ~ 09/25/17)
Cloverdale’s boys and Greencastle’s girls won the team titles on Saturday in the Tiger Cub Invitational at Greencastle. Cloverdale’s boys scored 57 team points to edge runnerup North Putnam by six points. Rylan Hall led the Clovers by placing fourth, while Chase Ashcraft placed fifth...
Cub soccer learns from ’16 collapse (High School Sports ~ 09/25/17)
About a year ago, Greencastle’s boys’ soccer team was seemingly headed toward a Western Indiana Conference title. The Tiger Cubs won the West Division, and beat East Division champ Edgewood 8-1 in the week before the championship match as part of a long winning streak...
Plumbing foreman arrested for stealing items from Putnamville (Local News ~ 09/25/17)
PUTNAMVILLE -- A 31-year-old Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF) maintenance worker was arrested over the weekend on felony charges of theft and official misconduct. Dallas Strother of Greencastle was booked into the Putnam County Jail at 4:18 p.m. Friday after anonymous sources led the Office of Investigation and Intelligence (OII) to start looking into the plumbing foreman's actions...
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A decade playing pro tennis took its toll on Venus Williams' money maker in late March.The American tennis ace may have earned a spring break vacation when she had to bow out of the Nasdaq Open due to an elbow sprain in her right arm. She has withdrawn from the WTA and ATP Masters Series tournament in which she was the winner of the event in 1998, 1999 and 2001.
Williams, a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida resident, played one match this year, losing the Australian Open to Tsvetana Pironkova. She lost last year's Miami semi-finals to Maria Sharapova.Her recovery time will have to be expedient, as she is scheduled to reclaim her spot on the courts for the Family Circle Cup April 10-16. She is also expected to participate in World Team Tennis for the Philadelphia Freedoms in July.Williams recorded the fastest serve in WTA history with 127 mph blast in 1998 and in 2000, was named Sports Woman of the Year by Sports Illustrated. By 2002, Williams was declared the first African American woman to reach the number one ranking on the WTA Tour.
A multi-talented African American female, Venus formed her interior design business, V Starr Interiors, in November of 2003.
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Archive for Monday, February 16, 2015
Presidential museum visit causes reflection on recent history
By Clausie Smith
One of the highlights of a recent trip to Dallas, Texas, was a visit to the George W. Bush Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Certainly the biggest highlight was visiting with our daughter and her family. I would add there was one other highlight: temperatures in the 70s compared with the 40s here.
George W. Bush is the only president that I’ve seen in person, and that was a long time before he became governor of Texas or President of the United States. I attended a Texas Rangers’ baseball game in 1986 when he owned the team. He was on the field prior to the game presenting scholarships given by the Rangers. Incidentally we saw his father George H. W. Bush at a Houston Astros game years after he left the presidency. As an aside, the elder Bush’s library is at Texas A&M in College Station.
I have visited several presidential libraries and museums, and they are all very different. The first difference I noted was increased security. When you enter you go through a metal detector. While visitors are given commemorative tickets, you are identified by wearing a stick-on “43” patch. The amount of security surprised me, and I realize that it is important. It is sad when we have to have that level of security at a site honoring a former president.
The library setting is described as being in a 15-acre urban park just as you enter the campus of SMU. Incidentally SMU has a beautiful campus and is the perfect setting for the modern and attractive building.
The museum features a variety of interactive displays. When you enter you are surrounded by a breath-taking diorama which begins with a series of giant color photos of Texas throughout the seasons. This is followed by an amazing display of moving characters depicting work in America. I can’t describe it; you have to see it to believe it.
The museum tells the story of President George W. Bush starting from his youth that highlighted his love of baseball and family.
Even though it is recent history, the displays brought back a lot of memories. For example, do you remember the hanging chads in Florida which held up final results for days? It was one of the closest elections in modern American history and was finally decided by the courts after a pains-taking recount. The entire process was documented in an interesting manner.
One of the most somber displays was that about 9/11 and the cowardly attack which changed America forever and plunged the U.S. into an on-going war against terrorism. In my opinion President Bush’s finest time in office were the days following the attack when he displayed great leadership. This was well documented using TV reports and clips from his diary.
There was a display featuring the other major tragedy during his presidency, Hurricane Katrina, and the government’s response. Another of the major displays was about the “No Child Left Behind” program.
One of the overriding themes in the museum is his love for his family and his wife, Laura. There is even a video featuring his twin daughters, highlighting his sense of humor and his ability to laugh at himself and his love of both Camp David and his ranch.
Probably one of the most interesting displays allowed visitors to view issues and information available to the president on a computer and then to give what their response would have been. Yes, it showed how difficult it is to be president.
The museum has a replica of the oval office and the rose garden. I enjoyed visiting the museum and being reminded of recent events in history.
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Bernie Sanders Political Rally Was Interrupted By An Activist Supporting The Black Lives Matter Protest
Bernie Sanders Political Rally Was Interrupted By An
Activist Supporting The Black Lives Matter Protest
BHR Hollywood Reports........Activists with Black Lives Matter protests halted a political rally in Seattle where Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was scheduled to speak on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Sanders was scheduled to be the final speaker at a lengthy program held at a city park, but, before he could take the microphone, a small group of protesters from a Seattle chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement took the stage and demanded that the crowd hold Sanders “accountable” for not doing enough, in their view, to address police brutality and other issues on the group’s agenda.
Mr. Sanders was scheduled to be the final speaker at a lengthy program held at a city park, but, before he could take the microphone, a small group of protesters from a Seattle chapter of the
Black Lives Matter movement took the stage and demanded that the crowd hold Sanders “accountable” for not doing enough, in their view, to address police brutality and other issues on the group’s agenda.
Johnson then asked for a four-and-half-minute moment of silence to honor Michael Brown Jr., the black teenager who was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, a year ago.
As the crowd grew more agitated, Johnson added that Sanders says he cares about grassroots movements, but, “The biggest grassroots movement in this country right now is Black Lives Matter.”
Activists with Black Lives Matter protests
Sanders stood by silently the entire time. Eventually, organizers decided to end the event and the Vermont senator did not return to the microphone.
“The problem with Sanders’, and with white Seattle progressives in general, is that they are utterly and totally useless (when not outright harmful) in terms of the fight for Black lives.
While we are drowning in their liberal rhetoric, we have yet to see them support Black grassroots movements or take on any measure of risk and responsibility for ending the tyranny of white supremacy in our country and in our city.
This willful passivity while claiming solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement in an effort to be relevant is over….You are either fighting continuously and measurably to protect Black life in America, or you are part of the white supremacist system that we will tear down in the liberation of our people.”
Many African-Americans are frustrated after a year fraught with high-profile shootings of black community members. And since the June 16 shooting rampage in Charleston, S.C. that left eight church-goers dead, tensions have been running particularly high.
On July 18 in Phoenix, a larger group of Black Lives Matter activists also interrupted a Democratic presidential forum where Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley were scheduled to speak.
Sanders, who is notorious for his commitment to liberal ideals and is considered one of the most progressive members of the US Senate, was quick to defend his record and offer his support at an event on Saturday night, shortly after the incident, stating that, "on criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism there is no other candidate for president who will fight harder than me,” he said.
The Saturday night event went much better for Sanders. Speaking at the arena where the Washington Huskies play, Sanders drew his largest crowd yet.
About 12,000 people were seated inside with approximately 3,000 more standing outside.
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Malaysia passes controversial anti-terror Bill
The Malaysian government has pushed through controversial anti-terror legislation in the lower house, after parliamentarians hotly debated the Bill till well after 2am on Tuesday.
The Prevention of Terrorism Bill 2015 (POTA) was first tabled in the House of Representatives last week before being presented for a second reading in parliament on Monday morning (Apr 6).
The debate lasted for more than 12 hours with the government apparently intent on passing the Bill, invoking Standing Order 90(2) to stop the clock before midnight, to let discussions continue.
This is reportedly only the fourth time this has happened in Malaysian history.
The government has pushed for POTA as a means to crack down on terror threats on Malaysia. On Sunday, 17 people were detained under suspicion of planning acts of terror in the nation's capital Kuala Lumpur.
Home Minister Zahid Hamidi said during the debate that the suspects, aged 14 to 44, had planned on targeting police stations and army camps to obtain firearms. They also allegedly wanted to kidnap high-profile individuals.
But critics have panned the laws for violating human rights and for provisions that make detention orders under the act immune from judicial scrutiny.
Malaysia's Bar Council has slammed the Bill as "repugnant to the principles of natural justice" - with provisions that allow for detention without trial for up to two years.
Opposition MPs also fear the Bill will be used against them, despite a clause that excludes political belief or activity as grounds for detention. They proposed but failed to implement amendments to the Bill they felt would balance the law's objectives with democratic principles.
The final vote for the third reading of the Bill was 79 to 60.
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Canadian Metals Inc. announces an Option Agreement with Osisko Metals Incorporated to Acquire Four Strategically Located Properties in New Brunswick and Quebec (Press release issued in English only)
Canadian Metals Inc. announces an Option Agreement with Osisko Metals Incorporated to Acquire Four Strategically Located Properties in New Brunswick and Quebec
MONTREAL, Aug. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canadian Metals Inc. (The “Company”) (CSE: CME) is pleased to announce that it has acquired three additional base metal properties in Bathurst, New Brunswick, as well as a silica property located adjacent to their high-purity silica deposit know as the Langis property in Quebec, through an Option Agreement, and a Purchase Agreement with Osisko Metals Incorporated.
The three additional base metal exploration properties are located in an area known as the Bathurst Mining Camp (“BMC”). This region of north central New Brunswick was home to the Brunswick #12 orebody, one of the largest underground zinc mines in the world. The district is globally recognized for discoveries of numerous mineable base metal deposits including iron, copper, lead and zinc, all found in this volcanogenic hosted mineral rich area.
The Transaction for the three base metal properties (the “Project”) in Bathurst, New Brunswick
Pursuant to the Option Agreement, the Company may earn a 50% interest in the Project by funding an aggregate of $250,000 in exploration expenditures over one (1) years as outlined below:
(i) $250,000, in Diamond drilling on established targets on or before the 1st year anniversary of the Effective Date (the “Initial Option Expenditure Payment”);
(ii) After the earn-in period the Company and Osisko Metals shall have a respective 50% ownership of the Project and will enter into a Joint Venture Agreement;
(iii) Osisko Metals will be the project operator during the earn-in period.
Information about the Property
The Project contains 3 Claim blocks in total, the Six Mile Brook, the Middle River and the Tetagouche, consisting of 35 units for a total of 762.45 hectares.
The Six Mile Brook and the Middle River are situated 7 to 11 km north of and along strike from the world class Brunswick 12 zinc, lead, silver deposit and past producer.
Geological mapping indicates the claims are underlain by the older Miramichi Group sediments which are basement to the productive Tetagouche Group. The claims are situated adjacent to the Brunswick Horizon which hosts many of the VMS deposits in the Bathurst Mining Camp. However, sparse outcrop in the area combined with intense isoclinal folding opens the possibility that favorable host rocks could underlie parts of the claim blocks.
The Tetagouche property is located at the north edge of the BMC on the Rocky Brook – Millstream Break, a major structural feature which separates basalt and shale of the California Lake Group to the south from Silurian volcanic and sedimentary rocks to the north. Recent prospecting in the general area has located copper, lead and zinc high grade boulders.
Positive gravity anomalies have been defined within all the claim blocks coincident with electromagnetic anomalies.
Stéphane Leblanc, Founder and CEO, states: “We are exceptionally pleased to be entering this partnership with Osisko Metals for base metals exploration in New Brunswick. This agreement creates an important milestone in the development of our company and for our shareholders. Their exploration and technical teams are world-class, and we are fortunate to have them as lead operators of this drill-ready projects. We expect the drill program to commence Q3 2018 and with an established list of high-priority targets, we expect the project to advance quickly. Partnering with Osisko Metals will be an effective way for Canadian Metals Inc to maintain exploration upside in exciting areas, while remaining true to its focus of advancing its Langis Silicon Project in Baie-Comeau.”
The Transaction for the silica property in St-Vianney, Quebec
Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement, Canadian Metals will issue 1 million common shares of the Company to the Vendor in order to acquire 100-per-cent undivided interest, right, and title in and to the property,
The Colline Tortue property consists of ten designated claims (CDCs) covering a total area of 569.08 hectares located in the Matapedia Region of the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec.
The property is located 2.5km west of the Langis property owned by Canadian Metals Inc.
Historical work done on the Colline Tortue property consist of mapping sampling and diamond drilling. The historical diamond drilling was conducted by Uniquartz Inc in 1983. The quartzite of the Val Brillant Formation was intercepted with thickness of over 80 meters and remains open at depth and along strike. According to historical documents from Uniquartz Inc. and MERN data (Ministry of Energy and Natural Resource of Quebec), the Val Brillant Formation is sub-horizontal dipping up to 13 degrees. It appears as a large band approximately 450 meters wide and a minimum strike length of 1700 meters; with potential length of 3300 meters within the property’s boundaries.
About Osisko Metals
Osisko Metals is a Canadian exploration and development company creating value in the base metal space with a focus on zinc mineral assets. The Company controls Canada’s two premier zinc mining camps in Canada, namely the Pine Point Camp (“PPMC”) located in the Northwest Territories (22,000 ha) and the Bathurst Mining Camp (“BMC”), located in northern New Brunswick (63,000 ha). The Company is currently drilling in both mining camps for a combined 100,000 metre program. The focus of these programs is to upgrade historical resources to comply with NI43-101 regulations and on exploration around historical deposits. Brownfield exploration includes new innovative 3D compilation techniques, updated geological interpretation, and modern geophysics. In Quebec, the Company owns 42,000 hectares that cover 12 grass-root zinc targets that will be selectively advanced through exploration. In parallel, Osisko Metals is monitoring several base metal-oriented peers for opportunities.
About Canadian Metals Inc.
Canadian Metals is a diversified resource company focused on creating shareholder value through the development of large-scale industrial mineral portfolios in specific commodities and jurisdictions that will fuel the new energy economy. The Company is uniquely positioned to pursue this strategy and controls significant interest in Silicon and base metal assets throughout North America.
Our main activities are directed towards the development of its Langis Project, a high-purity silica deposit located in the province of Quebec with fully permitted with the BEX and the certificate of authorization from the MDDELCC. The Company is rapidly positioning itself as a supplier of high purity silica and silicon alloy in North America. Silicon based materials can be formulated to provide a broad range of products from more durable, faster building materials with smarter electronic devices, solar panels and more efficient wind turbines. We expect to become a global supplier for a number of industries and applications but without limitation: glass, ceramics, lighting, oil and gas, paint, plastic and rubber. We also want to become an integrated supplier to metallurgical industries including foundries, and participate in a wide range of civil, industrial, environmental and related applications. These target markets are an integral part of the lives of millions of people every day.
Sean Tufford
Email: Sean@canadianmetalsinc.com
Phone: (902) 818 -8807
René Boisvert
Email: rboisvert@canadianmetalsinc.com
Stéphane Leblanc
Email: sleblanc@canadianmetalsinc.com
Website: www.canadianmetalsinc.com
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information
Certain statements included herein may constitute “forward-looking statements”. All statements included in this press release that address future events, conditions, or results, including in connection with the prefeasibility study, its financing, job creation, the investments to complete the project and the potential performance, production, and environmental footprint of the ferrosilicon plant, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “may”, “must”, “plan”, “believe”, “expect”, “estimate”, “think”, “continue”, “should”, “will”, “could”, “intend”, “anticipate”, or “future”, or the negative forms thereof or similar variations. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by management in light of their experiences and their perception of historical trends, current conditions, and expected future developments, as well as other factors they believe are appropriate in the circumstances. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including those mentioned in the Corporation’s continuous disclosure documents, which can be found under its profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). Many of such risks and uncertainties are outside the control of the Corporation and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In making such forward-looking statements, management has relied upon a number of material factors and assumptions, on the basis of currently available information, for which there is no insurance that such information will prove accurate. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements set forth above. The Corporation is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
Neither the CSE nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Canadian Metals is focused on the development of its Langis project, a high-purity silica deposit located in the province of Quebec. The Company is rapidly positioning itself as a supplier of high-purity silica and silicon alloy in North America. Silicon-based materials can be formulated to produce a broad range of products from more durable, faster building materials with smarter electronic devices, solar panels and more efficient wind turbines. We expect to become a global supplier for a number of industries such as, but not limited.
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Spreading visual culture: contemporary art through periodicals, archives and illustrations.
The history of art from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s seen through unexplored sources, combining multidisciplinary methodologies and analysis systems: art-history criticism, literature, semiotics, visual arts.
The National Project, lasting three years, is divided into four research Units: Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (leader Giorgio Bacci, who is also the national coordinator), University of Udine (leader Denis Viva), University of Siena (leader David Lacagnina), University of Genoa (leader Veronica Pesce).
The research aims to address contemporary art in innovative ways, bringing together different humanistic fields: not only art history, but also fashion history, sociology, semiotics and, of course, literature and publishing history. Therefore, contemporary art seen as a clue to understanding society nowadays, intending the historical period between the late nineteenth century and the 1980s. If the ”terminus ante quem“ is motivated by the critical-historical needs, the start date has been identified in the birth of the modern mass society, with the rapid growth of the media, the emergence of disruptive artistic movements and their approach with a different conception of the image.
Continuing to speak about the dialogue between ”high“ and ”low“ visual culture, the end of the nineteenth century is also the period of the last ”global“ (in the sense that involves all the artistic sections and all the aspect of life) movement: the Art Nouveau style, which, though already extensively investigated, will be studied according to new perspectives, combining the digital analysis of a fundamental periodical such as «Riviera Ligure» (profiting from the collaboration with the Mario Novaro Foundation which not only preserves the whole magazine, but also the extensive correspondence between Novaro and writers and artists like Plinio Nomellini), with the digital cataloguing of a more technical magazine, «Risorgimento Grafico», and the archive of the original drawings (19th-20th centuries) of the publisher Bemporad/Giunti.
A rich dialogue, which starts with Liberty art and comes to embrace figurative and wider cultural fields, is thus created. On the one hand there is the possibility to investigate (through the work of the Genoa Unit) «Riviera Ligure» (which, significantly, was born in 1895 as a commercial bulletin of Sasso Olive Oil Company) in its entirety profiting from the archive (strong element of novelty), and, on the other hand, the opportunity to study in real terms the impact of the ”high“ artistic styles on the editorial, mass production. The archive of the publisher Bemporad/Giunti (digitalized by the Normale Unit) still preserves a priceless heritage of original drawings (from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s), by some of the leading artists-illustrators of the time: Attilio Mussino, Antonio Rubino, Aleardo Terzi, etc.
«Risorgimento Grafico» (studied again by the Normale Unit) will be really useful as a term of comparison, housing theoretical debates, presenting the work of important illustrators (in some cases the same encountered in the archive of Bemporad, allowing the reader to follow directly the critical-historical debate) and opening to suggestive reflections about the impact of the new social and visual communication systems on the framework of the city (e.g. Cesare Ratta, speaking of billboards, writes that the roads have become ”a permanent exhibition“). «Risorgimento Grafico» (1902-1941) goes through a complex Italian period, finishing its adventure during the Second World War. In the same year, and sometimes disagreeing with the Milanese periodical, Vincenzo Pica developed his critical work, revealing himself as a ”European“ personality, thanks to his attention to the graphics and to the potential of the new communication systems. Again, the ”major“ arts dialogue with the ”minor“ arts, and Pica, primarily through the pages of «Emporium», presented the greatest exponents of international graphics to the Italian public.
The digitalization, just completed by the Laboratory of Visual Arts, of «Emporium», will provide a secure base for the researches, full of novelties, which the Siena Unit will develop. In particular, an extensive bibliographical and archival survey will start, reconstructing the critical work of Pica. In this light, with regard to the thirties and forties, the possibility to access the private archive of the art dealer Stefano Cairola, now kept at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Siena, takes on particular importance.
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As a moment of strong caesura, the period after 1945 presents the scholar with different problems: the periodicals (studied by the Udine Unit) are, as for the previous period, an indispensable historical and cultural steering compass.
The publishing trajectory of the periodicals develops, since 1945, according to two major historical phases. From 1945 to 1965 it is characterized by an ”exo-editorial“ activism, with a series of publishing initiatives outside the common systems of distribution: the protagonists are the artists and critics themselves involved in the debate, who choose the magazine as a tool not compromised by editorial or market agreements.
The period 1960-1980, when the periodicals go back to a greater professionalization, succeeds and overlaps the previous one. This succession, however, adopted also graphics, medial and semiotic solutions, which had belonged to the first phase. Once a complete historical and critical survey is done, fundamental periodicals such as «Arti Visive» (1952-57), «Azimuth» (1959-60), «Marcatré» (1963-1970) and «Metro» (1960-1970) will be scanned and informatically catalogued.
It is in this context that the verbal-visual movement arose, aiming to deconstruct the encoded mass-defined concept of ”word“ and ”image“. In a close comparison with contemporary society, «Lotta Poetica», which will be digitalized by the Normale Unit, undoubtedly occupies an important role, being published in different and discontinuous intervals from 1971 to 1987. The research on the Sixties and Seventies will also take advantage of the essential collaboration with MART (Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto), which will also help the research with unexplored archives of ”Poesia Visiva“.
The natural cohesion of the research Project will be reflected, besides the organization of regular meetings and conferences, by the on-line common platform (thanks to the Laboratory of Visual Arts at the Scuola Normale Superiore), from which it will be possible to consult the different databases, structured with a particular attention to the individual needs. The work of each Unit will profit from the cooperation with international experts and scholars of the highest level. In a nutshell, some of the objectives of the Project, which aims to combine a rigorous and philological approach with innovative techniques, are: analyze the spread of contemporary culture through magazines; develop a critical-historical reflection on the relationship between ”high“ and ”low“ culture; deepen the problematic related to the dialogue between art and society, obtaining new tools for interpreting the contemporary world.
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The University of Business and International Studies (UBIS) is a Swiss Boutique University. You shall be able to work throughout industries as a business analyst, human resources generalist, operations supervisor or advertising and marketing specialist. By analyzing financials, inside and exterior environments, strategies, and operations of global corporations, college students make decisions on which worldwide markets to enter, methods to grow the enterprise, and the best way to fight world aggressive stress.
Cultural advisers work with worldwide businesspeople who need varying degrees of instruction in overseas languages and cultures. Now a quarter century later, the US has turn into a significant player in international enterprise education on the school and graduate levels. Whereas members of the European Union are accustomed to working in numerous languages and across borders, American enterprise tends to be insular; most firms don’t take into consideration the broader perspective of commerce rules of various governing bodies.
Average salaries differ broadly by industry; an entrepreneur just beginning out can earn just about nothing within the first 12 months of enterprise. Our imaginative and prescient is to be the corporate that greatest recognizes and serves the wants of international students all over the world. Your core programs will often include management, economics, advertising, and even enterprise legislation.
The international business focus will put together you for a career in international business whether or not in a local company initially in search of global markets for its commodities or in a big corporation with branches world wide. International enterprise programs are usually interdisciplinary by focusing on three most important areas: globalization, international relations, and the worldwide marketplace. A Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) prepares graduates to guide, seek the advice of and educate in company and academic arenas.
Some—similar to Berkeley College, via their Mid-Atlantic schools and on-line—offer degrees like Berkeley’s International Business Associate in Applied Science Degree (AAS). The curriculum for worldwide enterprise levels combines the usual fare of enterprise courses with the distinctive perspective of the best way to do business on a worldwide scale. Obtaining a certificate or diploma in international enterprise can be completed by way of a wide range of means.
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The official seal of the City of Minneapolis was adopted by the Minneapolis City Council on June 5, 1878. The Seal’s design – as in emblems of this type – was representative of the City at the time. The seal consists of a shield centered on a round form. The shield contains a pictorial view of St. Anthony Falls, the old suspension bridge across the lower channel of the Mississippi River (between Nicollet Island and the West Bank), mill buildings, and the skyline of 1878 Minneapolis. In the foreground there are symbols of the city’s early fortune: A plowshare, a shock of grain and a barrel of flour, a gear wheel, a large circular saw blade, and a stack of lumber.
Above the shield in the rays of light is the City’s motto "En Avant" (French – meaning ‘Forward’).
Plaster Replica of City of Minneapolis Seal in City Hall
A plaster replica of City of Minneapolis Seal currently hangs in Room 132, City Hall. This is a five foot plaster replica of the City Seal that was originally cast and set into the old Minneapolis Auditorium in 1927. Over the years, smudge and grime took its toll and Seal began to deteriorate and ‘disappear’ into the ornate pattern of the stage arch. When the Auditorium was remodeled and expanded in 1965, the Seal was removed, placed in storage and used as a model for a 26 foot cut stone copy that was restored on the east façade of the building.
In 1967, the Minneapolis City Council decided that the replica was too valuable to be discarded or relegated to a dusty store room. Arrangements were made with John Dunn, Assistant Professor in the Sculpture Department of the Minneapolis School of Art for its restoration. On Dec. 8, 1967, the City Council approved a resolution to move the restored replica of the City Seal to Minneapolis City Hall, to be centered and hung behind the front lectern of the Minneapolis City Council Chamber.
In 2001, when the historic restoration of the Minneapolis City Council Chamber was undertaken, the plaster replica of the Seal, which was not part of the original design of the chamber, was moved to Conference Room 132 where it currently hangs on the east wall.
There is a smaller plaster seal, also from the old Convention Center, that hangs in the City Council Chamber behind the dais. This seal was unveiled at a Sesquicentennial ceremony in the Council Chamber on July 18, 2008.
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Susan Walter – All I Wish
May 9, 2018 by Kiko Martinez
Filed under Interviews
In the romantic comedy “All I Wish,” first-time feature director/writer Susan Walter breaks the usual conventions for a coming-of-age movie to tell the story from the perspective of a middle-aged woman.
The film, which Walter also wrote, stars Oscar-nominated actress Sharon Stone (“Casino”) as Senna Berges, an aspiring fashion designer unlucky in love. When she meets Adam (Tony Goldwyn) on her 46th birthday and things don’t go very well, she assumes they will never see each other again. Fate, however, takes over and the two run into each other the following year – again on her birthday – and the following, and the following. Soon, Senna and Adam realize their serendipitous reunions are more than just coincidence.
During an interview with Walter, we talked about the inspiration she took from her favorite film “When Harry Met Sally…” to make “All I Wish,” working with Stone, who she said saved the film from essentially not being made, and her thoughts on soulmates.
So, where did the idea for a movie like this come from?
One of my all-time favorite movies across any genre is “When Harry Met Sally…” What I love about it is that it’s about a relationship that evolves over many, many years. I knew if I was going to do a romantic comedy, I didn’t want to do one of those movies where the characters meet-cute on Monday and are engaged by Friday. It didn’t feel very deep or realistic or satisfying to me. So, I wanted to construct a film about two characters who first have to find themselves to ultimately find a love relationship with one another.
So, if moviegoers bring up the similarities this movie has with “When Harry Met Sally…,” are you fine with that, or would you rather the film stand on its own?
Anybody can compare me to “When Harry Met Sally…” any day of the week. There is definitely an ode to that [movie], so I have to own that.
Why did you decide to center the narrative on Senna’s birthday each year?
Birthdays are a time for reflection. You sort of take stock of your life and who you are. Sometimes you’re disappointed. Cinematically, you’re bringing the same characters together because you always see the same people on your birthday. It seemed like a good cinematic hook to do it on her birthday, but it was also a way to extend the story over many years, which is what I wanted to do.
Is it still bad manners to ask a woman how old she is?
You know, it is. I don’t know that it should be though. The advice that I always get now that I’ve made my first film and am out there trying to make another one is to not tell people how old I am. I buy into that on one level because we all want to be young and look better and be a part of this youthful movement. But the truth is, you can look at my [film] credits and you’ll know that I’m not 30. So, why is it hard to own that? I do have a hard time owning it and I wish I didn’t. I wish that experience was valued more than youth. But the truth is, in Hollywood, it’s really not.
Talk about casting Sharon Stone in the lead role. What did you see from her that made you want to go that route?
Originally, I offered Sharon the role of the mom because the [main] character was much younger. Sharon read the script and latched onto it. Then, when the younger actress who was going to play Senna fell out, [Sharon] called me and said, “Don’t let this movie fall apart. I’ll be the lead.” At first I was taken aback by that because I hadn’t imagined a coming-of-age movie about a woman that old, to be honest. [Sharon] was in her 50s and you really can’t write a coming-of-age movie about a woman in her 50s. She said, “Susan, if this was a movie starring Bill Murray or Adam Sandler having some sort of Peter Pan syndrome and not wanting to grow up, you would get it immediately. Nobody’s made this movie. Let’s make a movie nobody’s made.” She convinced me. I have to give her full credit for having that vision and being bold.
Beside it not being a “movie nobody’s made,” why else did you want to tell this type of story?
Look, I’m not 20 myself. I’ve been in this business a long time – first as an assistant director and then as a creative director and then as a writer. If I want to believe I can reinvent myself as a filmmaker and director, then maybe it’s pretty cool that I’m making a movie showing a character doing pretty much the same thing. I think that’s a really powerful message. I think Sharon saw it before I did how important it was and how inspiring it could be for people of a certain age.
Are you married yourself?
I am. I have been married for almost 15 years.
What did your husband think about the scene you wrote where Senna and Adam talk about soulmates?
My husband is an engineer and he’s very logical. I actually stole that line from him where Tony’s character goes, “There’s seven billion people in the world. Surely I can make it work with at least five.” I’ve always been like Sharon Stone’s character in that love is like getting struck by lightning and you know you’re in love when you’re in it. So, in some ways, that relationship between Sharon’s character and Tony’s character is modeled loosely on my own.
I’m like your husband, but isn’t it a little unromantic to know that he thinks that way?
(Laughs) Yes, it’s totally unromantic! I almost didn’t marry him because of it! There’s another line in the movie where Tony’s character says to Sharon’s character, “What, is he supposed to know the minute he lays eyes on you?” The answer is yes! But my husband didn’t [know]! He was like, “Yeah, I’ll try her. Does she like the same things I do? Are our compatibility equations favorable? In the end, now that we have kids, having a family is like running a business together, so you’re priorities better be lined or there’s going to be friction. You’re hitting on what the central question of the movie is: do you choose love or does love choose you? Honestly, after 15 years of marriage, I think it’s both.
Tags: 2018 interview, All I Wish, all i wish interview, Interview, Sharon Stone, Susan Walter, susan walter interview, Tony Goldwyn
August 9, 2013 by Kiko Martinez
Filed under Kiko, Reviews
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone
Directed by: Rob Epstein (“Howl”) and Jeffrey Friedman (“Howl”)
Written by: Andy Bellin (“Trust”)
“Lovelace,” the biopic featuring actress Amanda Seyfried (“Les Miserables”) as 1970s porn icon Linda Lovelace, could be a very minor companion piece to Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 porn epic “Boogie Nights.” While the film doesn’t come close to the depth or emotional resonance of Anderson’s masterpiece, Lovelace herself would have been an interesting secondary character to follow in “Nights” like audiences did with Don Cheadle’s Buck Swope or Heather Graham’s Rollergirl. Instead, “Lovelace” is a solo show that has grand aspirations but isn’t playing in the same league as the big boys. Still, the screenplay by Andy Bellin (“Trust”) is distinctively framed and some inspired casting decisions were made giving “Lovelace” just enough stamina to see it through.
While Seyfried is playing the title role, actor Peter Sarsgaard really has control of the film just like his character Chuck Traynor does with Linda’s life and career. Once Linda meets Chuck, who is just about as sleazy a character as James Woods’ Lester Diamond in “Casino,” there’s no turning back for the innocent Catholic schoolgirl from the Bronx. When Chuck tells Linda they need more money, it’s never a question about how they’re going to get it. Chuck’s plan is definitive when he begins pimping out Linda and then introduces her to the world of pornography.
From here, the fantasy of a perfect marriage and home life is destroyed as Linda finds herself trapped in an industry that praises her for nothing more than a nonexistent gag reflex. As she continues to perform and live with her physically abusive husband, we watch as Linda transforms from a human being into a belittled brand name simply to line Chuck’s pockets. Her claim to fame is the infamous 1972 adult film “Deep Throat,” which is considered one of the most successful ever made.
Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who teamed up in 2010 for the inadequate Allen Ginsberg biopic “Howl” starring James Franco, the duo do a better job making us believe Seyfried is more than a big-name star playing pretend during an era she wasn’t even alive for. For the most part, Seyfried loses herself in the role as does Sarsgaard and other well cast actors like Chris Noth (“Sex and the City”), Bobby Cannavale (“Win Win”) and Hank Azaria (“Along Came Polly”). As Linda’s overbearing and seemingly uncaring mother, Sharon Stone (“Casino”) gets her biggest opportunity to shine since her role in 2006’s “Bobby” and does a commendable job. As Linda’s father, Robert Patrick (“Gangster Squad”) is given the most emotional scene in the film when he asks his daughter what he did wrong that pushed her into an immoral lifestyle.
Linda might have transcended the porn industry in the 70s, but “Lovelace” doesn’t do the same for biopics in general. Her life was a complex one, but Epstein and Friedman only skim the surface. With Linda Lovelace, you have to go a lot deeper than that.
Tags: 2013, Amanda Seyfried, Andy Bellin, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, James Franco, Jeffrey Friedman, kikoreview, Lovelace, Peter Sarsgaard, Rob Epstein, Robert Patrick, Sharon Stone
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Title: Code Blue 2 (Japanese Drama)
Also Known As: ドクターヘリ緊急救命 2
Genre: Medical
Broadcast Date: January, 2010
Casts: Aragaki Yui, Asari Yosuke, Higa Manami , Kodama Kiyoshi , Toda Erika, Yamashita Tomohisa
It has been one and a half years since Aizawa Kosaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko and Fujikawa Kazuo were assigned to Shoyo University’s North Hospital. They have only three months left of their fellowship programme (specialised training programme) to be flight doctors and each of them have come to the crossroads where they have to think of their lives after graduation. Aizawa, who has only one relative – a grandmother currently in a nursing home, starts having doubts about his duties and cannot find a clear direction for his future. Meanwhile, Shiraishi Megumi is unable to forget the past. She had caused their former teacher, Kuroda Shuji, to have his right arm amputated. Then Tachibana Keisuke, a veteran flight doctor, takes up a new post. He has been put in charge of certifying the fellowship programme which will decide their future.
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AFP on Obama victory and the reactions of (former) Americans abroad
Posted on November 7, 2008 November 8, 2008 by Debito Arudou Ph.D.
Hi Blog. This was a fast turnaround. I got a call last night during dinner for some quotes from the AFP, and less than four hours later it’s up on the Net. About my reactions to the Obama election. The reporter wanted reactions from Americans abroad, so I asked if it would be okay to speak as a former American. Even better, she said.
RANT ALERT, but it’s about time: Over the course of a twenty-minute conversation I talked inter alia about the shame I felt as America became the conservatory of Neoconism. As the sole superpower deciding to remake the world in its own (ignorant) image, it betrayed its ideals through renditioning, signing statements, torture memos and waterboarding, Guantanamo, wiretapping, a widening gap between rich and poor and a net decline in incomes for the nation’s poor, fingerprinting foreigners and denying them habeas corpus, two wars built on lies and the profit motive that are ultimately bankrupting the country all over again, topped off by a worldwide financial crisis resulting from this administration’s misbegotten policies. And so on. How I no longer felt like an American anymore and was happy to have given up my affiliation to it. More in my next column. Here’s hoping Obama restores America’s image to the world. The reporter essentially took my first and last quotes and took away the word “former” from “the American side of me”.
Anyway, it’s an article worth writing as these reactions matter. Good riddance Bush, in all likelihood (given the unprecedented damage done to the country at home and millions of people abroad) America’s worst president in history. I doubt I am far from alone in that appraisal from other people with American roots overseas. Arudou Debito in Sapporo
Supporters of US President-elect Barack Obama react while watching results on TV during in Geneva
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Obama win injects a Cool America factor
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jIrAEhXghUcfqnExqVJl7MZHPmlg
BERLIN (AFP) — Barack Obama’s victory in the US election has given Americans an almost overnight excuse to stop hiding their passports.
Americans around the world have reported being congratulated by strangers in the street. Obama t-shirts are on sale in stores in Paris and London, and after years of criticism over Iraq, climate change and other disputes, newspaper headlines have proclaimed that the United States is cool again.
“YES, WE CAN be friends!” splashed Germany’s top selling Bild daily on its front page Thursday. “We have fallen in love with the new, the different, the good America. ‘Obamerica’.”
Elena Fuetsch, a US student in Russia, learned about Obama’s victory on an overnight train from St. Petersburg to Moscow and was congratulated by a group of French students.
“One of them told me: ‘I never thought I would be telling this to an American, but congratulations on your president. We’re very proud of you’,” Fuetsch recalled.
“Many of us are still in somewhat pinch me mode,” said Roland Pearson, spokesman for the Johannesburg-based volunteer organisation Americans in Africa for Obama.
“I was out today shopping and a gentleman asked me whether I was American and I said yes. He said ‘oh, you must be celebrating along with all the rest of us’. No one said that in 2000 and no one said that in 2004.”
Eric Hansen, who has lived in Germany for more than 20 years and written several books on German culture from the US perspective, said Europeans “have waited just as much as Americans have waited to be able to change their opinions about America.
“I think that this old dream of an idealised America, this myth, is something that people need. It is allowed now, it is permissable to have it again.”
But while there was a sense of immediate common joy, Pearson, in Johannesburg and other expatriates, said global perceptions of the United States would take time to change after eight years under President George W. Bush.
“It’s only been 48 hours. Transforming a world view takes a little bit longer than that,” said Pearson. “Right now people are working on the level of emotion.”
Scott Saarlas, a 45-year-old American who now lives in Ethiopia, said: “There will be a lot of Americans who’ll feel more accepted and not be embarrassed to say that they are Americans in front of foreigners.
“I’d like to hope that it will be a lot easier now for us to travel overseas, but it’s too early to say at the moment.”
Jackie P. Chan, an American from San Francisco working in Hong Kong for an investment group, said Obama’s victory would be the first step to changing perceptions.
“We will have to see how the US government runs once Obama and the newly elected Democratic majority starts working in January,” she said.
“I think I will be proud to be American again when we pull out of the Middle East and stop spending billions a year of taxpayers’ money; when we develop better relationships with other countries based on shared ideals and values, and not interests like oil, and when we become more open-minded about the world and less US-centric.”
In [Sapporo], university lecturer and rights activist Arudou Debito, or formerly David Aldwinckle, said he abandoned his US citizenship in 2002 during the Bush administration.
Debito, 43, who now has a Japanese passport, welcomed the Obama victory as “the end of the dark age” and said he hoped the new president “may make the [former] American side of me proud again.”
But Hansen, the writer in Germany, said that it was often hard to be an American abroad even before Bush.
“It suffered before. When I came to Germany under (Ronald) Reagan, and then George Bush senior marched into Kuwait, and I heard the same sayings — ‘no blood for oil’ and that relationships with America had reached a nadir and all these things.
“It happens regularly. The perception of America sinks to a low point but it also regularly goes up,” said Hansen.
Germans hail Obama’s ‘historic’ victory
MSNBC – 56 minutes ago
Much of the world exults in Obama
Boston Globe – 14 hours ago
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Nov 4, 2008
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19 comments on “AFP on Obama victory and the reactions of (former) Americans abroad”
Anybody can cherry pick comments. Especially left-wing news agencies. The U.S. is in the midst of its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and they are fighting two wars many deem unpopular. By any measure McCain ran a poor campaign and yet 46% of Americans still voted for the republican candidate. Forget about the last eight years, many leftists like yourself hated Bush from the beginning, in large part because he “stole” the election from you. I’m not a fan of his but to suggest the problems America has today is due solely because of him is intellectually dishonest at best. There are two types of political activists: The one who wants to change his country because he loves it, or the one who wants to change his country because he hates it. I wonder which one you are…
But, hey, thanks for the propaganda.
For the time being – maybe for good – I’m through with this blog. As a source of information for living in Japan its quite useful. I thank both you and your readers for that. But for me, lack of objectivity means lack of credibility.
Murphy says:
“How I no longer felt like an American anymore and was happy to have given up my affiliation to it. ”
Oh come now, that’s not really true, now is it? Why, just two months ago you came out with this little gem:
“I for one want the hyphen. I’m a Japanese. An American-Japanese, an ‘Amerika-kei Nihonjin.'”
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080902ad.html
Sorry Debito, you can’t have the hyphen. “American” is a nationality, not an ethnicity, and you gave it up, remember? So you can’t be “American-Japanese”, because you aren’t “American”. Even if you still think, talk and act like one. How have you successfully avoided acclimating at all over these past 20 years? That is a really good trick, I’ve never seen any other long-term resident pull it off the way you have.
Not to mention it took you almost two years to give up US citizenship after taking Japanese citizenship, because you wanted to play a loophole and have things both ways: have a red passport and a blue one, even after voluntarily seeking out and going through the process knowing that by accepting one you were obligating yourself to giving up the other. Nice to know your “moral compass” always points to “self”.
It’s so true. I think this is the first time in my adult life that I’m truly proud of being American.
D.B.Cooper says:
Dear Mr. Arudou.
As politics has recently reared its ugly head on your blog I would like to offer my humble opinion.
Before the posts section descends into a slanging match between ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ the very nature of what is called ‘democracy’ should be seriously considered.The extravagant and costly personality contests, as seen most recently in the U.S.A., should not be confused with any real participatory democracy where people shape policy and have an actual voice.They are elections of rich elites who won’t change the status quo and who wouldn’t be able to even if they wanted. They are the caretakers of existing power structures. With that in mind watch the on going attempts to turn Japan into a ‘proper’ modern ‘democracy’ with two political parties vying for the electorates hearts. It becomes increasingly obvious just how ridiculous this is when analyzed closely.
War,injustice,racism,bigotry,environmental degradation and human rights violations are inherent in the capitalist system. I don’t believe any of these issues can be properly addressed without a radical change. Small gains are made and lost and then made again but nothing will be allowed to get out of hand. People like Moore,Gore and Obama serve only as perceived alternatives who never really threaten the underlying causes of the problems they bring to attention and as an anarchist I find them dangerously distracting. I am of course amused at you being labeled a ‘leftist’ and your blog a source of {leftist}’propaganda’.
On a completely different subject I found this that I thought some of your readers might find interesting and is possibly relevant somewhere on your site http://www.multipleheritage.co.uk
Yours sincerely.
D.B.Cooper.
E.P. Lowe says:
Murphy said:
“Sorry Debito, you can’t have the hyphen. “American” is a nationality, not an ethnicity”.
And as the USA is a nation with a (varied) national culture. “American” as a cultural background seems sensible to me, so does “American-Japanese” – Japanese Citizen with an American cultural background.
“So you can’t be “American-Japanese”, because you aren’t “American”. Even if you still think, talk and act like one.”
Ah, so you get to say who is what – not Debito, or anyone else for that matter.
Thanks for clearing that one up.
PnetQ says:
Murphy,
I am in no position to criticize or support what Debito says about the US politics in his main entry. Just one comment on the term “American.”
In contrast to the Japanese, most Americans are well aware of the distinction between nationality and ethnicity. “American” is about nationality, not ethnicity. I doubt it is always the case, though.
I knew an American teacher who said he wouldn’t use the term “American.” According to him, “American” can indicate no specific people. It is only Native Americans who can be rightly called “American.” In this understanding, the term “American” is ethnicity, but rather dysfunctional one.
It seems we cannot completely free from our language being confused when dealing with ethnicity-nationality matters. As for me, I have no problems to accept Debito as “American-Japanese.” In this context, I understand “American” as a kind of ethnicity, although it may be a bit obscure in comparison to say “German-Japanese.”
Nicholas D. Kristof of the NYT recently wrote a column which is relevant to this topic. Here’s the link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30kristof.html
(I’d rather reserve my judgment about whether Debito has “acclimated,” because I know him only through this blog which I believe gives us only his “American” side. I hope I can see his Japanese side someday too.)
— As if people can be so easily separated into “American” and “Japanese” sides? I look forward to the day when the Identity Police can lay off pigeonholing people by thought and behavior.
Behan says:
I just want to repeat what Phil said in post #3 above, it is the first time I have really felt proud to be American.
Grant Mahood says:
It’s unfortunate when anyone feels ashamed of the land of their birth, no matter where it is. Many times it is government policy or the actions of high ranking officials that make people feel ashamed, but is it fair to reject a whole country and its people because of it? When someone posts that they are proud to be an American for the first time in years or in their lifetime, many readers take that to mean that the writer has been ashamed to be an American all that time, rejecting the country and its people as a whole. Is that a misinterpretation? Let readers know. They must be drawing all kinds of conclusions.
Some readers are taking offence because they feel that those who posted about being ashamed of their country seemed to have judged and “dissed” all its people as embarassing and no good until now.
Nerves are a bit raw because not everyone is thrilled with the outcome of the election. Let’s try to express our thoughts with precision. Thanks.
Why all the excitement over Obama? He hasn’t done anything yet! Still anybody, even a dead sheep, has got to be better than Bush.
As I’m also an American-born naturalized Japanese citizen, I should say that I also think of myself as “American-Japanese” (アメリカ系日本人). Although it may be true that the term “American” generally refers to nationality more than ethnicity, I don’t really have anything else to call myself since my parents are both multiracial!
To be honest, I was one of the many conservatives that didn’t vote for Obama, but the nation has spoken and as true American citizen, I will support our new elected President, but you seem to really despise your former country. If you love Japan and want to renounce your American citizenship, that is your right as a former American, but to say that you were glad to leave a country that puts to much emphasis on capitalism is a little insulting. I am talking about the way you said it. It makes some of us Americans that we are a heartless nation that has no ethic values whatsoever.
Personally, I was a little offended by that statement.
Everyone is entitled to their political views, I have mine believe me, but I try not to be a koolaid drinker and I try to respect everyone’s political viewpoints. You seem to want it both ways. On one hand you want to recognized as a naturalized Japanese citizen, and be respected, but on the other hand, you seem to slander or dismiss conservatives or conservative views at least in my opinion. I find that a little offensive.
I think balance is the word that I am looking for. I am a Capitalist at heart and I feel that Obama’s economic plans will further decimate our already faltering economy. With all the entitlements that he is promising Americans, it is impossible to implement these radical changes. Taxing the 5% of affluent Americans will never take care of a nation of 300 million, but I try to always be an optimist and I will give the man a chance and let’s see what he can do. Sorry, not trying to go on a political slant, but I just want you to be a little more objective. I try to respect all opinions, that is real democracy. I`m proud to be who I am, why not? Bush is not me, I have nothing to do with the man and his policies, I just happen to be born in one of the greatest nations, why should I make any excuses? I never hide my passport and most Americans “I know” don’t do that! If they did and want to spineless, well, they can….
— If you want balance, read better, and read less into people’s statements.
With all due respect sir, for your information, I do read “better” and read “less” into other people’s statements, but I think on your point as I was putting forward, if you bit more objective in your commenting and less condescending to people that might disagree with you politically(in this case), then it’s not a problem. Sure, we all have various opinions and viewpoints, but it seems like you tend to look down on people that are either conservative or meet your worldly vision of viewpoints IMHO. Just a friendly observation.
— Thanks for it. Now just be friendly enough when you observe not to say people said things they did not say.
meatleg says:
“My point is, giving up your citizenship based on the president and his actions is weak, I mean if you love your country (which I do now more than ever after experiencing Japan) you would never use the government as an excuse for giving up your citizenship.”
Logical Fallacy: False Premise.
Debito gave up his citizenship because he wanted Japanese citizenship, and Japan forces you to renounce your citizenship to other countries if you want Japanese nationality. He wanted citizenship in order to live here more easily and to make it easier buy a house. At least that is what I remember from reading his writings. You just apparently misinterepreted this line:
“Arudou Debito, or formerly David Aldwinckle, said he abandoned his US citizenship in 2002 during the Bush administration.”
DURING the Bush administration and BECAUSE OF the Bush administration are two different things.
“It must be a strange experience to be a Debito, your[SIC] obvisouly uncomfortable in the country your living in and can never return to your origins.”
Correcting problems and fighting for equality in the country in which you live hardly seem to indicate that he is uncomfortable. In fact, it would seem to me that he is more than comfortable enough to know that he can make a difference. What have you done to improve Japan by the way?
I am also EXTREMELY happy to see Bush leave, but even happier to see Obama enter. This is a new USA, and the world has a lot of reason to rejoice.
Logical fallacy? LOL. Here we go. Another intellectual. One thing about Japan, its an equal opportunity discriminator. They dont care how much education you got, where your from, a gaijin is a gaijin. Debito got himself into a jam, and now he finds it hard to wiggle out of. I also made the mistake of becoming a long term resident here, but at least I got my blue passport to get me out. All the intellectual snakes that live over here will give you all the wrong advice, clearly ignoring reality. Reality is that Japan doesnt want me here. If this wasnt reality, then there would be no need for this website. Now I do think its a very noble cause what Debito is doing, but it does make one think if this is such a terrible place, why take up citizenship here? Where is the logic in that? Can you twist that around for me and make sense of it?
— Nope, we can’t. So why bother commenting here? You clearly aren’t saying anything constructive, and seem to have nothing to gain by engaging in discussion on debito.org except as an odd form of stress relief.
@meatleg: Um, no, Debito gave up his US citizenship because (according to his version of events) the US consulate in Sapporo was threatening to rat him out to Japan for not doing what he was supposed to have done in the first place: give up his US citizenship. Reread his writings about getting citizenship – he was even advising that if you could keep your head down, you wouldn’t have to give your previous citizenship as Japan can’t make you. You do quote his reasons for naturalizing correctly, but it is quite clear he was caught trying to have his cake and eat it to, in violation of Japanese law, good conscience and personal integrity.
— Sorry, wrong again.
*sigh* You’re gonna make me quote you and remind you and everyone else of exactly what you said, aren’t you, Debito? Fine. This way you can’t accuse me of putting words in your mouth or saying you said things that you claim you didn’t.
From here: http://www.debito.org/naturalization2.html
One of the main reservations expressed by readers of my NATURALIZATION PART ONE essay (where I discussed the pros and procedures for taking Japanese citizenship) was that I would be risking losing my American citizenship. Although the US allows dual nationality (read jpegs of the US State Dept’s formal announcements on the subject here), Japan doesn’t, so how does that square? Won’t becoming a Japanese mean having to surrender your American passport?
Well, no. The American passport has nothing to do with Japan. The passport of any country is the property of the issuing government, and the Japanese government, short of formally charging you with a crime, cannot confiscate it or deprive you of it in any way. That includes naturalization into Japan–surrendering the passport is not part of the procedure. Moreover, as far as the US is concerned, the renouncing of US citizenship can only take place with a formal written request signed by you, or if a US court convicts you of treason, espionage, or serving in a foreign government or foreign armed forces.
Now for the news. I’m happy (kinda) to report that Americans, in fact and in particular, have an unusually hard job giving up their American citizenship. Fukuzawan MG FAXed me a fascinating article from the ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL (Dec 29, 1998), which holds that the American government doesn’t want you to renounce, and will actually punish you if you do.
Be that as it may, in regards to naturalization, the point to American readers is that the US wants you to hold onto your passport. And because it allows dual nationality, it will probably turn a blind eye if you obtain a Japanese passport and keep on quietly renewing your American.
And here: http://www.debito.org/deamericanize.html
Mr Schufletowski then shifted gears. “Our records indicate that you have both American and Japanese passports. As far as I know, the Japanese Government does not permit dual nationality. So what do you intend to do with your American passport?”
I told him that that was under consideration. I received my Japanese citizenship in October 2000, and had a two-year window in which to give up my American. I had not done so up to then because I wanted to see how accepting Japanese would be of my newfound status, and then decide. (The result: overwhelmingly accepting, save an exclusionary onsen and a few bar hostesses.)
Truth be told, having two passports in Japan is not necessarily a problem. If one lived a quiet life, one could conceivably keep renewing a non-Japanese passport ad infinitum. The USG permits dual citizenship (see http://www.debito.org/residentspage.html#naturalization) and doesn’t go out of its way to tell other governments about the nationalities of their citizens.
However, as you know, I don’t live a quiet life. Mr Schufletowski asked me a second time, “What do you intend to do with your American passport?”
None of your goddamn business! is what I felt like blurting out, but I settled for, “As I said, it’s under consideration.”
“I don’t think the Japanese government would like it if they knew you are keeping your US passport.”
This is where the writing visibly met the wall. I felt that if I were to push this issue any further, the US Consulate Sapporo might blab. And since I took a written oath at the Ministry of Justice that I would give up my birth nationality when taking Japanese, stiff penalties–such as a heavy fine or incarceration (not to mention being stripped of my Japanese citizenship and getting kicked out of the country, losing my job and house in the process)–were not inconceivable. (NB: I don’t know for sure what the penalties are–it’s not something you ask as you are being sworn in.)
I decided the USG was not going to hold sway over me like this. I went down to the Consulate a few days later to surrender my US passport.
So, long story short: You decided to naturalize in a country that you knew did not allow dual citizenship. You realized that since Japan has no power to unilaterally revoke citizenship granted by another country, it was possible to keep two passports even though that would be in violation of Japanese law and your word when you told the Japanese government you’d renounce. You were even “happy (kinda)” to find out that renouncing US citizenship was not easy. You later made a cheesy excuse that you were delaying renouncing because “I wanted to see how accepting Japanese would be of my newfound status, and then decide.” Sorry, I don’t buy it and I doubt many others do either. You were trying to keep both passports.
But then that consular officer called you on it – and rightfully so, as you can see right here: http://www.debito.org/dualnationality2.jpg
“The Department of State is responsible for determining the citizenship status of a person located outside of the United States. When such cases come to the attention of a US consular officer, the person concerned will be asked to complete a questionnaire to ascertain his/her intention to relinquish US citizenship.”
So Mr Schufletowski was doing his job. He was faced with someone who voluntarily became a naturalized citizen of a foreign state, and one which does not allow dual citizenship at that. Therefore it would be more than reasonable to assume that you did so with the intention to renounce your US citizenship. You did, after all, sign an oath stating you would do so. It was hardly “none of (his) goddamn business” as you put it. It was very much his business.
Be that as it may, you did finally do the right thing and renounce, because you decided you weren’t going to give the US government a chance to blackmail you for lying on an oath. Oh wait, sorry, it was because of George W. Bush and the Neocons. Or wait….
What’s your story going to be next time?
— After receipt, I had two years to revoke my J citizenship (these things are not immediate, and the GOJ knows it). There was nothing unlawful or illegal about the wait. I was trying J citizenship on for size, and given the reaction of fellow Japanese (who were unanimously, yes, unanimously, positive about my doing it, but I guess those essays are not convenient for you to cite), I soon found it fit me just fine. And getting a kiss-off like this from the USG was the kick I needed to occasion what I was going to do anyway. Others need not take the path of revocation, as I noted in my essays. But I did, because of my rather unusual position in society.
Only a person with an axe to grind like you (whoever you are, IP 193.200.150.23, but that keeps changing), who can see nothing positive in anything I do, and would try to turn these frank and honest assessments of my situation up for public view (it’s me writing these assessments, remember) against me as evidence of some kind of subterfuge, is unable to see what I’m trying to do: provide an accurate and unfiltered account of the procedures and mindsets involved behind one person’s naturalization into Japan, to see if that’s an option for them. I didn’t have to write these essays at all. But I did. Your interpretation is off as usual, and more than usual nastily ad-hominem.
Go find a better way to spend your time than obsessing about one person’s life in Japan and trying to police his identity, will ya? Sheesh.
I’m not so much dumbfounded by Obama’s win so much as I’m dumbfounded by the “night-to-day” switch in attitudes of people who once practically loathed me as an American abroad, but now only have kind words to say. It’s just baffling: hey, I’m still the same White American you were cursing a few months ago when Bush was giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Dalai Lama…to what do I owe the newfound friendliness?
So strange. But I guess you don’t take things like that for granted, eh? Now I can stop lying about Canadian.
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Here’s to hope
By Jon Letman
Saturday, Nov. 08, 2008
Let’s just start off by saying, “hey, this is really cool.” Obama won and that means our next president isn’t going to come from a long family line of powerful politicians, oil men or military leaders. He isn’t a Bush or a Clinton and he didn’t grow up in the shadow of a rich daddy or corporate portfolio.
As everyone knows, Barack Hussein Obama was born to a Kansan mother and Kenyan father in Hawaii. He spent part of his youth in Indonesia, has family in East Africa, roots in the Midwest and the central Pacific, a degree from Harvard and now a job in Washington as the 44th president after his overwhelming victory over John McCain.
Despite a particularly insidious smear campaign that cynically tried to smear Obama as a Muslim, an Arab, a socialist, a terrorist-sympathizer, an ultra-liberal and anti-American, more than 65 million American voters said, “no, I’m not having any more of that,” and voted for Obama.
On election day, Obama’s victory over McCain was fast and crushing. This was, in part, thanks to the brilliant campaign the Obama folks ran, in part a response to feelings that range from dissatisfaction to disgust to hopelessness Americans feel after eight long years under Bush and Cheney, and in part due to McCain being a politician who ran on his record as a soldier (or rather a prisoner of war) who raised endless questions about the direction he wanted to take the country in and in large part to his short-sighted decision to choose an unblinking-winking lipstick-wearing Jesus and America-loving small-town-mayor hockey mom liability of a running mate SLHP (Some Lady Heedlessly Picked).
McCain made it easy to vote for Obama. If you didn’t want a soldier turned senator who couldn’t stop reminding voters he was a “maverick” (did you know that?) who always “put country first,” and you didn’t think a man who jokes about “bomb-bomb-bombing Iran” or “killing Iranians off with American tobacco-induced lung cancer” should be president, then McCain was not your candidate.
If you, like me, looked at McCain and thought, “he is so 1950,” and you wanted someone who looked 2010, then McCain wasn’t your man – Obama was.
I knew McCain was in trouble when the only three people I knew that might vote for him – didn’t vote for him. In what came as a surprise to me, one ended up voting for Obama, citing concerns about Palin. The other, not an Obama supporter, couldn’t bring himself to vote for McCain (thanks to Palin), but instead abstained, leaving McCain one vote shorter in a state Bush won in 2004 which McCain lost this week. On the other side of the country, a good friend who expressed concerns about Obama’s tax policies ultimately did vote for him.
I still cannot name one person I know who voted for McCain (if you are out there, let me know- I won’t gloat, promise!)
One close friend of mine who is not only politically astute (if admittedly disinterested), and has a real handle of the geopolitics of oil and workings of the world economy and why things are such a mess today, did not vote for Obama, but instead for Ralph Nader stating that he was “voting his conscience” because “the American military complex has not served the American people well.”
In an email the day after the election, that friend wrote: “I don’t have any problems with Obama. If this were a swing state I probably would have voted for him. But if you think this will stop the wars any time soon or that it will end America imposing it’s will on the rest of the world through intimidation both economic and military…. Uh… I have a bridge I’d LOVE to sell you!”
He went on, “Even in Obama’s victory speech you can hear him echoing the Bush administration in a way that Americans now accept as the new status quo: “To those — to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you.” I can’t help but feel a little sorry for many of the people here in Seattle who take it on faith that Obama is going to somehow clean the money-changers out of the temple. In the end he’s just as bought and paid for as any other candidate, and I think it’s going to be a bitter pill when they realize this. In the meantime, where’s my welfare check?”
Unfortunately, I agree with him completely. It would be nice if all this “change” we “hope” for would come flooding in at noon on January 20 as Bush and Cheney slither back to the dirt farms from whence they came as Obama assumes the presidency, but don’t expect that.
During the Democratic National Convention in Denver last August, both Obama and Biden said in very plain English that America’s war making would continue. Even as both Obama and Biden spoke like true hawks, the seemingly blind and deaf DNC attendees rabidly waved their little American flags patriotically, apparently letting all that “anti-war” sentiment fly out the window like so much pixie dust.
In his acceptance speech at the DNC on August 27, Joe Biden said, “…Or should you believe Barack Obama who said a year ago, “We need to send two more combat battalions to Afghanistan”? The fact of the matter is, al Qaeda and the Taliban, the people who actually attacked us on 9/11, they’ve regrouped in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan and they are plotting new attacks. And the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has echoed Barack’s call for more troops.”
The next evening Barack Obama formally accepted the Democratic party’s nomination and in his speech said, “I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts.”
Watch out for those key words “end the war RESPONSIBLY” and “FINISH the fight” as well as “REBUILD our military.” This statement and others Obama has made leave a lot of latitude and it is with good reason that many in the Middle East are skeptical about any real change coming regardless of who is our next president.
Based on these and other comments, we can expect American soldiers and military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan for quite some time into the future.
If you want to read or listen to a good discussion of Obama’s foreign policy, check out the comments by Glen Ford, executive director of the Black Agenda Report.com in this January 2008 debate on Democracy Now!
In the debate, Ford asks how it benefits black people of the United States to have a black face on imperialism, aggressive war or violations of international law. He was referring specifically to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, but also Barack Obama.
But before this turns too sour, just know that for all the warm fuzzies of this election (and there are plenty), there is the reality that Obama is a savvy politician, a pragmatist and far more center than he is “extreme liberal” as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh would like you to believe.
Come January 20, 2009, a dark period of American history will come to a close when Bush and Cheney exit the White House, somehow, miraculously and, in a display of great Congressional negligence and cowardice, without being impeached, arrested or tarred and feathered. They leave the country in a terrible state and will be sorely missed only by those who made their fortune from mocking and deriding them and even those people (Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, et al.) will tell you they will get over that loss quickly. Even David Letterman asked if Obama could start early.
Indeed, it will be strange to have a president who is not utterly vile and despicable and who, in fact, holds the life experience, the intelligence, the temperament, the respect and the potential to do good things and to be a great leader. Obama has the qualities and background that make him a candidate for helping turn this nation around, if not by ending our reckless wars abroad, then at least by showing Americans that there is nothing wrong with being intelligent, thoughtful and respectful. Perhaps he can show us that it is ok to talk instead of fight, to be inquisitive and open-minded rather than fearful and bellicose. He can show us how it is admirable to be a high-achiever and we don’t have to settle for the class clown, the family fuck-up, the second to last in his class or the beauty queen next door who is “just like us,” even in her ignorance of the world.
Look at the response to Obama’s election around the globe. What do you think the response would have been had McCain won?
So Barack Obama, here we are, 72 days away until the start of your historic presidency. You have the support of your people and so many around the world. You have inspired millions with the hope that America can and will change for the better.
My hope for Obama is for his safety and success and that he will seize the extraordinary power and wisdom he seems to possess and that he can rise above and beyond the trappings of his role as president.
good article on the subject in the guardian here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/12/comment-obama-white-house-peace
* In case you are interested, here is a thoughtful essay on a chance meeting Kansai resident Pico Iyer had with Obama in Hawaii in 2006.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1856583,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-nation
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Prominent Presence In Poland For DenelYou are here: Media Centre / News & Press
Denel will have a strong marketing presence at Central and Eastern Europe’s most prominent defence and technology exhibition taking place in Poland next month.
The International Defence Industry Exhibition – MSPO – takes place from 4 to 8 September and brings together heads of armed forces, defence decision-makers, analysts and media from across Europe. It is the 25th exhibition in the historic city of Kielce and the 2nd successive year that Denel will display some of its products.
“Eastern and Central Europe are important target markets for Denel, especially in the fields of landward defence, armoured vehicles, mine-protected vehicles and infantry weapon systems,” says the Acting Group CEO of Denel, Mr Zwelakhe Ntshepe.
Many of the countries in the region – including Poland – are in the process of modernising their armed forces to meet the changing geopolitical environment. Denel is looking at marketing opportunities for its products and systems in at least eight European countries, including Romania, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Italy and Sweden.
Five companies in the Denel group will participate with a range of their products. Denel PMP will display its small- and medium calibre ammunition range as well as the PAW-20 personal assault weapon, which is capable of firing grenades over a distance of 400 metres with pin-point accuracy.
The Denel Overberg Test Range has positioned itself as one of the most advanced facilities for the testing of aircraft weapon systems, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the southern hemisphere. The Range has hosted a number of European defence forces in recent years and will use the MSPO to market its services.
Denel Land Systems will showcase its prowess in the landward defence arena focusing on its track record in the design and manufacturing of artillery systems, infantry combat vehicles and combat turrets. Both Denel Vehicle Systems and LMT will provide information on their military vehicles and mine-protection technology to visitors at the show.
MSPO has over the years grown to be one of the world’s leading defence exhibitions. In 2016 it attracted more than 600 exhibitors from 46 countries while some 22 000 visitors passed through the gates during the five-day event.
Pam Malinda
Email: pamm@denel.co.za
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DERRY – There is truly something for everyone at the Derry Public Library, including those obsessed with anime. Micha Arsenault, a self-described “fan girl,” the proper adjective used to describe devotees, arrived at yesterday's Anime Club “cosplay” party dressed to thrill, wearing animal ears and a tail.
Cosplay is shorthand for costume play – like being at a Star Trek convention with fans sporting Spock ears and speaking in Klingon, only here they're dressed like their favorite fantasy characters and speak to one another about the complexities of life in an alternate, action-packed, Japanese universe.
For Micha, it's all about Alphonse Elric, better known as The Fullmetal Alchemist, the lead character in a beloved anime series by the same name that has taken on a life of its own among enthusiasts of the art-driven genre here in the U.S.
Billy McLaughlin and Brittany Jacobs
If you still aren't sure you understand what anime is, think again: If you remember “Astro Boy” cartoons, or have purchased a deck of Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z cards for your preschooler, then you have had a hand in the proliferation of what was once commonly referred to Japanamation, which only really started catching on here in the mid-1990s.
That's about when Billy McLaughlin, 17, had his first encounter with a Pokemon character. Now he's hooked for life.
And although it didn't exactly bring them together, Billy said sharing his love for anime with his girlfriend of two months, Brittany Jacobs, 15, gives them plenty to talk about.
“I'd say I spend about 90 percent of my time doing something anime related,” said Billy. “It opens your eyes to other things, learning there's something beyond America.”
Brittany figures she's currently at around 95 percent anime saturation. She dabbles in drawing, and likes to edit existing characters to her own specifications. And she loves just sitting and talking with Billy about the anime series and characters they have a common appreciation for.
“I don't know why I love it so much. It makes me feel like anything's possible,” said Brittany. “And manga has a lot of big words in it, so I feel like I'm learning. I absolutely want to travel to Japan someday.”
Manga is best explained as a Japanese version of comic books, which follow the adventures of various characters with soap operatic detail who live in a fantastic world where everyone has a back story.
“In Deathnote Light Yagami is a kid who discovers the 'death note' dropped into the human realm by a shinigami. Those are death gods who write people's names on death notes,” explained Cecelee Young. “Light Yagami picks it up and starts punching all the criminals.”
She smiles and points to the character logo on her T-shirt.
It's OK if anime doesn't make a lot of sense, from the outside looking in; it's being inside that matters to these kids, who meet regularly a the library for anime appreciation.
“'Fullmetal' used to be my obsession, until my mom told me I had to find something else to do with my time. Now I write my own stories,” said C.S. Night, who stays true to her artistic alter ego by divulging only her pen name.
Spencer Mayotte, 16, explains that for most “fan girls” and “fan boys,” anime appeal is the combination of philosophy, morality and “just plain awesome action.”
“It takes you to another place, where anything can happen,” Spencer said.
“Cosplay is just a way of the anime life,” said C.S., tossing back her mane of long brown hair with a dramatic flick.
Oriana Theokas, 12, looks adorable in her cosplay getup, highlighted by a huge white hair bow and an oversized fan. She explains she's a vocaloid, a sort of generic robot that sings like a synthesizer.
She has brought along a collection of her own artwork.
“I just like how the characters look. I'm really interested in Japanese culture. I actually went there once, and hopefully I will get to go again,” said Oriana. “It's just so interesting to me.”
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New York City selling $1 billion worth of bonds to help pay for aftermath of attacks
By Joel Stashenko Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — New York City offered $1 billion in bonds for sale Monday to start paying for the aftermath of a terrorist attack Mayor Rudolph Giuliani branded “maniacal” during an address to the United Nations.
The short-term bond offering will pay for such things as debris removal and unemployment insurance for workers who have been put out of work by the World Trade Center collapse.
In a preliminary estimate last week, Senate aides said it would cost about $39 billion to clean up from the Sept. 11 attack and rebuild the city. Washington has pledged at least $20 billion.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, following a tour Monday of the trade center ruins with 108 other members of Congress, said no one can know how much the recovery effort will cost. “We don’t know if that’s the iceberg or the tip of the iceberg,” Hastert said.
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, also on Monday’s tour, called the damage “incomprehensible.”
“It is the face of evil, and it’s hard to understand how people can hate other people as much as obviously has happened here,” he said.
As a drizzle fell in Central Park, 2,500 mourners gathered under tents at a private memorial for employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, a bond firm that lost about 700 employees at the trade center.
They clutched each other and wept as five people who lost their spouses addressed the crowd, along with the mayor and the firm’s chief executive, Howard Lutnick. Lutnick’s brother, Gary, was lost in the attack.
“In these past three weeks, we have felt more pain and sadness than I think collectively any of us had ever thought we could bear,” Lutnick said. “And I know that I speak for everyone here when I say we miss — oh boy, do we miss — our friends and family.”
Fire Department Chaplain Alfred Thompson said more bodies have been discovered in the past 2 1/2 days than in the previous 10. The movement of some larger beams in the wreckage has helped workers locate remains, he said.
“We’re finding a lot of stuff in there. ... It’s not a happy sight,” said construction worker John Yannucci.
He said crews were hampered by hot spots in the still-smoking ruins.
As of Monday, city officials said 5,219 people were missing in the terrorist attack, while 344 were confirmed dead and 289 dead were identified.
Giuliani said at the United Nations that the trade center was targeted because of the diversity of the city’s population and the openness of American society. Citizens of 80 nations are among the presumed victims, he said.
“On one side is democracy, the rule of law; on the other is tyranny, arbitrary execution and mass murder,” Giuliani said. “We’re right and they’re wrong. It’s as simple as that.”
He said the terrorists’ reasons were “insane, maniacal.”
Giuliani said it would be a “very nice, symbolic gesture” for people to buy bonds in his city’s time of need.
Investors buying the city’s bonds face low risk because New York has been guaranteed federal relief money, said Robert Kurtter, an analyst at Moody’s Investors Service.
“They’ll sell like hot cakes,” said Jay F. Donnaruma, an investment analyst with Paine Webber.
Since the one-year bonds are exempt from city, state and federal taxes, their yield will be comparable to or better than certificates of deposits available through banks, Donnaruma said.
On Wednesday, President Bush will make his second trip to New York since Sept. 11. He has been concerned about the effects of the attack on children and plans to visit a school, spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Joe Allbaugh, said he would also visit the city to address “quite a few problems” with the cleanup effort. He did not explain what they were.
“This is going to take months — it’s going to take three to four months just to get to the ground level,” Allbaugh said. “This is going to be better than a year to resolve this debris problem at the site.”
Gov. George Pataki said he would dispatch more than 300 National Guardsmen to New York state airports starting Friday. Bush last week called on all states to use the Guard to provide additional security at airports.
Students at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, about four blocks from the trade center, returned to their school for the first time since Sept. 11. The college was not heavily damaged but had been taken over by as many as 2,000 rescue workers.
Rush-hour traffic was moderate Monday morning as commuters entering Manhattan faced the same restrictions that were tested Thursday and Friday. Mandatory carpooling was in effect at bridges and tunnels heading into lower and midtown Manhattan from 6 a.m. to noon.
Trains and buses were crowded, but not unusually so, city transit spokesman Al O’Leary said.
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Bates and Dean Keep The Passion, But Turn Down The Heat
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Monday October 27, 2008 - 03:12:00 PM
When they first ran against each other in 2002, it was Berkeley’s epic political battle. Shirley Dean was the lightning-rod mayor and leader of the moderate-progressive political faction in a City Council and a city that were deeply divided along factional lines. Looking for a way to oust a political powerhouse, members of the opposing left-progressive faction recruited former state Assemblymember Tom Bates to run against Dean.
In the factional struggles of that time, Dean represented the moderate-progressive Berkeley Democratic Club (BDC), while Bates was the choice of the left-progressive Berkeley Citizens Action (BCA), with the BDC and the BCA opposing each other along largely ideological lines over a myriad of city issues.
The 2002 mayoral campaign was a bruising, raucous, rousing affair befitting a city known as the home of political activism. A November 2002 article by reporters from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism summed up some of the differences of those times.
“The real differences between the two candidates went beyond the election issues, said long-time political observers,” the 2002 article went on, quoting Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Government Studies at UC Berkeley, as saying, “What makes a difference is the networks they’re tied in to. Bates is with Loni Hancock and some of the progressive circles that were in charge of the city before Dean came. Shirley Dean is tied to the police and fire departments, and the more conservative circles. … Dean has traditionally been more balanced between business and the environment. For Bates, it may be hard to convince long-time Berkeley residents that he is more to the middle, even if it is true.”
People have pointed to the best example of the bitterness and intensity of the 2002 campaign as the now-infamous incident when Bates stole and trashed a bundle of Daily Cal newspapers after the paper endorsed Dean. But perhaps a better example was summed up in one of the 2002 J-School article’s quotations. After Bates unexpectedly swamped Dean 55 percent to 43 percent—the race had been considered close until election day—the article quoted a crowing Bates campaign treasurer, Mal Burnstein, as saying, “it’s a blowout. It’s over. She lost. We won. Goodbye, Shirley.”
But while the candidates in the Bates-Dean rematch of 2008 are the same, Berkeley’s political landscape has changed considerably from 2002. For one thing, once elected, Bates moved to govern from the center, angering some of the more left-progressive people who had originally solicited him to run against Dean, but gaining new allies in the moderate-progressive camp who had been the previous mayor’s supporters.
For another, the old BCA-BDC rivalry has withered at the same time as the two organizations lost their once-considerable influence over Berkeley politics. The result is that the 2008 mayoral race is much more of a traditional city campaign than the previous ideological one, with challenger Dean attacking the incumbent Bates from either the left or the right, depending on the opening provided, while Bates attempts to occupy and defend the political center.
Those differences were evident during an Oct. 13 breakfast debate between the two candidates sponsored by the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
“Berkeley had a $21 million structural deficit when Dean left office,” Bates told the assembled business representatives. “It was painful and difficult, but we solved that. We’re in better shape than surrounding cities such as Oakland and San Jose, which are facing severe budget deficits.”
The mayor argued that he has moved forward towards a traditionally progressive Berkeley goal—advancing a green economy—while at the same time satisfying business demands for development.
Noting that the city has already reduced greenhouse gases by 9 percent—2 percent more than the 7 percent goal called for in the 2007 U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement—Bates said he hoped Berkeley “is going to be one of the greenest cities in the U.S.”
But he touted his administration’s efforts to revitalize the city’s downtown business core. “We have less than a 5 percent vacancy rate downtown,” the mayor said, adding that with the addition of UC Berkeley’s proposed downtown hotel, conference center, and museum complex, “We will see the kind of downtown renaissance we’ve never seen before.”
Predictably—given their past positions on the issue—the relationship between the City of Berkeley and UC Berkeley drew the sharpest distinctions between the two candidates.
Arguing against the controversial 2005 agreement between the university and the city over UC Berkeley’s downtown development plans, Dean called the university “the big bear in the living room. We cherish that bear. We love that bear. But the bear tends to break the crockery and not pay for it.”
Arguing that Berkeley could have gotten more money out of the university, Dean added, “We need to renegotiate the deal with UC.”
That position puts Dean squarely on the side of Berkeley’s left-progressive wing, which actively opposed the UC deal. The deal also drew the opposition of many of the city’s more moderate neighborhood activists.
But Bates defended the UC deal, saying, “We got the best deal with UC than any other city in the state. It’s folly to think we could have gotten anything more.” Bates said that Berkeley provides $14 million in services to the university, while the university “did a study that says they generate $16 million in revenue back to us” through retail revenue and hotel receipts. “So we actually owe them $2 million,” Bates said, most likely as a joke.
For her part, Dean spoke briefly about her accomplishments during her years as mayor—she noted that one of her proudest achievements was the establishment of the city’s arts and theater district—but spent most of her time criticizing Bates for what she said were failures during his.
Some of the criticisms were general, such as saying that “people throughout the city believe noone at City Hall is listening,” but some were more specific.
“Downtown is dirty and unsanitary,” Dean said. “It needs a thorough cleanup.” She said that the city needs to “address the issue of street behavior and cleanliness” as well as “aggressively recruit retail for downtown. Berkeley can have more retail. I’ve done it. We need to reverse the image that Berkeley is anti-business.”
Bates denied that the city is in as bad shape as Dean alleged, both in economic and sanitary terms, and took a shot of his own at Dean’s conduct while she was mayor.
“When I came on the council [following his defeat of Dean in 2002], it was in chaos,” Bates said. “Civility was at an all-time low. We’ve changed that. Now we no longer have any ‘sides.’”
Bates has certainly won the support of his fellow members of City Council. Councilmembers Linda Maio, Darryl Moore, Max Anderson, Laurie Capitelli, and Gordon Wozniak have all endorsed the mayor. Councilmember Betty Olds, who is retiring from the Council at the end of this year, has dual-endorsed both Bates and Dean.
Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who had bitter clashes with Dean during her tenure as mayor and was one of the leaders of the left-progressive group that urged Bates to run against her, has also differed with Bates during the last six years—though not quite so bitterly—and has endorsed no one in the current race. The late councilmember Dona Spring, another left-progressive, was frequently at odds with Bates during council meetings.
But what has most changed in the six years between Dean-Bates 2002 and Bates-Dean 2008 is the tone of the campaign. Bates, the former UC Berkeley football player, has always been soft-spoken and low-key in demeanor, and the diminutive Dean (she jokes that she doesn’t have to stand up when she talks because it makes little difference in her height) remains as feisty as ever. In their public presentations during this year’s campaign, both claimed a passion for Berkeley, its traditions and its people, and a commitment to its future.
What is missing this year so far is the angry, partisan edge between the candidates that marked their first contest, fueled by that earlier partisan divide. Though the two candidates still do not appear to like each other very much, each has refrained from the kind of personal attacks we have seen in other races, such as this year’s presidential campaign.
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The Central Park Five: The Tortured Confessions behind the 'Wilding' Hoax-- Now playing at the Shattuck Cinema in Berkeley
By Gar Smith
Tuesday December 18, 2012 - 11:51:00 AM
Korey Wise, a child forced to confess to a crime he did not commit.
If you think Bradley Manning is getting a bum rap (and he is), consider the case of the Central Park Five.
In 1989, five Black and Latino teenagers were tried as adults and convicted of a savage attack on a white female jogger in Central Park. While other horrific crimes were committed in Manhattan the same week, it was this single interracial crime that became the "crime of the century" as the nation became transfixed by a threatening new term for out-of-control teen violence -- "wilding."
The press derided the five young boys as a "teen wolf pack," "savage beasts," "mutants," "sociopaths." The vitriol was understandable. After all, the boys all signed written confessions and described their roles in the attack in a series of videotaped interviews.
There was only one problem. They were all completely innocent. (It was only after the boys had served 6- and 13-year prison sentences that Matias Reyes, a serial rapist, confessed to the crime.)
Boyhoods Interrupted
Leaping adroitly from the tube to the big screen, TV documentarian Ken Burns reveals a sordid story of police corruption, public betrayal and personal suffering targeting "the most endangered species in America – the young, black man."
This exceptional, nuanced and emotional documentary challenges the comforting assumption that we inhabit a "post-racial" America. Throughout this gripping, 119-minute film, Burns' respect for The Five is both palpable and profound. His on-camera interviews are compelling and emotional.
After a visual prelude of striking photographs that capture the grit and poverty of the Harlem of the '70s and '80s, Burns introduces the five – Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam. On screen, Salaam, Richardson and Santana are surprisingly wry, smart and articulate. Kevin, while not articulate, is emotionally exposed, frail and touching.
Throughout the film, the interviews with the men (now in their 30s) are intercut with photos and film clips when they were children, boys and, finally, criminal suspects served up on the evening news. What's missing is the void between their youth and the painful reality that is their legacy as wounded, struggling adults.
A Fateful Night in the Park
A crowd of around 25 teens headed to Central Park to hang out. It was just "guys horseplaying -- jumping on each others' backs, beating each other up. Just horseplaying." But at some point, a few of the teens started throwing rocks, harassing passersby and "beating up a homeless guy … really bad." After watching a man bashed in the head with a beer bottle, the boys decided to head home. "The only crime I committed that night was I hopped the turnstile," one man tells Burns.
Tears well up in his eyes at the memory of being tackled and manhandled by the cops who responded to the disturbance. "I'd never been arrested: Never had handcuffs on me."
The kids were expecting to be released after being booked on a charge of "illegal assembly" but, at 1:30AM, a woman was found in the park -- near death, partially disrobed and suffering from a skull fracture.
New charges filed.
Vengeance and the Specter of 'Wilding'
The attack provoked a media frenzy that inflamed the public, provoking both fear and anger. An NYPD official rushed to assure the press and the public: "We believe these five youths… were responsible."
He chose his words wisely: He did not "we have evidence to believe the boys were involved." In fact, there was no evidence. No signs of struggle, no DNA matches, nothing that even tied the five to the time or location of the incident.
So why did five young men confess (both in signed statements written in longhand and in videotaped interviews with investigators)? This is where The Central Park Five earns its stars.
Why Do Innocents Confess?
After listening to the candid recollections of The Five as they unburden themselves before Burns' camera, you'll never again accept a police confession at face value.
We now know the kids were subjected to 14-30 hours of stressful police interrogations complete with shouts, verbal threats and physical abuse that amounted to psychological torture. "There was no food, no drink, no sleep and I didn't know when it was going to end."
Eventually the cops told the terrified, exhausted boys: "Your friends have all confessed and named you." It was a lie but it had the desired effect. "I figured: they did it to me; I'll do it to them." "I made stuff up." Told they would be allowed to go home if they "told the truth," the boys struggled to make up stories. When their descriptions didn't match reality, the cops coached them to change their stories to be more "believable."
Turning away from the camera and cringing at the sexually explicit details of his "confession," one of the Five tells Burns: "A 14-year-old boy doesn't talk like this. I was crying. [The cop] said: 'Don't worry. You did good. Everything's gonna be alright. I said it 'cause they told me to so I could go home."
A Reign of Righteous Injustice
The boys were bullied; convinced not to demand their right to legal counsel and placed before a videocamera. Videotape rolled and their fates were sealed. As one of the many officials interviewed by Burns observes: "Confessions will trump DNA [and even] change witnesses testimony…."
Burns interviews the single juror who pointed out irreconcilable errors in the five different "confessions." After suffering the angry abuse of his fellow jurors, he finally decided to vote for conviction "just to get out of there."
The woman who had been attacked made an amazing recover. Even though she had no memory of the attack, the prosecution put her in the witness stand. When the young woman grabbed the witness stand to steady herself, it was clear there was no way these young men were going to be freed.
The prison experience was searing. "I had to grow up really fast." "I saw people dying over cigarettes." "Why me? I cursed God out a couple of times. My faith was gone."
The Aftermath of Stolen Lives
In one remarkable scene, Burns plays Mathias Reyes' confession tape for the Five. We watch a complexity of emotions play across their faces as they hear his words for the first time.
The public was finally informed that the DNA from the crime scene matched Reyes. Reyes describes details of the assault that no one else could have known. Nonetheless, after the acquittal of the five innocent men, the NYPD investigated itself and found no grounds for complaint. The fog of "institutional protectionism" continued to spread over Manhattan as prosecutors, the press and much of the public refused to accept the dismissal; refused even to accept the facts.
Left behind are five middle-aged men who lost their youth, were thrown into the lion's den of prison and now face damaged futures where "a huge gap of your life has been taken away from you."
In 2003, the Central Park Five filed a lawsuit against NYC but, as Burns informs us, "the lawsuit remains unresolved."
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Armed Drones: Legal Issues from an International Law Perspective
Since President Obama took office, the sharp increase in the use of armed drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles – UAVs) against members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan (but also against militants in Somalia and Yemen) has triggered a broad public debate on the issues surrounding armed drone usage. This debate has been particularly explosive in Germany. While many Germans find it generally difficult to accept the targeted killing of enemy combatants (not to mention civilians), killing by machines (such as armed drones) makes them particularly uneasy. Politically, this unease has found expression in reactions to suggestions that the German armed forces should themselves consider acquiring armed drones. From the military standpoint, the case for armed drones is clear: If reconnaissance drones are able through electronic surveillance to detect enemy activity that could pose considerable danger to German military personnel and equipment, it makes sense to deal with that threat immediately in real-time. And the only feasible way to engage in real-time combat is to launch guided missiles directly from the drones.
Despite these military reasons for the deployment of armed drones, large sections of the public remain skeptical – as do specialists in law, social ethics and political science. Normative considerations appear to militate against the use of armed drones. But what sources substantiate these normative grounds? At any rate not positive international law – as this article will briefly explain below. International Humanitarian Law (IHL) does not prohibit the use of armed drones. It does impose certain restrictions, but these apply equally to the deployment of the guided missiles in other operational contexts, for example the deployment of such guided missiles from warplanes and helicopters. In-depth analysis shows that the problem resides behind the norms of positive international law, at another level of normative judgment; at best it can be exemplified with (social ethics) principles on which IHL and its rules on methods and means of warfare are based. That is not to say, however, that there are no good reasons for a healthy dose of normative skepticism regarding the “normalization” of armed drone usage.
Armed drones in International Humanitarian Law
One basic problem from an international law perspective regarding the phenomenon of armed drones is the fact that the drones themselves are not weapons, or ordnance, in the technical sense, but rather in terms of basic principles solely an (unmanned) military aircraft that serves as a weapon platform. IHL law only governs weapons, not weapon platforms. The drone as a military object is clearly a legitimate military target, but only the guided munitions which are carried and directed to their targets by the drones are the object of regulation of the norms of IHL concerning means and methods of warfare. In turn, the types of guided munitions in question are not specific to drones and are used on other aircrafts as well, such as fighter jets and military helicopters. In these applications they have largely been regarded as unproblematic. Yet growth in the scope of deployment to include drone usage in no way changes the effects of weapons with which IHL is concerned. Does this mean that armed drone missions are unproblematic per se? Things are not quite that simple. What causes unease is ultimately not the weapon platform or the guided missile as a weapon, but rather the typical deployment scenario for armed drones, which constitute an archetypal military technology of asymmetrical conflict. Under such circumstances, the guided missile directed to its target from drones is in effect a radical type of distance weapon. There is only a very fine difference compared to firing an artillery shell from a distance or launching a cruise missile. Particularly in situations when a reconnaissance drone observes and marks the target, the boundaries between the different types of use are blurred. And yet there are discernible differences. Artillery has a limited range, and a suitable battery has to be sufficiently close by and ready to fire, if distance combat – with any kind of mobile target – is to be successful. The same applies to the deployment of warplanes. Only an armed drone is capable of fighting an identified military target immediately, in real-time.
Military targets in asymmetrical conflicts are frequently gatherings of enemy combatants. However – and this is one of the characteristics of asymmetrical conflicts – these are usually not clearly distinguishable from the general civilian population. From a purely legal point of view, “irregular” fighters in non-international armed conflicts are members of the civilian population. Although they lose their protection if they directly participate in fighting, the problem of differentiation remains. This differentiation problem is negligible if a patrol or combat unit encounters and opens fire on a group of enemy combatants. Things become more complicated when using distance weaponry. If I come to the assistance of a patrol caught in an ambush with artillery fire or “close air support”, the situation remains relatively simple. The problem of making a clear distinction becomes more tricky, however, if I want to use distance weaponry against suspected enemy combatants – i. e. actively launch an attack against a supposedly or actually identified opponent. The fact that targeted persons are carrying or firing weapons without enemy engagement doesn’t count for much in contexts such as Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia – one is reminded of cases where wedding parties were accidentally obliterated following ritual celebrations with the small arms that are socially customary in such places. The narrower the time window between identifying the (supposed) military target and the use of weapons, the greater the risks of misjudgment, distorted perception or a sudden change in circumstances that the military actor taking the decision is unaware of. As an example, one needs to think only of the infamous Kunduz incident, in which a tragic error of judgment led to an airstrike on two captured tanker trucks with substantial loss of civilian life.
Unease over the use of armed drones becomes confused here with the debate on the issue of targeted killing. Targeted killing of military opponents who are fighting against you with a weapon in their hand is unproblematic. According to prevailing opinion, the concept of direct participation also extends to professional combatants who as part of an organized military apparatus fully devote their time and energy to fighting the enemy, including the political leaders of such military apparatuses. Part-time combatants, on the other hand, who only occasionally retrieve their weapons from their hiding places, but otherwise lead an inconspicuous civilian life as farmers or artisans, are protected as members of the civilian population – unless they are found with a weapon in their hand.
Further problems arise with regard to “collateral casualties”, which are virtually inevitable to some extent in military operations. We don’t know how many women, children and innocent civilians have been killed by American drone strikes. We only know that the numbers are considerable – and in the context of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan this is hard to avoid, if we do not refrain entirely from strikes on targets in human settlements or vehicle convoys, where protected civilians are found alongside enemy combatants. The problem of the legitimacy of such collateral casualties is highly complex and an in-depth examination is beyond the scope of this article. In principle, though, it is no different from the collateral casualty problem with conventional air or artillery strikes.
The legitimacy of targeted killings outside of armed conflict settings is an extremely difficult question. Human rights guarantees apply here. Targeted killings – according to the rules concerning the use of police force which are applicable in this respect – are allowed only in extreme cases of direct self-defense or emergency assistance in the event of an acute threat to the lives of task forces or innocent bystanders. This almost completely rules out the (military) use of armed drones.
The limits of military force from an ethical perspective
Yet these considerations of positive international law have not yet really touched on the actual problem of social ethics that is responsible for most of the unease regarding armed drones. Aversion to radicalized distance weaponry, which is what armed drones turn out to be, is not really fueled by the problems of targeted killing and collateral casualties. Instead, it has to do with the basic models of ethical justification for killing in war, which no longer seem so sound in the case of drones. As a soldier, I can target and kill the enemy, because I am - ultimately - engaged in a kind of institutionalized self-defense. Even if my own life is not in danger from possible enemy fire – which is unlikely to be the case with distance weaponry – I am allowed to fight the enemy where I find him, as otherwise he will direct his force against my fellow soldiers, whom I am to protect in solidarity against the adversary. The foundation of this legitimacy on social ethics principles generally becomes rather shaky in “asymmetrical” conflicts. With the use of armed drones, however, this model of justification finally reaches its limits.
This becomes particularly apparent in the circumstances surrounding drone strikes in Pakistan, which on the American side are controlled by CIA civilian personnel. The persons involved are not in any danger themselves (not even potentially), nor do they have any kind of fellowship or ties of solidarity with the U.S. army soldiers whose lives are being protected in Afghanistan. For the agent taking action, the targeted use of deadly weapons increasingly mutates into a kind of computer game which bears no resemblance to armed confrontation (that carries risks). This causes two problems: the problem of perceptual shortcomings that occur with drastically reduced decision-making time, and the problem of ethical desensitization. Exploiting the military advantages of real-time military action demands short decision-making processes and the ability to make an immediate decision on the spot. As a result, there are no more long chains of command with legal counsel. The decision must be taken immediately, otherwise the advantage of the drone is lost. In this activity loop of (perhaps only supposedly) identifying a military target with the expectation of immediate response, all forms of perceptual distortion and bias that humans bring to such situations inevitably come into play. One is no longer directly confronted with the consequences of using force (as opposed to a soldier in conventional combat, who might subsequently discover he mistakenly shot a harmless civilian). This complete separation from the problematic consequences of using force ultimately leads to ethical desensitization, such as we can observe in psychological research in relation to typical violent computer games. Just as it is difficult for conventional soldiers in the field to overcome their intuitive inhibition to kill and to avoid that the crises of conscience caused by witnessing the consequences of force lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, the same way it is easy for drone operators to distance themselves from acts of violence.
This is all the more unfortunate given that central regulatory provisions of IHL – particularly with regard to the problem of collateral casualties – appeal to the ethical judgment of military decision-makers. The decision of conscience that is required in balancing the expected military advantage with the likely collateral casualties ultimately relies on the ethical sensibility of the military person responsible for taking action or making the decision to act – and indeed, such a decision of conscience crushed many soldiers and officers when facing it . The almost complete disburdening of active personnel as regards this kind of crisis of conscience may be “efficiency boosting” for bureaucratic military apparatuses, but in essence it undermines the foundations of the way in which the rules of IHL law operate.
This is particularly obvious in the practice of signature strikes, where the operational decision is routinized with respect to particular combinations of factors – and it is taken to extremes in scenarios where autonomously operating machines automatically respond to particular detection patterns with a signature strike. The active subject, equipped with a conscience, is relieved of all responsibility here, while the ethically wrong decision (which is still possible) is invisibilized in the anonymous program codes of the drones’ control software. In fact, no individual person is legally responsible anymore; what we are left with is the collective responsibility of the military apparatus, which is difficult to pinpoint. The military apparatus, meanwhile, has no conscience and is also unable to conduct an ethically responsible balancing of conflicting interests. But at this point we once again have a problem for positive international law – International Humanitarian Law absolutely requires military decision-makers to take personal responsibility for the balancing of conflicting interests.
Stefan Oeter studied jurisprudence and political science in Heidelberg/Montpellier 1979-1983. After his time as trainee lawyer, he was a research consultant at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Int. Law in Heidelberg (1987-1999). In 1990, he became Dr. iur. at Heidelberg and received his habilitation in 1997. Since 1999: professor of German and Comparative Public Law and Int. Law, Managing Director of the Institute of Int. Affairs at Hamburg University. He is a German member of the independent Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of the European Council (chairman 2006-2013); chairman of the Historical Commission of the Int. Society for Military Law and the Law of War; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. Main research fields: comparative federalism, protection of linguistic and cultural minorities, int. humanitarian law, Europ. and int. economic law, and theory of int. law and int. relations.
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Red Hat Boosts Hybrid Clouds
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, has begun shipping an update to its open source IT automation framework, designed to bring increased stability, new automation capabilities, and new integrations with a variety of services and providers. The solution, Ansible 2.0, is intended to better support public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments, as well as Microsoft Windows environments and network management.
Ansible is designed to enable developer and operators in IT organizations to quickly learn and deploy the software, empowering them to break down barriers between IT teams by automating routine activities. “We strongly believe that our users should be able to focus on improving their business, rather than learning complex tools,” says Tim Cramer, head Of Ansible Engineering for Red Hat. “Ansible 2.0 expands upon that vision by delivering increased flexibility in the Ansible Playbook automation language, while still retaining the ease-of-use and simplicity that enables developers and operators to get started quickly."
The new release includes task blocks enable easier development of playbooks and tasks, and additionally provide the option to integrate exception handling and recovery. A playbook parser provides clearer identification of errors and provides suggested fixes, and new execution modes provide users with ways to increase the speed of deployments across many machines. Increased flexibility in tasks facilitates easier reuse of automation content across a variety of environments and contexts; and logging playbook information to services such as chat, email, or log aggregators can be easily configured through newly included plugins.
Ansible benefits from 2,000 contributors to its repositories on GitHub, as well as 200 new contributors to the 2.0 release, Red Hat states. The new release includes nearly 200 new modules spanning the public, private and hybrid cloud that accommodate for containers, networking, and Windows.
Ansible 2.0 is now available via GitHub, PyPi, and package manager for most major Linux distributions. For users seeking more control, security, and delegation for their Ansible deployments, Ansible Tower is available via subscription tiers.
More information is available at the Red Hat website.
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EBR host first Board Meeting following Local Election
East Border Region held its first Board meeting following the recent Local Government Elections in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday 26th June 2019. Out of a total Board of 18, 12 new members were appointed to EBR by their corresponding Local Authorities. Chairman Cllr Aidan Campbell welcomed new members and paid tribute to previous long standing members who are no longer EBR Board Members.
"I am delighted to welcome you all to this East Border Region Board meeting. Firstly I would like to congratulate you on your recent success in the local Government Elections, I know that for a number of you this is your first time to be elected so many congratulations and I hope you enjoy your time as an elected representative. Congratulations also to those Councillors who have been re-elected.
Secondly, can I thank you for your interest in East Border Region, and on behalf of myself and the staff I would like to welcome you all onto the Board and we really look forward to working in Partnership to continue to build on our success over the past 40 plus years, and to ensure that the organisation continues to thrive in the future.
I would like to pay tribute to the Councillors who are no longer on the Board, some due to retirement, some unfortunately did not get re-elected, and a number have not been nominated onto the Board. These Councillors were fully supportive of EBR, and they worked tirelessly to build up strong, resilient, cross border relationships.
As a result of the recent elections we have 12 new Board members. That is a significant change in personnel for a small organisation, and whilst it represents challenges in terms of people getting to know each other, building up trust and learning to work in Partnership, it also represents an excellent opportunity to re-invigorate the organisation, to bring new ideas and perspectives on board, and to re-build a strong sense of identity for EBR members".
EBR look forward to getting to know our new Board Members over the coming months and working together for the mutual benefit of our cross border region.
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Churches want the freeing of civilians trapped in Sri Lanka slaughter
An international churches' consultation has appealed to the government of Sri Lanka and the rebel Tigers to halt fighting in order to free tens of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone.
Church of England clergy urged to help war-torn Sri Lanka
Clergy from the Church of England are being invited to provide respite for priests in war-torn Sri Lanka. They will take over in safe regions, while Sri Lankan priests support those in conflict zones.
Parliament protesters say they will stay until the government acts
Some 28 hours after their protest began, Tamils are still in Parliament Square in London. They say they will not leave until the UK government pledges to help stop the slaughter in Sri Lanka.
Westminster Bridge closed by Tamil protest against Sri Lanka's war
Three thousand Tamil protesters this morning temporarily forced the closure of London's Westminster Bridge, demanding that the UK government should act to end the war in Sri Lanka.
CAFOD’s Sri Lankan partners offer to step forward as negotiators for peace
CAFOD partners in Sri Lanka have offered to step in as negotiators between fighting forces in an attempt to avert an escalating humanitarian tragedy in the north east of the country.
Sri Lankan authorities arrest churches' justice and peace worker
The executive secretary for justice and peace of the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka has been arrested by a terrorism investigation unit of the government in Colombo.
Help Sri Lanka and sponsor a child in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has long been a divided and troubled country, with tensions between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil separatists first erupting into war in 1983. Many thousands of people have lost their lives in the interminable ethnic conflict that has ensued.
Sri Lanka situation ‘graver by the day’ says charity
The situation for trapped civilians in Sri Lanka is ‘becoming graver by the day’, says Christian Aid. An estimated 190,000 civilians remain trapped in the fighting, as food, medicine and fresh water supplies run dangerously low.
'War without witnesses' in Sri Lanka condemned by Amnesty
Amnesty International has called on the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels to stop the continuing harassment of journalists and media workers as they try to report the conflict there.
Aid agency warns of 'tsunami scale' long-term need in Sri Lanka
A Christian aid agency has warned of ‘tsunami scale’ long-term need in Sri Lanka.
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J.K. Rowling, Hitler's Love Child and the Nazi Sources of Harry Potter
Submitted by David Livingstone on Sun, 10/14/2018 - 13:09
With the popularity of the series amongst children, it is clear that the public fail to recognize the extensive overt occult and even Satanic symbolism employed in J.K. Rowling’s blockbuster Harry Potter series. Fundamentally, Rowling’s fictional Harry Potter universe parallels the occult ideology of the Nazis, where a race of “pure-bloods” supremacists, analogues of the Aryans, of the Wizarding World, comprising of an Illuminati or separate shadow society where magic is and practised, who keep themselves hidden from the non-magical humans, known as Muggles. Originally the two worlds co-existed. However, as is typical for occult rationalizations for their secrecy, practitioners of magic had suffered persecution over the centuries, leading them to choose to operate in the shadows. However, pure-blood supremacists must avoid miscegenation with the mongrel race of Muggles, or risk diluting the purity of their blood which is a measure of a wizard’s magical ability.
However, Rowling’s familiarity with Nazi ideology may be more than a passing coincidence. John Hamer, author of The Falsification of History, has reported that he had been in contact with a “mystery man” who made some astounding assertions that reveal some of the fascist sources for the series. The man, who claimed to be the father of Rowling’s child, asserted that he was the grandson of Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford, of the notorious Mitford sisters, who achieved contemporary notoriety for their controversial and stylish lives. While their feuds were made very public, in private the sisters got along very well.[1]
Unity Mitford, who was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario, Canada, where her family owned gold mines, was famous for her adulation of and friendship with Hitler. When she lived in Munich before the war, Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford had befriended Ernst Hanfstaengl—the man who supposedly discovered Hitler and advanced his career in Germany—and lived in his sister Erna’s house. Some authorities suggest that Hitler was romantically involved with Erna, or had romantic affections for her.[2] Hanfstaengl, nicknamed “Putzi,” was born in Munich, the son of a German art publisher and an American mother. His mother was Katharine Wilhelmina Heine, daughter of William Heine, nephew-in-law of American Civil War Union Army general John Sedgwick. Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the older brother of Queen Victoria’s older brother Albert, was the godfather of Ernst Hanfstaengl.
Despite his close relationship with Hitler, Hanfstaengl was a German businessman with key links to the Round Table conspirators, like Walter Lippmann, and the highest echelons of power in the US, right up to the office of the American president at the time. According to The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley, Lippmann along with Col. Mandell House, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, were members of the Round Table. It was Lippmann who recommended Allen Dulles, future head of the CIA, as a top recruit for Col. House’s plan to use the United States relief program in Europe after the war as cover for intelligence activities.[3]
Deciding that America would not join any scheme for world government without a change in public opinion, Col. House and Round Table members formed the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) in 1920, for the purpose of coordinating British and American efforts. They also formed an American branch, known as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in following year by Col. House and Walter Lippmann with the financial assistance of John D. Rockefeller Jr.. The early CFR included members like J.P. Morgan, Paul Warburg and Jacob Schiff, all financiers of the Hitler regime.
After meeting Unity and Diana, Hitler described them as the perfect examples of Aryan women.[4] Her middle name was Valkyrie, after the war maidens in the opera of Wagner, Hitler favorite composer, and a friend Unity’s grandfather, Lord Redesdale. Redesdale had also translated books by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, whose racial theories influenced Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Pryce Jones reports that “She [Mitford] saw him, it seemed, more than a hundred times, no other English person could have anything like that access to Hitler.”[5] Hitler’s inner circle, however, suspected she was a British spy. Nevertheless, when Hitler announced the Anschluss in 1938, Unity appeared with him on the balcony in Vienna.
Unity shot herself in the head days after Britain declared war on Germany, but failed to kill herself and eventually died of pneumococcal meningitis at West Highland Cottage Hospital, Oban. However, investigative journalist Martin Bright, as revealed in an article in The New Statesman, has discovered evidence suggesting that Unity may have faked her injuries to hide the fact that she was carrying Hitler’s child.[6]
While Unity and her sister Diana turned to fascism, Jessica turned to the political left. Diana was first married to Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, before divorcing him for Sir Oswald Mosley, with whom she was having an affair. Mosley, was a devotee of Aleister Crowley and the founder of the British Union of Fascists.[7] In 1920, Mosley married Lady Cynthia Curzon, daughter of Round Tabler, Lord Curzon. When his father died in 1928, Mosley became Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats. In 1931 Mosley went on a study tour of the “new movements” of Italy’s Benito Mussolini and other fascists, and returned convinced that it was the way forward for him and for Britain. He was determined to unite the existing fascist movements and created the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932. Diana and Oswald married in secret in Germany in 1936, in the Berlin home of Joseph Goebbels, where Hitler was one of the guests. Mosley spent large amounts of his private fortune on the British Union of Fascists, negotiating with Hitler, through Diana, for permission to broadcast commercial radio to Britain from Germany.
Jessica’s first marriage was to Esmond Romilly, who was a nephew-by-marriage of Sir Winston Churchill. Jessica renounced her privileged background at an early age and became an adherent of communism. Jessica became a well-known writer, the author of The American Way of Death in 1963. Jessica then married Robert Treuhaft, a Jewish-American lawyer. Treuhaft founded, Treuhaft, Walker, and Bernstein, in 1963, a law firm which represented Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), an African-American civil rights organization that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is “to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background.”[8]
During the 1960s and 1970s, prominent Black Panther member, James Forman, lived with and had two children from Constancia (“Dinky”) Romilly, the second and only surviving child of Jessica and Esmond. During the 1970s and 1980s, Forman received a PhD from the Union of Experimental Colleges and Universities, in cooperation with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). In 1971, Hillary Clinton worked as a summer intern for Treuhaft’s firm, which also represented anti-Vietnam War protesters, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panthers.[9]
J.K. Rowling named her daughter after Jessica Mitford. “Jessica Mitford has been my heroine since I was 14 years old,” explained Rowling.[10] Hamer reported that the “mystery man” he had been in contact with was told by Jessica Mitford that his grandparents were her sister Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler. The man said that in the early 1990s, he, Jessica Mitford and Treuhaft—who was apparently JK Rowling’s “handler”—“brainstormed” the entire Harry Potter story on a long train ride while Rowling took extensive notes. The man also said that it was based loosely on the CS Lewis “Narnia” tales, but that he had no idea at the time that all the references to pedophilia, witchcraft and Satanism, were going to be incorporated into it.
The mystery man also told me that the scar on Harry Potter’s head was the symbol of the British Union of Fascists, founded by Oswald Mosley, who married Jessica sister Diana.[11] The symbol also recalled the double-thunderbolt or sig-rune of the Nazi SS. The symbol was derived from the The Secret of the Runes in which völkisch mystic Guido von List borrowed from the Theosophy of Madame H. P. Blavatsky as well as ancient Aryan (Teutonic and Indian) legend to create a unique system of rune magic. The racial ideas of Blavatsky, concerning “root races,” and the emergence of a spiritually-developed “Aryan Man” during the Aquarian Age, were avidly accepted by the nineteenth-century German nationalists who mixed Theosophical occultism with anti-Semitism, and the doctrine of the racial supremacy of the Aryan or Indo-European peoples.
A number of parallels between the lives of the Mitford sisters and Harry Potter characters were noted in the American communist newspaper People's Weekly World.[12] Narcissa Black (analogue to Diana Mosley) married a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy (Oswald Mosley). Her sister, Bellatrix (Unity Mitford), was herself a Death Eater, and a favourite of Lord Voldemort (Adolf Hitler). Andromeda (Jessica Mitford) married the Muggle-born Ted Tonks against her family’s wishes (as Jessica eloped with her cousin Esmond Romilly). Thus Andromeda was a “black sheep” of the traditionally pure-blood supremacists Black family. Rowling draws several parallels between the pure-blood supremacists and Nazism in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: the belief that pure-blood wizards have the right to subjugate the Muggle world and view themselves as a “master race,” laws requiring Muggle-borns to register with the Ministry of Magic, rounding up “Undesirables,” etc.
[1] Edward Cotterill. The Mitfords - A Tale Of Two Sisters. 3DD (2017).
[2] William L.Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. (Simon and Schusterm 1960). p. 131.
[3] Peter Grose, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles (Houghton Mifflin 1994), p. 41.
[4] “Hitler’s British Girl.” Channel 4 Documentary (2007).
[5] David Pryce-Jones. Unity Mitford: A Quest (W&N, 1995).
[6] Martin Bright. “Unity Mitford and ‘Hitler’s baby’.” The New Statesman, (May 13, 2002).
[7] Peter Levenda, Unholy Alliance, p. 116.
[8] “About Congress of Racial Equality | (702) 633-4464.” Congress Of Racial Equality.
[9] Carl Bernstein. A Woman in Charge. (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007). pp. 105.
[10] J. K. Rowling: “The First It Girl.” Sunday Telegraph (November 26, 2006).
[11] John Hamer. The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality. (Rosedale Books, 2012).
[12] Teresa Albano. “A summer of reading, struggle and Harry.” People’s Weekly World. (September 8, 2007).
Adolph Hitler: Agent of the Round Table
Submitted 3 years 1 month ago by David Livingstone.
J.K. Rowling and Nazis.
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I respect David Livingstone's research, and read his compelling works enthusiastically, but I'd like to add something to this article. A disclaimer: my mother is Jewish, Ashkenazi on both sides, paternal and maternal. I, myself, didn't know she was Jewish until after leaving the nest, when she divorced my father, and got into her "Jewish roots". Then I learned she was Jewish, and wondered what that meant. We had gone to Church and Sunday 'school' when I was young, celebrated Christmas, and didn't do anything Jewish, although I learned later they DID have a Jewish wedding (my father who is 92 told me that last year, but I should have known). Now for the reason I'm explaining that: Israel, the Zionist (not "Jewish") state, is a mirror-image of Nazi Germany. Racism is written into law, tne brutal force is used to enforce their supremacist ideology. The "House of Rothschild" held the meeting imortalized in the "Protocols of Zioin", and we can only assume many other such meetings took place over the years. They explicitly admit to delibertly creating "anti-Semitism (hatered for ALL Jewish people) to manage their "lesser brethren" (what they call us): to hide behind Jews, and later use them for scapegoats, as has happened repeatedly over the centuries. My point is that Hitler, FDR, Churchhill, Stalin, were all controlled by the same evil entity, just as all governmental leaders today are. Our world is controlled by one evil entity, which controls the cabal it uses to control our world, lead by the money magicians, like the House of Rothschild. There would be no Israel without Nazi Germany having done what it did. Regular Jewish people, 99% of them, are not involved in the WRM/NWO (world revolutionary movement - new world order) conspiracy to enslave the entire world, just as 99% of "white" (I hate using that term) are not involved with the 1% who control everything (controlled by the 1% 'Jews', who are really Stanists). The Talmud and Kaballah were worshipped by the House of Rothschild from the beginning - they are generational satanists - not "Jewish". My own opinion is that even "True Torah Jews" who use the "Old Testamont" are also worshipping the "evil entity" (as i call it), because the Bible-Torah is full of violence, supremacism, and evil. I believe all religions are satanic cults, and there is only ONE TRUE FAITH. Supposedly someone called "Jesus" came to remind humanity of that, and free us from being enslaved by religions. So the evil entity had Jesus crucified, and then started making religions in his name - that's how it rolls......
Very interesting life experience
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thank you for sharing your background and opinion. I agree with your opinion.
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Did anyone else hear the Fifth trumpet of God Almighty sound when oil wells were lit ablaze during “Operation Desert Storm”?
During the Gulf War when all the oil wells were lit ablaze I was attacked by a demon on three separate occasions all at night. This is what happened. While I slept a demon flew through my window and attack me. The spirit inside me fought this demon briefly until I awoke. Then it made me take over. I leaped out of bed trying to defend myself. This demon was horrid and spun circles around me thrashing through my soul with its hands, then it left as fast as it came. The demon radiated from the pains associated with the abyss. He was like a coal pulled from the fire, with the pains of the abyss Rev 9, 3. This attack happened on three separate occasions as I have stated. all on separate nights during the time frame when the oil wells had been lit ablaze in the Middle East. The third time it attacked me however was different from the rest. As before the demon attacked me, but this time I had enough since to command it to leave in the name of Jesus Christ. What happened next is even more amazing. After commanding this demon to leave in the name of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit delivered me outside my bedroom into the hallway. The demon followed. We were brought into the presence of the Lord. The Demon stood to my left and grabbing my hand, it placed its tail on top of my left hand. It was the sting of the scorpion and it went like this. It sent waves of fire through my soul Rev 9, 10. The pain was so sever that I couldn't scream. Unconditionally, I looked straight up and said “Father please help me”. The demon then left.
This all happened after being seduced into trying transcendental meditation, which caused spiritual bondage to witchcraft / demonic forces. Maybe the spiritual bondage occurred after playing a Ouija board or Tarot cards as a young boy. I'm not quite sure. They appeared at that time just to be games, and were sold in the kids section at stores or at least the Ouija board was. I had a lot of spiritual warfare after participating in these so called "games". What I am sure of is that prior to being attacked by this demon, I was forced to go through the Illuminati's esoteric initiation performed through altered states of consciousness / transcendental meditation assisted with witchcraft / demonic forces. Why I say demonic forces is that I believe all witchcraft to be the powers of demons / the Devil. I was forced to go through said esoteric initiation through methods including witchcraft, demonology, and subversive acts of terrorism. The methods of witchcraft included mind control / manipulation, heart palpitations, witchcraft dreams causing sleep depravation, powerful visions, and many other forms. In said ceremony I was instructed to except the worship of one of their many "demonic gods". They informed me that in excepting one of there gods I accepted them all. One of there gods was the Devil, another they named Jesus, but they appeared to have a demon for every occasion. They informed me through methods of telepathy , that in accepting the worship of one, I accepted them all. What better way to join all religions of the world together under one banner of 666 spiritually enslaving society?
David Spengler of the United Nations says that all people must go through a esoteric initiation and worship Lucifer to enter the New Age of Enlightenment. Helen Blavatsky calls it a Christ like consciousness, universal mind set. Benjamin Cream states that after said initiation all its members will be able to hear ancient wisdom spoken telepathically at the same moment by ascended Masters. I knew nothing of this group at that time or there Luciferian agenda of a One World Government. Take a guess what method is used for this initiation? I bet you know now. Have you heard of the New Age Movement, or its affiliation with "Free" Masonry? Do you know what a unholy baptism is or the term Kundalini.
To the best of my knowledge this is the method Satan's Secret Society uses to distribute the “spiritual mark of the beast”, and cause spiritual captivity Revelation 13, 10. Have you received your spiritual stamp of acceptance? If so, did you take it on the forehead becoming a spiritual slave of evil, or on the right hand a servant of the Devil himself? Does this sound hard to believe? Here are a few scriptures giving in sight. Revelation 13, 10, If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go . This is spiritual captivity to witchcraft / demonic forces. Naham 3, 4, who enslaved nations by her witchcraft. Revelation 18, 23, By your magic spell all nations were led astray. Hebrews 2:15 states by there fear of death they are held in bondage. Witchcraft / demonic powers are very real. Thank you Jesus for the Holy spirit and your Angels.
There is a way out, but it has been difficult for me. Revelation 12, 11, Those who overcame, overcame by the blood of the lamb and the “word” of their testimony. They didn't love their own lives so much as to shrink from death. Hebrews 2, 15, By their fear of death they are held in spiritual captivity / bondage. Satan's "Secret" Society isn't very secret anymore! It is like a giant octopus with many tentacles reaching far and wide.
Here is the rest of the story. Three to four nights later the demon returned in the early am @ about 3am. He wasn't alone, Satan / Apollyon and the demon's twin brother was with him. They hovered in the air above the ground, before the olive tree in our back yard. I could see them as the spirit in me manifested them to me! Satan hovered in the middle while the demons were on either side of him. The demon on his left had been thrown into the lake of fire for what he did to me. He radiated like a coal pulled from the fire what seemed to be 15'x15'. He was lit up like a Christmas tree! Graciously yours baptized by fire the witness! Who will believe this testimony? God will be my witness! Located in California. Recommended information Fake truth Movement Exposed 1-12 on you tube. It has insight into who has received the spiritual stamp on there right hand.
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A Mosque in Munich - Interview with Ian Johnson
In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold story of a group of ex-Soviet Muslims who had defected to Germany during World War II. There, they had been fashioned into a well-oiled anti-Soviet propaganda machine. As that war ended and the Cold War began, West German and U.S. intelligence agents vied for control of this influential group, and at the center of the covert tug of war was a quiet mosque in Munich--radical Islam's first beachhead in the West.
Culled from an array of sources, including newly declassified documents, A Mosque in Munich interweaves the stories of several key players: a Nazi scholar turned postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naive CIA men eager to fight communism with a new weapon, Islam. A rare ground-level look at Cold War spying and a revelatory account of the West's first, disastrous encounter with radical Islam, A Mosque in Munich is as captivating as it is crucial to our understanding the mistakes we are still making in our relationship with Islamists today.
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Peter Murphy had to tone it down a bit before Bauhaus
really took off.
It’s November 22nd, 1980. Blondie remains at number one with “The Tide is High.” A week later ABBA take over the spot with “Super Trouper,” their last number one hit on the UK charts. It remains at number one for the remainder of the story. The Police, The Boomtown Rats, Kool and the Gang, UB40, and John Lennon also chart. Meanwhile, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, and Devo lurk about in the lower portions of the charts, the latter with “Whip It,” which peaks in the 50s, which is probably considerably lower than people would guess if pressed.
In real news, we should probably start with the murder of John Lennon, which, a week later, causes his then declining single “(Just Like) Starting Over” to suddenly jump from 22nd to number one and prompting a hurried rerelease of “Imagine.” Because for an anti-capitalist pacifist legend John Lennon and Yoko Ono were nothing if not shrewd businesspeople. A massive earthquake kills nearly 5000 in southern Italy. And Jean Donovan, and American missionary, is murdered in El Salvador along with three Catholic nuns. Her singles, of which there are none, do not chart as a result.
While on television, it’s 1977. Those who enjoy the ways in which the musical charts and Doctor Who oddly parallel will be bemused that 1977 was by most standards the peak of ABBA’s popularity, and that the last time ABBA was at number one was during The Invasion of Time, the last story of the season that was meant to begin with The Vampire Mutations by Terrance Dicks. Unfortunately the BBC was busy doing a high-profile adaptation of Dracula at the time and Head of Serials Graeme MacDonald commenced the first of a long series of butting heads with Graham Williams and ordered the script spiked for fear that Doctor Who would be seen as “sending up” the BBC’s more serious adaptation. It was replaced by Horror of Fang Rock.
Then came Bidmead, who as we’ve seen had a distinctly different take on what the program should be than his predecssor. Bidmead viewed Doctor Who as a more or less straight drama, whereas Adams, though not the cavalier jokester his detractors portray him as being, clearly preferred a mixture of comedy and drama. Beyond that, Bidmead preferred structures where real scientific concepts were transformed and expanded into the fantastic where Adams preferred to work with stock sci-fi ideas that didn’t need explanation. The result was that Bidmead saw little value in anything Adams had commissioned save for Christopher Priest’s “Sealed Orders,” which didn’t quite work out due in part to Romana needing to be removed from it. (Bidmead did commission another script from Priest, but that one fell afoul of Eric Saward, creating one of the great “what might have beens” of Doctor Who’s history) The best option he could find, then, was to go way back into the program’s archives and dust off The Vampire Mutations.
As a result we have a script that was made for 1977 and the aesthetic of the Hinchcliffe era being made in 1980. This turns into a study of contrasts. The nearest equivalent story in the program’s history is The Brain of Morbius - another Terrance Dicks effort adapting a classic British horror story, although Holmes’s script for The Pyramids of Mars is also an obvious antecedent, as is The Talons of Weng-Chiang. We are, in other words, back in the model of the literary homage, where the Doctor is unleashed inside of someone else’s story to jockey for supremacy.
But in the old model - even in the “serious” days of the Hinchcliffe era - this was done in part with a bit of humor. But Bidmead’s drive towards drama has stripped much of that away. Even still, the Doctor is funnier in this story than he has been all season (or, if you want to think about it in terms of production order, his humor wasn’t done being stripped away). But this is something that can’t simply be wound back. The three years of Graham Williams focusing primarily on the Doctor and his charismatic charm make it impossible to go back to the lower key humor of the Hinchcliffe era. It’s dialed back here, but in an odd way - his clowning is still broad and excessive, just considerably rarer. The result is a script in which the Doctor is mostly serious save for a quick bit of physical comedy with Romana and a deliberately parodic bit rousing the villagers into an opposition army against the vampires.
But this really does pose a problem for the Hinchcliffe approach. With the exception of the extremely serious Pyramids of Mars, the Hinchcliffe era’s horror pastiches were mostly quite funny. The Brain of Morbius, after all, had a suicidal vegetable envier as its great galactic conquerer. And the seriousness of Pyramids of Mars is hard to read as a virtue - when looked at alongside the rest of its era it, like The Seeds of Doom, comes across as fast-paced and brutal because of a lack of other ideas as opposed to out of a commitment to gripping action-packed drama. So by stripping the impish and mercurial qualities out of the approach Bidmead sets himself up with a real problem - how do you make the story work?
Further complicating things is the fact that Bidmead’s usual approach faces a real challenge here. At his best Bidmead creates the fantastic out of the real, through playful expansions upon existing concepts. In Full Circle he took the basic idea of evolution and created a world out of literary uses of it. In time, when he starts contributing his own scripts, he’ll build worlds and universes out of mathematical and computer science concepts. But there’s no real way to make hard scientific concepts out of vampires. You’re pretty much up a creek when it comes to making vampires stem from science. Fundamentally, they stem from literature and stories. And that’s not a direction Bidmead is eager to go in.
Under normal circumstances this would be a recipe for disaster. I mean, occasionally you get gold when the scriptwriter and script editor are pulling in different directions, but more normally you get a muddled trainwreck of conflicting ideas and men in very bad lizard costumes. But this is Terrance Dicks. That’s not a knock on David Fisher, who’s a fine scriptwriter, but Terrance Dicks is, god bless him, the most magnificently efficient hack on the planet. And I use “hack” here not in a pejorative sense at all. This has always been the gift of Terrance Dicks - he can write well even when he has no desire to be writing what he’s writing. I mean, nobody seriously believes he enjoyed every Target novelization he wrote, do they? No. Dicks is the ultimate “lock himself in his flat for a weekend and bang the fucking thing out” writer, and there’s not a set of circumstances on the planet that is going to get him to turn out half-assed work. Or, rather, his half-assed work is barely distinguishable from his top notch work. Even if his heights of genius are lower than those of Robert Holmes - or even of Christopher Bidmead - Terrance Dicks’s worst case scenario is still leagues above most people’s best day at the office.
But in this case there’s an assist from an odd direction. Because what ends up happening is that the vampires are explained in terms of ancient Time Lord legend. And this, in turn, hits upon an odd transition in the nature of the Time Lords. There are, in the classic series, essentially three visions of the Time Lords. Two have shown up so far - Terrance Dicks’s and Robert Holmes’s. (The third, of course, is Andrew Cartmel’s) The Dicks version is the one we see starting in The War Games and extending through the Pertwee era. The Holmes version begins with Genesis of the Daleks and lasts until The Deadly Assassin. But then comes the odd decade or so between The Deadly Assassin and Remembrance of the Daleks in which both Dicks and Holmes weigh in on the Time Lords with no real coherence or mutual plan.
For the most part Terrance Dicks “wins” this debate by outliving Holmes, writing most of the novelizations featuring the Time Lords and then writing several books in the 90s and early 00s with Time Lords such that he basically got to spin out his vision at great length. Whereas Holmes’s vision lurks around under the surface of Dicks’s, never quite becoming clear. (A prime example is Dicks’s obsession with the CIA) The usual statement of this - coming in part from Jan Rudzki’s legendary screed about The Deadly Assassin - is that Dicks’s Time Lords are powerful technocrats whereas Holmes’s are petty squabblers. But this is wrong. Dicks’s Time Lords are just as prone to factional squabbling as Holmes’s - The Three Doctors is full of the stuff.
No, the difference is rather one of attitude. Dicks’s Time Lords are detached and above the fray whereas Holmes’s Time Lords are historically bound. I am not going to rehash the argument made in The Deadly Assassin, in no small part because it was 15,000 words long, but the end point was that Holmes’s Time Lords functioned as creatures who still interacted with the universe through memory and imagination whereas Dicks’s Time Lords were austere technocrats who looked down on the universe from a position of superiority. (Another way of putting this is that Dicks’s Time Lords were what Williams did with the Guardians.) Holmes’s Time Lords, in other words, are mysterious even to themselves, lords of something they do not fully understand. (It is, as ever, a gorgeous bit of cynicism on Holmes’s part - after all, what lord ever understands those who are ruled over.)
This marks the first time since The Deadly Assassin that Dicks has gotten to return to his creations in a meaningful sense. While none but Romana and the Doctor appear, the nature of Time Lords is central to the story. The plot hinges on the existence of an ancient war between the Time Lords and the vampires, and speculates that vampire legends on all planets come from some ancient memory of this conflict. On one level this is just your usual von Danikenism - oh look, human legends of vampires are really just legends of aliens. But there’s something underpinning it that is new. Past stories have usually contented themselves to explain aspects of human mythology in terms of aliens. But here the script asserts that vampire legends exist across species. I have not exhaustively checked this next claim, and so may turn out to be wrong, but I believe this is the first time that the von Daniken trick has been applied on a universe-wide level instead of on a planet-wide level. (The closest I can think of is the end of Underworld, which suggests that the Greek myth was in fact a prophecy of future) And because we’re so familiar with the von Daniken trick it’s easy to miss the radical element of this, which is that it means that narrative principles are quietly revealed to be a fundamental principle of the universe. There is such a thing as a universal narrative.
Once again we have that characteristically odd double gesture of the Bidmead era - and Miles and Wood pick up on this at length with their essay on this story, in which they use it to argue that Doctor Who could well be fantasy and not science fiction. On the one hand vampires turn out to be ancient aliens with scientific explanations and they are only able to maintain their power by keeping the people from reading or learning - knowledge is forbidden and the chief vampire is actually a scientist. But there are two things that undercut this. First, of course, is that vampires are real at all. Even if they’re “really just” aliens, they are real and work like we expect them to.
But second and more significantly, everything about the vampires is still grounded in a sense of the ancient and the unknown. Look at the Record of Rassilon itself - an obscure directive buried in an ancient museum piece of technology that is old and obsolete even by the standards of the TARDIS. It’s not a fancy record in the databanks but a set of weathered punchcards the Doctor feeds into the TARDIS. That there was some logic and sense to the Time Lord/Vampire war when it happened it’s clear that the very sense of it is lost and that it has been forgotten.
The result is on one level a swipe at the Holmesian Time Lords - a suggestion that they’re just fallen Dicksian Time Lords who have forgotten too much and are now bumbling around in a universe they’d understand if they only stopped and read up on it. But this misunderstands how the ancient and unknown function in this story. They’re not merely mysteries to clear up. Defeating the vampires overtly requires relics and the ancient. The Record of Rassilon, old and arcane as it is, is essential to defeating the vampires. The power of the ancient, in other words, is not merely that it’s scary because we’ve forgotten how to understand it. There is real power to ancient artifacts in this story.
And so the austere autocracy of Dicks’s Time Lords is preserved even within the memory and imagination-bounded vision of Holmes’s Time Lords. Dicks makes mastery over myth and legend a part of the Time Lord’s technocratic superiority. But in the course of doing so he also solves Bidmead’s problem for him. The vampires are simultaneously able to be literary creatures and scientific creatures because they are based on the lost science of the ancient Time Lords. This science flickers between rationalism and a literary approach, with the gap between Holmes and Dicks’s conceptions of Time Lords serving also as the point of ambiguity that allows for an ambiguous relationship between science and fantasy.
And so Bidmead is able to demonstrate how his approach can subsume the Hinchcliffe-era approach of this story. Dracula can fuse with the Doctor because Bidmead’s conception of the scientific is based on the odd fusion of the scientific with the literary. What happens when Dracula is merged with Doctor Who isn’t just some highbrow literary jokes or some recycled thrills from popular movies (though the script has a couple of each) but the move of Dracula out of the familiar conceptual space of a cliche and into a strangely ambiguous conceptual space that bridges reality and imagination.
There are, of course, downsides. Simply put, the production team is not a production team that does these stories with the instinctive skill that the Hinchcliffe era could. An ailing Baker feuding with both of his co-stars and the production team is still phenomenal in the part, but the combination doesn’t lend itself instinctively to a seamless execution. Peter Moffatt begins a lengthy career of idiosyncratic Doctor Who directing with things like the questionable decision to have Aukon, Camilla, and Zargo deliver large swaths of dialogue standing in a tableau and staring at the camera, and it is very, very hard not to laugh when Zargo begins pulling evil vampire faces in the backgrounds of these shots. The result is either a full-throated embrace of overacted lunacy that outdoes the Graham Williams era in its skill at this sort of joke or just bewilderingly ill-advised. (The former is a real possibility, though - look at the joke musical cue K-9 gets when exiting the TARDIS in episode four, as if to comment that he’s woefully unimpressive. This is not the last time we will be left to stare incredulously at the screen trying to figure out if Moffatt is just messing with us. Nor, for that matter, the last person with that name we’ll be doing that with.)
This begins a frustrating tendency of the John Nathan-Turner era, which is that it frequently reaches for doing things the series did in the past and falls short of their past executions in some key ways. Nathan-Turner’s usual defense of this was the catchphrase “the memory cheats,” and there’s at least some truth to it. For all that is wrong with this story - and there are a fair number of things wrong with this story - there’s quite a bit that’s better done, and it still holds to the general truism that the quality of television improves constantly. The costumes and sets for the tower are fabulous and the sorts of things that The Brain of Morbius would have killed for in places. The action sequences are tighter than they’ve been in ages. Though there are some appalling effects the use of fades and video overlays is adding new types of storytelling to the show’s repertoire. And the music is an improvement on Dudley Simpson.
Which is what makes it so infuriating that Aukon, Zargo, and Camilla are only occasionally even tolerable, the peasants look like they came out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and nobody can be bothered to cut together a decent horror sequence in a story about vampires. Yes, the memory cheats in thinking that you could just run Pyramids of Mars as-is on BBC1 in 1980 and have it look good, but the fact of the matter is that if you watch the stories back to back there are obviously some basic technical things that Pyramids of Mars is solid on that State of Decay isn’t. And this keeps being true of the Nathan-Turner era. With maddening frequency it soars on advanced topics in television production while crashing and burning on the basics.
But past that, we still have something interesting here. For three stories now Bidmead has been showing off a new approach for Doctor Who in terms of what came before and showing how it can genuinely improve what Doctor Who is. Now it’s time for what we might call the pure Bidmead era. The first half of the Bidmead era is Bidmead sketching out a vision of the show in terms of things we’ve seen before. Now come four stories that are unlike anything we have ever seen before or since. For sixteen episodes, Doctor Who is going to become one of the most distinctive pieces of science fiction in Great Britain at the time. In fact, I’d say the most distinctive piece if it weren’t for the fact that in another medium entirely an even bigger revolution was already well underway...
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elvwood 7 years, 5 months ago
I am convinced that the hyper-stagey performances are deliberate; and they work really well for me in setting up a particular atmosphere for this story, so naturally I'm going to say it's "a full-throated embrace of overacted lunacy" rather than just "bewilderingly ill-advised". Whatever Terrance Dicks may have intended, I don't believe Peter Moffatt (note the double-T: this is one thing that distinguishes the 1980s director from our current beloved-of-some showrunner) was even trying to do a horror story, as such; so it doesn't seem a failure for it not to come out like that. There are certainly problems with the production, not least the reveal of the Great Vampire, but (as you pointed out when discussing the memory cheating) this isn't the Holmes era, and Moffatt shouldn't be pilloried for trying to do something different with a script which is effectively of that time.
[The obvious retort is, "so what was he aiming for? If it's not a horror story, what is it?" - and here I'll have to think more before answering.]
I'm going from dim memory here, but wasn't this the story where Moffatt took a look at the changes CHB had made to the script, said "sod it - this isn't what I signed up to direct" and restored a lot of Dicks's original?
Keith 7 years, 5 months ago
I always felt that this was the most thematically-consistent "regeneration" season, running with a theme of entropy/decay and rebirth that culminates in the death of Doctor 4 and his rebirth as Doctor 5 (rather than most seasons where the Doctor just has a bunch of adventures and finishes with one episode in which he just happens to regenerate).
THE LEISURE HIVE has a race of sterile aliens on the verge of extinction being reborn through their scientific accomplishments. MEGLOS has the actions of the last survivor of a destroyed world leading to the Tigellans reclaiming the surface of their own world. FULL CIRCLE has a race that has lost (or thinks it lost) the knowledge of space travel, retreating into fear of a natural process before understanding what it really is and advancing off to the stars. STATE OF DECAY has a similar theme (hey, it's even in the title!), with the science that brought the crew to the planet being lost and all learning being suppressed until the superstitions are defeated, and so on, to LOGOPOLIS where entropy itself becomes the threat to everything.
Whether it was intentional or not, it always felt to me like everything was echoing the coming end of Tom Baker's reign, including his more toned-down performance, the music, etc.
Regarding the scientific side of this episode, much like MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA, we have a creature of purported mythology appearing that threatens to (or actually does in this case) hold back a society by suppressing science/learning. And as in that episode, it is knowledge/science that is used to defeat the creature. Even when the monsters are portrayed with powers that would be generally considered magical, they are explained as being subject to scientific principles (even if the show gets the science horribly wrong). Yet again, we have the triumph of science over superstition. This is something that has always endeared the show to me.
"...armoured, immune to hypnotism and a dead shot with a nose laser."
I don't see the K-9 cue as "bewilderingly ill-advised"; I see it more as underscoring the contrast (and the resulting moment of levity) between how the Doctor DESCRIBES K-9 (eliciting the rebels' excitement - they even cheer the "nose laser" comment, despite the fact that they have no way of knowing what a laser is) with how unassuming K-9 appears. It's not saying, "Look how lame K-9 looks!", so much as eliciting a humourous response resulting from comparing the mental image of some killer, armour-plated robot that shooting lasers from its head with his actual appearance. Granted, K-9 actually IS rather unimpressive to the viewer, but I don't get the impression that the show is actively commenting on this in this particular case. It certainly isn't SCHOOL REUNION!
Herms 7 years, 5 months ago
I have not exhaustively checked this next claim, and so may turn out to be wrong, but I believe this is the first time that the Von Danniken trick has been applied on a universe-wide level instead of on a planet-wide level.
Though it's not really part of Doctor Who, the nearest thing I can think of is how in Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything (which of course started out as Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen) Earth cricket is one of several similar games throughout the universe, which are all based on racial memories of the great galactic war with the people of the planet Krikkit. Now that I think of it, the whole Krikkitmen idea seems more like a parody of the Von Danniken gimmick, by having something as mundane as cricket conceal secret extraterrestrial origins, rather than the pyramids or mythology or the human race itself.
Stephen 7 years, 5 months ago
Or, rather, his half-assed work is barely distinguishable from his top notch work. Even if his heights of genius are lower than those of Robert Holmes - or even of Christopher Bidmead - Terrance Dicks’s worst case scenario is still leagues above most people’s best day at the office.
I take it that you've never read Warmonger, then?
And this keeps being true of the Nathan-Turner era. With maddening frequency it soars on advanced topics in television production while crashing and burning on the basics.
A comment which reminds me of Jim Shooter's blog: in which the former editor-in-chief of Marvel comics not only shares his anecdotes, but also analyses how American comics have - for the most part - forgotten the basics of storytelling.
Dougie 7 years, 5 months ago
While we're correcting Moffat(t)s: it's von Daniken, with an umlaut above the "a", no capital "v" and no extra "n".
Anyone else see plot similarities between The Krotons and State of Decay?
BerserkRL 7 years, 5 months ago
You’re pretty much up a creek when it comes to making vampires stem from science. Fundamentally, they stem from literature and stories.
Matheson managed to pull it off. But then the whole point of Matheson's take is that it's not the vampires but the lone human protagonist who is the creature of literature and stories.
To add to the confusion, the Doctor's daughter/wife spells her last name Moffett.
Now that I think of it, there's also the idea in Pyramids of Mars that Sutekh is the inspiration for evil mythological figures not just on Earth but elsewhere in the universe.
SK 7 years, 5 months ago
If you want to get difficult, try not confusing Georgia Moffett and Georgina Moffat.
Both von Danken and Moffatt are now corrected.
Alan 7 years, 5 months ago
One minor nit: IIRC, I believe the joke was that every civilization had racial memories of the Kricket War, but only humans were so unbelievably crass and tasteless to have turned it into a silly and extremely boring game (Adams' words, not mine:)).
inkdestroyedmybrush 7 years, 5 months ago
Meanwhile, back at our regularly schedule storyline...
I think that the problem is is that Moffatt didn't come in to direct a Hinchcliffe horror pastiche, he came in to direct a horror stage play, and sits the camera down as the audience and starts to direct the actors to move about as theatre. It goes back to the I, Claudius metaphor in earlier posts. The one thing that he does not do is use what would be considered normal televsion camera work, the throne room scenes for instance, and follow the actors with their lines.
It certainly is a step back in terms of storytelling in places. It is odd how much of the basics of storytelling have been lost along hte way in our hyper technological ability to put most anything on the screen. Watching "Castle" last night i was struck by some of the most hyper compressed storytelling in a few sequences that I'd ever seen... but it was all so that there was more time to get to the meat of the plot, or to have screen time to linger on the character moments. The compressed storytelling, and the audience's ability to absorb it have given the directors much greater leeway... and made things much harder to pace properly. (and in compressed storytelling I'm putting hte psychic paper; i no longer need 15 minutes of each story with the Doctor trying to convince the people he's trying to help to trust him. It gets clumsy for the most part when you have to watch it week after week)
This year's Christmas Special was a disaster of pacing, and so was The Next Doctor. Awful, awful pacing. With the ability to smash what would have been three minutes of screen drama that we've seen a hundred times (the cops confront a suspect and bring him or her in, the Doctor arrives in someplace and has to talk the authorities into not locking him up and ending the story prematurely) into 15 or 20 seconds, it does allow for more actual plot and acting... or to sometimes reveal that the the author is severely lacking plot and has no idea who the hell his characters are. Yikes.
Its a stage play. With vampires. and a more menacing and interesting Tom Baker. Oh yes.
I have refrained from rewatching "State of Decay" since it was one of my favorite classic stories from my childhood and I'm afraid it won't hold up to my memories (they can deceive after all).
I've never understood the argument about "science fiction vs. fantasy," because as Clarke's Law tells us, any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic. I mean honestly, do any of us know how to reattach barbed wire with sound waves? Does anyone think Star Trek transporter technology could possibly ever work? Or that some type of genetic abnormality explains why Cyclops can shot force beams out of his eyes that defy Newtonian physics? Or that anyone would ever decide, seemingly just for the coolness factor, to forgo laser blasters in favor of a weapon that's apparently a ball of plasma magnetically shaped into a sword (aka light-sabers)? The "science" of nearly all contemporary science fiction is there to handwave away whatever changes the author wants to introduce to explain why his setting is fundamentally different from present day earth.
With that in mind, the point of "State of Decay," IMO, is that long ago, in a time most Time Lords have forgotten, possibly because it was deliberately erased from their own history records, the Time Lords fought and defeated several existential threats to all universal life. One was the Fendahl (and the parallels between this story and that one are interesting to me). Another was the Vampires, a race of almost Lovecraftian design with the power to leech away the life force of entire planets. And you know what? Once you accept that the Vampires are a Lovecraftian species, you don't need to explain how vampirism works any more than you need to wonder about how regeneration works. It just does, because the aliens in question are "sufficiently advanced."
Exploding Eye 7 years, 5 months ago
Yes - most science fiction is just fantasy but with aliens replacing folklore and spurious technology replacing unabashed magic. The difference between, say, Orcs and your average Doctor Who monster is that one comes from a pretend version of Medieval England and the other comes from a pretend planet... the only real practical difference being that some form of technology is needed to allow humans to meet these creatures.
But even then, it's often the slenderest of differences - not even the technology of travel, but technobabble vs. folklore-babble. If a creature has lain dormant in the tomb of some ancient kings, it's fantasy; if it has lain dormant in a computer, it's science fiction.
There's very little un-science fiction about vampires essentially - they live a long time, are be destroyed by sunlight and drink blood to survive... so could any number of alien species. It's only the minor trappings which makes them fantasy - the dislike of crucifixes and garlic, etc.
*can be
SK,
I did confuse them once. I read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit aloud to them.
I've never understood the argument about "science fiction vs. fantasy," because as Clarke's Law tells us, any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic.
I think there's an aesthetic difference. A lightsabre and a magic flaming sword differ in virtue of the different (albeit overlapping) bodies of tropes and narratives they invoke. One invites us to see it as a fairy tale come to life, the other invites us to see it as an extrapolation of present-day science, albeit with a fairy-tale-come-to-life flavouring.
Iain Coleman 7 years, 5 months ago
I just googled "Georgina Moffat".
The first hit was the Wikipedia page for Georgina Moffat.
The second hit was the Wikipedia page for Georgia Moffett.
It's not just humans who get confused.
A light sabre and a magic flaming sword are exactly the same in terms of plot use, plausible uses and limitations, and story function. They differ only in connotative aspects.
In other words they are absolutely identical in every respect except the only ones that matter.
Nicely put.
To me, the difference between science and magic is that magic works according to arcane rules that only someone versed in magic can understand whereas futuristic super-science works (or at least should work) as an extrapolation of existing science that we understand today. I can imagine that it will someday be technically feasible to restrain plasma within a carefully shaped magnetic field that functions as a "light-saber." I just don't understand why you would. What do you get out of a light-saber that you can't get out of other, more efficient tools and weapons. Similarly, Star Trek annoys me because I don't understand why they need a ship with rooms and furniture and whatnot. Given how the holodecks are presented, why don't you just make a ship that's one big holodeck with a warp engine attached and then reconfigure the rooms as needed?
Shane Cubis 7 years, 5 months ago
Wasn't there also a drink called "Gin and Tonic" on every planet?
Matthew Kilburn 7 years, 5 months ago
To add to the issue of names, 'Jan Rudzki' is 'Jan Vincent-Rudzki' - it's a double-barrelled surname. As for job titles Graeme MacDonald was Head of Serials rather than Head of Drama - the latter job was still held by Shaun Sutton in 1980.
I don't think Christopher H. Bidmead and Douglas Adams are as different as you argue, or at least not in the same way. Gary Gillatt once made the valid point that Bidmead was reacting against what he thought were scripts or storylines on his desk commissioned by Adams, but which all seem to have been rejected or sidelined. (From the Pixley DWM Complete Fourth Doctor vol. 2, it seems that Adams's last commission might have been Xeraphin, which was gradually developed into Time-Flight.) Adams is profoundly interested in giving his stories a scientific basis, but he benefits from a more highly-tuned sense of the absurd, and suffers from working with an exhausted and frustrated producer. Bidmead is interested in science, but his horizons are lower than Adams's -he's interested in contemporary technology and interprets the universe of Doctor Who in those terms, while Adams is more interested in basic principles applied to what had become a fantastical Doctor Who universe.
Is it hyphenated? The copy of that piece I use is the one in Paul Cornell's License Denied, which does not hyphenate. If that's an error I'll revise, but I'd like more information.
MacDonald will be fixed within a few minutes of my posting this comment.
That said, I think you're badly underselling Bidmead's sense of wonder. But more on that on Wednesday.
William Whyte 7 years, 5 months ago
Bidmead is interested in the process of discovery and in information as a concept. Yes, it manifests itself as an obsession with the graphics you could get on a BBC micro, but that's because computers are the concrete manifestation of how you access information.
More importantly, he's interested in how people interact with the process of discovery, where Adams is more interested in how people react to revelations. I think Bidmead benefits, relative to Adams, through his focus on the concrete grounding of the philosophical ideas that interest him. I wouldn't categorize it at all as having lower horizons: it's a different emphasis, and I think one that allows for great richness of detail.
May I suggest "It hasn't got an automatic!" as a title for the next entry?
solar penguin 7 years, 5 months ago
Probably because holodecks have a habit of malfunctioning and trying to kill people. The real mystery is why people keep going into them at all!
Yep; that was in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- always loved that bit. :-)
As does her father Peter -- well, he did, but potential confusion with the director made him change it.
I'm confused; what was so disastrous about "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe", again?
Actually the real mystery is why people deliberately designed the damned thing with safety protocols that could be taken offline with a vocal command and which frequently needed to be taken offline to perform routine repair work on the ship -- which is the source of probably 50% of all "holodeck gone wrong" stories. The other 50% either involve the characters making a particularly stupid wish of what is essentially a technomagical genie ("make Professor Moriarty into an antagonist character who is smarter than Data") or deliberate sabotage by the villain of the week.
I can imagine that it will someday be technically feasible to restrain plasma within a carefully shaped magnetic field that functions as a "light-saber." I just don't understand why you would.
Because it's cool?
Henry R. Kujawa 7 years, 2 months ago
Philip Sandifer:
"this keeps being true of the Nathan-Turner era. With maddening frequency it soars on advanced topics in television production while crashing and burning on the basics."
True-- TRUE!! (Vincent Price said that once.) The first one that came to mind was having the music too damn loud, except, it wasn't in this story. But it sure was in every one of the McCoy's, covering up the fact that 66% of them were better-written than anything Davison or Colin got in the writing dept. what's good's dialogue if you can't hear what they're saying?
"Even if his heights of genius are lower than those of Robert Holmes - or even of Christopher Bidmead - Terrance Dicks’s worst case scenario is still leagues above most people’s best day at the office."
Left-handed compliment, but okay. I love Dicks' work on the show. It's difficult to convince some people that "clear storytelling" is extrememly under-rated these days, amid all the writers trying too damn hard to be too damn clever. By the way, the very 1st WHO convention I went to, the 2 guests were John Leeson-- and Terrence Dicks! (What an accent on that guy.) If only I could have met him with all I've learned about him in the years since. I barely knew who he was back then.
Keith:
"I always felt that this was the most thematically-consistent "regeneration" season, running with a theme of entropy/decay and rebirth that culminates in the death of Doctor 4 and his rebirth as Doctor 5 (rather than most seasons where the Doctor just has a bunch of adventures and finishes with one episode in which he just happens to regenerate)."
I agree. Which makes it all the more bizarre, considering, as far as I know, Tom Baker had no thought or intention of leaving until he was in the middle of shooting "THE KEEPER OF TRAKEN". And then, suddenly "LOGOPOLIS" became a "regeneration" story, and JNT never even had time for a proper "search". he just hired a guy he was already working with on another show at the same time. Nepotism.
Stephen:
"A comment which reminds me of Jim Shooter's blog: in which the former editor-in-chief of Marvel comics not only shares his anecdotes, but also analyses how American comics have - for the most part - forgotten the basics of storytelling."
A walking paradox. Shooter is so brilliant in certain areas, yet in others, he's totally lost. Simply, the last job in the world he should ever have is one where he has to deal with creative people. If he were just a writer, or, a publisher, no problem. But an editor? Disaster in capital letters.
Dougie:
"Anyone else see plot similarities between The Krotons and State of Decay?"
Now that you mention it... the best and the brightest are "chosen", only to be destroyed in one fashion or another. And everyone just accepts that it's the way things are.
Inkdestroyedmybrush:
"It certainly is a step back in terms of storytelling in places."
I dunno. Seemed to fir the story. I was remarking the other day how vastly, infinitely superior the storytelling in "MEGLOS" was to "THE LEISURE HIVE". Who'd a thunk it? Not that both scripts ddn't need work, but "MEGLOS" only appears to need work after you've realy, really thought about it, while "HIVE" it's clear as you're watching that's something's dreadfully wrong.
BerserkRL:
"A lightsabre and a magic flaming sword differ in virtue of the different (albeit overlapping) bodies of tropes and narratives they invoke. One invites us to see it as a fairy tale come to life, the other invites us to see it as an extrapolation of present-day science, albeit with a fairy-tale-come-to-life flavouring."
So where does that put THUNDARR's sun-sword?
Alan:
"Star Trek annoys me because I don't understand why they need a ship with rooms and furniture and whatnot. Given how the holodecks are presented, why don't you just make a ship that's one big holodeck with a warp engine attached and then reconfigure the rooms as needed?"
Hey-- that's how the TARDIS works!
My late best friend once said he thought "STATE OF DECAY" was the single best vampire story he'd ever seen. (Not sure how many he'd seen, but I'll guess he'd at least seen some clunkers.)
Aukon reminds me of 3 different characters here-- Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) during one of his "evil" phases; Oliver Reed in almost anything (including "THE BIG SLEEP"); and (when he's telling the guard to die) Count Federico (from "MANDRAGORA").
But, why, why did anyone ever think a character like Adric could ever be a good idea?
I do love how the scene of The Doctor and Romana in the cell, where he mentions Kam-Po (if not by name) mirrors the one with Jo in "THE TIME MONSTER". Then, when he's hit in the face with the door, I was reminded of how the exact same thing happened to Colin in "REVELATION".
encyclops 6 years, 11 months ago
It's probably far too late to comment on this entry, but I just rewatched this last night, and enjoyed it more than I ever have before, even when I was massively into vampires (almost exactly 20 years ago). It's terrifically atmospheric, the vampires' acting doesn't get REALLY over-the-top until the episode 3 cliffhanger and beyond, and Lalla and Tom are fantastic. Even Matthew is mostly watchable, especially since he gets a chance to doff the yellow pajamas briefly. Shame he didn't keep the velvet togs.
I'm surprised you didn't comment more on the class element here, though it's a little thin on the ground, so maybe that's why. I'm not sure I follow your reasoning on the "universal narrative" piece, though. Maybe I don't know what those words specifically mean to you and your intellectual tradition.
I'm also not sure that the Great Vampire was defeated by "ancient artifacts." Ancient lore, yes, but the actual instrument of destruction was an Earth-built scoutship. I suppose it's reasonably ancient by this point in the story, but it's not a magic Gallifreyan sword so much as a piece of technology fallen into disuse and forgotten by the vampires (with whose original human selves it was contemporaneous). It seemed a little contrived that K9 didn't have enough of a search engine to find the particular emergency instruction they needed, but I suppose part of it was the dramatic need to have Tom Baker recite the legend rather than John Leeson. However, I also think it's significant that these aren't actual books the Doctor fishes out of some storeroom on the TARDIS -- it's not as if it doesn't have printed manuals or records -- but punch cards. The knowledge is still bound up with technology (just as the crew manifest from the Hydrax is in episode 1), tying in with the overall notion that knowledge is knowledge, whether scientific or literary. The ancient is valuable here not because it's mystical and not merely because it's old, but because it's a time when knowledge and technology were still permitted -- a time before the decay.
Michael Fuller 4 years, 5 months ago
I know, I'm behind. I'm reading as I rewatch the program and I simply don't have the stamina to maintain that on any basis other than semi-regular.
I watched this once in college (having seen it a few times over the previous decade) in the early 90s. I was "experimenting" as you do and I found the moment with Tom doing essentially a monologue to camera (and clearly reading his lines from the computer paper) an extremely powerful performance. Having just rewatched it, I can honestly say it still holds up for me.
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Indigenous Peoples' Rights, State Sovereignty and the Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Amerindian Peoples’ Association (APA)
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation (AIPP)
Association of Saamaka Traditional Authorities (VSG)
International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests (IAITPTF)
International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education)
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Français: Les droits des peuples autochtones, la souveraineté des États et la Convention sur la diversité biologique
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It is often stated that attention to and respect for indigenous peoples’ rights in connection with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is barred by the principle of state sovereignty. This assertion is incorrect in light of contemporary international law. State sovereignty does not and cannot preclude attention to and respect for indigenous peoples’ internationally guaranteed rights. As one scholar puts it, the principle of sovereignty over natural resources in international law “includes the duty to respect the rights and interests of indigenous peoples and not to compromise the rights of future generations.” [1] This also applies to implementation of the CBD. This legal briefing explains why.
Sovereignty is not Absolute: Sovereignty is a principle of international law that in essence provides that a state may, subject to any limitations prescribed by international law, freely determine and apply laws and policies governing the people and territory under its jurisdiction. This principle is repeated in a modified form in Article 3 of the CBD, which, in pertinent part, reads that, “States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies ….” As can be seen from both of these definitions, state sovereignty does not amount to absolute political or legal freedom; it is limited by the Charter of the United Nations and by other principles of international law. This is very clear in the case of human rights law, which limits and conditions state sovereignty in connection with a state’s treatment of persons and peoples subject to its jurisdiction.
The Charter of the United Nations: Article 2(7) of the UN Charter prohibits interference in states’ internal political affairs. However, it is standard practice within the UN and elsewhere that this provision does not apply to human rights, which are deemed of international concern. As stated by Judge Weeramantry of the International Court of Justice, “the concept of human rights has long passed the stage when it was a narrow parochial concern between sovereign and subject. … [T]here is not even the semblance of a suggestion in contemporary international law that such obligations amount to a derogation of sovereignty.” [2]
Article 103 of the UN Charter states unequivocally that: “In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members of the United Nations under the present Charter and their obligations under any other international instrument, their obligations under the present Charter shall prevail.” Article 1(3) of the UN Charter defines one of the primary purposes and principles of the UN to be “promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.” Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter require the UN and its members to promote “universal respect for, and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all ….” In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to elaborate upon and specify the Charter’s human rights provisions and obligations. The Universal Declaration is today widely considered to express general principles of international law and norms of customary law binding upon all states. [3] The CBD must be read consistently with the superior authority of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration as an authoritative interpretation of the Charter.
Human Rights Treaties: In the exercise of their sovereign will, the vast majority of states have voluntarily accepted international legal obligations to promote, respect, protect and fulfill human rights by ratifying international human rights conventions. These and other obligations are not suspended in connection with CBD; Article 22 of the CBD explicitly states this: “The provisions of this Convention shall not affect the rights and obligations of any Contracting Party deriving from any existing international agreement, except where the exercise of those rights and obligations would cause a serious damage or threat to biological diversity.” [4]
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Human rights instruments, both of general application and those exclusively focused on indigenous peoples, recognize, guarantee and protect indigenous peoples’ rights. These instruments have been ratified by and are binding upon the vast majority of states-parties to the CBD. Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), for instance, states-parties are obligated to recognize, respect and protect the right “to own property alone as well as in association with others.” In its 1997 General Recommendation XXIII, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination elaborated upon this calling on states-parties to “recognize and protect the rights of indigenous peoples to own, develop, control and use their communal lands, territories and resources and, where they have been deprived of their lands and territories traditionally owned or otherwise inhabited or used without their free and informed consent, to take steps to return these lands and territories.” [5]
The UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), the body charged with oversight of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, has reached similar conclusions as has the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Under Articles 1 and 27 of the ICCPR, indigenous peoples’ rights to freely dispose of their natural wealth and to be secure in their means of subsistence, including territorial and cultural rights, must be recognized and safeguarded. [6] The same conclusion has been reached in relation to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. [7] In the Inter-American system special protections are required for indigenous languages, cultures, economies, ecosystems and natural resource base, including their “ancestral and communal lands,” religious practices, and the establishment of an institutional order that facilitates indigenous participation through their freely chosen representatives. [8] This conclusion was recently affirmed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a binding decision. [9]
Indigenous peoples’ rights to participate in and consent to activities that affect them are also well established in international human rights law. The 1997 General Recommendation issued by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, for instance, called upon states-parties to “ensure that members of indigenous peoples have equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life, and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent.” The HRC has found that respect for Article 27 of the ICCPR includes “measures to ensure the effective participation of members of minority communities in decisions which affect them….” [10] The IACHR has found violation of indigenous property rights attributable to state-authorized activities on indigenous lands conducted without indigenous consent; [11] and, that human rights law requires “special measures to ensure recognition of the particular and collective interest that indigenous peoples have in the occupation and use of their traditional lands and resources and their right not to be deprived of this interest except with fully informed consent, under conditions of equality, and with fair compensation.” [12]
The CBD and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Implementation of many of the CBD’s provisions may impinge upon indigenous peoples’ rights given indigenous peoples’ fundamental and holistic relationship with their traditional lands, territories and resources. The CBD’s Conference of Parties must respect these rights as must the vast majority of its states-parties when giving effect to the Convention at the domestic level. This includes the cultural, spiritual, religious, social, economic and subsistence values of biodiversity for indigenous peoples.
While Articles 8j and 10c of the CBD are especially relevant to indigenous peoples, most of the CBD’s articles require scrutiny. This is especially the case for those dealing with identification, establishment and management of protected areas. Implementation of these articles must recognize and respect indigenous rights of ownership, control, management and use of traditional lands, territories and resources from inception. Protected areas must not be established without prior resolution of these rights, in a manner consistent with international human rights law, and without indigenous peoples’ free and informed consent. Subject to indigenous consent, indigenous ownership and management of protected areas, or in some cases co-ownership and co-management of these areas, must be considered as a viable and appropriate method of implementing the CBD and as a means of resolving disputes should they arise.
The Ecosystem Approach: The preceding is fully consistent with the ecosystem approach which acknowledges that decision-making and management of biodiversity are best carried out using the institutions and governance mechanisms most suited at the ecosystem-level, including recognising the central role of indigenous peoples. The first principle of the ecosystem approach, adopted by the COP in Decision V/6, states the following:
Principle 1: The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal choice.
Rationale: Different sectors of society view ecosystems in terms of their own economic, cultural and societal needs. Indigenous peoples and other local communities living on the land are important stakeholders and their rights and interests should be recognized. Both cultural and biological diversity are central components of the ecosystem approach, and management should take this into account. …
The Vth World Parks Congress: ‘Best practice’ on Protected Areas: The WPC is held every 10 years and is viewed as the pre-eminent global forum on protected areas. The main outcomes of the WPC were the Durban Accord, the Durban Action Plan and a series of recommendations. The Action Plan acknowledged “that many mistakes have and continue to be made and … we believe that there is an urgent need to re-evaluate the wisdom and effectiveness of policies affecting indigenous peoples and local communities.” [13] This was complemented by a number of concrete targets including:
establishment of participatory mechanisms for restitution of traditional lands and territories incorporated into protected areas without indigenous peoples’ free, prior and informed consent by 2010;
full respect for indigenous peoples’ rights when establishing and managing protected areas, and;
meaningful participation by indigenous peoples in protected area management. [14]
Additionally, an action point was included under Key Target 3, calling for the strict elimination of the “resettlement of indigenous peoples and local communities and the involuntary sedentarisation of mobile indigenous peoples without prior informed consent.” [15]
The WPC also conveyed a ‘Message’ to the CBD in which it “noted that protected areas may have a negative impact on indigenous peoples, including mobile indigenous peoples, and local communities, when their rights and interests are not accounted for and addressed and where they do not fully participate in and agree to decisions that affect them. It further noted the importance of securing indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands and territories as an imperative to guarantee sustainable protected areas.” [16]
This briefing is endorsed by:
Action d' Appui pour le Protection des Droits de Minorités d'Afrique Centrale ALMACIGA Grupo de Trabajo Intercultural (Spain), Amerindian Peoples Association of Guyana Arbeitsgemeinschaft Regenwald und Artenschutz (Germany) Asamblea National Indigena Plura por la Autonomia (Mexico) Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact Asociation Napguana (Panama) Asociation Regional Aborigen Aradikes (Costa Rica) Association of Indigenous Peoples of Peninsular Malaysia Association of Indigenous Village Leaders in Suriname Association of Saramaka Authorities (Suriname) Bonaparte Indian Band (British Columbia) Bruno-Manser-Fonds (Switzerland) Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights (Papua New Guinea) Center for International Human Rights Advocacy (University of Denver) Centre for Pacific Studies Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios Aymara (Bolivia) Consejo de Lanación Tonocoté "Llutqui" (Argentina) Coordinadora de Lideres Indigenas del Bajo Chaco (Paraguay) CORE Centre for Organisation Research & Education (Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Policy and Human Rights in India's North East) The Cornerhouse (UK) Cultural Survival (USA) Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag (Ecuador) Down to Earth: International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia EarthLink - The People & Nature Network (Germany) Environmental Protection Authority (Ethiopia) Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organisation of Africa (Nigeria) FERN (The Netherlands) Fiji Indigenous Ownership Rights Association Finnish Association for Nature Conservation Forest Peoples Programme (UK) Friends of the Earth International Friends of the Siberian Forest Greenpeace International Guiana Shield Initiative Indigenous Peoples' Biodiversity Network Institute of Cultural Affairs (Ghana) ICTI-TANMIBAR (Indonesia) International Alliance of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of the Tropical Forests International Indian Treaty Council International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education (New Zealand) International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) Kalpavriksh (India) Kekchi Council (Belize) KWIA (Belgium) Lamgen - Patagonia (Mapuche, Chile) Little Shuswap Indian Band (British Columbia) Maya Leaders Alliance of Southern Belize Minority Rights Group International Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples (NCIV) Netherlands Committee for IUCN Nga Wahine Kaitiaki O Te Ao (Aotearoa-New Zealand) Non-Timber Forest Products (Cambodia) Observatorio de Derecho Indigena. Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina) Organizacion Fraternal Negra Hondureña Organisation for Survival of Ilaikepiak Indigenous Maasai Group Initiative (Kenya) Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environment Coalition PANAGTAGBO-Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Consultative Council (Philippines) Première Fondation de la Nation (Rwanda) Programme d' Integtration et de Développment du Peuple Pygmée au Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo) Pro Regenwald (Germany) Rainforest Foundation UK Rainforest Foundation US Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North Saami Council Sobrivivencia (Paraguay) Swedish International Biodiversity Programme Tebtebba Foundation - The Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education (Philippines) Te Waka Kai Ora (Aotearoa - New Zealand) Tierraviva (Paraguay) Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement WALHI (Indonesia) World Rainforest Movement
This briefing is published jointly by: Forest Peoples Programme and FERN
[1] N. Schrijver, Sovereignty Over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997).
[2] Separate Opinion of Judge Weeramantry, Bosnia and Herzogovenia v. Yugoslavia, 11 July 1996.
[3] Among others, United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran (United States of America v. Iran), ICJ Rep. 3, 42, 1980.
[4] The International Court of Justice has confirmed that “an international instrument has to be interpreted and applied within the framework of the entire legal system prevailing at the time of its interpretation,” including the Charter of the United Nations and subsequently developed customary international law. Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia, ICJ Rep. 16 (1971), at 31. See also, Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
[5] General Recommendation XXIII (51) concerning Indigenous Peoples Adopted at the Committee’s 1235th meeting, on 18 August 1997. UN Doc. CERD/C/51/Misc.13/Rev.4.
[6] Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee: Canada. 07/04/99, at para. 8. UN Doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.105. (Concluding Observations/Comments) (1999). See, also, General Comment No. 23 (50) (art. 27), adopted by the Human Rights Committee at its 1314th meeting (fiftieth session). UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5 (1994).
[7] General Comment No. 15, The right to water (arts. 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights). UN Doc. E/C.12/2002/11, 26 November 2002 ,at para. 7; and, Communication No. 155/96, The Social and Economic Rights Action Center and the Center for Economic and Social Rights / Nigeria, at para. 58.
[8] Among others, Report on the Situation of Human Rights of a Segment of the Nicaraguan Population of Miskito Origin , OEA/Ser.L/V/II.62, doc.26. (1984), 76-78, 81; Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.96 doc.10, rev.1 (1997), 103-4; and, Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in The Republic of Guatemala OEA/Ser.l/V/II. 67, doc. 9 (1986), 114.
[9] Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community Case, Judgment of 31 September 2001.
[10] General Comment No. 23 (50) (art. 27), adopted by the Human Rights Committee at its 1314th meeting (fiftieth session), 6 April 1994. UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5. (1994), at 3. See, also, Jouni Lansman et al. vs. Finland (Communication No. 671/1995), CCPR/C/58/D/671/1995, 15.
[11] Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, Report No. 27/98 (Nicaragua), para. 142.
[12] Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, Report Nº 75/02, Case Nº 11.140, Mary and Carrie Dann (United States), Dec. 27, 2002. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.116, Doc. 46, at para. 131.
[13] Durban Action Plan, Outcome 5, at 25. Available at: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/pdfs/outputs/wpc/durbanactionplan.pdf
[14] Durban Action Plan, Outcome 5
[15] Durban Action Plan, Outcome 2, at 15.
[16] Message of the Vth World Parks Congress to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Available at: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/pdfs/outputs/wpc/cbdmessage.pdf
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Shirt Sponsor Deal At Preston Grasshoppers
haleys are delighted to announce that they are to be the main shirt sponsor of Preston Grasshoppers RFC for the upcoming 2015/16 season which starts this Saturday 5th September.
It marks an exciting new step in haleys’ relationship with the Hoppers which stretches back many years thanks to the involvement of managing director Tim Haley (pictured shaking hands with new 1st XV captain Andrew Napier), who will now see his company name printed on the front of the shirt he wore many times during a long and successful playing career at Lightfoot Green.
More recently, Tim’s son Michael Haley also progressed through the junior ranks at Hoppers; he has since moved on to join Sale Sharks in the Aviva Premiership, and haleys are also a founding member of the Hoppers Business Network which strives to bring together like-minded businesses in the local community.
Tim was obviously over the moon about this new partnership with a club so close to his heart. He said: “We are all about providing freedom and peace of mind for business owners, so the opportunity to sponsor the Hoppers was an offer that haleys simply could not turn down. It opens up so many doors for us to get involved and help maximise the growth and profitability of many other established businesses.
I believe this season has the potential to be hugely successful both on and off the pitch, and we would like to wish all the players and staff the very best of luck for the new season.”
The Hoppers will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2014/15 campaign that saw the team fight against relegation for the majority of the season, struggling to build on a great start that included three wins from their opening four matches.
They did recapture that early season form when it mattered most though, picking up three wins from their final six matches to finish six points off the relegation zone and secure their status in National League Two North for another year.
The Hoppers travel to Chester in the opening round of fixtures this Saturday, before returning to Lightfoot Green on 12th September to play their first home game of the season against newly promoted Sale. Keep up to date with all the latest news at www.pgrfc.co.uk.
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Ghosts and the Longing for Amelia
Matthew Arnold April 25 - May 26
Opening reception April 25, 7 - 9 PM
happylucky no.1 is proud to present Ghosts and the Longing for Amelia, by Matthew Arnold, an exhibition of photographs and structures surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
Arnold’s previous landscape photography project Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II—is the catalyst for this new project. With history still on his mind, Arnold learned of new findings regarding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. While quite familiar with the story of the famous aviator, he was unaware of the multiple theories surrounding her disappearance. His newfound interest in these theories became a fixation and he began his research in earnest. This research drove him to the Central Pacific where Earhart’s last radio call was heard.
Initial significant struggles and setbacks in accessing such a remote region left Arnold broken. The project evolved from one of only documenting historical landscapes and seascapes to one that speaks to the loss, disappointment, and creative longing of the artist.
The photographs in the exhibition are mysterious. Landscapes of coral atolls, macro images of insect wings, and immense clouds resting above the vast Pacific Ocean warp a viewers sense of perception. The sweeping seascapes contrast macro images of delicate grains of sand and the wings of an insect. Both the massive and minute are immeasurable and confounding. Along with photographs, edited and abstracted depictions of flight paths or search areas are devoid of any useful data. The maps have been inverted—rather than providing answers—they withhold them. These shifts in scale and the redaction of information can feel puzzling, but also captivating. Much like the search for Earhart after she vanished, the world represented by Arnold’s photographs appears as an engrossing conundrum.
The images presented by Arnold convey this individual and collective longing for knowledge and truth. His landscapes and seascapes are completely absent of any living being. His extreme macro images recall a probing magnifying glass. Arnold himself views the search for Amelia as an immense challenge, but ultimately solvable—however—unless an unimpeachable piece of evidence is found, we will all be left to wonder.
Eighty-two years after Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, only theories remain, yet her legend survives in the many individuals still searching for evidence of what happened to her
on that fateful day in 1937. This search for the truth of her demise and the longing for answers manifests itself in all of us.
Matthew Arnold is an American photographer whose work strives to connect the specificity and significance of history with the topography of the land on which the history is shaped and the experience of the individual on that land. His work has been exhibited and promoted widely across the United States and around the world in galleries and museums. His most recent project was published as a monograph entitled, “Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II,” by the German publisher, Kehrer Verlag. Matthew Arnold currently lives and works in New York City.
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Vitamin D: Everything You Need to Know
May 21, 2016 May 21, 2016 Theo 0 Comments
It’s about that time of year when we can step outside and smile. Snowstorms, frigid air, and grey fog are starting to give way to blue skies and—at least for now—sunshine! Ahhh sunshine. It makes you happier not just because it’s nicer outside, but also because those warm rays boost your mood on a chemical level.
As the sun kisses your face, the body produces vitamin D. There’s been a groundswell of scientific studies that prove D might be one of the most essential nutrients for well-being. Case in point? It ups your mood instantly, and over time reduces the symptoms of clinical depression.
But vitamin D is sort of odd. First off, it’s not technically a vitamin—it’s a hormone. And unlike most of the other “letter vitamins,” it’s difficult to get enough just by eating D-rich foods, because there aren’t many out there. Because it’s found in very few foods, it’s estimated that nearly 75 percent of Americans are deficient.
Because it’s hard to find, our bodies have adapted to produce the most vitamin D when our skin is exposed to the sunlight; cholesterol in skin cells reacts with UVB rays to make it. Getting full exposure (that means sans sunscreen) on arms and legs a few times a week for about 15 minutes should do the trick, but if your hometown’s weather is a little more like Chicago than Honolulu, it can be a challenge to get enough rays for the body to create sufficient amounts of vitamin D year-round. What does vitamin D do?
Studies have shown that D increases muscle strength—but our cells and tissues also need it to function. Vitamin D receptors are found in nearly every cell in the body, and as soon as D binds to a receptor, it turns genes on or off, prompting changes within the cell. Studies completed over the last two decades have proven that this process turns off cancer-causing genes, turns on immunoprotective genes, and even tells cells which vitamins and minerals to absorb. More research is ongoing, but one thing is clear: vitamin D plays an essential role in preventing heart attacks and a wide range of other diseases.
There’s no doubt that vitamin D and heart function are intrinsically linked. In two studies, low levels of vitamin D were correlated to an increased likelihood of a heart attack. Though there isn’t a clear reason why, some researchers believe that vitamin D acts as a “heart tranquilizer,” improving cardiovascular endurance and keeping heart muscle cells from growing too large. This in turn prevents thickening of the walls of the ventricles, which can block blood flow and cause a heart attack.
Without vitamin D, calcium can’t get absorbed into hard tissues like bones and teeth. But as we get older it’s challenging for us to get enough, as we lose our ability to effectively produce it from sunlight. In fact, vitamin D–deficient elderly women are 77 percent more likely to suffer a hip fracture. But supplementing with anywhere from 800 to 1,000 IUs (the unit of measurement for vitamin D) daily, can help lessen side effects associated with osteoporosis, like bone loss and brittleness.
Possible cancer prevention
It’s a little counterintuitive to think sun exposure could decrease your chances of getting cancer, but it seems that the positive effects of vitamin D outweigh the negatives of getting a little sun (But just a little—more on that below.) A four-year trial found that when postmenopausal women supplemented with both vitamin D and calcium, their likelihood of developing cancer dropped by a whopping 60 percent. D has also been frequently studied for its apparent relationship to breast cancer: In a study of 166 women undergoing treatment, nearly 70 percent had low levels of vitamin D. The good news is that, according to a pooled analysis, supplementing with 2,000 IUs a day (equivalent to about 12 minutes in the sun) could cut the incidence of breast cancer in half.
Improved fertility and prenatal health
Expectant moms probably need a lot more vitamin D than their prenatal vitamins deliver. The average prenatal vitamin contains anywhere from 400 to 1,000 IUs of D—but research suggests that women who take 4,000 IUs daily greatly reduced their risk of complications like gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and infection with zero negative side effects. In general, vitamin D makes men and women more fertile, and women who supplement with it while undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment are 6 percent more likely to successfully conceive.
Sources of Vitamin D
There are basically three sources of vitamin D: sunlight, food, and supplements. The easiest and most effective way for our bodies to produce it is through regular sun exposure. According to functional medicine practitioner Chris Kresser, exposure to the sun (on a bright day) for 30 minutes without clothing or sunscreen can produce between 10,000 and 20,000 IU of vitamin D. If the idea of going outside without sunscreen freaks you out—given the known skin cancer risk—doctors assure us that a small amount of sun is ok, as long as you slather on the SPF after your requisite 30 minutes.
Very few foods are natural sources of vitamin D—fatty fish, fish liver oil, beef liver, some cheeses, and egg yolks are the best options. Milk is often fortified with a small amount, as are some breads and cereals.
Because it’s so hard to get enough vitamin D through our food (unless you’re one of the rare people that swallows cod liver oil daily), there are tons of supplements available. They come in different formulations, so you can find the appropriate dosage for your needs.
Do you need to supplement with D?
Vitamin D deficiencies are very common—and unfortunately, they’re linked to a whole host of health issues. Rickets and osteoporosis are the two of the most common that are directly related to D deficiency, because both have to do with bone density and calcium absorption. But it’s interesting to note that 96 percent of heart attack patients are also low in vitamin D. In fact, “overall mortality” has been linked to low vitamin D—basically, the less you have, the more likely you are to croak from a wide array of causes. That’s a good enough reason to make sure you’re getting enough, right?
The daily recommended value varies depending on who you ask: National Institutes of Health recommends 600 IUs for adults and 800 for the elderly, but some experts recommend closer to 1,000 IUs for healthy adults. If you suspect you’re deficient in vitamin D, ask your doctor for a blood test to find out if you should supplement (on top of getting some good ol’ sun).
Vitamin D is in a league of its own—although it’s not exactly a vitamin, it’s massively important to overall wellness and healthy and certainly deserves to be considered an essential supplement.
by Michelle Pellizzon for Thrive Market
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Borrowing - making it work for your business
The majority of businesses will need to take out a loan at some stage. Borrowing can help pay for new equipment or plant; or it can fund the expansion of development of a business.
As with all credit, there is, of course, a cost to borrowing: the interest charged on the capital lent.
There are, however, two ways of reducing the cost of borrowing.
One is to shop around for the best interest rate deals offered by lenders. The best way to approach a new lender is to have a detailed and up to date business plan.
The other is to take advantage of some of the tax breaks available on business borrowings.
The tax reliefs will not offset the entire cost of lending but can help to reduce a portion of the charges made by a lender.
Many firms opt to rent or lease assets such as plant or machinery.
One of the attractions of renting or leasing is that the cost is deductible as a business expense, which can help lower the overall cost of the money invested.
Businesses that choose to buy new plant or equipment are also in a position to deduct a part of the cost of the purchase from their taxable profits.
Known as capital allowances, they cover a set percentage of the price of the asset. Smaller firms, though, are entitled to a higher percentage in the tax year in which the asset was purchased.
Capital allowances apply whether a business borrows the money to make an outright purchase or buys it on a hire purchase agreement. In the first case, the tax relief can be used to offset some of the cost of the borrowing.
Businesses can claim a 100 per cent investment allowance on the first £100,000 of allowable expenditure from 1 April 2010 for corporation tax purposes and from 6 April for income tax purposes.
However, firms need to be aware that the government has decided that, as part of its drive to simplify the tax system and to pay for reductions in corporation tax, the annual investment allowance comes down from £100,000 to £25,000 as from April 2012.
Loan interest payments and tax
Interest payments on a loan taken out to buy or hire a business asset is deductible from taxable profits because it is a business expense.
But remember that the asset in which the money is invested must be used for solely business purposes if the tax deduction is to apply.
The same rule covers the interest chargeable on overdrafts and business credit cards: the money must be used exclusively for business and not personal purposes.
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Glenister name origins
Many theories
There have been numerous suggestions as to the origin of the name Glenister.
Choose between these suggestions:
Norman-French
Possibly Norman-French
This theory from John Glenister of Luton, Bedfordshire has suggested an origin based on Norman-French.
Although the name Glenister does indeed have a Gaelic ring to it, there are few scots who recognise the name as having a scottish origin. The mentions of the name found in the Cambridge in the 13th century and the preponderance of the name around the Herts-Bucks-Middx area suggest an origin closer to the South. There was very little movement of population prior to the industrial revolution, and it is difficult to conceive of a scot in the earlier post norman times (when surnames first came into common use) travelling down to settle in the South.
The name may be derived from the old french verb "glener" meaning "to glean" which is to used to describe the action of collecting from the fields the crops and straw which remain after the harvest. The suffix "-ist" means the art or skill, as in "chemist" or "agriculturalist". Many surnames have Norman-French origins (eg Fletcher from "fleche" meaning "arrow"), since this was the language of the first Plantagenets who ruled England.
It is probable that our Glenister ancestors were sons of the soil - like most of the population in Norman England.
Perhaps Scottish
It is often said that the Glenister family originates from Scotland, but so far there has been no concrete evidence. This snippet from Tony Glenister provides a credible link which is worthy of further investigation.
There are two parts to the link. First, from "The surnames of Scotland" by George Black, published by New York Public Library, which notes:
Glenorchy, from Glenorchy in Lorn, Arygllshire. John de Glenurchwar taken at the Battle of Dunbar, also mentioned as John Gleniarchwar and one year later as John Glenurhard, liberated to serve the king of England abroad.
Second, from "Kings Edward I's knights" published by the Harleian Society, which notes:
Sir John de Glennirthwar a Scottish knight captured at Dunbar - the constable of Berkhamsted Castle is to receive him and guard him - 16 May 1296.
These two mentions provide a very early link between what could be an original form of the name, and Berkhamsted, which still has the remains of a castle, and which seems to be the area richest in Glenisters, particularly from the mid 1700s onwards. It will be very interesting to try to trace what became of Sir John after his release and the subsequent 500 years!
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2019-01-06 2019-01-06 by iplbeauty
Melanoma, also known as malignant melanoma, is a highly malignant tumor that occurs mostly in the skin, accounting for the third place (6.8% to 20.0%) of skin malignant tumors, accounting for 3.0% of all tumors. The incidence rate is The average speed of 4.0% to 6.0% is increasing year by year. Among patients who die from cancer, melanoma accounts for about 1.0%. Because of the high degree of malignancy, unclear etiology, complicated pathogenesis, and lack of specific early diagnosis, studies on the etiology and pathogenesis of melanoma have attracted more and more attention from clinicians. Melanoma is derived from melanocytes, which are widely found in the basal layer of the squamous epithelium such as the skin, mouth, part of the nasal cavity and vaginal mucosa, and also in the ectodermal sources such as the uveal, meninges and anal mucosa. In the organization. Melanoma can be evolved from congenital or acquired benign pigments, or it can be new [1]. Non-pigmented melanomas are often overlooked. With melanoma patients with a history of trauma and misdiagnosed patients, the relationship between trauma and melanoma has attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad. Some scholars believe that the traumatic event of the patient may be a risk factor for the onset of melanoma. The trauma is related to the onset of melanoma, but some scholars believe it is a coincidence. At present, the role of trauma in the pathogenesis of melanoma remains unclear. Whether there is a direct correlation between trauma and melanoma is still controversial. This article reviews the current research progress on the relationship between trauma and melanoma at home and abroad.
1. Clinical manifestations of melanoma after trauma
Post-traumatic melanoma (defined here as melanoma formed at the trauma site after trauma) is frequently reported, suggesting that there may be some association between trauma and melanoma. Jukic et al. and Naseri et al reported that primary corneal melanoma occurred in corneal penetrating lesions and blunt sites; el Baba and Blumenkranz reported that patients with ocular penetrating wounds were found to have glucose melanoma after many years; oral melanin Tumors often occur at the edge of dentures, considering the trauma caused by chronic friction of the dentures as a predisposing factor; there are also reports of submandibular melanoma often occurring after a nail crush or avulsion; skin melanin Tumors can also occur in tattoos and burn scars; acral melanoma often involves penetrating wounds in the hands and feet, repeated compression and grinding of the heel. Post-traumatic melanoma is often characterized by ulcers, nodules and light pigmented lesions. Its clinical manifestations are atypical, and different parts can present different clinical features. Denture-associated melanoma often presents as ulcerative nodules with or without pigmentation. After the extremity trauma, melanoma can be manifested on the basis of with or without melanin, sustained uncement after kick, squeezing and stabbing, or repeated ulceration, ulceration after the wound heals, forming a lump, or healing after trauma The remaining pigmentation spots are enlarged, and some patients have enlarged lymph nodes. Sustained pain and swelling after acute crush injury, and chronic malformation caused by malformation may be a clinical manifestation of melanoma. In addition, destructive bone lesions caused by trauma are sometimes hypothyroidoma or the first clinical manifestation of metastatic melanoma.
2. Epidemiological analysis of trauma and melanoma
2.1 The relationship between trauma and melanoma
Retrospective or controlled studies of the clinical features (morbidity, trauma history, gender, and region) of melanoma patients associated with melanoma support support the risk of trauma associated with melanoma. According to anatomical location, Green et al. counted 1848 patients with cutaneous melanoma, and calculated the average risk of melanoma on the entire body surface and the risk of disease at the corresponding anatomical site by the incidence of melanoma per unit surface area. The risk of melanoma in the back of the foot is three times higher than the mean and eight times higher in the sole. According to Zhang et al., the incidence of melanoma in the extremities is higher than that in other parts of the body. The risk of melanoma after trauma is also significantly higher than other parts. Sun Dongjie et al. and Gao Tianwen count the melanoma patients. After analysis, it was found that: malignant melanoma of the extremity accounted for about 2/3 of the skin melanoma; the main site of the disease was heel, ankle and thumb (toe) under the armor, mostly affected parts, vulnerable to trauma or not easy to detect. Chronic trauma; melanoma patients with a clear history of trauma (such as nail puncture and kick injury) account for about one-fifth of all skin melanomas, 1/3 of acral melanoma . Studies have retrospectively analyzed patients with subcutaneous melanoma in Bologna and Germany, and found that underarm melanoma has the highest incidence of thumb and thumb, while thumb and big toe are the most vulnerable to trauma. The history of trauma was as high as 64.5% in melanoma. Special forms of trauma, such as burns, Cho et al., report a 14-year prospective study that showed a high risk of melanoma in patients with a history of burns, and with the increase in the number of burn scars, the risk of disease increase. The above clinical study data suggest that trauma is associated with the onset of melanoma. Green et al and Rolon et al. used a healthy study and non-melanoma patients as a control group to conduct a controlled study with melanoma patients, indicating that the history of trauma (especially deep penetrating wounds of the hands and feet) is acral melanoma. An important risk factor for high morbidity. Lea reviewed the history of trauma, and used basal cell carcinoma as a control. It was found that the proportion of melanoma patients with trauma was higher than that of the control group, suggesting that trauma is a direct cause of melanoma. Direct malignant changes or the induction and development of melanoma on the basis of pigmented nevus. Studies have shown that trauma is an independent risk factor for melanoma. Repeated trauma can cause a multiplicative effect on the risk of melanoma. Lesage et al believe that there is a “dose-effect” relationship between trauma and melanoma.
2.2 Sex and Melanoma
Melanoma occurs in men, and the ratio of male to female incidence is about 3:2. Cho et al. used multi-class Logistic regression to analyze the effects of melanoma risk factors at different locations. The results showed that men were at higher risk for head, neck and trunk melanoma compared with women. Epidemiological statistical analysis also showed that the history of trauma in men with melanoma was significantly higher than that in women. Because men take more outdoor labor or physical activity in human society, there is a greater risk of exposure to trauma, especially the head, neck and torso. The risk of trauma explains from another perspective that the incidence of melanoma in men is greater than that of women, suggesting that trauma plays an important role in the pathogenesis of melanoma. It is well known that in terms of race and genetics, the incidence of Caucasian melanoma is higher than that of blacks. Norval et al. performed a statistical analysis of the incidence of melanoma in black and white Africans. It was found that although the incidence of black melanoma in African whites is about 20 times that of blacks, the incidence of black lower limbs and hip melanoma is significantly higher than that of whites. It believes that this difference can be explained by the fact that black Africans are more susceptible to trauma due to burns, scars, insect bites and walking barefoot. This suggests that the risk of trauma may affect the incidence of melanoma in different parts of different populations.
3. Mechanisms related to trauma and melanoma
Epidemiological studies have found that trauma is associated with the onset of melanoma, but the specific mechanism of action caused by melanoma in specific trauma has not yet been fully unified. At present, there are several mechanisms in the literature.
3.1 Increased trauma DNA mutation
Biologically, melanoma formation is based on DNA mutations in normal melanocytes. It has been reported in the literature that under high-sensitivity genetic susceptibility conditions, melanocytes undergo a certain number of mitosis, which can cause sufficient mutations to induce tumors; physical trauma or trauma leads to acute or chronic proliferative reactions, accelerate mitosis, accelerate DNA mutation, increase black The risk of developing a tumor.
3.2 Trauma caused by tumor-associated cytokine secretion
The physiological processes of wound healing and the pathological processes of tumorigenesis and development have much in common. At different stages of wound healing, epithelial cells, endothelial cells, and inflammatory cells involved in the healing process can release a variety of effective cytokines for several months, such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), epidermal growth factor, and leukocyte IL (IL), fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor, etc., and some of these factors have been confirmed to participate in tumor growth, creating a microenvironment that is conducive to melanoma. Further studies by Westphal et al have confirmed that VEGF, basic fibroblast growth factor, IL-8, and platelet-derived growth factor AB can promote the proliferation and differentiation of melanocytes or tumor microvessels, which can promote the occurrence and development of melanoma.
3.3 Trauma promotes malignant transformation of melanocytes
Melanoma is derived from the poor differentiation and malignant transformation of melanocytes. Zhou Fengqing and Zhang Sanzhong believe that melanoma most often occurs in the vulnerable parts of the feet, back, waist and head. The occurrence may be caused by foot trauma, infection and stimulation leading to the proliferation of melanocytes in the squamous epithelium of the skin. It is related to malignant transformation. Hussain et al. believe that the link between trauma and melanoma: one may be caused by trauma to induce melanocyte proliferation, mutation during proliferation and differentiation, leading to the formation of melanoma; another possibility may be the formation of scar after trauma In the process of releasing autologous and xenogeneic cells, the release of toxins can promote the malignant transformation of melanocytes. In addition, the entry of traumatic implanted epithelial components into the dermis has also been proposed as a potential mechanism. Under normal circumstances, there is no melanocytes in the cornea. The source of melanocytes of primary corneal melanoma after trauma causes Naseri et al. to emphasize that local inflammation and ischemia after trauma may lead to the formation of melanocytes. The pathway of cell metastasis; at the same time, the corneal nerve cells homologous to neural crest after traumatic stimulation, as well as the corneal basal cells may be the source of potential melanocyte progenitors. At present, most studies on trauma and melanoma are limited to epidemiology. The specific role of trauma in the pathogenesis of melanoma remains unclear. It may promote the mutation and deterioration of melanoma cells by increasing DNA mutations and releasing relevant cytokines. This leads to the formation of melanoma. Due to its atypical clinical manifestations, post-traumatic melanoma is often misdiagnosed as chronic inflammatory lesions, granuloma, squamous cell carcinoma and hemangioma, and even if distant metastases are often misdiagnosed. It has been reported that patients from traumatic events to melanomas are diagnosed for months to years or even decades. Zhou Fengqing and Zhang Sanzhong performed statistical analysis on 10 cases of post-traumatic melanoma in China. The results showed that the time of non-healing ulceration after trauma lasted for about half a year to one year, and ulceration to melanoma inguinal lymphatic metastasis was about 1~2 years. However, due to the atypical clinical manifestations of melanoma, clinically misdiagnosed or missed diagnosis, the exact time from the traumatic event to the occurrence of melanoma cannot be known. In the diagnosis of melanoma, the history of trauma should be given special attention, especially in the case of long-term, long-term non-healing or repeated injury. However, the role of trauma should not be overestimated or exaggerated. Early diagnosis of melanoma remains a challenge for doctors in atypical clinical manifestations and misleading medical history. Therefore, the relationship between trauma and melanoma, the mechanism of action, and the epidemiological characteristics of trauma and melanoma such as clinical manifestations, tumor thickness, histopathological types and prognosis still require further research and exploration.
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Akbar Bugti haunts Musharraf ‘Indicted’
Jehlum Post News Network|Quetta| January 15, 2015| An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday indicted former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the case of the murder of Jamhoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Bugti who was killed in a military operation in 2006. Two other accused – former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao and Balochistan’s former home minister Shoaib Ahmed Nausherwani – appeared before the court and were also indicted. The hearing was adjourned until February 4 and the court will hear the case on a daily basis after that, ATC Judge Aftab Lon said. Musharraf’s lawyer, Zeeshan Cheema,
and two guarantors submitted a medical certificate stating that the former military ruler was too unwell to attend the hearing. Sohail Rajput, the lawyer for Jamil Bugti, the son of the late Akbar Bugti, commented that Musharraf often appears on television, attends meetings and gatherings, and it is therefore evident that he does not suffer from health problems. The judge expressed dissatisfaction at Musharraf’s absence and summoned the provincial director general health to confirm if the primary accused was ill or simply avoiding appearing in court. The hearing was then adjourned for an hour. Judge Lon framed charges against Musharraf, Sherpao and Nausherwani and ordered the provincial director general health to appear before the court in the next hearing to discuss why a medical board has not been constituted to examine Musharraf’s health. Nawab Akbar Bugti and more than 35 of his comrades were killed during a military operation in the mountainous areas of Bugti Tribal Territory and Kohlu on August 26, 2006. Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti nominated the former president and other officials in the murder of his father. Agency
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Jets sign Ben Ijalana Dan Leberfeld
The Jets claimed former Indianapolis Colts draft pick Ben Ijalana off waivers.
Ijalana (T/6-4/322/Villanova/North Brunswick, NJ) entered the NFL in 2011 as a second-round selection of the Colts. He appeared in four games as a rookie for Indianapolis before being placed on injured reserve and spent 2012 on injured reserve with an injury suffered during training camp. Ijalana started all 53 career games at left tackle at Villanova, becoming one of four players in school history to earn All-America honors in multiple seasons and one of two performers to earn all-conference honors three times.
John Idzik also kept the Jets three 2013 offensive line draft picks on the roster, including project Will Campbell, a former defensive lineman. So along with Caleb Schlauderaff, the Jets have four backup linemen right now.
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Unlabelled Man stamped on pregnant girlfriend’s stomach after she refused to abort the child(Photo)
Man stamped on pregnant girlfriend’s stomach after she refused to abort the child(Photo)
A teaching assistant stamped on the stomach of his heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend to kill their unborn child which she refused to abort.
Kevin Wilson was allegedly angry that Malorie Bantala had ignored his pleas to get rid of the baby so he recruited a teenager to help him beat the foetus to death.Malorie, 22, was eight months pregnant when Wilson, also 22, and the youth allegedly ambushed her just yards from home in Peckham, south east London in June.
Disguised in motorcycle helmets, they deliberately targeted her stomach, leaving the shop assistant with life-threatening injuries.
The baby boy was delivered stillborn by emergency Caesarean section at 32 weeks.
When emergency services arrived, she told police that her child’s father’s was responsible, saying: “He doesn’t want the baby.”
Malorie suffered broken bones in the hand she had used to try to shield her baby from the onslaught.
The court heart the pair slept together in November last year after staying friends following a short period in a relationship.
The following month, she told him she was pregnant and Wilson reacted by saying he was not ready to be a father. And when told she had decided to keep the baby, he cut her off but rang back to ask: “Why are you doing this to me?”
Wilson went on to arrange a visit to an abortion clinic but became angry when she still refused to end the pregnancy, accusing her of being “selfish”, the jury was told.
Wilson and a 17-year-old youth who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of causing grievous bodily harm to Malorie and child destruction.
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Vatican enters Venice Architecture Biennale with 10 chapels
March 21 2018 14:56:00
VATICAN CITY - AP
The Vatican is planting 10 chapels in the woods of one of Venice's lagoon islands for its first-ever contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's culture minister, unveiled plans for "Vatican Chapels" on March 21, saying the project was inspired by the "Woodland Chapel" in Stockholm by Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund.
Ravasi has frequently condemned modern churches as ugly and inhospitable to prayer. But he said he hoped "Vatican Chapels" would help re-establish a dialogue between the sacred and architecture, which over centuries created majestic churches and cathedrals that changed public spaces around the globe.
It's the Vatican's second major foray into the world of the Venice Biennale after it staged pavilions for the 2013 and 2015 art biennales.
The Vatican, which spent 400,000 euros ($490,830) for the project, solicited designs from 10 architects, only two of them women, as well as contributions from construction firms to defray the costs. The biggest name in the group is Norman Foster, the Pritzker Prize-winning British architect.
The architecture biennale, which has "Freespace" as its theme this year, runs May 26-Nov. 25.
Ravasi told reporters that the Vatican didn't want to offer a traditional pavilion with miniature models and designs for its inaugural contribution. Rather, the Vatican decided to create an itinerary that will take visitors on a pilgrimage around the 10 unconsecrated chapels planted in the forest of San Giorgio island, located in the main basin of Venice's lagoon opposite St. Mark's Square.
Ravasi said the significance of the woods was key given the tradition of forests "as a place of silence, meditation, shade and light."
The curator for the project, Venetian architectural historian Francesco Dal Co, said no common theme unites the chapels, though they all have a pulpit and an altar. They're made of a host of different materials: wood, steel, iron, cement or ceramic.
The chapels can be taken apart, and there has already been a request for one of them to travel after the biennale ends. But no decision has been made as to what to do with the exhibit.
Dal Co said part of his agenda in curating the Vatican pavilion was to allow Venice to welcome even more visitors.
"I have always thought that the Biennale has done so much in the past to open up my city and provide more opportunities for people to have the right to visit it freely," he said.
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IBM Donates Code to Firefox
By Jim Wagner | August 15, 2005
IBM is donating Web accessibility code to the Mozilla Foundation, officials from the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant announced Sunday.
IBM is donating DHTML accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) standards process. Big Blue is also contributing code that makes it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified as well as navigated by keystrokes rather than mouse clicks.
The DHTML code, for use in rich interactive applications (RIA) like those created using Ajax, will find its way into the next major update to the Firefox browser, version 1.5, slated for release in late September.
The popularity of recent RIA's like Google Maps and Amazon's A9 search engine have created a demand for more RIAs on the Web. The technology allows Web pages to function at speeds similar to desktop applications in some cases, with Web pages that draw only the information needed from a Web server.
Richard Schwerdtfeger, a distinguished engineer at IBM, said the DHTML accessibility code will make Firefox 1.5 the first browser in the world to add these accessibility functions for visual- and motor-impaired Web surfers. It's a big step forward for RIA on the Internet, he said.
"So far, this type of technology has not been accessible. In fact, in the European Union they frown on the use of JavaScript because it's not accessible," he said. "Not only can we make it more accessible but we can make it more usable to a broad range of people."
According to figures provided by IBM, the Pew Internet & American Life Project published findings that show seniors -- who are more likely to have a visual or motor disabilities -- are the fastest-growing Internet group in recent years. Seniors made up 15 percent of the online population in 2000, the report said, compared to 22 percent last year.
IBM also points to federal guidelines as a reason the accessibility code is so important. The U.S. Rehabilitation Act states that federal employees, regardless of ability, must have access to electronic information and information technology.
"IBM's commitment to further Firefox's capabilities and reach people who have disabilities marks an important technical achievement for Firefox," Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation president, said in a statement. "On a larger scale it is necessary to make the Web and all of its content accessible to everyone."
IBM has in the past helped the Firefox browser team on its accessibility features. According to officials, the company's developers built key pieces of accessibility code into the browser, including support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA). MAA is an industry standard for reading what is happening inside the user interface of an application.
Schwerdtfeger said he is also in talks with Apple and Microsoft to get the technology adopted in their browsers.
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Wroxham FC and Victory Housing Trust join forces to support women in football
Wroxham FC and Victory Housing Trust have joined forces to develop and promote junior and women’s football in an exciting new partnership.
Building on the club’s recent successes in the area, the partnership will allow Wroxham FC to establish three new teams for different age groups – Under 6s, Under 14s, Under 16s – and launch a brand new women’s team.
The partnership between the North Norfolk based housing association and the club will also bring kit, training, and enhanced facilities for the whole community of Wroxham, and the surrounding areas.
Club Chairman Lee Robson explained “I’m delighted that Victory has partnered with us. It takes a lot of volunteer hours, hard work and money to set things up buying kit, equipment and making sure coaches are qualified and developed.
“In 2018/19 we invested around £14,000 in setting up our junior section and we are keen to invest again this year to build a sustainable club. The partnership will help to provide kit for the women’s team, coach education, and establish our Wildcats Centre for girls at Rackheath which starts at the end of August.”
Victory decided to get involved with the partnership as it supports its work in the local community, as Managing Director Christine Candlish explained: “We are excited by this new partnership, our involvement hopes to aid not only in the growth of a local football club, but also increase the offering of both physical and social activities in the area.
“It is important that we continue to promote participation through sport in our communities and particularly women in sport. The club has shown an ability to inspire people to develop, achieve and make lifelong friendships through football, and this is something we want for both our residents and communities”.
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Haut-Brion: 'Oldest' Luxury Brand | The Drinks Business
The Drinks Business | 24 April, 2013
Haut-Brion 'oldest' luxury brand in the world
The oldest recorded brand in the world still in existence today is Château Haut-Brion, the Bordeaux first growth has claimed – and challenged historians to find an older mention of the estate, writes Laura Ivill.
The château backed up its claim by referencing the famous, “Ho Bryan” entry in the popular 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys’ records from 350 years ago in 1663.
Prince Robert of Luxembourg, head of Domaine Clarence Dillon which owns Château Haut-Brion, hosted a Cambridge Wine Society dinner at Pepys’s alma mater, Magdalene College, earlier this month (10 April).
“The entry is the first mention of Bordeaux wines with a description,” Prince Robert said, quoting Pepys’ tasting note, which reads: “Off to the Exchange with Sir J Cutler and Mr Grant to the Royall Oak Taverne in Lumbard Street… And there drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.”
However, the earliest-ever recording of the château’s wine pre-dates even that. It is in the cellar ledger of Charles II on his return from France. In the years 1660 and 1661, 169 bottles of the “wine of Hobriono” were served to guests of the royal table.
This is the first known record of a wine bearing the name of its estate. Up to this point wines were generically known by their region of origin.
“This may make us the first luxury brand in the world,” Prince Robert proposed.
“The earliest mention of Haut-Brion is in the 1660 cellar book of Charles II in the Kew Public Archives. We have been in existence as a vineyard for 2,000 years, and were formed in the 16th century when other first growths didn’t exist.” This is a reference to the construction of the original château in 1549 by Jean de Pontac.
Prince Robert also launched a competition for researchers to uncover an, “earlier written mention in a new document” of his brand for “a significant prize”.
“Ho Bryan” was an example of a new style of wine, the New French Claret, which had the potential for ageing in bottle. It was also the beginning of a marketing push by the French to get us to drink even more of their export.
In 1666, the son of Arnaud III de Pontac, Francois-Auguste, opened an upmarket tavern in London selling Haut-Brion wine, called L’Enseigne de Pontac, which soon became “…the most fashionable place in all London…”
Pepys’ personal library collection of books and paintings, including the diary written in shorthand, is housed at Magdalene College and is open to the public.
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2017 National Baseball Hall of Fame Vote
On Wednesday, January 18, 2017, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) vote for enshrinement to the National Baseball Hall of Fame will be revealed. The BBWAA holds the keys to such an elite fraternity, which must be a daunting task. They are voting on players to proverbially sit next to Ruth, Aaron, Mays, Mathewson and the like. As done in years past, I will provide my ballot as if I were a BBWAA member.
Here is the full 2017 Ballot (courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com)
There are a few major factors that cannot be ignored when it comes to voting.
1) The specter over the Hall will continue to be Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) use in baseball primarily in the 1990s, for which many players accused are now appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot. There are players whose performance clearly merits first ballot election, however because of their associated with substances that enhanced their performance, members of the BBWAA has been hesitant to cast votes their way. Because the official voting rules include the words "integrity, sportsmanship, and character" and integrity, so their reluctance is justified in my mind. For my selection, I will not presume guilt, but if there is legal (including Mitchell Report) or anecdotal evidence of PED use, I will strongly weigh against voting. I'm not alone, since fewer than half of voters have written in Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens, who no doubt Hall of Famers if not for PEDs.
2) A batch of candidates making their way onto the ballot or relief pitchers who specialized in finishing games in which their team was winning by 3 or fewer runs. In other words, closers. To date, Bruce Sutter, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley, and Goose Gossage are the modern day versions in the Hall. Three candidates on the ballot have more saves than each of them. It's a measure of how the game has changed (with the advent of the specialty closer0 whether or not they get strong consideration from the BBWAA.
3) A final point of discussion is how to handle starting pitching. Whereas the 300 win plateau used to be a norm, it's become increasingly more difficult to get wins in the era of specialty relievers with starters leaving the game before the end of the sixth inning many times in close games. Conversely, however, one would think this would benefit starting pitchers ERA by seldom going through a lineup more than 3 times. In the end, I strongly weigh dominance over a discernible period of time, along with Cy Young Awards, All-Star games, Win titles, and ERA.
4) There is also first and last ballot bias. First ballot some BBWAA voters will hold their vote to protect some sort of integrity of being a "first ballot hall of famer". Evidence, three voters who did not include Ken Griffey Jr. last year. Likewise, when a player is on his last ballot, voters who previously withheld tend to pay a bit more attention to their candidacy considering it's a final shot. So a bump is normal (not significant, but 5% ish).
With a limit of ten players on a ballot, here are the players I would put on my ballot (in order of credibility). I don't use all ten votes.
1) Vladimir Guerrero - A five tool player (.319 average. 449 HR, top arm/glove in the league, and plus speed). Nine All-Star Games, an MVP, and a hit title. His career numbers fall short of some major benchmarks (like 500 HR) as he retired at age 36. If he had taken PEDs he might have played another 5 years and approached 600 HR. No doubt one of the most feared hitters for a decade or so.
Factors against him: Lack of single team identity, no World Series titles, first ballot bias
To me, he meets all of the criteria and should get in with about 80% of vote.
2) Jeff Bagwell - He was an offensive machine in the mid-1990's, career numbers reflect that (.297, 449 HR, 1529 RBI). More walks than anyone else on the ballot besides Bonds and Sheffield (fear factor and eye), .408 OBP. He also stole 200 bases and was an above average 1B (Gold Glove in the closet). No hard evidence of PED's, although suspicion without evidence seems to be an argument against. His numbers are nearly identical to Vlad yet he sits here in his seventh year on the ballot.
Factors against him: Perceived use of PEDs, playing in a small market, lack of postseason success.
At 71.6% last year, it would be historic if he dropped back from that. He'll get in this time (just barely, not much over 77%).
3) Trevor Hoffman - One of two members of the 600 career save club (and we know the other will get in first ballot). That's 40 saves per year for 15 years (average). Seven All-Star appearances and twice finished runner up in the Cy Young, which is rare for a reliever.
Factors against him: reliever bias, played in a small market, was probably never the number one reliever at any given time
At 67.3% last year, the first ballot bias should be overcome. The NL reliever of the year award is named after him, he'll get in with 81% of the vote or so.
4) Ivan Rodriguez - The only think moving him from number 1 to number 4 is potential PED suspicions. Note that for Rodribues, the evidence against him is mostly anecdotal (from Jose Canseco). I suspect he was using, but not extensively. That behind us, his numbers as a catcher are elite: .296 average, 311 HR, an MVP, best arm behind the plate in the game and a great teammate. Ten straight Gold Gloves (six of those years he won a Silver Slugger).
Factors against him: Perceived PEDs, first ballot bias
Tough to forecast if he'll make the cut due to PED suspicions. There might be enough to hold back their vote to keep him in the 65% range. Most interesting total to see on the ballot IMO.
5) Larry Walker - He was another 5-tool player, finished his career with a .313 batting average, higher than anyone else on the ballot besides Vladimir Guerrero. Let me repeat that, second highest batting average of anybody on the ballot. Also stole 200 bases, also hit 383 home runs. He has so many gold gloves he probably had to build an extra section on his trophy case. Like Bagwell, he won one MVP. He's also a member of the .400 OBP club (with Bagwell, Manny Ramirez, Bonds, and Edgar Martinez the only four on the ballot).
Factors against him: Perceived higher numbers due to playing in Colorado, soft-spoken personality, injury-prone (only 4 seasons of 140+ games).
He only received 15.5% of the vote last year (regressing), that needs to trend up significantly for people to start noticing. He's not going to make it.
6) Edgar Martinez - He's of the mold of the previous two players. Hit for high average, good (but not awe inspiring) power, gets on base all the time. While I am not a fan of the DH, if MLB has it as a position, you can't hold that against him. With the previous two, defense pushes their case, for Edgar it can't but he still deserves it. Career .312 hitter, .418 OBP, slugged .515 (more than Fred McGriff). He's also a member of the 300 HR club for a guy who didn't try to lift the ball as much as others.
Factors against him: Primarily a DH, played in small market, lack of speed
He was voted for the affirmative on 43% of last years ballots he's moving up slowly. He needs to get closer to 50% to continue the momentum, now in his eighth year probably not going to make it now
7) Billy Wagner - This pick might raise some eyebrows, but when comparing to the four major relief pitchers already in the Hall (Eckersley, Sutter, Fingers, and Gossage), he has 30 more saves than each of them. And a lower ERA. And a better K/9 IP. His 7 All Star Game appearances are comparable to all as well. He sits sixth in career saves and his stuff was dominant. I noted above we're teetering on how to treat relievers, I believe we're going to see fewer relievers going forward with huge career numbers because so many are going to flame out with arm problems given their use. Wags should get strong consideration.
Factors against him: relief pitcher bias, lack of postseason success
Only in his second year (10% vote last year), he's more likely to fall off the ballot than to surge to even more than 25%. I'm guessing he never gets in during the 10 year window, but may get in on a veteran ballot in decades to come once the Hall figures out how to handle relievers.
8) Lee Smith - As mentioned, the Hall of Fame is still figuring out how to accommodate closers, it's my opinion that they are indeed a key element to the game and the best of the best should be included. With Smith, it's not about the numbers (ERA, W-L) as much as the raw pile of saves he accumulated (478, which was tops for a long time after his retirement). No matter where he played, he never seemed phase by a momentary lapse of success. Fourteen seasons in a row of 25 or more saves shows a level of consistency matched by few. If there are going to be closers in the HoF, Smith should be there.
Factors against him: relief pitcher bias, wasn't overpowering, lacks team identity
Languishing around 35% of the vote last year, he'll need more than double to get in in this, his last and 15th year. He might get to 50% and like Wagner, maybe get in later once relievers get their due.
9) Jeff Kent - Quietly one of the top offensive second basemen of all time. His line across the major stats is .290, 377, and 1518. He has an MVP in his closet, and three other Top 10 finishes. Add to that six All-Star appearances. His power numbers dwarf Ryne Sandberg and Roberto Alomar, but is getting very little buzz or momentum.
Factors against him: Very average on defense, played in a power era in which his home run numbers aren't considered extraordinary, cold to media
With below 20% of the vote last year, no reason to think he'll move significantly now, or over the next six years.
First four out
10) Tim Raines - Rock falls just short on the numbers. Besides SB's (of which he is more than deserving), his average and power are lackluster, no Gold Gloves. He did accumulate 2,600 hits playing to the age of 40.
Factors against him: mostly small market teams, average defense, never was higher than 5th in an MVP vote, not a feared hitter.
At 69.8% last year and in his last year, wow this is going to be close. How much of a last ballot bump will he get?
11) Mike Mussina - Without 300 wins or a dominant ERA, he's not quite Hall worthy in my opinion. No Cy Young Awards, a one-time 20 game winner, five All-Star games. Career ERA is 3.68, not spectacular even in the power era (considering he didn't face line ups four times in most starts).
Factors against him: Doesn't have 300 wins, not dominant, played on winning teams but never won a World Series.
At 43%, surprising he's below Schilling. Won't move much until he approaches the end of the ballot. Not likely to get in during the 10 year window.
12) Fred McGriff - You can't ignore the near 500 home runs, but he hung on a while to get so close and wasn't elite enough in his prime to warrant the Hall. Average defense, below average speed, not an outstanding OBP. He also never broke 110 RBI in a season.
Factors against him: Unspectacular batting average, lack of dominating seasons, lack of speed
At only 21% last year, he's not moving much. I doubt he gets much closer in this, or the next two years. Could be a veteran ballot candidate, was very popular with teammates and media and did things the right way.
13) Curt Schilling - Seems to get way more media discussion than others as deserving (like Kent or Mussina or even a Bagwell). 3.46 ERA and barely over 200 wins (216). For careers starting after World War II, only Don Drysdale has fewer wins in the Hall (six fewer seasons, ERA half a point better). Postseason success aside, it's not a strong case at all.
Factors against him: Low wins, unspectacular ERA
At 52% of the vote, he could make a move (fourth highest returning). If he can get to 60% now he could eek across 75% by year ten.
The remaining repeat candidates fall into the PED category.
Steroid specter (stats more than deserving, even before they might have juiced, but would not get my vote): Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez, Gary Sheffield. Ramirez gets his first consideration, it will be most interesting to see how he fares. Sheffield was surprisingly low last year considering he's a member of the 500 HR club with a batting average over .290. Goes to show the PED mountain is too high to climb.
Newcomers that might stay on the ballot (besides those mentioned above and Ramirez): Jorge Posada
So my opinions aside, here's who I think gets in (in order by vote percentage).
Vlad Guerrero
They will join "Today's Game" enshrinees John Schuerholz and Allan H. “Bud” Selig, along with J.G. Taylor Spink Award (writers) winner Claire Smith, and Bill King as the Ford C. Frick Award winner for broadcasting excellence. The induction ceremony is a homecoming of baseball elite, and will be July 30, 2017.
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A number of key NFL contests went down over Christmas weekend, but it was a stealthy MVP candidate that delivered his team to a potential first round bye. Matt Ryan had a very crisp and clean performance in dismantling the favored Carolina Panthers in Charlotte to put the final dagger in their playoff hopes, while positioning the Falcons (with a surprising Seahawks loss) for they key bye. Overall, Ryan was 27/33 for 277 yards and 3 TD. His 27 throws targeted 10 different receivers which kept the Panthers defense off balance. He's the only QB in the NFL to rate in the top 3 of passing yards, passing TD, and QB rating. His 7 INT are among the lowest for regular QB as well. The Falcons are a dark horse team to unseat the seemingly invincible Dallas Cowboys and if they do, it will be because Matt Ryan slays them. He is our Sportsman of the Week!
This is Matt Ryan's second nod as Sportsman of the Week (9/7/2014)
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Labels: Atlanta, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Football, LHD_PotW, Matt Ryan, NFL
J.R. Ewing College Football Picks: 2016-17 Bowl Pick Special
It's time for the Big Boys to play, let's get it on!
The second in the two part J.R. Ewing Bowl picks, the first being straight up underdog picks. This set is the five best bets ATS; noting that the first week or so of games featured Group of 5 conference that I had not seen much of this season, so it didn't make sense to pick. Beginning December 26, the Power 5 conferences will take center stage.
Many of these will be favorites, given that I already selected several underdogs to win, therefore go ahead and take those ATS if you're feeling less confident. Note both playoff games are included!
Just to continue to trumpet a successful college football regular season:
Final Week: 3-2 (+80)
Season: 37-31-2 (+$290, 3.8% profit)
Note that the profit takes into account house take at $10 for every $100 wagered.
Here are the five best College Bowl Bets ATS:
December 27, 2016 (10:15 p.m. EST) - Motel 6 Cactus Bowl, Phoenix, AZ
Boise State (-7.5) vs. Baylor
Baylor was the most overrated 6-0 team in history. They have lost six straight, only two were within a TD, and two losses were to non-bowl teams. Meanwhile Boise State has just two losses overall, and always step up their game against Power 5 opponents. Both teams are an odds defying 3-9 ATS, but it's Baylor who is mailing it in. The coach and staff are out, some players are skipping the game, and they haven't won since October 15. Boise takes this big.
December 28, 2016 (9:00 p.m. EST) - Advocare V100 Texas Bowl, Houston, TX
Texas A+M (-2.5) vs. Kansas State
The Aggies will be anxious to match up with their former Big 12 opponent. The game is in Houston so expect a lot of maroon filling the 65,000 seat NRG Stadium. Kansas State is a scrappy team in the regular season, but is only 1-7 in their last 8 bowl games, usually drawing a more talented team with time to prepare for their unorthodox, grinding style of offense. As is the case this year. A+M will want to finish the season on a positive note after nosediving from the College Football Playoff poll. They win by 10 or more.
December 30, 2016 (Noon EST) - Autozone Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN
Georgia (PK) vs. TCU
TCU has just two wins in their last six games finishing a disappointing 6-6 on the season in a very mediocre Big 12. A young Georgia squad with a new coach and QB battled tough but loss some heartbreaking losses to rivals like Tennessee and Georgia Tech. Given a chance to catch their breath, they can focus on building momentum for 2017 with a win here. TCU is historically good in bowls, but this team isn't like the recent ones that have gone 4-1 / 8-2 in their last five/ten Bowl Games. Georgia wins a see saw affair.
December 31, 2016 (3:00 p.m. EST) - Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl, Atlanta, GA
Washington (+14.5) vs. Alabama
Alabama is being tabbed as the odds on favorite to win their second straight playoff and why shouldn't they? They are the only undefeated team remaining and talent laden. Two factors have me thinking this is closer than experts think. One is that the top of the SEC was much softer than some of the others Alabama navigated. It enabled Alabama to have a lot of eye pleasing blowouts, but Washington is a sound team. Washington is young, so they must step up to the big atmosphere. I think this is either really close or a Crimson Tide blowout. I'll lean toward close and a cover.
December 31, 2016 (7:00 p.m. EST) - Playstation Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, AZ
Clemson (+3) vs. Ohio State
I think media and fans fell a bit too much in love with the Big 10 this year. Because of the quantity of teams, the cream of the crop really only faced a worthy opponent 3 or 4 times during the conference season. Ohio State went 2-1 in such games, with both wins in overtime. Not exactly dominating. Clemson was here last year and tasted the atmosphere. With a veteran squad (vs. a young Buckeye squad), I see this is a near pick'em. So I'm leaning to the Tigers to get it done and punch their ticket to Tampa.
Enjoy your holiday week and the Bowl Action and we'll see you in 2017!
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J.R. Ewing College Football Picks: 2016-17 Bowl Upset Special
I like money. Let me make you some.
After a romp in the regular season, we turn our attention to Bowl Season. These games are difficult games to pick, because of the layoff, coach defections, and unpredictability in inspiration by the teams. That's where I step in to give you the edge.
One final look at regular season performance, nothing short of solid and profitable:
This is the first of two Bowl Predicts. This game focuses on straight up upsets. No point spreads, but rather games that I've pegged as underdogs winning. Put $100 on each and if you snag two of five, you get a very nice profit.
December 27, 2016 (Noon EST) - Heart of Texas Bowl, Dallas, TX
North Texas (+320) vs. Army
These teams already played once and North Texas rolled. People look at UNT and their scant five wins and dismiss them, however Army isn't world beaters. They did beat Navy, although Navy had a very inexperienced QB and was beat up all over the field. And how much did that take out of the team? This game is in my home city of Dallas, at over 3 to 1, I'll see if North Texas can put together a solid effort.
December 29, 2016 (8:00 EST) - Belk Bowl, Charlotte, NC
Arkansas (+225) vs.Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech hasn't defeated a Bowl team since October (0-2 since). Arkansas is a Jeckyl and Hyde team, but typically plays well in Bowls under Bret Bielema (2-0 and both were blowouts). Couple that with historic strong play in bowl games for the SEC, and getting this money line seems like a nice play.
December 30, 2016 (8:00 EST) - Orange Bowl, Miami Gardens, FL
Florida State (+225) vs. Michigan
Michigan quietly lost two of their last three and never really played that well away from the Big House (roll over against Rutgers withstanding). Meanwhile Florida State has won six of seven, the one loss a close one to ACC Champion Clemson. FSU is at home and with a chip on their shoulder. Michigan felt like they should have beat Ohio State and perhaps made the playoffs despite a loss. Given the money line, taking the 'Noles.
December 31, 2016 (11:00 EST) - Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL
Louisville (+140) vs. LSU
There were times this year in which pundits noted that Louisville was the best betting matchup against invincible Alabama. Then Louisville dropped their last two inexplicably to 17 point or more underdogs. This is the game they rally; they're not that bad. LSU had a roller coaster season shedding a head coach and playing without an effective Leonard Fournette (who is out of this game). Lamar Jackson is the best player on the field and Louisville wins it (as a slight underdog).
January 2, 2017 (1:00 EST) - Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX
Western Michigan (+260) vs. Wisconsin
A few factors at play here, one is the Western Michigan is the team with something to prove. Wisconsin is licking their wounds after a tough Big 10 title game and season of close losses to the top teams. This game will have very few fans in attendance (relatively) as both teams have a ways to travel and outside of Southfork Ranch, Dallas isn't necessarily a tourist hot spot. Combine all that with an early kickoff and Wisconsin could be lethargic. Given the money line play, I like this play.
Coming up next, Top 5 point spread games!
- JR
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Labels: ACC, Arkansas, Big 10, College Football, Conference USA, Florida State, Football, Gambling, JR Ewing, Louisville, NCAA, North Texas, SEC, Western Michigan
College Football Bowl season has kicked in, and there was a weekend of undercard action for fans. The game with most renown was the Las Vegas Bowl, which featured Mountain West Conference Champion San Diego State against giant slayers Houston Cougars who had knocked off Oklahoma and Louisville, two teams that might have made the playoff if not for those losses. But it was an lesser known name who stole the show. And the record book. San Diego State's Donnel Pumphrey broke one of the most hallowed records in NCAA football. The career rushing record. Pumphrey did it in dramatic fashion early in the third quarter and ended his career with 6,405 yards to former record holder Ron Dayne's 6,397. It was that close. Although in an unexpected route (the Aztecs were underdogs), San Diego State ran away with an easy 24 point victory. One of the benefits of bowl season is you get to see some of the lesser known players from less recognized schools perform. Pumphrey more than fits that, and is our Longhorndave Sportsman of the Week!
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Labels: Bowl Games, College Football, Donnel Pumphrey, Football, Houston Cougars, Las Vegas Bowl, NCAA, Ron Dayne, San Diego State
The NFL playoff push is in full effect, and an emerging team is the Pittsburgh Steelers. Thanks to Le'veon Bell, they are suddenly seeming like a short list team to beat in the AFC. But it was Bell this week that did things that no other Steelers back has done. In less than ideal conditions against the Buffalo Bills, Bell ran for 236 yards and 3 TD to set a single game Steelers record for rushing yards. He also added 62 yards receiving to account for 298 of the Steelers 460 total yards. Most importantly, the win thrust the Steelers a game ahead of the rival Baltimore Ravens in the AFC North and positioned well to host a playoff game the first weekend. This is Bell's third nod as Sportsman of the Week (first time, and second time) thrusting him into elite company with five others like of Peyton Manning and LeBron James. A deserving Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Buffalo Bills, Football, Le'Veon Bell, LHD_PotW, NFL, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Steelers
Storybook. That can be the only adjective (or is it a noun, or both) to describe Eric Berry's return to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. For the first time in his career. Having been there last time to recover from lymphoma. On the field, his Kansas City Chiefs won the game 29-28. In a battle of playoff favorite teams, it was two plays that he tilted for his team. He scored an interception return for a 30 yard TD in the first quarter. Then in improbable fashion (like never been done in the NFL), he returned a 2-point conversion attempt by the Atlanta Falcons back 99 yards to turn a 27-28 deficit to a 29-28 lead. Single handedly carrying his team to victory. The second Kansas City Chief in a row, Eric Berry is our Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Atlanta Falcons, Eric Berry, Football, Kansas City, Kansas City Chiefs, LHD_PotW, NFL
J.R. Ewing College Football Picks: Championship Weekend
Christmas party on me and my profits!
Well well well, it looks like I'll be taking a profit into the Christmas holidays for the whole season. After a couple weeks of bleeding away my early season profits, things came together last weekend. It wasn't a romp, but enough to keep the win train going!
Previous Week: 3-2 (+80)
While normally I have a full slate of games to cherry pick, we can do nothing more than pick the Power Five Conference Championship Games (or the defacto version of the Big 12). But before that, a short commercial break. If you want to know how I feel about how the College Football Playoff committee should vote based upon results this weekend, check out this Blog.
But back to the picks, here we go!
Pac 12 Championship Game
Washington (-7.5) vs Colorado (Friday 12/2 9:00 p.m. EST - Santa Clara, CA)
Washington seems like a team that woke up when it had it's bell rung on the road against a surging Southern California team. Throw out that game and they haven't been played in less than a TD. They didn't seem to play scared last weekend in the Apple Cup, and their defense shuts down the Buffs to win something like 24-7 (take the under 58, too).
Oklahoma (-11.5) vs Oklahoma State (12:30 p.m. EST)
As this is a regular season game, it's in Norman. The Sooners do well in Norman. There have been times that Oklahoma State wrecked the Sooners hopes but this isn't one of those years. Oklahoma muddled through injuries (and some suspensions) during the season but is peaking. Oklahoma State has been more the category of doing just enough to win. Explosive offenses abound, I take Oklahoma 42-31 (believe it or not, that's an under 77.5).
Florida (+24) vs Alabama (4:00 p.m. EST - Atlanta, GA)
This just seems like too many points. Alabama has been a machine at hitting games right near the line, so if I had my choice I would probably no play. That being said, Florida's defense can be good, and Alabama has been winning more low scoring games lately. So something like 28-7 would seem right. That's also an under (40) play.
ACC Championship Game
Clemson (-10) vs Virginia Tech (8:00 p.m. EST - Orlando, FL)
Another big spread, but another veteran team against an upstart team that isn't the same level. Clemson was in this situation last year and it was tight. It won't be tight. Clemson uses their talent advantage and I'm guessing a crowd outnumbering the opposition to win 34-21. Under 58.
Big 10 Championship Game
Penn State (+2.5) vs Wisconsin (8:00 p.m. EST - Indianapolis, IN)
Penn State continues to get disrespected and they continously prove doubters wrong. They haven't lost since September 24 and haven't won by fewer than 2 TD since October 1 (besides a stunning upset of Ohio State). They are rolling. Wisconsin has had an amazing season playing a tough schedule, but Nittany wins this one by a FG at least.
So with this result, I would have: Alabama, Clemson, Washington, and Big 10 in the playoff. I would take Penn State, but the committee seems to value Ohio State.
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Thanksgiving weekend was a football feast in both college in the pros, but perhaps the most playoff-changing scenario took place in Denver on the NFL Sunday Night Football. With the Denver Broncos hosting the Kansas City Chiefs, both 7-3 teams desperately needed a win to keep their AFC West Playoff hopes alive. The Chiefs won at the gun of overtime, but they would not have made overtime without an emerging rookie star. The Chiefs scored three TDs in the game, one running, one passing, and one special teams. The same player scored all three, the first individual to do it since Gale Sayers in 1965. Tyreek Hill didn't light up the Broncos with long plays, but was the one guy in the red zone who could solve the viscous Broncos defense. He rushed for a 3 yard TD, scored on an 86 yard kick return (after a safety) and caught an 11 yard TD pass on the final play in regulation. The Chiefs found a way to win, and they may have struck gold with their fifth round pick out of Oklahoma State via West Alabama. He is our Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Denver Broncos, Football, Kansas City, Kansas City Chiefs, LHD_PotW, NFL, Oklahoma State, Tyreek Hill
2016 College Football Playoff Breakdown - The year of Chaos?
Nobody should have expected the expansion of a 2-team playoff (BCS) to a 4-team playoff (CFB Playoff) would eliminate close decisions and 2016 might be the toughest year the College Football Playoff Committee (CFPC) faces. As we enter Championship Weekend (including the defacto Big 12 Championship Game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State), the scenarios have narrowed as to what the top teams need to do to get the blessing of the CFPC a week from tonight. I'm going to walk through scenarios and tell you who I think should be included and not and why. This is not what I think the committee is going to do, because I don't know and I think they may go for bigger school names instead of following their charter. But time will tell.
Here are a few groundrules / assumptions / references
1) In two years, no team has made the playoffs without a conference title.
2) With only two years of history, we do not know how the committee will react based on history.
3) We will reference the Sagarin Ratings (team and conference) .
4) The CFPC has a charter here.
The CFPC charter specifically lists as factors for comparable teams (not necessarily in order):
Championships won
Head-to-head competition (if it occurred)
Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory)
Note that quantity of losses are not specifically cited, but one would think that would figure into "comparable".
Snapshot of each team
1) Alabama - They are in, win or lose in the SEC Championship Game. If they lose, there will not be enough 1-loss conference champion teams to knock them out which would be the criteria the committee could point to. And of course the proverbial eye test has favored them all year with big wins against Southern Cal, plus the brutal SEC West (top rated conference division according to Sagarin). One spot confirmed.
2) Ohio State - And here is where things get complicated. The Big 10 featured the two highest rated teams last weekend, however, neither is playing for the conference championship this weekend. The dreaded loss of tiebreaker for Ohio State vs. Penn State head to head in their one loss keeps them from Indianapolis. At number 2 in all polls, plus a win over a Top 5 team last weekend, some are calling them a lock. The CFPC criteria states that if teams are "comparable" then championships becomes a discriminator. I would think Washington and Clemson, also with one loss, would be comparable, giving the Buckeyes lack of hardware is a strike. Strength of Schedule is another criteria. While adding Oklahoma out of conference helps, the Big 10 East is ranked below the Pac 12 North/Washington (but ahead of the ACC Atlantic/Clemson) according to Sagarin. Within a point in
the rating system, might not be enough. Another team to potentially bump them will be the champion of their conference, the Big 10. If it is Penn State, then head-to-head dooms them. I don't see the committee giving Ohio State the nod over Penn State since Penn State won head-to-head and won the conference (two of the four major criteria). So that puts Alabama plus three more that might have CFPC criteria pointing away from them. They may need help. Also look at Ohio State's top three opponents (Michigan, Penn State, and Wisconsin). They did not win any in regulation, with 2 OT wins plus a loss. They also were headed to overtime against very disappointing Michigan State but the Spartans went for two and didn't get it. Again, when looking to thrust Ohio State into the "comparable" category for which their lack of a title hurts them, these close calls show weaknesses.
3) Clemson - At 11-1, including out of conference wins against two SEC teams, they look like if they win the ACC Championship vs. Virginia Tech they are in. If they lose, the door is opened for Ohio State and/or the Big 12 Champion. They'll get that 13th game (which the committee threw in the Big 12's face in 2014 as a discriminator) against another quality opponent (that Ohio State won't get). If you're going to exclude a 12-1 conference champion, it will be Washington (next).
4) Washington - Also at 11-1, their resume is great in conference (played the second toughest Power 5 Division according to Sagarin) as well as USC/Utah from the South (USC was a loss, but still). Their biggest problem is a very weak out of conference schedule (picked the wrong Big 10 team to schedule in Rutgers). A win over Colorado (again, 13th game) gives them
a huge SOS boost, however. So it would come down to the committee's judgment on whether Washington and Ohio State are comparable, and whether their championship outweighs Ohio State's strength of schedule. I think it is comparable and the championship means more. The committee should give the nod to Washington in the playoffs if Washington wins.
5) Penn State - What a spoiler they are playing. Given up for dead (at 2-2 coming off a 39 point loss to Michigan), they have rolled since. They would clearly need a Big 10 Championship to be considered and that, with a head-to-head win over Ohio State, to me would mean the committee could not pass them up for the Buckeyes. The committee has dismissed bad early season losses before (Ohio State in 2014). Lose and obviously no chance.
6) Wisconsin - If Wisconsin wins the Big 10, they're suddenly with coveted hardware that gets them in the discussion. Throw in an out of conference schedule that included Louisiana State and they drew Michigan and Ohio State from
the East (as well as Top 10 at the time Michigan State). If they win, the CFPC should give Ohio State the nod over them head to head (OT loss was in Wisconsin). But it might be closer than you think, as head-to-head is just one of the four criteria, conference title being the other.
This to me concludes the teams that have a good shot if they win on Championship Weekend. Others would need a lot of help, mostly Clemson and Washington losing (giving clear nods to Alabama, Big 10 winner, and Ohio State with one spot left). More analysis.
Big 12 winner - Would have that championship as something to point to as opposed to other teams. I would think they would be the first one in over Michigan (more in a minute). Besides Michigan, Oklahoma is the highest rated team not discussed above and they're trending up (which, again, was a factor for Ohio State in 2014). As for Oklahoma State, they had a rule misinterpretation by a MAC officiating crew cost them a game on the last play (that should not have happened). So if things go crazy, they could get in with the hardware over ACC runner up Clemson, Pac 12 runner up Washington, and Michigan who don't have titles.
Michigan - The best argument they have is that they lost to the number 2 team in overtime at their place and went toe-to-toe. All true. However, two losses and no conference title make it hard for them to get in. Again, unless comparing them to the field if Washington and Clemson lose. Especially since they beat Colorado (Pac 12 Champ in that scenario). Only chance is if Armageddon takes place and the committee is willing to put three Big 10 teams in the playoff, which seems far fetched. I'm a firm believer that you need conference diversity to figure out a champion. You cannot definitively call one conference not worthy of a playoff berth based on a short sample of out of conference games by their rivals. Michigan is no better than the third Big 10 team in, they don't go in over a conference champ and obviously not over Ohio State.
Colorado - As a two loss champion, they'd have trouble getting in over Oklahoma and Michigan, so not seeing any path here.
So to summarize the eight scenarios and who I think should get in (regardless of SEC and Big 12 outcomes):
Winners: Playoff contenders (in order, I doubt even Alabama would slip much with a loss)
PSU/Clem/Wash: Bama, Clem, Wash, PSU
Wisc/Clem/Wash: Bama, Clem, Wash, OSU
PSU/VT/Wash: Bama, Wash, PSU, OSU
Wisc/VT/Wash: Bama, Wash, OSU, Wisc
PSU/Clem/Colo: Bama, Clem, PSU, OSU
Wisc/Clem/Colo: Bama, Clem, OSU, Wisc
PSU/VT/Colo: Bama, PSU, OSU, Big12
Wisc/VT/Colo: Bama, OSU, Wisc, Big12
At the end of the day, the closest resume's are:
Pac 12 Conference Champion Washington vs. #2 and 11-1 Ohio State. It's a matter of overall season vs. conference title. And geography, will the committee want to exclude the Pac 12. Would not play well to be so midwest/southeast centric.
Wisconsin/Penn State Big 10 conference champ vs. #2 and 11-1 Ohio State. How much does a conference championship mean? How much does head-to-head play? Can they take two of these?
At the end of the day, I think this is what happens:
Labels: ACC, Big 10, Big 12, College Football, College Football Playoff, Football, NCAA, Pac 12, SEC
J.R. Ewing College Football Picks: 11/26/2016
I like rivalry week! Big winners forecasted!
Early season winnings keep whittling away as another 2-3 week eats into profits. Still ahead for the season and this with the house take. Two weeks of picking left (before the Bowl pick special). Here's how we stack up.
Previous Week: 2-3 (-130)
There's some very curious lines this week that we'll take advantage of. Gonna push up the profits just in time for the holidays!
Michigan (+6.5) at Ohio State (Noon EST)
Both of these teams are talented, both have had lapses where they lost, I see it as an even matchup. At Ohio State I give them a field goal, not necessarily a touchdown. Throw in a huge hunger by Michigan for losing this rivalry so much and I think they have an edge. They might win straight up, but we'll take the points here.
Georgia (-4.5) vs Georgia Tech (Noon EST)
I guess Georgia Tech has won 4 of 5, but not against stellar competition (besides a surprise win over Virginia Tech). Georgia is an improving team and historically handles the Jackets quite well. The 4.5 points is almost as if it's seen as a push given the Dawgs are at home. They win this by a TD, maybe two.
West Virginia (-7) at Iowa State (3:30 p.m. EST)
Just last week, West Virginia was playing a marquee game with an outside shot at the College Football Playoff. An Iowa State was playing for their third win. I get that this spread should be tight, but like 14 points tight, not a TD tight. West Virginia has a plus QB and Iowa State still learning. Seems like the Mountaineers take this by 10 at least. Maybe 20.
Tennessee (-7.5) at Vanderbilt (7:30 p.m. EST)
Tennessee is playing for a New Years Bowl instead of a minor one. And this is a rivarly. The season has been disappointing for the Volunteers, but the talent is still there and Vanderbilt is overmatched. Again, the 7.5 points seems too tight, I think 2 TD at least.
Florida State (-8) vs Florida (8:00 p.m. EST)
Florida State has three losses, two are to Clemson and Louisville, the other was flukeish to North Carolina. Florida has battled in the SEC, but still has little offense to match up with the weapons in Tallahassee. The game at Florida State makes it a tough win for Florida, who is looking forward to the SEC title game. Seminoles by double digits.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend and rivalry week! And may the gambling gods be with you!
Labels: ACC, Big 10, Big 12, College Football, Florida State, Football, Gambling, Georgia, JR Ewing, Michigan, SEC, Tennessee, West Virginia
The end of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season provided drama to the very end, and a living legend rose to the occasion. Hendrick Motorsports 48 car Jimmie Johnson set history on a number of fronts, but we'll get to that in a minute. He outright won the final race of the Sprint Cup Series at Homestead-Miami, FL, by holding off all the other Cup competitors, plus one or two that were just in it for the race payday. He came from behind against the other three finalists to take the lead at the end, including the extra laps resulting from a yellow in a green/white/checkered finish. With it, his 80th Series victory (seventh to reach that plateau). But most importantly, seventh Sprint Cup Championship, only matched by NASCAR legends Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt. And the 41-year-old isn't slowing down. And like other sports, you could argue that the field is much deeper and the edges are much more slight than the eras of Petty and Earnhardt.
Labels: Auto Racing, Dale Earnhardt, Hendrick Motorsports, Jimmie Johnson, LHD_PotW, NASCAR, Richard Pettty, Sprint Cup
In a small nosedive, but that stops this week
Well things are getting tighter here at the end of the year; the oddsmakers are catching up to me! Could have easily one 3-2 last week if not for a fourth quarter collapse and a push. But it is what it is:
Previous Week: 1-3-1 (-230)
I'm mostly intrigued by a lot of close point spreads for big conference teams. Always feel like that enables a good chance to win.
Northwestern (-3) at Minnesota (3:30 p.m. EST)
Northwestern is playing really well late in the year as one of the most improved teams in the Big 10. 5-1 ATS the past couple of months, took Ohio State to the wire. Minnesota defense is a little soft, wo look for a higher scoring game with the Wildcats winning by a TD.
Iowa State (+4) vs Texas Tech (3:30 p.m. EST)
Iowa State is improving, and even in losses to good teams (Baylor, Oklahoma State, Kansas State) has kept it within a TD. Texas Tech is up and down, and the weather will be cold and the wind will be howling. That could neutralize the passing game and give Iowa State a good chance to control the ball against the worst defense in the Big 12. I like taking the points.
Notre Dame (-2) vs Virginia Tech (3:30 p.m. EST)
An odd spread given the awful season Notre Dame is having vs. the surprising good season Virginia Tech is having. Do the bettors know something or is this chasing bad money? Virginia Tech has not covered the last 3 spreads, and this is a big stage for the young Hokies. At this tight line, Notre Dame, at home, can win by 3 and cover. I'm going Irish.
Washington State (+6) at Colorado (3:30 p.m. EST)
Washington State is hitting on all cylinders at this point in the season with eight straight wins. And are getting nearly a TD against a good, but still unproven Colorado. The Cougars are putting up tons of points and it seems like they can win this straight up. I'll take the points.
Arkansas (+2) at Mississippi State (7:00 p.m. EST)
It seems like bettors are remembering the one good Mississippi State game and forgetting all the forgettable ones. Arkansas is a better team. They need this win for bowl positioning and won't let it get away. The Hogs go down to Stark-Vegas and take care of the business trip.
Enjoy your chilly Saturday of College Football!
Labels: ACC, Arkansas, Big 10, Big 12, College Football, Football, Gambling, Iowa State, JR Ewing, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pac 12, SEC, Washington State
An amazing weekend of NFL football concluded with the almost certain Offensive Rookie of the Year and possible Most Valuable Player had a statement play and really game that demonstrated that the Dallas Cowboys are a force to be reckoned with. Ezekiel Elliott made big play after big play in a see saw battle with the Pittsburgh Steelers to win what might be the game of the year. In addition to an effective 114 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns, he also scored a TD on a pass while racking up 95 yards passing on two catches, the big blow an 83 yard TD. The total puts him as the first running back over 1000 rushing yards in the NFL. His 10 TD are also tied for third in the league. He's a force, the Cowboys have the best record in the NFL, and for the third time, he is our Longhorndave Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Dallas, Dallas Cowboys, Ezekiel Elliott, Football, LHD_PotW, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers
I don't like the looks of this week
A so-so week for sure, but a couple of bad beats in the SEC with LSU and Kentucky fighting close but losing the spread at the end. No matter, you take the bad with the good.
No good feelings this week. Not many big games under a touchdown which is the sweet spot I prefer. Plus I'm still on a "No Texas" stance, they are too unpredictable. As it is, going to look at four out of five favorites and hope a few go off.
Oklahoma (-17.5) vs Baylor (Noon EST)
Baylor is in shambles. Shambles. Their depth is getting tested now that they're in the tougher part of their schedule. And they go on the road to a surging Oklahoma team. This is the beginning of the end for the Briles Bears era. And this one won't be close.
Navy (-2) vs Tulsa (Noon EST)
Two very hot teams, actually, and I like picking this one because it's under a field goal. The game is in Annapolis where Navy is undefeated ATS. I just see Navy methodically taking it to Tulsa and winning by at least a FG.
Indiana (+7) vs Penn State (Noon EST)
I know Penn State is hot, but on the road, this is a game the Hoosiers can surprise. In three trips away from Happy Valley, Nittany is only 1-2. Plus teams that suddenly get in the Top 10 playoff rankings sometimes feel pressure. I predict Indiana catches Penn State sleep walking and at least keeps it at about a field goal.
Oklahoma State (-12.5) vs Texas Tech (3:30 p.m. EST)
Oklahoma State is quietly one of the improving teams in the Big 12. After stumbling against Central Michigan, they've suffered a loss at Baylor but are undefeated since September. Texas Tech is very very suspect on defense. Really can't stop much and their offense isn't consistent enough to score. Throw in a banged up QB and I see the Cowboys winning by a couple of TDs easy.
Texas A+M (-10) vs Mississippi (7:30 p.m. EST)
In a game with backup quarterbacks, I'll take the team with the guy who has experience and the team that's Top 10 and not teetering on bowl ineligibility. Both teams are reeling, Texas A+M reels this time every year, but I believe at home they'll be able to run away from Ole Miss and a completely unproven QB (whoever he is).
Unfortunately this week doesn't seem to be one where upsets of top teams will be prevalent. But I do think the above will at least get you a little profit!
Posted by J.R. Ewing at 10:39 PM No comments:
Labels: AAC, Big 10, Big 12, College Football, Football, Gambling, Indiana, JR Ewing, Navy, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A+M
The story in sports last week was the Chicago Cubs, and they were led by MVP candidate Kris Bryant. With their backs to the wall in Game 6, Bryant set the tone in the first inning with a home run to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead that would balloon to 3-0 after the offense got rolling. In Game 7, he chipped in two more runs on a hit and a walk. Over the crucial games in Cleveland, Bryant was 5-9, 4 runs and a walk (.600 OBP). Most importantly, he cluttered bases for the red hot Anthony Rizzo and Ben Zobrist to keep the Cubs line moving. And delivered the first World Series title since World Series V in 1908. With Bryant, they won World Series CXII
Labels: Baseball, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Kris Bryant, LHD_PotW, MLB, MLB Playoffs, World Series
J.R. Ewing College Football Picks: 11/5/2016
J.R. says "Don't mess with [betting on] Texas"
Sounding like a broken record, but another winning week last Saturday. In this game, you take your 60% where you can get them. I'm done betting on Texas Longhorns games, you would think if you just bet home vs. away you'd win every time but too unpredictable.
Season: 26-18-1 (+$620, 12.5% profit)
As the College Football Playoff poll is released, there is sudden focus on the eye test where teams on the outside looking in may look to push the score up a bit more than in previous weeks with the new urgency. Teams in the playoff suddenly are targets to upsets. All that being said, I like five underdogs this week, all are between 2.5 and 7.5 points, many at home.
Pittsburgh (+3) at Miami (12:30 p.m. EDT)
This is a game of teams going in opposite directions. Once the competition stepped up, Miami has stepped aside. Meanwhile Pittsburgh is playing some good football, with a narrow loss to impressive Virginia Tech and a win over Penn State. Meanwhile, Miami has lost four straight both straight up and ATS. I like the better football team here, and that's Pittsburgh. Home field is almost irrelevant since kickoff is so early.
Oklahoma State (+3) at Kansas State (3:30 p.m. EDT)
Oklahoma State has won four straight Big 12 games, including a throttling of previously undefeated West Virginia. Kansas State is well coached, but under talented. I would nod the Cowboys by a point or three, so if you're giving me points, I'll take the Pokes, even in Manhattan.
Arkansas (+4) vs Florida (3:30 p.m. EDT)
This is an SEC East vs. West play. The East seldom beats the West, and Arkansas is a solid team. They're coming off a humiliating loss at Auburn and will have something to prove. Florida just keeps on playing defense and winning, but, again, give me some points at home with an East team playing at West, I'll go West.
Kentucky (+2.5) vs Georgia (7:30 p.m. EDT)
What is it going to take to get bettors to believe in Kentucky? Three straight conference wins, 5-1 in their last six games, and five straight covers. Meanwhile Georgia is struggling, which is what happens when you have a freshman QB and new head coach. Georgia hasn't won on a Saturday since September 17, a one point squeaker over awful Missouri. If you look at the rosters, Georgia should win this. But Kentucky is playing some good football.
LSU (+7.5) vs Alabama (8:00 p.m. EDT)
It's rare that Alabama runs the SEC gauntlet unscathred, there's always a tough road game where they play a bit below par and the other team steps up. LSU is playing well under Coach Orgeron and would love to play spoiler to their rival. Given the betting line just above a TD, I'll take my chances on a wild game in the Swamp and a Tigers cover.
It's November, the peak of College Football season! Enjoy your Saturday!
Posted by J.R. Ewing at 11:06 AM No comments:
Labels: ACC, Arkansas, Big 12, College Football, Football, Gambling, JR Ewing, Kentucky, LSU, Oklahoma State, Pittsburgh Panthers, SEC
The World Series takes center stage in American sports in one of the most watched World Series in a decade or more. While it seems most of the country is rooting for the lovable loser Chicago Cubs, the Cleveland Indians are playing spoiler (and frankly are not necessarily recent winners either. The Indians took a surprising 3-1 series lead behind the strong right arm of Corey Kluber. Kluber shut down the potent Cubs lineup over 12 innings, scattering 9 hits and 1 walk and only 1 earned run. The ERA is 0.73 and he's 2-0. After a Cubs win in Game 5, Kluber is lined up for Game 7 if the Tribe doesn't win in Game 6. Kluber is the most dominant force in this World Series and is our Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Corey Kluber, LHD_PotW, MLB, MLB Playoffs, World Series
I may have a perfect hat, but I'm not perfect.
The win streak was finally broken after six non losing Saturdays, but only at a 2-3 record. Manageable. And I told you my feelings weren't strong.
This week is tantalizing with a lot of highly ranked teams on the road. I believe if you go across the board on underdogs you'll do well. But which are the best chances? And which favorites are undervalued? All is revealed.
Michigan State (+24.5) vs Michigan (Noon EDT)
I don't like huge point spreads but this is just too many points. Just too many. For a Michigan State team playing for pride. Note Michigan has only had to leave the Big House once this season to a soft Rutgers team (yes, they did cover). But State can at least make a game of it, the Big 10 home field means something.
Georgia Tech (-6.5) vs Duke (Noon EDT)
This is my small game pick of the week. Georgia Tech has controlled teams they are better than. And Duke is one of them. Outside of a Notre Dame win, Duke really hasn't competed well. A TD seems like an easy target to control.
Notre Dame (+2) vs Miami (3:30 EDT)
Miami has lost three straight football games and doesn't have a banner win this year (Georgia Tech and Appalachian State don't count). Notre Dame season has been nothing short of disaster of Oregon or Texas proportion. But if they get a couple of points at home, I can't resist. This might be circle the wagons time, but, again, just don't see enough out of Miami to justify the road favorite.
Baylor (-3) at Texas (3:30 EDT)
Texas is undefeated at home, but even their last home win against Iowa State they were losing at half time. Barely beat a bad Notre Dame team in overtime. Baylor is much better than both of those teams. The Longhorns defense has been the Achilles heel all year and this week won't be kind. Heck, Baylor can win in OT and still not lose the cover. Also, for the love of what's good, take the Over 72.
Florida State (+4.5) vs Clemson (8:00 EDT)
This has become a premier ACC game every year and you know it was circled on both teams' schedules since the final whistle last year. Something hasn't quite been right with Clemson and Florida State has been pretty good save one dud against Louisville (and an uninspired effort against North Carolina which they should have won). This one is in their wheel house (and they win for a tight loss).
I think there are at least three winners, maybe four among this group! Did I mention to take the over on Baylor/Texas?
Labels: ACC, Baylor, Big 10, Big 12, College Football, Florida State, Football, Gambling, Georgia Tech, JR Ewing, Michigan State, Notre Dame
When you're in the company of Earl Campbell, O.J. Simpson, and Ricky Williams, you know you're in an elite running back fraternity. That's exactly where Miami Dolphins RB Jay Ajayi finds himself. The second year running back torched the Buffalo Bills for 214 yards and a TD on Sunday in a 28-25 for the surging Dolphins. This was after a week in which he ran for 204 yards and two TD against perennial playoff contending Pittsburgh Steelers. So he joins Campbell, Simpson, and Williams as the only RB in history to run for back-to-back 200 yard games. During the two game stint, he carried the ball 53 times, which edges near 8 yards per carry. For a whole lot of carries. With the retirement of Arian Foster, he is the back of the present and future in Miami. And a surprise Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Earl Campbell, Football, Jay Ajayi, LHD_PotW, Miami, Miami Dolphins, NFL, O.J. Simpson, Ricky Williams
I don't always win. Actually, yes, I do always win
The win train continued last week with another 3-2 week. 60% won't give me enough to retire, but we are padding winnings at this point.
It's been since September 3 I had a losing week. That's six straight winners (one was a push). Just saying.
This week I'll be blunt. Struggled to come up with strong winners. A lot of fat spreads in big games (just can't go on the Michigan, Ohio State, or Alabama games), or unproven teams squaring off (I'm looking at you Mississippi State vs. Kentucky or Michigan State vs. Maryland). I think we'll pull out another winner but this is a week to go tread lightly. Note there is one Game per Power 5 (minus ACC plus AAC).
Wisconsin (-4) at Iowa (Noon EDT)
Iowa's offense is lethargic (former Longhorn coordinator Greg Davis I might add). Wisconsin has stood toe to toe with Michigan and Ohio State and took them to the end. I would expect Wisconsin to win by 10 points or more. The only hesitation is the Ohio State hangover. But the way Wisconsin plays I don't see that as a factor. If North Dakota State can come into Iowa City and win, so can Wisconsin. By a few more points.
Stanford (-1.5) vs. Colorado (3:00 p.m. EDT)
A very intriguing tilt. A near pick'em game at home, Stanford has Christian McCaffrey as questionable but did well at Notre Dame last week without him. Meanwhile Colorado is 7-0 ATS. Yes, 7-0. They can't keep it up, right? This is a week Stanford circles the wagons. Stanford's losses have been against higher flying teams, they'll hold home court here, and you even win on a last second FG or overtime win.
Arkansas (+10.5) at Auburn (6:00 EDT)
This just seems like more of an even matchup to me than 10 points. Both teams have losses to good teams (Texas A&M both, Clemson, and Alabama). The game is at Auburn and at night, but I think this goes within a TD at least. To me, a matchup of good SEC West teams with 2 losses. Maybe the insiders see something I don't.
Oklahoma (-14) at Texas Tech (7:00 p.m. EDT)
I've been a Texas Tech picker most of the year, but they are falling apart. They've given up 92 points and only scored 45 in their last two games. Outside of Kansas and FCS teams, it's 40+ a game. Throw in an inspired Baker Mayfield returning to Lubbock and I don't see many defensive stops. Meanwhile, Tech's offense is slowed with a hurt Pat Mahomes. This ends up like 60 to 30.
Cincinnati (-2.5) vs. East Carolina (7:00 p.m. EDT)
I don't often go for games with non-contending teams but in absence of anything else. East Carolina has lost four straight games and is on the road. In those losses they've given up about 46 points per game. They also dealt with Hurricane Matthew last week which was disruptive. They haven't won since September 10. Cincinnati has lost two straight but seem like the more talented team. And it's just a FG to win. Go with the Bearcats.
Enjoy your Saturday of football!
Labels: Arkansas, Cincinnati Bearcats, College Football, Football, Gambling, JR Ewing, Oklahoma Sooners, Stanford, Wisconsin Badgers
Autumn sports in full swing, with football (college and pro), MLB baseball playoffs, and now NHL starting. But the baseball playoffs have everything you want. Including star power in Tinseltown. Clayton Kershaw seems to pitch just about every game. Well, this week he almost did. In four games (2 NLDS against the Washington Nationals and 2 NLCS against the Chicago Cubs), Kershaw started two and saved one. Dodgers, 3-1 (and two of the three were elimination games, the third might as well have been if Los Angeles lost). Numbers are decent (3.14 ERA, 18K in 14.1, 1W, 1Sv). Note that 3 of the 5 runs he gave up were inherited runners, but his work has been key to the Dodgers hanging around and in the NLCS against a heavily favored Cubs team. Kershaw will start again in Game 6, making Games 3-5 suddenly must win games. Unless he starts Game 5, and relieves Game 7. Either way, Kershaw is the biggest weapon in the NLCS and he is our Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Clayton Kershaw, LHD_PotW, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, MLB Playoffs, NLCS, NLDS, Washington Nationals
I'm tickled blue to pick two teams from Texas this week!
I just keep winning. Another 3-2 week ATS which means profit. Profit is good. Greed is good. Love the greed!
Season: 18-11-1 (+$590)
Lines are provided by VegasInsider.com and these bets are also registered on CappedIn.com.
Hard to believe we're in Week 7, but glad to know we're not even half way through October yet. So much more football to play starting this week! Here's another set of winners!
Texas Tech (Pk) vs. West Virginia (Noon EDT)
I love a good pick'em game, and I love offense. Texas Tech is another team I pick frequently because they can beat any spread easily. In this case, they just need to win. They do that well at home. West Virginia hasn't beat a point spread since Week 1. Seems like Tech wins this one with lots of tortillas thrown around.
Nebraska (-3) at Indiana (3:30 p.m. EDT)
Let's pump the brakes on Indiana for a minute. This line has dived from a TD to a FG and I don't see a resurgent Nebraska team coming off a bye week to have a slip up. They should outclass the Hoosiers and win by a TD or even double digits. Remember, Indiana lost to Ball State and Wake Forest.
Alabama (-13) at Tennessee (3:30 p.m. EDT)
I'm still drunk on Alabama success. Rode them to an easy win last week (okay, by a couple of points). Tennessee is banged up and came off a devastating loss at Texas A+M. This after pulling some close games out. This one could get ugly. And they never beat Alabama. Tide Rolls by 3 TD or more
Texas (-13.5) vs. Iowa State (7:00 p.m. EDT)
Intriguing matchup between two teams combined 3-8. Both coming off disappointing losses. As a Texan, I sense a circling of the wagons for the Longhorns. They lost to Oklahoma but pushed a good team to the end. Iowa State has been a hard luck team, blowing leads to Oklahoma State, Baylor, and TCU and covered four straight games. They take a dip here and the Longhorns win by 3 TD or more.
Ohio State (-10) at Wisconsin (8:00 p.m. EDT)
Ohio State has been covering like mad, only missing a misaligned ATS against a good Indiana team. Wisconsin has grinded out some wins, but this level of talent will be an upgrade. Seems like if it's close the Buckeyes could win by two TD. They'll cover the 10 points.
Given some even lines I wouldn't be surprised at a push, but the wins keep coming! Have a great weekend!
Labels: Alabama, College Football, Football, Gambling, JR Ewing, Nebraska, Ohio State, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech
College Football is full of upsets, but one thing you can usually lean on is that both teams get all the top recruits and it just so happened that the perceived lower talented team put it all together for a win. Service academies are a different lot. This week, the United States Naval Academy did what few thought they could in defeating a Top 6 opponent that many had tagged for a strong playoff contender. Two key plays to cement the surprising result was Josiah Powell receptions. However, Powell is not a wide receiver, he plays on defense as a linebacker. And the receptions were from Heisman hopeful Greg Ward Jr, the quarterback of the Houston Cougars. The most critical was in the 3rd quarter with Navy clinging to a 6 point lead and he returned the offering for a TD. Houston went from tied at halftime, to traling by 14 5 minutes into the third quarter. The other was important in stopping the Cougars in Navy territory just before halftime. Instead of trailing by 10 had the Cougars scored, Navy tied it up to the locker room. Game changing performances by unexpected sources, that's what our Sportsman of the Week is about!
Labels: AAC, College Football, Football, Greg Ward Jr., Houston Cougars, Josiah Powell, LHD_PotW, Navy, NCAA
I'm making money. You should too.
Business is booming. A second big week of wins, going 3-2 ATS last week (3-1 after a bad Friday pick). I'm starting to feel the games, especially which ones to stay away from and which to jump on.
Season: 15-9-1 (+$510)
This week's theme, finding games that should be near pick'em, but one team is being given about a TD. I don't like picking games more than 8 or 9 points (because wins then are subject to loss via late touchdown). So here are this week's winners
Pittsburgh (-6.5) vs Georgia Tech (12:30 p.m. EDT)
Okay, for this pick, I'm going with the TD favorite. Not quite a TD that is. I still am a Georgia Tech doubter. Pittsburgh is a grinding team that should be able to win this at home by 10 points or more. Even a TD win at the end gets this cover.
Tennessee (+6.5) at Texas A+M (3:30 p.m. EDT)
This is about the time that Texas A+M schedule gets tougher and they start to drop SEC games. Tennessee has had big game after big game every week and maybe this one they will start better. I see this as a toss up, so give me 6.5 points and I'll take it.
Alabama (-14) at Arkansas (7:00 p.m. EDT)
I admit I have a problem. An Alabama problem. I just can see more scenarios where they beat the spread than not. They don't always, but this game seems like one they can take control of. So tee me up again, I'll take the Tide and give the two TD
Texas Tech (+7.5) at Kansas State (7:00 p.m. EDT)
Texas Tech video game offense can render any game into a pick'em. Kansas State nearly picked up a win at West Virginia, but I don't like this matchup with Red Raiders speed as much as that one. Tech's defense will give up points, but I think win the game (or at least lose by a TD or less).
Florida State (+3) at Miami (8:00 p.m. EDT)
Florida State is much more battle tested than the Canes. This is just another big game in a series and I think the rivalry inspires them to step up their game. Home field at Miami is not what it used to be, and I think Florida State is angry after last week's disappointment and gets the job done.
Good luck to your team, and enjoy your college football Saturday!
Posted by J.R. Ewing at 7:15 PM 1 comment:
Labels: Alabama, College Football, Florida State, Football, Gambling, JR Ewing, Pittsburgh Panthers, Tennessee, Texas Tech
Once again, we turn to the NFL for an amazing performance that is in the Top 6 all time for a single game. Julio Jones of the Atlanta Falcons cracked triple digits in receiving yards. Not just 100, but triple 100. Jones torched the Carolina Panthers for 12 catches and 300 yards. The defending NFC South and NFC Champions had no answer for him. His biggest catch came after the Panthers erased a 21 point deficit to pull within 8. One 75 yard touchdown answer, it became apparent that Carolina could not stop Jones if the game went on indefinitely. Jones has established himself as one of the Top 5 if not Top 2 or 3 receivers in the league, and he's our Sportsman of the Week!
Labels: Atlanta, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Football, Julio Jones, LHD_PotW, NFL
You should listen to me. I'm rich.
Well Yee Haw and tip of the cap. My last week dominated at 5-0! If you give me a few weeks of teams to analyze, I'll bring you winners. No slowing down this week, I will get you some cash.
Previous Week: 5-0 (+500)
Three Top ten matchups highlight the board, and I'll give you picks in two of the three (avoided the third but would take Michigan if you care). This week the ACC and Pac 12 have the best games to pick, if I do say so myself.
Stanford (+3.5) at Washington (9:00 p.m. EDT)
To me, Stanford is the Pac 12 North King until unseated. Stanford has beat Washington 7 of the last 8 years, and is already battle tested. Washington hasn't played nearly as many big games the past five years, so give me the more experienced team that knows how to win. And I'm getting 3 points.
Notre Dame (-10.5) at Syracuse (Noon EDT)
It's circle the wagons time in South Bend. After three losses, I think the team (and coaches) will respond. And this isn't a bowl-bound Syracuse team (at least at the point). This might help that the game is on the road as the team can focus and execute. Seems like two TD is achievable.
Miami (-7.5) at Georgia Tech (Noon EDT)
Georgia Tech looks like a pretty mediocre football team. Meanwhile Miami has stormed through very bad competition. This pick based on Georgia Tech's ineptitude vs. Clemson, which was the only solid team they faced. I can't imagine it staying within 10 points.
Clemson (+2) vs Louisville (8:00 p.m. EDT)
Let me get this straight, defending ACC Champion and 2015 National Champion runner up Clemson is underdogs at home? At night? In a place they call Death Valley? And they still have their Heisman contender QB? Pop the popcorn, tap the keg, this is going to be a great game of two teams who have enough talent to make the playoff. I love home underdogs who know how to win.
Oregon (-1.5) at Washington State (9:30 p.m. EDT)
Oregon has had a number of big matchups early and not looked bad in any of them (close losses to Colorado and Nebraska). Washington State has lost to a FCS team and only beat lowly Idaho (who is petitioning to go back to FCS). Seems like Oregon will win this one, by a FG or more.
Great Saturday for football, the meat of the season is upon us!
Labels: ACC, Clemson, College Football, Football, Gambling, JR Ewing, Miami, Notre Dame, Oregon, Pac 12, Stanford
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Israeli forces detain Palestinian teen in Hebron for alleged knife possession
Dec. 12, 2017 1:04 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 13, 2017 1:09 P.M.)
Israeli soldiers stationed outside the Ibrahimi Mosque (File)
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers detained a Palestinian teen on Tuesday near the Ibrahimi mosque in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, for allegedly being in possession of a knife.
Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a 17-year-old boy while at a military checkpoint at the entrance of the mosque after soldiers claimed the boy had a knife.
The teen was reportedly transferred to Israeli intelligence for interrogation.
Israeli forces have detained scores of Palestinians, many of the minors, for allegedly being in possession of knives following a spate of alleged and actual small-scale knife attacks by Palestinians that surged in the fall of 2015.
Hebron in particular grew as the epicenter of upheaval, with a number of Palestinians having been shot while being detained at military checkpoints in the area.
Eyewitnesses have also said in a number of cases that Israeli security forces planted knives on slain or imprisoned Palestinians to claim that they were acting in self-defense during a stabbing attack.
Since US President Donald Trump’s announcement last week recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, tensions have risen across the occupied Palestinian territory, with clashes, injuries, and arrests every single day.
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Gold's Track Record
Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011 Mar 17, 2011 - 11:39 AM GMT
By: Douglas_French
Anyone who has bought gold for the entirety of this bull market is always looking for signs of a top. Not to sell — one doesn't get rid of their insurance — but just to wait until the insurance goes on sale.
A price steadily holding over $1,400 per ounce (until the Japanese quake) has put gold on the cover of a few magazines, along with constant hawking of the yellow metal on daytime Fox News.
But there seems to be more talk about owning gold than the actual owning of it. Chris Blasi's work indicates that precious metals only made up 2 percent of investment assets at the end of last year after a decade-long bull market. At the same time, investment in real estate has remained constant despite the huge downdraft in property prices, meaning that investors continue to pile into this overbuilt sector.
In its "Wealth Adviser" section, The Wall Street Journal recently featured a striking above-the-fold, half-page image of gold bars stacked in a pyramid, with short gold facts etched on the ends of the bars — tidbits like "Site of world's largest accumulation of gold: New York Fed," and "Value of 2010 world gold sales: $150 billion."
Being editor of the "Wealth Adviser" section, Lawrence Rout enlisted the services of a couple financial experts to debate "The Case For and Against Gold." This is the sort of splashy attention that normally gives gold bulls pause. Editor Rout explains that the combatants were to defend every argument and that "they offer a deep dive for any investors thinking about taking the plunge themselves."
However, the debate was anything but a backyard brawl. Certified financial planner Janet Briaud carried the baton for the buy-side argument, making the usual tired points about crisis investing, uncertain times, and "black-swan" events.
Her insight that "we could very well see deliberate weakening of currencies in many developed countries" is not exactly a news flash. And then she goes on to contemplate gold as a reserve currency with central banks buying the metal, which is already happening. Ms. Briaud does make the point that gold has been recognized to have value for thousands of years by various cultures and that while investment in GLD (the gold exchange traded fund) has gown mightily, it makes up a infinitesimal percentage of financial assets held by households and nonfinancial businesses.
So, how much gold as a percentage of one's portfolio does CFP Briaud think the responsible investor should have? Five to 10 percent.
Five percent is the same allocation that Lew Altfest recommends for investors to hold provided "they promise to hold it rain or shine" (Altfest's emphasis). Mr. Altfest, enlisted to argue against owning the yellow metal, has his own wealth management firm and is a finance professor at Pace University.
"Whether you're negotiating with an uneducated thug guarding a border that must be crossed in the middle of nowhere, or sitting across the table from the most sophisticated investor in the world, gold is the universal language and has been for eons."
Gold has no use other than being pretty, the Pace professor says. It's not a real investment like stocks, bonds, real estate, or private businesses. If the world were falling apart, maybe it would make sense to own some gold he says, but, writes the money maven,
Economies are generally improving world-wide, and inflation, while of some difficulty in a few countries, is not currently a problem in the biggest one, the U.S., nor should it become a really serious problem in the future. No need to call in the gold troops here.
Later on in his gold attack, the professor throws out this laugher: "I don't believe any major nations will seriously pursue a consistent decline of their currencies over an extended period of time." What does he suppose these nations have been doing already? Remember, Mr. Altfest manages money for a living in one of the world's financial capitals and teaches students about finance.
He then questions the ethics of gold mining (at the WSJ's suggestion, I assume, since Ms. Briaud also mentioned ethics). The benefits are few, he writes and, "Very little of the production takes place in the U.S. or is owned by U.S. companies, and this doesn't help our unemployment problem." Since when is the question of whether an investment helps or hurts US employment a valid consideration in portfolio management?
Mr. Altfest must exclude any foreign companies from investment consideration. And, while there is no mining going on in Manhattan (other than money from investors' pockets), plenty of people in Nevada and Alaska make a good living working in the gold-mining industry.
The yellow metal is often mentioned as the commodity to trade with for one's freedom. When asked what he thought about gold as an investment, financial talking head Ron Insana snidely told talk-show host Laura Ingraham, "Sure, everybody should keep some gold on hand to bribe border guards." Insana wasn't intentionally making the best case to own gold. But what's more valuable than something that is, and has been for centuries, universally recognized for its value? When your life depends on making a trade, gold is what you trade with. "It is the last refuge of the desperate," writes value investor Jeremy Grantham, who says he hates gold.
Mr. Altfest doesn't get it, and neither does Ms. Briaud for that matter. Whether you're negotiating with an uneducated thug guarding a border that must be crossed in the middle of nowhere, or sitting across the table from the most sophisticated investor in the world, gold is the universal language and has been for eons. Sure, gold does nothing but sit pretty, failing to generate earnings or pay dividends. But it's portable, durable, and divisible, with a highly recognizable value; it's highly marketable and homogeneous, and its supply is stable: the perfect money.
The WSJ feature provides a wonderful timeline. In 4600 BC, civilizations began using gold as jewelry. Squares of gold were used as money in China in 1091 BC. The first gold coins were minted in what is now Turkey in 560 BC. And so on. That's a track record.
Concluding his case against gold, Altfest writes that if he "were a border guard today who received a 'gift' of gold, I would cash it in and buy stocks." There may be a day when the professor/money manager needs to buy his way out of New York. I hope he seriously doesn't think he can get the job done by slipping a stock certificate to the border guard.
Douglas French is president of the Mises Institute and author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply. He received his masters degree in economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, under Murray Rothbard with Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe serving on his thesis committee. See his tribute to Murray Rothbard. Send him mail. See Doug French's article archives. Comment on the blog.
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Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, June 2011
“For vain pleasure of four-and-twenty years hath Faustus lost eternal joy and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood. The date is expired, the time will come, and he will fetch me”. Thus speaks Faust in the final scene. The scholars seek to save him, but the clock strikes eleven and he …
Yes, Prime Minister, Richmond Theatre, June 2011
Charlotte Lucas was brilliantly in control as Claire Sutton, the PM’s Special Policy Advisor, but the plot was a bit thin.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Chichester Festival Theatre (now at the Haymarket), June 2011
… — you don’t need to know Hamlet to appreciate this quick-witted theatre, and Trevor Nunn’s production has depth and subtlety,…
All’s Well That Ends Well, Globe Theatre, London, May 2011
A young Count, Bertram is brought up in the same household as Helena, a doctor’s daughter he has neither courted nor encouraged. She loves him, is desperate to marry him, and his mother favours the match, but his adamant refusal is over-ruled by the king, so he leaves home, and we should sympathise with him. …
Derek Jacobi as King Lear, Richmond Theatre, April 2011
From the first moments of irascible folly to the final moments of grief as he cradles the body of his dearest Cordelia, Derek Jacobi’s Lear came alive on stage in a way that made this relatively long play seem to race past in no time. The production by Michael Grandage, touring from the Donmar, uses …
The House of Atreus, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, March 2011
The direction was very effective at the end when Orestes kills his mother Klytemnestra — it was a nastily convincing murder — but that does not exculpate this bowdlerised combination of three plays. The work of those ancient Greek playwrights has crossed twenty-four centuries or so — a herald of excellence in itself — is that not good enough for us? Why tamper with them?
Cause Célèbre, The Old Vic, London, March 2011
Anne-Marie Duff as Alma Rattenbury was utterly convincing as a charmingly batty woman who lived life to the full.
Anna Karenina, Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London, March 2011
In the end, the train, created by a few actors and two lamps, was superbly dramatic, and its juxtaposition with the birth of Kitty’s baby formed a glorious ending. Death and new birth — a reminder that the point of life is life itself.
Flare Path, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London’s West End, March 2011
“Don’t worry, skipper will get us home again . . . and you have to pretend you’re not afraid”, so speaks the tail gunner, a role that Terence Rattigan himself played for real in World War II.
Reading Hebron, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, February 2011
On February 25, 1994 the Jewish festival of Purim fell during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and an Israeli settler named Baruch Goldstein assassinated worshippers in the mosque over the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
Clybourne Park, Wyndham’s Theatre, London’s West End, February 2011
Posted on 6 February 2011
It’s a clever play, using the housing market to expose the repressed anger of many black Americans and the self-satisfied ‘liberalism’ of many white professionals.
Less Than Kind, by Terence Rattigan, Jermyn Street Theatre, January 2011
This play is a must-see for any Rattigan fans, or indeed for anyone else, but this delightful theatre is small and tickets scarce.
An Ideal Husband, Vaudeville Theatre, London’s West End, November 2010
This witty and cleverly constructed play by Oscar Wilde was beautifully performed by the entire cast. So beautifully in fact that I never had a serious doubt it would all work out well in the end. Perhaps I should have done, because the charmingly dishonest Mrs. Cheveley, brilliantly played by Samantha Bond, exuded an air …
The Master Builder, Almeida Theatre, Islington, London, November 2010
Hilde Wangel … was brilliantly played by Gemma Arterton, portraying her as very attractive, assertive and a bit of a minx. She charms everyone, and is the one character in this performance who is quite obviously crazy. But isn’t Solness crazy too? ….
A Month in the Country, Chichester Festival Theatre, October 2010
Posted on 3 October 2010
The slightly worn appearance of the house helped give a sense of impending doom, and as Donald Rayfield writes in the programme, “after . . . watching A Month in the Country you realise quite how painful is the catastrophe that has struck the characters”.
Birdsong, Comedy Theatre, London’s West End, September 2010
It’s not easy to turn this story — about human anguish occasioned by the First World War — into a screenplay, nor indeed a play for the stage.
All My Sons, Apollo Theatre, London’s West End, September 2010
David Suchet, Zoë Wanamaker, and the others were so natural, I believed all the emotions I saw on display, and Miller’s play has a deft logic that packs a huge emotional punch.
The Rivals, Richmond Theatre, September 2010
How do you play a character who has given her name to a word in the Oxford dictionary? Sincerely rather than as a caricature is what Penelope Keith gave us in her elegantly intelligent and sharply drawn portrayal of Mrs. Malaprop. It was a glowing performance, very well supported by Peter Bowles as an irascibly …
The Master Builder, Chichester, Minerva Theatre, September 2010
“No, I can’t take it anymore” says Knut Brovik, an old architect who now works for Halvard Solness, the Master Builder.
Danton’s Death, National Theatre, NT Olivier, August 2010
Posted on 14 August 2010
… something of a Monty Python feel to the whole thing, except that it wasn’t funny. It was dull and unrelenting, and while Toby Stephens’ extremely emotive portrayal of Danton may have been convincing, it didn’t elicit my sympathy.
Anne Boleyn, Globe Theatre, London, July 2010
Miranda Raison’s smouldering sex appeal and assertive shrewdness in the role [of Anne Boleyn] was by far the most vital thing about this play.
Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Globe Theatre, London, July 2010
Roger Allam was gloriously endearing as Falstaff — one could not imagine a better portrayal.
Quartet, Richmond Theatre, July 2010
What is the point of life? For a performer who can no longer perform — in this case an opera singer who can no longer sing — the lights have already gone out. “I’m not the same person any more,” says Susannah York as she joins three other ex-opera singers at a rest home for …
The Real Inspector Hound / The Critic, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, July 2010
… in these performances the stylish overacting kept the audience in suspense and drew out the humour without ever overdoing it.
After the Dance, National Theatre, NT Lyttelton, June 2010
This riveting play by Terence Rattigan had the misfortune to open in June 1939, shortly before war was declared, and when the country’s mood rapidly changed it was taken off. … It’s been somewhat ignored for that reason, but this production and cast do it full justice, and I recommend booking tickets before word gets out.
Salome, by Oscar Wilde, Richmond Theatre, May 2010
Everything is played at top intensity, but I would have preferred the introspective moments to be taken more calmly.
Henry VIII, Globe Theatre, London, May 2010
The principal role is for Cardinal Wolsey, who has some memorable lines, particularly during his final speech, “Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies”.
The White Guard, National Theatre, Lyttelton, May 2010
Stalin loved this play by Mikhail Bulgakov about the aftermath of the revolution in 1917. It’s set in Bulgakov’s home town of Kiev … He’d served as a doctor during the second half of the First World War, and writing later about the years between 1917 and 1920 he said
Macbeth, Globe Theatre, London, April 2010
This production by Lucy Bailey presents a Dante-like vision of hell … The witches in their dark red nun-like robes are gatekeepers of hell — tall, medium and very short, they occasionally skulk around the stage ready to draw the characters to their eternal doom.
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, April 2010
There are six scenes, each interesting enough in itself, but lacking overall momentum. The one I enjoyed most was the fourth, where Ben Johnson, entertainingly played by Richard McCabe, is the life and soul of an evening of heavy drinking with Shakespeare.
The Caretaker, Trafalgar Studios, March 2010
In the end we are left as we started, each one needing to impress the others with the sincerity of his aims, while going nowhere [but] in the meantime, Jonathan Pryce gave a riveting performance of Davies [the old tramp]
The Promise, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond-on-Thames, February 2010
This play is entertaining and wonderfully informative — not to be missed, though I understand the present run is almost sold out!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rose Theatre, Kingston-on-Thames, February 2010
The play was produced in about 1595, at a time when Shakespeare’s company, the Chamberlain’s Men, were regularly playing to Elizabeth’s court and it’s quite likely she saw it. In any event it was a masterstroke of Peter Hall to have Judi Dench play the part of Titania, and I found her entirely convincing.
The Power of Yes, National Theatre, January 2010
The powerful people who attract the most contempt are … Gordon Brown, and to a slightly lesser extent the previous Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan,
The Habit of Art, National Theatre, December 2009
… in the end [this is] a play about Auden, Britten and indeed Bennett himself, and as usual his dialogue is wonderfully effective.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Novello Theatre, December 2009
Posted on 5 December 2009
… as an American friend of mine said, “This may be the best performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof you’ll ever see”.
Mother Courage, National Theatre, November 2009
Nor indeed do we feel any sympathy with Mother Courage herself, who was brilliantly played by Fiona Shaw.
Salad Days, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, November 2009
[This] old 1950s musical by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds is a feast of joie de vivre and absurdity.
Enron, Royal Court Theatre, October 2009
Samuel West did an excellent job of portraying Skilling as a man driven by a conviction he could outsmart everyone else, and really wasn’t guilty of anything worse than being a victim to forces beyond his control.
The Browning Version, Rose Theatre, Kingston-on-Thames, September 2009
This production by Peter Hall of Terence Rattigan’s play about a classics master at boarding school, was beautifully performed.
The Cherry Orchard, Old Vic, June 2009
Simon Russell Beale as the ex-serf Lopakhin did a splendid job of trying to impose some rational behaviour on these once-wealthy landowners, warning them they will lose the whole estate if they do nothing.
Phèdre, National Theatre, June 2009
In this performance, Phèdre was played by Helen Mirren, portraying an insecure woman only too conscious of her own inadequacies.
Arcadia, Duke of York’s Theatre, June 2009
This Tom Stoppard play cleverly juxtaposes the modern world of literary scholarship and mathematics with the early nineteenth century world of literary creativity, classical study and scientific enquiry.
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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > So You Want To Look Into The Beliefs Of Public Officials?
So You Want To Look Into The Beliefs Of Public Officials?
STEPHEN M. KIRBY
May 8, 2019 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Article VI, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution prohibits a "religious test" from being required in order to qualify for any office or "public trust" in the United States. But in the last few years we have seen some interesting examples in which a person's religion was examined when that person was being considered for public office.
In September 2017, Senator Diane Feinstein expressed concern about a judicial nominee's Christian religion and stated:
Whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you... [1]
In December 2018, Senators Mazie Hirona and Kamala Harris expressed concern about a judicial nominee's membership in the Knights of Columbus, a 137-year-old fraternal Catholic charitable organization. These Senators considered positions taken by the Knights, which simply conformed to Catholic teachings, as "extreme" and raised the question about whether the nominee would end his membership if he was confirmed as a judge. [2]
It seems now that even current elected officials are not exempt from this religious scrutiny. In April 2019, Pete Buttigieg,a potential Democrat presidential candidate and current Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was asked if he thought President Trump was a Christian. Buttigieg responded:
I'm reluctant to comment on another person's faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president's actions and believe that they're the actions of somebody who believes in God. [3]
That same month, Buttigieg had criticized Vice President Pence for his opposition to homosexual marriage based on Pence's Christian faith; Buttigieg added:
I don't have a problem with religion, I'm religious too. I have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people. [4]
There was even an April 2019 article in The Atlanticabout how potential Democrat presidential candidates were now bringing up their religious beliefs, and some were even referring to the Bible and to the importance of Christ.[5]
With these precedents in mind, let's turn our attention to the current U.S. Congress.
The 116thCongress convened on January 3, 2019. It has three Muslim members, all in the House of Representatives: Ilhan Omar – Minnesota 5thDistrict; Rashida Tlaib – Michigan 13thDistrict; and Andre Carson (a Muslim convert) – Indiana 7thDistrict.
A week after this congress convened, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) hosted a "Community Congressional Reception." These three Muslim Representatives attended and made presentations:
In her presentation Ilhan Omar made it a point to state that she and Tlaib were "Muslim women" in Congress.
Rashida Tlaib stated, "I believe so much in our faith, and it gives me so much strength every single day."
Andre Carson talked about increasing the number of Muslims in Congress with the idea of having 30-35 Muslims in Congress in 2030, and even having a female Muslim president by that time. Carson ended his presentation to the CAIR audience by saying that all Muslim Americans have:
…a directive to represent Islam, in all of our imperfections, but to represent Islam and let the world know that Muslims are here to stay, and Muslims are a part of America. And we will, we will have a Muslim caucus that is sizable, that is formidable, and that is there for you. [6]
Representing Islam
Omar, Tlaib and Carson are very upfront about their faith, and Carson said that Muslim Americans need to "represent Islam."
Omar has been criticized for making anti-Semitic remarks. Tlaib and Carson have been criticized for their association with Louis Farrakhan, head of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam. Are they representing Islam? Let's see what Islam teaches about Jews.
In the Koran we find such verses as: Allah states that Jews are the worst enemies of Muslims (5:82); Allah curses the Jews (9:30) and states that Jews are among the worst of creatures who "will abide in the fire of Hell" (98:6); Allah forbids Muslims from being friends with Jews (5:51) and instead commands Muslims to fight Jews (9:29).
The Koran also tells us that Muhammad spoke for Allah (4:80) and is considered the Perfect Man for Muslims - they are expected to follow his teachings and example if they want to get to Paradise (33:21 and 59:7). Here are some things Muhammad said about Jews:
Muhammad called the Jewish Banu Qurayzah tribe "brothers of monkeys." [7] He said that Jews were grave-robbers,[8]that a Jew was worth only half of a Muslim,[9]and that Jews would take the place of Muslims in Hell. [10] On his deathbed, Muhammad said that Jews (and Christians) should be expelled from the Arabian Peninsula so that only Muslims would be left. [11]
Muhammad also made this eye-opening statement:
Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah's Messenger said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'" [12]
Considering what Islam teaches about Jews, the anti-Semitism of Omar, Tlaib and Carson should come as no surprise. Their dogma seems to be living loudly within them.
Treatment of Homosexuals
Buttigieg, who has openly proclaimed his homosexuality and his "marriage" to another man, said that he had a problem with a religion that was used as "a justification to harm people." Let's see what Islam teaches about homosexuals, based on statements of Muhammad.
Muhammad cursed homosexuals:
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah cursed women who imitate men and men who imitate women. [13]
Muhammad said that those committing homosexual acts should be killed:
Ibn 'Abbas said that the Messenger of Allah said, "Whoever you catch committing the act of the people of Lut (homosexuality), then kill both parties to the act." [14]
And Muhammad even specified how those homosexuals were to be killed:
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet said concerning those who do the action of the people of Lut: "Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both." [15]
It seems like these teachings provide plenty of "justification to harm people." Perhaps Buttigieg should engage Omar, Tlaib and Carson in a conversation about these teachings of Muhammad.
Allegiance to the Constitution of the United States
Something else to think about: on the first day of the new Congress, the Speaker of the House administers the Oath of Office to the assembled House members. It starts out:
I, [state your name] , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same… [16]
Support and defend our Constitution. Bear true faith and allegiance to our Constitution. Can Muslims really do this while also representing Islam?
Let's take a brief look at how Islam relates to three Amendments to our Constitution. As we do so, keep in mind that Islamic Doctrine is based on the commands of Allah found in the Koran and the teachings and examples of Muhammad (the Sunnah).
Freedom of Religion is guaranteed in the United States. However, Muslims who want to leave Islam can face the death penalty.
Koran 4:89 states that apostates from Islam should be killed. Muhammad said that those who left Islam deserved to be killed,[17]and Muhammad even specified the means of death for those leaving Islam: If someone changes his religion – then strike off his head! [18] Muhammad also said that crucifixion was among the penalties for apostasy from Islam.[19]
What about freedom of religion for non-Muslims?
The history of Islam shows that since the 7thCentury, when the power relationship has been conducive, Muslims have generally given non-Muslims the choice of converting to Islam or fighting to the death. On occasion non-Muslims, especially Jews and Christians, have been given a third choice of paying the jizyah(protection money) which allowed those non-Muslims to live under Muslim rule as, at best, second-class citizens. But in many cases, such living conditions became so onerous that the non-Muslims eventually converted to Islam to improve their lives.
There is no freedom of religion in Islam. [20]
Freedom of Speech is also guaranteed in the United States. However, when it comes to Muhammad, there is no freedom of speech in Islam. Muhammad did not like to be criticized or reviled. He personally ordered the killing of a number of non-Muslims simply because they had criticized or mocked him.
For example, in September 624 Muhammad ordered the killing of Ka'b b. al-Ashraf, a Jewish poet in Medina who had criticized Muhammad. Muhammad also stated that a similar fate would befall anyone else who insulted him:
[After Ka'b was killed] The Jews and the polytheists among them were alarmed. They came to the Prophet when it was morning and said, "Our companion, who was one of our lords, was knocked up at night and murdered treacherously with no crime or incident by him that we know of." The Messenger of God replied, "If he had remained as others of similar opinion remained he would not have been killed treacherously. But he hurt us and insulted us with poetry, and one does not do this among you, but he shall be put to the sword." [21]
Muhammad even killed poets in Mecca. This was mentioned in a letter written after the Muslim conquest of Mecca. It was sent to the poet Ka'b bin Zuhair, who used to satirize Muhammad, from Ka'b's brother:
Allah's Messenger killed some men in Makkah who used to satirize and harm him, and the poets who survived fled in all directions for their lives. So, if you want to save your skin, hasten to Allah's Messenger. He never kills those who come to him repenting. If you refuse to do as I say, it is up to you to try to save your skin by any means. [22]
This tale had a happy ending because after further correspondence between the brothers, Ka'b travelled to Medina, converted to Islam, and was forgiven by Muhammad.
Muhammad said there was no punishment for a Muslim who killed anyone who had reviled or criticized him, and he even gave retroactive approval to two Muslims who had each killed a woman for committing that very act. [23]
Our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and freedom of speech; Islam prohibits both.
8thAmendment
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment in the United States. However, Islam allows such punishments, and here is a list of those punishments approved by Islamic Doctrine:
Amputation of a hand or foot for theft: Koran 5:38, and Sunnah[24]
Amputation of a hand and foot from the opposite sides: Koran 5:33
Amputation of the fingers and toes: Koran 8:12 [25]
Beheading: Koran 8:12 and 47:4, and Sunnah[26]
Burning people to death: Sunnah[27]
Crucifixion: Koran 5:33, and Sunnah[28]
Flogging: Koran 24:2 and 4, and Sunnah[29]
Stoning to death: Sunnah[30]
Cruel and unusual punishments are prohibited by our Constitution, but allowed under Islam.
13thAmendment
Section 1 of this amendment prohibits slavery in the United States. However, slavery is allowed under Islam.
In the Koran there are numerous verses acknowledging and accepting the Muslim possession of slaves (e.g.: 2:221, 24:58, and 33:55).
There are also verses in the Koran referring to those "whom your right hands possess" (e.g., 4:3, 4:24-25, 23:6, and 70:30); this is a special category of slaves. These slaves are non-Muslim women who were captured by Muslims in battle; once so captured, the woman becomes a slave to her Muslim captor and it becomes "legal" for him to have intercourse with her. This sex slavery is authorized by Koran 4:24.
What about Muhammad, the man who set the example for Muslims? Muhammad was a slave dealer – he bought, sold and gave away slaves, and he had sex slaves.[31]
For example, after the defeat of the Jewish Banu Qurayzah tribe, Muhammad divided up that tribe's "property, wives, and children" among the Muslims; but some of the women he sent to Najd and to Syria to be sold for horses and weapons. [32]Muhammad personally sold some of the other captured women:
I attended the Messenger of God who was selling the prisoners of the Banu Qurayza. Abu al-Shahm al-Yahudi bought two women, with each one of them three male children, for one hundred and fifty dinars.
Muhammad also personally sold "a portion" of the women and children to ‘Uthman b. ‘Affan and ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Awf. [33]
In fact, Koran Chapter 33, Verse 50 specifically authorized Muhammad to have sex slaves.
Slavery is prohibited by our Constitution, but allowed under Islam.
The Religion of Islam teaches beliefs that are incompatible with our Constitution. How can a Muslim swear to uphold and defend our Constitution while claiming to represent a religion that violates that very Constitution?
The answer could be found in Koran 16:106, which allows Muslims to deny their faith if they feel they are under duress:
Whosever disbelieved in Allah after his belief, except him who is forced thereto and whose heart is at rest with Faith; but such as open their breasts to disbelief, on them is wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a great torment.
But could Muslims in the United States, especially those in public office, really feel that they are under duress because of their religion? The answer is "yes," because they are surrounded by non-Muslims (disbelievers), and Koran 4:101 tells Muslims that the disbelievers "are ever to you open enemies."
Consequently, according to Islamic Doctrine Muslims can outwardly swear allegiance to, and pledge to support and defend a Constitution that outlaws many of their religious beliefs, as long as allegiance to Islam is secretly maintained in their hearts.
It has now become "fair game" for Christian public officials and those Christians aspiring to public office to be questioned, and to have comments made about their faith.
There is then no reason to refrain from taking that same approach to Muslim public officials and Muslims aspiring to public office, especially when they talk about the importance of representing their faith, and we know that many of their religious beliefs are in conflict with our Constitution, a document which they would be pledging to support and defend, and to which they would be swearing their allegiance.
It is only natural to ask them how they would resolve such conflicts.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of five books about Islam. His latest book is The Lure of Fantasy Islam: Exposing the Myths and Myth Makers.
[1] Michael McGough, "Feinstein, a Catholic nominee and a dogma that didn't bark," Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2017; accessible at https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-feinstein-catholic-20170908-story.html .
[2] Valerie Richardson, "Harris, Hirono accused of anti-Catholic 'bigotry' for targeting Knights of Columbus," The Washington Times, December 30, 2018; accessible at https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/30/kamala-harris-mazie-hirono-target-brian-buescher-k/ .
[3] Kirsten Powers, "Mayor Pete Buttigieg's countercultural approach to Christianity is what America needs now," USA Today, April 4, 2019; accessible at https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/03/mayor-pete-buttigieg-christian-right-2020-democratic-primary-trump-column/3342767002/ .
[4] Ed O'Keefe, "Pete Buttigieg confronts Pence about religion ahead of 2020 bid," CBS News, April 12, 2019; accessible athttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-buttigieg-confronts-mike-pence-about-religion-ahead-of-2020-bid/ .
[5] Emma Green, "Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020," The Atlantic, April 5, 2019; accessible athttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/buttigieg-democrats-religious-left/586492/ .
[6] Scott Morefield, "Congressman envisions over 30 Muslim reps in Congress by 2030," The Daily Caller, January 12, 2019; accessible at https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/12/andre-carson-muslim-reps-2030/ .
[7] Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah), trans. Alfred Guillaume (Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 461.
[8] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 4, Book 60, No. 3452, p. 413.
[9] Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah al-Qazwini, Sunan Ibn Majah, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 3, No. 2644, p. 521.
[10] Abu'l Hussain 'Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, Sahih Muslim, trans. ‘Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (New Delhi, India: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), Vol. 8, No. 2767R1, p. 269.
[11] Sahih Muslim , Vol. 5, No. 1767, p. 189.
[12] Sahih Al-Bukhari , Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.
[13] Sunan Ibn Majah , Vol. 3, No. 1903, p. 93.
[14] Abu al-Fida' 'Imad Ad-Din Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi, Tafsir Ibn Kathir(Abridged), abr. Shaykh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, trans. Jalal Abualrub, et al. (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2000), Vol. 2, p. 402.
[15] Sunan Ibn Majah , Vol. 3, No. 2562, p. 469.
[16] Title 5, Section 3331 of the United States Code; https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Oath-of-Office/ .
[18] Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn Abi 'Amir al-Asbahi, Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic Law , trans. Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (Inverness, Scotland: Madinah Press, 2004), 36.18.15, in the section titled "Judgement on Abandonment of Islam."
[19] Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman Ahmad bin Shu'aib bin 'Ali bin Sinan bin Bahr An-Nasa'i, Sunan An-Nasa'i, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 5, No. 4053, pp. 56-57.
[20] For information about how Muhammad and his Muslim warriors conquered the Arabian Peninsula for Islam at the point of the sword, see my book Islam's Militant Prophet: Muhammad and Forced Conversions to Islam .
[21] Muhammad b. ‘Umar al-Waqidi, The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi, trans. Rizwi Faizer, Amal Ismail, and AbdulKader Tayob, ed. Rizwi Faizer (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), p. 96.
Muhammad's attitude toward such poets is best summed up in this hadith:
Saalim ibn ‘Abdullah said: I heard Ibn ‘Umar say: I heard the Messenger of Allah say: "If the belly of one of you were to be filled with pus, that would be better than filling his mind with poetry."
Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal ash-Shaibani, Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal, trans. Nasiruddin Al-Khattab, ed. Huda Al-Khattab (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2016), Vol. 4, No. 5704, p. 441.
[22] Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar(Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2008), p. 521.
[23] Abu Dawud Sulaiman bin al-Ash'ath bin Ishaq, Sunan Abu Dawud, trans. Yaser Qadhi (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2008), Vol. 5, Nos. 4361 and 4362, pp. 20-21.
[24] Sahih Al-Bukhari , Vol. 5, Book 64, No. 4304, pp. 361-362; Sahih Al-Bukhari , Vol. 8, Book 86, No. 6789, p. 410, No. 6796, p. 412, and No. 6799, p. 413; and Sunan An-Nasa'i, Vol. 5, No. 4883, p. 462, andNo. 4981, pp. 499-500.
[25] Although this verse states what Allah had commanded the angels to do when they reportedly helped the Muslims during the Battle of Badr, it was also a command for what the Muslims (believers) were to do to their enemies:
Ibn Jarir commented that this Ayah [verse] commands, "O believers! Strike every limb and finger on the hands and feet of your (disbelieving) enemies."
Tafsir Ibn Kathir , Vol. 4, p. 274.
Why cut off fingers and toes? In the commentary about this verse of the Koran, the 20thCentury Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan explained:
If the fingers of the hands are cut off, they will become unable to move their swords. Similarly, when the toes are cut off, they will be unable to run away.
Salahuddin Yusuf, Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, trans. Mohammad Kamal Myshkat (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2010), Vol. 2, Commentary No. 2, p. 276.
[26] The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah) , pp. 464 and 515; Sunan Ibn Majah, Vol. 3, No. 2539, p. 455, and No. 2608, pp. 494-495; Sahih Muslim, Vol. 8, No. 2771, p. 281; The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi, pp. 57, 331 and 422; Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, 36.18.15; and Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari: The Victory of Islam, Vol. VIII, trans. and annotated Michael Fishbein (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 122-123.
[27] Sunan Ibn Majah , Vol. 1, No. 791, pp. 513-514; Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 1, Book 10, No. 644, pp. 371-372, and No. 657, p. 376;Sahih Muslim, Vol. 2, No. 651R2 and No. 652, p. 367;Sunan An-Nasa'i, Vol. 1, No. 849, p. 502;Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 1, No. 549, p. 340;Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, 8.1.3; and The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah), n. 858, p. 782.
[28] Sunan Abu Dawud , Vol. 5, No. 4353, p. 16; this hadithfrom Aisha was similarly reported in Sunan An-Nasa'i, Vol. 5, No. 4053, pp. 56-57. Also see Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Mani' al-Zuhri al-Basri, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, trans. S. Moinul Haq (New Delhi, India: Kitab Bhavan, 2009), Vol. 2, p. 115.
[29] Sahih Al-Bukhari , Vol. 8, Book 86, Nos. 6831 and 6833, p. 435, and Nos. 6837-38, pp. 437-438; Sahih Muslim, Vol. 5, No. 1690, p. 131;Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 5, No. 4415, pp. 50-51; andSunan Ibn Majah, Vol. 3, No. 2550, p. 462;Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 7, pp. 18-19; and Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, Vol. 3, pp. 664-665.
[30] The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah) , pp. 267 and 652; Sahih Muslim, Vol. 5, pp. 131-141;Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 5, No. 4415, pp. 50-51;Sunan Ibn Majah, Vol. 3, No. 2550, p. 462; and Sahih Al-Bukhari:
Vol. 3, Book 54, Nos. 2724-2725, pp. 522-523
Vol. 5, Book 64, No. 4303, pp. 360-361
Vol. 8, Book 86, Nos. 6815-6816, pp. 421-422, and No. 6841, p. 439
Vol. 9, Book 93, Nos. 7193-7194, p. 193
It is not uncommon to hear the erroneous claim that stoning adulterers is no longer a valid penalty under Islam. To refute that claim and show that stoning is still a valid penalty, see my article "The Fantasy Islam of the University of Michigan's Juan Cole (Part 3)," Jihad Watch, December 16, 2018; accessible at https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/12/the-fantasy-islam-of-the-university-of-michigans-juan-cole-part-3 .
[31] http://perfectmantruth.com/slaves.php
[32] The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah) , p. 466. This is also mentioned in The Sealed Nectar, p. 378; Sahih Muslim, Vol. 5, No. 1766, p. 186; and The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi, pp. 256-257.
[33] The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi , pp. 256-257.
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Video game company is one of a kind in Lincoln
by M.Bamesberger · June 20, 2011
The Green Bein’ office sits prominently in downtown Lincoln at 1442 O Street, Suite C.
Story and photo by Michael Bamesberger
Just a few years ago, entrepreneurs who were serious about starting a tech company went to Silicon Valley, Calif. to make their dreams a reality.
But for Collin Caneva, starting a unique online video game production business in Lincoln, Neb. was a no-brainer.
“This is where we’re from,” said Caneva. “You can find everything you need right here in the Midwest.”
Caneva’s company, Green Bein’ Productions, Inc., develops virtual games for children and currently has two products available: Kid Command, a massive multiplayer adventure game with an environmentally friendly message, and Synch, a game where users can create their own obstacles, characters and backgrounds and share their creation across the web.
The 37-year-old entrepreneur has no experience in game design. In fact, his first business venture began by purchasing a dump truck and starting a construction business while attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
But around 2009, Caneva began looking for a change of pace.
“I was never passionate about concrete,” Caneva said in a speech to the Lincoln Young Professionals Group in June of last year. “From the outside looking in, that company was probably a success. But no one can look from the outside and see what’s in a person’s heart.”
Inspired by conversations with his own children, he came up with the idea for a video game that educates children about environmental issues – idea he hoped would empower them to change the world.
“If you’ve ever been to any other popular kid’s game sites, the whole idea is to spend time playing video games to earn money to buy virtual stuff. And that seems like a mindless, materialistic business model,” said Adam Templeton, Green Bein’s creative coordinator. “The whole idea behind this was to try to create a virtual world where kids could go to have fun, but also to get something out of it.”
With his idea in hand, Caneva sought out a team to help him with the project. One of those people was his sister, Deana Ward.
“One day Collin called me out of the blue and said, “I just sold my business and I’m starting this thing called Kid Command, are you with me?” said Ward, now the company’s vice president. “We both have a real entrepreneurial drive. Some people are just wired that way. “
Today, most of the company’s now two-dozen employees work out of a spacious new office in downtown Lincoln. However, Green Bein’ has designers from all over the world on the payroll.
“Jorge, our 3D modeler, is working from Argentina right now. One of our guys, Sven, is working from Barcelona,” said Templeton. “We encourage people to work out of the office, but if we find someone in Spain who is good at what they do, he’s on our team.”
The company is able to coordinate with their staff across the world through weekly Skype meetings.
“A decade ago, a business like this could not have existed,” Templeton said.
Templeton is sure there are no other businesses like Green Bein’ in Lincoln. But just because of the lack of video game start-ups here doesn’t mean that Nebraska is inhospitable to businesses of its type.
In March, Green Bein’ won a $50,000 venture capital competition through the non-profit InvestNebraska. The competition, judged by a panel of small business owners, was one of 10 hosted by InvestNebraska in the past two years to encourage innovation in Nebraska.
“(The money) will be used to keep our doors open. It takes quite a bit of money to keep this place running every month,” said Templeton, who noted that the big staff is vital for developing new products like smartphone and facebook apps in the near future.
Kid Command is free to try, and the site is has no advertisements. To generate revenue, the company charges $8.95 a month for full access to all the game’s levels and missions.
In keeping with its eco-friendly name, Green Bein’ sets aside 15 percent of each paid subscription to a grant fund that is donated to wildlife or environmental organizations.
Templeton said the site hasn’t had trouble signing up users. In fact, the site has users logging on from all over the world.
“A couple weeks ago, three people from Pakistan logged on. We have a couple dozen users from Australia,” Templeton said. “And we’ve done next to no advertising, so it’s pretty cool that people are just finding their way to the site.”
On the site’s one-year anniversary, more than 68,000 users had subscribed, with new users playing each day.
But with thousands of free games available on the Internet, Templeton said differentiating his company’s games from the pack has been a struggle. But developing new products like Synch has kept the company ahead of the curve, he said.
In addition, Templeton said finding outside investors has also been a struggle.
“Nobody really wants to invest in tech in Nebraska, just because Nebraska isn’t branded as a tech state,” Templeton said. “We’re trying to change that.”
Jason Ball, the director of business development for the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development, said new incentives, like the Governor’s Business Innovation Act, will make it easier for small web businesses to start in Nebraska. And compared to other states, he said, doing in business in Nebraska costs less.
“We have top level national talent here and you don’t have to pay them the same amount as you would in, say, San Francisco, simply because the cost of living is much lower,” said Ball. “We have short commute times and our quality of life is higher.”
Ward said other Lincoln tech companies, like Roundus, which creates 360-degree virtual photographs, have been helpful in welcoming Green Bein’.
“It’s nice to see this little community evolving. It gives us a sense of belonging,” she said.
Kid Command can be played at www.kidcommand.com, and Green Bein’s newest game, Synch, can be played at www.synch-it.com.
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Ray Goldberg (she/her) is a Chicago-born-and-raised freelance producer and writer. She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a bachelor's degree in Screen Arts and Cultures, and is about to begin her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. She is a staff writer for the award-winning podcast "PleasureTown", content producer and editor for the gaming podcast "Tabletop Potluck", and a Media Educator at Facets Multimedia. Ray has previously worked with the filmmaking nonprofit Full Spectrum Features, where she served as Production Coordinator on their films The Orange Story and Signature Move. She worked as Production Manager for Nothing Without a Company's plays Bobby Pin Girls and Cornerstone, and is excited to manage many more.
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Accueil de l'OCDE FinancesCan better international co-operation help build a fairer global economy?
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Can better international co-operation help build a fairer global economy?
Drawing on findings in the 2017 OECD Business and Finance Outlook, this article by Adrian Blundell-Wignall looks at some of the forces influencing recent economic developments and asks what can be done to ensure a “fairer” global economy.
30/05/2017 - The first concern of all citizens is to try to ensure that the environment they live in is the best that it can be. Today the debate rages about whether the decline in living standards is due to the effects of globalisation or simply to poor domestic policy. Both have played a role, but even if all countries implemented sound domestic policies, there would still be major losers in a world without a level economic playing field. The size and cost of the policies needed to protect the losers would be burdensome and possibly beyond reach.
With respect to globalisation, the basic problem is that not all countries are “open” to the same extent and the economic playing field is not level. This year’s OECD Business and Finance Outlook discusses many aspects of the lopsided nature of the world economy: capital account and exchange rate management; uneven financial regulations; the growing role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs); cross-border cartels which ensure that the benefits of globalisation accrue to companies and their shareholders instead of to consumers via lower prices; collusive behaviour in investment bank underwriting practices; cutting corners in responsible business conduct; and the bribery and corruption which distorts international investment and misallocates resources.
So what does the data from thousands of companies presented in the 2017 OECD Business and Finance Outlook show us about how uneven global competition is contributing to the backlash against globalisation?
Spectacular developments in trade and international investment - Since entering WTO in 2001, China has quickly become the largest exporting nation in the world, with 14% of merchandise exports and 18% of manufacturing. Hong Kong (China), Singapore and Korea together export as much as the United States or Germany (see figure). Instead of exporting from home, companies can also set up production abroad closer to foreign markets. China is now responsible for 11% of world M&A outflows in 2016 while inward M&A has declined to a low of 2% of the global total.
Why state-owned enterprises may be a cause for concern - There is nothing wrong with success in cross border activities—provided of course that success is not based on unfair competition. SOEs don’t fit the model of managers acting on behalf of diverse shareholders. They are agents of the state and an important part of its industrial strategy. Emerging-economy SOEs are not limited to natural monopolies such as utilities. Indeed, listed companies have heavy state ownership across all sectors— averaging 23% of their market capitalisation. This excludes the vast unlisted SOE sectors. In China, the average market cap of state-held shares is over 40% of the total.
These SOEs have become a force to be reckoned with. The number of SOEs amongst the Fortune Global 500 companies grew from 9.8% in 2005 to 22.8% in 2014. The largest of these are Chinese banks that play an important role in funding state-owned firms in all industries, subsidising the cost of capital and facilitating state-driven industrial strategies. Emerging market SOEs have greatly contributed to the current excess capacity in key materials, energy and industrial sectors. This is contributing to a decline in the average return on equity in many sectors and countries.
Capital account and exchange rate management - The level of the playing field is also affected by capital account and exchange rate management of emerging economies. Advanced economies generally have overvalued real exchange rates—even after allowing for a country’s level of economic development (see figure). Some large emerging economies also price to market to ensure they obtain and maintain large global market shares. This requires variable mark-up in pricing, particularly when exchange rates are permitted to move.
Not all advanced economy companies are sitting still - Penetration of markets by emerging economies evokes responses from companies to move further up the value chain and the leaps in productive potential can be enormous. Companies that innovate well in their own industry quickly find that they run out of room at home. If they don’t take advantage of global economies of scale they will find themselves facing strong competition from other successful firms at home. The fastest productivity growth companies are also those that take advantage of foreign sales—whether by exporting or by setting up subsidiaries that produce abroad to serve foreign markets. It does not matter where firms sit in the value chain. Maquiladoras are just as likely to face global competition as any advanced-economy company, forcing them too to restructure and enhance technology to remain competitive.
Trade versus technology - All of this requires investment, innovation and new technology. The company data shows that it makes no sense to try to separate these things out: to argue that “it’s not trade, it’s the robots” that are hollowing out the middle classes. The companies at the forefront of innovation and technology (as reflected in productivity growth) are often multinationals engaged in trade and foreign direct investment—they buy and sell business segments, set up to produce abroad and the export from multiple global production bases. And yes, they have the resources to invest in R&D or to buy the start-ups that fit with their strategies as they fight it out in the global market place.
Painful wage convergence and the hollowing out effect - The losers in this story (those workers affected by reduced hours, innovative work contracts and compressed remuneration) belong to companies that are scattered within their own industry (it’s not workers of one industry versus those of another). It is not the middle class as such that is being hollowed out—rather, these ranks are swelled by those that work for middle-paying companies that are forced to restructure or exit. Wages in incumbent “once were great” firms are being compressed painfully towards the leaner global adapters as their productivity falls.
Towards greater fairness - Some large emerging economies have managed to pull millions of people out of poverty—and the long-term future of every country lies with continued success in this regard. Competition too is to be welcomed. Like any sporting match, let the best teams win. But also like any sporting match, the game needs to be played with the same rulebook. If the same rules do not apply to all, then fairness is put into question. If fairness is questioned, then sustainability of open trade and investment in the global economy is also put at risk.
The 2017 OECD Business and Finance Outlook tries to look at a number of the elements of what a level playing field might look like. It offers instruments and guidelines that could be used to improve the rules of the game and enhance international co-operation. This requires a commitment by economies participating in globalised markets to a common set of transparent principles that are consistent with mutually-beneficial competition, trade and international investment across a range of areas.
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OECD Home Social and welfare issuesProgress on gender equality far too slow
Progress on gender equality far too slow
04/10/2017 - Countries need to do much more to close gender gaps worldwide, according to a new OECD report.
The Pursuit of Gender Equality: An Uphill Battle presents a stark call to action, highlighting that very little progress has been made since the 2012 OECD report Closing the Gender Gap Now.
“The pursuit of gender equality must be a priority to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth for the benefit of every citizen,” said OECD Chief of Staff and G20 Sherpa Gabriela Ramos at the launch of the report in advance of the Women’s Forum taking place in Paris. “There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes. Countries need to do much more to reach the gender equality goals.”
In the latest survey carried out in 2012 on the pursuit of gender equality, OECD countries identified the three most important gender inequality issues: violence against women, the persisting large gender wage gap, and the unequal sharing of unpaid work. Many countries are now prioritising these issues in policy, and many are also pushing to get more women into public and private sector leadership.
Some progress has been made, the report notes. Most OECD countries are tackling workplace harassment through stronger laws and regulations. Several countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom, have introduced measures to encourage more young girls to choose science, technology, engineering and manufacturing (STEM) and young men to study and work in health and education.
Nonetheless, gender gaps persist in all areas of social and economic life across countries, and the size of these gaps has often changed little in recent years. While today young women in OECD countries leave school with better qualifications than young men, they are less likely to study in the higher earning STEM-related fields.
Women’s labour force participation rates have moved closer to men’s rates over the past few decades, but in every OECD country women are still less likely than men to engage in paid work. When women do work, they are more likely to do it on a part-time basis, are less likely to advance to management positions, are more likely to face discrimination, and earn less than men. The median female worker earns almost 15% less than her male counterpart, on average, across the OECD – a rate that has barely changed since 2010.
Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs, and female-owned businesses tend to earn less than male-owned ones. Gender gaps tend to increase with age, reflecting the crucial role that parenthood plays in gender equality. Much more than fatherhood, motherhood typically has sizable negative effects on workforce participation, pay and career advancement. Gender inequalities pervade public life, as well: women are underrepresented in political office, holding less than one-third of seats in lower houses of national legislatures, on average, in the OECD. Affirmative action is needed but alone is insufficient to bring about gender equality. Countries also need to invest in female leadership opportunities through for example mentoring opportunities and network supports. At the same time male role models in senior management need to drive the change in gender stereotypes and norms that continue to hamper women’s access to leadership.
Clearly much remains to be done to narrow, and ultimately close, gender gaps across all countries. The report outlines not only the social but also the strong economic case for action: reducing the gender gap in labour force participation by 25% by 2025, as agreed by G20 leaders, could add 1 percentage point of growth to projected baseline GDP growth across the OECD over the period 2013-25, and almost 2.5 percentage points if gender participation gaps were halved by 2025.
Since 2013, about two-thirds of OECD countries have put in place new equal pay policies, involving greater transparency on pay with companies increasingly required to analyse and disclose their gender wage gaps. Many countries have also introduced measures to improve access to quality early childhood education and care, as well as encouraged fathers to take parental leave: several, including Canada, Japan, Korea and Poland, have increased subsidies or benefits for childcare; and others, including Norway and the UK, have introduced or expanded free childcare.
The full report and individual country notes for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States are available via http://oe.cd/gender2017
For more information or comment, journalists should contact the OECD Media Division (tel. + 33 1 45 24 97 00).
Working with over 100 countries, the OECD is a global policy forum that promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
男女平等に向けた歩みが遅すぎる
Gleichstellung von Mann und Frau kommt in OECD-Ländern nur langsam voran
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SHOW YOUR LOVE: HELP THE BROWNE'S
Seniors Danny and Eileen Browne raised four children and lived a pretty ordinary and modest life in their row house on Watson Crescent in the city's East End.
The couple who raised four children have had a pretty tough year, Mr. Browne has been in and out of hospital all year due to complications with his heart and diabetes.
On the afternoon of November 22nd, Ms. Browne passed out while cooking supper. The kitchen caught fire and the house was filled with heavy dark smoke. Fortunately, the brave and swift actions of a neighbor prevented a tragedy from being a fatality.
The neighbor entered the burning building, crawling on the floor looking for Ms. Browne. He found her and carried her to safety. She was rushed to hospital to deal with smoke inhalation but doctors soon identified a much more serious health issue, she had a large tumor on her brain - that had caused her to pass out.
Nearly a month to the day of the fire, Ms. Browne has been released from hospital. Her and her husband spent their first night together at her daughters since the successful surgery to remove the tumor. In the confusion of Mr. Browne's health issues and Ms. Browne's unknown condition, their house insurance had lapsed. The Browne's lost everything! A total loss.
Despite what they have been through Ms. Browne told me last night that they still have each other and that she is a tough old lady.
The community has come to the assistance of this humble, unassuming and humble couple. Tonight, there is a fundraiser at the Hub with the proceeds going to help this family who lost nearly everything in this devastating fire.
Tickets are $10 each. There will be lots of draws and wheel spins on items donated by friends and strangers to assist the Browne's at this challenging time.
The fundraiser gets underway at 7:30. The door prize is a framed Richard Steele print. Tickets can be purchased at the door. All financial contributions would be greatly appreciated.
I will me officiating and playing the role of D.J. tonight. Please join me and the community as we rally together to help rebuild their lives and give them a sense of love and purpose at a very difficult time.
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of ProQIT, s. r. o.
having its registered office at Ševčenkova 24, Bratislava 851 01
Business Ident. No.: 46949810
Tax Ident. No.: 2023661530
incorporated in the Companies Register of District Court Bratislava I, Section Sro, Entry No. 86162/B for the sale of goods through the on-line shop located on the Internet at http://www.outdoorkemp.sk
1. INTRODUCTORY PROVISION
1.1. These terms and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms and conditions") of the Company ProQIT, s.r.o., having its registered office at Ševčenkova 24, Bratislava 851 01, Business Ident. No.: 46949810, Tax Ident. No.: 2023661530, incorporated in the Companies Register of District Court Bratislava I, Section Sro, Entry No. 86162/B (hereinafter referred to as the "Seller") regulated the mutual rights and obligations of the Contracting Parties arising in connection to or on the basis of the purchase agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Purchase agreement") entered into between the Seller and any other natural or legal person (hereinafter referred to as the "Buyer") through the on-line shop of the Seller. The on-line shop is operated on the Internet at http://www.outdoorkemp.sk through the Web interface (hereinafter referred to as the "Web interface of the shop").
1.2. Terms and conditions further govern the rights and obligations of the Contracting Parties by the use of the Seller's Website located at http://www.outdoorkemp.sk (hereinafter referred to as the "Website") and other related legal relations. The Terms and conditions shall not apply to cases where the person who has the intention to buy the goods from the Seller, acts within the context of its business activities when ordering the goods.
1.3. The provisions not covered in the Terms and conditions may be agreed in the Purchase agreement. The provisions in the Purchase agreement shall take precedence over the provisions of the Terms and conditions.
1.4. The provisions of Terms and conditions form an integral part of the Purchase agreement. The Purchase agreement and the Terms and conditions are drawn up in the Slovak language. The Terms and conditions are also available in the translation into the English language and German language on the Website of the provider. In the event of any inconsistencies between the Terms and conditions drawn up in the Slovak language and the Terms and conditions in the English and/or German, the wording of the Term and conditions drawn up in the Slovak language shall take precedence. The Purchase agreement is concluded in the Slovak language, the translation of the Purchase agreement into English and/or German language may form its part. In the event of any discrepancies between the wording of the Purchase agreement in the Slovak language and the translation of the agreement into the English and/or other language, the wording of the Purchase agreement in the Slovak language shall take precedence.
1.5. The text of the Terms and conditions of the Seller may at any time be subject to change or amendment. This provision shall be without prejudice to the rights and obligations incurred during the validity of the previous wording of the Terms and conditions.
2. USER ACCOUNT
2.1. After registration of the Buyer on the Website, the Buyer may access its user interface on the Website. The Buyer may order the goods from its user interface (hereinafter referred to as the "User account"). The Buyer can also order goods without registration, directly from the Web interface of the shop.
2.2. The Buyer must provide all information correctly and truthfully when registering on the Website and ordering goods. The data given in the User account must be updated by the Buyer in case of any change. The data provided by the Buyer in the User account when ordering goods are considered to be correct by the Seller.
2.3. Access to the User account is secured with a username and password. The Buyer is obliged to maintain confidentiality of the information necessary to access the User account and acknowledges that the Seller shall not be liable for the breach of this obligation by the Buyer.
2.4. The Buyer is not entitled to allow third parties to use its User account.
2.5. The Seller may cancel the User account, especially if the Buyer did not use its User account for more than 12 months, or if the Buyer fails to meet its obligations under the Purchase agreement (including the Terms and conditions).
2.6. The Buyer acknowledges that the User account does not need to be available continuously, particularly with regard to the necessary maintenance of hardware and software equipment of the Seller, or necessary maintenance of hardware and software of third parties.
3. Conclusion of the Purchase Agreement
3.1. Web interface of the shop contains a list of goods offered for sale by the Seller, including the price of the goods offered. All prices are inclusive of VAT and all related fees, in addition to the cost of packaging and delivery of the goods. Goods and prices of goods remain in force until they are shown in the Web interface of the shop. This provision shall not restrict the option of the Seller to conclude a Purchase agreement on behalf of others under separately agreed conditions. The entire offer of goods placed on the Web interface of the shop is not binding, and the Seller is not obliged to enter into a purchase agreement for these goods.
3.2. The Web interface of the shop also contains business information on the cost of packing and delivery of goods. Information on the cost of packaging and delivery of goods is on the Web interface of the shop. Unless otherwise stated, the cost of packaging and delivery of goods are calculated individually.
3.3. The Buyer shall complete the order form on the Web interface of the shop to order the goods. The order form contains particularly information about:
3.3.1. ordered goods (ordered goods are "placed" into the electronic shopping cart at the Web interface of the shop by the Buyer),
3.3.2. method of payment of the purchase price, details of the desired method of delivery of ordered goods and
3.3.3. information on costs associated with the delivery of goods (hereinafter referred to collectively as "the Order").
3.4. Before sending the order to the Seller, the Buyer is able to check and modify the data inserted into the order by itself, also with regard to the possibility to identify and correct the errors made while entering information into the order. The Buyer shall send the order to the Seller by clicking on "complete the order". The data listed in the order will be considered correct by the Seller. Immediately upon receipt of the order, the Seller confirms its receipt to the Buyer by e-mail, namely at the e-mail address listed on the Buyer's User interface or in an order (hereinafter referred to as the "electronic mail address of the Buyer"). The order and confirmation of order shall be deemed delivered, if the person for whom they are intended has access to them on its electronic device.
3.5. Depending on the nature of the order (number of goods, the amount of the purchase price, estimated costs), the Seller is always entitled to ask for additional confirmation of the order from the Buyer (for example, in writing or by telephone).
3.6. The Purchase agreement between the Seller and the Buyer is concluded at the moment of order confirmation delivery to the Buyer at the electronic mail address of the Buyer.
3.7. The Buyer acknowledges that the Seller shall not be obliged to conclude a Purchase agreement, especially with people who previously substantially breached their duties towards the Seller.
3.8. The Buyer agrees to use remote means of communication for the conclusion of the Purchase agreement. The Costs incurred by the Buyer when using remote means of communication in connection with the conclusion of the Purchase agreement (the cost of internet access, the cost of telephone calls) will be paid by the Buyer himself.
4. PRICE OF GOODS AND TERMS OF PAYMENT
4.1. The product price and any costs associated with the delivery of goods under the Purchase agreement can be paid by the Buyer to the Seller in the following ways:
in cash or with card at: OutdoorKemp, Jungmannova 20, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;
in cash on delivery at the location specified by the Buyer when placing the order;
by wire transfer to the Seller's bank account ID: IBAN SK40 0200 0000 0036 6425 0954 (hereinafter referred to as the "Seller's Account");
by credit or debit card via VÚBPay portal.
4.2. Along with the purchase price the buyer must also pay the cost of packaging and delivery of goods to the Seller at the contractual rate. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the purchase price is also understood to be the cost of shipping and packaging of goods.
4.3. In the case of cash payment or payment on delivery, the purchase price is payable on receipt of goods. In the case of non-cash payments, the purchase price is payable within 7 days after the conclusion of the Purchase agreement.
4.4. In the case of non-cash payments, the Buyer must pay the purchase price of goods and indicate the variable symbol of payment, of which the Buyer was notified by the Seller upon delivery of the latest receipt of order. In the case of non-cash payment, the obligation of the Buyer to pay the purchase price is met at the moment of crediting the amount to the account of the Seller.
4.5. The Seller shall be entitled, in particular in the case when the Buyer does not additionally confirm the order (Article 3), to require payment of the full purchase price before sending the goods to the Buyer.
4.6. Any price discounts provided by the Seller to the Buyer of goods cannot be combined.
4.7. If this is the usual course of trade, or if so provided in applicable legislation, the Seller shall issue a tax document – the invoice for the Buyer with respect to the payments made on the basis of the Purchase agreement. The tax document – the invoice shall be issued by the Seller to the Buyer upon payment of the price of goods, and it shall be sent along with the goods physically or electronically to the electronic mail address of the Buyer.
5. WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
5.1. The Buyer acknowledges that pursuant to the provisions of § 12 para 5. sub-para c) of the Act No. 108/2000 on consumer protection in doorstep selling and distance selling, as amended (hereinafter the "Act No. 108/2000 Coll.") it is not entitled to withdraw from the Purchase agreement with the subject-matter of sale of goods made to the specific requirements of the Buyer or goods designed specifically for one consumer, or goods that cannot be returned due to its properties, or perishable goods.
5.2. Under the provision of § 12.1 of the Act No. 108/2000 Coll., the Buyer is entitled to withdraw from the Purchase agreement without giving any reason, within seven (7) working days of receipt of goods. This shall not apply neither to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph 5.1.of the Terms and Conditions, nor in cases where by law the Buyer cannot withdraw from the Purchase agreement. Withdrawal must be received by the Seller within seven (7) working days of receipt of goods. Withdrawal from the Purchase agreement can be delivered by the Buyer to the address of the Seller or the electronic mail address of the Seller, referred to in paragraph 12.5. hereof.
5.3. In the event of withdrawal under the section 5.2. hereof, the Purchase agreement shall be revoked. The Buyer must return the goods to the Seller along with the delivery of the withdrawal, no later than five (5) working days from dispatch of withdrawal. Goods must be returned to the Seller undamaged and unworn, and where possible, in their original packaging.
5.4. Within the time period of fifteen (15) days after return of goods by the Buyers under section 5.3 hereof, the Seller is entitled to conduct an examination of the returned goods, primarily for the purpose of determining whether returned goods are damaged, worn or partially consumed.
5.5. In the event of withdrawal under section 5.2. hereof, the Seller shall return the contribution made by the Buyer to the Buyer within a period of fifteen (15) days after the withdrawal in a non-cash form to the account designated by the Buyer. The Seller is also entitled to return the contribution provided by the Buyer upon return of goods.
5.6. The Buyer acknowledges that if goods returned by the Buyer are damaged, worn or partially consumed, the Seller is entitled to a compensation from the Buyer for the loss incurred. The Seller shall be entitled to set off the right to compensation for damages against the claim of the Buyer to recover the purchase price.
5.7. The Seller may at any time withdraw from the Purchase agreement, until receipt of goods by the Buyer. In this case, the Seller will return the purchase price to the Buyer without any delay in a non-cash form to the account designated by the Buyer.
5.8. If the Buyer receives a gift together with the goods, a deed of gift shall be concluded between the Seller and the Buyer with a resolutive condition that if there is a withdrawal from the Purchase agreement by the Buyer, the deed of gift expires and the Buyer is required to return the gift with the goods provided by the Seller.
6. TRANSPORTATION AND DELIVERY OF GOODS
6.1. Mode of transport shall be determined by the Seller, unless the Purchase agreement provides otherwise. If the mode of transport is arranged at the request of the Buyer, the Buyer bears the risk and any additional costs associated with this mode of transport.
6.2. If the Buyer does not take delivery of goods, and it is returned to the Seller as undelivered, the Seller is entitled to charge a fee for re-delivery of goods in the amount of postage calculated by the order of goods, or the Seller may withdraw from the agreement.
6.3. The goods are reserved for three working days in the case of personal collection and payment at the place of goods collection. After this period, the Seller has the right to withdraw from the Purchase agreement.
6.4. In the case of personal collection of goods that was paid in advance by bank transfer, the goods will be stored free of charge by the Seller for 10 calendar days. After this period, the goods will be stored up to 30 days from receipt of order, but for a storage fee of 3 € per calendar day. After 30 calendar days from the conclusion of the Purchase agreement and payment of goods, if the goods are not collected by the customer, the order will be cancelled and the payment returned to the customer at a specified bank account minus the sum of the storage fee, which is the sum of € 60.
6.5. If for reasons on the part of the Buyer, it is not possible to deliver the goods repeatedly or in another way than stated in the order, the Buyer must bear the costs of re-delivery of goods, or the costs of other method for delivery of goods.
6.6. When taking the goods from the carrier, the Buyer is obliged to check the integrity of the packaging of goods, and report any defects immediately to the carrier. In the event of damaged packaging suggesting intrusion into the shipment, the Buyer does not need to take the shipment from the carrier. By signing the delivery note the Buyer confirms that the packaging of items containing goods has not been damaged.
6.7. Other rights and obligations of the parties with respect to the transport of goods may be governed by special conditions of the Seller, if issued by the Seller.
7. LIABILITY FOR DEFECTS AND WARRANTY
7.1. The rights and obligations of the parties with regard to the Seller's liability for defects, including the warranty liability of the Seller shall be governed by the applicable law of the Slovak Republic.
7.2. The Seller shall be liable to the Buyer for the sale of goods in conformity with the Purchase agreement, in particular for having no defects. The conformity with the Purchase agreement means that the goods sold have quality and performance required by the agreement, the Seller, the producer or his representative, described, or expected based on its advertising, or quality and performance common for given type of goods, that they meet the requirements of legislation, are of corresponding quantity, size or weight, and are appropriate for the purpose that the Seller of the goods mentioned for the use of goods, or for which the object is usually used.
7.3. If the goods are not in conformity with the Purchase agreement on receipt of goods by the Buyer (hereinafter referred to as "the conflict with the Purchase agreement"), the Buyer has the right for a free putting of goods into the state corresponding to the Purchase agreement by the Seller,without any undue delay, according to the requirements of the Buyer, either by replacing the goods, or its repair; if such action is not possible, the Buyer may request a reasonable discount of the price or withdraw from the Purchase agreement. This does not apply, if the Buyer knew of the conflict with the Purchase agreement prior to the receipt, or caused the conflict himself. The conflict with the Purchase agreement, which will arise within six (6) months from the date of delivery, shall be deemed to be the conflict existing already at the receipt, unless this is contrary to the nature of the goods, or if the contrary is proved.
7.4. If the goods are not perishable, or used, the Seller is responsible for defects which arise as a result of conflict with the Purchase agreement after the receipt of goods during the warranty period (warranty).
7.5. The Buyer shall claim remedies resulting from the Seller's liability for defects, including the warranty liability of the Seller, from the Seller at Seller's partner shop OutdoorKemp, Jungmannova 20, Bratislava, Slovakia. The moment of making the claim is considered to be the moment when the Seller receives the claimed goods from the Buyer.
7.6. Other rights and obligations of the parties relating to the liability of the Seller for defects are regulated by the Complaints procedure of the Seller.
8. OTHER RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
8.1. The Buyer shall take possession of the goods by paying the entire purchase price.
8.2. The Buyer acknowledges that software and other components making up the Web interface of the shop (including photos of the goods offered) are protected by copyright. The Buyer undertakes not to engage in any activity that could allow the Buyer or third parties to tamper or use the software or other components making up the Web interface of the shop without authorisation.
8.3. When using the Web interface of the shop, the Buyer is not entitled to use any mechanisms, software or other procedures that could affect the operation of the Web interface of the shop. The Web interface of the shop can be used in business only, to the extent that it is not at the expense of the rights of other customers and the Seller, and which is consistent with its purpose.
8.4. The Buyer acknowledges that the Seller shall not be liable for errors caused by the intervention of a third party to the Web interface of the shop ,or through the use of the Website in violation of its use.
9. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
9.1. Protection of personal data of the Buyer, who is a natural person, is provided by the Act No. 428/2002 Coll. on Protection of Personal Data, as amended.
9.2. The Buyer agrees to the processing of their personal data: name, address, date of birth, identification number, tax identification number, electronic mail address, telephone number and bank account number (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Personal data").
9.3. The Buyer agrees to the processing of personal data by the Seller for purposes of exercise of the rights and obligations under the Purchase agreement, for the purpose of maintaining theUser account, and for the purposes of sending commercial communications and information to the Buyer.
9.4. The Buyer acknowledges that he is obliged to enter his personal data (by registration, in his User account, by the order made from the Web interface of the shop) correctly and true, and is obliged to inform the Seller of a change of his personal data immediately.
9.5. The Seller may appoint a third party to process the Buyer’s personal data, as the processor. In addition to persons transporting the goods, the personal data shall not be given to third parties without prior consent of the Buyer.
9.6. Personal data will be processed for an indefinite term. Personal data will be processed electronically in an automated manner or in a cleaned form in a non-automated manner.
9.7. The Buyer acknowledges that the provided Personal data are accurate and that he was informed that it is a voluntary disclosure of Personal data.
9.8. In the event that the Buyer believes that the Seller or the processor (section 9.5.) performs the processing of Personal data in conflict with the protection of private and personal life of the Buyer, or in conflict with the law, especially if the Personal data are inaccurate with respect to the purpose of their processing, the Buyer may:
9.8.1. ask the Seller or processor for explanation,
9.8.2. require the Seller or processor to remove such resulting status. In particular, it may concern blocking, making of changes, additions or deletions of Personal data. If the Buyer's request under the previous sentence is recognized as legitimate, the Seller, or processor shall immediately remove the defective state. If the Seller or the processor fail to comply with the request, the Buyer has the right to apply directly to the Office for Personal Data Protection. This provision shall not affect the right of the Buyer to contact the Office for Personal Data Protection directly with its motion.
9.10. If the Buyer requests information about the processing of their Personal data, the Seller is obliged to provide this information.
10. SENDING OF COMMERCIAL MESSAGES AND SAVING OF COOKIES
10.1. The Buyer agrees to receive information relating to goods, services or business of the Seller at the e-mail address of the Buyer, and further agrees to receive commercial messages of the Seller at the Buyer's email address.
10.2. The Buyer agrees with saving of so called cookies on his computer. If it is possible to make the purchase on the Website, and the obligations of the Seller arising from the Purchase agreement can be met without saving of cookies on the computer of the Buyer, the Buyer may withdraw his consent under the previous sentence at any time.
11. DELIVERY
11.1. Unless otherwise agreed, all correspondence associated with the Purchase agreement must be delivered to the other party in writing, by e-mail, in person or by registered mail of the postal operator (at the option of the sender). Mails will be delivered to the Buyer's electronic mail address that is listed in his User account.
12. FINAL PROVISION
12.1. If the relationship connected with the use of the Website or the legal relationship based by the Purchase agreement include international (foreign) element, then the parties agree that their relationship is governed by Slovak law. This does not affect the consumer's rights under the applicable law.
12.2. The Seller is entitled to sell the goods under the trade license and Seller's activity shall not be subject to further authorization. Check of trade license is carried out by the respective Licensing Office within the scope of their authority.
12.3. If any provision in these Terms and conditions is or becomes invalid or ineffective, the invalid provision shall be replaced by a provision being the closest to the meaning of the invalid provision. The invalidity or unenforceability of one provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. The amendments to the Purchase agreement or these Terms and conditions must be in written form.
12.4. The Purchase agreement, including the Terms and conditions, is archived in electronic form by the Seller, and it is not publicly accessible. It shall be available only upon written request of the Buyer.
12.5. Contact information of the Seller: Address: ProQIT, s. r. o., Ševčenkova 24, Bratislava 851 01, Slovakia, address for mail delivery: OutdoorKemp, Jungmannova 20, Bratislava, Slovakia, electronic mail address: info@outdoorkemp.com, Telephone: +421 907 814 483.
having its registered office at Ševčenkova 24, Bratislava 851 01, Slovakia
incorporated in the Companies Register of District Court Bratislava I, Section Sro, Entry No. 86162/B
for the sale of goods through the on-line shop located on the Internet at http://www.outdoorkemp.sk
1. INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
The company ProQIT, s. r. o. having its registered office at Ševčenkova 24, Bratislava 851 01, Slovakia. Company ID: 46949810, incorporated in the Companies Register of the District Court Bratislava I, Section Sro, Entry No. 86162/B (hereinafter referred to as "Seller"), issues this Returns Policy in accordance with the Act No. 250/2007 Coll. on consumer protection and the amendment of the Act No. 372/1990 Coll. on offences, as amended (the "Consumer Protection Act") and in line with the provisions of § 612 – 627 Act No. 40/1964 Coll. Civil Code, as amended (the "Civil Code") to ensure proper informing of the buyer about the conditions and arrangements for the exercise of rights from liability for defects (hereinafter as "claim") including the data on where the claim can be submitted and on performanceof warranty repairs.
This Returns Policy is in accordance with § 18 par. 1 of the Consumer Protection Act placed on the website of vendor’s internet shop–http://www.outdoorkemp.sk
2. RIGHT TO ENFORCE THE CLAIM
2.1 The buyer is obliged to inspect the goods upon receipt and check the completeness of goods and itsrelevant documents (invoice, warranty card, manual, or other documents required for the use of purchased goods). The buyer is obliged to check the goods by a personal collection, and if the buyer finds obvious defects related to mechanical damage of the goods or their packaging, quantity of the goods, the completeness of documents,or other obvious defects, the buyer shallclaim its replacement immediately. In case of a delivery by a courier, the buyer is obliged to draw up a claim protocol on found obvious defects – on shipmentincompleteness, mechanical damage of goods or its packaging, or other obvious defects directly on the place of the receipt of goods. Later claims regarding obvious defects of the goods, identifiable on receipt of goods and regarding incompleteness of goods and documents will not be recognized, and such a claim will not be deemed valid. The Seller shall not be responsible for obvious defects identifiable by receipt of goods and for incomplete goods and documents, even if the buyerdid not exercise his right to examine the goods at the delivery.
2.2 Mechanical damage to goods that wasn’tobvious by its receipt must be claimed by an e-mail message to the vendor’s e-mail address listed on the website of the vendor’s internet shop (http://www.outdoorkemp.sk) immediately after receipt of goods, but not later than within 24 hours of receipt.
2.3 Liability for damage to goods during transportation shall be borne by the carrier. A reasonable discount or a new product will be supplied to the customer based on theprepared record after the conclusion of the harmful event with the carrier.
2.4The buyer must carefully examine the warranty conditions before the first use of purchased goods, including the instructions for use and then follow that information.
2.5. In the event that a defect occurs to the purchased goods during the warranty period, the buyer has the right to claim the defect goods within specified period of time. Claims must be settled at the latest within 30 days from the date of the claim submission. After the lapse of the period for claim settlement, the consumer is entitled to withdraw from the contract or has the right to exchange the product for a new one.
3. PLACE FOR CLAIM SUBMISSION
3.1The buyer submits a claim in writing by mail to the address of the Seller or by an e-mail message to the e-mail address of the Seller. (info@outdoorkemp.sk)
3.2 When the claim is sent by post, the defective goods must be included together with the description of the defect, a copy of the proof of purchase (invoice) and the contact data of the buyer.
3.3 The buyer must provide a proof of purchase (invoice), which was delivered to the buyer with the goods as a proof of purchase of goods and timely registration of claim. If the buyer cannotprove the purchase of goods, it is not possible to accept the claim. Telephone assessmentorsettlement of claims is unacceptable.
3.4 The buyer, who submitted a claim on purchased goods and this was accepted, receives an acknowledgement of claim receipt and a written document on its settlement not later than within 30 days. If the claim is submitted by means of distance communication (e-mail), the Seller is required to deliver the acknowledgement of claim receipt to the buyer via e-mail immediately; if it is not possible to deliver the acknowledgement immediately, it must be delivered without any delay, but at the latest together with the proof of claim settlement;the proof of claim submission does not need to be delivered, if the buyer has the opportunity to prove submission of a claimin a different manner. The acknowledgement of claim receipt contains, in addition to the matters listed in paragraph 3 of this article, also the information on the form and estimated time of its settlement.
3.5. The seller informs the buyer about the claim settlement by e-mail.
4. LIABILITY OF SELLER
4.1 The seller is liable for defects on the delivered goods upon receipt by the buyer and for any defects that occur after receipt of goods within the warranty period (warranty).
4.2The Seller is not liable for defective goods if:
4.2.1. thebuyercaused the defect to the goods himself or if the defect was caused by natural disasters;
4.2.2. thebuyer knew about the defect to the goods before its receipt, or if the buyer has been expressly warned by the Seller about the defect;
4.2.3. a discount on the purchase price of defective goods was offered;
4.2.4. the defects occurred within the warranty period due to a normal wear and tear of goods caused by normal use, improper or excessive use;
4.2.5.defects were caused by the use, which is contrary to the instructions for use;
4.2.6. the goods are subject to a claim after expiry of the warranty period or other period within which the goods should retain its specific properties.
4.3 The following shall not be deemed a defect:
- Aesthetic or functional changes of goods as a result of normal wear and tear,
- Defect that was caused by unprofessional treatment of goods (washing, ironing, etc.),
- Willful damage of goods for speculative reasons,
- A mechanical damage to the goods (tear, perforation, cut, etc.).
5.1 Condition for acceptance of claims is its submission within the warranty period. The warranty period for goods is 24 months (this shall not apply to perishable goods) from the date of receipt of goods by the buyer. If the claim is settled by repair, the period from the time of claim submission, when the buyer is obliged to take the goods after its repair, will not be included in the warranty period. If the claim is settled by exchange of the defective goods for non-defective goods,the warranty period of new goods startsby the date of receipt of such new products.
5.2The Seller can provide a guarantee in excess of coverage provided by lawby a statement in the warranty card or a statement handed over to the buyer, while the terms and scope of the guarantee shall be specified in the warranty card.
5.3 If the buyersubmitted a claim to goods within the first 12 months of purchase, the Seller may refuse a claim only on the basis of an expertise at the expense of the Seller. If the buyer submitted the claimto the product after 12 months from the purchase and the Seller rejected it, the person who settled the claim is required to state to whom the product can be send for expertisein the document on claim settlement. If the buyer proves the seller's responsibility for defect in an expert assessment,the claim may be submitted again; the warranty period shall not run during the expert assessment. Re-submittedclaim cannot be dismissed.
5.4 Rights from liability for defects covered by warranty expire if they were not exercised during the warranty period.
5.5 If the seller offers other goods to the buyer for free as a giftwith the sold goods, it is up to the buyer, whether he accepts the gift offered. However the gift is not sold goods,therefore the Seller is not liable for any of its defects. If the Seller knows about possible defects, the Seller is obliged to notify the buyer when offering the gift. If the gift has defects, and the Seller failed to notify the buyer, the buyer is entitled to return it. If the buyer has the right to withdraw from the contract, the buyer must return everything to the Seller he got under the contract, i. e.even the goods received as a gift.
6. RIGHTS OF THE BUYER
6.1 In the case of removable defects, removal of which will not damage the appearance, function and quality of the product, the buyer has the right to request
- free, proper and timely removal of defects,
- exchange of defective goods for non-defective, or if the defect relates to only a part of the goods, to exchange the component, if it does not result in unreasonable costs to the Seller in regard to the price of goods or the severity of the defect.
The Seller can always replace the defective goods for non-defective, if it does not cause serious problems to the buyer.
6.2 In the case of irremovable defects which preclude the goods to be properly used as conforming goods, or if these are removable defects, but the buyer is not able to use the goods properly because of repeated occurrence of defect after the repair or because of greater number of defects, the buyer has the right:
- to request exchange of defective goods for non-defective,
- to withdraw from the contract (claim a refund in full for the return of goods purchased).
A claimed defect, which wasn’t settled within 30 days of receipt of the claim, is also considered to be an irremovable defect.
6.3 In case of irreparable defects, which do not prevent the goods to be used properly as goods without defects, the buyer has the right to a reasonable discount depending on the nature and severity of defects.
6.4 If the buyer has the right to exchange the goods or the right of withdrawal (refund), it depends on the buyer, which of these rights may be exercised. However, as soon as one of these rights is selected, the choice may not be changed unilaterally.
7. HYGIENE REQUIREMENTS
For a proper assessment of claim, it is necessary that the claimed product was clean, complete and in accordance with the rules of hygiene and general hygiene principles.
8. FINAL PROVISIONS
8.1. This Returns Policy shall enter into force and effect after its publication on the website:http://www.outdoorkemp.sk of ProQIT, s. r. o.
8.2 The company ProQIT, s. r. o. reserves the right to make any later changesand amendments to the Returns Policy, and the said amendments shall enter into force on the day following their publication on the website http://www.outdoorkemp.sk.
8.3 By sending an order, the customer/buyer confirms that he accepts this Returns Policy in full.
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Movie Review - Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Columbia Pictures Corporation for mild thematic elements
I suppose there’s something to be said for a touch of realism; where concerns for historical accuracy lead writers to expose their audiences to the less picturesque aspects of life as it was in a particular place at a particular time. There’s something understandable about it, anyway. We don’t live there or then, so it makes sense for filmmakers, for example, to insert little comments or images here and there to draw our attention to things that made other eras different, even if those things actually didn’t happen or even come up in conversation that much during that era. Addition is understandable. Emphasis is understandable. So why is it that, in a film that took so much liberty with the original dialogue for the sake of period-specific realism, the most significant aspect of any culture, let alone early nineteenth-century England, was unapologetically, unmistakably left out altogether? Where is Christ, and where are his followers, in Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility?
We might say, I suppose, that God was still honored in this adaptation of Sense and Sensibility by the basic upholding of beauty, which is in one sense God’s creation, and in another his attribute. The flow of the story, the well-balanced dialogue, the scenery and the cinematography generally witnessed quite well to the fact that beauty and form are things of value, and—in a really round-about way—to the fact that their origin is in a transcendent God. We, as Christians, however, cannot divorce the dignity of the creation from the divinity of the Creator. The filmmakers… well, they can’t really do it, either, but I believe they may have tried to here.
Often, the good things in this movie are so muddled, it’s difficult sometimes to distinguish between the good and the bad. The movie briefly references a character’s desire to become a minister, which ought to be good, but his desire seems to have little to do with religious conviction, and he says he wishes to only “give very short sermons.” The Dashwood ladies do attend church, and we even see them there once, but the minister is neither dignified nor interesting, the youngest Dashwood girl humorously talks through the sermon, and the next-youngest girl had actually obtained her mother’s permission to absent herself from the gathering of the church to spend the morning with a young man she might have seen any day of the week.
Technically there are two references to God, but neither of them can be attributed to religious devotion, or even cultural convention.
Just the opposite from what one usually hears, in the case of Sense and Sensibility, it’s the lack of explicitly Christian conversation that feels awkward and contrived. The oldest Dashwood girl has been dealing with heartbreak for months; she’s facing the impending death of her younger sister; she’s been awake day and night carrying out vessels of the girl’s blood, thanks to the filmmakers’ interest in antiquated medical practices; she’s on the edge of hysteria; and here, where it would have been the most natural place in the world to write in a quick “God help me” or “God save her,” we see the character crying out in anguish, despair and utter dependence… on the unconscious girl beside her. It seems that the historical realism stopped when it came to even cultural Christianity in the nineteenth century.
The positive pictures of family relationships are also rather mixed up, occasionally featuring some touching loyalty, but generally in the context of a foolish mother, a wise oldest daughter, a redeemed middle daughter, and a brat of a youngest daughter. All the children from the original story have been completely left out of the movie except for the young Margaret Dashwood and the infant son of an ignorant woman and a sarcastic man who provides comic relief by openly despising his own wife and child.
Femininity is apparently upheld by its belonging to the heroine of the story, but on the other hand it is portrayed as being a limit to one’s purpose in life. Elinor Dashwood is not only burdened by the unique failings of her family members; she’s also unable to escape the burden and the boredom by pursuing a career, she suggests. Young Margaret’s femininity is retained in her ringlets and pinafores, but while she is not exactly a rugged tomboy, her tree house and sword fighting—her travel plans and her Captain Margaret-ing—come across as an attempt to escape the perceived handicaps of her own sex.
I know that many ladies use Sense and Sensibility as an inspiration for their own dressmaking, and that, too, could be considered a good thing insofar as the film encourages beauty in clothing. Unfortunately, not all of the costumes are equally worth copying, and unfortunately there are many that are so frightfully revealing as to warrant a caution against seeing the movie at all, for many people. And while the remaining sexual content is pretty much invisible, and never mentioned in defiling terms, you still have to face less than subtle hints at fornication, promiscuity and multigenerational legacies of unwed motherhood—in different words from the original story, but all according to Jane Austen’s own brand of realism.
Gossip is shown to be bad, but mocking the gossiper is shown to be humorous. Young ladies lie about the subject of their conversation to people who didn’t have any business asking what it was. A man speaks gallantly about Shakespeare’s sonnets being “a talisman against further injury,” and a fellow refers to another man’s dog by another common name for the creature—jokes and conventional vocabulary for that time period, but possibly offensive to those who live in this one.
There are many things good and praiseworthy in Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility, and those things might understandably keep this film forever on the favorite movies list of women everywhere. Speaking strictly of the film as a piece of art, I believe there’s no better Jane Austen film to be had; and, as a piece of art, it appealed to me significantly more than the earlier Sense and Sensibility adaptation did, which I gave an Enjoyable rating. My giving the 1995 version a Not Worth Watching Again mustn’t be taken as a sign of disregard for the quality of the productions, or preference for three-hour long Jane Austen movies over two-hour ones; it most definitely is not. But if a young girl were to ask me which movie she should see after having read the book and loved it, I would point her to the film with the least shocking necklines rather than the one with the most beautiful costumes; the one with the most honorable family relationships rather than the one with the most complex characters; the one that bears a better witness to true Christianity than to the beginnings of women’s lib. In short, on such an occasion, I probably wouldn’t suggest the movie I’ve just reviewed.
I don’t believe there’s anything inherently sinful about watching Sense and Sensibility; I’m afraid I just can’t see myself recommending it to anyone—especially not to girls under twelve or to boys under an hundred and twelve. Ordinarily I would suggest parental guidance, but in this case I think just maternal guidance would be better.
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We’ll Miss You, Tom!
OPERS bids a fond farewell to Tom Spencer, who is leaving OPERS after serving as executive director for 11 years to become the executive director of the Oklahoma Teachers’ Retirement System.
Starting his tenure at OPERS in August 2003, Tom helped to pass meaningful pension reform legislation and guided OPERS through many important changes. Among those changes were moving away from paper and microfilmed records to an electronic document imaging system, replacing a legacy computer system with a modern pension administration system, establishing a call center to handle a growing number of inquiries from members and participating employers, and rolling out a financial literacy education program for members.
On the legislative front, Tom fought to address unfunded benefit increases during a time of weakening in the financial condition of OPERS. He received approval from the OPERS Board of Trustees to advocate for the Oklahoma Pension Legislation Actuarial Analysis Act, which enacted a financially prudent means for the Legislature to consider pension legislation. The Board also backed numerous pieces of legislation Tom suggested to improve funding and close costly loopholes. The actuarial funded ratio for OPERS has been over 80% for three straight years and the System has collected slightly more than actuarially required contribution rate in each of those years.
“I am tremendously proud of the reform we achieved that strengthened the OPERS pension system. But I am the most proud of leaving OPERS better off than I found it, and the enormously talented staff that I have helped build. They are great people and I will miss them very much. In addition, I would have had no success without a series of dedicated and supportive trustees to work for.”
When Tom took over in 2003, OPERS had about $4.6 billion in assets. Today, the System has in excess of $8 billion in assets and serves 43,000 active members, 32,000 benefit recipients, and 300 participating employers. He leaves OPERS as only the fifth person to lead the agency in its 50-year history.
Tom has served the state of Oklahoma for nearly 30 years, beginning his public service as a legal intern for Attorney General Jan Eric Cartwright in 1980 while attending the University of Oklahoma College of Law. After a brief stint in an Oklahoma City law firm, Tom returned to the attorney general’s office in 1983 where he spent 8 ½ years serving three attorneys general. He represented both the Teachers Retirement System and the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System and served as the attorney general’s bond counsel for most of his tenure.
When Robert Butkin, his former colleague at the AG’s office, was elected state treasurer, Tom joined his office as the chief of staff and deputy treasurer in 1995, where he served until January 2003. Tom was the treasurer’s designee to the State Pension Oversight Commission. He also helped Butkin start the Oklahoma College Savings Plan and the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund.
Tom left the treasurer’s office to serve as Governor Brad Henry’s first general counsel. When the position of executive director of OPERS opened up after the governor’s first legislative session concluded, Tom asked the governor for his blessing to apply and was selected among many other candidates by the OPERS Board of Trustees, beginning his tenure at OPERS.
Best wishes, Tom. We will miss you.
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Danny Lyon – Message To The Future
(A longer review of the great political photographer Danny Lyon's photo show at San Francisco's De Young Museum is available on the Stansbury Forum.)
I met Danny Lyon in 1963 in Ruleville, Mississippi. I was on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) visiting the Delta town in Sunflower County (home of Sen. James O. Eastland, one of the most notorious racists of the period) with Bob Moses, SNCC’s Mississippi Project Director and Martha Prescod, a young African-American University of Michigan student volunteer who was there for the summer. Danny took a picture of us talking with a local woman sitting on her porch. The picture became well-known because it was used on the cover of a widely distributed SNCC flyer. The story it told was that we were trying to convince the woman to register to vote. But Martha recently reminded me that we were asking directions!
From those beginning photographer days, Lyon went on to become one of the major photographers of the civil rights move-ment, and then on to 50 years of using photography to tell the stories of the marginalized, discriminated against and left-out, as well as other important subjects. Along the way, he branched out to make 16mm documentaries and videos. All these are now on display at San Francisco’s De Young Museum, having come here from the new Whitney in New York’s West Village.
“Arrest of Taylor Washington, Atlanta,” 1963. Collection of the artist, L64 © Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
“You put a camera in my hand, I want to get close to people.
Not just physically close, but emotionally close, all of it.” – Danny Lyon
“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard,
Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964. Collection of the Corcoran/National Gallery of Art,
CGA1994.3.3 © Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Of his civil rights movement photos, Julian Bond said, “They put faces on the movement, put courage in the fearful, shone light on darkness, and helped to make the movement move.” Lyons was one of a number of photographers assembled by SNCC Executive Director Jim Forman to be chroniclers of The Movement (we always capitalized the letters “T” and “M”); he and Matt Heron are the best known of them.
Racism, Classism and the Election
Trump Racists?
Were whites who voted for Trump racists? If a white voted for Obama in 2008 or 2012, but voted for Trump in the 2016 election, was s/he not a racist? I think there is no adequate answer to these framings of the question. We cannot understand what is going on in the country if we limit ourselves to questions of this type.
Instead I propose questions that ask the details about what happened in circumstances when white-black (or any other people vs. another group of people) unity overcame otherwise divisive understanding of self- interest and prejudicial views of “The Other.” To do that requires telling stories, not truncated questionnaires that ask for yes/no or ranked short-answers, nor even the answers from the hot-house context of a focus group—no matter how good the facilitator is. Labels are static: they describe someone at a point in time. People live in dynamic, always changing, circumstances. The question is whether people with small “d” democratic values can successfully engage others who may disagree with them.
The interplay of class and “identity” (as the term now is widely used to describe statuses other than class) needs more discussion if we are to win the support of white working class people who voted for Donald Trump. To win issues of the latter category, one set of alliances is made. For example: immigration reform advocates make alliances with corporations that want to hire cheap labor; and the National Women’s Political Caucus recruits, trains and supports pro-choice women candidates for elected and appointed offices at all levels of government regardless of party affiliation. I have black acquaintances who support Clarence Thomas because he’s African-American, despite the fact that he voted to end Deep South protection of African-American voters in the Shelby v Holder case. And I have women friends who agreed far more with Bernie Sanders than they did with Hillary Clinton but supported her to “break the glass ceiling.”
To win issues of the former category, minorities make alliances with “whites,” typically to form unions but also in anti-freeway, urban renewal, massive development, affordable housing and other issues. When the community campaigns are used to form or deepen on-going relationships (as in multi-issue community organizations), the possibility exists to transform old prejudices—as the stories above demonstrate. So, too, can relationships in a multi-ethnic/racial union change attitudes and understandings of “white” members.
The dominance today of “identity politics” precludes these latter possibilities—opening the door for the demagoguery of Donald Trump. But minorities and women have separate battles that need to be fought as well. Achieving a strategic balance is necessary. It is also difficult to achieve.
Organizing Peabody Coal
An old-timer I met in the early 1960s, who worked as an organizer for the United Mine Workers Union in the 1930's, told me this story about how he organized prejudiced white workers at the Peabody Coal Co. in Kentucky (but it could have been elsewhere in the South):
Organizer : "Wanna talk about the Mine Workers Union?”
White Worker: "Ain't you the Union let's in the niggers?"
(When he heard that the organizer would take the white worker by the arm and walk with him until they saw a black worker.)
Organizer: "See that fella over there?" (Organizer points to the black worker.)
White Worker: "Yeah."
Organizer: "Who's he work for?"
White Worker: "Peabody."
Organizer: "Who do you work for?"
Organizer: "You think about it; we'll talk more later.”
Eddie Wafford Shows Up (You’ll Quickly See My Debt To The Peabody Coal United Mine Workers Union Organizer)
I grew up in the Sunnydale Housing Project, at the western edge of Visitacion Valley, a neighborhood in San Francisco. Twenty years after I left, I returned as the lead organizer for what was initially the Visitacion Valley Organizing Committee (VVOC), an effort to build a multi-issue federation that would be a people power organization for the mostly- low-to-middle income residents of what was then a very racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood.
Eddie Wafford was a retired Teamster Business Agent living in Visitacion Valley. He shared the anti-Black prejudices of many of his fellow Irishmen in the neighborhood. But he was a member of the Visitacion Valley Improvement Association (VVIA), a member organization of All People’s Coalition (APC), a multi-ethnic and racial federation that had supported VVIA on a couple of issues important to them and their members. VVIA joined APC because it need the power of others in the neighborhood to win a couple of issues important to it.
About a year after those victories, with APC organizing staff assistance, the tenants in the 500+ units high-rise, 80% or more African-American, Geneva Towers formed a tenant association to negotiate with their landlord about a number of matters, including a major rent increase. Efforts to negotiate broke down. Direct action became the order of the day.
Eddie Wafford showed up on a Saturday morning to ride a rented bus to the Towers owner’s home in nearby fancy Marin County. Eddie was one of a number of whites from the neighborhood who participated in the day’s action. By that time I’d gotten to know him pretty well. Given what I knew about his feelings toward blacks, I was a bit surprised to see him, and said so when I first saw him that morning. On the way home from the picketing, he and I had this conversation:
Mike: "I was a little surprised to see you here today, Eddie."
Eddie: "Why’s that, Mike?"
Mike: "Well, you know, you told me a while back you didn’t have much use for Black people, particularly those living in the Towers."
Eddie: "Aw, that was before I got to know them and they showed up for me and Little Hollywood. This is the least I could do."
Mike: "So how do you feel about the Towers people now?"
Eddie: "There’s some real nice people there, Mike."
Mike: "Whose interests do you think were served by the way you used to think about the Black people there?"
Eddie: "What do you mean?"
Mike: "You think about it; we’ll talk more later."
Eddie and some of his VVIA friends concluded their interests were better met in relationship with people they hadn’t wanted to work or associate with in the past. I wouldn't have gotten to talk with the VVIA people if I had “led with race”--telling them they were wrong about their racism, were “privileged whites” or whatever.
A Different Approach To Racism (and Other “Isms”)
My conclusions from the above experiences:
Draw the "boundary lines" (industrial union, multi-racial/ethnic turf or multi-racial/ethnic organization which chapters join) so that people come into relationships with "The Other."
Use self-interest issues—either of the “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” or the bigger than anyone of us can handle alone variety—to create opportunities for new relationships that cut across historic lines of division.
Place those self-interest issues in a larger framework of justice, fairness and democracy values.
Look for circumstances of cognitive dissonance--when people's experiences don't fit the stereotypes they came to the experience with.
Those circumstances create teachable moments—opportunities when an organizer or democratic citizenship educator really can get people to change their minds.
Contrary to what most sociologists and "leading with race" organizers
say, peoples' prejudices can quickly be put on “the back burner”
and soon fade to the background
when the circumstances are right and the conversation
based on those circumstances provides a new way to frame reality.
Elections Sum Up What Has Preceded Them: You Pay the Price for What You Didn’t Do Earlier and That Bodes Ill for the Future
Organizing across racial lines, and other lines that divide a potential majority constituency, is a year-round proposition that will bear fruit at election time. Also note that for these stories are in specific local places. That’s where organizing has to begin because it’s where continuing relationships can be established. Finally, it’s where victories can be won as a result of struggle and solidarity. Without these victories, the fragile unity that begins such efforts will fade into the past, and old prejudices will return.
In the absence of this kind of organizing, the kind of campaign that Donald Trump won is likely to gain traction in the white constituencies he appealed to. And consider this: if there are not organizations of the kind described in this discussion, what would happen if in a next election a Sanders—whether him or someone like him—wins? It is impossible to conceive a US government that could quickly reverse what has been going on for the past 50 years. In the absence of a rich civil society infrastructure that can be part of a process of social transformation, the promised transformation of a “progressive” electoral victory will die on the vine, its participants at the base feeling betrayed by the candidate(s) they elected.
I’ve focused here on organizing not because electoral mobilization is unimportant but to argue that transformational mobilization cannot take place without the kind of organizing that is described in these stories. This kind of organizing can overcome the “isms”, not simply for a single election cycle when the isms are momentarily overcome by consumers who buy the same product (as they did with Barack Obama) but for the long-haul struggle that will be required if we are to come close to what Bernie Sanders advocated, let alone a more participatory, egalitarian and democratic society that we might imagine.
Quick Thoughts on the Trump Victory
When you ponder Trump’s victory, consider this e-mail from a union member to one of his union’s leaders:
You and me have went back and forth on this election. I want you to know this:
I didn't vote for my retirement. I didn't vote for my Healthcare. I didn't vote for my union membership. I voted for my son. Because I just didn't see a future for him if we elected Hillary.
I actually voted for Obama in the last two elections. Now, I stand here and tell you that if we lose our retirement, I will not bitch. If I lose my Healthcare, I will not bitch. If my tax rate goes through the roof, I will not bitch. I cast my vote and I will stand behind it. No matter what.
What I say to you and every elected Union Leader is this: “The majority of your membership just voted against what you all thought was in our best interests. Our Union Leadership has lost it’s base. But now we need you more than ever. Fight like your the third monkey up the ramp to Noah's Ark and its just starting to rain. Protect what's important to us. Do you want the membership back? Then do what you say you will. Fight for us.
The essential point is that Trump was a vessel in which people could place their anger at what has happened to them over the past ten, twenty…fifty years.
[B]oth Brexit and Trumpism are the very, very wrong answers to legitimate questions that urban elites have refused to ask for 30 years…since the 1980s the elites in rich countries have overplayed their hand, taking all the gains for themselves and just covering their ears when anyone else talks, and now they are watching in horror as voters revolt.
Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times.
Some Details On Why He Won
On a more technical level, these are factors that I think led to his victory:
His turnout was big because he had enthusiasm on his side;
Her turnout was small because she had little-to-none in much of the constituency she targeted for her votes; indeed she had the opposite; turnout numbers tell the tale;
People didn't tell pollsters they were going to vote for him because that was the "wrong answer";
Republicans who said they wouldn't vote for him "came home" to their party--they couldn't abide Hillary;
Bernie couldn't deliver for Hillary because American voters don't transfer their vote on the word of their loser, no matter how much they supported her or him;
Third party candidacies—Libertarian for some Millennials and Green for others and for some on the left—eroded Hillary's vote in key places;
Black clergy couldn't deliver their vote at the levels it came out for Obama--for understandable reasons;
Most of what The Establishment did to support Hillary strengthened the resolve of Trump's constituency and activists; it confirmed his anti-Establishment stance and demonstrated to them that his claim of an elite conspiracy against him were correct. Hillary’s support sometimes had precisely the contempt (“deplorables”!) for Trump’s voters that they feel from mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politicians.
I think it’s an oversimplification to view the Trump election as an expression of racism in the country. No doubt among his constituents there are racists, and no doubt some of the things he said were racist.
There’s nothing on the face of it that makes the Trump voter whose letter I’ve reproduced above a racist. On the Terry Gross show, on the day after the election, she interviewed Atlantic writer James Fallows. He’s spent the last three years visiting small town, middle America. His account was different. In some places, there are significant numbers of relocated immigrants from the Middle East—he cited Erie County, PA as one of them. In his conversations with them, they described a welcoming atmosphere there. Erie voted Trump. In another small town, a near-majority of Latinos exists where there was a shrinking older Anglo population in what was a dying town. The old-timers attribute the town’s re-birth to the new immigrants; they like the new Mexican restaurants and taco trucks. They vote for school bonds even though none of their kids are now in public schools.
Fallows had more to say along these lines. Having spent several years in and out of rural Nebraska at the height of the farm crisis, his stories of these towns rings true to me.
Trump demagoguery will give legitimacy to public expression of views that were held privately, or only shared among friends. At the same time, he spoke in some black churches in the last week-or-so of the campaign—hardly something any true-blue racist would have done. He made a point of asking for Ben Carson when he addressed his supporters on election night. It’s far too simple to conclude he is going to pursue a racist agenda as president. He might, but let’s see.
As one journalist put it,
"Low-income rural white voters in PA voted for Obama in 2008 and then Trump in 2016, and your explanation is white supremacy? Interesting.”
Which isn’t to say that racism isn’t a major issue in the country.
Strategically, minority community and immigrant rights organizations should ask themselves how they can develop relationships with this constituency. A serious discussion of that question is a pre-condition to building left-populist coalitions that can win legislative and electoral victories that address economic and racial injustice.
Positives In The Negative?
Organizers always look for the positive in the negative, and vice versa. I think there may be some:
There is now an opening in the Democratic Party for the Bernie Sanders/ Elizabeth Warren forces that want a return to New Deal economics, and recognition of the legitimacy of populist claims. Can they mobilize the popularity their views have against the discredited neoliberalism of the Old Guard? To do so will take patient work. The Bill Clinton Democrats are deeply entrenched in the Party. On the other hand, nothing so discredits politicians as losing.
More importantly for the long run, will small “d” democratic organizers seek to develop real relationships with, and build organizations among, the white working class people who voted for Trump when it becomes clear that he has no program to meet their concerns? That opportunity hasn’t existed for some time. It soon will.
Note that I distinguish between mobilizing and organizing. That’s deliberate. The two are too often conflated—a serious mistake. We need a mobilizing organization that can build upon the Bernie Sanders campaign and the Hillary Clinton defeat. Mobilizing is what Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference did in the south.
We also need vital union locals and community organizations that can express the values and interests of this group in a continuing way, and create a sense of community among them that is not based on fear of, and contempt for, The Other. Organizing is what the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee did in the south, and what Saul Alinsky did in the north.
The Organizer's Organizer: Bob Moses and the Fight for Voting Rights
(Here are some excerpts from my DISSENT Online review of a recent biography about Bob Moses. Please take a look at the full review here. Your comments would be appreciated!)
Robert Parris Moses was born in Harlem in 1935, the depth of the Great Depression. He was raised in a public housing project (which in those years was a step up from slum housing; I grew up in one), worked in a black-owned milk cooperative as a young boy, and had both Christian and pan-Africanist influences in his extended family upbringing. His grandfather was a respected progressive Baptist clergyman and former black college president; an uncle headed a branch of the NAACP; aunts were militant defenders of black rights; race and politics were continuous topics of conversation at home. His mother was a strong woman, a high school graduate who’d planned to go to college before marriage took her in a family direction. His father involved him in political conversations, always emphasizing the “little guy,” and taught him how to read people by listening and paying careful attention to them...
From Ella Baker, Moses learned an elaborated view of grassroots organizing. Her aphorism, “strong people don’t need strong leaders,” would become a SNCC theme. Among the strong people Moses met on his trip was Amzie Moore. A veteran of the Second World War who had become an independent businessman in the Mississippi Delta, Moore was looking for a way to break voting barriers that resulted in almost no black voter participation in towns, counties, and the second congressional district of the state, where blacks were a majority of the population. Moore took Moses in and made him family...
Many of us believed the MFDP’s challenge would be successful. With hindsight, it is easy to say we should have known better. Two rules of power operated against MFDP: first, when you borrow someone else’s power (in this case the national liberal-labor-civil rights organizations), if your and their interests diverge, theirs will prevail. Second, it is short-term, not long-term, interests that typically determine political decisions and outcomes. When Lyndon Johnson turned the screws on his liberal and labor allies, they capitulated and abandoned their initial support for the MFDP challenge...
Typically, major defeats lead to disarray and conflict among the defeated as they seek to explain why their anticipated victory was not realized. I want to note three consequences of defeat here...
Reading Visser-Maessen’s biography brought back a flood of memories of my time on the SNCC staff and my experiences then with Moses as well as the rest of the remarkable young people who made up that organization. But you don’t need to have had those experiences to appreciate the book. It will bring the tumult, vitality, hope that turned to despair, and intellectual debates of those times to anyone who reads it. The lessons in this book are as important to our country today as they were half a century ago.
What It Will Take to Avoid the #NextCivilWar
(Van Jones, former White House staffer in the Obama Administration, now TV commentator on CNN, and long-time activist in the African-American community, produced a remarkable exchange between himself and a “white” Trump-supporting family in Gettysburg, PA. Watch the video exchange here. I think you’ll be moved by it, and learn from it. This is the first segment of what will be a three part series (it’s about 10 minutes long).)
Here’s a little more about it:
Van Jones' new Facebook video series aims to humanize political adversaries through in-person interactions. Jones said he was trying to prevent what he calls the “#NextCivilWar” by engaging with a family supporting Donald Trump in their living room. “I feel like we’ve gotten this thing in America now, where we talk about each other, we never talk to each other,” Jones says, explaining the reason for having the conversation in the first place. “We’re here in Gettysburg, where there was a civil war because Americans couldn’t work it out,” Jones went on. “And I’m worried that we’re gonna have another civil war - or is this a civil war?”
One family member agreed that the country stood on the brink of an armed conflict, claiming he knew people willing to take up arms if Hillary Clinton was elected, even if he wasn’t willing to do so himself. “A lot of it’s gonna rely on the way this election ends up,” the man said. “Hillary gets in, there could very well be a civil war.”
From there, the conversation turned more substantive--if tense at times--covering issues like regulation, trade deals and immigration. Kimberly Fean Corradetti, the host who welcomed Jones into the house, lamented that Americans without a college degree could no longer get decent-paying manufacturing jobs. “These jobs have left us within the last 25 to 30 years--they’re gone--because so much federal regulation has strangled business - strangled ‘em,” she said.
Then Jones confronted his hosts with the elephant in the room--race--and specifically Trump’s race-baiting rhetoric, including his comments calling Mexicans “rapists.” “So he’s a horrible speaker,” Corradetti said, adding that Latino immigrants offended by Trump’s comments calling Mexicans “rapists” should “toughen up.” “No, you don’t have the right to tell someone else how to deal with the pain that they’re going through,” Jones responded. “If you say, ‘You should have a thicker skin,’ if you say, ‘You have got to get over yourself,' I’m gonna hear that as, ‘This person does not respect me, does not understand me, does not know what I’ve gone through.’”
Here’s what I think is missing in Van Jones exchange: on the video you will see Corradetti point to pictures on her mantle and tell him, “those people—no doubt her family—were all immigrants.” Given her last name, I think it’s safe to assume that at least some of them were Italians. If you’re as old as I am, you may remember when Italians in this country were “WOPs” (WithOutPapers). Sound familiar?
Had I been at the video session, and were I Ms. Corradetti, I might have responded to Van Jones, “There was nobody in those days to tell people using that term that they shouldn’t. Nobody censured them on campus for ‘hate speech’. While her choice of “toughen up” might not have been the best of phrases, her point is one made by a lot of white-ethnics in this country: “We made it without government telling people what they couldn’t say; there wasn’t ‘political correctness’ in their day.” And they’d probably elaborate, “We made it without affirmative action, quotas or any other programs like that.”
I hope the coming Van Jones discussions (there are two more) get into these issues, and clarify some of these questions. Until he, or any of us who care about the state of justice in the United States, does, we won’t get past the barrier that now makes adversaries of people who should be allies.
Starting A Conversation About "Psychopathology in the 2016 Election"
(Friends, I think this article by Michael Lerner, "Psychopathology in the 2016 Election," (published a couple of days ago in Tikkun) is a very important piece. Please take the time to read it. My comments and disagreements are in a letter I sent to Micheal, posted below. Your thoughts would be appreciated!)
I generally am in agreement with your analysis, in "Psychopathology in the 2016 Election," of Trump's appeal. This is an excellent piece, and includes a lot of powerful images and argument. Your use of popular media to illustrate your points is terrific. Please consider making it into a pamphlet, perhaps with illustrative photos and graphs. Should you decide to do that, I offer my editing services (no charge) to strengthen it along the lines of what follows.
Substantively, there are two areas that I think are weak, and could be strengthened without detracting from your major argument.
First, I don't think you sufficiently appreciate the power of democratic participation. See Harry Boyte for elaboration of this. I could write more about it as well.
Second, you continually conflate selfishness and self-interest, robbing yourself, your readers and those who look to you for political leadership of the power of self-interest as a tool to move people away from selfishness toward community. These, from your article, embody my point:
To be a winner in this society requires one to maximize one’s own self-interest, which is often achieved by perfecting the techniques of manipulating others. This is evidenced in ‘reality’ television shows such as The Apprentice, The Bachelor/The Bachelorette, and Survivor that represent a societal assault on generosity and a glorification of selfishness.
The legitimate attempts by liberal and progressive movements to provide well-being and equal rights for oppressed groups were instead described as quests for unfair economic and social advantage, won at the expense of white working-class people whose economic, psychological, and spiritual suffering were the products of these allegedly narrowly focused self-interested groups who didn’t care about the welfare of others.
Here, I think you get it right:
The triumph of selfishness as common sense creates a huge psycho-spiritual crisis and a society filled with deeply scared and lonely people.
Not only do the values of selfishness and materialism that permeate the capitalist marketplace infiltrate people’s personal lives, undermining family stability and causing great distress, but the capitalist society justifies the huge wealth inequalities by convincing people that where they have ended up in the economic struggle of all against all is a function of their own merit—how smart they are, how hard they’ve worked, to what extent they have the personality traits that will ensure their success, etc.
I think these are proper uses of "selfishness," and powerful ones.
I prefer this formulation:
selfishness: concern for self to the exclusion of others
self-interestedness: concern for self in relation to others
selflessness: concern for others to the exclusion of self.
This way of distinguishing selfishness from self-interestedness opens up great opportunities for your case. You now cut yourself off from them.
Here's a story that illustrates my point. When I'm organizing in a low-income, crime-infested, neighborhood, I hear a lot about fear of crime. In response to it, those who can afford to buy external metal doors, bars for their windows, alarm services if they can afford them (which most can't). The problem, of course, is that this approach leaves the streets to the criminals resulting in purse snatchings, car break-ins and muggings. People know that. When I propose they organize themselves to watch over their streets, know their neighbors so that when someone strange goes into a house they know s/he probably doesn't belong in (so call "911"), organize a "block watch" with the local police department, demand increased police protection, etc. I begin with their self-interest--their desire to protect themselves and their neighbors from crime. When they get involved, I can soon get them to support programs for youth--to improve their job opportunities, provide after school recreation programs, etc, etc. But my beginning point is self-interest.
By denying self-interest and conflating it with selfishness, you rob yourself of these kinds of opportunities that are found in community organizing. For that matter, the best of the CIO unions used self-interest as a tool to organize workers into union based on principles of solidarity: "an injury to one is an injury to all", "black-and-white/unite-and-fight", etc.
You write,
But since government itself provides ‘objective caring’ in the form of material benefits, but rarely provides ‘subjective caring’ in the form of treating the recipients of government services with a deep sense of respect and appreciation, it’s all the easier for the Right to foster this resentment at government.
I think a term other than "objective caring" would be better. Perhaps "objective benefits". You make yourself vulnerable to "nanny government" critics when you don't need to.
This point that you make:
Particularly in the post-Civil Rights Movement period of the late ’60s and from then on, the Right has addressed American’s underlying psychological pain of alienation and sense that everyone is out for him or herself, and spiritual longing for meaningful lives, by blaming the most vulnerable in our society, those who were seeking to rectify long histories of oppression—African Americans and other peoples of color, then feminists, gays and lesbians, young people, and more recently undocumented workers and refugees. The Right claimed that these groups were responsible for introducing the selfishness and materialism that was corroding societal values and destroying families.
seems like a stretch to me.
The economism you describe here,
Deeply enmeshed in their own religiophobia, people on the Left rarely open themselves to the possibility that there could be a spiritual crisis in American society.
seems overstated to me. I know a lot of liberals, progressives and leftists who now would agree there is a spiritual crisis in the country. Beware of being dismissive of people who otherwise are your natural allies.
Again, in this,
This gets intensified when the Left fails to expose these dynamics to working-class people, instead dismissing white working-class men as inherently racist, sexist, etc.
you make a blanket indictment of "the Left" which is neither helpful to your cause nor, from my experience, accurate.
This,
Many people are sick and tired of the empty promises of centrist politicians on the Left and Right.
is a rather peculiar formulation. If they're centrists, how can they also be on the left or right? Your later use of "moderate middle" is far better.
There are other places where I think you similarly use to broad a brush in criticizing "the Left;" indeed your anger with the Left runs through the piece in ways which, in general, don't serve your case at all. Which isn't to say that a more nuanced version of the point isn't accurate!
As you would expect, I don't agree with this:
We will need a domestic Empathy Tribe—people who have learned the skills of empathic communication and who are willing to go door-to-door in the old-fashioned style of community organizing, but with a very different message than community organizers conveyed in the past.
I think it also reveals an ignorance of what community organizers "in the past" did or conveyed. (See People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky for a lot more on the point. I co-edited it with Aaron Schutz.)
The fact that you note the absence of your perspective over the past three decades might suggest that there are some errors in how Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives are presenting their case. You, instead, seem only to focus on what's wrong with Sanders, et al. Do I sense powerlessness here? I suspect this problem is in your preliminary vision statement, though I have not yet read it.
I think you will find the piece, "How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind", by David Wong, from Cracked, 10/11/16, of great interest. He claims 4,808,922 views. I think we might learn something from him!
Warm Regards, Mike
80th Birthday Wishes, Recollections and Tributes
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The Trump Voters
(On September 22, 1986, in the pages of the liberal Protestant weekly, Christianity & Crisis, I penned the following thoughts in a review of Tex Sample’s partly autobio-graphical and still-relevant Blue Collar Ministry entitled "Listen to Those Blue-Collar Blues." You can download the full article here.)
Sample’s approach to his subject is broad. [It] begins with a statement of the mainstream culture’s “religion of winning” and takes a good look at the reality of losing and what it does to the losers…Anglo, blue-collar Protestant women and men have no [discrimination against them] on which to hang their hats. They lack a cultural notion of peoplehood that might be a source of pride; they lack the political, economic, and moral concepts of citizenship, class, and equality that might provide them with a sense of outrage and injustice about the status quo. The concept of class might help them understand their position, but that idea is not considered legitimate by mainstream America. America’s TV talk shows feature no Julian Bonds or Gloria Steinems who can give visibility to this group of Americans. If we can appreciate this, we begin to appreciate the pain of this group. We begin to understand the arrogance of the “redneck” characterization. Self-blame is not only the phenomenon of highly marginal people. It is also the conclusion blue-collar Americans frequently draw when they wonder why success has passed them by...
Sample’s intention is not just to empathize or to understand—though he is excellent at both. His primary purpose is to argue that churches involved in efforts to bring about a more just society must include his people in their thinking and strategy. Their powerlessness and alienation are as important as anyone’s.
Sample identified broadly-based community organizing “as an important vehicle” to overcome this powerlessness and alienation. He could have added union organizing as well because,
organizing [is a] basis for overcoming “the hidden injuries of class, the subjective feelings of alienation, loss of dignity, and sense of failure” of this politically volatile and important group of people...
The Reagan/Republican strategy has been to assume the alienation and relatively low participation of lower-income and minority voters and to build instead an electoral coalition consisting of the middle-class, upper-income voters, and the majority of the white working class. This strategy has been successful.
A [reason for this success is that] most white working-class Americans…blame the new persons at the table who want a piece of [a shrinking] pie for their predicament. It follows that they resent them.
[Another reason for Republican success] is to be found in the arrogance toward blue-collar whites frequently found in liberal and radical intellectual and political circles and in some of the leadership of minority communities and the women’s movement.
Nothing much has changed since 1986. We are now reaping the results in the phenomenon of Donald Trump. When people with real grievances aren’t organized in a small “d” democratic way, in organization rooted in democratic values, they are susceptible to being mobilized by a demagogue: Donald Trump. They are also susceptible to being organized in a way that gives vent to their hostility to The Other: the Tea Party.
A widespread strategy is to write this group off, and count on the country’s changing demography: soon a majority will be people of color. This strategy has two problems: for the most part, those who lead it are reluctant-to-unwilling to challenge the present concentration of power and wealth in the country because they are often the beneficiaries of its trickle-down economics in the form of foundation, government and corporate grants for their narrowly-defined programs.
They are also unwilling to support organizing a constituency from which they are now deeply alienated because to do so would require developing relationships with that constituency rather than judging and making a caricature of it.
Finally, they are reluctant because a program that might encompass the interests of both would also be a program that challenges some of their patrons and sponsors. For example: the corporate profiteers of charter schools.
In part because of this history, Bernie Sanders didn’t do too well among voters who would have been well-served by his program. But my interest is not in electoral mobilization, it is in the kind of on-going small “d” democratic and democratic values-based organizing identified above. I hope the Trump primary victory and electoral success (even in defeat) will awaken new interest in this kind of organizing.
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Over the years I have often been asked how and why I joined the Orthodox Church. It is an experience which I myself have only come to understand with time and have long struggled to express. Below is my answer to the question, an answer which I have only in recent years been able to put into words. To some it may sound mysterious, but this is as near as I can come to eloquence in this matter.
Since every story is told better if it is told from the beginning, I will begin at the beginning.
My forebears on my father’s side of the family come from an old village in Suffolk in the east of England, near the market-town of Haverhill. Called Kedington, but known locally as Ketton, it is situated in the Stour valley of south-west Suffolk, close to the borders with Essex and Cambridgeshire.
The village is famous for the Kedington cross which, according to tradition, was miraculously found there in about the year 700. The stone cross depicts Christ, crucified but reigning in glory and victory over death. It can be seen in Kedington’s still beautiful ancient church of Sts Peter and Paul, which has been called the ‘Cathedral of West Suffolk’. This church is also famous for the memorials to the Barnardiston family, who have lived nearby since long before the Norman Occupation of 1066.
The family-tree has been traced back to 1570 by a second cousin who still lives only two miles from Kedington. In that year, my eleven times great-grandfather, Edmund Filipp, married an Elizabeth Sheldracke in Kedington. Filipp is the original spelling – Phillips spelled with a double l is a mistake that appeared in about 1620. The Filipp motto is ‘ducit amor patriae’ – ‘the love of my country leads me’. The descendants of the Filipp family, for five generations each one was called Edmund, were all farmworkers, all came from Kedington and married, either in Kedington, or else in the next parish of Sturmer, on the Essex side of the border.
The discovery of the repeated baptismal name of these ancestors did not surprise me, it only confirmed what I had long thought. It indicates just how long the veneration of St Edmund continued here after the Reformation, as a kind of folk-memory. The fact is that almost all west Suffolk was once part of the so-called ‘Liberty’ of St Edmund. This comprised the lands free of secular landowners and tax, as they belonged to the great monastery of St Edmund, fourteen miles away from Kedington in Bury St Edmunds.
During the First World War Edmund’s descendants, my grandparents, left their family home. They crossed the Suffolk border of the River Stour and headed eight miles into north Essex in pursuit of work. There my father, the third of eight children, was born and grew up in the medieval wool and lace town of Coggeshall. That was where I spent my childhood too, a few doors from where he had grown up. This was by Abbey Lane leading to the old monastery there, which had been ruined by the wicked Henry over four hundred years before. There I can remember the last cart-horses and the milkmaid in her cottage. There I can remember an old lady who taught me how the new calendar, introduced in England in 1752, is wrong. She knew, for her grandfather’s grandfather had told her father, who had told her.
This part of north Essex always looked to Suffolk and local prosperity was based on the traditional wealth of East Anglia and indeed of all England – wool. Even today the dialects of north Essex and south Suffolk, spoken by the old people in the villages, are almost indistinguishable. This can also be seen in the ancient reverence for St Edmund on both sides of the Stour valley. Like my father before me, as a child I often visited my Suffolk family and links were maintained. I can remember going to Bury St Edmunds with various great uncles and great aunts and visiting the old Abbey Gardens. I can remember their sense of simple reverence in the ruins there; somewhere, unconsciously in their spirits, they too were descendants of the old pilgrims.
In childhood I was haunted by this spirit of St Edmund, he was there with me in that part of the countryside on the Essex-Suffolk border. I sensed his spirit beyond every hill and field, every tree and cloud, and I realized that this was also the spirit of something much greater than anything on earth. I sensed Paradise just beyond everyday reality and knew that however beautiful that reality was, it was still only a shadow of the beauty just beyond it. Later, seeking that spirit, I was unable to find it anywhere else, even in places that I had thought might possess it, like local churches.
In fact I was to find that spirit, but in the most unexpected of places – in Russian literature, which I had begun reading at the age of twelve. By the age of fourteen I realized that that spirit of Pushkin, Tyuchev and Turgenev was not the spirit of Russian literature in itself, but it was the spirit bestowed on it by the Orthodox Church. Meeting church-minded White Russians at that time confirmed this. The spiritually sensitive among them also had the same spirit. What for me was the spirit of St Edmund, for them was the spirit of St Seraphim or St Sergius, it was the spirit of the saints, the spirit of Orthodoxy, which had so impregnated Russian culture. I realized that the spirit of the true West is also the spirit of Eternal Russia.
This is how I became Orthodox, for I realized then that my personal destiny must lie in the greater destiny of the Orthodox Church, the Church of the saints, of which England had once been part. However strange my conclusion, it was the only logical and inescapable conclusion that I could reach. This had been confirmed by the first opportunity I had to visit an Orthodox church. On entering, I had at once felt that I had been there all along. This had always been my home. The Orthodox Church was the only way in which I could find St Edmund and re-enter into the spirit of my childhood, the spirit of St Edmund. It is by this spirit that I lived and live and always will live. It is in my flesh and blood and bones. It is in my heart and soul.
It is also the spirit which I have found elsewhere in my travels in the world. It is possessed also, for example, by faithful White Russians in Paris, with whom my wife grew up. It is possessed by other faithful Orthodox around the world. I have met that spirit in the valleys of Bulgaria, in the towns of Greece, in the villages of Serbia, in the churches of Russia, and in many places on God’s earth, for it is also in the roots of all Western Europe. It is in the crofts of Scotland, among the peasants of Brittany, in the mountains of Norway, in the memories of Austria, in the old white churches of Portugal, wherever the spirit of the saints is to be found. It is this spirit which teaches sympathy with other peoples and other ways, taking beyond the outward differences to the inward spirit. I have felt at home in all these places, because they all shared in the same spirit of St Edmund.
Thus, despite all the outward differences, I have found that spirit of St Edmund and the same values elsewhere. It is the spirit of the saints, old and new, giving utterance to the pure values of Christ, Who lives in the Orthodox Church, and it is faithfully embodied in human cultures in many, many lands. I believe that if in England we had remained faithful to the spirit and culture of St Edmund, then the whole English Church would still today be one with, and so in communion with, the rest of the Orthodox Church.
When in 1997 I returned to England after a long pilgrimage to those many lands, I had hoped to live in Bury St Edmunds. That was not given to me; God did not grant me that grace. But it was granted to us to go to that other sainted place of Suffolk, to the town of St Felix, who had first brought the Faith of St Edmund to this land. For this grace I also thank God. As the Suffolk poet, John Muriel, wrote forty-five years ago:
So, I have come home,
After my business,
To the place I was born;
To the lilting speech,
The endless skies,
The eternal morn.
I have come back
To the heavy ploughland,
To the seas which wash up
To the countryman’s doorstep;
To the land of the Saints
And the Martyrs.
Yes, I have come home
The endless sea
So I pray to our Saints,
St Felix, St Edmund
That they, in their mercy
Will look after me.
Fr Andrew,
Seekings House
29 June/12 July
Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul 2004
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New minimum wage code Bill: Good news for 4 crore workers but be ready for the bad news too
The good news first. If the new wage code Bill approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday is passed in its entirety by Parliament, it will certainly benefit an estimated 4 crore employees in the country across all sectors. According to labour law experts, until now, only the wages of workers in the central sphere was being decided by the central government while that in the state sphere by different states. Consequently, there was no uniformity.
There was no proper methodology to arrive at the wages of unskilled workers across sectors factoring in the changes in cost of living. What the new wage code Bill primarily does is to empower the Centre to set a higher minimum wage that is uniform for all employees across all sectors in the country. States will be bound to maintain the threshold decided by the Centre. Hopefully, this will work in a more scientific manner considering all parameters concerning this segment.
Technically, the new code roll is four different Acts rolled into one -- the Minimum Wages Act, 1948; the Payment of Wages Act, 1936; the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965; and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976. Traditionally, the wage conditions of unskilled workers who are outside the central sphere are pathetic. Hence this Bill comes as good news to them. It is not clear whether the new wage code will benefit contract workers as well besides employees who are on the rolls. Ideally it should, said Anshul Prakash, Partner at Khaitan & Co. “A worker may be on rolls or on contract, but if the minimum wage rule is properly implemented, the employer will have to treat the contract labourer at par with regular employee,” said Prakash.
Representational image. Reuters
According to government data, as on 31 March 2015, the number of contract workers engaged in the central sphere was 19,03,170 while the figure for contract workers working in the state sphere was not centrally maintained. The contract workers are governed by the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 that covers only those establishments and contractors that employ 20 or more workmen on any day of the preceding 12 months. The new Bill will benefit not just those earning less than Rs 18,000 but all category of workers. Right now, the minimum wage rules are applied to only those who earn less than Rs 18,000 both at central and state spheres. Hence, the workers across states and sectors should be happy about the new wage code.
But, they should be prepared for potential bad news too.
For one, majority of Indian companies are smaller in size with less than 50 employees. As this Financial Express report highlights, the latest Economic Survey had some figures on this. Going by it, about 78 percent of Indian firms employ under 50 workers and just 10 percent employ more than 500 — the comparable figures for China are 15 percent and 28 percent.
The smaller companies falling under the employee-threshold operate in different states and varying business environments, may not be in a position to comply with the minimum wage rules, particularly those in economically backward states like North East region. These firms are already struggling on account of a prolonged slowdown in the economy, demonetisation-induced cash crunch and the short-term pain of migrating to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. Industries may also face severe financial difficulties that will force them to take drastic steps.
“If these firms are pushed to the corner on the minimum wage issue, they may simply go for large-scale staff layoffs and automation,” cautioned Prakash of Khaitan & Co.
Secondly, implementation of the minimum wage rule across sectors and states will be a tricky challenge. Labour is a subject in the concurrent list and states take into account different parameters while deciding the wage structure of workers. There is a possibility that some state governments may raise objections.
Since more number of states are now ruled by the BJP or parties with whom it has bargaining power, states’ resistance may not be a big issue. But ensuring that all companies across sectors follow the minimum wage rules will be a herculean task, even with the deployment of wage inspectors. We don’t have the machinery as of now to do this. The infrastructure for implementation of the rule needs to be created to ensure that employees get the benefit of the new wage code. Asking companies to make all payments directly to beneficiary bank accounts could help.
This time, the Modi government may not have any issues with the trade unions on this since the unions will be more than happy to see a centralised minimum wage structure taking shape. Looking at the larger picture, the new wage code is one part of the reforms needed to modernize the archaic labour laws in India, and hence a step in the right direction.
To make the new wage code a reality, the Modi government will have to, a) generate political consensus; b) work on creating an infrastructure to ensure implementation; and c) talk to state governments about the nuances of the new wage structure. It is a long process. Until then, the four crore employees will have to keep their fingers crossed.
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Cell Medica given $8.7 million to develop cancer therapy
Cell Medica has been awarded a $8.7 million Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grant to accelerate its CMD-502 off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor-natural killer T cell (CAR-NKT) cell therapy into clinical development.
The grant will support development programs being conducted in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) that are designed to address the limitations of the current therapies.
The aim of the program is to deliver an off-the-shelf approach, with simplified manufacturing that can serve larger patient numbers, and which allows treatment closer to the time of patient presentation and currently includes four therapies in early-stage development.
The a first-in-human study is expected to start in the second half of 2019, called the ANCHOR study. It will be a dose escalation evaluation of CMD-502 in adults with relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Dr Carlos Ramos, associate Professor, Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy, at BCM and principal investigator in Phase I ANCHOR study, added: “It has been a great pleasure working with the multi-disciplinary team at Cell Medica in the development of its versatile CAR-NKT platform. Off-the-shelf CAR-NKT cell therapy has the potential to become a better and simpler approach to CAR therapy for patients with hematological and solid tumours.
“Although existing autologous CAR-T cell therapies have demonstrated impressive response rates, the patient-specific manufacturing process is technically challenging, costly, and time-consuming, and comes with complex logistics and substantial treatment delays. The unique properties of NKT cells bring the potential to solve these challenges.”
CPRIT already awarded a $15.3 million grant to Cell Medica in 2012, to support the establishment of operations in Houston, Texas, and fund earlier development programmes.
Cell Medica drug gets orphan status
Cell Medica gets £50 million funding boost
EU orphan status for Cell Medica drug
Cell Medica links with UCL in research deal
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MSD’s Keytruda wins EU green light in Hodgkin lymphoma
European regulators have expanded the reach of MSD’s Keytruda to include some patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), a type of lymphoma that develops in white blood cells.
The decision means that doctors will be able to prescribe the anti-PD-1 therapy to treat adults with relapsed or refractory cHL who have failed autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) and brentuximab vedotin (BV), or who are transplant-ineligible and have failed BV.
“For patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma who have not been successfully treated with prior therapies – many of whom are young and have a poor prognosis - there are limited options and treating the disease poses significant challenges,” said Pier Luigi Zinzani, associate professor of haematology, Institute of Haematology, University of Bologna. “With this approval, we will now be able to provide these patients with a much-needed new treatment option.”
Clearance in this setting was based on data from the KEYNOTE-087 and KEYNOTE-013 trials, which included patients regardless of the PD-L1 expression. KEYNOTE-087 showed an objective response rate (ORR) of 69 percent in the Keytruda (pembrolizumab) arm with a complete response rate (CRR) of 22 percent and a partial remission rate (PRR) of 47 percent. KEYNOTE-013 showed an ORR of 58 percent, CRR of 19 percent and a PRR of 39 percent.
On the safety side, the most common adverse reactions (greater than 10 percent) observed in patients taking Keytruda were fatigue (22 percent), pruritus (15 percent), rash (13 percent), diarrhoea (12 percent) and nausea (10 percent). The majority of adverse reactions reported were of Grade one or two severity, the firm noted.
The drug - a humanised monoclonal antibody that blocks the interaction between PD-1 and its ligands, thereby activating T lymphocytes which may affect both tumour cells and healthy cells - is already approved in Europe across lung cancer and melanoma indications.
MSD’s Keytruda closer to classical Hodgkin Lymphoma nod
US approves Merck’s Keytruda for Hodgkin lymphoma
‘Extraordinary growth’ on the cards for cancer immunotherapies
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Tag Archives: China
Notes from Chengdu
December 10, 2014 Pedagogy, TraveloguesChengdu, China, SichuanScott McBride Smith
A lesson at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province in China, home of what used to be called “Szechuan Cuisine” or, as my nephew calls it, “Chinese food that will blow the top of your head off”. Luckily, since I have been there several times, I like spicy food.
Chengdu is also the home of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, by many accounts the largest school of music in the world. 18,000 music majors, I was told (the website says over 14,000), 800 piano majors and over 30 piano teachers. When I visit I teach on the eighth floor of a fairly sizeable skyscraper, one of many such buildings on the Conservatory Campus, and stay at the Philharmonic Hotel, also owned by the school.
I heard many talented students during my visit this year and I found the playing very sophisticated. In some ways, more so than some playing I hear in the U.S. What struck me most of all was students’ sophisticated use of the damper pedal: full pedal, half pedal, with and without gradual release, finger pedal and no pedal, which of course is a color all its own.
I’m going to work more on this with my own students.
Notes from Dalian
November 19, 2014 Repertoire, TraveloguesCécile Chaminade, China, Dalian, IMSLP, Shenyang ConservatoryScott McBride Smith
With a student from the the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in Dalian
Who knew I had to come to China to hear pieces by an almost forgotten French woman composer? It happened. After three days of teaching at the Dalian branch of the Shenyang Conservatory, I have a new liking for the works of Cécile Chaminade.
The name rang a distant bell when I first took a look at the repertoire list. I vaguely remember Chaminade’s Scarf Dance from a faded anthology dating to my Mom’s girlhood that she kept on our upright piano when I was a boy. Time to learn more!
Chaminade, like so many 19th-century women musicians, had to struggle to be taken seriously. He father at first refused to allow her to pursue serious music study. Once launched, her success was immediate, both as a composer and pianist. Isidor Phillip, the head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory, championed her work. Legendary French singers Blanche Marchesi and Pol Plançon sang in her premieres.
Her arrival in the U.S. in 1908 created a sensation. “Chaminade Clubs” formed in major cities to support her work and she became one of the most published of all women composers. She received awards from Queen Victoria, the Sultan of Turkey and in 1913 was named a member of the prestigious Légion d’honneur, the first woman composer so honored.
All of this faded after World War I, her work increasingly viewed as a dated relic from a bygone era. She died in obscurity in 1944.
What are her pieces like? Jonathan Summers, in the Naxos database, describes them as “beautifully crafted, aiming to please and charm their audience” and her playing as characterized by a “fluid technique and nonchalant style of chic and charm”. The works I heard are all of that. Furthermore, they not quite as hard as they sound and are well written for the hand. Take a look at Autrefois and Automne, which were in the repertoire of Leopold Godowsky and Shura Cherkassky. There is an appealing Chaminade Album on IMSLP that contains some lovely works.
Notes from Shanghai
November 14, 2014 Pedagogy, TraveloguesChina, ShanghaiScott McBride Smith
With friends in Shanghai, my first stop in my 2014 trip to China
It doesn’t seem that long ago, but it has been. I’ve been coming to Asia to teach for 25 years!
Early days were an adventure. The “spirited” (I choose this word judiciously) driving made getting around quite an undertaking. Traffic hasn’t changed much—it took about an hour to smooth my hair after a wild taxi ride to Pudong Airport! But the students here haven’t changed, either. Almost all of them are dedicated, hard working and eager to learn.
In the last few years, there seems to be something new in the air: an interest in piano pedagogy. Everywhere I go and at every institution I teach I get asked how we can do a better job training piano teachers. This is an issue in both the USA and many of the Asian countries: lots of talented and motivated music students simply don’t have access to top-level teaching.
What makes excellent teaching really “top level”? My answer may surprise you: focus on basics. What I often see instead is an emphasis on coaching repertoire, without enough focus on “how”: “how” to learn pieces; “how” to practice; “how” to build a technique; “how” to build an interpretation; and “how” to prepare a performance.
There has been a wealth of research on all these topics over the last 25 years. How sad that this information is not better known to piano teachers. I’m a man on a mission. Research. Basics. Teach them. The piano world will be a better place.
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SVSU - Men Finish Fifth at Al Owen Classic, Women Twelfth Overall
Provided by SVSU
ALLENDALE — The SVSU Track and Field team finished competition at the Al Owen Classic. The men's team finished fifth overall, while the women took a 12th place finish. Here are the individual times and results below.
Day One Results:
Lilian Francisco, a member of both the track and field team as well as the swim and dive team, finished the hammer throw with a distance of 32.37 meters.
Taylor Lucas finished 12th in the women's triple jump competition with a 10 meter jump. Donna Jean Eschenbacher followed closely behind in 13th place at 9.83 meters.
Nicklas Endres recorded a distance of 46.76 meters, finishing 13th, in the men's hammer throw.
Noah VanderVeen had a first place finish in the men's triple jump competition with a 13.73 meters mark. That tops his old best mark of 13.37 meters in the event.
Jonathan Johnson was close behind VanderVeen with a 13.14 meter total and a fifth place finish.
Day Two Results:
Sam Warren took 12th in the women's 200m dash.
Lauren Wellman notched a 31st place finish with a time of 1:04.84.
In the women's 1500m race, Jenna Keiser ran a 4:51.14, finishing 22nd overall. Sydney Kreger followed closely behind, finishing 26th.
During the 5000 meter run, Isabella Garcia ran a 18:56.11, followed by Kinzie Sikkema, with a time of 19:28.06. Lastly, Rebecca Estep finished with 19:42.26 and Madison Dean with a 20:12.71 in the same race. Kylie Sikkema added a 45th place finish, as well.
Lauren Huebner took home third in the 400 meter hurdles with a NCAA provisional time of 1:02.00.
Warren Huebner, Eschenbacher and Lucas took fifth in the women's 4x100.
In the 4x400 relay, Sarah Rezler, Warren, Kreger and Wellman, finished 11th running a 4:14.69.
Rezler finished sixth in the women's high jump competition with a jump of 1.55m. Jaden Liedel finished with a height of 1.45m.
Brooke Sutyak added a finishing height of 3.11m.
Eschenbacher finished 10th in the long jump competition finishing with 5.20m and 14th in the triple jump. Lucas finished 19th overall in the long jump and 12th in the triple jump.
In the shot put competition, Francisco finished 19th with a 10.27m throw.
In the men's 100 meter dash, Jamelle Russell finished with a time of 11.44, Johnathan Johnson, 11.71, followed by Vincent Fochesato, finishing 26th. Joe Thwing rounded out the SVSU runners in the 100m dash with a time of 12.03.
Juan Bowers finished fourth in the men's 200m dash with a time of 21.97. Carter Eckhardt followed with a time of 22.16, finishing sixth. Russell recorded a 16th place finish, while Fochesato finished 32nd overall.
VanderVeen finished ninth in the 400m dash with a time of 49.97. Travon Phillips finished 19th overall.
Rob Roest notched a 4:21.81 time in the 1500m race.
In the 5000m run, Tellis Donajkowski ran a 15:58.08.
In the men's 400 hurdles, Andrew Mudd added a second place finish with a time of 53.67. Cordel Richardson finished 12th in the same race.
Kavi Kulkarni ran a 10:57.61 in the 3000m steeple chase.
In the men's 4x400 race, Saginaw Valley's A team finished first with a time of 3:16.78. Eckhardt, Black, Bowers, and Mudd, where on the team.
In the men's high jump, VanderVeen notched a 2.08m provisional jump, finishing first overall. Johnson finished 10th.
Kulhanek finished with a 4.21m in the men's pole vaulting competition.
Black finished 10th in the men's long jump competition, finishing with a 6.35m distance. Thwing finished 26th overall.
Black added a 20th place finish in the men's discus throw with a 35.36m throw.
Endres finished 13th in the men's hammer throw with a 46.76m distance.
Overall Team Finishes
The women's team has finished 12th over 17 teams in attendance. The men's team finished fifth out of 25 teams at the Al Owen Classic.
On Thursday, the Cardinals will head over to Hillsdale College. They will host the three day Gina Relays. Follow online for recaps and highlights after each day of completed competitions.
@SVtfxc | #SVSUTF| @SVSUAthletics | #GoSVSU
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Annual PAC Members
RightNOW Women Candidates
Though RightNOW Women PAC is a newer organization, many of those involved in the PAC’s launch first got together in the 1990’s to engage more young women in politics.
After the 2012 Presidential election, it became clear that to win more seats in 2014, we would need to increase our efforts to more directly impact center-right candidates and causes. We need to increase support for more Republican women to get elected to federal office.
As we have seen recently in the 2018 midterm elections, Republicans are not winning the women’s vote, particularly unmarried women under 30 where we continue to lose by wide margins. One of the ways to combat this is to increase the number of Republican women holding elected office. Currently, Republican women hold only 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and eight in the U.S. Senate. By comparison, Democratic women hold 89 seats in the House and 17 in the Senate. We can and must do better by ensuring that Republican women candidates have the early resources and support they need to make it across the finish line.
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My Current Song Obsessions- from Sons of Texas and Nothing More
On my ride to and from school each day, I dj from my dad’s phone partly to avoid conversation and partly to decompress after an extended period of listening to school lectures. Sometimes, I find myself listening to a few select songs on repeat, to the point where I fear my dad will kill me the next time they are played.
Currently, I am obsessing over two songs, both with addicting melodies and heart-throbbing lyrics.
"September" by Sons of Texas
Mark Morales, vocalist of Sons of Texas at Rocklahoma 2015
Sons of Texas, an up-and-coming band from McAllen, Texas, released their first album Baptized in the Rio Grande in March of this year. The work of genius features the title track anthem along with hard-hitting “Never Bury the Hatchet” and the heart-rending “Breathing Through My Wounds.” However, my favorite song on the album is “September,” a moving song about a single mother raising her children.
Lead singer Mark Morales’ vocals roll down the strings of a guitar like tears; the guitar riff is delicate with a lamenting, somber tone. “September” is the soundtrack to my daydreams. Listen:
"Fell In Love With A Ghost" by Nothing More
Johnny Hawkins, lead vocalist of Nothing More at Rocklahoma 2014
From Nothing More’s debut album The Few Not Fleeting, “He Fell In Love With A Ghost” mixes different moods and styles to convey the frustration of living with an alcoholic partner. Just read the lyrics to the chorus:
Sober in my dreams, you're dead in real life.
What goes through my mind
Is how you used to be so alive
And now you’re fighting just to put the bottle down,
PUT THAT BOTTLE DOWN!
The mood changes from sad to angry to frustrated to reminiscent, and touches on every emotion in between. Listening to the song, I feel the exasperations and disappointments of the singer. Enjoy:
Zoe Adler is a music journalist from Long Beach, California. Besides her website, which is her pride and joy, she works with the GRAMMY Foundation and the Long Beach Independent. Additionally, Ms. Adler is a musician, spending half of her time playing the flute, piccolo, trombone, and marching baritone. She has been with TeenView Music since the very start and hopes to make something of it in the future.
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Alache’ – The Chronicles of the Mrs. review
Dave February 19, 2016 Album Reviews
After five years of being away from the music scene, Washington DC based Alaché has returned with a 7 track EP, The Chronicles of The Mrs. On a personal level, these past five years have brought significant changes to Alaché as she married her husband and has become the mother of two girls.
The Chronicles of The Mrs. brings wide range of music styles. The best description being urban based pop worship. It’s only the softly delicate voice of Alaché gives the EP a sense of continuity and defined purpose. Instrumentally simplistic, the digitally created music fails to give impact to the solid lyrics. Personal struggles take precedence on the EP. Spiritual renewal (“Awaken Me”), retreating into God’s sanctuary (“Hiding Place”), confusion (“Same Tears Different Pain”).
The EP delivers a pair of solid tracks that pull The Chronicles of The Mrs. out of mediocrity. Ron Kenoly, Jr. joins Alaché for a duet on “Heaven’s Angel”. The song deliver a powerfully heartfelt account of dealing with depression after the death of a loved one, but accepting the assurance of meeting once again in heaven. The best of The Chronicles of The Mrs., is found in the opening song, “Another Day”. EDM driven with a bouncing dance beat gives the background for expressing love an thankfulness to the Father for being able to see another day.
While the new release is memorable, it’s unfortunate that Alaché fails to find a common musical platform on The Chronicles of The Mrs.. Perhaps another half decade will allow her to discover a new and dedicated focus.
The Chronicles of The Mrs. is available through iTunes.
Alaché The Chronicle of The Mrs.
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We currently advertise through two online sites, eTeach and the Catholic Teacher's Gazette.
Visits to the school are welcome, please get in touch.
St Cecilia's Working With Us - Interest Form
We welcome a number of trainee teachers to St Cecilia's each year, we work closely with two main providers, St. Mary's University College and Roehampton, see the links below. They offer clear routes into teaching through their degree and postgraduate courses. For more information please contact them directly
St. Mary's University College
Our Head Teacher, Mr Burke graduated from St. Mary's - students and alumni are known as Simmarians and we are proud that St. Cecilia's has a long tradition of working closely with the college to support the next generation of teachers.
University of Roehampton, London
Mrs Martin, the Assistant Head Teacher trained at the University of Roehampton, the University is close to our school and it offers a range of courses through the School of Education.
Getting into Teaching - DFE
For more information from the Department for Education about getting into teaching, have a look at their website:
Teach First
Whilst St. Cecilia's is not eligible for the Teach First programme, you may find the
programme valuable.
We have a large support staff who work alongside children to help them learn effectively. Some staff work with the class in general and with small groups of children. Others are specialist staff who work alongside children with special education needs or disability. Classroom based non teaching staff usually need to have a minimum of English and Maths at GCSE.
This video from Unison provides a useful insight in to the work of school support staff.
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Countywide police activities
Police Fire and Court
Following are complaints handled by police agencies in Lycoming County, as provided by the county Emergency Communications Center:
1:14 a.m., intoxicated person, 1000 block of Thompson Street, Jersey Shore Borough.
7:58 a.m., reckless/intoxicated driver, 6400 block of Route 405, Clinton Township.
10:50 a.m., theft, 1200 block of Allegheny Street, Jersey Shore Borough.
11:28 a.m., theft, 300 block of Glenwood Avenue, Williamsport.
11:29 a.m., theft, 20 block of North Main Street, Hughesviille Borough.
12:14 p.m., harassment, 700 block of Mulberry Street, Montoursville Borough.
12:17 p.m., disturbance, 600 block of Thompson Street, Jersey Shore Borough.
12:29 p.m., harassment by communications, 200 block of Route 15, South Williamsport.
12:58 p.m., shoplifter, 200 block of William Street, Williamsport.
2:51 p.m., reckless/intoxicated driver, 1000 block of North Loyalsock Avenue, Montoursville Borough.
3:29 p.m., reckless/intoxicated driver, 500 block of Route 15, South Williamsport.
4:03 p.m., criminal mischief, 600 block of Beeber Street, Williamsport.
4:04 p.m., shoplifter, 200 block of William Street, Williamsport.
4:05 p.m., hold up, 300 block of South Lycoming Mall Road, Muncy Borough.
7:41 p.m., disturbance, 100 block of Smith Court Circle, Piatt Township.
8:34 p.m., burglary, 700 block of Diamond Street, Williamsport.
9:33 p.m., reckless/intoxicated driver, Market North Street and Interstate 180 Ramp, Williamsport.
9:45 p.m., intoxicated person, 3700 block of Lycoming Creek Road, Lycoming Township.
10:08 p.m., robbery, 1500 block of Scott Street, Williamsport.
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