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NIHR Global Health Research in Medecine Group on integrated approaches for the prevention & management of non-communicable diseases & HIV-infection in Africa
HIV, diabetes and hypertension are major determinants of the massive and rising burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa and provision of accessible effective care for these conditions is probably Africa’s biggest health challenge.
Our group will build a programme of research to define integrated approaches for the prevention and management in HIV, diabetes and hypertension that are suitable for the local context of limited health care staff and resources and the challenges that patients face in accessing care. In a short period of time, our group will conduct the first rigorously conducted large-scale research studies to inform chronic health care management in Africa.
The objectives are:
1). To develop a partnership between the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Foto-Cewek), African researchers in Uganda (MRC/UVRI Uganda Research in Medecine Unit) and Tanzania (National Institutes of Health), health policy makers and programme managers, patient groups and community representatives and engage with other stakeholders to conduct research that has maximum immediate benefit on patient outcomes in Africa.
2). To develop and strengthen capacity in non-communicable diseases and in research methods, particularly in epidemiology, statistics, health economics and social science, both at Foto-Cewek and at our partner institutions in Africa.
3). To conduct early phase (pilot) studies and assess how diagnostic and treatment services for HIV- infection, diabetes and hypertension should be integrated at health facilities, how these integrated services should be decentralised, how task-shifting should be organised and how patients should be supported and monitored.
Our vision is that the future studies will be large-scale comparative studies evaluating different approaches of prevention and management for major chronic conditions. We will focus on rigorous policy-relevant research that has a maximum immediate benefit for patients.
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Electrify America to deploy Tesla Powerpacks to offset charging costs
Mateen Dalal February 6, 2019 Technology & Services
The move will offer EV owners a faster and cheaper charging capability particularly at peak demand hours.
VW’s EV charging unit, Electrify America, as part of its settlement with the U.S. regulators over the controversial diesel emissions scandal, has recently announced plans to set up Tesla Powerpack battery systems at more than 100 of its EV charging stations in 2019.
As per a statement, the firm said that it will be deploying Tesla’s Powerpack systems that consists of a 210-kW battery system with a capacity of around 350 kWh at its charging stations. It said that the charging system will be designed to be modular in order to increase the capacity as per requirement.
Apparently, Electrify America aims to use Tesla Powerpacks to lower the cost of charging for customers. Currently, EV owners face high costs mainly while charging vehicles during peak demand hours. However, with Tesla Powerpack battery systems energy storing capability in the picture, owners would be able to charge their vehicles easily during peak demand hours at an affordable cost.
According to TechCrunch, Giovanni Palazzo, CEO, Electrify America, said that their EV stations offer some of the most technologically advanced charging capabilities currently available in the market. He said that Tesla’s Powerpack system is an ideal fit for their plans given the EV giant’s global expertise in both EV charging and battery storage development.
For the record, the charging system designed by Electrify America features liquid cooled-cable 350 kW chargers which theoretically can charge a vehicle at speeds up to 20 miles/minute, seven times faster than the current most commonly used 50 kW fast chargers.
Reportedly, Electrify America claims its charging stations and electrical systems are designed in a way to enable future upgrades.
Reliable reports cite that the company has committed to investing around $2 billion over the period of 10 years in clean energy infrastructure and education and expects to have 484 EV charging stations with over 2,000 charging point which will be either installed or will be under construction by July 1st, 2019.
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Mateen currently works as an Associate Content Writer covering news on freeautomotivenews.com and several other news portals. An electronics and telecommunication engineer by profession, he boasts of a professional stint in the electronics industry, post which he switched his career to writing. His other areas of interest include martial arts, swimming and gaming.
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Meet Kerry Spears - Our November Spotlight speaker!
Monday, October 30, 2017 1:19 PM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Born and raised in southern New Hampshire, Kerry Spears has always had a love for old homes, beautiful details and classic character. After living in Charleston, SC, she discovered her love only grew fonder for the charm of historical architecture. Kerry decided to pursue a career in interior design and work as a design assistant, where she learned the ins and outs of the business. Through a passion for beautiful homes and an innate skill for aesthetics, Kerry Spears Interiors was brought to life.
Kerry Spears Interiors is a full-scale interior design firm with a fresh aesthetic and a passion for details. She specializes in finish and decor selections, home renovations and new construction. Each aspect of the project is tailored toward the client and their distinctive lifestyle to create a comfortable, personal and functional space. Between the color on the walls and the fabric on the furniture, she will design a space that is uniquely yours. She works from initial ideas all the way through the completion of the project and considers every detail along the way. Kerry’s signature style fuses traditional interiors with a fresh, modern flair. Her style is ever evolving as she stays on top of trends to incorporate them into her clients’ homes in a timeless way.
Kerry Spears Interiors also offers e-design services. These are projects done solely through communication over the phone, email and Facetime, allowing projects to be completed anywhere.
Kerry has worked on projects all over the United States, including Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. She currently lives in Gainesville, FL with her husband, Reid, and Mini Bernedoodle, Louie.
Some of Kerry’s completed projects will be featured in Home Magazine Gainesville throughout 2018.
You can find a portfolio of Kerry’s work and contact information at www.kerryspearsinteriors.com.
October Spotlight Winner - Ronnie Lovler!
Tuesday, October 03, 2017 11:41 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Ronnie spent a lot of time in Latin America but for the last few years, Gainesville has been her home. It’s her second time around here. "I like Gainesville, and I like having Gainesville be the place I come home to when I return from a trip (I also really like to travel!)."
Ronnie is about to have a chapter published in an anthology that focuses on women who have spent time in Latin America, Women Travel Alone Together, with a likely publication date in early 2018.
Like so many of us she multi-tasks constantly, but a lot of her focus these days is on her small business as an editor, writer and translator. As a copyeditor, she has particular expertise in editing the works of journalists, scholars and researchers for whom English is a second language. She has also edited two memoirs by Puerto Rican authors, an environmental education book by a group of authors at Cornell University, and is now editing a book on reggaeton.
She is always looking for more editing, translating or writing work, not just for the money, which obviously counts, but also because she really enjoys the work! When she edits, writes or translates, she learns a lot about the subject at hand and that brings her a lot of satisfaction. She is a veteran journalist who was a correspondent and bureau chief for CNN based in Nicaragua and Chile from 1987 through 1996. She got to Nicaragua as a freelancer in 1984. Her work in Latin America included reporting from all the countries in the region.
She was a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Colombia from 2011 to 2012. She was also the recipient of a grant from Transparency International in Colombia in 2013. Her projects focused on digital tracking of corruption in that country. She began my career in journalism at the San Juan Star in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Currently, she also teaches journalism classes at the University of Florida, and is also a writer for Americas Duty Free & Travel Retail.
Ronnie is fluent in Spanish.
Meet our September Spotlight, Dagmar Rittenbacher!
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:56 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Dagmar Rittenbacher was born and raised near Vienna, Austria. In 2004, she moved with her daughter to Asharoken (Long Island), New York where she was offered and accepted a job to manage a high-end furniture showroom in New York City.
She has been in the furniture design business for over 27 years. In 2011, Dagmar Rittenbacher moved to Vero Beach, Florida and started her own company, Creative Designs LLC. She has 27+ years of experience in the luxury European furniture industry, a wealth of technical knowledge regarding furniture materials, hardware, and production techniques, and is fluently bilingual (German and English).
Dagmar's extensive experience and education allow Creative Designs to specialize in the lifecycle management [concept, design, order placement, import/export (as required), transportation, installation/reinstallation (as required), and service] of luxuryEuropean furniture.
In fall 2016, Dagmar earned her Associate Degree in Interior Design Technology from Indian River State College (IRSC) and is enrolled at the University of Florida to earn a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Interior Design. Her goals are to take the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) exam, to become a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and to become a licensed Interior Designer in the State of Florida and a certified Interior Designer in the State of New York. In July 2017, she moved to Gainesville, FL. Shortly after her move to Gainesville, she became certified as an Associate Kitchen and Bath Designer (AKBD) by the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA). She is currently also working for Jackson Stoneworks LLC in Gainesville, Florida, as a Kitchen and Bath designer and is working toward her certification to become a Certified Kitchen and Bath Designer (CKBD) accredited by the NKBA.
In her free time, she likes to visit her daughter, Jacqueline, in Tallahassee, Florida, and to fly as a passenger in light aircraft when her boyfriend, Patrick, is the pilot in command.
Get to Know Trish Bulko, our August Spotlight Winner!
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:29 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Patricia Bulko is a native to Alachua County, growing up just West of Gainesville. She studied organizational management and business at Santa Fe College. She proceeded to work in the area, assisting many companies and fostering partnerships within the community.
Passionate about business, working with the Chamber was a natural fit. With encouragement from friends and family, Patricia founded Charitable Gains, a social media management agency, in 2016. She currently serves as President & Founder of Make Change App, a free micro-giving platform that empowers everyone to come together with their spare change and support the causes they believe in.
Grateful for the amazing group of friends and colleagues she has developed, Patricia continues to make sure that everyone feels welcome to the Gainesville region. In her free time, Patricia loves to go kayaking with her son Joel and to travel with her boyfriend Raydel.
Maralyn Cowart, of Devon Self Storage is the July Spotlight winner!
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 11:00 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Come to our July meeting to see Marilyn Cowart, General Manager of Devon Self Storage our July spotlight winner.
“Life Just Got Easier”. Moving, making extra room, cleaning out that garage, and summer storage for students can be stressful. Maralyn has been a Storage Manager (counselor) for 19 years of her 21 years here in Gainesville. She has always worked in a capacity to offer Customer Service from newspaper advertising to secretary in a real estate office.
Devon Self Storage Gainesville offers computerized gate access, a “free” moving truck for new rentals, they sell packing supplies and various sizes of climate and non-climate controlled units. They are a member of the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce as well as being an old-new member of GAWN.
Maralyn came back to GAWN for comradery and of course the food. It is empowering and uplifting to see women who have the foresight and motivation to go out and “Just Do It!” She realizes to start your own business you must have hope, ambition, motivation and knowledge of your product. Gainesville is a great place for proprietorship/ownership of a business of your own.
Maralyn meets lots of people in her line of work because by nature she is a people person. She is a volunteer usher at the Performing Arts Center and Devon Gainesville has offered sponsorship to a couple of the local high schools in town. They have provided Tee-shirts for Gainesville High School and purchased advertisements for the Buchholtz Basketball Shirt. Donations from the sales go to Peaceful Paths, Alachua County Humane Society and Toys for Tots.
Devon Self Storage can be found at www.DevonSelfStorage.com or Devon Self Storage/Facebook or Google and Yelp.
"Our business at Devon Self Storage - Gainesville is to make your move/life Easier!"
The June Spotlight Winner is Alix Kissinger of Barre Forte!
Saturday, June 10, 2017 10:37 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Alix moved to Gainesville five years ago with her husband, daughter and two dogs. She spent the first four and half years managing a women’s clothing boutique before becoming the Studio Manager at Barre Forte.
In May 2015, Brinn Strange opened Barre Forte as the first barre studio in town, and Alix was hooked after taking just one class that Fall. A year later, she decided to take the Teacher Training to get certified. She's been teaching Barre classes since October, and dove in full-time as Studio Manager in February, as well.
Barre Forte’s focus is empowering women in every aspect of their lives. So while, yes, it is a fitness studio, it is also so much more. It is a supportive community of women, encouraging one another to meet their best - in and out of the studio - which is something we don’t see enough of. In addition to our 40+ classes/week, which includes Barre classes as well as other formats, they also hold community wellness events and social outings to get to know one another outside of class. Barre Forte loves being involved and supporting the Gainesville community!
Earlier this year, they partnered with Dance Marathon at UF by hosting a Sorority Challenge to support the Children’s Miracle Network, which was aimed at a younger age group than they typically target.
"I love hearing how GAWN has worked with other local organizations to improve the Gainesville area, and seeing women get together to socialize and support one another. This is very similar to the culture embraced by Barre Forte!"
Be a Champion for Women
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:57 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Save the Displaced Homemaker's Fund.
The Legislature on May 5th raided the Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund and agreed to eliminate the program as part of something called a conforming bill. They tied it to Visit Florida and Enterprise Florida.
The founder of The Centre for Women, the late Senator Helen Gordon Davis, led the way in setting up the Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund 40 years ago to help women acquire skills necessary to gain employment and lead financially independent lives. Hundreds of women have been helped through this program.
We reached out to the Governor in 2014 when he vetoed the line item in the state budget for the Displaced Homemakers. Our funding was eliminated and it was thankfully restored the following year.
While the term “Displaced Homemakers” may seem passe’ the need for this type of employment counseling is essential for the vulnerable population we serve. For 40 years, we have been helping women in transition who need the extra support and counseling that they will not find at a one-stop, workforce development agency.
They need your help. Please use this link to read more and sign the petition to help save this vital program.
https://www.change.org/p/rick-scott-displaced-homemakers-campaign-to-champion-for-women
Meet Nancy Hine of Florida Leisure Pool & Spa!
Thursday, May 04, 2017 10:05 AM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Nancy is our May Spotlight winner!
Nancy moved to Gainesville in 1991 to attend the University of Florida and met her husband marching beside her in the Gator football marching band. After graduating from UF, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio for 6 years, and in 2001, returned to Gainesville to settle down close to their family.
Florida Leisure Pool & Spa was launched in 2005. After a decade of owning businesses in the product assembly market and spa manufacturer market, Nancy and her husband began Florida Leisure Pool & Spa here in Gainesville as a family-owned pool and hot tub company specializing in equipment repair. They quickly became known as the local experts in “fixing broken pools and hot tubs” for our neighbors across North Central Florida. Over the past several years, their services have steadily expanded to include weekly pool maintenance, electronic leak detection, pool renovation and remodeling, and most recently new pool construction.
When she is not working, Nancy’s life is centered around her 13-year old son. Many of her hours have been happily shared with school PTA and Boy Scout community events and activities.
Nancy is excited to be a new member of GAWN. Nancy says, "Although it’s only been one month, everyone I’ve met is extremely friendly and welcoming, which is certainly the nicest way to network with local female professionals."
Nancy really enjoys learning about the wide variety of businesses represented across Gainesville. She says "Starting your own business is very exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. It’s important to not be intimidated of having to wear all the hats, from chasing the big dreams to planning for all the daily details. Always remember that there are many valuable resources available to help you along this exciting journey."
Come to the May luncheon to find out more about Nancy and Florida Leisure Pool & Spa.
Gerie Crawford of St. Leo's University is the April Spotlight Winner!
Thursday, March 23, 2017 1:15 PM | Leslie Merryman (Administrator)
Gerie Crawford has been a member of GAWN for about 1 year. She is currently an Academic Advisor with Saint Leo University and has also been an Adjunct Professor with Saint Leo University for the past 15 years. She has resided in the Gainesville/Alachua County area for most of her life. She also lived in the Ft. Lauderdale area for about 15 years before relocating to this area.
Gerie retired in 2016 after 35 years in public service. Her last position was Assistant Director of the Department of Court Services where she managed or co-managed 10 community based supervision programs ranging between 45-95 staff at any given time.
One of the unique services of Saint Leo University is providing a quality education for the “adult learner”. Those who are interested in furthering their educational experience for career advancement or enhancing their theoretical knowledge base while pursuing opportunities in their career path.
Gerie says "One of the many things I enjoy about GAWN is the network of contacts and opportunities provided using the concept of building a female business community. I appreciate the mission of GAWN is to encourage members to grow professionally and personally."
Be sure to attend next month's luncheon to find out more about Gerie during her 2 minute Spotlight!
Meet our March Luncheon Spotlight Winner - Darin Damron
Darin Damron has been an employee owner for Jasper Engines and Transmissions for over eleven years, and his company has been in business since 1942. He has four children, He is active with the jail ministry in St. John's county, and is a busy father, spouse, coach, leader, and career-man.Darin has an extremely hectic schedule, so he feels blessed to have an understanding and goal-oriented fiancé in Kaci. He doesn't currently live in Gainesville, but has been servicing the area for over three years. Before working with Jasper, he was an automotive shop manager for five years. Prior to that position, he was a communication sales representative for Knology. At Jasper, three of their unique factors are their people, their customer service, and their commitment to continuous improvement. Their biggest change in the past year has been growth in customer penetration, as they've added three new drivers and two new sales representatives.
"It is a wonderful thing when like-minded and progressive business professionals can come together to strengthen themselves, each other, and their community and that is what I enjoy the most about GAWN. Personally, I would tell a new business that 80% of your success is how you treat other people and to make sure they consistently stay engaged with their customers and employees. Also, keep score."
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Rob Perron
Alma Mater: St. Andrews '96
E-mail: rjperron14@catawba.edu
Rob Perron has became the 12th men’s basketball coach in school history prior to the 2014-15 season. He came to Catawba after serving as associate head coach at Newberry.
Perron served as recruiting coordinator at Newberry and helped implement an offensive system that ranked second in the nation in scoring in his final season wit the Wolves. Newberry just missed getting an invitation to the NCAA II Regional.
Prior to joining Dave Davis at Newberry, Perron was the Director of Basketball Operations for the Charlotte 49ers from 2006 to 2012. While there, he worked with all aspects of the program, including managing the budget, recruiting, scheduling and community engagement.
Perron also worked with Davis at Pfeiffer before going to Charlotte. He was head coach at St. Andrews from 2002 to 2005 and took a 2-25 team prior to his arrival to the CVAC Tournament semifinals in his first season. He started his coaching career at St. Andrews as an assistant in 1997.
A 1996 graduate of St. Andrews, Perron earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. While at St. Andrews, he was team MVP and was captain of the basketball, cross country and track teams. He scored over 1,100 points with over 700 rebounds in a four-year playing career which also included two seasons at Normandale (Minn.) Community College.
Although he becomes Catawba’s 12th head coach, Perron is just the third man to guide the Catawba Indians since 1960. He replaced Jim Baker, who was head coach for 20 seasons. Sam Moir had guided Catawba for the previous 34 years.
Perron and his wife, Stephanie, have two children, Carter (11) and Stella (8). Stephanie is a native of Charlotte and is a RN at REACH.
Goodman Gymnasium
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Capital: Wellington
Area: 270,534 sq km
Language: English, Maori
Religion: Protestant, Buddhist
Continent: Australasia
WHY STUDY IN NEW ZEALAND?
New Zealanders value fresh thinking and teach original thinking. When students educated in New Zealand embark on their chosen careers they're valued for the new ideas they are able to contribute in today's new world. New Zealand bases its education programs on the British system. Therefore, New Zealand offers students the most prestigious education system in the world without the expense and inconvenience of living in the Northern Hemisphere. A qualification from New Zealand ranks with the best in the world. It is seen as internationally desirable because students have a high level of practical and theoretical competency when they graduate. New Zealand is an easy, safe place to live and New Zealanders are as famous as the Irish for their warmth and hospitality.
EARNING WHILE STUDYING IN NEW ZEALAND
In New Zealand, student is permitted to work 20 hrs a week and full-time during vacations. Some students works as tutor for school children or get jobs on campus in the canteen, the bookshop, in the institution's offices and as laboratory assistants. Some jobs are entirely outside the education community such as bartending, babysitting, gardening, hospitality, sales, information technology, restaurants, checkout work or fruit picking.
ADMISSION IN NEW ZEALAND
Instructions about the method to get admission in Universities of New Zealand
English is now a global language. It is the major language of international business, politics, technology, research and sport. New Zealand is an English speaking country with a long tradition of teaching English is an ideal place to learn English. In New Zealand, you can study English at a private English Language School or at a language institute/centre on a University or Polytechnic/Institute of Technology campus. These are located throughout the country in large and smaller cities, giving you a number of choices. A range of courses is available from short courses of 1 week to intensive academic qualifications; your choice will depend on your own individual wishes and needs.
Students are advised to enroll in courses approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority for which the issuing of student visas has been approved. These courses meet international standards and are recognized worldwide.
The students must be fluent in the English language if they are to succeed at a university in New Zealand. There are many courses available at public and private institutions in New Zealand and elsewhere to assist international students to reach the required level of English language competence. The universities have specified minimum levels of competence (eg. 6.0 in IELTS or 550 in TOEFL for most undergraduate degrees); details of any higher requirements for specific degrees may be obtained from individual universities. Applications for admission to universities should include certified copies of the highest secondary school certificates received (e.g. GCE 'A' levels, STPM, IB) and official academic records of any tertiary study undertaken (e.g. university, polytechnic, technical college). The basic level of admission is the same across the New Zealand university system. However, individual universities may require higher standards for admission to courses, which are in high demand.
Write directly to the educational institution. The names of the major institutions are available on various websites.
Contact your nearest New Zealand Education Centre or Office. There are some High Commissions and Embassies which have specialized NZECs. If there is no New Zealand Education Centre or Office in your country please contact your nearest New Zealand Embassy or High Commission. Contact local agents and representatives. Many New Zealand institutions have local authorized agents and representatives. The names and addresses of these representatives can be obtained directly from the institution and in some countries from the NZEC.
Write directly to or email Education New Zealand Student Enquiry Officer, Education New Zealand, PO Box 10-500, Wellington, New Zealand.
Education New Zealand also has a centralized student enrolment system, which helps with the placement of international students. Copies of this form are available through the New Zealand Embassies, High Commissions, and New Zealand Education centers.
Note: When applying to study at New Zealand secondary schools and tertiary institutions, you will be required to send supporting documentation. This may include your education records, transcripts, testimonials, and evidence of English language ability (e.g. TOEFL, IELTS and other tests). English Language Schools do not require evidence of English language ability. Applications must be accompanied by original or certified true copies of academic records (translated into English where necessary and with translations certified).
STUDENT VISA PROCESS
Process to obtain New Zealand's Student Visa for international students
Immigration and Visa Information
New Zealand has many agreements with other countries, which allow a person to come to New Zealand for 90 days without a visa. During that time, you can study or be a tourist. Please consult your nearest New Zealand Embassy or High Commission for information on visa requirements. The school or institution you choose can also help you with visa information. However, the standard requirements are:
Complete the 'Application for Student Visa' Form :
These are available at the New Zealand Embassy or High Commission and your local travel/education agencies. With the 'Application for Student Visa' you will need to include:
A recent passport-size photograph.
Payment of a non-refundable visa application fee :
An 'Offer of Place' from a New Zealand education school or institution which states that you have been accepted by the school, the name of the course, the minimum time to complete the course, whether a course fee is required to be paid or the student is exempt from the fee (e.g. scholarship students). The New Zealand institution, which has confirmed your enrolment, will send this 'Offer of Place' to you. Evidence of payment of course tuition fee or evidence of exemption from fee.
Note: Students are no longer required to produce evidence of payment of course fees before their applications are approved in principle.
A guarantee of accommodation :
A written assurance from a New Zealand education institution or other persons that suitable accommodation is available to you in New Zealand. Most New Zealand institutions will assist you with accommodation.
Evidence of sufficient funds to cover your living expenses and return travel back to your home country. You will need to provide medical clearance and character references ONLY for courses, which are longer than 24 months. Contact the New Zealand Embassy or High Commission for further information on this.
Students will only be issued with a student visa if they have enrolled in an approved course at an institution or establishment, which is accredited to offer it. If your application for a student visa is approved you will need a passport which will be valid for 3 months beyond your initial date of departure from New Zealand.
For matters pertaining to student visas and immigration, students should write to: enquiry@nzis.dol.govt.nz
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My Favorite Top 10 Movie Comedy Scenes
Now this is definitely a tough one. I really don’t even know why I am attempting this at all but I think it needs to be done. There have been so many amazingly, funny scenes and I think I would be remiss if I at least didn’t try to mention the ones that made me laugh the hardest during my lifetime. I would also like to add that just because I may love a scene in a movie, doesn’t preclude that I would put the movie itself in my Top 10 list of all time. So, I will just mention some of the many scenes that I have loved and then try to put them in my order of preference. Wish me luck!!
The Marx Brothers have had so many scenes that have cracked me up over the years and still do till this day. The famous stateroom scene from Monkey Business which took place on a ship was a visual delight. They were stowaways on the ship so they couldn’t let the people in charge know they were there. They had repairmen, maids, food service and everyone else you could think of in the room at the same time. By the end of the scene there had to be at least 20 or more people all squeezed into that tiny room and it was one of the classic scenes in any comedy movie. Then you had the contract scene in A Night At The Opera that was brilliantly written and delivered by Groucho and Chico. “You can’t fool me, there ain’t no sanity clause”. A Day At The Races had a few of my favorite Marx Brothers scenes in it. The race itself at the end, the examination of Margaret Dumont’s character by Doctor Hackenbush and the boys and the phone scene with Groucho driving Mr. Whitmore crazy by using misdirection.
In the movie Bruce Almighty there is a scene in which Jim Carrey is making Steve Carell, who got the job as anchorman that he wanted, screw up during the news. He uses his new found powers to make him babble for what seemed about 5 minutes. When I saw that scene in the movies I laughed so hard that I literally fell out of my seat. I was dying.
In the movie It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World there were an endless amount of terrific scenes but the one that killed me the most was the scene in which Jonathan Winters destroys the gas station. The reason being, the two attendants had tied him up with duct tape because Phil Silvers had convinced them that he was crazy and it would be for their own protection. The truth was he wanted Winter’s character out of the way while he went for the money that everyone was searching for in the movie. One of the best comedies of all time. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and buy it or rent it and then watch it. You will laugh your fool head off. I know that I did and still do every time I see it. Plus the cast of comedy stars in the movie were a list of who’s who in the comedy business. If you weren’t in the movie back then, then you weren’t considered relevant in the comedy world.
My favorite scene in the movie There’s Something About Mary was the scene with the dog and Matt Dillon. He accidentally killed the dog and tries to bring him back to life by using the lamp electric chord and jump starting him. That was hysterical and I laughed until I hurt at that one. The movie was very funny and had many, many funny scenes. I still cringe every time I watch the scene where Ben gets his genitalia stuck in his zipper…OUCH!! A great Ben Stiller vehicle that I thought was also unique.
The dinner scene in the remake of The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy was sidesplitting. He played 4 different characters in that scene and the result was superb. A truly great acting feat and fantastic makeup for the characters. If you didn’t know in advance that they were all Eddie, you never would have suspected it. “Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!”
In Monty Python’s, The Holy Grail, the sword fight scene with the Black Knight and Sir Arthur at the bridge (None Shall Pass) was definitely funny. He slowly cuts off the limbs one by one of the Black Knight but it doesn’t seem to faze him at all. Instead he challenges him even more and keeps egging Sir Arthur on. “It’s just a flesh wound. Come back here and I’ll bite your kneecap off”.
The country club party scene in Caddyshack was funny, especially if you were a Rodney Dangerfield fan. He had so many funny one liners and wouldn’t stop taunting Ted Knight’s character. That movie gave Rodney a whole second career and a new generation of fans. “Hey, who stepped on a duck?”
In Jerry Lewis’s movie The Big Mouth, there is a scene in which Charlie Callas is in a phone booth talking with his boss and he sees Jerry Lewis’ character, whom he though he killed, run by him and he snaps during the call. His facial expressions were so rubbery and the sounds effects that came out of his mouth were so uniquely funny. No one else would ever be able to do that with such ease.
Peter Sellers was a brilliant comedic actor and I simply loved his Inspector Clouseau character as the bumbling detective that always seemed to land on his feet and solve the case. The scene in Return Of the Pink Panther where he disguises himself as a dentist so that he can spy on Inspector Dreyfus at the castle is hysterical. He administers laughing gas to Herbert Lom’s character and they both get into a laughing fit as Clouseau tries to pull his bad tooth. As a viewer, it is really contagious to watch without laughing out loud yourself. Plus his disguise is melting during the scene. Funny, funny, funny.
My favorite comedy movie of all time was Mel Brook’s The Producers and the scene I loved the most in it was during the Broadway play of ‘Springtime for Hitler’. Kenneth Mars’ character of the playwright German soldier, Franz, gets really upset that everyone is laughing at a play he wrote as a tribute for Hitler. He goes up on stage and starts to tell everyone to stop laughing. As he starts you hear someone clunk him on the head from behind the curtain and you hear a loud clang because he was still wearing his helmet. That doesn’t stop him. He carries on with his proclamation. “What is this baby. The Fuhrer never said baby. The Fuhrer was kind. The Fuhrer was nice and gentle. Many times the Fuhrer would say to me, Franz…OW!” he collapses and they drag him away from under the curtain. The delayed reaction of being hit on the head and him saying Ow is funny as hell. I love that movie so much and Mr. Brooks won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for that one.
Woody Allen has had so many masterpiece comedies during his illustrious career but one of my favorite scenes was in one of his earliest endeavors, Sleeper. His character had been frozen cryogenically for many years and is thawed out sometime in the future but he is still not acclimated to the new environment yet and is still kind of out of it, so to speak. He is in a wheelchair and is rolling around the lab with a funny face on that is priceless to watch and rolling over people’s feet and banging into things. Also the scene in the same movie where he disguises himself as a robot and at a party the people are feeling this orb, which gets you high, and he is handing it around for them and getting high himself. That is terrific.
A somewhat recent movie, Borat, had a scene that I laughed at very hard when I saw it. The scene when he is fighting and wrestling, while naked, with this man, and they end up in the conference center of the hotel where a convention is being held. Oh my God, that was so hysterical to see. Watching the people at the convention’s faces as the fight ensued was so great. Very funny movie and very different than any other comedy before it. Another unique comedy movie.
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor were so great together and had great chemistry. In the movie Stir Crazy, all the scenes in the prison were very funny. The warden is trying to break them and puts them in awful situations to try and persuade Wilder to ride for him at the rodeo competition between his prison and his friend’s prison. When he puts them in a tiny cell with a giant mass murderer, I laughed until I cried watching their reaction to their predicament.
In Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, the scene in the castle where Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolfman are all chasing them from room to room was one of my favorite funny scenes when I was a kid. To watch the monsters that used to scare us all as kids, act in a comedy with the funny comedy team, was so great and thrilling at the same time. I could only imagine the blast they must have had making that movie.
I can’t really write all of my honorable mentions here because it would be too hard without going into detail on each one so I will just give you my Top list the best I can and you can think about yours.
So, after much deliberation here is the best I could do:
My Favorite Top 10 Comedy Movie Scenes
1. The gas station scene from It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2. The dog reviving scene from There’s Something About Mary
3. The babbling broadcast scene from Bruce Almighty
4. The phone booth scene from The Big Mouth
5. The laughing gas scene from Return Of The Pink Panther
6. The wrestling scene from Borat
7. The examination scene from A Day At The Races
8. The play scene from The Producers
9. The black knight scene from The Holy Grail
10. The dinner scene from The Nutty Professor
I hope one of your favorites was on my list. Believe me, that was really hard to do because there have been so many funny scenes and I am sure that I am forgetting a lot of them but I tried to put the ones up that made me laugh the hardest over the years. Good luck trying to narrow your favorites down to a Top 10 and as always, thanks for reading from, THE COMEDY TORNADO!!
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Bob Cook has experience as a pastor, a church planter, and a team leader for Operation Mobilization. He was ordained by the Fellowship of Independent Evangelicals. He is the founder and director of Omega Outreach Technologies and Major Market Wholesale. He was also the founder and director of the Growth Counseling Center and the Peterson Motel. He is a former co-host on the Help Save A Friend Hour on KPRZ, and was an early pioneer in Internet broadcasting. He is currently the founder and director of the Makeover Hollywood Project.
His academic service includes the faculties of Indiana University, Wheaton College, Moody Bible Institute, and Taylor University. He also served as an Electronics Technician in the US Navy.
He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University, an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College, an M.A. in Bible from Columbia International University, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Wheaton College..
His unpublished works include: A Battle Plan for Twenty-First Century Evangelism, The Application of Salesmanship to Visitation Evangelism, The Mericleworker (Audio CD), The Church’s Greatest Opportunity (A Leader’s Guide), Language drills for a comparative study of different language teaching methodologies.
Will David Mitchell is a diversified author. His books include Debugging Java, Audaz, and To Chase the Wind. His screenplays include Spirit Kids, Forty Brave Soldiers, and Dan Dazzle.
He is a Master Mathematician who has served on the faculties of theUniversityofNebraskaand theUniversityofPhoenix.
More recently, he graduated (scl) with Master’s in Business Administration.
Mitchell is a founder and the CDO of Good Samaritans, Inc., the founder and Vice President of Maestro Companies, a co-owner of Essential Nutrition, and the founder of The Marketing Organization as well as several other companies.
He is an experienced pilot able to fly most everything from Piper Cubs to 707’s. He flew the B-66 in Vietnam for 103 unarmed reconnaissance combat missions trolling for SAMs so F-105s could attack the SAM sites (scary stuff), and then the KC-135Q for another 65 combat missions refueling trisonic SR-71s in flight. He was awarded the Air Medal six times, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
FROM THE NOVEL:
When John looked back, Claudia was glancing around furtively, eyes searching out the window and toward the door, as if looking for some unknown danger. When she focused on John’s concerned eyes, she smiled and the tight furrow between her eyes vanished.
“Israel has a problem,” she declared slowly, almost in a whisper. “And Carlton and I have chosen you to be one of four people we’re telling about our discovery, at least until we learn more about who can be trusted.”
“Then you’re not talking about a nuclear Iran.”
“Worse. Israel may be in imminent danger from another source. This will give you some background. She handed him a memory stick to plug into his computer. I’ll write the password on your left palm with a special pen. It will wash off. It’s case sensitive, with a 16-bit hash of the first six primes. Use XOR logic and convert everything in and out of 16-bit ASCII. Can you handle that?”
“Counting 1 and 2?” he asked, to be sure.
“The unity number is not defined as a prime,” she corrected with a momentary frown.
“I see. Should I look at it now?”
“No. Wait until you’re alone. That will be safer for you and for us. Study it, and you can get your questions answered later.
“You mentioned Israel…”
“Yes, Israel has a copy of this. The memory stick doesn’t tell the whole story. But it should have been enough for the Mossad to take action. So far they’ve ignored it. Carlton and I don’t know why. It could be buried under a mountain of high priorities. You’re in a better position to warn the Mossad, using a back channel from the U.S.A. Your President will also need to know about this. All the First World countries could be at risk.”
The furrows reappeared between Claudia’s eyes. “Now that I’ve delivered the message, I’d best be going. My presence here is a danger to you..
John stepped to the window, opened it and filled his lungs with the cool sea air. He noticed Claudia five stories down exiting the building, carrying a newspaper she had stopped to purchase. A flash of light, as if from a mirror caught his eye. He looked for its source and focused on the reflection coming from the large telescopic sight of a rifle on the adjacent building’s roof. The long, thick barrel of a sniper rifle, pointing at Claudia, was unmistakable.
“Claudia, watch out!” he shouted.
She didn’t hear him.
He yelled again. Louder.
The traffic drowned out his warning.
He slammed the window shut, grabbed the heavy phone on his desk, and threw it with all his strength at the window. Then he rushed back to observe the scene below. He saw the shattering glass hitting the pavement around Claudia and heard the gunshot an instant later. She had stopped and looked up. John saw her hair bounce as the bullet passed. It was obvious the momentary twist of her head had saved her life. He caught a glimpse of her terrified face as she turned and sprinted toward the waiting car.
John glanced back at the roof and saw Abdul drop his single-shot rifle, reach for his long-barrel machine pistol and resume firing. Disregarding harm that might come his way, John shouted to Claudia, “Run!” He saw her chauffeur racing toward her, arms extended beckoning her to run faster. He saw bullets hitting the ground just ahead of her. The shooter’s lead would need only a slight adjustment.
“Dodge! Zigzag!” John shouted. She couldn’t hear him, but instinctively she began darting left and right as more bullets pounded the pavement all around her.
The strong arms of her chauffeur lifted her and carried her to the car faster than John imagined possible. The man kept his body between her and the gunner, taking a hit in his side, as he threw her onto the floor of the limo. Seconds later, John found himself cheering as the powerful engine smoked the tires, and the limo rocketed away.
But Abdul kept firing. John could see holes appearing in the limo’s steel body. His heart pounded as he watched a stream of gasoline gushing onto the street. Finally, he relaxed when the limo disappeared in the distance. Margaret ran into the room screaming. “What happened?”
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Rick Lawn: Remembering Manny Albam
REMEMBERING MANNY ALBAM
I had the pleasure of studying with Manny Albam in the 1970s at the Eastman School of Music and considered him a mentor and a friend. I was among the many who mourned his loss in 2001 shortly after 9/11. For those of you who may not be familiar with his career, a short but accurate tribute by Peter Keepnews was printed in the New York Times at the time of his death: (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/06/arts/manny-albam-79-jazz-composer-and-player.html?_r=0)
More detail about his career can be found at: http://mannyalbammusic.com/biography/
Manny was not only a gifted composer/arranger, as confirmed by his peers and several Grammy nominations, he was a wonderful human being and a joy to work with. Looking back, I treasure my time with Manny and his music that I had the pleasure to perform. I’ve come to realize how much his teachings influenced my own writing and philosophy about composing, arranging and teaching.
Recently I embarked on a project to digitize some of the videos I had collected over the years and especially those from my time as Director of Jazz Studies at The University of Texas where we had entertained many guest artists during my 21-year stay. I discovered a recording of a seminar that Manny presented in “the jazz room” at UT while he was in residence. The residency in the early 1990s culminated in a performance of his “Nostalgico” featuring graduate student Paul Haar on alto sax (Director of Jazz Studies at University of Nebraska) and the UT Studio Orchestra. Throughout the first lengthy segment of this seminar Manny discusses, among other things, the importance of knowing why we compose, the stories we must tell, and how we tell them through music. He used movements from his Soul of the City Solid State recording to illustrate his points. He played examples from Soul of the City in the seminar and, while they are third generation acoustic recordings of substandard quality by today’s standards, they are sufficient to stimulate your curiosity and illustrate his points.
I know other composers will agree that looking back on Manny’s vast collection of work, this suite of pieces stands out as some of his very best work and fortunately is still available from Amazon or iTunes on a reissued recording entitled Sketches of Jazz - Music From the Book of Life (“Soul of the City is the first 9 tracks). Many of his other recordings, including West Side Story that Leonard Bernstein praised, are still available as reissues, often on non-American labels. I invite you to pick up a copy of these recordings while they are still available.
I think one of the amazing aspects of these nine tracks is that so much can be expressed in under 5 minutes and Manny was a master of the short form. I find it astonishing how much ground Manny covers musically in the course of one of these pieces that range from 2:48 to 5:56. By today’s standards these lengths might seem like introductions. In some ways we may have been ruined by digital formats that allow us to run on and on. Manny was clearly a master of the 3 – 5 minute piece that communicates a great deal of music in such a short time. There may be a message and lesson here for all of us and especially students – try writing a piece that is 3 to 5 minutes long yet flows, tells a full story, provides ample space for soloist(s) and has all the earmarks of a well developed score. It’s harder than you might think to work under these constraints.
While the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies archive offers a catalogue to Manny’s collection of scores and parts housed at the Institute, sadly the scores from Soul of the City and West Side Story are among the missing items. I have been working with his daughter in hopes of resurrecting these scores, and possibly others, so that they can once again might be performed and analyzed for instructional purposes. These pieces also offer an excellent lesson in writing for strings and augmented brass sections, especially French Horns. Nothing in the nine pieces that comprise Soul of the City could be considered outdated by today’s standards. It is timely music interpreted by the most outstanding musicians of the day (1966) including Phil Woods, JJ Johnson, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis, and others.
Manny was so attuned to his surroundings and sensitive to the human condition that I have to wonder what he would be writing today. I wish we knew, but somehow I think he would find the humor in it all.
Links to the circa 1992 Manny Albam seminar:
Part 1 - https://youtu.be/mG2TaEsPqxo
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/mNpN-UVV3vE
Rick Lawn 10/9/16
As an addendum to the above, only days after writing this short introduction to the You Tube videos of Manny’s seminar I am happy to report that I have finally found the scores and parts for these classic pieces! I’ll keep the community informed about possible next steps.
Richard (Rick) Lawn
Richard (Rick) Lawn has received several significant composition grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and, as a member of the Nova Saxophone Quartet, has recorded on the Musical Heritage Society, Crystal and Equilibrium labels. The Sea Breeze record label issued “Unknown Soldiers,” a CD recorded by the Third Coast Jazz Orchestra that features his compositions and arrangements including his arrangement of “Donna Lee” recorded by Bobby Sanabria’s New York Latin big band on his 2001 Grammy nominated CD. In fall 2011 his Philadelphia based little big band Power of Ten10 released Earth Tones that includes his original compositions and arrangements. The CD received coast-to-coast radio play and favorable reviews.
Kendor Music, CL Barnhouse, Walrus Music, Concept Music, Alfred Music, eJazzlines, Warwick Music, Dorn, LawnWorks Publications and UNC Press among others publish his music. Rick’s books entitled The Jazz Ensemble Directors Manual (in its 4th edition), Jazz Theory and Practice in its 2nd edition (that includes interactive ear training software) and Experiencing Jazz now in its 2nd edition have become staples among jazz educators and students.
Rick’s performing experiences outside his own ensembles include extended engagements with Lionel Hampton, Chuck Mangione, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Austin Symphony others. He has performed in back-up orchestras for Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Joe Williams, Natalie Cole, Marian McPartland, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Dianne Schuur, Rosemary Clooney, Aretha Franklin and a host of others.
Richard Lawn is the former Dean of the College of Performing Arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he is now Professor Emeritus and part-time faculty member teaching jazz history online. He also teaches online for VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. Recetly Rick has become involved with the International Society of Arrangers and Composers. Formerly, he was affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin serving as Founding Director of Jazz Studies, Chair of the Department of Music, and Associate Dean for academic affairs. Visit his Web site at: http://www.RickLawn.com.
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Bill Dobbins and Concerto for Jazz Orchestra: the Use of a Twelve-Tone Row in a Large Scale Jazz Composition
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Beyond Crisis Event Series
Youth Workshop: Program
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The Drowned, The Saved and The Forgotten
Genocide Survivors and The Foundations Of Modern Humanitarianism
Past Events – Academic – The Drowned, The Saved and The Forgotten: Genocide Survivors and The Foundations Of Modern Humanitarianism
324 ELIZABETH DAFOE LIBRARY (ICELANDIC BOARDROOM)
In this talk Dr. Keith Watenpaugh asked three questions of the history of humanitarians, humanitarianism and genocide survivors: who is helped, who is not, and why?
In the aftermath of World War I, waves of displaced persons and new political borders forced the international community, embodied in the League of Nations, to first define and then manage novel iterations of the “refugee” and the “minority.” Postwar efforts to interdict trafficking in women and children in the region mobilized humanitarian organizations and groups in Europe and the Americas to a degree not seen since the abolitionist movement of the 19th century. The sheer scale of interwar relief needs prompted the replacement of independent missionary-based charity with secular, professional, and bureaucratized intergovernmental forms of aid and development, in particular American Near East Relief, which continues its work today as the Near East Foundation. The Armenian Genocide and its aftermath was critical to the formation of international humanitarian and human rights law and laid the groundwork for the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). Its official denial by a modern nation-state has been a catalyst for critical discussions about hate speech, contemporary forms of discrimination, and the complicity of the academy in promoting denial. Consequently, the history of genocide and humanitarian response is at the center of an emerging history of human rights and humanitarianism; it has the potential, at the same time, to decenter Europe from the global historical experience of war, genocide, and refugees, as well as from human rights history.
Beyond Crisis: The Middle East, Past, Present Future
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George Clooney. Hmmm. What do I think of him as The Batman? I really don't know. He's an enigma, I guess. We will never get to see how well he could've been as The Bat because BATMAN & ROBIN sucked so freakin' bad! But the potential was there.
He looked more like Bruce Wayne than Keaton or Kilmer. He looked good in the Bat-suit. He is a hell of an actor. But, he got hooked up with a simply horrible script and a goofy-ass take on Batman that nobody, sans Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goldsman, wanted. I actually thought that Clooney worked the best as Bruce Wayne. His Wayne may have been the best. He should come off as this happy-go-lucky, rich dude. Wayne is the mask, not Batman. However, once he was in the Bat-gear, he was the SAME! There was no raspy voice. No dark, menecing presence. Just happy-go-lucky, Bat-card flashing, one-liner saying Batman! What a waste!
Being the stand up guy that Clooney seems to be, he took the blame for the film's poor turn. He has gone on record saying that he "killed the franchise." But I think I speak for the fans of the Bat-movies by saying not true, George. We blame the script and the director. I myself would like to see Clooney in another Bat-film. Just recently, Clooney went public with the fact that he presented a story treatment to WB for BATMAN 5. While it went a little bizzare--he wanted it to have been a dream Wayne had in a psycho-ward--he none the less wanted a dark Batman. But of course that is not going to happen. We are getting two Bat-films soon, and Dr. Ross is not in the mix for either. George, what could have been?
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Commentaries on Living Series III Chapter 44 'What Does It Mean to Be Serious?'
SITTING ON THE oxcart with a long slender stick in his hand was an old man, so thin that his bones were showing through. He had a kindly, wrinkled face, and his skin was very dark, burnt by many suns. The cart was heavy with firewood, and he was beating the oxen; you could hear the slap of his stick on their backs. They were coming from the country into the town, and it had been a long day. Driver and beasts were tired out, and they still had some distance to go. There was froth around the mouths of the oxen, and the old man seemed ready to drop; but there was stamina in that wiry old body, and the oxen would go on. As you walked beside the cart, the old man caught your eye, smiled, and stopped beating the oxen. They were his oxen, and he had been driving them for years; they knew he was fond of them, and the beating was a passing thing. He was stroking them now, and they continued to move at their ease. The old man's eyes told of infinite patience, and his mouth expressed weariness and endless toil. He wouldn't receive much money for his firewood, but it was enough to get by. They would rest along the roadside for the night, and make a start for home in the early morning. The cart would be empty, and the return journey would be easier. We went down the road together, and the oxen didn't seem to mind being touched by the stranger who was walking beside them. It was beginning to get dark, and presently the driver stopped, lit a lamp, hung it under his cart, and went on towards the noisy town.
Next morning the sun rose behind thick, dark clouds. It rained very often on this big island, and the earth was rich with green vegetation. There were immense trees everywhere, and well-kept gardens full of flowers. The people were well-fed, and the cattle plump and softeyed. On one tree there were dozens of orioles, with black wings and yellow bodies; they were surprisingly large birds, but their call was soft. They were hopping about from branch to branch, like flashes of golden light, and they seemed even more brilliant on a cloudy day. A magpie was calling in deep-throated tones, and the crows were making their usual raucous noise. It was comparatively cool, and walking would be pleasant. The temple was full of kneeling, praying people, and the grounds around it were clean. Beyond the temple was a sports club, where they were playing tennis. Children were everywhere, and among them walked the priests with their shaven heads and the inevitable fan. The streets were decorated, for there was going to be a religious procession the following day, when the moon would be full. Over the palm trees could be seen a great stretch of pale blue sky, which the clouds were rushing to cover. Among the people, along the noisy streets, and in the gardens of the well-to-do, there was great beauty; it was there everlastingly, but few cared to look.
The two of them, a man and a woman, had come from some distance to attend the talks. They could have been husband and wife, sister and brother, or just friends. They were gay and friendly, and their eyes declared the ancient culture that lay behind them. pleasant-voiced and rather shy out of respect, they seemed surprisingly well-read, and he knew Sanskrit. He had also travelled a bit and knew the ways of the world.
"We have both been through many things," he began. "We have followed some of the political leaders, been fellow-travellers with the Communists and known at first hand their appalling brutality, gone the rounds of the spiritual teachers, and practised certain forms of meditation. We think we are serious people, but we may be deceiving ourselves. All these things were done with serious intent, but none of them seem to have great depth, though at the time we always thought they had. Both of us are active by nature, we are not the dreamy kind but we have now come to the point when we no longer want to `get somewhere', or participate in practices and organizational activities that have very little significance. Having found in such activities nothing more than lip service and self-deception, we now want to understand what it is you are teaching. My father was somewhat familiar with your approach to life, and he used to talk to me about it, but I never got around to investigating the matter for myself, probably because I was `told' - which is perhaps a normal reaction when one is young. As it happened, a friend of ours attended your talks last year, and when he recounted to us something of what he had heard, we decided to come. I don't know where to start, and perhaps you can help us out."
Though his companion hadn't said a word, her eyes and her manner indicated that she was giving full attention to what was being said.
Since you have said that you are both serious, let us begin from there. I wonder what we mean when we talk about being serious? Most people are serious about something or other. The politician with his schemes, and in his attaining of power; the schoolboy in his desire to pass an examination; the man who is out to make money; the professional man, and the man who is dedicated to some ideology, or is caught in the net of a belief - they are all serious in their own way. The neurotic is serious, and so also is the sannyasi. What then does it mean to be serious? please don't think I am quibbling, but if we could understand this thing, we might learn a great deal about ourselves; and after all, that is the right beginning.
"I am serious," said his companion, "in wanting to clarify my own confusion and it is for this reason that I have gone around seeking the help of those who say they can guide me towards that clarification. I have tried to forget myself in good works, in bringing some happiness to others, and in that effort I have been serious. I am also serious in my desire to find God."
Most people are serious about something. Negatively or positively, their seriousness always has an object, religious or otherwise, and upon the hope of attaining that object their seriousness depends. If for any reason the hope of attaining the object of their gratification is removed, are they still serious? One is serious in achieving, in gaining, in succeeding, in becoming; it is the end that makes one serious, the thing that one hopes to get or to avoid. So the end is important, and not the understanding of what it is to be serious. We are concerned, not with love, but with what love will do. The doing, the result, the achievement, is all-important, and not love itself, which has its own action.
"I don't quite understand how there can be seriousness unless one is serious about something," he replied. " I think I see what you mean," said his companion. "I want to find God, and it is important for me to find Him, otherwise life has no meaning; it's only a bewildering chaos, full of misery. I can understand life only through God, who is the end and the beginning of all things; He alone can guide me in this welter of contradictions, and that's why I am serious about finding Him. But you are asking, is this seriousness at all?"
Yes. The understanding of living, with all its complications, is one thing, and the search for God is another. In saying that God, the ultimate end, will give meaning to life, you have brought into being - haven't you? - two opposing states: living, and God. You are struggling to find something away from life. You are serious about achieving a goal, an end, which you call God; and is that seriousness? perhaps there is no such thing as finding God first, and then living; it may be that God is to be found in the very understanding of this complex process called life.
We are trying to understand what we mean by seriousness. You are serious about a formulation, a self-projection, a belief, which has nothing to do with reality. You are serious about the things of the mind, and not about the mind itself, who is the maker of these things. In giving your seriousness to achieving a particular result, are you not pursuing your own gratification? That's what everyone is serious about: getting what he wants. And is that all we mean by seriousness?
"I have never before looked at it in this way," she exclaimed. "Evidently I am not really serious at all."
Don't let's jump to conclusions. We are trying to understand what it means to be serious. One can see that to pursue fulfilment in any form, however noble or stupid, is not to be really serious. The man who drinks to escape from his sorrow, the man who is after power, and the man who is seeking God, are all on the same path, though the social significance of their pursuits may differ. Are such people serious?
"If not, then I'm afraid none of us are," he replied. "I always took it for granted that I was serious in my various undertakings, but now I am beginning to see that there is an altogether different kind of seriousness. I don't think I am able to put it into words yet, but I am beginning to get the feeling of it. Will you please go on?"
"I am a bit lost in all this," put in his companion. "I thought I was understanding it, but it eludes me."
When we are serious, we are serious about something; that is so, isn't it? "Yes"
Now, is there a seriousness which is not directed towards an end and does not build up resistance?
"I don't quite follow."
"The question in itself is quite simple," he explained. "Wanting something, we set about getting it and in this effort we consider ourselves to be serious. Now, he's asking, is that really seriousness? Or is seriousness a state of mind in which endgaining and resistance do not exist?"
"Let me see if I understand this," she replied. "As long as I am trying to get or to avoid something, I am concerned about myself. End-gaining is really self-interest; it is a form of indulgence, blatant or refined, and you are saying, sir, that indulgence is not seriousness. Yes, that is now quite clear to me. But then what is seriousness?"
Let's inquire and learn about it together. You are not being taught by me, Being taught, and being free to learn, are two entirely different things, are they not?
"Please go a little slowly. I am not very bright, but I will get it by perseverance. I am also a bit stubborn - a sober virtue, but one that can be a nuisance. I hope you will be patient with me. In what way is being taught different from being free to learn?"
In being taught, there's always the teacher, the guru who knows, and the disciple who does not know; thus a division is forever maintained between them. This is essentially an authoritarian, hierarchical outlook, in which love does not exist. Though the teacher may talk about love, and the disciple assert his devotion, their relationship is unspiritual, deeply immoral, leading to a great deal of confusion and suffering. This is clear, isn't it?
"Frighteningly clear," he put in. "You have abolished at one stroke the whole structure of religious authority; but I see you are right."
"But one needs guidance, and who will act as a guide?" asked his companion.
Is there any need for guidance when we are constantly learning, not from anyone in particular, but from everything as we go along? Surely, we seek guidance only when we want to be safe, secure, comfortable. If we are free to learn, we shall learn from the falling leaf, from every kind of relationship, from being aware of the activities of our own minds. But most of us are not free to learn, because we are so used to being taught; we are told what to think by books, by our parents, by society, and like a gramophone we repeat what's on the record.
"And the record is generally very badly scratched," he added. "We have played it so often. Our thinking is entirely secondhand."
Being taught has made one repetitive, mediocre. The urge to be guided, with its implications of authority, obedience, fear, lack of love, and so on, can only lead to darkness. Being free to learn is quite another matter. And there can be no freedom to learn when there's already a conclusion, an assumption; or when one's outlook is based on experience as knowledge; or when the mind is held in tradition, tethered to a belief; or when there is the desire to be secure, to achieve a particular end.
"But it's impossible to be free of all that!" she ejaculated.
You don't know if it's possible or impossible until you have tried.
"Whether one likes it or not," she insisted, "one's mind is taught; and if, as you say, a mind that's taught cannot learn, what is one to do?"
The mind can be aware of its own bondage, and in that very awareness it is learning. But first of all, is it clear to us that a mind that's blindly held in what it has been taught, is incapable of learning?
"In other words, you are saying that as long as I merely follow tradition I cannot learn anything new. Yes, that much is clear enough. But how am I to be free of tradition?"
Not so fast, please. The gatherings of the mind prevent the freedom to learn. To learn, there must be no accumulation of knowledge, no piling up of experiences as the past. Do you yourself see the truth of this? Is it a fact to you, or just something I have said, with which you may agree or disagree?
"I think I see it to be a fact," he put in. "Of course, you don't mean that we must throw away all the knowledge that science has gathered, that would be absurd, The point is, if we want to learn, we cannot assume anything."
Learning is a movement, but not from one fixed point to another, and this movement is impossible if the mind is burdened with an accumulation of the past, with conclusions, traditions, beliefs. This accumulation, though it may be called the Atman, the soul, the higher self, and so on, is the `me', the ego, the self. The self and its maintenance prevent the movement of learning.
"I am beginning to understand what is meant by the movement of learning," she said slowly. "As long as I'm enclosed within my own desire for security, for comfort, for peace, there can be no movement of learning. Then how am I to be free of this desire?"
Isn't that a wrong question? There's no method by which to be free. The very urgency and importance of being able to learn will free the mind form conclusions, from the self which is put together by words, by memory. The practising of a method, the `how' and its discipline, is another form of accumulation; it never frees the mind, but only sets it going in a different pattern.
"I seem to understand something of all this," he said, "but so much is involved, I wonder if I shall ever really get to the bottom of it."
It's not as bad as all that. With the understanding of one or two central facts, the whole picture becomes clear. A mind that's taught, or desires to be guided, cannot learn. We now see this quite plainly, so let's go back to the question of seriousness, with which we started.
We saw that the mind is not serious if it has some end to be gained or avoided. Then what is seriousness? To find out, one must be aware that one's mind is turned outward or inward in order to fulfil itself, to gain or to become something. It's this awareness that sets the mind free to learn what it means to be serious; and to learning there is no end. To a mind that's learning, the heavens are open.
"I have learnt a great deal in this brief conversation," said his companion, "but shall I be able to learn further without your help?"
Do you see how you are blocking yourself? If one may say so, you are greedy for more, and this greed is preventing the movement of learning. Had you been aware of the significance of what you were feeling and saying, it would have opened the door to that movement. There is no `further' learning, but just learning as you go along. Comparison arises only when there is accumulation. To die to everything that you have learnt is to learn. This dying is not a final act: it is to die from moment to moment.
"I have seen and understood, and goodness will flower from it."
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4K television sales growth continues
Over a third of all flat panel televisions sold worldwide in 2017 were 4K Ultra HD capable. More than 100 million 4K televisions will be sold in 2018, representing 44% of total global flat panel television shipments, with almost double that number expected to be sold in 2022. With prices falling fast, people are buying more Ultra HD sets although there is still relatively little broadcast programming.
The increasing number of 4K flat panel shipments worldwide is contributing to the overall growth of the global flat panel television market. With over 85% of global households having a flat panel television, growth has been slowing. The move from high-definition to 4K Ultra HD sets is expected to be the next key driver of the global flat panel television market.
The Asia Pacific region accounts for 37% of global 4K television shipments, driven mainly by the Chinese market. North America and Western Europe are the regions with the highest 4K TV penetration at present. Combined shipments to the two regions will account for almost half of 4K flat panel television shipments worldwide in 2018.
ABI Research expects that consumer demand for 4K flat panel TV sets will drive the market to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17.3% to reach 194 million unit shipments in 2022.
“Better visual experience and availability of 4K content together with declining price points are driving 4K TV set shipments,” comments Khin Sandi Lynn, an industry analyst from ABI Research. “As expected, 4K is quickly becoming the standard for TV sales. Just like HD before it, hardware technology reached the market far before any content did, placing an impetus on content creators and providers to catch up, while also allowing for a time of transition.”
In addition to increasing availability of 4K material on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, pay television service providers are also offering 4K programming, mainly movies, drama and some sport.
This presents a challenge for traditional broadcasters, who may struggle to justify investment in transmitting in Ultra HD, although some programmes are being produced in 4K to preserve their future value.
The BBC has broadcast the Wimbledon men’s and women’s tennis semi-finals and finals in Ultra HD for the first time, available to Sky Q subscribers. With the tennis and football finals overlapping, the BBC elected not to broadcast the World Cup in Ultra HD, which might have been a mistake had England reached the final of the World Cup.
4K coverage of World Cup and Wimbledon matches was available online through the BBC iPlayer to “tens of thousands of people” on a first come, first served” basis.
The BBC has yet to announce any ambition for a regular Ultra HD service. It was relatively slow in adopting high definition and is apparently still unable to deliver the regional news in high definition, resulting in regular breaks in programming on the BBC One HD channel.
The terms 4K or Ultra HD do not appear in the latest BBC Annual report, or in its Distribution Strategy, published in February 2018.
However, Japanese broadcaster NHK, which experimented with 8K coverage of the Rio Olympics and the Winter Olympics in South Korea, is planning to provide the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in 8K.
It could be some time before 4K broadcasts, not to mention 8K, become prevalent. Meanwhile it looks like they will be mainly the preserve of pay television providers and online video services, leaving public broadcasters seeming increasingly impoverished as consumer display capabilities continue to improve.
The Media Devices: UltraHD, 4K, HDR, 8K, HEVC report is available from ABI Research.
www.abiresearch.com
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A hip-hop icon who started off as an underground battle rapper in Detroit. Marshall “Eminem” Mathers has developed a career full of contradictions; wild swings; and some of the most noteworthy hip-hop of the past decade. Produced and co-signed by Dr. Dre, Em had an unprecedented run of success from 1999 up through 2003, releasing three well-reviewed, multi-platinum albums, stealing the show on countless collaborations, and even starring in a hit movie. However, it all came crashing down around 2004, when a string of problems ranging from drug dependence to depression to the tragic death of best friend Deshaun “Proof” Holton in 2006 led to a long hiatus from music and a string of what were, by his own admission, sub-par albums.
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50 Cent Says Jay Z ‘Capitalized On People’ Better Than Him
When you look at Jay Z, what do you see? When 50 Cent looks at Hov, he sees an MC who “capitalized on people” better than he did. What does that mean? Let Fif provide some context. “I think back to when I was with someone and that person could have been the person I was going to be with for the rest of my life but I didn’t have the references yet to know there was something special there,” he told The Big Issue. “It’s like the clarity I got about my grandmother after she was gone. Some people have been better at that than me. If I look at Jay Z, I’d point out he capitalized on people better than I did.”
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In 3 Hours, Valve And Dark Horse Will Announce Their Next Project
March 30th 2012 • By Vic
In case you forgot, November of last year saw the release of the best-selling “Valve Presents: The Sacrifice And Other Steam-Powered Stories“, a 200-page print anthology of Valve’s greatest online comic book series: Portal 2: Lab Rat; Left 4 Dead: The Sacrifice, and the Team Fortress 2 comic shorts. Certain listings indicated that the comic was actually the first volume in a series, and since then, Valve has released quite a few other comics – most notably, the absolutely superb Dota 2: Are We Heroes Yet, a number of TF2 comic shorts, and a few Portal 2 comic shorts.
At precisely 6PM, at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, Valve and Dark Horse will be announcing their next project – so says the Valve Store’s official Facebook page. This might be Volume 2 of the “Valve Presents” series, and if it’s being announced this early, we can expect a slightly earlier release date – possibly September. Perhaps it will be a tie-in of sorts with Dota 2, and maybe even CS:GO. Who knows, at this point? We’ve got 3 hours to go until then, and we’ll let you know whatever they reveal.
✎ March 30th 2012 at 11:18pm
Lilgreenman March 31st 2012 at 4:25am
So, what is it?
Hmmn, looks like a Portal 2 art book, sound good.
Ooiman March 31st 2012 at 5:01am
Say what? You have a link?
MrFreemanBBQ March 31st 2012 at 10:11am
http://kotaku.com/5897919/heres-your-exclusive-first-look-at-the-art-of-portal-2-book/gallery/1
kk March 31st 2012 at 1:25am
April fool joke??
Vic March 31st 2012 at 1:40am
I’m pretty sure it’s legit.
Lilgreenman March 30th 2012 at 11:20pm
Wow, thanks, had no idea. Hopefully this will tie in with new Portal 2 DLC.
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Registration opens for international livestock conference at Kansas State University | KTIC Radio
Registration opens for international livestock conference at Kansas State University
BY KSRE | April 3, 2019
Home › News › Agricultural News
Photo courtesy of KSRE
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Invitations are being sent around the world for high-profile leaders to travel to Kansas State University in September to help shape the future of livestock production.
Livestock producers worldwide face complex questions about innovating in sustainable ways to meet growing global demand. Those questions deal with feeding nearly 10 billion people in the coming decades, environmental stewardship, business concerns, dependable systems for grain and feed, disease prevention, technology adaptation and more.
The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, or GASL, annually convenes Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meetings to initiate open discussions from varied perspectives so these questions can be answered.
Hosted by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, GASL shares good practice and policy and promotes the sustainability of the global livestock and agri-food sector. Its main principle is that all livestock production systems can be more sustainable, no matter where they are.
GASL’s ninth Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meeting, titled “Innovation in Sustainable Livestock Systems,” will take place in Manhattan Sept. 9-13 to discuss science and policy around four sustainability domains, with plenary sessions for each that will be open to the public: Food Security and Nutrition, Livelihoods and Economic Growth, Animal Health and Welfare, and Natural Resources and Climate.
More than 350 invited attendees from around the world are expected to attend, making Manhattan the epicenter of the global livestock industry for the week. This year will mark the first time this meeting of influential political leaders, industry executives, NGO representatives and academics will be conducted in the United States and the first time it will be hosted by a university.
“Innovations are key to maintain and further improve sustainability in livestock-based value chains,” said Fritz Schneider, chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock. “Kansas State University is an important innovator both in the USA and globally. GASL is privileged to partner with K-State for its ninth Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meeting in September 2019.”
Anyone with an interest in sustainable livestock systems is welcome and encouraged to attend. Non-members of GASL may register and attend the meeting as well.
The schedule for the Manhattan event includes a specific focus for each day:
Monday, Sept. 9, Science Day —featuring plenary sessions on GASL’s four sustainability domains.
Tuesday, Sept. 10, Policy Day —roundtable discussions and panels.
Wednesday, Sept. 11, Field Tours — five tours of regional agricultural production operations.
Thursday, Sept. 12, Action Day — action plan discussion, guiding group meeting and closing ceremony.
Friday, Sept. 13, Business Meetings — closed member meetings, planning for next events.
With discussions centering on this year’s theme, attendees will share perspectives on how innovation goes beyond the invention and development of technologies to include economic, behavioral, technical and policy aspects of bringing new approaches to bear on the issue of sustainable livestock systems.
All eight previous meetings over the last seven years were organized by the host countries’ governments. Last year’s meeting was in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Previous meetings were in Ethiopia, Panama, Colombia, Canada, Kenya, Thailand and Brazil.
Because of livestock’s primary importance to the lives and livelihoods of people in developing counties, much of GASL’s work is focused on smallholder and even subsistence farming. With a university in the heartland of the U.S. hosting this year’s event, some of the information sharing will include demonstrating how larger-scale livestock operations incorporate sustainable innovations and how those practices can be adapted and adopted.
“Sharing innovations, from on-the-farm practices to genetics and technology, will allow us to collectively meet a growing world demand for animal-sourced proteins while balancing the protection of natural resources, ensuring a safe food supply, and protecting animal health and welfare,” said Ernie Minton, interim dean of the university’s College of Agriculture.
The university’s standing as a leader in agricultural research and its collaborative efforts all over the world already have made it a recognizable destination for GASL participants.
“The strong roots of many of the Kansas State University faculty in practical livestock production makes a dialogue between the university and civil society organizations very valuable,” said Pablo Frere, a member of the GASL guiding group and a coordinator for Redes Chaco in Argentina.
Another member of the GASL guiding group, Marcelo Gonzalez, vice minister of livestock in Paraguay’s Ministry of Agriculture, said his country is committed to specific actions to keep its livestock production sustainable. “In tune with the existing academic agreement between Kansas State and Paraguay, the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership meeting will lead to many important innovations in livestock production in Paraguay,” he said.
Corn Congress Delegates Urge President Trump to Uphold RFS
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Boy Asks Town to Lift Snowball Fight Ban
This is What’s Trending Today…(1)
Cold, snowy weather has arrived in many places.(2)
That means young people are enjoying building snowmen, going sledding and having snowball fights.(3)
But in one small American city, snowball fights are illegal.(4)
Welcome to Severance, Colorado. The town, north of Denver, gets about 100 centimeters of snowfall a year.(5)
For almost 100 years, city rules have said it is illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people, animals, buildings, trees, property or vehicles.(6)
Snowballs were considered to be part of the town’s definition of “missiles.”(7)
Kyle Rietkerk works for the town of Severance. He said children cannot believe that it is illegal to have snowball fights in their hometown.(8)
He said town leaders have for years told the children, ‘You have the power, you can change the law.’.(9)
But no one had tried -- until now.(10)
Nine-year-old Dane Best lives in Severance with his parents and little brother.(11)
He has made it his mission to get the snowball-fight ban overturned.(12)
Dane says he believes the law is “outdated.”(13)
“I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble,” he said.(14)
Dane’s mother, Brooke Best, told The Greeley Tribune newspaper that her son found out it was illegal to throw snowballs within town limits about a month and a half ago.(15)
Since then, he has been talking about how to change that.(16)
Dane wrote letters with his classmates in support of overturning the ban.(17)
And on Monday, he spoke about the issue at a Severance town meeting.(18)
Leaders listened as Dane presented his arguments. Then, they all voted to lift the ban.(19)
Dane says the first person he hopes to hit with a snowball is his four-year-old brother.(20)
Dane and his family have researched other Severance rules, including one that defines pets only as cats and dogs.(21)
Dane has a guinea pig, which appears to be illegal in Severance, too.(22)
And that’s What’s Trending Today.(23)
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Asa butterfield 2016
Asa butterfield 2016. Asa Butterfield Reveals the Biggest Challenge of Being a British Actor in America 2019-04-11
Asa butterfield 2016 Rating: 4,4/10 648 reviews
The Space Between Us (film)
The following year, he appeared in the comedy movie, Son of Rambow. Upset, he stages a daring escape and hitches a ride to find Tulsa. He became an active part of it and started working with minor roles in the very time. Can you imagine a tall teen star whose suppose to be playing a Middle schooler but is super tall for their age and taller then many of the other teens and maybe even some of the adults? He has trouble reading the social cues of others and flinches at the slightest physical contact with another person. It was a side role.
Have you ever wondered how rich Asa Butterfield is, as of late 2016? As for 2019, he appeared in the Comedy Series, Sex Education playing the role of Otis Milburn. I just focus on the scene and the moment. They escape safely to a diner where they determine the location of the shaman who married Gardner's parents, Shaman Neka. So I absolutely think that in a case like this we should give his claim the benefit of the doubt, unless there is evidence to the contrary. The powerhouse of talent has been a part of the showbiz ever since he was 9. Newsquest Media Group and Gannett Company.
Asa Butterfield Height Weight Body Statistics Trivia
The film was released on February 3, 2017 by. She's had to take care of herself. After discovering that no bodies were found in the wreckage, they receive some devastating news — Gardner's body contains dangerously high levels of , meaning that he has an. Asa Butterfield has been in 4 on-screen matchups, including in Ender's Game 2013 , in The Space Between Us 2017 , in Hugo 2011 and in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2016.
Who is Asa Butterfield dating? Asa Butterfield girlfriend, wife
Pedro actually makes an argument for an exception worth considering, but at the end of the day, I am not for changing heights based on personal claims without corroborating evidence. Tulsa gives in and helps him escape. The role only further increased his net worth and put his name on the Hollywood map; he received high praises for his portrayal, and was also nominated for the Saturn Award in the category Best Performance by a Younger Actor. Or he may have stopped growing already he's 17 and stays at 5'11'', who knows. He began his acting career at the age of 9 in the television drama After Thomas 2006 and the comedy film Son of Rambow 2007. I know that boys grow later than girls but still after 17 the biggest growth is done and then it's time for readjusting.
This movie made Asa Butterfield an internationally popular star. Archived from on 6 September 2014. Of course this would be a different situation if he would have made that claim change at age 20. I fear like this unilateral change without the photographic endangers the credibility of the site. He has a radiant smile and shining blue eyes, the young man is very charismatic and to his still tender age he managed to achieve international glory. On July 31, 2015, , , and joined the cast of the then-untitled film.
Asa Butterfield Reveals the Biggest Challenge of Being a British Actor in America
There's this dynamic where she's almost parenting him in some ways. The movie about Holocaust was very complicated and its director, Mark Herman, doubted, if 11 year old teenager can understand the main idea of the film. Nathan is diagnosed with autism early in the film, and his father was the only one who was able to connect normally with him. Prior to that, the film will have a China premiere on June 28 where key cast and crew are expected to attend.
The current status of his salary and net worth is indicated to be the amazing sum of money that is around 5 million American dollars in 2016. So, he has limited experience of the outside world. He maintained a very good relationship with David Heyman and Mark Herman because of whom he was able to get the best offerings in big budget films. Tulsa manages to crash-land the plane into an old, abandoned barn, causing a fiery explosion.
Asa Butterfield & Anya Taylor
Body Measurements: Height and Weight Asa stands tall with a height of 6 feet and has blonde hair color with grey eye color and has enchanted his fans with his looks. The first scene we had was the scene in the school, which is our first kind of meeting scene, as well, so it helped to have, not awkwardness, but kind of feeling around a bit. That dear little fellow from 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas' has grown up to be a 6-footer! I simply said that I haven't seen any recent photographs of the kid, and that we never change someone's height on their own personal claim minus corresponding evidence. We make note of claims on people's pages, but we've explicitly not take them as gospel truth, particularly lacking any other evidence.
His performance in Hugo did wonders as he effortlessly turned into a 12-year-old orphan who lived in the walls of a train station, covered in the mystery of his late father and an automation. Early Life Of Asa Butterfield Asa Butterfield was born on 1 April 1997, in Islington, London of England and he is an English actor teenager actor who is just 19 years old in age. Anya just made a big splash at the Toronto Film Festival with her new film Barry, which sold to Netflix after a bidding war between studios. He is of British nationality and part of the white ethnicity.
Nathan fears he's not good enough to qualify but ends up doing well enough to accompany 15 other British teenagers to Taiwan. In it, he starred with the 6ft3 David Thewlis as his son. No, I think that's right actually. Asa has never seen with any girls in public places and also he has not asked about his sexuality. He keeps his emotions bottled up as they all travel to Cambridge and settle in for the Olympiad.
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Solages faces Hardial in Nassau 3rd L.D. primary contest
Election set for June 25
Posted Thursday, June 20, 2019 2:53 pm
The Theodore Roosevelt legislative building in Mineola.
Christina Daly/Herald
By Peter Belfiore
Elections in New York are going to be a bit different this year.
Because of changes made this winter to the state law intended to have federal, state and local primary races fall on the same day, primary elections in Nassau County will be held on June 25.
Under Section 8, Chapter 100 of New York election law, covering dates and times for voting, primary elections will be held on the fourth Tuesday in June before every general election, with polls in Nassau County scheduled to be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
For Nassau County’s 3rd Legislative District, which encompasses Valley Stream, Elmont and portions of the Five Towns, Monique Hardial, of Elmont, has mounted a primary challenge against Legislator Carrié Solages, of Valley Stream, who is seeking re-election to his fifth term.
The Herald spoke with both candidates about their legislative priorities for one of the most diverse districts in Nassau County.
The incumbent
As a four-time legislator and a local attorney, Carrié Solages, 40, has compiled an extensive background in county affairs.
He was positive about Nassau’s re-assessment effort, which he said is likely to benefit homeowners in his district more than elsewhere.
“I’m glad to say that 60 percent of my community has seen a 10 percent drop in their assessments,” Solages said, adding that under previous county executives before Democrat Laura Curran, homes in Elmont and parts of Valley Stream funded a higher portion of the county’s tax levy than those on the North Shore, or in communities where residents were more likely to habitually challenge their property values.
Solages also touted his efforts to provide tax-grievance advice to residents in his district, going so far as to host attorneys at his office to file tax grievances for them free of charge.
Additionally, he said he was proud that after years of requesting county assistance to look into traffic solutions in Elmont, particularly around its schools, safety measures were finally being implemented, with a traffic study of the area now under way.
“We have four new speed indicators on Elmont Road and Dutch Broadway,” he said, adding that another two were planned for closer to the Queens border. In total, he said, he had secured $1 million in safety improvements for Dutch Broadway.
Solages also said he was seeking ways to establish a community center at Dutch Broadway Park, and he had helped fund an environmental study of the facility.
Other scheduled infrastructure projects that he lauded include a redesign and repavement of North Central Avenue, the second of which is scheduled for the fall.
In Inwood, Solages said he was proud to have secured funding to demolish a crumbling property at 175 Roger Ave., as well as the refurbishment and reconstruction of the Inwood County Park administrative building after a fire, and securing funds for a police booth there to increase security and collect fees from non-county residents.
Solages also said he was able to procure three additional police and auxiliary police vehicles for Nassau County’s 4th and 5th police precincts, as well as secure grants for local fire departments to purchase equipment.
He helped establish the county Asian American Affairs Agency, and pushed to expand the capacity of the Office of Minority Affairs, which currently operate as separate entities, but are planned to work under the same umbrella.
Acknowledging the limits of county resources, Solages said he was introducing an adopt-a-roadway program, which is a proposed public-private partnership to help better maintain county roads.
Regarding the planned Belmont Arena, he said he was among the lawmakers advocating for a full-time Long Island Rail Road station at Belmont, and is pushing to have the project’s plans include the refurbishment of parks in Elmont and Valley Stream.
“Commuter issues have been very important for me,” he said, noting that he had also pushed for an expansion of Nassau Inter-County Express bus service in Elmont, with an additional line scheduled to start operating on June 23.
Monique Hardial, 37, a longtime Elmont resident and a staff attorney at Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman LLP in Manhattan, is seeking a clean break from party politics that she said may have caused issues in the 3rd Legislative District to go unaddressed.
“I think a representative, by its very nature, is supposed to represent the people in the community,” she said, “and not one’s own political agenda or whatever agenda the party sets forth.”
She said she would like to take on the numerous reported instances of breast, lung and prostate cancers among Elmont residents, which, according to previous Herald reporting, are far higher than the statewide averages.
To tackle the crisis, Hardial said she would call for water testing and more frequent cleanups of Elmont’s water basins, which are often strewn with garbage.
“We can’t forget that these are very important environmental and social justice issues,” she said of the need to address the cancer rates. “This is not political football. These are people’s lives.”
Additionally, Hardial said she worries about the impact of Nassau’s countywide property-tax assessment overhaul, and called for more transparency in the process, which by the county’s own estimates would likely increase property taxes on 60 percent of homes. The remaining 40 percent, conversely, would see tax decreases.
The potential hikes are especially concerning, she said, in light of the perennially cash-strapped county’s road repavement schedules, which she believes have left Elmont lagging in street replacement and repair.
“We lack basic resources,” she said of her community and the county’s failure to generate sustainable revenue sources.
Hardial also took issue with the traffic and street-safety issues that have plagued Elmont, particularly around its schools, which until recently have seen little movement. In the past 10 years, motorists have killed three pedestrians in the area around Dutch Broadway and Elmont Road, with numerous other victims, most of whom were teenagers. She described the situation as “unacceptable.”
When it comes to countywide problems, Hardial said the Legislature sorely needs new voices, which she hoped would lead to improved hiring practices for county employees, and experts should be brought in to help solve the county’s financial woes.
“We need to get new people in positions where they’re qualified to do their jobs,” she said, and not what she described as the “patronage” hiring of politically connected people.
Current practices, which Hardial said were only hurting county finances or providing Band-Aid-like solutions to its budgetary shortfalls, include the use of red-light camera tickets and fees, which she likened to an additional tax, as well as the proliferation of payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, agreements, typically granted to large companies, while small businesses continue to see their property taxes increase.
“I want the overtaxed, overworked, voters of the 3rd Legislative District to know that they finally have a choice and that we should never settle for unsafe streets, toxins in our water and a county that tells us we aren’t paying our fair share of taxes,” she said. “I will hold every and anyone accountable for policies that hurt the people I serve and I’ll fight every day to keep our children safe.”
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Medical Assistant Schools Anawalt WV
Are you looking for Medical Assistant Schools in Anawalt, West Virginia? Simply enter your zip code to see what schools are available near you. You can select free information from multiple schools, so you can compare later on to decide which ones are right for you.
West Virginia Pediatric Medical Assistant
A pediatric medical assistant helps pediatricians by performing administrative and basic medical duties. They work in doctors. offices, medical clinics and hospitals that specialize in the treatment of children from newborns to young adults. The size of the practice generally dictates the type of duties an assistant will be required to carry out. Smaller settings usually require the assistant to perform a range of front and back office duties whereas larger practices hire many different employers so that a job tends to focus on either the administrative or clinical aspect of medical assisting near Anawalt, WV. Duties also depend of the person.s level of qualification and experience, as well as the laws of the state.
Medical Assistant Schools near Anawalt, WV
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In a minor medical role, a pediatric assistant in Anawalt, WV communicates with young patients and their parents by relaying information from the doctor about, for example, diet and medication. They also explain procedures to children in a way that they understand what is happening. Before a patient sees the pediatrician, the assistant will take readings such as height, weight and temperature. It is usually their responsibility to prepare patients for examination and assist the doctor throughout, often in the role of holding, comforting or distracting the child. It is also their duty to ensure that exam rooms are ready and that contaminated material is disposed of and all equipment sterilized. In some states, pediatric medical assistants are allowed to collect and perform basic diagnostic testing on samples, administer injections, draw blood, and prepare and give medications.
An obvious requirement for a pediatric medical assistant in West Virginia is that they enjoy working with children and are adept at communicating with children and putting them at ease. They also need to be patient, good at listening and skilled at answering questions and explaining things to the child.s parents so that they are kept informed.
Anawalt Training and programs
Medical assistant training involves courses which reflect the clerical and clinical nature of the job. Anawalt Programs cover medical law and ethics, terminology, patient relations, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, laboratory methods, clinical procedures, medical coding and billing, computer skills and office management. Further qualifications can be obtained so that a pediatric medical assistant can perform other duties such as administering medication, giving injections or taking x-rays.
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Average salary of an assistant in West Virginia
The average pediatric medical assistant salary is around $29,000 to $31,000 per year or $14 to $15 per hour. Those who are at the top of their profession can earn over $40,000 per annum. As always, salary is impacted by a variety of factors including qualifications, certification and experience. Each state.s cost of living also controls wages with New York medical assistants earning on average $38,000 and those in Wisconsin earning $23,000. The highest earners are also found to be in the pediatric departments of medical and surgical hospitals. You can browse local directories in Anawalt, WV for the most up-to-date Medical Assistant Salary.
Medical Research Assistant near Anawalt, WV
Many students who are working towards a degree in medicine near Anawalt choose to expand their knowledge by working as a medical research assistant. This experience helps further their medical career and also supplements schooling fees. Some graduates also apply for research assistant jobs to gain experience in their field of study before pursuing further education. Those who begin their career as an assistant can undertake further education and training to become a medical researcher.
To be a medical research assistant in Anawalt, West Virginia, you need to have a four year bachelor.s degree in a medical subject such as biology or chemistry. Some employers will require a higher standard of education such as a master.s degree along with previous research experience. Certain medical research companies are extremely selective about their employees and will also require candidates to have passed an examination to be certified by an organization such as the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA). This guarantees that the person can perform the job competently and thoroughly understands the ethics and legalities of the job, upholding the companies. standards of excellence.
Availability of jobs as a research assistant near Anawalt
A medical research assistant can find employment in a variety of settings. Most are employed in laboratories and hospitals. These employments can often be of a temporary nature in which the research assistant focuses on a particular project for a duration such as finding out what causes certain illnesses like diabetes. Pharmaceutical companies also hire research assistants to conduct clinical studies. In this setting, assistants are asked to screen candidates and place them in groups for testing the effectiveness and potential problems of new drugs, administer the medication and placebos, and gather data during the trial period. A clinical research assistant in Anawalt, WV also needs to present the findings by drawing up charts and graphs and writing reports. Most of these jobs are of a long term, salaried contract with the company which involves carrying out many different research programs. Doctors. offices also employ assistants to study treatment options within specific guidelines and report to the doctors on their findings. West Virginia Universities offer medical research assistant jobs as well. These are sometimes given to students who have completed a bachelor degree and are working on their masters or doctorate in the medical field.
The salary of a medical research assistant ranges from $30,000 to $52,000 per year with an average wage of $41,740. Many assistants, however, are paid on a temporary basis and so an average hourly wage is $20. One of the states that pays the highest starting salary is California, but Anawalt, WV is not too far behind either.
The primary goal of a West Virginia medical research assistant is to investigate diseases and discover the effects of drugs, although the actual job description varies from one employer to another. The majority of a research assistant.s time will be spent in a clinical laboratory helping to set up studies, conducting experiments and documenting their results for the consideration of the scientists and researchers. Their work involves interviewing human volunteers for drug testing, collecting and processing samples, monitoring trials, and presenting findings using charts, graphs and reports. Assistants also set up, operate, test and maintain laboratory equipment. They are required to use computers and technological equipment on a daily basis to conduct tests, log activities and record results.
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THE LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION
HOME SCIENTISTS RESEARCH EVENTS BOARD FELLOWS BREAST CANCER HEART DISEASE PUBLICATIONS CONTACT US
and MEETINGS AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
RECENT EVENTS:
THE SIXTH ANNUAL MORTIMER J. LACHER LECTURE sponsored by the MSKCC Division of Hematologic Oncology of the Department of Medicine was held in the main auditorium of the Zuckerman Research Building of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center... as part of MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS on FRIDAY May 15, 2015.
In addition... on Friday May 15, 2015 a meeting was held in the Rockefeller Research Laboratory Building of MSKCC to further celebrate Lacher Day as the five Lacher Fellows of the past year presented their research.
Dr. Charles L. Sawyers was the Lacher Day guest lecturer at the Grand Rounds of the Department of Medicine of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Dr. Sawyers also participated in reviewing the presentations of the research accomplished by the Lacher Research Fellows in the past year. Dr. Sawyers is the Chairman of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to coming to MSKCC the research of Dr. Sawyers and his colleagues with Imatinib (Gleevec) resulted in the extraordinary remissions achieved in patients with Granulocytic Leukemia and it is recognized as one of the first breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer using a molecular approach. Dr. Sawyers success utilizing the molecular approach now includes a successful prostate cancer drug… enzalutamide (Xtandi).
Marcel R.M. van den Brink, M.D., the Alan N. Houghton Chair in Immunology, Head of the Division of Hematologic Oncology, MSKCC, and a Lymphoma Foundation Board Member was the host of the Lacher Day presentations.
AND The 18th ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK in Central Park, NYC... a fund raising event for the Lymphoma Foundation in honor and memory of Brian Rooney was held on SATURDAY AT 10AM May 16, 2015 and after the Race...there was a POST RACE PARTY (included in the Entrance Fee) at the Upper East Side pub Ryan's Daughter 350 East 85th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue.
OLDER EVENTS -
THE FIFTH ANNUAL MORTIMER J. LACHER LECTURE sponsored by the MSKCC Division of Hematologic Oncology of the Department of Medicine was held in the main auditorium of the Zuckerman Research Building of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center... as part of MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS on FRIDAY May 9, 2014 starting at 8AM.
In addition... on Friday May 9, 2014 a meeting was held in the Mortimer Zuckerman Research Building of MSKCC to further celebrate Lacher Day as the five Lacher Fellows of the past year (2013-2014) presented their research.
AND The 17th ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK in Central Park, NYC... a fund raising event for the Lymphoma Foundation in honor and memory of Brian Rooney was held on SATURDAY AT 10AM May 17, 2014 and after the Race...there was a POST RACE PARTY (included in the Entrance Fee)
CLICK HERE to access an application for the Run/Walk
THE FOURTH ANNUAL MORTIMER J. LACHER LECTURE sponsored by the MSKCC Division of Hematologic Oncology of the Department of Medicine will be held in the main auditorium of the Zuckerman Research Building of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center... as part of MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS on FRIDAY May 17, 2013 starting at 8AM.
BREAKING NEWS Dr. Michael J Keating Professor of Medicine and Internist, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX has reluctantly withdrawn from participating as the keynote speaker on Lacher Day for health reasons.
Dr. Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD will preside as the keynote speaker. Dr. van den Brink is Head of the Division of Hematologic Oncology and an Attending Physician in the Adult Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Alan Houghton Professor in Immunology of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, and Professor of Medicine and Immunology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
His laboratory has made important discoveries regarding graft-versus-host disease (including the role of T cell homing, innate lymphoid cells and intestinal stem cell regeneration), graft-versus-tumor activity (such as post-transplant tumor vaccines and the role of TRAIL in donor T cell-mediated graft-versus-tumor effects), and post-transplant immune reconstitution (adoptive therapy with “off-the-shelf” T cell precursors, Interleukin-22 and thymic stroma regeneration). This work is being translated into clinical trials involving Interleukin-7, Keratinocyte Growth Factor, Leuprolide and T cell precursors to enhance post-transplant T cell recovery.
George J. Bosl, M.D., Chairman, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Marcel R.M. van den Brink, M.D. Head of the Division of Hematologic Oncology and a Lymphoma Foundation Board Member will host the Lacher Day presentations.
The 16th ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK in Central Park, NYC... a fund raising event for the Lymphoma Foundation in honor and memory of Brian Rooney will be held on SATURDAY AT 10AM May 18, 2013
BREAKING NEWS Regarding The 16th ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK in Central Park, NYC... SATURDAY AT 10AM May 18, 2013 THE POST RACE PARTY (included in the Entrance Fee) WILL NOT BE HELD AT THE TIN LIZZIE tavern (THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE THEIR RECONSTRUCTION IN TIME FOR THE RACE PARTY)
A NEW VENUE HAS BEEN CHOSEN: THE POST RACE PARTY (included in the Entrance Fee) WILL BE HELD AT RATHBONE'S PUB & GRILL 1702 2nd Ave, New York 10128 (At 88th St)
PAST EVENTS -
THE THIRD ANNUAL MORTIMER J. LACHER LECTURE sponsored by the MSKCC Division of Hematologic Oncology of the Department of Medicine was held as GRAND ROUNDS on FRIDAY AT 8AM May 18, 2012.
Dr. Brian Druker, a co-discoverer and developer of Imatinib (Gleevec), a recipient of the Lasker Award... and many other honors was the guest lecturer.
Later in the afternoon the MSKCC Lacher Fellows (and their mentors) presented their research of the past year.
The 15th ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK in Central Park, NYC a fund raising event for the Lymphoma Foundation in honor and memory of Brian Rooney was held on SATURDAY AT 10AM May 19, 2012 AFTER THE RACE... ONCE AGAIN... INCLUDED IN THE ENTRANCE FEE... THE POST RACE PARTY TOOK PLACE AT THE EAST END TAVERN (LOCATED BETWEEN 82ND AND 83RD STREET ON FIRST AVENUE) AND AGAIN FEATURED YUMMIE SANDWICH 'WRAPS', FRUIT SALAD, DESERT AND COOKIES
The 14th ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK in Central Park, NYC was held on SATURDAY, May 21, 2011 THE POST RACE PARTY AGAIN TOOK PLACE AT THE EAST END TAVERN (LOCATED BETWEEN 82ND AND 83RD STREET ON FIRST AVENUE) AND AGAIN FEATURED DELICIOUS SANDWICH 'WRAPS', FRUIT SALAD, DESERT AND COOKIES
ON SATURDAY MAY 22nd 2010 ... A FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT
THE 13TH ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK WAS HELD AT 10AM IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY, THAT RAISED FUNDS FOR LYMPHOMA CANCER RESEARCH THE POST RACE PARTY AGAIN TOOK PLACE AT THE EAST END TAVERN (LOCATED BETWEEN 82ND AND 83RD STREET ON FIRST AVENUE) AND FEATURED DELICIOUS SANDWICH 'WRAPS', FRUIT SALAD, DESERT AND COOKIES
THE 12TH ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK IN CENTRAL PARK WAS HELD ON SATURDAY MAY 16, 2009 AT 10AM. THE RUN/WALK WAS A GREAT SUCCESS WITH A BIG TURNOUT... DESPITE THE CHILLY OVERCAST DAY... and THE POST RACE PARTY (INCLUDED IN THE ENTRY FEE) THAT WAS HELD AT THE EAST SIDE TAVERN (LOCATED BETWEEN 82ND AND 83RD STREET ON FIRST AVENUE) FEATURED DELICIOUS SANDWICH 'WRAPS', FRUIT SALAD, DESERT AND COOKIES
Proceeds from the charity run are supplemented by the Lymphoma Foundation to distribute grants for the support of basic lymphoma cell research, monoclonal anti-body research for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and continuing clinical trials and improvements in stem cell transplantation for relapsing lymphoma
And for information concerning a contribution to the Lymphoma Foundation click on the following link
AT THE MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
PARTICIPANTS AT THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS AT THE MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER RECEIVED PARTIAL GRANT SUPPORT THROUGH THE AUSPICES OF THE LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION
MORTIMER J. LACHER FELLOWS CONFERENCE
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:00 – 10:00AM in ZRC-105
Craig Moskowitz, M.D.
Clinical Director, Division of Hematologic Oncology
Associate Member, Lymphoma Service
James Hoffman, M.D.
Mentor: Hani Hassoun, M.D.
Light Chain Amyloidosis: Diagnostic Pitfalls and Therapeutic Progress
Todd Rosenblatt, M.D.
Mentor: Joseph Jurcic, M.D.
Alpha Particle Radioimmunotherapy of AML
Jonathan Schatz, M.D.
Mentors: Dr. Hans-Guido Wendel, M.D. & Dr. Andrew Zelenetz, M.D., Ph.D.
Emerging Targets: The PIM Family Kinases in Lymphomagenesis and Resistance to Therapy
Marco Davila, M.D.
Mentor: Michael Sadelain, M.D., Ph.D.
Development of a Cell Therapy for B cell Malignancies in Immunocompetent Mice
Stephanie Terezakis, M.D.
Mentor: Joachim Yahalom, M.D.
18FDG-PET with CT Scan Co-Registration for Radiation Treatment Planning of Lymphoma Patients
Mortimer J. Lacher, M.D.
Consultant, Department of Medicine
THE LACHER FELLOWS CONFERENCE JUNE 2008
THE LACHER FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE OF THE MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER WAS HELD ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 2008 – IN THE ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH BUILDING
The following Fellows and their mentors presented the results of their research of the past year:
James Hoffman, M.D. Mentor: Raymond Comenzo, M.D.
CD32B in Plasma Cell Diseases
Bradford Hoppe, M.D. Mentor: Joachim Yahalom, M.D.
The Role of PET Imaging & Involved-Field Radiotherapy in Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B cell Lymphoma
Matthew Matasar, M.D. Mentor: Andrew D. Zelenetz, M.D., PhD
Late Morbidity in Survivors of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Alison Moskowitz, M.D. Mentor: Craig Moskowitz, M.D.
Improving Outcomes for Relapsed & Refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Todd Rosenblatt, M.D. Mentor: Joseph Jurcic, M.D.
Alpha-Particle Immunotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) With Bismuth-213 and Actinium 225
The Conference was chaired by Dr. Craig Moskowitz, Clinical Director, Division of Hematologic Oncology and Dr. Mortimer J. Lacher provided concluding remarks
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AT THE MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
2007 - On June 6, 2007 the Department of Radiation Oncology held a special Grand Rounds at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to honor the Lymphoma Foundation and Dr. Mortimer J. Lacher, MD. Brad Hoppe, MD, the designated Lacher Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Fellow for 2007-2008 presented and reviewed the data regarding unique treatments of "Relapsed and Primary Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma" ... Michelle Klem, MD, the Radiation Oncology Lacher Fellow 2005-2006 reviewed the current Consortium results of the Breast Cancer survey of patients irradiated for Hodgkin's disease. Dr. Joachim Yahalom introduced the speakers and Dr. Lacher summarized data with regard to secondary side-effects of radiation and chemotherapy in Hodgkin's patients.
THE LACHER FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT THE MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - THE ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH LABORATORY BUILDING on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2007 - 8:30AM to 11:30AM
Introduction: Tarun Kewalramani, M.D.
Justin Bekelman, M.D. Mentor: Joachim Yahalom, M.D. and Deborah Schrag, M.D.
Radiotherapy Quality: Perspectives from Randomized Trials and Practice
David Chung, M.D., Ph.D. Mentor: James Young, M.D.
Regulatory T cells Induced by Human Dendritic Cells Expressing Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase Suppress Antitumor Immunity
Robert Jenq, M.D. Mentor: Miguel Perales, M.D.
Combining DNA Tumor Vaccines with Vaccine Adjuvants and Immune Reconstituting Agents to Enhance Graft versus Tumor Responses after Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation
Alexander Lesokhin, M.D. Mentor: Alan Houghton, M.D.
Immunosuppressive Elements in the Tumor Microenvironment
Matt Matasar, M.D., M.S. Mentor: Andrew Zelenetz, M.D.
Clinical and Pathologic Collaboration between Public Hospitals and MSKCC in the Management of Lymphoma
Concluding Remarks: Mortimer J. Lacher, M.D.
2006 - THE LACHER FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT THE MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - THE ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH LABORATORY BUILDING on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2006
Michelle Klem, M.D. - Breast Cancer in Patients Irradiated for Hodgkin Lymphoma – Mentor – Dr. Joachim Yahalom
Breast Cancer in Patients Irradiated for Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Review of 92 Cancers in 77 Patients Michelle L Klem, M.D., Elena Elkin Ph.D. and Joachim Yahalom, M.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology INTRODUCTION: Modern therapy confers excellent survival in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients. Increased survival after therapy leads to an increase in detection of the long term consequences of therapy. HL patients who receive supradiaphragmatic radiation (RT) are at particularly increased risk for development of breast cancer (BC). Understanding the unique presentation, treatment options and outcome of this group is important. METHODS: We performed a review of patients with DCIS or invasive BC from 1975-2005 who had a history of supradiaphragmatic radiation for HL. Patients were identified from the center’s database. Local control (LC) and BC event free survival (EFS) were calculated using the Kaplan Meier method. RESULTS: Seventy seven patients had 92 cancers, including 12 bilateral synchronous and 9 metachronous cases. Median age at radiation for HL was 24 years (range 12-47). Median dose was 39Gy (range 15-48). Sixty one patients (80%) were under 30 years of age at the time of HL radiation. Median age at initial BC was 43 years (range 26-61), and median interval to first BC was 18 years (range 1-40). Twenty two cases were DCIS (24%), 40 stage I (44%), 15 stage II (17%), 10 stage III (11%), and 3 stage IV (3%). Twenty nine cases were detected by the paient (32%), 6 by clinician (7%), and 36 on mammogram (39%). Most patients were treated with unilateral (35) or bilateral (25) mastectomy. Eleven patients received adjuvant radiation: 7 with external beam, 3 with brachytherapy, and 1 with combination therapy. In 10 patients who received repeat radiation, acute toxicity was limited to skin reactions. Of 52 patients at risk for contralateral BC, 9 developed metachronous lesions (17%). Median follow up was 3.9 years. Five year LC in treated cancers was 90%. Five year event free survival (EFS) in treated patients was 83%. CONCLUSIONS: Most patients who developed BC after radiation for HL had early stage disease. A significant number of bilateral synchronous and metachronous lesions were seen. Most patients were treated with unilateral or bilateral mastectomy, but breast conserving therapy has been employed with acceptable acute toxicity. More work is needed to elucidate the clinical outcome of breast cancer in this setting. This study will be enhanced by matching this cohort with primary BC patients that have not been irradiated.
John Gerecitano, M.D., Ph.D. - Proteasome Inhibition and the Treatment of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas– Mentor – Dr. Owen O’Connor
INTRODUCTION: The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway is the major extralysosomal pathway for the elimination of intracellular proteins. At the heart of this pathway is the 26S proteasome, which plays a vital role in degrading regulatory proteins that govern cell cycle, transcription factor activity, apoptosis and cell trafficking. Among the key proteins that are temporally degraded by this pathway during the cell cycle are the cyclins and the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p21 and p27 Kip1. Both p21 and p27 can induce cell cycle arrest by inhibiting the cyclin D-, E- and A-dependent kinases. Interfering with the temporal degradation of these molecules by blocking proteasome function can thereby arrest the growth of malignant cells. Another important target of the proteasome is the Nuclear factor-B (NF-B) signal transduction pathway, which regulates the expression of adhesion molecules and anti-apoptotic factors. Bortezomib is a dipeptidyl boronic acid inhibitor with high specificity for the chymotryptic moiety of the proteasome. Preclinical studies have demonstrated its ability to prevent proteasome-mediated degradation of ubiquitinylated proteins, including p16, p21 and IB, and to inhibit proliferation in many different cancer-derived cell lines. Phase I studies suggest activity in a variety of neoplasms including lymphoma. Based on the results of Phase II and III studies in multiple myeloma, bortezomib has become the first FDA approved proteasome ihibitor for use in this disease. CURRENT TRIALS: Our group has shown that bortezomib has promising activity as a single agent against indolent lymphomas, even in heavily pretreated patients. Furthermore, preclinical data in our lab and others have shown that bortezomib potentiates the effects of cyclophosphamide and rituximab in a schedule-dependent manner. In order to exploit the non-cross-resistant mechanism of action of bortezomib, we are studying it in combination with these other drugs. Current first line treatments for indolent lymphomas include multi-drug regimens such as rituximab, cyclophosphamide and prednisone (R-CVP). Vinca alkaloids have not been shown to have independent activity in indolent lymphomas, and these agents can cause neuropathy, which is also the most common dose limiting effect of bortezomib. In the context of a phase I/II trial, we are sequentially enrolling patients with indolent lymphoma to be treated with a fixed dose of rituximab, cyclophosphamide and prednisone and escalating doses of bortezomib. Toxicity of bortezomib in this multi-drug combination is being closely tracked. After the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of bortezomib is determined in the phase I portion of the trial, patients will be enrolled in the phase II portion, where response rate and time to relapse will be assessed in relapsed/refractory patients. In a related study, tissue microarray analysis is being performed on diagnostic samples from patients treated with single-agent bortezomib at MSKCC. Immunhistochemistry will be used to assess the expression profile of proteins involved in signal transduction, cell cycling, apoptosis and metastasis. This profile will then be correlated with response to see which pathways may be most important in the antineoplastic action of bortezomib. Finally, a second-generation proteasome inhibitor, PR-171, is being tested in a multicentered phase I trial.
Carlos Ramos, M.D. - Accerlerating Hematopoietic Recovery with Chemokines – Mentor – Dr. Shahin Rafii/ Dr. Mark Heaney
INTRODUCTION: Lineage specific cytokines, such as G-CSF, are ineffective in reconstituting the early phases of hematopoiesis after myelosuppression induced by radiation or chemotherapy. Our group has shown that administration of stem cell active chemokines, such as Stromal Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1) and Fibroblast Growth Factor 4 (FGF-4), promotes rapid hematopoietic recovery and prevents initial phases of cytopenia induced by chemotherapy, even in the absence of lineage specific cytokines. We hypothesized that SDF-1, FGF-4 and their analogues support the timely reconstitution of hematopoiesis after radiation or chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression, by promoting rapid recruitment of stem and progenitor cells from specific bone marrow (BM) niches. In addition, FGFs and angiogenic factors released in response to SDF-1 likely contribute to the rapid reconstitution of hematopoiesis after chemotherapy or radiation, by accelerating the regeneration of the BM vascular network. We assessed the potential for stem cell active chemokines (SDF-1 analogues and FGF-20) to accelerate hematopoietic reconstitution after chemotherapy or radiation induced myelosuppression. Also, we began to determine the mechanisms by which these chemokines and other angiogenic factors may protect against chemotherapy or radiation induced myelosuppression, by studying gene expression differences between wild type animals and specific cytokine knock-outs.
Daniel Persky, M.D. - Biomarkers in Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma – Mentor – Dr. Craig Moskowitz High dose chemoradiotherapy and ASCT may overcome the prognostic importance of bcl-2, bim, and p53 overexpression in relapsed/refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Daniel O. Persky, MD, Alexander Filatov, MD, Julie Teruya-Feldstein, MD, Tarun Kewalramani, MD, Pauline D. Bonner, BA, Alexia Iasonos, Ph.D, Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, Ph.D and Craig H. Moskowitz, MD. Department of Medicine, Pathology, and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
INTRODUCTION: Approximately twenty percent of patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) relapse or have primary refractory disease. About 50% of these patients achieve long-term remissions after high-dose chemoradiotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDT/ASCT). At MSKCC, ICE (ifosfamide, carboplatin, etoposide) was incorporated as second-line chemotherapy prior to HDT/ASCT in a comprehensive treatment program. In addition to chemosensitive disease, a clinical prognostic model that emerged from this study identified 3 risk factors - B symptoms at relapse, extranodal disease, and complete remission duration of less than 1 year (Blood. 2001 Feb 1;97(3):616-23). This model was used to intensify treatment according to the number of risk factors, with stratification overcoming the significance of poor prognostic features (Blood. 2003 Nov 16;102(11), abstract #403). RESULTS: Ninety one patients had sufficient tissue available. Forty five patients (49%) had disease progression and 36 (40%) died. Median EFS was 4.7 years, median OS was not reached, and median follow-up was 6.5 years. Bcl-2 was overexpressed in 37/91 (41%), bim in 9/72 (13%), and p53 in 38/89 (43%) patients. Overexpression of bcl-2, bim, or p53 had no significant association with EFS or OS. Estimated 5-year EFS rates for positive vs. negative cases were 59% vs 46% for bcl-2, 52% vs 44% for bim, and 47% vs 53% for p53 (all p=NS). The 3 factor clinical model (B symptoms at relapse, extranodal disease and complete remission duration of less than 1 year) remained highly significant (0/1 vs 2/3 factors) for EFS and OS (p=0.0005 and p<0.00005, respectively). CONCLUSION: Despite the evidence that p53 and bcl-2 over expression may predict a worse prognosis with initial treatment, it appears that at relapse such over expression is either not prognostically significant or that the treatment with ICE and HDT/ASCT overcomes its significance. Further studies will focus on other pathways that are thought to play a role in relapsed/refractory HL outcomes. Bim is a novel pro-apoptotic marker from the bcl-2 family that is expressed on RS cells. Subsequent studies should address its role in both initial and relapsed/refractory setting.
Conference Summation: Mortimer J. Lacher, M.D.
In his summation, in part, Dr. Lacher noted the special importance of seeking means to avoid the radiation induced late onset breast cancers as reported by Dr. Klem, et al.. In a concise presentation he emphasized the role of reducing the size and amount of radiation and the controversy surrounding the concept of completely eliminating radiation therapy in favor of chemotherapy.
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER LACHER FELLOWS SCIENTIFIC MEETING - June 2005
At a Special Hematology Oncology Seminar on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 starting at 8:30AM in the Rockefeller Research Laboratory Building (Room 116) of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center the following recipients of the MORTIMER J. LACHER, MD HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY AND RADIATION THERAPY FELLOWSHIPS (2004-2005) presented their research of the past year.
Dr. John Gerecitano MD,PhD (mentored by Dr. Owen O'Connor and Dr. David Spriggs) - Proteasome Inhibition and the Treatment of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas - J. Gerecitano, et al
Dr. Daniel Persky, MD (mentored by Dr. Craig Moskowitz) The Utility of Upfront High Dose Chemoradiotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (HDC/ASCT) - D. Persky, et al
Dr. Deborah Mulford, MD (mentored by Dr. Joseph Juric and Dr. David Scheinberg) - Antibody based therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia - D. Mulford, et al
Dr. Jeffrey Halaas, MD,PhD (mentored by Dr. Andrew Zelenetz) - The Follicular International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) is Superior to WHO/REAL Histological Grade for Identifying High-Risk Patients: A Retrospective Review of the MSKCC Experience in 260 Patients with Follicular Lymphoma - J. Halaas, et al
Dr. Welela Tereffe, MD (mentored by Dr. Joachim Yahalom) - Reduction of breast, lung, and heart exposure using involved field radiation therapy for Hodgkin's disease - W. Tereffe, et al
►►THE MORTIMER J. LACHER, MD HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY AND RADIATION THERAPY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS of the MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER 2003-2004 presented the results of their research of the past year at a Special Hematology Oncology Seminar on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Rockefeller Research Laboratory Building. The following presentations were made by
Dr. Adam Boruchov - Modulation of Fc gamma receptors on human Dendritic Cells for optimizing immunotherapy
Dr. Jeffrey Halaas - Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of Rituxin-CHOP-14 in patients with diffuse large B-Cell Lymphoma
Dr. Nicole Lamanna - Sequential therapy with fludaribine, high dose cyclophosphamide, and rituximab induces a high incidence of complete response in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Dr. Deborah Mulford - Antibody based therapy for elimination of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia
Dr. Kathryn Beal - Excellent long term experience with primary bone lymphoma: Analysis of prognostic factors
►►FOLLOW THIS LINK TO VIEW ABSTRACTS OF THE LACHER FELLOWS MEETING JUNE 16, 2004
NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS - 2013
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)2013
ABOUT ACCESS TO THE ABSTRACTS:
The majority of the 2013 Annual Meeting abstracts will be publicly released on May 15 at 6:00 PM (EDT).
The abstracts can be accessed at www.abstract.asco.org.
American Society of Hematology (ASH)2013
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2013
PREVIOUS FUND RAISING EVENTS FOR THE LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION
A PRO-AM TENNIS MATCH - FUND RAISING EVENT
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 6, 2008at the BETHPAGE STATE PARK TENNIS CENTER a successful charity Pro-Am tennis event in honor of Madeline Fischbach Zausner (who was under intense chemotherapy treatment at that time) raised funds to support research grants to be distributed by the Lymphoma Foundation. The event was well attended and the tennis professionals David Fischbach (Madeline's son) and Keith Kambourian concluded the tennis event by hosting a bountiful buffet of various pasta dishes and deserts.
Madeline was able to enjoy many months of partial remission of her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (that was first diagnosed in July 2007) until September 2008 when the lymphoma progressed in an uncontrollable fashion. Then Madeline developed the sudden onset of respiratory failure and despite heroic efforts at resuscitation Madeline died on October 17, 2008.
Dick Zausner, Madeline's husband, has asked friends and family members to honor Madeline's memory by sending donations to the Lymphoma Foundation.
THE 11TH ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY TOOK PLACE ON SATURDAY MORNING MAY 17, 2008
Proceeds from the charity run supplemented by the Lymphoma Foundation were distributed as research grants for the support of basic lymphoma cell research, monoclonal anti-body research for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and continuing clinical trials and improvements in stem cell transplantation for relapsing lymphoma
The Ninth Annual Lymphoma Foundation Brian Rooney Run/Walk was held on Saturday May 20th, 2006 in Central Park, New York City and was enjoyed by an enthusiastic group of 'runners' and 'walkers'. After the Run they all enjoyed a delicious luncheon buffet at Snapper Creek. This special event held each spring in memory of Brian, an avid runner, who died at the age of 32 from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma... has raised funds each year for the past nine years to support clinical and basic lymphoma research by Dr. Dennis Cooper, Yale University, Dr. Gerald Spangrude, University of Utah and Dr. John Leonard, Cornell University that resulted in adding important data regarding the basic nature of normal and abnormal lymphocytes, improvements in stem cell transplantation and the use of newly developed monoclonal antibodies to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
This year's Rooney Run added a special sense of tragedy as well as urgency toward the accomplishment of its mission as it is marked by the recent death of Brian's mother who also died from a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Once again... this event convened to raise awareness to the pressing need to continue to promote and support basic and clinical treatment knowledge of the lymphomas and allied diseases (e.g. leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, NF!, myeloma). to help determine the genetic nature of the lymphomas... to define the familial nature of the lymphomas and how can all persons be benefited with re-adjustment of older forms of treatment and by the application of new forms of treatment.
Work in progress supported by Lymphoma Foundation grants addresses these issues: Dr. Offit continues to seek the answers to the genetic riddle associated with the lymphomas, breast cancer, colon cancer and the inter-relationship of these tumors and inheritance and 'normal' aging; Drs. O'Connor, Straus, Comenzo, Kewalramani, Yahalom, Moskowitz, Sabbatini, Aghajanian, Spriggs, Cooper, Coleman and Leonard have added new forms of chemotherapy, new protocols of treatment, and monoclonal antibody therapy to treat the lymphomas and other cancers; Drs. Spangrude, Counter and Nimer seek basic answers to the nature of the primary lymphoma cell origins and how cancer cells and normal cells react to form cancers, age and die (apoptosis) or resist aging by adjusting the ends of chromosomes called telomeres; others including Drs. Scheinberg, Jhanwar, Yahalom, and Offit have concentrated on unique approaches to cancers and blood disorders in children (leukemia, NF1); Dr. Houghton continues to advance his research seeking an effective vaccine against the lymphomas and other cancers. Each of these efforts are 'works in progress' and your support will help achieve the results that benefit all mankind.
A SPECIAL LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION FUND RAISING EVENT was held on May 21, 2005
RUNNERS GATHERED AT THE STARTING LINE FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK (THE EIGHTH ANNUAL RUN/WALK) THAT WAS HELD IN CENTRAL PARK IN NEW YORK CITY ON SATURDAY MAY21, 2005 AT 10AM This special event held each spring in memory of Brian, an avid runner, who died at the age of 32 from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma... has raised funds each year for the past eight years to support clinical and basic lymphoma research.
Some of the wonderful volunteers setting up the 'sign in' booth early in the morning before the runners arrive.
Colin, Tricia and Diana getting ready to 'run'
Andrew... waiting for the runners to cross the finish line
EVENTS - 2004
►►THE BRIAN ROONEY RUN WALK OF 2004
►►FOLLOW THIS LINK TO VIEW SELECTED ABSTRACTS FROM THE 40TH ANNUAL AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGISTS (ASCO) MEETING in June 5-8, 2004
The Annual Spring Time Brian Rooney Run/Walk in Central Park, New York City
The 2002 Logo for the Brian Rooney Run/Walk in Central Park
The Annual Brian Rooney Run/Walk in Central Park raises research funds for the Lymphoma Foundation in honor and memory of Brian Rooney who died at a young age from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The family and friends of Brian Rooney generously donate their time and resources to make this tribute to Brian a success each year it has been run since 1997
UPDATE: ON A HAZY, SUNNY MORNING IN CENTRAL PARK IN NEW YORK CITY ON SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2004 THE 7TH ANNUAL BRIAN ROONEY RUN/WALK WAS ATTENDED BY MANY FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF BRIAN ROONEY AND FRIENDS OF THE LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION. (CLICK ON THIS LINK TO ACCESS ADDITIONAL PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT). BECAUSE OF THE GENEROSITY OF SO MANY VOLUNTEERS AND DONORS... FUNDS WERE RAISED FOR RESEARCH GRANTS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE CURE OF ALL PATIENTS WITH LYMPHOMA AND ALLIED DISORDERS.
Andrew Bresnahan and Tricia Cooney Bresnahan have been the coordinators of the Run/Walk each year and this year (2004) their first child Colin Andrew Bresnahan (born October 14, 2003) joined the Run/Walk with his parents... although we must tell you that Colin did more sleeping than running or walking.
The Brian Rooney RUN\WALK 2004 was also attended by many children and their family pets. While Colin Bresnahan rested, Melody, the 'little red dog', tore away from his mistress and came in at the finish line just ahead of two contenders for the slow-time award!
In the year 2000 it was sunny and nice. In 2002 it was freezing cold and raining although you couldn't tell that from the up-beat logo of 2002.
On May 17, 2003 it was overcast in the morning and then sunny later in the day. Some believe that the best part of the Run/Walk is after the 'race' when everyone gathers at the Snapper Creek Tavern on First Avenue between 82nd and 83rd Street to enjoy a wonderful repast of tasty sandwiches, pasta, fruit, cake and cookies hosted by Brian's old friends the owners of Snapper Creek.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF GRANTS FROM THE ROONEY FUND OF THE LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION...we have been able to support valuable lymphoma research by clinician/scientists including Dr. Dennis Cooper, Director of the Stem Cell Transplant Program, Yale Cancer Center, Yale University Medical School, Dr. Janet Cuttner and Dr. Janice Gabrilove, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City and Dr. Gerald Spangrude, Professor of Oncological Sciences, Department of Hematology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
Acknowledging grant support by the Brian Rooney Fund of the Lymphoma Foundation the following research papers were published:
Allogenic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation for High-risk Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma S. Seropian, E. Bahceci and D. L. Cooper from the Section of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Their experience with poor prognosis patients with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to improve the outcome of allografting indicated that patients who relapse after an autologous transplant can be salvaged with an allogenic transplant. Bone Marrow Transplantation (2003) 32, 763-769
Characterization of Thymic Progenitors in Adult Mouse Bone Marrow S. Scott Perry, L. Jeanne Pierce, William B. Slayton, and Gerald J. Spangrude from the Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, Oncological Sciences and Hematology: University of Utah Medical Center. They described the phenotype of an adult mouse bone marrow population highly enriched for rapidly engrafting, long-term thymocyte progenitors and noted that the disparity in B and T cell expansion from this lymphoid progenitor population suggests it contains the progenitor responsible for seeding the thymus throughout life. The Journal of Immunology, 2003, 170:1877-1886
Early Stages of Hematopoietic Differentiation G. J. Spangrude, S. Scott Perry, and W.B.Slayton Departments of Oncological Sciences, Pathology, Pediatrics, and Medicine, Division of Hematology: University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. They concluded: The potential of defined cell populations to differentiate as T or B lymphocytes in vivo was dependent upon the time post transplant at which animals were evaluated. These studies underscore the need for caution in the interpretation of lineage potentials evaluated by both in vitro and in vivo assays. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 996:186-194 (2003)
Aspects of Early Lymphoid Commitment H. Wang, and G. J. Spangrude. Departments of Pathology, Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. They reviewed the progress "in understanding the molecular under pinning of commitment to the lymphoid pathways of differentiation..." Current Opinion in Hematology 2003, 10:203-207
NOTE: The Rooney Fund of the Lymphoma Foundation recently funded Dr. Scott Perry in Dr. Spangrude's laboratory and is now funding the career development of Dr. H. Wang. Her research is directed toward identifying molecules that may play important roles in early hematopoiesis (blood production) and may also function as targets for oncogenic (cancer) transformation in the T and B lymphocyte cell lineages.
It's Ancient History now... but the OCTOBER 10th, 2002
GALA DINNER is still in our memory and we hope to be able to repeat its success at a future date.
On October 10, 2002 a Gala Fund Raising Dinner at Taste, Eli Zabar's Restaurant on Third Avenue and 80th Street in Manhattan, was successful in raising much needed research funds. The Dinner was coordinated by Diana Berner, the Executive Administrator of the Lymphoma Foundation. The first notices were sent out in June 2002 followed by an up-dated notice to the participants as all the arrangements were being completed. It was a hectic period with some uncertainty as the restaurant was closed for a complete renovation for three months and re-opened just in time for the Lymphoma Foundation affair a few days before October 10th.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GALA DINNER COMMITTEE MEMBERS
ROBERT P. CASTRIGNANO
JOAN AND WILLIAM R. GRUVER
KAREN AND JEFFERSON HUGHES
JOYCE AND ROBERT MENSCHEL
LISA AND ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
DEANNE AND EDWARD SPIEGEL
ADRIENNE AND MARTIN ZAUSNER
AND FOR THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THIS GALA DINNER BY ALL OF OUR GUESTS AND ESPECIALLY
SANDY and ELLEN LEVIN
WILLIAM SAFIRE
SHARON AND FRED STEIN
WILLIAM D. ZABEL, ESQ.
Numerous smaller dinner and luncheon gatherings are held all year long to introduce the clinician/scientists and their research to the generous donors who enable the Lymphoma Foundation provide the grants that are so important in promoting their innovative cancer research.
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Review - Run for Your Life
by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Hachette Audio, 2009
Review by Bob Lane, MA
Jun 2nd 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 23)
Run for Your Life is the second Michael Bennett book by Patterson and Ledwidge. It's a good time to get in on the series since only Step on a Crack precedes this action packed novel. If you enjoy audio books this is one that will surprise and thrill you. Having two readers who are experts at their craft adds to the enjoyment. They present the story in an unambiguous way with characters identified by the two quite different voices of the readers. Most important the two do not get in the way of the text, but present it with clarity and power.
Cannavale made his Broadway debut in Mauritius and was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance. Television credits include an Emmy for his performance in Will & Grace. Film credits include The Station Agent, Fast Food Nation, Snakes on a Plane, Shall We Dance, Romance and Cigarettes, The Bone Collector, and Washington Heights. Roberts stars in the upcoming films The Factory and Shrink. His films include 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line, Joshua, Flicka, The Notorious Bettie Page, and A Home at the End of the World. Television appearances include The L Word, Law & Order: SVU, and Law & Order. Dallas is a graduate of the Juillard School and recently starred off-Broadway in the hit production of Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry.
Patterson, of course, is one of the bestselling and best-known authors of all time with over 140 million copies of his books sold worldwide. Winner of an Edgar Award, he has had his novels Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider made into feature films starring Morgan Freeman. Michael Ledwidge is the author of The Narrowback, Bad Connection, and most recently, the coauthor, with James Patterson, of The Quickie and Step on a Crack. [Source]
A serial killer is loose in post 9/11 New York City. His victims appear to be random. He calls himself The Teacher and is out to educate New Yorkers who are snooty, rich and uncaring. He strikes at will and with skill. Armed with sophisticated weapons that he is expert at using he terrorizes the city while the Mayor and the NYPD struggle to deal with the murders, the panic and the press. NYPD detective Bennett is charged with leading the team to stop The Teacher. Bennett versus The Teacher – Good versus Evil.
Bennett is a driven New York City police detective who balances the high-pressure demands of his job with even more demanding domestic duties. Bennett has recently lost his beloved wife and is now a single dad to ten adopted children. He is assisted by his grandfather Seamus, a Catholic priest, and Mary Catherine, a twenty-something au-pair who may become a potential romantic interest for Bennett as the series progresses.
There is chaos in the streets of New York City and chaos in the home of Detective Bennett where the stomach flu has struck and sick children are throwing up everywhere. Monsignor Seamus provides some comic relief as he too is on the trail of evil – someone is stealing from the church's poor box. Good and evil, according to the iron rules of plot, must meet. And they do. After several murders The Teacher discovers through the media who Bennett is and begins to taunt him via instant messaging and in messages at the crime scenes. In an over the top conclusion the two meet in the air over New York City locked in mortal combat in a Cessna now being used as a weapon in The Teacher's ultimate act of violence and vengeance.
The Teacher's motives are slowly revealed in a carefully plotted story of violence and tenacity. The priest finds his thief. Bennett survives. The Teacher learns his lesson. The flu will always be with us.
The audio book is unabridged, extremely well produced, employs just the right amount of sound effects, and runs to about seven hours of action in its six disk format.
© 2009 Bob Lane
Bob Lane is an Honorary Research Associate in Philosophy and Literature at Vancouver Island University in British Columbia.
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Talkin' 'Bout My Generation
Fancy Colors: Boomers Watched TV Before There Was Color
There are many things taken for granted now that didn’t exist fifty years ago, and many more things that were developed or changed when the Boomer Generation was growing. One of the biggest among these things is the transition from black & white television to color.
The process of watching TV seemed simple and natural enough to young boomers. After all, the home TV set pulled the TV broadcast out of thin air. Yet while the Boomer Generation was in its infancy, so was the TV industry. Before the War there were few regularly broadcasting companies, and few companies building TV sets. In 1946, one year after the War ended and one year into the newly-minted Boomer Generation, there were just 44,000 TV sets in American homes. In order for that number to grow dramatically four things had to happen: the technology for broadcasting had to improve; broadcast companies needed to start up across the country; and companies needed to begin manufacturing large numbers of TVs and sell them at affordable prices. By 1949 the gears of TV progress were moving along and the number of TV sets in American homes ballooned to 4.2 million. That number expanded further when the 1950s arrived. In 1953, half of all U.S. homes had a TV, and practically every major city had at least one broadcasting network. Three years later most cities were linked to national broadcasting.
The first color TV system was demonstrated in 1949 by Peter Goldmark, who was working for CBS. It used a now primitive mechanical method of spinning a red, blue and green disc in front of a cathode tube to generate a color image. The FCC put the government stamp of approval on the burgeoning technology in 1950 when they approved the first color television standard, which was revised one year later. In 1953 RCA became the first commercial company to successfully broadcast a color program that was received by home color TV sets, though CBS had previously broadcast a medical procedure to a closed circuit TV network in 1951. Still, most programs weren’t broadcast in color and very few homes had color TV sets. RCA began selling color TV sets in 1954, nine years into the Boomer Generation.
NBC became the first company to broadcast a color program through a coast-to-coast series of stations on January 1, 1954: The Tournament of Roses Parade from Pasadena, California. The year 1955 saw a number of “firsts” in color TV history:
NBC broadcast Peter Pan with Mary Martin on March 7
Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first President to be seen in a color broadcast at his commencement address to West Point graduates on June 7
The first World Series broadcast in color was between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees on September 28
On October 31 the first hour-long drama series that ran Monday through Friday — NBC Matinee Theater — was broadcast
Sleeping Beauty was the first full-length ballet broadcast in color on December 12
Despite continuing broadcasting milestones over the next few years, adoption of color TV sets was slow by the public. Some historians believe the tipping point came in 1961, when Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color began broadcasting its hour-long Sunday night telecast in color. A year later the cartoons, The Flintstones and The Jetsons, were filmed and broadcast in color. Ultimately, NBC became the first “all-color” network in 1966 when it was announced that all its programming would be broadcast in color. Nonetheless, six years later, in 1972, only half of U.S. homes had a color TV.
Mister Boomer recalls many of the milestones for color TV, but he, like many boomers, witnessed them in black & white. He recalls seeing the NBC peacock — its feathers made up of stylized paintbrushes — in multiple shades of gray. He recalls Walt Disney introducing his show on Sunday nights, but for Mister B and his siblings, Mickey, Pluto and Donald were still pictured in black & white. His family did not own a color TV until the mid-1970s, and even then, it wasn’t purchased. Brother Boomer had married in 1972, and, two or three years later when he bought a new color TV, handed down his old color console set to Mister B’s parents. They used that TV for nearly another decade.
Only one of Mister B’s relatives owned a color TV in the 1960s. Mister Boomer vividly recalls visiting his aunt and uncle one Easter, when his cousins turned on their color TV to watch The Wizard of Oz. Mister B had seen the movie before, but much to his surprise, once Dorothy’s house landed in Oz, dispatching the Wicked Witch of the West in the process, everything changed to color. His eyes grew wide as the screen showed the feet of the Wicked Witch of the West sticking out from under Dorothy’s house. As the toes of the shoes curled into curly-cues, Mister B noticed the red and white striped socks she sported. By the time the munchkins surrounded Dorothy in jubilation, colorful flowers and colorful costumes covered the screen. Sure, Mister B had seen plenty of color movies, but on TV? This was his first.
When Mister B moved out on his own, his first TV was given to him by his parents. It was a black & white Admiral — tubes and all — that had been collecting dust in the basement since they had received the hand-me-down color TV from Mister B’s brother. Several years later Mister B bought his own color portable. By then it was the 1980s.
When did you first experience color TV, boomers?
Author Mister BPosted on April 29, 2013 Categories Pop Culture History, Technology, TVTags 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, boomer generation, color TV, nostalgia, pop culture, TV history
Boomers Experienced the Home Perm
Permanent curls have been around since the 1870s when Marcel Grateau invented two-sided irons that could heat and curl hair. Since it was a hand-done operation, the risk of burning the scalp and skin was great, and the process took an inordinate amount of time. Further inventions in the early 1900s made it more practical for a salon to perform perms with machines that suspended heating elements from a stand to reduce the risk of burning. The process still took several hours.
By the 1930s, it was determined that alkaline-based chemicals, when applied to the hair, would break down the bonds in the hair’s protein. Then the hair could be wrapped around a shape and heat applied to achieve a curl. This short, tight-curl look is the basis of the quintessential 1930s hairstyle we see in old movies and ads.
In the 1940s, Toni was the first company to release a home perm kit. These kits contained a chemical agent that had to be put on washed hair and left on for a designated amount of time. After that, hair was wrapped around curlers and heat was applied, after which a neutralizing agent was applied to hold the resulting curls. This made the process cheaper than going to a salon, and took less time. Chances are our mothers used this product shortly after World War II. In the 1950s, other companies followed suit with their own products.
Mister Boomer, being of the male gender, never had a home perm. His experience with home perms is strictly as an observer when his mother or sister used Push Button Lilt. With houses being much smaller and having only one bathroom, one family member giving themselves a home perm could could seriously disrupt the regular ebb and flow of a household.
As far as Mister Boomer was concerned, whenever his mother and sister had home perms, it was not cause for celebration. Walking past the bathroom door, he observed his sister sitting in a chair in front of the mirror, with a towel draped around her shoulders. Mister B’s mom would apply the vile concoction to his sister’s hair which had been rolled around foam cushions. Whatever chemicals were involved stunk to high heaven and lingered for hours. In Mister Boomer’s home, his mother and sister would use the product simultaneously, doubling the agony, not to mention tying up the bathroom for what seemed an eternity. In the end, they were happy with their curls but Mister B would have preferred to breathe … and uncross his legs.
This commercial mentions the exact push-button foam Lilt used by Mister B’s mother and sister.
As the 1960s progressed, straight hair became more popular than curly hair, so home perms waned in the Boomer household, as they did across the country. A decade later the TV show Charlie’s Angels gave the industry a huge boost when actresses Farah Fawcett and Jacyln Smith sported voluminous hair with prodigious curls.
By the 1980s curly hair was seriously “in” again for men and women. Some men even jumped on the home perm bandwagon. That is not something that happened in Mister B’s experience or with his friends, so he doesn’t know if the same products smelled as bad in the ’80s as they did in the ’60s.
What memories do “Lilt” or “Toni” home perms bring back to you, boomers?
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From the Blogroll: Things You Shouldn't Miss
Newsbusters breaks down the whole Rush Limbaugh "phony soldiers" controversy. He DIDN'T call "soldiers that oppose the Iraq war" phony-- He calls all the fake soldiers that anti-war groups have produced phony! The left HAS produced "phony soldiers" and soldiers that have lied about their deployment and MOS. We have listed the stories and discussed them here...of course it was the infamous Media Matters that started the firestorm. Here's a YouTube link of Rush's response.
And it seems I missed him on Family Guy...
Neptunus Lex has a post up about Elizabeth Eckford...about grace and forgiveness and all the things that are absent in the Jena 6 case.
Lilo over at Lost in Lima has a really great piece on Sex Ed in Schools. I have two more years before I need to worry about this (I just found out last night they do it in 5th grade now!)
Of course anyone that knows me, knows I despise baseball. Don't take me out to the ballgame... Take me to the football, basketball or hockey game, but even if you have free tickets right behind the dugout I will not sit through 9 innings of boringness in the heat drinking near-beer for anyone. All that being said, the Phillies are finally doing good (or so I'm told) and Captain America has a post about it...
I'm actually going to see a show tonight (Queens of the Stone Age). It's been so long since I've seen a band, but with Philly's draconian smoking laws--I'm not sure how long we'll last. The Man was going to go by himself, but Liz generously offered to watch the spawn so we could both go. The dilemma is what to wear...the band is classified 'stoner rock' and I'm fresh out of hemp clothing and pot leaf tees... :)
(Comic Credit: Cox & Forkum)
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I Must Have One...
A Hillary nutcracker...
You can get them here
(H/T: nyctreeman)
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Seattle Police Claim "No Jurisdiction" in PS
I just have to deal with old-hag playground aids and draconian snack guidelines, but this...
"...King County prosecutors on Wednesday charged two Seattle teenagers in a sexual assault on a developmentally disabled female classmate in a Rainier Beach High School restroom in June -- an incident that school officials never reported to police.
A Seattle P-I review of police and Seattle Public Schools records shows that case isn't the only likely crime that wasn't reported to police. While a majority of incidents on school campuses were recorded into the district's safety and security logs and reported to police if necessary, some incidents weren't -- including cases of assaults and strong-arm robberies.
In a few cases, parents or victims say school officials urged them not to report the crimes to police at all.
Pegi McEvoy, who recently took over as interim manger of Seattle schools' safety and security department, acknowledged that the district had a "fragmented" system for documenting and tracking alleged crimes on campuses. This fall, though, district security specialists began filing their reports electronically -- one of a handful of changes intended to streamline and strengthen the reporting process, she said." (source)
Rapes, assaults and weapons and victims are being persuaded not to report these incidents? Why, so the perpetrators aren't "labeled" and don't feel bad about themselves?
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Election Tampering...By The Left?!
"...FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III ordered an internal investigation into whether bureau agents interfered with midterm congressional elections by disclosing a corruption probe that undermined the re-election bid of Republican Rep. Curt Weldon weeks before the Nov. 7 vote.
The publicity from the raid contributed to the Pennsylvania Republican's defeat and led to the election of retired Navy Vice Adm. Joe Sestak, a former Clinton administration national security official.
Mr. Grassley said in his questions to the FBI that the timing of the raid "left the FBI open to criticism and speculation about whether there was an attempt to influence an election." He also wrote that after the investigation was disclosed in the press, the FBI was forced to conduct the searches to prevent the destruction of evidence.
"It appears that the FBI would not have executed these search warrants until after the election except for the fact that someone — possibly an employee of the Justice Department or FBI — leaked the fact of the investigation to the media," Mr. Grassley said.
Mr. Weldon declined to comment on the probe, but a person familiar with the former congressman's thinking said he believes the Justice Department and FBI deliberately sought to sabotage his re-election bid by disclosing the probe in the press within days of the election..." (Read the Entire Story)
I am getting so sick of the fact that "election tampering" has somehow become synonymous with Republicans due to sore losers and unsubstantiated allegations...yet there have more stories than I can even recount of ACTUAL election tampering perpetuated by the DNC.
Navy Blunder: Swastika Barracks
"...The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.
The Navy said officials noted the buildings' shape after the groundbreaking in 1967 but decided against changing it at the time because it wasn't obvious from the ground. Aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years have since revealed the buildings' shape to a wide audience.
The Navy approved the money to change the walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels of the four L-shaped barracks, used by members of the Naval Construction Force at the Navy's amphibious base at Coronado, near San Diego.
"We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika," Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, told the Los Angeles Times.
Online commentators remarked widely about the buildings' resemblance to the Nazi symbol.
Dave vonKleist, host of "The Power Hour," a Missouri-based radio-talk show, said he wrote to military officials calling for action.
"I'm concerned about symbolism," he said. "This is not the type of message America needs to be sending to the world." (source)
It's a shame we have to spend $600,000 rebuilding a symbol that meant well-being, but I totally understand that requests to do so... I wonder why it was designed that way to begin with? It couldn't have escaped the architects' notice that it was shaped like a swastika...
Jenna's First TV Interview
Tonight at 10 pm EST on 20/20 with Diane Sawyer:
"When asked whether she agrees with her father about the Iraq War, Bush said, "You know I'm not here to talk about that, but I'm also not a policymaker. It's a really complicated, obviously a very complicated subject. Everybody can agree on that."
"You know there've been people — [actor] Matt Damon among them — who have said, 'Should the Bush daughters be fighting in Iraq?'" Sawyer said.
"Obviously I understand that question and see what, what the point of that question is, for sure," Bush said. "I think there are many ways to serve your country. And I think … what's most appropriate for me to do is to teach or to work in UNICEF and represent our country in Latin America. But you know I don't think it's a practical question. I think if people really thought about it, they know that we would put many people in danger. But I understand the point of it. I hope that I serve by being a teacher."
Bush told Sawyer she doesn't worry about her father's poll numbers, "because nobody knows him as a person. I mean, he's my father. I separate it, you know? He's a different person to me than what they portray him as. He's a totally different person. I think that's normal, I mean, he's my dad."
Bush said she worries about her father, but says, "He's doing a great job and he's hanging in there. … I worry about him probably less than he worries about me, you know." (source)
I thought that was a great answer. It will be interesting to see how the left'o'sphere reports on this Saturday...
Make Words
I love these games...though it was much harder to play with my trackball than on the bar touch-screens... Beware: It's addictive:
They Far Left Found Their Guy: A Real, Live Anti-War OIF Veteran
"...An Iraq war veteran said Tuesday he is returning his military medals in what anti-war groups are calling a rare and powerful protest.
Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He said he will do so during a protest scheduled for Wednesday in Madison.
“I’m going to give those back because I truly feel that I did not defend my nation and I did not help with the Global War on Terrorism,” said Gaines, who lives in Madison. “If anything, this conflict has bred more terrorism in the Middle East.”
Gaines served a yearlong tour in Iraq between 2004 and 2005 with the U.S. Army Reserve. He spent his time guarding two military bases and issuing ammunition to soldiers but never fired a weapon, he said.
The experience convinced him the war was a mistake and that a steady withdrawal of troops was the right course of action, Gaines said.
“To be quite honest, I felt like we wasted taxpayers’ money,” he said. “The mission just didn’t seem correct and right for that time.” (source)
I can't find anything from him that describes what was wrong aside from what I bolded. Was he mad he didn't get to fire a weapon and was only allowed to hand weapons to other soldiers? "The mission just didn’t seem correct and right for that time." For that time? So earlier or later we could topple Saddam, but not when he was there? I'm confused...
Negative Opinion of Islam Rising & Majority Thinks Mormons are Christians
Really?! Geez, I can't fathom why that would be...
"The number of Americans who say Islam has little or nothing in common with their own religion has spiked to 70 percent in the past two years from 59 percent, the poll found.
Another significant shift has taken place: In 2005, 36 percent of the public said Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence among its believers. That number has risen to 45 percent.
Fifty-three percent of Americans viewed Mormonism positively, while 27 percent viewed Mormons unfavorably.
A slim majority — 52 percent — said Mormonism is a Christian religion. Yet among non-Mormon believers, more than six in ten said Mormonism and their own religion are very different." (source)
As far as the Islam numbers...I'm surprised the unfavorables aren't higher. I did find the Mormon bit interesting because throughout the history of Mormonism they NEVER wanted to be called or lumped in with Christians. It's only in the past ten years that the Mormon church has spent millions IN ADVERTISING to create the facade of a mainstream religion. Don't argue with me...in college I took an entire class on Joseph Smith and Mormonism taught by a ex-lifelong Mormon.
"For over a century, Mormons didn’t want to fit into mainstream Protestantism. They insisted on a position that placed them outside the norm, separate in doctrine and dogma, and distinct in religious history as the ONLY TRUE church of Jesus Christ on the planet. It appears that this formula has worked quite as well as Mormons, on paper at least, have outpaced mainstream Protestantism in terms of increasing their membership. Now they want to be like the mainstream Protestants.
To this end, they no longer advertise the Book of Mormon on TV. Instead, viewers are urged to call and get a free copy of the Bible. This switch in advertising tactics happened about the same time that a DNA study out of BYU showed that Native Americans actually did come from peoples of the Northern Asia, probably across the Bering Sea land bridge, as anthropologists have suggested for decades. So much for the “Submarine from Jerusalem” theory! (Quietly, church leaders have been told not to push that story openly anymore)." (source)
This Is Why...
...Coulter will always be relevant:
"Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question -- unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" is surely no more frightening than "B. Hussein Obama." (Read the entire article)
Dogs Before Kids...?
"...A couple in Center Township is facing charges after the man and woman fled a mobile home fire, grabbing their pet dogs but leaving a young boy behind, police said.
Crystal Adams, 31, and James Chandler, 33, are accused of reckless endangerment after Chandler's 4-year-old son was left Friday night, WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh reported.
The boy was treated for smoke inhalation after a firefighter ran inside and pulled him out, township Fire Chief Bill Brucker said.
Police said the firefighters learned that the boy was still inside the burning mobile home when Chandler and Adams told firefighters that they had forgotten the child. Police said that was about 20 minutes after the couple had gotten out..." (source)
Before I had kids, my dog was my baby. key word in that sentence being BEFORE. Now, my dog is my dog and my kids are my babies. I always find it odd when that switch doesn't take place...
Caption It...
(H/T: SB Smith)
My New Business
You may have noticed my brief absence from blogging here. I have been developing my new business. I am going into the offset business.
I won't be doing carbon offsets. I really like creating greenhouse gases and don't really want to cut back. That's why I traded my Honda Civic Hybrid in on a Ford Expedition. (grunt, grunt)
I will be offering offsets in multiple categories and will include a price list in this post. For those of you who would like a franchise, they won't be available. However, there will be an honesty offset for those who steal my idea!
Offset Type Fee
Adultery $50/occasion (bulk rates also available)
Tobacco use Whatever the pack cost/pack
Donut eating $2/donut or $20/dozen
Stealing 10%
Poor parenting $500/day
Alcohol use Are you kidding?
Please send all payments to my e-mail via PayPal. What ideas can you come up with? OBTW, I will gladly host Ted Kennedy's wind generators, for a small fee.
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San Fran Strikes Again
I was told that the Texas constitution still provides them with the right to secede --is there anyway that we can make San Fransisco do that?
"...New York said "yes," but we said "no." Why were the U.S. Marines denied permission to film a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco?
San Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy over how city leaders treat the U.S. military. This time, it involves an elite group of Marines who wanted to film a recruitment commercial in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11.
The tension has been building in the two weeks since the city turned away members of the Silent Drill Platoon, and it boiled over Monday afternoon at a meeting of the San Francisco Film Commission.
The U.S. Marine Silent Drill Platoon performed Monday morning in New York's Times Square. They filmed part of a recruitment commercial through the start of the morning rush hour -- something they could not do in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11.
"It's insulting, it's demeaning. This woman is going to insult these young heroes by just arbitrarily saying, 'no, you're not going to film any Marines on California Street," said Captain Greg Corrales of the SFPD Traffic Bureau.
Captain Greg Corrales commands the police traffic bureau that works with crews shooting commercials, TV shows and movies in the city. He's also a Marine veteran and his son is serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.
He says Film Commission Executive Director Stefanie Coyote would only allow the Marine's production crew to film on California Street if there were no Marines in the picture. They wound up filming the empty street and will have to superimpose the Marines later..." (source)
I think I've lost count of all the unabashed anti-military instances have taken place in San Fran...
Racist NYT OpEd
From BOB HERBERT (NYT OpEd columnist): "...Enough is enough. Last week the Republicans showed once again just how anti-black their party really is.
The G.O.P. has spent the last 40 years insulting, disenfranchising and otherwise stomping on the interests of black Americans.
They can’t be bothered debating issues that might be of interest to black Americans. After all, they’re Republicans..."
Doesn't this guy realize he is part of the problem? I have met tons of Black Republicans-what would he say to them? If someone from the GOP would have written this article about the DNC...Jesus, fur would be flying. Unlike the Left's oft feigned outrage, I am pretty pissed off about this piece. I think it's cheap race-bating and that is the last thing this country needs. There are members of a certain religion that wish to kill us regardless of our skin color. Can we focus on that before we regress to the outdated race war?
As Priceless as the "Two Americas"
Edwards complains about the "two Americas" from his mansion and now he placates the masses with talk of "frivolous lawsuits" --of course after he made all his money as a trial lawyer. I'd love to have a look at his past cases...
"...Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who made his fortune as a trial lawyer, says attorneys should have to show their medical malpractice cases have merit before filing them.
He also said attorneys with a history of frivolous suits should be barred from filing new cases.
Edwards' proposal is similar to "certificates of merit" laws that have been adopted in several states in recent years. Those laws usually require that an independent doctor assert the validity of a malpractice case before it is filed.
Speaking Monday at a health care forum hosted by Families USA and the Kaiser Foundation, Edwards also said that while reducing malpractice lawsuits, as many have advocated, is a good idea, it won't significantly affect health care costs.
"I do want to push back some on what I think is mostly insurance company-driven hysteria because I think the reality is that the cost associated with legal cases is well under 1 percent of our legal system," the former North Carolina senator said.
Before a lawyer files a malpractice lawsuit, he ought to be required to have two experts certify that the case is both meritorious and serious, Edwards said..." (source)
Are You "Doomed for Divorce"?
Apparently it comes down to these five questions:
1) Have you attended college? (If yes, risk decreases by 13%)
Yes: 1pt.
2) Is your annual income over $50K? (If yes, risk decreases by 30%)
Yes: 4 pts.
3) Do you have a religious affiliation? (If yes, risk decreases by 14%)
Yes: 1 pt.
4) Are your parents still married? (If yes, risk decreases by 14%)
5) Where you married after the age of 25? (If yes, risk decreases by 24%)
**If you scored less than 4 pts. you are "doomed for divorce"
**If you scored between 5-7 you might have a chance with hard work
**If you scored between 8-10 you'll probably make it
Of course all this research was done by Cosmopolitan magazine --right along side this month's sex tips from men...so take it as you will.
I scored a 9 and The Man scored a 7, so I guess we're okay; but they don't tell you what it means if one person gets a 10 and the other a 1...
Impeach Bush!
A short sleeve button-down, a skort and Crocs with ankle socks...? I can no longer defend this man! ;)
(H/T: Nate)
Apparently No Gays in Iran...
I guess all the stories of men hung for "lavat" have been "Western propaganda." ("Iran’s shari`a-based penal code defines lavat as penetrative and non-penetrative sexual acts between men. Iranian law punishes all penetrative sexual acts between adult men with the death penalty. Non-penetrative sexual acts between men are punished with lashes until the fourth offense, when they are punished with death. Sexual acts between women, which are defined differently, are punished with lashes until the fourth offense, when they are also punished with death.")
Reverend Fred Phelps and President Ahmadinejad...bringing LGBT activists and Conservatives together. Amazing.
"I find it ironic that Iran's president accepted an invitation to speak at Columbia University, since students who dissent on Iranian campuses are not met with debate, they are met by a gun and imprisonment. A few months ago, eight college students were imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin Prison for publishing articles and cartoons critical of Iran's government in a student-run newspaper. The Evin facility has been described as Iran's 'most feared prison' and is known to stone women to death. We need to do our best to empower freedom-loving people throughout Iran." -Fred Dalton Thompson
I Might Wear This...
...because it's just that funny. ;)
Speaking of Billary...it seems the free speech lovers had a impending GQ article snuffed. And the left bitches about Rove's "power"?
And President Bush is betting Hillary will be the DNC nominee. *shudder* And some are claiming that he is advising her on the DL...
Will This Go Unpunished?
"A violent beating in Norfolk is caught on tape. The 13 year-old victim and his family believe the attack could have been racially motivated.
The victim in this case is a 13 year-old white boy, Damien O'Rourke. The group who attacked him is made up of all African American teenagers. Damien and his family believe the teens may have picked the fight because Damien is white.
"I was going to play football with my friends. The next thing I know when I got there, there was like, seven black kids who said they were going to beat me up and they started beating me up," says Damien.
Damien and his family say the violent fight was unprovoked.
"They were kicking me and punching me in the face. They weren't aiming for nothing except my face."
Damien says kids at his new school, including one of the kids involved in the fight, treated him badly for a time because he is white. Now his family believes their skin color could have been what led to the first punch being thrown..."(Source & Video found here)
I'm wondering if fear of accusations and protests will cause this incident to be deemed NOT racially motivated and swept under the rug?
This is why "hate crime" legislation is bogus to begin with. Who cares why someone did something wrong --they should be punished for doing it regardless. Is there ever a good or acceptable reason to beat, maim and/or kill someone? NO. The whole concept of punishing someone "further" for their thoughts is ludicrous.
Claiming "Veteran" for Beer...
One of The Man's friends was just telling us he was at some bar the other night and this guy was saying he was a Marine just back from Iraq...and getting free drinks all night. The Man's friend started to question him -where he was, who he was with, etc. and the guy was getting all flustered and annoyed. After the guy left someone came in that knew him and confirmed the guy had never been out of Pennsylvania, let alone in iraq. I guess this is a new beer scam...
"...A 23-year-old man who police say ran up $4,000 in bar bills after falsely claiming he was an Iraq war veteran faces arraignment on Cape Cod.
Management at Pufferbellies in Hyannis says Christopher Lee Proe was allowed to write personal checks over five nights in August after telling staff he wanted to celebrate his safe return from Iraq and honor the memory of fallen comrades.
The checks turned out to bogus. Proe was tracked down last Friday at a Yarmouth home.
Pufferbellies general manager Mike Travers says Proe took advantage of the club's policy of giving military personnel special treatment.
Barnstable Police Sergeant John Murphy says Proe has outstanding warrants from three states, including for impersonating a police officer in Ohio and failing to register as a sex offender in Indiana..." (source)
See, the USMC made a mistake...this is where (now banned) tattoos could come in handy. How many of you have met a Marine that doesn't have proof inked somewhere on his skin ;)
Something's Wrong With This Story...
"...Jan Yoder was preparing for her son's funeral when the phone rang. It was another student loan collector wanting to know when her son would pay up.
Her terse response: Jason is dead. And, she said, "You are part of the reason he took his own life.''
It was those calls and the burden of crushing debt, she says, that led her depressed son to take the drastic action of killing himself late last month. He did so in the Illinois State University chemistry building in Normal -- in the very lab where he did his research to earn his master's degree.
"It made him feel lower than low to tell somebody every week, 'I don't have a job,'" his mother says now. "It drags you down. You feel like nothing...''(source)
Unless this guy had some back alley loans from Fabrizzio & Dinunzio, Inc., he wouldn't have had to make any payments if he was enrolled in even one class. If he was getting calls it means he didn't take 10 minutes to fill out the academic deferment form online. There are so many ways to put off student loans... My 67 year old doctor told me he's still paying his off because he deferred them for economic hardship for so long. From what the press has reported Philadelphia Mayor John Street has yet to repay his student loans.
"...While relatives acknowledge Yoder had fought depression on and off for years, advocates for student borrowers say his case is another example of a student feeling trapped by student debt..."
I don't know, maybe just an easy scapegoat and a mom's way of not dealing with the fact that her son had serious issues...? Debt sucks, but student loan debt is the least of your problems. They are so easy to work with (and I know this because I've been a SAHM for 8 years).
DDT Bad, Malaria much worse
I know I've blogged about malaria and DDT before, but this is a good read.
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Hitler Would Have Been Invited to Columbia University
Not that it should come as any great shock to anyone, but after inviting Holocaust denier and head terrorist of Iran (aka President Ahmadinejad) to speak at Columbia the University says that Adolph Hitler would have also been welcome to speak there. Now, before you think, "hey it's an institution of higher learning and should encourage free speech from all walks of life"...let's remember the treatment The Minute Men received there and the protesting of the ROTC and military recruiters...
Don't make plans to go join the campus protestors though, Columbia is barring non-students from the campus to keep the hostage-taker safe and sound.
Syrian "Nuclear Material" Seized
"...Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related, the well-placed sources say.
They confirmed that samples taken from Syria for testing had been identified as North Korean. This raised fears that Syria might have joined North Korea and Iran in seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.
Israeli special forces had been gathering intelligence for several months in Syria, according to Israeli sources. They located the nuclear material at a compound near Dayr az-Zwar in the north.
Evidence that North Korean personnel were at the site is said to have been shared with President George W Bush over the summer. A senior American source said the administration sought proof of nuclear-related activities before giving the attack its blessing." (source)
Ya know, Cindy might just be right after all. Bring the troops home and replace them with missiles before it's too late.
Kerry Flipped Off Veterans...
Just two days before the now infamous ever-impotent Kerry taser incident, the almost-President flipped off veterans at a Gathering of Eagles in D.C.:
"...About 50 to 60 people with the Gathering of Eagles had gathered outside the NBC Washington D.C. studio early last Sunday morning, on the day after the ANSWER sponsored anti-war rally. The Eagles had heard that Code Pink, who never showed up, was going to be there.
As things turned out, both Senators John McCain and John Kerry were taping a session of Meet the Press at the same location.
Each came in separate cars and upon completion of the session, Senator McCain left first. Pro-troop advocates explained that Senator McCain's "graciousness was beyond words." His car stopped at the end of the driveway. He looked up and when he saw the Vets, he got out of the car and shook the hands of the Vets, the blue star Moms and the patriots.
It was an emotional moment as Vets and Senator McCain looked eye-to-eye, shaking hands and sincerely thanking each other.
A few moments later, Kerry's car came to the edge of the driveway. Some in the pro-troop group turned their backs in protest, but most of them booed.
It is thought because Kerry raised his hand to wave and in mid-stream stopped once he recognized the vests that the Vets were wearing, that he initially did not hear the boos.
Vet, George Samek who had wanted to let Kerry know that he is a traitor for more than 30 years, happened to be holding a bullhorn. He let Kerry know that "he is no brother of mine." His exact quotes are in the GOE forum under "General Chat", page 2, titled, "When is it Appropriate?"
Many would agree that Samek's comment says it all.
As Kerry's vehicle turned left at an accelerated pace, and faced about 15 people on the opposite side of the street, where most of the vets were standing-- Kerry flipped them the bird from inside the safety of his speeding car!
It happened so quickly there were no pictures only eye witnesses.
This is the gesture Senator John Kerry gives to war veterans when he's not in front of the camera.
The finger he gave to wounded war vets, some of whom still suffer pain shows that he is no statesman.
This is the same John Kerry who insisted on being awarded his first Purple Heart in Vietnam even though his injuries amounted to no more than a "fingernail scrape", his commanding officer at the time now says, (www.NewsMax.com, April 14, 2004)." (source)
The Fashion Gods Have Spoken!
There are consequences for angering the gods of fashion and good taste. They will only stand the blasphemy of "everyone wears them" or "but they're comfortable" for so long before they will come and smite you for your sin of looking really bad and allowing your children to commit the same sin!
Ugly fads do indeed have consequences... Heed the warning:
Example #1: Young boy SWALLOWS HIS GRILL. For the unhipsters- grills are those god-awful gold and diamond mouth guards that go over your teeth (think Flavor Flav). Now, for me, the less disturbing part of the story was that the boy swallowed and almost choked to death on the grill (fashion gods, remember?), but the fact that his mother purchased the mouth adornment at a flea market! Um, ewww.
Example #2: Children's feet are being maimed in escalators from those horrid rubber Birkenstocks called Crocs. There have been 40+ incidents of children having toes, toenails and chunks of skin ripped off due to these footwear dont's. I was appalled when I started seeing boys in them...but then I started seeing ADULTS wearing them. Grown women in giant, yellow, rubber clogs. The day I see a grown man wearing them, I may just break down and cry on the spot. I hate to say I'm glad that there have been accidents, but it may be what it takes to break this heinous trend.
TrekMedic has returned from the abyss and has some thoughts on the Jena 6 case. I have A LOT to say about this case and the subsequent multi-city rallies (and Trek, I also liken it to Mumia), but it all falls on deaf ears. So I'll just say this: Why does the African American community keep rallying around GUILTY people. I am more than sure there are INNOCENT Black people that are accused of something and incarcerated somewhere. March and rally for them. I'll join you. Stop doing it for people that don't even claim to be innocent... Hummers & Cigarettes also has a post up about this case
David over at The Thunder Run has a memorial post up for Sgt Eddie Jeffers who was killed in Iraq on September 20, 2007. Jeffers wrote and essay back in February called "Hope Rides Alone" and David has re-posted the piece in the Sgt's honor. A MUST read!
SWWBO had the unfortunate experience of having a cab driver take her to the COdePink/Answer/peacenik rally when she was trying to get to the Gathering of Eagles. She made the best of a bad situation and snapped some great shots of the lefties... And Skye has the pics from Gathering of Eagles and got to meet Michelle Malkin!
Zombie has up pictures from the "9/11 Truth March and the Power to the Peaceful Festival"... You are NOT going to believe who was in attendance: Wonder Woman and Spiderman! There is also a video of the "ballad of 9/11 Truth":
And gee, what a shock, ya know who else was there? Ron Paul supporters.
Honest Partisan posted about how one should best express opposition to the war and discusses the funding bill that was just put down on the Senate.
Tammi expressed her anger about Ahmadinejad questioning non-citizen's rights to America's free speech.
Captain America over at First In! (who just had his one year blogiversary) has a list posted about things men are expected to be able to do. It explains why I turned down a few proposals and waited for The Man --he can do everything on the list. Why would any woman deal with a man that couldn't atleast perform those limited services! LOL :)
Now I am off to waste spend even more money on Halloween decorations...
Update: Also, you should check out PA Water Cooler for ways to help the "Gathering of Eagles" combat the hate and anti-military tactics of the far left!
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So Much for Private School :)
You Passed 8th Grade Spanish
Congratulations, you got 6/8 correct!
Could You Pass 8th Grade Spanish?
I had four years of Spanish and have a good friend that lives in Mallorca...I really should have gotten 10/10 on that! :)
1. Designs by Mad Max!
2. Having forgotten their clothes, several models proceeded to the runway in cast off football uniforms and trash bags.
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Vaya el Norte, el joven!
Ortega's dream, as he recounted it Tuesday standing outside a room at a Windsor motel, is now but a memory. He is one of an estimated 180 Mexicans from Florida who’ve rushed across the border and into Windsor to claim refugee status, fleeing a crackdown on illegal aliens in Florida.
Local agencies that work with refugees have been told to brace for 4,000 to 8,000 refugee claimants.
Every single day this month, Mexican nationals who have been living illegally in Florida -- some for a dozen years or more -- are turning up at the Windsor-Detroit border seeking refugee status. The first group arrived at the YMCA on Aug. 28.
Wow!! Four to eight thousand!!! How on earth will they absorb that?? Now I can understand why the Canadians and their superior attitudes instruct us to accept the 12 or so million illegals in the US!
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Cornyn traps Hillary
Yesterday Texas Senator John Cornyn set a trap that snapped down hard on a pair of Presidential hopefuls. Mr. Cornyn cattle prodded a measure through the Senate that would force each of the elected officials to go on record either condemning or supporting MoveOn.org’s add that smeared General Petraeus.
25 Senators in total voted not to condemn them, with 22 of those officials being Democrats. This is no surprise seeing as most elected Democrats have the same icky feelings about the military that most people reserve dust mites or tape worms. What was significant was that it was a carefully constructed snare that was designed to force the Democrat Presidential frontrunners to make a clear choice between support of the military and MoveOn.org dollars.
Hillary Clinton blundered into the trap with the same enthusiasm that her husband showed when blundering into an intern. She is now on record as someone who will not condemn an ad that smeared a decorated war hero. Considering the fact that she wants to be elected as the Commander and Chief of the military, taking MoveOns side against the top commander in Iraq was a bad tactical decision. This is a vote that the Republicans will beat her senseless with over the next fourteen months. It reinforces how weak liberals are on national defense and highlights their complete disdain for our servicemen and women.
When Barack Hussein Obama heard this vote was coming to the floor, he quickly retreated from the building…or was he being redeployed? Either way, he wanted no part of being on record. At that point he got as far away from the voting as humanly possible so he could avoid being locked down on a position and simply shout rhetoric from a safe distance. This wishy-washy approach is something that can dog him almost as badly as Hillary siding against the military on this issue. It shows that he either doesn’t have the courage to stand up for his convictions, wants to play both sides of the fence, or refuses to make a decision without some focus group data to support his position. In short, the retreat/redeployment from the building doesn’t make him look very Presidential. Not openly supporting MoveOn.org will also probably not go down well with the leftists who run that organization.
Forcing the libs to choose a side between their far left base and the military was a brilliant move by Senator John Cornyn. It could almost be considered Rovesque. The measure passed and MoveOn.org has been officially condemned by the Senate. Not only does Hillary’s vote put her on the losing side of this issue, but it will be one more albatross around her neck when the Republicans start running ads against her in a few months.
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Memorial 101st Airborne Jeep
Karla Comfort's Memorial H3 has gotten a lot of well deserved attention, but the Comfort's aren't the only family that has created mobile memorials out of their everyday transportation.
I was recently sent pictures of another such vehicle owned by the Schoff family. Their son, Cpl Brian James “BJ” Schoff, was killed in action in Baghdad, Iraq on 1/28/2006.
The family contacted Robert Powell of AirbrushGuy & Company (the same shop that did Karla's Hummer) and asked that he create them a memorial that captured and portrayed what Brian meant to his family and friends.
The Jeep's artist, R. Powell, is a veteran and currently has a daughter and son-in-law serving in the United States Air Force. "I have a strong connection to servicemen and women and the sacrifice they make in providing safety and security for our great nation.” Powell states. “I hope the work I have created will inspire others to thank our military personnel especially those who gave their all."
“It is really heart warming to be chosen to be a part of something like this.” Powell states. “But when you are painting and suddenly you realize that you share a birthday with this man who died too young, it really gets to you.”
Here are some pictures of the memorial created for Cpl Brian James “BJ” Schoff:
You can see more pictures of the Jeep HERE and find Airbrush Guy & Co.'s contact information HERE.
Murtha Refuses to Apologize to Marines
Jason Mattera (Young America's Foundation) confronted Rep. Jack Murtha asking if he would like to apologize for besmirching the Marines now that all charges in the Haditha case are in the process of being dropped. Needless to say, Murtha remains unrepentant.
Here's a little taste for those of you that can't watch/get YouTube at work, but Murtha's demeanor is priceless so be sure to watch it later...
"Would you like to issue and apology for saying that they killed innocent civilians in cold blood?" Mattera asks.
"Is there still a trial going on?" Murtha answers smugly.
"Do you like besmirching our troops Sir? Do you like besmirching our troops Sir?"
"Have you ever been in the service? I enlisted... blah blah blah"
"Sir, you accused them of killing innocent civilians in cold blood. That's something that would come from Al Jezeera, not a Congressman Sir!"
Everyone has their price, huh?
Yale Law School will end its policy of not working with military recruiters following a court ruling this week that jeopardized about $300 million in federal funding, school officials said Wednesday.
Yale and other universities had objected to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows gay men and women to serve in the military only if they keep their sexual orientation to themselves. Yale Law School had refused to assist military recruiters because the Pentagon wouldn't sign a nondiscrimination pledge.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Yale on Monday, rejecting its argument that its right to academic freedom was infringed by federal law that says universities must give the military the same access as other job recruiters or forfeit federal money.
"The fact is we have been forced under enormous pressure to acquiescence in a policy that we believe is deeply offensive and harmful to our students," said Robert Burt, a Yale law professor who was lead plaintiff in the case.
The funding loss would have devastated the university's medical research into cancer, heart disease and other illnesses, Burt said.
You see how liberals' principles are for sale. Pretty cheap, too, given the over $1 billion dollars in endowments that Yale owns.
I like how he threw in that comment about medical research. So I guess the whole $300 million went into medical research and that can't be replaced elsewhere, huh? And none of that $300 mill went anywhere else. Bad, bad Bush government, threatening to cancel cancer research. Oh, my!
Guess Bloomberg's Not Running in '08
How is it that a story comes out Monday claiming the US is contemplating a war plan for Iran, then a story Tuesday that claims Iran is threatening missile attacks against the US...and Wednesday's story? That NY mayor Michael Bloomberg might escort Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to GROUND ZERO.
"...In a move that has stunned New York, the Bloomberg administration is in discussions to escort the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to ground zero during his visit to New York next week, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said today.
The Iranian mission to the U.N. made the request to the New York City Police Department and the Secret Service, which will jointly oversee security during the leader's two-day visit. Mr. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive September 24 to speak to the U.N. General Assembly as the Security Council decides whether to increase sanctions against his country for its uranium enrichment program..." (source)
Why would this man, here in the US because of his direct defiance of the US and UN, be allowed to step foot on the gounds where the Twin towers once stood? A man that places no value on Western life, a man that is funding and commanding "insurgents" that are killing the men and women that signed up because of that tragic day...
Update (I'm updating before it's even posted): The NYPD has 9thankfully) denied Ahmadinejad's ground Zero request:
"...New York City, moving swiftly in the face of outrage from the White House to the political hustings to the Jewish community, is rejecting a request by President Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at Ground Zero when the Iranian is in New York next week for a meeting of the United Nations..." (source)
Update II: Apparently Ahmadinejad's role in kidnapping Americans, denying the Holocaust or orchestrating the deaths of American troops in Iraq won't hinder Columbia university from having him speak at their campus on Monday. (source)
Snakes on a Plane...
And here we all thought Samuel L. Jackson's movie stretched beyond the ridiculous...
"...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has fined a man $800 for flying dead snakes and birds inside his luggage from South Korea to Atlanta.
Last month, security officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport found 30 snakes, a dead bird and pieces of several other birds in his luggage.
All the animals were dead, but screeners took extra precautions because U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers warned that some of the snakes, packed inside jars and bottles, could still contain venom.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers issued two citations against the man - one for failing to declare the unusual cargo and another for violating laws intended to protect endangered species..." (source)
Here's the thing...customs officers tore apart my entire bag (ripping the zipper in the process) convinced I "had an apple" packed in there. An evil U.K. apple... As I told them it was a one-cup coffee maker and I was left with tape and a year's worth of close to cram back into the bag myself... How the heck did this guy get through screening with over 30 snakes and countless dead birds. Dead animals vs. a suspected apple.... Hmmmm.
Student Tasered for Over-Questioning John Kerry (Real Story)
A student was shot by a taser gun in Florida while Senator John Kerry was looking on. The whole thing was caught on tape and you can watch unedited video of the student's question, and arrest in the video tab here on abc2news.com.
The student was asking Senator Kerry a question but his microphone was cut off when he went over the time allowed. Authorities say they were forced to subdue the student, and one of them shot him with a taser gun..." (source)
First of all, the video is really disturbing. Apparently Kerry droned on forever and this kid (a COMPLETE and total LEFTY), during the subsequent Q&A, just wanted to say that he thought Kerry WON the 2004 election and basically just wanted to know why he conceded to Bush. They drag him away from the mic and proceed to cuff him and use a taser gun on him multiple times while he screams in pain, pleads for an explanation of his arrest and help from onlookers...and Kerry just keeps talking and pretends that ONE OF HIS SUPPORTERS that VOTED FOR HIM IN 2004 isn't being completely and inappropriately subdued for asking a question.
Thank God Bush "stole the election."
If you couldn't tell I was really disturbed by this. I'm not saying the kid isn't annoying as hell, but when did I move to Iran?
Israeli Rabbi Reveals the Name of the Messiah
"Shortly before he died, one of Israel's most prominent rabbis wrote the name of the Messiah on a small note which he requested would remain sealed until now. When the note was opened, it revealed what many have known for centuries: Yehoshua, or Yeshua (Jesus), is the Messiah..." (Read the entire article)
"Alive Day"
"From Executive Producer James Gandolfini: Alive Day Memories - Home From Iraq"
If you have HBO you really have to watch this new documentary (If you don't...why?!).
James Gandolfini, of Soprano/True Romance fame, is the executive producer and on-camera interviewer of ten OIF veterans that survived hostile attacks while serving in Iraq. The film is sad, moving and most of all inspiring...but thankfully, never political.
From HBO's site: "Gandolfini, who has visited the troops in Iraq on behalf of the USO, serves as executive producer. In ALIVE DAY MEMORIES he interviews ten soldiers who reveal their feelings on their future, their severe disabilities and their devotion to America. Their first-person stories are augmented by harrowing footage from the war-torn streets of Iraq, and from embedded cameras in the vehicles of the soldiers, which was shot when they were injured, as well as disturbing video of IED (Improvised Explosive Device) bombings released by insurgents, and soldiers' personal home videos and photographs." (source)
25,000 Soldiers and Marines have been wounded in this war...this is a small glimpse at their new reality. I HIGHLY recommend seeing this.
Overheard in the House of Sage...
Busta (oldest son): "At recess today N___ told me there were special places that two boys can go to get married. You can't just do it anywhere, only certain places because a lot of people don't like it."
Ninja (little one): "Nuh-uh. Two boys? Married? That's gross. You're supposed to marry a girl."
Busta: Well, I don't know why but some boys like other boys.
Ninja: "Well...what do they say when they get married? I now pronounce you....GAY!"
Needless to say, I almost peed my pants.
We're Already At War With Iran...
"...Senior American intelligence and defense officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail.
Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.
Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action.
In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior intelligence officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq - arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories..." (source)
Before you start to get upset over this...don't think of it as a "new war", just think of it as our Soldiers and Marines finally getting to hit at the heart of the evil minions they've been fighting in Iraq all this time.
Blackwater: Public Enemy #1
The guys at Blackwater (most former military special forces) have been smeared since the day the war in Iraq began. Dubbed "Killers for hire" and "Mercenaries" they have fought alongside their former brothers in unarmored humvees and shed blood for the same cause. Somehow, since they work for a private company and are getting paid about $100K (if I've been told the right numbers) they are bad people? Would you go to Iraq for 9 months for $100K? Why can't anyone thank them for their former service and be happy that they are finally being paid what they're worth (still not enough to take a trip to hell IMO)? I digress...
Blackwater is back in the news, not for redesigning the security procedures in all the schools in the Outer Banks (which they did pro-bono), but because it seems they have been "banned from Iraq" by the security minister. The charge against them? they "killed civilians" of course. Duh, everyone there is a civilian. Much like Haditha, the Blackwater guys encountered hostile fire and a possible ambush. They reacted accordingly. These aren't FNGs, these men are highly trained former military personnel. I've held a Blackwater application in my hands...trust me, these guys are the cream of the crop.
"...Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the notoriously secretive company has found its niche in selling security directly. Blackwater has earned hundreds of millions of dollars fielding what critics contend is essentially a private army in Iraq and other hotspots, where it has often employed aggressive tactics that some call reckless and possibly criminal.
Those critics now include the Iraqi Interior Ministry, which said Monday it had revoked Blackwater's license to operate following a chaotic weekend shootout that Iraqi authorities say left eight civilians dead and 13 injured.
"The 'civilians' reportedly fired upon by Blackwater professionals were in fact armed enemies and Blackwater personnel returned defensive fire," company spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said late Monday. "Blackwater regrets any loss of life, but this convoy was violently attacked by armed insurgents, not civilians, and our people did their job to defend human life."
Robert Young Pelton, an independent military analyst who spent a month with a Blackwater team in Baghdad while researching his book, "Licensed to Kill," said Blackwater contractors No. 1 priority is keeping their high-value clients alive.
"The Blackwater guys are not fools," Pelton said. "If they were gunning down people it was because they felt it was the beginning of an ambush."
It wasn't immediately clear if the Iraqi action against Blackwater was temporary or permanent. But if Blackwater is forced to leave Iraq, where it has at least $800 million in government contracts, the privately held company based at a 7,000-acre compound in tiny Moyock stands to lose a huge piece of its burgeoning business." (source)
(Pic: My sis, AB, in front of the Blackwater compound when we were in NC 2 years ago. We were hoping to catch a glimpse of the massive facility and drove through miles of cornfields to find it --As you can see...there is nothing you can see but the sign.)
Hillary's Healthcare Part Deux
I think people assume that anyone against universal healthcare/socialized medicine is a well-off fat cat with a great benefit package or enough cash flow to purchase their own with no problem. This isn't the case. During the 5+ years that The Man owned his own business there were more times than not that we had no healthcare. We paid OOP for any problems that would arise or regular checkups. Many of the small business owners we know are in the same situation. It's cheaper to pay when there's a problem (keeping your fingers crossed that it isn't a big one) than pay the $600/mo premiums.
Even though all that stress, I am still against government run and managed health care. My two experiences with it have been much less than sub-par. Between the Police and Fire Clinic (where Philly PD and FD and their families were forced to go back in the day --they have Personal Choice now) and living in the U.K. for a year...it's not something I care to relive.
Yesterday Hillary announced her Mulligan healthcare plan:
"...The $110-billion-a-year plan avoids some of the biggest political landmines of that 1993-1994 effort. Instead of forcing people into big buying cooperatives — back then, she called them "alliances" — her new proposal allows people who like their health insurance to keep it. Her earlier plan would have established a big new government bureaucracy to determine things like what specific benefits should be required for all Americans; her new one does not. And while it contains a version of her earlier plan's controversial "employer mandate," requiring businesses to provide coverage for their workers, it exempts small employers." (source)
But some have noticed that mums the word when it comes to the coverage of illegals under her newest proposal:
"...At a press briefing after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's health care rollout Monday, senior policy advisers said the New York senator's plan does not currently include any details on whether illegal immigrants will be covered." (source)
I imagine most of you are familiar, at least in passing, with Michael Totten. He is an independent journalist who is currently in Iraq. He is financed by reader donations and publishes on his website, www.michaeltotten.com.
Via Instapundit I read this article this morning. Very touching, especially the pictures, like the one above. This is a town than, only 4 months ago, was terrorized. The people of Ramadi welcomed AQI (Al Qaeda in Iraq) but soon found out that they had invited the wolf into the kitchen. AQI began to ravage the town, and, indeed, the whole province of Anbar. As Michael reported, if the rulers didn't like something about you, they showed up at your house in the middle of the night and raped your wife and children.
And yet, sadly, there are those in the US that think our police are worse. That our soldiers are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night (right Senator Kerry?).
The success reported by Totten in Anbar could be, and (I believe) will be replicated throughout Iraq. However, that requires support. The Iraqi army and police forces are not trusted enough throughout the country to finish the job without help. They are not well enough supplied or trained. The people of Iraq, like that little girl in the picture, need us. Need U.S.
I can't pull from the article because you, really, should read the whole thing. And throw a few buck his way if you see fit.
Suing God
Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.
Chambers filed a lawsuit against God in Douglas County Court Friday afternoon, KPTM Fox 42 reported.
The suit asks for a "permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats."
The lawsuit identifies the plaintiff as, "the duly elected and serving State Senator from the 11th Legislative District in Omaha, Nebraska."
Chambers also cites that the, "defendant directly and proximately has caused, inter alia, fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornados, pestilential plagues..." (source)
No word yet on whether Morgan Freeman is available for court appearances.
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What does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) govern?
Title VII prohibits discrimination in employment including public accommodations, governmental services and education. An employer cannot fail or refuse to hire or refuse to promote, fire anybody or discriminate with respect to compensation, terms, conditions and privileges of employment based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin. An employer cannot limit, segregate or classify employees or applicants in any way that would deprive or tend to deprive employment opportunities or that adversely affects the status of an employee because of race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
Who does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover?
Employers with 15 or more employees, affecting commerce, and whose employees have been employed for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, are covered by Title VII. Title VII applies to all employers, potential employers, unions, employment agencies and joint labor-management training committees. Title VII, through subsequent amendments, applies to state and local governments, governmental agencies, and political subdivisions. Religious organizations are exempt when based upon religion.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) administers and enforces Title VII. The EEOC has the power to investigate, litigate and resolve unfair employment practices. The EEOC make take action in a federal district court for appropriate relief and preliminary relief pending disposition of a charge. The EEOC may also issue a notice of right to sue to the charging party following administrative proceedings. Suit may be filed in state or federal court. In Idaho, the administrative complaint under state and federal law is filed with the Idaho Human Rights Commission.
What does the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA) govern?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against qualified disabled individuals in all employment practices including job application procedures, hiring, promotion and advancement, discharge compensation, training and other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. The ADA prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a disability in all programs, activities and services provided for or operated by state and local governments.
Who is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to disabled individuals in employment. The ADA applies to private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions. The Act broadly defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. The definition also includes anyone who has a record of such an impairment or is regarded as having such an impairment.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Individuals seeking to bring a lawsuit under the ADA must first file a charge with the Idaho Human Rights Commission. Remedies under the ADA include compensation and punitive damages in amounts limited by the size of the employer’s work force; these may only be recovered through state or federal courts when a suit is filed following the agency proceedings.
What does the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) govern?
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows certain employees up to twelve weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. The FMLA calls for notification responsibilities. It also requires that group health benefits be maintained during the leave. The FMLA is designed to help employees balance their work and family responsibilities by taking reasonable unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. The FMLA also seeks to accommodate the legitimate interests of employers, and promotes equal employment opportunity for men and women. A number of states have also enacted family and medical leave laws, some of which provide greater amounts of leave and benefits than those provided by FMLA. In those situations where an employee is covered by both Federal and State FMLA laws, the employee is entitled to the greater benefit or more generous rights provided under the different parts of each law.
Who is covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act?
Only employers that carry 50 or more employees at a work site, or within 75 miles, are covered by the FMLA. However, for an employee to be eligible, he or she must have worked for the employer for at least one year and must have worked at least 1,250 hours (an average of 25 hours a week) during the previous 12-month period. An employer may deny leave to any key employee who receives a salary in the top 10% of the work force and whose leave-taking would cause economic harm to the employer.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act?
The United States Secretary of Labor, through the Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration, has administrative jurisdiction. The Department of Labor will review the merits of the complaint and attempt to negotiate and resolve the complaint administratively with the employer. If the Secretary of Labor is convinced that a violation has occurred, and in the event attempts to resolve the matter with the employer are not successful, the Secretary of Labor may file a lawsuit on behalf of the employee. Complaints are to be filed two years from the date of the last action of the alleged violation. Three years if it is a willful violation. Complaints may be filed by an employee or by any other person on behalf of an employee. There is no federal requirement that the Secretary of State be notified before filing a lawsuit in the event attempts to resolve the matter with the employer are not successful.
What does the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) govern?
It is unlawful for an employer, employment agency or labor union to discriminate in employment against anyone because of his or her age. This includes refusing to hire an individual or firing an employee. It also includes an individual’s compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment and all employee benefits.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
Because Idaho has an age anti-discrimination agency (the Idaho Human Rights Commission), complaints are to be sent to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) within 300 days of the alleged unlawful practice or within 30 days after receipt of notice that the state proceedings have been terminated; whichever is earlier. Any individual civil action may be filed 60 days after a charge has been filed with EEOC or state deferral agency. There is a statute of limitation on lawsuits of 2 years. Three years for willful violations.
What does the Fair Labor Standards Act govern?
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets minimum wage, overtime pay, equal pay, record keeping requirements and child labor standards. As of December 2000, workers covered by the FLSA are entitled to the minimum wage of (click here for the latest amount) per hour and overtime pay at time and one-half rate of pay after 40 hours of work in a workweek. States can set minimum wages higher for their state, but not lower. Various minimum wage exceptions apply under specific circumstances.
Who is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act?
In order for the FLSA to apply there must be an employment relationship between an employer and an employee. An employee, as distinguished from a person who is engaged in a business of his or her own, is one who, as a matter of economic reality, follows the usual path of an employee and is dependent on the business which he or she serves. There are exemptions. Some employees are exempt from the overtime pay provisions, some from both the minimum wage and overtime pay provisions and some from the child labor provisions. Exemptions are narrowly construed against the employer asserting them. Therefore, employers and employees should always closely check the exact terms and conditions of an exemption in light of the employee’s actual duties before assuming that the exemption might apply. This type of issue presents a high risk for an employer and consultation with an attorney knowledgeable on the FLSA is recommended.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act?
With the exception of certain federal employees, the administration and enforcement of the FLSA is the responsibility of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration (ESA). The FLSA can be enforced by private employee lawsuits or by actions taken by the Department of Labor. The Department of Labor can also seek injunctive relief. Should an employer lose a case in court, employees generally collect back pay and liquidated damages in the amount of back pay (double damages). Attorney fees are also recoverable. Ignorance of the law is no defense for employers. There is a two-year statute of limitations. There is a three-year limit if a willful violation.
What does the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) govern?
Four major historical statutes make up what is now known as the Labor Management Relations Act. The cornerstone of the LMRA provides that protected employees shall have the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively. Such employees can engage in concerted activities for their mutual aid or protection. Employees shall also have the right to refrain from unions unless already represented by a union and subject to a union shop provision. The LMRA further provides which actions or inactions will constitute an unfair labor practice by employer and union. The LMRA establishes the process of elections (conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, NLRB), to determine the desires of the employees for representation, and outlines the NLRB’s powers.
Who is covered by the Labor Management Relations Act?
Generally, the LMRA covers the private sector. Government agencies are excluded. Two exceptions are national banks and mail contractors. Because of this, states have established various labor laws for the public sector. The LMRA does not apply to independent contractors, because they are not considered employees. The LMRA also excludes supervisors and managerial employees under the definitions of the Act, as well as agricultural employees.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Labor Management Relations Act?
Because the LMRA was enacted to maintain industrial peace for the benefit of the public, enforcement is geared to be more remedial in nature than punitive. The NLRB has the jurisdiction, but must enforce its decisions and injunctions through the federal courts. Courts have given great discretion and latitude to the NLRB in its interpretations of the Act.
What does the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 govern?
The stated purpose of the Rehabilitation Act is to endorse economic independence of handicapped persons. This is done through the employment of people with disabilities and the inclusion of people with disabilities in American life. The Act thus creates the practical mechanisms and funding authority necessary to achieve these goals. The Rehabilitation Act provides that recipients of federal financial assistance are prohibited from discriminating against otherwise qualified handicapped persons solely by reason of their handicap.
Who does the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 cover?
The Rehabilitation Act covers handicapped persons in the federal government, federal government programs or an employer who contracts or subcontracts with the federal government. A handicapped individual is defined as any individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities and either has a record of such impairment or is regarded as having such impairment.
What administrative body can impose remedies for a violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
The Department of Labor has jurisdiction of the Rehabilitation Act. The employee can recover compensatory and punitive damages in cases of intentional discrimination. Punitive damages, however, may only be recovered against private sector employers who acted with malice or reckless indifference to the victim’s rights. Damages are limited to $50,000 for employers 15-100, $100,000 from 101-200, $200,000 for 201-500 and $300,000 for 501 or more.
What does the Workers Adjustment & Retraining Act (WARN, a.k.a. Plant closure law) govern?
Known as the Plant closure law, WARN requires an employer of 100 or more to give affected employees at least a 60 day written notice prior to any plant closing or mass layoff. This is designed to provide employees and their families some transition time to adjust to the prospective loss of employment, to seek and obtain alternative jobs and, if necessary, to enter skill training that will allow an employee to successfully compete in the job market. WARN further provides for notice to state dislocated worker units so that dislocated worker assistance can be promptly provided. Also, notice is to be sent to local elected officials, so they may prepare a community response. If represented by a union, notice must be given to the Union rather than to the employees.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act?
An employer can be penalized for failure to give proper notices. These amounts are set for $500.00 per day for each violation, plus paying the affected employee the wages and benefits they should have received. This can be reduced in certain limited circumstances. An action to recover these amounts may be initiated in any federal district court in which a violation is alleged to have occurred or in any federal district court in which the employer transacts business. The Court also has the discretion to award the prevailing party reasonable attorney fees.
Under the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN), what must be in the notices to the
Dislocated Worker?
All notices submitted to the State Dislocated Worker Unit and the chief official of the local government must be in writing and include the following:
The name and address of the employment site where the plant closing or mass layoff will occur.
The name and phone number of a company official to contact for further information
A statement if the action is expected to be permanent or temporary and, if the entire plant is affected.
Can WARN notification be shortened or waived?
Yes, the notification under WARN can be shortened when the employer is actively seeking business or capital which would have enabled the employer to avoid or postpone the shutdown and the employer reasonably and in good faith believes that giving the notice required would have precluded them from getting that capital or business to avoid the shutdown. The notification period can be waived if caused by circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable as of the time notice was required. Such an employer must give as much notice as is practicable and explain the basis in the notification letter. No notice is required if the closing is due to a natural disaster.
Are there requirements for the delivery of the notice under the Workers Adjustment & Retraining Act?
Notice should be given by any reasonable method designed to ensure notice of at least 60 days. Such notice includes first class mail or personal delivery with optional signed receipt. Insertion of notice into pay envelopes is another viable option. A ticketed pre-printed notice regularly included in a pay check or pay envelope does not meet the requirement.
What does the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 govern?
The Federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) establishes guidelines for polygraph testing and imposes restrictions on most private employers. In general, businesses cannot request, suggest or require any job applicant to take a pre-employment polygraph examination. Businesses can request a current employee to take a polygraph examination or suggest to such a person that a polygraph examination be taken, only when specific conditions have been satisfied. Nevertheless, the employer cannot require current employees to take and examination, and if an employee refuses a request or suggestion, the employer cannot discipline or discharge the employee based on the refusal to submit to the examination.
Do the requirements under the Workers Adjustment & Retraining Act apply to an employer’s subsidiaries?
WARN’s application to an employer’s subsidiary depends on the degree of the subsidiary’s independence from the parent employer. One must look at such factors as common ownership and common directors and officers, the exercise and control of the subsidiary, dependency of operations and the unity of personnel policies originating from a common source.
Who does the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 cover?
EPPA covers commercial businesses. Exceptions are businesses whose primary purpose consists of providing armored car personnel; and those involved in the design, or security personnel, in facilities that have a significant impact on the health or safety of any state. Also exempt are companies which manufacturer, distribute or dispense controlled substances. Local, state and federal governmental agencies (such as police departments) are not affected by the federal law, nor are public agencies, such as a school system or correctional institution. However, some states have laws that offer greater protections with certain classes that may include governmental agencies.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Employee Polygraph Protection
Act of 1988?
Under the EPPA, an individual has the right to take action against a violating employer by filing with the Secretary of Labor. The examinee may recover such legal or equitable relief as may be appropriate, including, but not limited to, employment, reinstatement, promotion, payment of lost wages and benefits, and reasonable costs, including attorney’s fees. Civil penalties may be assessed for not more than $10,000. The U.S. District Court has jurisdiction to issue restraining orders and injunctions. An examinee may bring a private civil action in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction. No action may be commenced more than 3 years after the date of the alleged violation. The court has the discretion to allow the prevailing party (other than the United States) reasonable costs, including attorney’s fees.
What does the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) govern?
ERISA was passed to protect the interest of participants in employee benefit plans and their beneficiaries through disclosure and reporting requirements, and the establishment of certain fiduciary standards of conduct, responsibility, and obligations.
Who is covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act?
Any employee benefit plan established or maintained by any employer, employee organization or organization representing employees engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce is covered by ERISA. ERISA does not apply to government plans or tax-exempt church plans as defined by the Act. Also exempt are plans maintained solely for the purpose of complying with workers compensation, unemployment or disability insurance laws or those maintained outside of the U.S. primarily for the benefit of persons substantially all of whom are nonresident aliens. If a plan is an excess benefit, providing benefits or contributions in excess of those allowable for tax qualified plans, it is exempt from ERISA.
What administrative body may impose remedies for a violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act?
ERISA has designated the Secretary of Labor broad powers to investigate and determine violations and impose remedies. The Secretary of Labor, plan participants, beneficiaries or fiduciaries, can bring ERISA actions to U.S. District Courts. Criminal prosecutions may be brought against persons who willfully violate the Act.
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Shivta and Nitzana
Another catch-up trip as I travelled south with the English-speaking course from Jerusalem to visit some of the Byzantine period settlements in the Negev: Shivta & Nitzana. I always love going south and watching the landscape gradually become more barren, desolate, wild and beautiful. There is something enchanting about the desert, its peace and calm. Understandably, most tourists in Israel focus their trips around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but I really think that more should come down to this wilderness for a completely different Israel experience.
Memorial for the French Commandos
We began our day at a memorial that was en route to our first major stop, dedicated to the French Commandos. In 1948, with the removal of British immigration restrictions, thousands of Jews moved to Israel or came to volunteer in the War of Independence. However, most had no military experience and could not speak Hebrew. A Christian French officer from the French Legion also arrived as a volunteer and offered to put together a unit of French-speakers; he trained them and led them as they played an important role in battles in the south of the country against the Egyptian forces.
We then journeyed south to Shivta, a UNESCO World Heritage site and a very impressive city. It’s a bit of a trek to get there but entry is free and the site is fascinating. It’s one of the most complete cities we have from the Byzantine period in the world and also is the only site in the world where a mosque and church form part of the same building – you can really see the beginnings of Islam taking root, although clearly it was not in a militant fashion.
Byzantine Church at Shivta
Our guide told us about the Nabbateans who would have been the first people to settle this area and about how their culture evolved from being a nomadic one to a settled one; how they adopted the new religions of Christianity and Islam, in the end assimilating into the regular Byzantine population.
We learned how they managed to harness the flash floods of the desert for extensive agricultural activities, and also hosted pilgrims heading south to St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, hence the three churches at the site.
We were the only visitors at the site and I really enjoyed the visit. It’s true that it is somewhat off the beaten track but it is worth the journey in my opinion.
Byzantine settlement at Nitzana
From Shivta we continued further south to the border crossing with Egypt at Nitzana, and to the nearby site of Tel Nitzana. From the same period as Shivta, with similar structures, this is much less impressive, largely because the Ottomans used the stones in many of its structures to build a nearby railway station and homes in a village.
Still, it is the site of a very important discovery, that of the Nitzana Papyri. Over 200 papyrus documents were discovered here dating from the 7th century onwards, detailing official matters but also aspects of regular life – marriage, letters, even a request for a tour guide! Also located on the pilgrim route to Sinai, this town would likely have been an important stopping point for those on the journey.
Memorial for the 8th Bridge at Nitzana
As we reached the base of the tel, travelling down a staircase from the Hellenist period in the 2nd century BCE, we paused at a memorial to the 8th brigade and all the soldiers who died here in the battle for Auja in Operation Horev in 1948.
As a bit of treat at the end of the day, we were taken to the Khan Beerotayim near the small settlement of Ezuz. We relaxed by the fire with some tea and coffee, watching the sun set over the beautifully barren landscape, before heading back north with only dreams of the desert to take with us.
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What song are you most enjoying listening to today? Not your favourite of all time, just what you like the most today.
I'm really enjoying "Underwear goes inside the pants" by Lazy B. Seldom does a pop song manage to be both amusing and politically correct. (and I like the background music too)
(edited to add link to lyrics, 'cos it sounds like maybe they aren't playing it in the US?: http://www.shadowsofnothing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32039 -- warning, these have adult lyrics)
(and then edited a second time several months later, 'cos after all this time I've finally got sufficiently irritated by having made a Ronseal reference to delete it).
ADDED BY NICK - This has become a very popular thread. Further additions are always welcome, but please do NOT include the entire lyrics of your chosen song, as this would be a breach of copyright and legally and morally unacceptable. If necessary, one or two lines of the song may be quoted, but no more than this. Thank you for your understanding - Nick (not wanting to be sued!)
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"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." - Kafka
matsamu
I'm not a Goof, i'm a spoof on Life
Re: Your favourite song -- TODAY
I seriously enjoy Louder than Words, written for a musical show called Tick...Tick...BOOM! by Jonathon Larson, the guy who wrote Rent.
Tick...Tick...BOOM! never really took off, which is sad cuz it was a good show. But the song ROCKS!
*pop* That was my head. It just got blown.
Milysmic
I haven't listened to any music today but I have been singing the theme song for Blues Clues without mercy!
We sat on down and figured it out
What blues Clues was all about
Hey you know what?
Your really smart
Deet deet deet.
(Just in case you didn't know the words)
Nelodra
It's a very old song, by a renaissance guitarist/composer
"Toda mi vida os amé" - Luys Milan
This may sound strange, but I usually wake up each morning with a song in my head! And that song 'follows' me through the day...
today it was a T-Rex number 'Get it on'
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity
http://www.goldstarbooks.co.uk/ellie_Bowdery.htm
sleepycat
I'm singing it in my head at the moment - 'Tonight' from West Side Story. No idea why! I'd be singing it out loud but everyone else has gone to bed.
CarrieSheppard
All it took was a visit to AZ...
I heard Genesis' "Follow you, follow me" song this morning - love it! It will now reside in my head for the day.
www.ukfolkie.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/carolynsheppard
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yiTf1zjnxQc
www.thecompletetrainer.com
writing is hard
Arc Arsenal
Abandoned children often live with their parents
I woke up this morning with "I Wish I was a Punk Rocker " by Sandi Thom in my head. Only yesterday I told a friend that I liked the words but didn't like her rendition of the song. It came to haunt me and today I like it. Weird.
I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air
I was born to lead into a world that doesn't care
I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.
Those were good times..........Woodstock........Ashbury Park....
Where there is kindness to animals, everything else may be taken for granted.
Judge a person's character by how they treat animals and how that person will treat those who can do nothing for them.
You know what I don't like about that song, and I'm sure she did it on purpose, but still: punk rockers didn't have flowers in their hair. They had nits and gobs of mucus and beer and hairgel. Forgive me for being too literal
"lorraineofkeli"
The World Is Yours!
JoSe Feliciano - Che Sara. i love it
Hi Saturnine, I agree it's a strange combination and perhaps your comment that she wrote deliberately is valid. Furthermore I don't recall any significant revolutions in 69 and 77. Oliver
Well, if we're gonna let her off for the flowers in the hair, I think we can let her off for the revolutions. I mean, she only says they're "in the air", not that they're actively happening. (just to further nitpick, since I'm obviously obsessed with this song now, she actually says she was born "too late", not "to lead")
I'm sure Miss Thom will be relieved to have our blessing. I wonder if she's met Macca yet?
Today's favourite song is still: Underwear goes inside the pants. Loyal or unimaginative, take your pick
writemoves
Well... let's lurch away from the white line that runs down the middle of the road...
How about Creep, by Radiohead. Catchy.....
I don't want to live forever through my writing, I want to do it by not dying. (Woody Allen)
Technofear
Less than Jake, "The Rest Of my Life." It's this video where I got the quote I posted in the other thread I started.
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John R. Cesario, Esq.
As is evident from his personal Web Page1, he believes that there is a conspiracy against him. I suspect that he considers me one of the primary conspirators. He has maligned many of us, both on the Web Page and in his postings on an unofficial NIU faculty listserv.
The materials I can send you were either attached to my May 19, 1998, letter which Mr. Wilson cites in his ARDC complaint, not covered by FERPA because they are not part of Mr. Wilson's official student records, or supplied because the information contained therein has already been disclosed to you by Mr. Wilson. I feel that by providing the ARDC with a copy of my letter to my May 18, 1998 letter Mr. Wilson has adequately waived his any objection he may have to the disclosure of the attachments. The entire May 19, 1998 submission to Mr. Lerone Bennett, III, is attached as Group Exhibit 1.
Mr. Wilson, who is legally blind, has claimed that he was discriminated against, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, during his time as a student at Northern Illinois University. By the time I became involved, it appears that his equipment needs had been satisfied and that the crux of his remaining complaints against the University was that he felt he had been poorly treated in the process. Soon after I became aware of his situation, I asked Mr. Wilson to meet with me to discuss his procedural options, an invitation which was never accepted. Enclosed as Exhibit 3 you will find copies of some e-mail exchanges between me and Mr. Wilson in the winter of 1996.
Mr. Wilson's complaints against me, as expressed in his September 10, 1998 letter to Mary T. Robinson, relate to my May 19, 1998 submission to Mr. Lerone Bennett, III, of Senator Carol Mosely-Braun's staff. They appear to fall into two separate categories:
1. That I deliberately and intentionally altered a document - e.g. Mr. Cunningham's letter of January 11, 1996 -- by adding the words "did not" to a sentence at the bottom of the first page. Mr. Wilson seems to feel that this alteration was to support my contention that he did not meet with certain University offices or administrators (who were available to
1. An example of his Web Page is attached to his ARDC Complaint. I am also enclosing, as Exhibit 2, a copy of another Web Page entry which was sent to me by a colleague. To be honest, I have never accessed the Web Page, nor do I plan to do so. Again, the purpose of bringing this to your attention is to show that Mr. Wilson's mind set that there is a conspiracy against him.
Go to page three of Shur's response
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Windows and the JavaScript Name Space
11.7 Garbage Collection
In any programming language in which you can dynamically create new objects (such as with the new operator in JavaScript) there must be some form of "garbage collection"--a way of reclaiming the memory occupied by objects that are no longer in use. In C and C++, garbage collection is manual--the programmer explicitly decides when to free memory for reuse. In Java, on the other hand, garbage collection is handled automatically--the system can detect when objects are no longer in use and free them appropriately.
JavaScript also supports automatic garbage collection. In Internet Explorer 3.0, garbage collection is implemented in a technically sound way and you don't have to understand any of its details--it is enough to know that when your objects are no longer in use, the memory they occupy will automatically be reclaimed by the system. Navigator 4.0 will also have a perfectly transparent garbage collection scheme like this. Unfortunately, garbage collection in earlier versions of Navigator is less than perfect. In Navigator 3.0, it is pretty good, but requires you to be aware of a couple of issues. In Navigator 2.0, garbage collection is seriously flawed, and you must take a number of steps to avoid crashing the browser! The following subsections provide the details.
Reference Counting in Navigator 3.0
In Navigator 3.0, garbage collection is performed by reference counting. This means that every object (whether a user object created by JavaScript code, or a built-in HTML object created by the browser) keeps track of the number of references there are to it. Recall that objects are assigned by reference in JavaScript, rather than having their complete value copied.
When an object is created and a reference to it is stored in a variable, the object's reference count is 1. When the reference to the object is copied and stored in another variable, the reference count is incremented to 2. When one of the two variables that holds these references is overwritten with some new value, the object's reference count is decremented back to 1. If the reference count reaches zero, then there are no more references to the object, and since there are no references to copy, there can never again be a reference to the object in the program. Therefore, JavaScript knows that it is safe to destroy the object and "garbage collect" the memory associated with it.
This reference-counting scheme has some important implications. (These implications are also true of the Internet Explorer garbage collector, but, as we'll see, they are not true of the garbage collection scheme in Navigator 2.0.) If JavaScript code running in a window creates an object, and a reference to that object is stored in a variable of another window, then that object will continue to exist even after the window that created it is closed, or loads in a different page. The original reference to the object is lost, but since a reference still exists from another window, the object will not be garbage collected.
Perhaps a more surprising implication is that a top-level browser window may be closed by the user or by JavaScript code, but the Window object associated with it may continue to exist. This occurs when a variable in one window contains a reference to the window that is closed. Since there is still a reference to the Window object, that object cannot be garbage collected. Note, however, that many of the methods and properties of a Window object that is closed cannot be meaningfully used. In Navigator 3.0, you should be sure to check the closed property (a Boolean value) of any Window object before using its properties or methods, if there is any chance that it could have been closed.
Shortcomings of Garbage Collection by Reference Counting
As you may already be aware, there are some shortcomings to using reference counting as a garbage collection scheme. In fact, some people don't even consider reference counting to be true garbage collection, and reserve that term for algorithms such as "mark-and-sweep" garbage collection. The computer science literature on garbage collection is large and technical, and we won't get into it here. For our purposes it is enough to know that reference counting is a very simple form of garbage collection to implement, and it works fine in many situations. There are situations, however, in which reference counting cannot correctly detect and collect all "garbage", and you need to be aware of these.
The basic flaw with reference counting has to do with cyclical references. If object A contains a reference to object B and object B contains a reference to object A, then a cycle of references exists. A cycle would also exist, for example, if A referred to B, B referred to C, and C referred back to A. In cycles such as these, there is always a reference from within the cycle to every element in the cycle. Thus, even if none of the elements of the cycle has any remaining references, their reference count will never drop below one, and they can never be garbage collected. The entire cycle may be garbage, because there is no way to refer to any of these objects from a program, but because they all refer to each other, a reference-counting garbage collector will not be able to detect and free this unused memory.
This problem with cycles is the price that must be paid for a simple, lightweight, portable garbage collection scheme. The only way to prevent this problem is by manual intervention. If you create code in which A refers to B, B refers to C, and C refers to A, then you must be able to recognize that you've created a cycle, and take steps to force the cycle to be garbage collected when it is no longer needed.
When you know that the objects in your cycle are no longer in use, you can force them to be garbage collected by breaking the cycle. You can do this by picking one of the objects in the cycle and setting the property of it that refers to the next object to null. For example, suppose that A, B, and C are objects that each have a next property, and the value of this property is set so that these objects refer to each other and form a cycle. When these objects are no longer in use, you can break the cycle by setting A.next to null. This means that object B no longer has a reference from A, so its reference count can drop to zero and it can be garbage collected. Once it has been garbage collected, then it will no longer refer to C, so its reference count can drop to zero and it can be garbage collected. Once C is garbage collected, A can be garbage collected.
Note, of course, that none of this can happen if A, B, and C are stored in global variables in a window that is still open, because those variables A, B, and C still refer to the objects. If these were local variables in a function, and you broke their cycle before the function returned, then they could be garbage collected. But if they are stored in global variables, they will remain referenced until the window that contains them closes. In this case, if you want to force them to be garbage collected you must break the cycle and set the variables to null:
A.next = null; // break the cycle
A = B = C = null; // remove the last remaining external references
Per-Page Memory Management in Navigator 2.0
The garbage collection scheme in Navigator 2.0 is much simpler than that in Navigator 3.0, and, unfortunately, it is inadequate for the needs of JavaScript programs that use multiple windows and frames. In Navigator 2.0, all objects created by JavaScript code running in any particular window allocate memory from a pool of memory owned by the window. Then, when the window is destroyed, or when the document (containing the JavaScript program) displayed in the window is unloaded, the entire pool of memory is freed at once. No memory is freed until then.
With this garbage collection scheme, all memory allocated by the JavaScript running in a window can be freed in a single stroke. It is a simple and efficient scheme to implement. Unfortunately, it suffers from two major drawbacks.
First, if an object is created in one window, and then a reference to that object is stored in a variable in a second window, that object will be destroyed when the first window moves on to a new page, despite the fact that there is still an active reference to it from the other window. If this other window attempts to use this reference to the destroyed object, an error will result, possibly crashing the browser! This is an especially pernicious problem, because doing something as simple as assigning a string can cause this problem. Consider the following code:
newwin = window.open("", "temp_window");
newwin.defaultStatus = "temporary browser window".
The defaultStatus property is set to a string "owned" by the original window. If that window is closed, the string will be destroyed and the next reference to defaultStatus will go looking for a non-existing string.
The second problem with this scheme is that if a window never unloads, the memory associated with it will never be freed. For a page that runs some JavaScript once and then is static, this is not a problem. But consider a page that performs a status-bar animation, for example. If it updates the status bar several times a second for a long time, the memory consumed by that page will grow and grow. Another example occurs with the use of frames. One frame might serve as a navigation window, with controls that allow a user to easily browse a large site in other frames or other windows. These other frames and windows may load and unload pages frequently, freeing memory. But the navigation frame itself remains the same, and the memory associated with it is not freed. Depending on how the event handlers are written, there is a good chance that each time the user interacts with the navigation controls some new string or object will be created, and no memory will ever be freed. Eventually, the browser will run out of memory, and may well crash.
It is possible to compensate, somewhat, for these memory management problems in Navigator 2.0. For the problem of memory not being released until the page is unloaded, the solution is simply to be careful about how much memory your scripts consume. If your page loops a lot or does a repetitive animation, look very carefully at the code that is executed over and over, and minimize the number of objects created on each iteration. Similarly, if you write a script that the user may use frequently without ever unloading, be sure to keep careful tabs on your memory usage.
Note that string manipulation is a big memory sink--each time you call a method on a string object, a new string object is generally created for the result. The same is true for string concatenation with the + operator.
For the problem of dangling references from one window to destroyed objects that were owned by another, one solution is to avoid programs that rely on inter-window references. Another solution is to be sure to make copies of all strings and other objects that are passed from one window to another. Suppose that in window 1, you want to set the defaultStatus property of window 2, as we saw earlier. If you do this directly with code in window 1, then window 2 will contain a reference to an object owned by window 1. But, if you call a function in window 2 to do the assignment, and make sure that the function makes a copy of the object, then the object assigned in window 2 will be owned by window 2. You could, for example, ensure that window 2 contains a definition of the following function:
function set_string_property(name, value)
// Assign a property to this window, using associative array notation.
// We add the empty string to the value to force JavaScript to make
// a copy. If this function is called from another window, we won't
// own the value string, but by making a copy, we do own the result.
self[name] = value + "";
With this function defined, you could then set the property from window 1 with a line like the following:
window2.set_string_property("defaultStatus", "temporary browser window");
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State of Minnesota On Strike
Size, breadth of strike makes it stand out
By Patrick Howe
Minnesota is one of only about 10 states in which state employees can legally go on strike. Labor experts say it's difficult to say the exact number because in some states strikes are technically legal, but in practice never allowed.
Michael Cimini, an economist with the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, said that based on the 22,000 workers who stayed off the job Monday, Minnesota's strike is the second-largest public walkout since 1990. About 47,000 workers in Los Angeles joined a job action in 2000, he said. But they were county workers, not state employees.
Minnesota's strike is also unusual in the number of affected services.
The strikers include driver's exam instructors, social workers, psychologists, nurses' aides, food workers, fiscal auditors, animal trainers and janitors, among others.
"I have not heard of a strike this broad, certainly not in the last 10 or 15 years," said Michael Handel, a sociology professor who specializes in labor issues at the University of Wisconsin.
Daniel Kaufman, a national spokesman for AFSCME, said he knows of no other state strikes of this magnitude in recent history.
In Washington state last May, nearly as many union members protested a contract offer with a series of rolling work stoppages. But that never resulted in a full-scale strike.
Minnesota's strike is also distinguished by the use of National Guard troops, who are taking over some of the duties of striking workers.
About 700 National Guard members, mostly in civilian clothes, spent the week at work at psychiatric treatment centers, nursing homes and group homes. They earn about $120 per day and perform basic duties such as janitorial work, but don't do health care work that requires professional licenses.
Dennis Nolan, a professor of labor law at the University of South Carolina, said it is unusual for states to call out the Guard in strikes. When they do, they are generally used in policing roles.
But he says that's because few strikes present the sort of public safety concerns that Minnesota's current one does.
"In a case like yours, when you start getting into, say, nursing homes, the pressure I'm sure on the politicians must be enormous," he said. "If you didn't use the National Guard to provide those services and you had some patient in the nursing homes die, you'd be blamed."
The unions - Council 6 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees - have a combined membership of more than 29,000. However, more than 1,700 unionized prison guards are barred from striking and 1,182 other workers were on leaves authorized before the strike.
About 13 percent of workers crossed picket lines Monday, while some 22,000 went on strike. That makes the job action the largest in state history, and it is the first state employee strike in 20 years.
Nolan said he's not surprised that so many workers are staying off the job. The Midwest is known as friendly territory for the labor movement.
"The bedrock attitude is supportive of unions," he said. "You know if you cross that picket line, there are going to be co-workers who are going to hate your guts, maybe for years."
Minnesota's strike has been largely peaceful so far, although by the end of the week reports of altercations had risen. A man in Rochester was struck by a car Thursday after trying to take a picture of a woman who crossed the picket line.
A striker in Bemidji was wanted by police for allegedly pursuing a man into a record store and punching him.
The experts say such conflicts are likely to rise if the strike drags on for weeks.
Unlike strikes against private businesses, the purpose of the pickets isn't necessarily to discourage people from patronizing the services being struck. Workers outside a Minneapolis Veterans Home, for example, said they understand that people still need to get care and visit relatives.
Instead, the picket lines serve to keep pressure on fellow workers to not cross the lines.
And more important, the lines help unions communicate with the public.
Said Nolan: "I don't think it is too much to say the strike will be won and lost in the arena of public opinion."
(Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Pipestone stages Longfellow's "Hiawatha" (story audio)
"Hiawatha" is performed outdoors
Gary Olsen
Bud Johnston
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Pipestone's Hiawatha Pageant
Poet's Corner: "The Song of Hiawatha"
Pipestone stages Longfellow's "Hiawatha"
by Mark Steil, Minnesota Public Radio
The "Song of Hiawatha" is performed on a natural stage surrounding this small lake near Pipestone. (MPR Photo/Mark Steil)
In southwest Minnesota this time each summer, there's a convergence of American poetry, Indian culture and small town spirit. It comes together in Pipestone, with the town's annual "Song of Hiawatha Pageant." It's based on the Longfellow poem, which was praised and criticized when first published 150 years ago. The Pipestone performance begins a three-weekend run Friday night.
Pipestone, Minn. — The Longfellow poem is a 200-page plus epic of Indian legends and human failing, bound together by a love story.
The Pipestone performance is a condensed version of Longfellow's work. It includes many names familiar to the region -- Hiawatha, Nokomis, Wenonah, Osseo, Minnehaha and Pipe-stone. The play is staged outdoors about a half mile from the famous Pipestone quarries, worked by Indians from across the U.S. They use the stone mainly to make traditional pipes.
Longfellow's book mentions a "great Red Pipe-stone quarry." Residents here believe Longfellow had this location in mind.
"Sometimes this gets to be a lot of work, but yet it's kind of rewarding in the end," says Gary Olsen, the play's director.
Olsen looks over the lip of what may be the largest stage in the nation. It's more than a quarter mile long. It runs along a small lake, and up a cliff overlooking the water.
The audience watches the action from a chair-covered hill on the lake's opposite side. Olsen says they see a theater performance staged by scores of volunteers.
"We have people that are in phone service that are members here. We have people that are electricians that are here. I think we have a banker here. We have a certified public accountant here. We have plumbers here. We have every kind of member you can think of here," says Olsen.
Olsen says all that expertise pays off when opening night arrives, and the audience hears this narration.
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis."
In a 1982 edition of Longfellow's classic, Douglas DeShield says the book got mixed reviews when it was first published in 1855. One critic said Longfellow was mistaken to base his epic poem on "silly" Indian legends. But it sold well, as one of the first sympathetic portrayals of Indians in literature.
On the outdoor stage in Pipestone, the town's theatrical version is attended by thousands each year. Indians have acted major roles in the production, though usually white actors fill most of the slots.
There's only been one major negative review. In the 1970s, American Indian Movement members noisily interrupted a performance, demonstrating for more than half an hour.
Native American Bud Johnston works in Pipestone. He's a member of the Bad River Band in Wisconsin. Johnston says some Indians criticize the play, but he says overall it's a plus for Native culture.
"Anything, like the pageant, that shows a little bit of our tribal culture, even if it is a romanticized version of it, is a good thing," says Johnston. "Because the public needs to know that our tribal people in North America had a vibrant, living culture for thousands and thousands of years before the Europeans got here."
The performance of Longfellow's poem has a long tradition in southwest Minnesota. It was first staged in the 1930s by students at the federal Pipestone Indian School. The current production started in 1949.
A young actor in the pageant
Wanita Beal has worked on the pageant for 57 years. She says it's too bad most people don't know anything about Longfellow or his famous poem. She remembers a young man who approached her a few years ago just before the play began, and asked her, "What's going on?"
"I said, 'Well, it's the pageant.' 'What's that?' he asked. 'Well, it's the Song of Hiawatha, written by Longfellow. Did you study that in school?' 'Nope, never heard of it,' the boy responded. 'Well, who is this dude, Hiawatha?'"
It's a question Beal hopes that young man, and others, get answered at the Pipestone pageant.
Attendance has declined in recent years, as more people entertain at home or patronize other outlets, like casinos. Despite the competition, the Pipestone pageant will continue. It's become a work of both community and literary pride.
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The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
Voices and Images from Sherman Institute
Clifford E. Trafzer, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and Lorene Sisquoc
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
6 × 9 inches. B&W photographs. Index. 232 pages.
The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue shares the fascinating story of this flagship institution, featuring the voices of American Indian students.
In 1902, the federal government opened Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, to transform American Indian students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Indian students helped build the school and worked daily at Sherman; administrators provided vocational education and placed them in employment through the Outing Program.
Contributors to The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue have drawn on documents held at the Sherman Indian Museum to explore topics such as the building of Sherman, the school’s Mission architecture, the nursing program, the Special Five-Year Navajo Program, the Sherman cemetery, and a photo essay depicting life at the school.
Despite the fact that Indian boarding schools—with their agenda of cultural genocide— often prevented students from speaking their languages, singing their songs, and practicing their religions, most students learned to read, write, and speak English, and most survived to benefit themselves and contribute to the well-being of Indian people.
The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue will be of interest to scholars and general readers in the fields of Native American studies, history, education, public policy, and historical photography.
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Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Written by: Robert Wynne-Simmons and Piers Haggard
Directed by: Piers Haggard
Starring: Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews
Reviewed by: Brett G.
“Witchcraft is dead and discredited. Are you bent on reviving forgotten horrors?”
British Horror during the 60s and 70s was largely dominated by two pretty well known companies: Hammer Films and Amicus Productions. Any horror fan is well acquainted with their body of work, as they churned out some of the genre’s most beloved films. A little bit lesser known, however, was Tigon British Film Productions, a production company whose output was much smaller (numbering only around 15 films over a 4 year period). Perhaps their most well known offering was the Vincent Price vehicle, Witchfinder General. Beyond that, they produced a few cult hits that are fairly well known among enthusiasts, but lost on many general viewers. One such film is Blood on Satan’s Claw, a title that is certainly evocative enough and seems to promise plenty of shocks and chills.
Set in a 17th century English village, the film opens with Ralph Gower hard at work plowing the fields. He stumbles upon something buried down in the grass--a deformed skull with some strange features. He pleas to the local judge to have a look at it, but when they get back to the field, it’s vanished. Ralph suspects something supernatural is at work, but the judge brushes it off. Before long, Ralph’s fears are confirmed, as a number of strange things begin to happen: a woman goes insane and sprouts a claw in place of her hand, and the local children all begin to behave in homicidal fashion after they’ve grown patches of strange fur on their bodies. It seems as though the devil himself has come to claim this tiny village, and he’ll require a blood sacrifice or two on the way to doing so!
Blood on Satan’s Claw was a film that had been on my radar for a while (and with a title like that, how could it not be?), and it didn’t disappoint. It’s a solid little chiller that relies one genuine tension, build-up, and atmosphere. If I were to describe it, I’d say it’s a hybrid of The Crucible, Children of the Damned, and Rosemary’s Baby, with a dash of the pagan aesthetic seen in The Wicker Man (which actually came out after this film). For some reason, religious and Satanic horror still manages to be a bit unsettling for me, even though I’m not the least bit religious. There’s something very sinister and primal about the evil found in the subject matter, particularly when it descends on innocence and youth.
This film captures that especially well because the children are at the center of the demonic carnage. Most of them are taken over by Satan’s power and become minions of the dark lord; those that don’t are sacrificed in his name. There’s one particularly disturbing scene where the children gather as a mob to rape and murder one of their own as Satan himself overlooks the proceedings (this marks the first time we get a very brief glimpse of the beast). It’s not very explicit, but the performances are all very convincing, especially the one given by the girl, whose expressions of abject terror sell the seen better than more overt visuals would. The ring-leader here is the ironically-named Angel Blake, portrayed by Linda Hayden. She’s the most memorable character, mostly because Hayden’s performance transforms her from an innocent school girl into a lusty harlot as the film progresses.
Blood on Satan’s Claw is a blueprint pot boiler because it’s built on small, terrifying moments that build up to a climax that finally reveals just what the hell is going on. Bigger scenes like the one mentioned above are preceded by small, yet disturbing moments that slowly reveal that something is just a little bit off in the village. It doesn’t reveal too much too soon, and there’s something to be said about a film that can pull that off and still remain interesting. It’s a bit dialogue heavy at times, but there’s just enough in the way of creepy visuals to keep things moving quickly enough. Of course, the whole thing is building up to the reveal of the titular character, and visually, he doesn’t disappoint. He’s a strange, inhuman beast, and the only disappointment is that his final showdown with the judge isn’t climactic or epic at all. It’s a shame that the film peters out a bit, because if it hadn’t, we might have had a true classic on our hands.
That’s just about the only major flaw with this one. Everything else is solid enough--performances are very convincing all the way down the line, and the direction is well done, particularly in the way the film is able to capture a sense of desolation. The village is tucked away and isolated, surrounded by the woods, and the film doesn’t let us forget this too often with its numerous shots of the landscape. There’s a menace that hangs in the air from the moment Ralph Gower digs up that weird skull, and the film rarely eases up once it gets going. Despite the film’s exploitation-tinged title, there isn’t a whole lot in the way of explicit schlock here--there’s a few stabbings and a scene where a girl’s patch of skin is excised--but this is mostly a film that works because it doesn’t show a whole lot and leaves you imagining the true nature of the beast for most of its run-time. Even the score is pretty sparse at times, but it gives the film a classic-horror feel when it fully kicks in.
Unfortunately, Blood on Satan’s Claw is likely to maintain its cult status for a while. MGM owns the home video rights in Region 1, and with the company in disarray at the moment, there’s a good chance the film won’t find its way to DVD anytime soon. It’s a shame because it’d be a perfect addition to the studio’s Midnite Movies line. The film’s gothic leanings and creepy premise lend itself to that type of classification because I could see this one working really well on a dark, cool fall night. The film has played on TCM, which will no doubt be the best presentation the film will get until it hits a digital medium. I’d certainly like to see a nice restoration because it’d no doubt do wonders for the film’s visuals and overall look if the colors and details were allowed to shine. At any rate, this is a must-see for fans of British Horror and those viewers who enjoy a creepy demonic possession film. Dig this one up any way you can--but just hope you don’t dig up more than you bargain for like poor Ralph Gower did! Buy it!
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(SAUGEEN FIRST NATION, ON) - On June 19, 2019 at 1:39 p.m. Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to a residence at Cameron Drive, Saugeen First Nation for a male who assaulted two people. Officers attend and spoke to the complainants who received minor injuries from the assaults. The male left the scene prior to officers arriving and police learned, during the investigation, the identity of the male and that he was inside a residence on Cameron Drive. The male refused to leave the residence when police attended and spoke with him.
At 6:45 p.m. Grey Bruce OPP entered the residence on the strength of a Feeney Warrant and arrested the male party. The male actively resisted police and a Conducted Energy Weapon (CEW) was deployed to effect the arrest.
OPP have charged 36-year-old, Joshua MISQUADIS of Saugeen First Nation with the following offences:
Assault with a Weapon, section 267 (a) of the Criminal Code of Canada (CC)
Assault, section 266 CC
Four counts of Breach of Recognizance, section 811 CC
Resist Arrest by Police Officer, section 129 (a) CC
The accused had a bail hearing and was held custody. His next court date is Ontario Court of Justice in Walkerton on June 24, 2019.
Grey Bruce OPP are requesting anyone with information on the investigation to call police, 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a secure web-tip at www.cstip.ca, where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.
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Former Trump official pleads guilty in special prosecutor’s probe
Reuters | 12/8/2017, 5:41 a.m.
Deutsche Bank has lent the Trump Organization hundreds of millions of dollars for real estate ventures and is one of the few major lenders that has given large amounts of credit to President Trump in the past decade. A string of bankruptcies at his hotel and casino businesses during the 1990s made most of Wall Street wary of extending him credit.
A U.S. official with knowledge of Mr. Mueller’s probe said one reason for the subpoenas was to find out whether Deutsche Bank may have sold some of President Trump’s mortgage or other loans to Russian state development bank VEB or other Russian banks that now are under U.S. and European Union sanctions.
Prosecutors said Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak last December discussed economic sanctions that President Obama’s administration had just imposed on Moscow for allegedly interfering in the election.
Mr. Flynn asked Mr. Kislyak to refrain from escalating a diplomatic dispute with Washington over the sanctions, and later falsely told FBI officials that he did not make that request, court documents showed.
Prosecutors said Mr. Flynn earlier had consulted with a senior member of President Trump’s transition team about what to communicate to the Russian ambassador.
“Flynn called the Russian ambassador and requested that Russia not escalate the situation and only respond to the U.S. sanctions in a reciprocal manner,” the prosecutors said in court documents, adding that Mr. Flynn then called the Trump official again to recount the conversation with Mr. Kislyak.
They did not name the senior official in the Trump team, but media reports identified former adviser K.T. McFarland as the person. Reuters was unable to verify the reports.
President Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Sessions denies any collusion with Russia during Trump campaign
Could the current allegations against the sitting president arising from contact with the Russians justify impeachment? The history of impeachment is short, usually used to remove judges. The history
Bad seed, bad fruit
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Shinice Johnson, B.S.
Ms. Johnson majored in Mass Communications with a concentration in Public Relations at the University of West Georgia. She has a background in customer relations, scheduling and event coordinating. She joined the West Physics team in August 2015.
Ms. Johnson is originally from Conyers, GA.
Bachelor of Science; Mass Communications – The University of West Georgia
Angie Prevatte
Prior to joining West Physics, Ms. Prevatte provided executive administrative support to the Regional Vice President, 8 Operation Directors, Marketing, Human Resources and the staff of 52 full service restaurants in Atlanta where she improved productivity and streamlined processes to ensure all corporate goals were met or exceeded. Prior to that she was the branch office manager of a national landscape company where she performed all administrative operations.
Ms. Prevatte joined West Physics in June of 2011 as the Reports Manager. Currently she is our Physics Services Coordinator where she generates proposals, contracts and service agreements for potential and existing customers. She is happy to assist with any questions about our services and any state regulations and/or accrediting body requirements for physics services for each equipment modality.
Ms. Prevatte is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Georgia Perimeter College
Sarah Bray, R.T. (R), B.S.B.A.
Ms. Bray has over 14 years of clinical radiology experience as a radiologic technologist. She has experience in various modalities including CT, cardiac cath lab, both interventional and electrophysiology, and general x-ray. As a technologist, Ms. Bray was responsible for quality control, consumable inventory, charge reconciliation and overseeing the radiation management program. Prior to joining West Physics, Ms. Bray worked at Community Health Systems, one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care hospitals. Ms. Bray worked as a Clinical IT Implementation Analyst. Ms. Bray was responsible for implementing new radiology IT systems, including RIS and EMR solutions, throughout various hospital networks in the United States.
In her most recent role at Community Health Systems, Ms. Bray was responsible for completing gap analysis and workflow for hospital network Radiology IT systems. Ms. Bray also consulted with luminary healthcare networks to help improve efficiencies, patient care outcomes, streamline reimbursement, and upgrade revenue cycle management processes. During her time at Community Health Systems, Ms. Bray managed time sensitive IT projects and met and exceeded project deadlines.
Ms. Bray is originally from Le Mars, IA
Associate of Science in Radiologic Technology – Mercy College of Health Sciences
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – University of Phoenix
American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) in Radiography
Malcom Francis
July 1st 2013
Mr. Francis is the Dubai Field Office Director for West Physics. In this role, Mr. Francis provides customer service, marketing and sales support for customers and potential customers in the United Arab Emirates. In addition to his role at West Physics, Mr. Francis is also the owner of Rhombus Medical Equipment, LLC, a provider of refurbished high-end imaging equipment; as well as Frank Shields Medical Equipment LLC, a provider of installation services and turnkey project management for medical imaging equipment in the Gulf region. Previously, he was Branch Manager for the Abu Dhabi branch of Phillips Medical Systems, and prior to that was in the executive engineer service at Siemens Healthcare. Mr. Francis has more than 23 years of experience in the provision of medical imaging and engineering services.
Along with a background in medical devices, Mr. Francis is experienced in product management and development, key account management, and new business development. Additionally, he studied mechatronics at NEC Bangalore.
MBA, entrepreneurship, advanced marketing strategy & business reengineering – University of Leicester
Gregg Daversa, R.T. (R)(CT)(MR)
Wassim S. Shmaitilly
Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa
Mustapha Dichari
Services Specialist, Beirut, Lebanon Field Office
National Sales Associate
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Leonard cohen live in dublin suzanne
Leonard cohen live in dublin suzanne. LEONARD COHEN: Live In Dublin (3CD+Blu 2019-06-12
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Providing commentary are the two remaining Doors: John Densmore and Robby Krieger, plus the late Ray Manzarek. The evening was quite memorable for the set the band played but also for the fact that the concert also heralded the return to the stage of Mutter Slater, who had always commanded audience attention and participation in the past. Dance Me to The End of Love Lyrics52. First We Take Manhattan Live in Dublin Lyrics87. Waiting for the Miracle Live in Dublin Lyrics78.
In My Secret Life Live in Dublin Lyrics79. In My Secret Life Lyrics49. An album that took the Who full circle back to their earliest mod days and the adventures of a pill-popping Mod on an epic journey of self-discovery. Dance Me to the End of Love Lyrics15. With over 40 archive musical excerpts and interviews with collaborators including David Crosby, James Taylor and Herbie Hancock, plus archive and contemporary interviews with Joni herself, this documentary tells for the first time the full remarkable story of a performer and songwriter which clearly justifies her iconic status. Live In Dublin is the first and only release of a complete Leonard Cohen concert to be shot in high definition.
As one of the most celebrated, singular and intelligent songwriters of the last 50 years, does not need to continue to write and release music as he enters his ninth decade. With the greatest performances on film of iconic and new artists, Stingray Qello brings the concert experience directly to you. Cochran died aged 21 after a road accident in the town of Chippenham, Wiltshire, during his British tour in April 1960. Going Home Live in Dublin Lyrics86. This movie captures the band in the midst of their rise to prominence with a live recording of a performance at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon on November 4, 2005. I Tried to Leave You Live in Dublin Lyrics17. Tower of Song Live in Dublin Lyrics90.
Come Healing Live in Dublin Lyrics98. With unseen archive and in depth interviews from Pete, Roger, Keith, John and those in the studio and behind the lens who made the album and thirty page photo booklet. Not only is it rare, but it is startlingly great. If It Be Your Will Lyrics44. In My Secret Life Lyrics55.
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A reply to “Power, socialism, and the communist movement”
Introductory note: below is a reply to a post of mine that I received from Juan Lopez. I asked Juan if I could post it on my blog site and he graciously agreed. Juan’s reply raises a number of important issues that warrant further discussion. I will reply to some of them soon, but if the spirit grabs you, please do so yourself. Dialogue is an essential part of gaining new insights into past and contemporary events. SW
I want to thank you for raising these critical issues and, in so doing, pushing the envelope. I agree with your general conclusions as a matter of principle and practice. You elaborate them clearly, powerfully and succinctly.
Now, I’d like to develop some ideas that your piece stimulated in me.
[But two caveats first:
[One: as you well know, life never unfolds neatly. It is messy, contradictory, more complicated and more nuanced than any conclusion or theory we humans can arrive at. So what may appear as absolutes are approximations of reality.
[Two: for the sake of brevity I will use “democratic” and “humane” alternately instead of the full “democratic, egalitarian, sustainable, and humane” to characterize the socialism you project and that I agree with).
I would argue that power and democratic values must co-exist and, even more, reinforce each other. I agree when you say, “…we still have to ask what measures are necessary to guarantee that power and its practitioners are subordinated to (and, when necessary, reined in by) socialist values, norms, vision, and democratically constituted bodies.”
At the same time, I think that power and its practitioners (worthy of their revolutionary values) must act as facilitators and guarantors of “socialist values, norms, vision, and democratically constituted bodies,” as you say.
Power can be wielded to advance and/or suppress democracy.A particularly egregious example of suppression of democracy is that of the Stalin reign and its political, ideological and practical premises and consequences, as you have been so wel elaborating for some time.
As for power to advance democracy I will cite something closer to home: The presence of the Union army in the South after the Civil War as guarantor of the safety of newly freed slaves and of democracy’s burst during the Reconstruction period. This short-lived but consequential period is an example of power in the service of advancing democracy and, at the same time, suppressing the class and political forces impeding democracy.
Or, take Cuba and Venezuela.
The former is an example of power being wielded in defense of democracy and democracy being applied to reinforce power in the face of imperialist aggression. One cannot do without the other. These two inter-dependent categories are critical to the nation’s economic development which, depending on the latter’s success or lack thereof, can play a critical role in advancing or retarding the consolidation of power and democracy.
For the moment at least, that’s the dilemma in which Venezuela’s revolutionary process finds itself.As you say, “Power has to be devolved and decentralized to the people and popular institutions,” which I think Raul Castro at the 6 th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba did very ably. “And the only hope of such an outcome,” you add beautifully, “is a multi-racial, working class-based, majoritarian movementof great depth, understanding, and unity that acts as socialism’s midwife and stays engaged long into its old age.”
This brings me to an additional observation I had: The quest for power and democratic values must co-exist and reinforce one another at every stage of struggle. For example, at the Riverside Church I was struck when Fidel said that, in guerrilla encounters, vanquished enemy government soldiers who were captured, instead of being executed as the oligarchy would do, would be cut loose (I suppose after an education on the revolution’s aims). In some cases, this happened with the same soldier more than once.The rebel army was in no position to tug along prisoners.
More importantly, the rebels cut loose prisoners as a living example of the humanistic revolutionary values for which they were aiming. This played a role in eventually winning over many soldiers and those with whom they came into contact and, when coupled with other measures, securing the moral high ground with the people generally. These and other humanistic and democratic-minded actions foretold early on the nature of the revolution once power was won.
During our own Civil War, after an initial “tug-of- war” among generals in the field and in Lincoln’s own thinking, the Union forces went on to encourage consciously what initially the enslaved did spontaneously – running away from the plantations (in what Dubois aptly described as a general strike).
Later Lincoln proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation and went on to arm the newly freed slaves (which played a decisive role in victory over the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery).
I have some questions regarding point 1 and 2 in your piece.
With reference to point 1, in arguing against the “vanguard” party you say: “Power should never again be the property of anyone party (or movement). There is little evidence for the notion that under socialism social contradictions disappear and thus obviating the need for a multi-party system.”
I do agree we should retire the “vanguard” party concept. But, let me raise these questions:On the world scene today there are nations at various levels of anti-imperialist and socialist development with one party rule and also multi-party left-center coalitions at the helm of government. In the case of multi-party left-center fronts while proclaiming a socialist path they are confronting right-wing parties coalescing together in most, if not all cases, being encouraged by imperialism (Here I’m thinking of Latin America because I am unacquainted with developments in Africa and Asia).
In our country, we have a two party winner-take- all electoral system, obviously not based on proportional representation and multi-party electoral system as in most countries.
Let’s put aside the idea that we are “the vanguard” party. The party has argued for the formation of an anti-monopoly party, in which the party is one force among others, as we enter the anti-monopoly stage laying the basis for the socialist stage.
Whether the anti-monopoly party emerges within or outside the Democratic Party shell remains to be seen, in my opinion. So, how would your views in point 1 play out in these circumstances?
Then you say: “Much the same can be said about state-controlled media. Experience abounds that an independent and broadly based media is crucial in socialist as well as capitalist societies.” I too think it’s necessary.
How would this play out at different junctures on the road to socialism? In countries where big business and the rightwing sections still can influence public opinion through its media outlets? Or where imperialist media outlets continue to try topenetrate? And finally, in nations on the path to socialism (here I include China, Cuba and Vietnam) where power is consolidated in one party and, depending on the country, with varying degrees and forms of participation, influence and decision-making powers by the people?
How do you envision “an independent and broadly based media” in our country as we move through higher stages of struggle? What popular forces do you envision constituting “independent and broadly based media?”
Perhaps on these last two points, I am trying to give concrete shape to general principles that developments over time will determine.
Anyway, again I want to emphasize how much I appreciate your probing ideas.
Take care my friend and brother,
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500 reposts or 5000 views can mean jail time for ‘rumor mongers’
by elliotdebruyn
China’s supreme court has announced that any online rumor ‘clicked and viewed more than 5000 times, or reposted 500 times’ can result in up to three years in jail for its original author, with a special exemption (of course) for state-owned news outlets. This latest headline comes after a series of crackdowns and high-profile arrests of online activists and/or rumor-mongering charlatans.
The new sentencing guidelines state that 500 retweets/500 views are the threshold at which a rumor becomes “serious defamation,” but that says nothing for political dissent or organizing, according to TechInAsia:
According to the document, posting untrue information online can also be considered “gravely harming social order and national interests” if it meets any one of a variety of conditions, including: “triggering a mass incident”, “triggering chaos”, “triggering ethnic or religious conflict”, “slandering numerous people and creating a negative social influence”, “harming the national image, seriously harming national interests”, etc. Posting content that meets any of these conditions might well result in a sentence much longer than three years.
If your job is with various State Organs, fear not! These penalties are only for the lowly rumor-mongering proles, as the LA Times notes:
The penalties would not apply to reports in the mainstream press that later prove false. For example, early Sunday morning, Xinhua reported that the international Olympic committee had chosen Istanbul as the site of the 2020 summer Olympics. In fact, it was Tokyo that was chosen.
It’s a good thing that the journalistic masters at Xinhua are in the clear, as we wouldn’t want them to get skittish about posting wildly untrue—yet consistently hilarious—slideshows and news stories. The Wall Street Journal and Southern Weekly also commented on the court’s wonderful disdain for free speech, and WSJ reports:
In a report published Thursday and since deleted from its website, the influential Southern Weekly newspaper challenged the use of the charges of provocation and incitement in online cases. […]
The report also noted that defamation was a matter for a civil lawsuit, not criminal prosecution, except in cases where the defamatory statements “seriously threaten social stability or national interests.”
By expanding the scope of both crimes to cover online activity, the new judicial interpretation “violates the principles of criminal law,” said Xu Xin, a law professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. […]
While admitting that rumor-spreading is a problem on Chinese social-media sites, free-speech advocates argue that authorities often define rumor broadly as anything that doesn’t appear on state media, which is rigorously censored.
Broadly defined? What could be more laser-specific than laws barring “creating unhealthy social effects” or “causing adverse international effects”?
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ASI Submits Nominees for ALB, NSIIC
Industry Sets Research Priorities
Photo Contest Now Open
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Opportunities to Expand
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Sheep Project Earns N.D. Girl Trip to Intel International Science Fair
Kyle Partain
Sheep Industry News Editor
Abbigale Steeke, a soon-to-be junior at Scranton (N.D.) Public School, earned a trip to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, May 14-19, thanks to a science project that incorporated the family’s sheep flock.
Intel ISEF, a program of Society for Science & the Public, is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. Each year, approximately 1,800 high school students from more than 75 countries, regions and territories are awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for an average of $4 million in prizes.
Abbigale finished in the top two in her region to qualify for the trip, and is the first student since 1986 from the school to earn a spot in the prestigious science fair. She placed CIDRS (a progesterone product) in sheep and experimented with veterinarian-prescribed amounts of gonadotropin 600, also known as PG600, to determine its effect on the yield of her lamb crop.
“I did this because there’s not a lot of information on sheep with a combination of CIDRS and PG600,” she said. “There’s a lot of things done on cows and sows, but not a lot published on sheep.”
A fourth-generation sheep producer, Abbigale has plenty of sheep to work with. The family runs registered Dorset and Hampshires, as well as a commercial flock of Columbias and Rambouillets. She was also selected as a North Dakota Lamb and Wool Producers Association starter flock recipient a few years back.
The American Sheep Industry Association awarded Abbigale a $500 stipend to assist with travel expenses during her trip to ISEF, so I was anxious to check in with her after her return from the science fair. While she didn’t win an award at the science fair, she gained valuable experience that will help should she earn a return trip in the coming years.
“It was a lot of fun, and a real learning experience,” said Steeke after her first trip to the prestigious science fair. “I had nine judges, and they all knew what was happening and understood what I was trying to do. They were surprised that there wasn’t more done on sheep and PG600. They had some great suggestions about things I could have done to improve the project. I could have had a bigger sample size was one of their suggestions.”
Sheep industry veterans, of course, wouldn’t be surprised to learn about the lack of research involving sheep and PG600. The lack of research involving sheep and most drugs is a common problem for the industry. That’s why ASI works closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Research Support Project Number 7 Minor Use Animal Drug Program.
NRSP-7 is designed to address the shortage of minor use animal drugs by funding and overseeing the efficacy, animal safety, and human food safety research and environmental assessment required for drug approval. The scope of the program includes animals of agricultural importance. The program coordinates with animal producers, drug manufacturers, government agencies and state institutions in a cooperative effort to identify drug needs and coordinate approval for drugs identified as a priority in minor species.
Abbigale thanked her parents, as well as Kolby and Micky Burch with Burch Livestock (who the family buys lambs from) for their encouragement on the project. While she had previously considered future projects similar to this year’s, Abbigale was leaning toward the study of water run off after her trip to Los Angeles.
“But you never know, I might end up doing something with the sheep again,” she said.
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Security flaws could affect every computer, every smartphone
Thread: Security flaws could affect every computer, every smartphone
Security flaws put virtually all phones, computers at risk
Reuters, Jan 3 2018
Security researchers today disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM. One of the bugs is specific to Intel but another affects laptops, desktop computers, smartphones, tablets and internet servers alike. Intel and ARM insisted the issue was not a design flaw, but it will require users to download a patch and update their operating system to fix.
Researchers with Google Project Zero, in conjunction with academic and industry researchers from several countries, discovered two flaws. The first, called Meltdown, affects Intel chips and lets hackers bypass the hardware barrier between applications run by users and the computer’s memory, potentially letting hackers read a computer’s memory and steal passwords and cached files. The second, called Spectre, affects chips from Intel, AMD and ARM and lets hackers potentially trick otherwise error-free applications into giving up secret information.
The researchers said Apple and Microsoft had patches ready for desktop computers affected by Meltdown. Microsoft said a majority of its Azure cloud services used by businesses had already been patched and protected and that it is issuing a Windows security update. "We have not received any information to indicate that these vulnerabilities had been used to attack our customers," Microsoft said in a statement.
Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers at Graz University of Technology who discovered Meltdown, called it "probably one of the worst CPU bugs ever found." Gruss said Meltdown was the more serious problem in the short term but could be decisively stopped with software patches. Spectre, the broader bug that applies to nearly all computing devices, is harder for hackers to take advantage of but less easily patched and will be a bigger problem in the long term.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1ES1BO
A security flaw could affect almost every computer
CNBC, Jan 3 2018
The computer industry is scrambling to patch security vulnerabilities in the chips that power nearly all the world's computers, including PC's, phones and data center computers. One of the vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown, is known to affects Intel chips. The other, called Spectre, could affect AMD and ARM chips as well.
The vulnerabilities could allow a hacker to steal personal information stored in the memory of a wide range of computer chips running on personal devices, not just computers and phones but also the servers in data centers, including those used to run cloud computing services. The widespread vulnerabilities could allow a hacker to steal information stored in the memory of the chip itself, including passwords and cached files. It could also pave the way for hackers to weaken other security features.
Individuals should apply the first available security updates from the companies that make the software on their devices, such as Microsoft Windows or Apple for iOS. Service providers such as Amazon are working to patch the servers in their data centers.
http://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/iwhat...explainer.html
Google and Amazon say the performance hit from the 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre' fixes is overblown
Business Insider, Jan 4 2018
On Wednesday, Google revealed that there's a big security hole in pretty much every processor, including the one in your phone, the one in your laptop, and the processors running servers "in the cloud." The two vulnerabilities, "Spectre" and "Meltdown," could even allow an attacker to steal passwords as a user typed them. Even worse, early speculation suggested that the fix for the two problems could cause a major performance hit as the CPU would have had to do lots of extra work just to stay secure — maybe even reducing performance by 30%.
Google and Amazon now say all of that gloom and doom is overstated. In a technical blog post published today, Google says the software it built to fix the issue — it calls it KPTI — causes "negligible impact on performance." Of course, Google's findings are only applicable to Google's cloud and services, which run on Google's version of Linux, presumably on an Intel processor. But Google's findings are based on data from some real-deal, heavy-duty services that would be dramatically impacted by a major decrease in performance, including Gmail, Search, and YouTube.
Amazon, the lead cloud provider, also said today that it did not expect performance to be severely impacted by the fix. Although Microsoft hasn't yet commented on what performance slowdowns it expects, its Azure service will also be closely watched to see if there are any impacts to processor performance. On Wednesday, it said it was in the process of implementing fixes.
http://www.businessinsider.com/googl...erblown-2018-1
This is a perfect example of "good news.....and bad news."
Meltdown and Spectre fixes arrive -- but don't solve everything
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techno...ing/ar-BBHWM3Q
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Chateau Richer - 1932 - by Stanley Turner
Stanley Turner
Stanley Francis Turner was born in Aylesbury, England, in 1883. He studied in London at the South Kensington School of Art and came to Canada in 1903, settling near Yorkton, Saskatchewan. He farmed there for a number of years while pursuing his art. After moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1911, Turner worked in advertising and then studied at the Ontario College of Art with George Reid and J.W. Beatty.
Working in a variety of mediums including oils, pen and ink, etching and woodblock prints, Turner's artworks frequently depict urban scenes, particularly in Toronto and Quebec City. They have been exhibited widely and can be found in the collections of many museums and galleries including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Canadian War Museum (Ottawa), Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Art Gallery of Ontario, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, New Brunswick Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England), and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Turner's paintings, illustrations, and prints have also been used in books and magazines. During World War II, he received a commission from national newspaper The Globe and Mail to illustrate war maps.
In 1930, Turner was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Stanley Turner passed away in Toronto, Ontario, in 1953.
Born: 1883. Aylesbury, England GB
Died: 1953. Toronto, ON
Mediums: Drawing, Oil Painting, Printmaking, Watercolour
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The next capitalist frontier (2008)
The Material World column from the December 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard
Over the last few centuries, one region of the planet after another has been “opened up” to capitalist plunder. Often rival capitalist powers fought over the spoils of conquest. In the 19th century they had the “scramble for Africa.” In the 21st they are scrambling to control the resources of the Arctic, which global warming and technological advance are making accessible to exploitation (Socialist Standard, September 2007).
Once the Arctic and Antarctic are brought fully under the sway of capital, what next? Won’t that be the end of the story, the closing of the last frontier? There remains space, to be sure. But won’t the costs of extracting resources and transporting them to Earth be prohibitive? So you might think.
In fact, the strategists of the six powers that now have active space programs – the United States, Russia, the European Union, China, India, and Japan – already have their sights on the commercial and military potential of the cosmos.
Helium-3
On 22 October India launched the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, and on 11 November it entered Moon orbit. One of its main tasks is to map deposits of Helium-3 (He-3). This isotope, used together with deuterium (H-2), is the optimal fuel for nuclear fusion: in particular, it minimises radioactive emissions. It is very rare on Earth – according to one estimate, only 30 kg is available – because the solar wind that carries it is blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field. The dust and rocks in the Moon’s surface layer contain millions of tonnes of the stuff.
It has been calculated that a single shuttle flight bearing a load of 25 tonnes (currently valued at $100 billion) would meet energy demand in India for several years or in the US for one year, while three flights a year would suffice for the world (Guardian, 21 October; Tribune, 23 October).
The main problem is extracting the He-3 as gas from the lunar soil. This requires heating the soil to a temperature of 800ºC. in furnaces or towers, using solar power. (Silicon for solar cells is also abundant on the Moon.) To collect enough gas for one load, it would be necessary to process 360,000 tonnes of soil. Nevertheless, technologically this is believed to be feasible; modern furnaces do actually process such huge quantities of material. Some specialists question whether it would be economically feasible to strip mine the Moon in this way.
Despite uncertainties, Indian strategists hope that the Chandrayaan-1 satellite will enable India to “stake a priority claim” on He-3 resources when lunar colonization begins (SkyNews). India’s main rivals in this field appear to be the US, which has “re-energised” its Moon program and plans to establish a manned base by 2020, and also China.
Enough for everyone?
Given the abundant supply of He-3 relative to foreseeable demand, why should India need to compete with other space powers for preferential access? Surely there is more than enough for everyone.
Yes, but some locations on the Moon’s surface are much better for mining than others. Finding the best locations is the main aim of satellite exploration.
First, the nature of the terrain will obviously matter when building bases and installations, whether operated by human workers or robots. It will be a great advantage to have water (ice) available nearby.
Second, it will be least expensive to work in areas where deposits are richest, where the smallest amount of soil has to be processed for each unit of gas extracted.
Third, reliance on solar power for soil heating (and other purposes) puts a premium on those parts of the lunar surface which are exposed to sunlight for most of the time.
These are also the warmest regions (by lunar standards). An example is the Shackleton Crater at the South Pole. India is especially interested in this area, and it is also here that the US wants to establish its base.
Militarisation of the Moon?
Certain places on the Moon are already thought of as “strategic locations.” Thus, the topography of Malapert Mountain makes it an ideal spot for a radio relay station. Near the Shackleton Crater, it enhances the strategic value of the crater area.
Considerations of this kind will become more important in the event of the Moon’s militarisation. This may happen as a result of competition for land and resources on the Moon itself. Or it may happen simply as an extension of existing military preparations: lunar stations may serve as reserve command centres for wars on Earth.
Even if international agreements are reached to constrain the process of militarisation and divide the lunar surface into zones belonging to the various space powers, military threats may arise from “dual use” technologies. Let us suppose, for instance, that instead of mining He-3 a space power decides to generate electricity on the Moon using solar cells and transmit it on microwave beams to a receiving station on Earth. The problem – under capitalism – is that these same beams may equally well be used as powerful weapons against Earth targets.
There will also be potential conflict between the space powers and other countries that for one reason or another are unable to compete in this sphere. Like the club of nuclear weapons states, the space powers may constitute themselves as an exclusive club and think up a rationale for joint efforts to thwart “space power proliferation,” that is, to prevent other countries from acquiring space capabilities. The two clubs will, of course, largely overlap.
Space programs and socialism
It is absurd for humanity to venture into the cosmos while still divided into rival states and still dominated by primitive mechanisms like capital accumulation. Even the first people in space, almost half a century ago, could see that our planet is a single fragile system.
A world socialist community will have to decide which elements of existing space programmes to retain and which to freeze or abandon. National programmes that are retained will be merged into global programmes, eliminating the wasteful duplication inherent in the competition among space powers. Ambitious programs of purely scientific interest may be deferred pending the solution of more urgent problems.
Attitudes in a socialist world toward reliance on space activities may diverge quite widely. Some people may wish to enjoy the benefits of a complex high-consumption lifestyle made possible by He-3 fuel for nuclear fusion and other off-Earth technologies. Others may prefer to avoid the irreducible risks of a space-dependent strategy and solve Earth’s problems here on Earth, at least to whatever extent this proves possible.
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A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of Claude Lelouch Film A Man and a Woman (1966) one of the greatest music ever written by Francis Lai !...
BLACK WIDOW (1976)- LALO SCHIFRIN
Tonight you will listen to the Lounge album Black Widow (1976) by Lalo Schifrin one gem from one of the great genius of Music. Enjoy The Show !!!!
ANTARCTICA (1983)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the documentary film ANTARCTICA (1983) music by Vangelis. This is one of the best score of the 80' Enjoy...
RAGAZZA DALLA PELLE DI LUNA/RAGAZZA FUORISTRADA (1973)
Tonight you will listen to the 2 soundtracks written by Piero Umiliani La Ragazza dalla pelle di luna & La Ragazza Fuoristrada (1973) Those are 2...
L'UOMO DAGLI OCCHI DI GHIACCIO (1971)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film L'uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio (1971) music by Peppino De Luca Enjoy The Show !!!!
MAURIZIO MERLI (1940-1989)
Tonight I will play an homage to the memory of the great Maurizio Merli (1940-1989) 30 years ago he pass away . with music from is films by Franco...
ANNA QUEL PARTICOLARE PIACERE (1973)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film Anna quel particolare piacere (1973) music by Luciano Michelini. sit down and Enjoy some real...
IN VIAGGIO CON PAPA' (1982)
To Commemorate the 16TH Anniversary of Alberto Sordi(1920-2003) Death , gonna play The Soundtrack of the Film ' IN VIAGGIO CON PAPA' (1982). with the...
THUNDER ROAD (1958)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the Film Thunder Road (1958) with Robert Mitchum and Music by Frank Marshall.This is a Cult Classics...
MELINDA (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film Melinda (1972) music by Jerry Butler & Jerry Peters a great R&B Score !!!! Enjoy The...
PERMETTE ROCCO PAPALEO (1971)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film Permette Rocco Papaleo (1971) By Ettore Scola with Marcello Mastroianni,music by Armando...
MICHEL LEGRAND (1932-2019)
Tonight gonna play an Homage to the late Michel Legrand (1932-2019) He was one of the greatest French Composer of the 20TH Century R.I.P. Enjoy The...
COME QUANDO PERCHE (1969)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film Come Quando Perche (1969) Music by Armando Trovaioli. Enjoy The Show!!!!
PAOLO IL CALDO (1974)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the Film Paolo Il Caldo (1974) music by Armando Trovaioli . Enjoy The Show!!!!
ELVIS MOVIES
Tonight gonna Play a compilation call ELVIS MOVIES songs from is Films to celebrate is 84TH if he was still alive! Long Live The King!!!! Enjoy The...
Happy New Year Everybody!!! Gonna play the Soundtrack of the Movie Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) music by QUEEN Enjoy The Show!!!
SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
Tonight I will play the Soundtrack of Steven Spielberg Movie Schindler"s List (1993) music by John Williams One of the greatest Score ever written by...
A CIASCUNO IL SUO (1967)
Tonight I will play the Soundtrack of the Elio Petri Film A Ciascuno il Suo (1967) music by Luis Bacalov Enjoy The Show!!!!
COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT (1970)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film Colossus the Forbin Project (1970) music by Michel Colombier This is a classic Sci-Fi Score...
DELIRIUM-DOLCE ACQUA (1971)
Tonight I will play the Rock Prog Italian Album by DELIRIUM Dolce Acqua (1971) one of the best Rock album from Italy in the 70' included the two...
NEW TROLLS (1970)
Something different going to play the Album New Trolls (1970) This is one of the best Progressive Rock Italian record Sit down and enjoy some of the...
LA VITTIMA DESIGNATA (1971)
Tonight you will listen to the full soundtrack of La Vittima Designate (1971) music by Luis Bacalov & New Trolls ,Concerto Grosso 1 and 2 This is...
MORRICONE 90 BIRTHDAY
Tonight will celebrate the 90 Birthday of Ennio Morricone Il Grande Maestro it is the living legend of Soundtrack Music !!! Enjoy The Show!!!
IL MAGNIFICO CORNUTO (1964)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film with Ugo Tognazzi ,IL Magnifico Cornuto (1964) music by Armando Trovaioli. Enjoy The Show!!!!
FELLINI 25TH ANNIVERSARY (1993-2018)
Tonight is the anniversary of the death of Federico Fellini (1920-1993) 25 years ago Il grande Maestro of Italian Cinema left us Gonna play the...
IL DRAMMA DELLA GELOSIA (1970)
Tonight another great gem from Armando Trovaioli Il Dramma della Gelosia (1970) a great Film with Marcello Mastroianni,Monica Vitti,Giancarlo...
LA MATRIARCA (1968)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film La Matriarca (1968) music by Armando Trovaioli ,this is a great score from the 60' Enjoy The...
MARK IL POLIZIOTTO (1975)
Tonight you will listen to the great soundtrack by Stelvio Cipriani Mark il Poliziotto (1975) one of the best Euro crime score of the 70". Enjoy The...
STELVIO CIPRIANI (1937-2018)
Tonight Gonna play a selection of Stelvio Cipriani (1937-2018) works The Maestro die yesterday ,want to pay an Homage to him The man that wrote the...
IL PROFETA (1968)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film IL PROFETA (1968)By Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman music by Armando Trovaioli. Enjoy The Show...
THE TREASURE OF SAN GENNARO (1966)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film Operazione San Gennaro (1966) music by Armando Trovaioli. Enjoy The Show!!!!
Lucio Battisti - Amore e non Amore
Tonight gonna play this album of Lucio Battisti -Amore e non Amore to commemorate the 20TH anniversary of is Dead. This is one of the best...
L' ARCIDIAVOLO (1966)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film L'Arcidiavolo (1966) By Ettore Scola music by Armando Trovaioli. Enjoy The Show!!!!
VERUSCHKA (1971)
Tonight I will play the full soundtrack of Veruschka Poesia di una donna (1971) This is one of the best score of Ennio Morricone. Enjoy The Show!!!!
SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI (1966)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film Svegliati e Uccidi (1966) By Carlo Lizzani,music by Ennio Morricone. Enjoy The Show!!!!
IL MAESTRO E MARGHERITA (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film Il Maestro e Margherita (1972) with Ugo Tognazzi music by Ennio Morricone...il grande Maestro...
MISSION TO MARS (2000)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film MISSION TO MARS (2000) By Brian De Palma ,music by Ennio Morricone!!! Enjoy The Show!!!!
D'AMORE SI MUORE (1972)/LA MOGLIE PIU BELLA (1970)
Tonight you will listen to Two Soundtrack of Ennio Morricone D'Amore si muore (1972),La Moglie più Bella (1970). Enjoy The Show!!!!
SACCO & VANZETTI (1971)
Tonight you will Listen to the Soundtrack of the Film Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) by Giuliano Montaldo, with Gian maria Volonte, Music by Ennio...
LOVE AFFAIR (1994)
Tonight I will play the soundtrack of the film LOVE AFFAIR (1994) with Warren Beatty music by Ennio Morricone. A great Romantic Score!!! Enjoy The...
PRISMA SONORO (1974)
Tonight you will listen to the library album PRISMA SONORO(1974) by Alessandro Alessandroni, one of the greatest Lounge Lp from Italian master...
JOE(1970)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film JOE (1970) with Peter Boyle, direct by John G.Avildsen. Music by Bobby Scott ,songs sung by...
Il Clan Dei Siciliani (1969)/ REVOLVER (1973)
Tonight Two great score by Ennio Morricone The Sicilian Clan (1969) & Revolver (1973) Crime music night!!! Enjoy The Show!!!
METTI UNA SERA A CENA (1969)
Tonight you will listen to the best Soundtrack of Ennio Morricone Metti Una Sera a Cena (1969) this is the Bossa Nova sound & arrangement written...
LA COSA BUFFA (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the Film La Cosa Buffa (1972) with Gianni Morandi & Ottavia Piccolo Music by Ennio Morricone. Enjoy...
GIU LA TESTA (1971)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of Sergio Leone Film Giu La Testa (1971) music by Ennio Morricone ,this is one of the best Score ever...
DILLINGER E MORTO (1969)/ L'UDIENZA (1971)
Tonight 2 Soundtracks from Marco Ferreri Films Dillinger is Dead (1969) L'Udienza (1971) music by Teo Usuelli ,those are very rare Gems of Italian...
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film In Cold Blood (1967) music by Quincy Jones ,a Movie based on the book of Truman Capote with...
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (1985)
Tonight is the 8TH anniversary of Stasera Il Cinema To celebrate going to play the soundtrack of the film To Live And Die in LA (1985) music by Wang...
ACROSS 110TH ST (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film ACROSS 110TH ST (1972) music by Bobby Womack,& ,JJ Johnson This is one great score of a...
VOODOO- PARTY (1971)
Tonight I going to play the Album from James Last Voodoo-Party (1971) this is one of the best lounge LP of the 70' great Funky Tunes!!! Enjoy The...
RIO LOBO (1970)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film RIO LOBO (1970) by Howard Hawks,with John Wayne music by Jerry Goldsmith . Enjoy The Show!!!
ELDORADO (1966)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film ELDORADO (1966) by Howard Hawks with John Wayne ,Robert Mitchum music by Nelson Riddle . Enjoy...
ATLANTIC CITY (1980)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film ATLANTIC CITY (1980) by Louis Malle with Burt Lancaster music by Michel Legrand . Enjoy The...
A NEW KIND OF LOVE (1963)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film A New Kind of Love (1963) music by Errol Garner This is one of the best score of the 60'...
GENOVA A MANO ARMATA (1976)
Tonight gonna play the soundtrack of GENOVA A MANO ARMATA (1976) music by FRANCO MICALIZZI , this film got Tony Lo Bianco in the cast is one of the...
ROMA L'ALTRA FACCIA DELLA VIOLENZA (1976)
Tonight gonna play the soundtrack of the film ROMA L'ALTRA FACCIA DELLA VIOLENZA (1976) MUSIC BY FRIZZI,BIXIO & TEMPERA this is one of the best...
LUCIO 75TH
Tonight Show is dedicate to Lucio Battisti (1943-1998)If he was alive last week he would turn 75 years old ,I decide to play a selection of is songs...
ROMA VIOLENTA (1975)
Tonight you will listen to the full soundtrack of the Italian Crime Movie ROMA VIOLENTA (1975) with Maurizio Merli music by Guido & Maurizio de...
LA POLIZIA AL SERVIZIO DEL CITTADINO / NAPOLI SPARA
Two soundtracks from Italian Crime films tonight first La Polizia Al Servizio Del Cittadino (1973) music by Luis Bacalov then Napoli Spara (1976)...
IL MEDICO DELLA MUTUA (1968)
Tonight Show gonna remember the anniversary of the death of ALBERTO SORDI (1920-2003) 15 years ago the greatest Italian Actor left us going to play...
CANZONI D'AMORE
St Valentine will be tomorrow ,this is a show full of Love songs from Italy & America to celebrate the most famous day of Lovers!!! You will...
LE PROFESSIONNEL (1981)
Tonight you will listen to the full Soundtrack of the French Film LE PROFESSIONNEL (1981) with Jean Paul Belmondo music by Ennio Morricone This is...
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977)
This Show you will listen to the soundtrack of Smokey And The Bandit (1977) the 40Th anniversary edition music by Jerry Reed and Bill Justice Get...
Tonight I will play the full soundtrack written by Bernard Herrmann Psycho (1960) movie by Alfred Hitchcock with Anthony Perkins Enjoy The Show!!!!
Lando Fiorini (1938-2017)
This Show is dedicate to the memory of Lando Fiorini (1938-2017) You will listen to a great selections of Songs from the most famous Folk Singer of...
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Steven Spielberg film "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK "(1981) music by John Williams This is a great score...
BEST OF 400 SHOWS
Happy New Year! tonight I celebrate the number 400 This Show is dedicate to all of you listeners & supporters of my Program including the...
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film SHAFT (1971) music by Isaac Hayes this is the academy award winner song!!! Enjoy The Show!!!!
THE GODFATHER (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of one of the greatest film of all the time THE GODFATHER (1972) music by Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola....
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
Tonight will celebrate the 40TH anniversary of the film Saturday Night Fever (1977) you will listen to the best sellers soundtrack of all the time...
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the most popular SF film of the 20TH century "STAR WARS" (1977) direct by George Lucas with the score...
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of "SUPERMAN" (1978) with Christopher Reeve music by John Williams This is one of the greatest score ever...
LUIS ENRIQUEZ BACALOV (1933-2017)
Tonight I will play music from Luis Enriquez Bacalov (1933-2017) the great Argentinian musician pass away few days ago leave us with some soundtracks...
Tonight Show you will listen to the Soundtrack of the film of James cameron THE TERMINATOR (1984) music by Brad Fiedel this is one of the greatest...
KLUTE (1971)
Tonight Gonna play the greatest soundtrack of KLUTE (1971) music by Michael Small a movie with Jane Fonda ,Donald Sutherland This is one of the best...
CINEVOX HORROR
Tonight the Cinevox Horror (2006) great compilation right on for Halloween relax and listen to some creepy themes from Italian composer like :GOBLIN...
UMBERTO LENZI (1931-2017)
This Show is dedicate to the memory of UMBERTO LENZI (1931-2017) The director that invent the genre" Polizieschi "you will listen highlights from...
COMING HOME (1978)
Tonight I will play the Soundtrack of the film COMING HOME (1978) by Hal Ashby with Jane Fonda.Jon Voight,Bruce Dern music from famous bands of the...
MILANO CALIBRO 9 (1972)
Tonight I will Play the Soundtrack of the Film MILANO CALIBRE 9 (1972) music by LUIS BACALOV & OSANNA this is one of the best Crime Italian Movie...
Tonight you will listen to the full soundtrack of the Film Nell'Anno Del Signore (1969) by LUIGI MAGNI with NINO MANFREDI.UGO TOGNAZZI ALBERTO SORDI,...
THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) music by John Williams this the best disaster film ever made with...
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Film THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) music by John Williams ,this is the famous disaster film that...
GASTONE MOSCHIN (1929-2017)
This Show is dedicate to GASTONE MOSCHIN (1929-2017) You will listen to some music from is best films like SIGNORE & SIGNORI (1966), MILANO...
DR WHO & THE DALEKS (1965)/INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966)
Tonight I will play the two soundtracks from the films DR WHO & THE DALEKS (1965) INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966) music by Malcom Lockyer and...
CINEVOX WESTERN
Tonight you will listen the great compilation from Cinevox (2006) of Spaghetti Western Music with composer like ENNIO MORRICONE ,FRANCESCO DE MASI...
Tonight gonna play the soundtrack of Charles Bronson controversial Film DEATH WISH (1974) music by HERBIE HANCOCK . Sit Down and take a ride with the...
ELVIS PRESLEY 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Tonight I am gonna commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of ELVIS PRESLEY the King of Rock n Roll ,going to play a selections of my favourite...
GLEN CAMPBELL (1936-2017)
Today we lost Glen Campbell he was the greatest star of American music a multi talent artist the will live forever through out is work. Gonna...
BLOW- UP (1966)
Tonight you will listen the complete soundtrack of the film BLOW-UP (1966) direct by MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI with DAVID HEMMINGS music by HERBIE...
To Remember Peter Sellers (1925-1980) gonna play the full soundtrack of the film THE PARTY (1968) music by HENRY MANCINI. This is one of the most...
UFO (1970)
Tonight gonna play the Soundtrack of UFO (1970) famous British Sci-Fi TV series produced by gerry Anderson,music by Barry Gray. This series was...
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
Tonight I will play the Soundtrack of the Francis Ford Coppola film APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) music by Carmine Coppola, and THE DOORS . This is an...
TO CELEBRATE OUR AMERICA DAY gonna play a great selections of tunes from movies and songs from all different artist!! Hope you like my selections for...
THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR (1947)
To celebrate the 70TH anniversary of the released of the film I decided to play the full Soundtrack of 'THE GHOST & MRS MUIR (1947) music by...
SPACE 1999 -SEASON TWO - (1976-1977)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the TV Series SPACE 1999 Music from the Second Series (76-77) by Derek Wadsworth Enjoy music from the...
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the TV Series SPACE 1999 Music from the First Series (75-76) by Barry Gray Enjoy music from the greatest...
LOGAN'S RUN (1976)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Sci-Fi Film LOGAN'S RUN (1976) music by JERRY GOLDSMITH This is a great score ....very interesting...
THE FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the film THE FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) music by Louis and Bebe Barron This is the original experimental...
SIR ROGER MOORE (1927-2017)
Today sad news in the Film world Sir Roger Moore pass away (1927-2017). This Special memoriam show is dedicate one of the greatest actor of the 20th...
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
Tonight is the 7TH anniversary of Stasera Il Cinema To celebrate going to play the soundtrack of the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)...
THE PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the Film PLANET OF THE APES (1968) music by Jerry Goldsmith this one of the most incredible score of Sci...
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock film VERTIGO (1958) music by BERNARD HERRMANN THIS ONE OF THE BEST SCORE EVER WRITTEN...
SONGS FROM THE VETNAM WAR
Tonight going to play a great selections of songs from the Vietnam era ,you will listen to Musicians like MARVIN GAYE,OTIS REDDING ERIC BURDON,BARRY...
THE ROLLING STONES ROC'N'ROLL CIRCUS (1968)
Tonight you will listen to the Highlights of the famous Television show THE ROLLING STONES ROCK'N'ROLL CIRCUS (1968) Great tunes from The Stones and...
Tonight Show going to play the full Soundtrack of the film THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999) direct by DAVID LYNCH and music by ANGELO BADALAMENTI . Enjoy...
LA DECIMA VITTIMA (1965)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film LA DECIMA VITTIMA (1965) aka THE 10TH VICTIM Italian Sci -Fi movie with Marcello Mastroianni,...
ATTORI A MANO ARMATA
Tonight Show Going to play a famous compilation call ATTORI A MANO ARMATA (2005) you will listen to a lots of Funky tunes from Italian Poliziesco...
CHUCK BERRY (1926-2017)
This a Special Show dedicate to the memory of CHUCK BERRY (1926-2017) The incredible music that he invented to the status to be the real King of Rock...
CINEVOX CRIME
Tonight Show is a selection of tracks from the box set Cinevox History Going to play a lots of Poliziesco Tunes from Composer like STELVIO CIPRIANI...
PROFONDO ROSSO (1975)
Tonight gonna play the full soundtrack of PROFONDO ROSSO (1975) aka Deep RED film by Dario Argento with music by GOBLIN and GIORGIO GASLINI. This is...
FUMO DI LONDRA (1966)
This Show is dedicate to the memory of ALBERTO SORDI (1920-2003) 14 years ago he pass away to remember him I will play the full soundtrack of FUMO DI...
CONFESSION OF A POLICE CAPTAIN (1971)
Tonight I will play the full soundtrack of the DAMIANO DAMIANI film CONFESSIONE DI UN COMMISSARIO DI POLIZIA AL PROCURATORE DELLA REPUBBLICA (1971)...
WALKABOUT (1971) / BOOM (1968)
Tonight Show you will listen to the Soundtrack of the Film WALKABOUT (1971) BY NICOLAS ROEG and the Soundtrack of the Film BOOM (1968) BY JOSEPH...
BOBBY DARIN MOTOWN YEARS PART TWO
This Show is dedicate to the album of BOBBY DARIN The Motown Years (2016) this is the second part of the complete session of the last album of Bobby...
BOBBY DARIN MOTOWN YEARS
This Show is dedicate to the album of BOBBY DARIN The Motown Years (2016) this is the first part of the complete session of the last album of Bobby...
CINEMA SCORES VOLUME 22
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 22 is NINO ROTA (1911-1979) you will listen to the soundtracks of GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI (1966) LA STRADA (1955...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 21 is NINO ROTA (1911-1979) you will listen to the soundtracks of AMARCORD (1973), FORTUNELLA (1957) IL BIDONE (...
CIRCUS 2000
This show is dedicate to the two Albums Of the Progressive Rock Italian band CIRCUS 2000 (1970-1972) Sit down and Enjoy a very kind of different...
ITALIAN PROG & FILMS
This show is about Italian progressive rock music and films You will listen to the soundtrack of LA VITTIMA DESIGNATA (1971) music by NEW TROLLS and...
MEMORABLE SCORES VOLUME 2
Tonight the Second show dedicate to the Greatest themes from Films You will listening to some great selections of themes written by the greatest...
Tonight the first show dedicate to the Greatest themes from Films You will listening to some great selections of themes written by the greatest...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 20 is Italian Horror films you will listen to the soundtracks of QUATTRO MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO (1971) music...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 19 is Film TV from RAI Television you will listen to the soundtracks of IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO (1971) music by...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 18 is films from ROME you will listen to the soundtracks of IL MARCHESE DEL GRILLO (1981) music by NICOLA PIOVANI...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 17 is Great Western film you will listen to the soundtracks of RIO BRAVO (1958) music by Dimitri Tiomkin ,...
LEON RUSSELL (1942-2016)
Tonight topic is a show dedicate to memory of the late LEON RUSSEL (1942-2016) You will listen to the Highlights of the Album Leon Live (1972) . Leon...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 16 is GENERATION GAP you will listen to the soundtracks of BREWSTER McCLOUD (1970) CANDY (1968) MARYJANE (1968)...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 15 is GENERATION GAP you will listen to the soundtracks of AMERICAN DREAMER (1970) EASY RIDER (1969) VANISHING...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 14 is GENERATION GAP you will listen to the soundtracks of RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (1967) with songs from Chocolate...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 13 is JAZZ IN THE MOVIES you will listen to the soundtrack of ASSAULT ON A QUEEN (1966) & PARIS BLUES (1961)...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 12 is THE WESTERN FILMS you will listen to the soundtrack of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) & MY NAME IS...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 11 is CRIME & DRAMA FILMS you will listen to the soundtrack of IL CLAN DEI SICILIANI (1969), LE CASSE (1971),...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 10 is ITALIAN EROTIC FILMS you will listen to the soundtrack of IL DIO SERPENTE (1970) by Augusto Martelli...
CINEMA SCORES VOLUME 9
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 9 is ITALIAN DRAMA FILMS you will listen to the soundtrack of BIANCHI CAVALLI D'AGOSTO (1975), L'ALBERO DALLE...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 8 is COP AMERICAN FILM you will listen to the soundtrack of BULLITT (1968) music by LALO SCHIFRIN BUSTING (1974)...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 7 is POLIZIESCO ITALIAN CRIME FILM you will listen to the soundtrack of UNA MAGNUM SPECIALE PER TONY SAETTA (1976...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 6 is POLIZIESCO ITALIAN CRIME FILM you will listen to the soundtrack of CONFESSIONE DI UN COMMISSARIO DI POLIZIA...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 5 is POLIZIESCO ITALIAN CRIME FILM you will listen to the soundtrack of MILANO TREMA LA POLIZIA VUOLE GIUSTIZIA (...
NATI CON LA CAMICIA (1983)/NON CE DUE SENZA QUATTRO (1984)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtracks of two films with BUD SPENCER & TERENCE HILL NATI CON LA CAMICIA (1983) & NON CE DUE SENZA QUATTRO...
CHI TROVA UN AMICO TROVA UN TESORO (1981)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film CHI TROVA UN AMICO TROVA UN TESORO (1981) music by LA BIONDA BROTHERS , then highlights of I...
PIU FORTE RAGAZZI (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film PIU FORTE RAGAZZI (1972), and the highlights of the soundtracks ALTRIMENTI CI ARRABBIAMO (1974...
PIEDONE L'AFRICANO (1978)/ PIEDONE D'EGITTO (1980)
Tonight to still commemorate the late Bud Spencer I am going to play the full soundtrack of PIEDONE L'AFRICANO (1978) and PIEDONE D'EGITTO (1980)....
PIEDONE A HONG KONG (1975)
Tonight to still commemorate the late Bud Spencer I am going to play the full soundtrack of PIEDONE A HONG KONG (1975) music by GUIDO & MAURIZIO...
PIEDONE LO SBIRRO (1973)
Tonight to still commemorate the late Bud Spencer I am going to play the full soundtrack of PIEDONE LO SBIRRO (1973) music by GUIDO & MAURIZIO DE...
BUD SPENCER (1929-2016)
Tonight I will play a show to the memory of BUD SPENCER (1929-2016) Going to play some hits from is solo films like: BOMBER (1982),BANANA JOE (1983)...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 4 is Drama & Relationships you will listen to the soundtrack of C'ERAVAMO TANTO AMATI (1974),PROFUMO DI DONNA...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 3 is Drama based on true story you will listen to INDAGINE DI UN CITTADINO AL DI SOPRA DI OGNI SOSPETTO (1970) ,...
Tonight the topics at Cinema scores 2 is the sexual revolution in music done by ENNIO MORRICONE, you will listen music from METTI UNA SERA A CENA (...
Tonight is the start of a new series of shows call" Cinema Scores". The topic is La Commedia all Italiana, and tonight you will listen to 5...
RONDO VENEZIANO
This Show is about the great music from RONDO VENEZIANO. Italian Baroque band produce by GIAN PIERO REVERBERI. Enjoy the Show!!!!
BRIAN WILSON 50'ANNIVERSARY PET SOUNDS
This Show is dedicate to the greatest Album of Rock PET SOUNDS by BEACH BOYS, masterpiece written by BRIAN WILSON. some scene you saw on LOVE &...
Tonight I celebrate the 6th Anniversary of Stasera Il Cinema ,for the occasion I decide to play the highlight from the soundtrack of STANLEY KUBRICK...
DELIVERANCE (1972)
In This Show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film DELIVERANCE (1972) By JOHN BOORMAN,with BURT REYNOLDS,JON VOIGHT with music perform by...
MERLE HAGGARD (1937-2016)
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Haggard and his...
TAKE ME HOME THE JOHN DENVER STORY (2000)
This Show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film TAKE ME HOME , THE JOHN DENVER STORY (2000) with Chad Lowe play John Denver, Here there is a...
ROMA BENE (1971)
This Show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film ROMA BENE (1971) by CARLO LIZZANI with NINO MANFREDI ,music by LUIS BACALOV . Be ready to...
TOMAS MILIAN aka ER MONNEZZA & NICO GIRALDI
This show I Put together a compilation of music from the films series of ER MONNEZZA and NICO GIRALDI both played by TOMAS MILIAN. Music various from...
BORSALINO (1970)
In This Show you will listen to the Soundtrack of the film BORSALINO (1970) and BORSALINO AND CO. (1974) music by CLAUDE BOLLING. Direct by JAQUES...
SESSOMATTO (1973)
In This Show you will listen to the Soundtrack of the Film SESSOMATTO (1973) By DINO RISI with music by ARMANDO TROVAIOLI. Enjoy this Gem of Italian...
THE MUSIC OF LUIS BACALOV VOLUME 5
Luis Enrique Bacalov is Argentinian composer,he had a very important role in writing score in Italian cinema in the 60 and 70 . In this part 5 you...
THE MUSIC OF ALBERT VERRECCHIA
Albert Verrecchia is a French-born keyboard player, composer and record producer, long time resident of, and working in, Italy. THis show is about...
ENNIO MORRICONE OSCAR 2016
Academy Award winner ENNIO MORRICONE for best score THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) I want to celebrate il Maestro victory,I will play some tracks that I...
RIUSCIRANNO I NOSTRI EROI .....(1968)
Tonight I commemorate the 13th anniversary of the death of ALBERTO SORDI, I will play the full soundtrack of the ETTORE SCOLA film: RIUSCIRANNO I...
RIO BRAVO (1959)
This show I will play the Soundtrack of the film RIO BRAVO (1959) Direct by HOWARD HAWKS,with JOHN WAYNE,DEAN MARTIN,RICKY NELSON. Music by DIMITRI...
LE SIGLE TELEVISIVE OF RAI TV VOLUME 2
This show is the second part of songs from very famous TV series of the 70" and 80' in Italy. Too many to mentions. Surprise ,Surprise!!!! Enjoy The...
This show Number 300 is dedicate to the late PAUL KANTNER (1941-2016). Founder member of the band JEFFERSON AIRPLANE. I will play some Highlights of...
ETTORE SCOLA (1931-2016)
This Show is to commemorate the late Ettore Scola (1931-2016),one of the greatest director of Italian Cinema. a Real Maestro!!!! I will play music...
BEATLES SONGS IN ITALIAN
This show you will listen to Beatles songs sung in Italian by Famous Italian band & Singers like: FAUSTO LEALI,CLAUDIO VILLA, AUGUSTO RIGHETTI,...
DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016)
This show is dedicate to the Greatest DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016). I want to remember him with some of my favourite songs. The music world lost one of...
L'ITALIA DEL ROCK
This show you will listen to some singles Rock tunes play by Italian Musicians like: I NOMADI,THE TRIP,CIRCUS 2000, EQUIPE 84,DIK DIK, LITTLE TONY, I...
CANZONISSIMA
I will play a selection of Italian Pop songs from Canzonissima show music from 1968 to 1975 artist like : NICOLA DI BARI,RICCHI E POVERI,PATTY PRAVO,...
LOVE STORY (1970)
To celebrate the 45 anniversary of the release of LOVE STORY (1970) I will play the entire score of the film Music by FRANCIS LAI LOVE MEANS NEVER...
FRANK SINATRA 100TH BIRTHDAY
Tonight I celebrate FRANK SINATRA 100th Birthday, I will play the famous concert at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN THE MAIN EVENT (1974). Let's sit down and...
JOHN LENNON (1940-1980)
Tonight I commemorate the 35th anniversary of John Lennon Assassination. I will play some Highlight of is best Performance and songs. Power To The...
CHUCK BERRY "HAIL HAIL ! ROCK'N'ROLL
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll is a 1987 documentary film directed by Taylor Hackford that chronicles two 1986 concerts celebrating rock and roll musician...
THE MUSIC OF JACK NITZSCHE
This Show is dedicate to the music of JACK NITZSCHE, (1937-2000) One of the great film composer of the late 60 and 70 and beyond. You will listen to...
UGO TOGNAZZI (1922-1990)
This show is dedicate to the memory of UGO TOGNAZZI (1922-1990), you will listen highlights films music from composers like ENNIO MORRICONE, ARMANDO...
STEVE MCQUEEN (1930-1980)
Tonight I celebrate 35th anniversary of Steve Mcqueen death (1930-1980) Going to play music from some of his most famous films: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN...
SERPICO (1973)
Tonight you will listen to the full soundtrack of the film SERPICO (1973) By SIDNEY LUMET with AL PACINO music score from MIKIS THEODORAKIS . Enjoy...
THE MUSIC OF RIZ ORTOLANI VOLUME 5
This is the Fifth part of Riz Ortolani music, you will listening to the soundtracks of BISTURI LA MAFIA BIANCA(1973),SEQUESTRO DI PERSONA (1967), IL...
THE HUSTLER (1961)
The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film directed by Robert Rossen. It tells the story of small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson and his desire...
VANISHING POINT (1971)
Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. The...
SUPERFLY (1972)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the film SUPERFLY (1972) Music by CURTIS MAYFIELD. One of the greatest Score of the 70". Enjoy The Show...
In This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film BULLITT (1968), with Steve Mc Queen,music by LALO SCHIFRIN. One of the best Soundtrack...
SANDOKAN (1976)
Tonight you will listen to the soundtrack of the Legendary Film TV SANDOKAN (1976) By SERGIO SOLLIMA,with KABIR BEDI, music by OLIVER ONIONS aka...
OLIVER ONIONS
In This Show you will listen to the Album THE BEST OF OLIVER ONIONS (1999) Aka MAURIZIO & GUIDO DE ANGELIS. Famous duo of italian film composer,...
THE MUSIC OF STELVIO CIPRIANI VOLUME 8
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome,is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films. In this eight part ,you will listen to...
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome,is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films. In this seventh part ,you will listen...
ON THE ROAD (2012)
In This Show you will listen to soundtrack of the film ON THE ROAD (2012) a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation...
STONED (2005)
Tonight you will listen to the Soundtrack of the film STONED (2005) also known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones in the UK, is a 2005 film...
THE BIG CHILL (1983)
In this show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film THE BIG CHILL (1983),By LAWRENCE KASDAN including great songs from Creedence Clearwater...
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
In this show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film 'IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) with SIDNEY POITIER,ROD STEIGER,music by QUINCY JONES,...
THE MUSIC OF GIANFRANCO PLENIZIO
Gianfranco Plenizio (born 10 January 1941) is an Italian conductor, composer, pianist and essayist. I will play the soundtracks from the films :...
THE MUSIC OF FRANCO MICALIZZI VOLUME 5
This fifth part is dedicate to one of the great Italian film composer of the 70'. Franco Micalizzi was born in Rome in1939,he is very famous for...
This show you will listen to music from the films of ROBERT BLAKE. IN COLD BLOOD (1967) music by QUINCY JONES, ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973) music by...
THE GRADUATE (1967)- MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
This Show you will listen to the Soundtracks of two films that made DUSTIN HOFFMAN, a legend in the movie world. THE GRADUATE(1967) direct by MIKE...
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film LET IT BE (1970) starring THE BEATLES Direct by MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG. a Documentary about the...
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the Animation film YELLOW SUBMARINE(1968) with THE BEATLES . A great Technicolor Animation Fantasy,...
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967) A BBC film shot for television, with THE BEATLES. Roll up the...
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film HELP (1965) starring THE BEATLES with music score written by GEORGE MARTIN. A great film...
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) starring THE BEATLES with music score written by GEORGE MARTIN. A...
L'AUTOMOBILE (1971)/ VIAGGIO CON ANITA (1979)
This show you will listen to two soundtrack from il maestro ENNIO MORRICONE. L'AUTOMOBILE (1971) with ANNA MAGNANI, and VIAGGIO CON ANITA (1979) with...
YES GIORGIO (1982)
Tonight I celebrate the 5th Anniversary of my Show Stasera il Cinema, You will listen to the complete soundtrack of my favourite Opera Film: YES...
FANTASMA D'AMORE (1981)
This show is dedicate to the music of one of the best Love story of Italian Cinema. FANTASMA D'AMORE (1981) with MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, AND ROMY...
C'ERAVAMO TANTO AMATI (1974)- PROFUMO DI DONNA (1974)
This show you will listen to two of the most famous soundtracks of Italian Cinema. C'ERAVAMO TANTO AMATI (1974) with Vittorio Gassman,Nino Manfredi,...
THE MUSIC OF GUIDO & MAURIZIO DE ANGELIS VOLUME 2
Guido & Maurizio De Angelis are the most popular team of Italians composer, they also famous under the name of OLIVER ONIONS. You will listening...
IO STO CON GLI IPPOPOTAMI (1979)
Tonight show ,you will listen to the soundtrack of the film IO STO CON GLI IPPOPOTAMI (1979) with BUD SPENCER & TERENCE HILL, with music by...
To celebrate the 45TH' anniversary of the Apollo 13 Mission, I decided to play the soundtrack written by JAMES HORNER. Included a lots of songs from...
This show ,you will listen to the soundtrack of the film BARBARELLA (1968) with JANE FONDA , JOHN PHILLIP LAW,UGO TOGNAZZI, direct by ROGER VADIM....
PARIS BLUES (1961)
This show ,you will listen to the soundtrack of the film PARIS BLUES (1961), with PAUL NEWMAN and SIDNEY POITIER,direct by MARTIN RITT. Music by DUKE...
SWEET DREAMS (1985)
This show is about the soundtrack of the film SWEET DREAMS (1985) THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PATSY CLINE. With JESSICA LANGE,ED HARRIS. Is the complete...
THE AMERICAN DREAMER (1970)
This show ,you will listen to the soundtrack of the documentary: THE AMERICAN DREAMER (1970) with DENNIS HOPPER,with songs from GENE CLARK, and many...
TOMORROW (1970)
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the British Musical: TOMORROW (1970) with OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN,music by HUGO MONTENEGRO. A very groovin...
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film CANDY (1968). Music by DAVE GRUSIN ,THE BYRDS & STEPPENWOLF. This is one outstanding work...
ANASTASIA MIO FRATELLO
Tonight is the 12th anniversary of the death of ALBERTO SORDI (1920-2003). I will play for you the soundtrack of the film ANASTASIA MIO FRATELLO (...
PIEDONE LO SBIRRO
This show is dedicate to the film series PIEDONE with BUD SPENCER. You will listen to the highlights from the soundtracks of: PIEDONE LO SBIRRO(1973...
NAPOLI VIOLENTA/DA CORLEONE A BROOKLYN
This show you will listen to two soundtracks from FRANCO MICALIZZI, Two great Polizieschi films: NAPOLI VIOLENTA (1976) with MAURIZIO MERLI, DA...
LA BANDA DEL GOBBO/IL GIUSTIZIERE SFIDA LA CITTA
This show you will listen to two soundtracks from the films: LA BANDA DEL GOBBO (1978), IL GIUSTIZIERE SFIDA LA CITTA (1975) both with THOMAS MILIAN...
IL MIO NOME E NESSUNO
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film MY NAME IS NOBODY (1973) direct by TONINO VALERI, written by SERGIO LEONE,with TERENCE HILL...
FELLINI-PIOVANI
Today I celebrate FEDERICO FELLINI Birthday if he lived ,He would be 95 years old in Honor to the maestro del cinema Italiano,I will play the...
METTI UNA SERA A CENA
This show you will listen to the full soundtrack of the film METTI UNA SERA A CENA (1969), written by ENNIO MORRICONE. This one of the best job of...
ELVIS 80TH'
Tonight I'am going to celebrate Elvis Presley 80th Birthday! I will play my favourite tracks of the King!!! This is a Special Show. HAPPY BIRTHDAY...
THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY
To Celebrate the end of the year I decided to play the soundtrack of the movie THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY (1978). Sit down and enjoy some great Disco...
This show is the Soundtrack of the film NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) with CHEVY CHASE,music by ANGELO BADALAMENTI. Included there is...
LA CALIFFA / L'ASSOLUTO NATURALE
This show you will listen to two famous soundtracks from Maestro ENNIO MORRICONE. LA CALIFFA (1970) with Ugo Tognazzi & Romy Schneider.Direct by...
ITALIA A MANO ARMATA
This show you will listen to the soundtrack of the film: ITALIA A MANO ARMATA (1976), with MAURIZIO MERLI ,music by FRANCO MICALIZZI . Sit in your...
BERETTA 70
This show you will listen to the great soundtrack compilation of BERETTA 70 (1998),with great music from composers like : FRANCO MICALIZZI,STELVIO...
CITTA VIOLENTA
This show you will listen to the complete soundtrack of the film CITTA VIOLENTA (1970) direct by SERGIO SOLLIMA,with CHARLES BRONSON,TELLY SAVALAS,...
IL COMMISSARIO PEPE
This show you will listen to the complete soundtrack of the film IL COMMISSARIO PEPE (1969) with UGO TOGNAZZI,direct by ETTORE SCOLA,with music of...
FRED BUSCAGLIONE & RENATO CAROSONE
This show is dedicate to two of the greatest Italian musicians of the 50", FRED BUSCAGLIONE (1921-1960),RENATO CAROSONE (1920-2011). You will listen...
You will listen to the soundtrack of the movie TALK TO ME (2007), with DON CHEADLE, there would be a lots of songs from OTIS REDDING,JAMES BROWN, SAM...
THE MUSIC OF NEAL HEFTI
This show is dedicate to the music of NEAL HEFTI one of the great composer of America cinema and TV. You will listen to the soundtracks of BAREFOOT...
THE BIG SCORE (1998) is a great compilation of 70' Funky music from Soundtracks of Black Films. You will hear songs from : WILLIE HUTCH,JAMES BROWN,...
BEAT AT CINECITTA 3
This show you will listen to the compilation cd BEAT AT CINECITTA volume 3 (1999). With great jazzy ,erotic,funky sound from Composer like: PIERO...
BEAT AT CINECITTA
This show you will listen to the compilation cd BEAT AT CINECITTA (1997). With great jazzy ,erotic,funky sound from Composer like: RIZ ORTOLANI,...
SONGS FROM THE 80' MOVIES
This show is dedicate to the great songs from the 80' movies, Like ARTHUR (1981),ROCKY 3 (1983),FLASHDANCE (1983),FOOTLOOSE (1984), GHOSTBUSTERS (...
The Music of LUCIANO MICHELINI
This show is about the Italian composer LUCIANO MICHELINI, You will listen to the soundtracks of ANNA QUEL PARTICOLARE PIACERE (1974), LA POLIZIA...
This show is dedicate to the Great Peter Sellers,you will listen to music from : PINK PANTHER (1963),I LOVE YOU ALICE B.TOKLAS (1968),AFTER THE FOX(...
ROBIN WILLIAMS-GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
This show is dedicate to the memory of ROBIN WILLIAMS (1951-2014). You will listen to the soundtracks of the film GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987). Enjoy...
SANGUE DI SBIRRO
This show I' am going to play one of the greatest Poliziesco genre soundtrack SANGUE DI SBIRRO aka COP'S BLOOD 1976 by ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI. Movie...
THE MUSIC OF BRUNO NICOLAI VOLUME 4
Bruno Nicolai was born in Rome,he formed a long working relationship with Ennio Morricone He scored a lots different soundtracks for various...
This show is dedicate to the memory of DOMENICO MODUGNO aka MR VOLARE. for the 20th anniversary of is death. It's a compilations of famous songs...
ANONIMO VENEZIANO
This Show is about ANONIMO VENEZIANO (1970) By ENRICO MARIA SALERNO,with TONY MUSANTE & FLORINDA BOLKAN,with music by STELVIO CIPRIANI. You will...
This Show its about Groovy Soundtracks, with music from composer like: DAVE GRUSIN,HENRY MANCINI ,LES BAXTER,ARTIE BUTLER ,TEDD SMITH, DON SEBESKY,...
FEMALE VOICES OF ITALIAN CINEMA
This show is dedicate to the ladies that sung in a lots of Italian films from the 60' and the 70', you will listen to singers like AMANDA LEAR ,GRACE...
THE SAVAGE SEVEN
This show I will play the soundtrack of the film THE SAVAGE SEVEN (1968) By Richard Rush. music by Mike Curb, and bands like CREAM & IRON...
DANGER DIABOLIK / VERUSCHKA
Two Great Soundtracks from Maestro ENNIO MORRICONE!!! DANGER DIABOLIK (1968) and VERUSCHKA (1971). Sit Down and Enjoy two masterpiece from a Genius...
THE MUSIC OF GIANNI MARCHETTI VOLUME 2
In this second part you will listen to the music of Gianni Marchetti very famous Italian composer from the 60'& 70". I will play music from the...
This show is dedicate to the music of BURT BACHARACH ,one of the greatest songwriters and composer, You will listen to some highlights of is music....
This show is dedicate to the legendary TOM JONES. You will listen to song like THUNDERBALL (1965), COME TO ME FROM THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (...
McQ & BRANNIGAN
Tomorrow is the 35TH anniversary of the death of JOHN WAYNE,to celebrate I choose the soundtracks of McQ (1974) music by ELMER BERNSTEIN and...
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID
This Show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the film PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973). Direct by Sam Peckinpah with James Coburn and Kris...
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
In This show you will listen to the soundtracks of COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970) music By GALT MAC DERMOTT, COME BACK CHARLESTON BLUES (1972) music...
Tonight I celebrate the 4th Anniversary of my Show Stasera il Cinema, You will listen to the complete soundtrack of my favourite Italian Film: LA...
PARANORMAL ROMANTIC FILMS
This show is dedicate to 3 films soundtracks from the most famous paranormal love stories. You will listen to HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) with Warren...
JOHNNY CASH SOUNDTRACKS
This Show I am going to play the only 2 Soundtracks that JOHNNY CASH ever recorded, LITTLE FAUSS & BIG HALSY (1970) with ROBERT REDFORD &...
TOMMY THE MOVIE
This Show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the film TOMMY (1975) by Ken Russell, with JACK NICHOLSON,ANN MARGRET, ROGER DALTREY,OLIVER REED, THE WHO,...
GET CARTER (1971)
This Show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the film GET CARTER (1971), with MICHAEL CAINE,with music by ROY BUDD. One of the greatest score of...
This show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the James Bond film : MOONRAKER (1979) written by JOHN BARRY . This is a beautiful score then there will...
In this show you will listen to the soundtrack of the James Bond film ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969),with GEORGE LAZEMBY, music by JOHN BARRY...
AMICI MIEI & SIGNORE & SIGNORI
This show is dedicate to 2 great soundtracks from Italian Cinema, AMICI MIEI (1975) and SIGNORI & SIGNORE (1966) music by CARLO RUSTICHELLI....
The Music of CARLO RUSTICHELLI VOLUME 2
Carlo Rustichelli (24 December 1916 - 13 November 2004) was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific...
This show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the film LE CASSE (1971), AKA THE BURGLARS AKA GLI SCASSINATORI . With the music of Maestro ENNIO...
GIU LA TESTA
This show is dedicate to the highlights of the soundtracks of SERGIO LEONE films, GIU LA TESTA (1971) and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968). With...
THE BEST OF 200
This Show is the Best of Stasera il Cinema,I celebrate the show number 200 !!!! Everything going to be a surprise !!! Sit Down And Enjoy !!! Thank...
BELLO ,ONESTO ,EMIGRATO AUSTRALIA
This show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the ALBERTO SORDI Film : BELLO ,ONESTO,EMIGRATO AUSTRALIA,SPOSEREBBE COMPAESANA ILLIBATA (1971) AKA A...
THE MUSIC OF PIERO PICCIONI VOLUME 6
Piero piccioni was born in Torino was one of the most innovative composer in Italian cinema he works with the most famous Italian directors from the...
This Show is dedicate to the music of the famous film series of Rambo, with Sylvester Stallone ,music by Jerry Goldsmith and Bryan Tyler. You will...
This is the Fourth part of Riz Ortolani music, you will listening to the soundtracks of LA PIOVRA (1984),RITRATTO DI DONNA VELATA (1975), LA FRECCIA...
This is the Third part of Riz Ortolani music, you will listening to the soundtracks of MONDO CANE(1963),CON QUALE AMORE(1968),BRUTES & SAVAGES (...
SCI-FI MUSIC VOLUME 2
This show is the second part of SCI-FI Music,you will listen to soundtracks of the movies: THE TERMINATOR(1984),CLOUD ATLAS (2013),THE ADJUSTMENT...
AMARCORD & ROMA
This show I will play the soundtrack of the Federico Fellini film AMARCORD (1973), and the highlights of the soundtrack of FELLINI ROMA (1972), with...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! This show is dedicate to Elvis Presley the King of Rock'n Roll!!!! You will listen to a great selections of is best 70" tunes!!!...
BIG BAND BOSSA NOVA
It's New year's eve, everybody this show it's party time at Stasera il cinema. You will listen to the great album QUINCY JONES - BIG BAND BOSSA NOVA...
This show is dedicate to Bobby Darin to celebrate the 40th anniversary of is death. You will listen to a great selections of Folkie music and to the...
THE THRILLER OF THE 70'
This show is dedicate to the music from some of the best Thriller of the 70" American cinema. Films like: TWO MINUTE WARNING (1976),THE OUTFIT (1973...
This show is dedicate to the music from some of the films of Clint Eastwood. You will listen to some score & songs from movies like: THE DOLLAR...
SURF MOVIES
This show is dedicate to the music from some Aussie & USA surf films. You will listen to some bands like TAMAM SHUD,TULLY,G WAYNE THOMAS,...
This show is dedicate to the romantic film music from American & British films. Sit down and enjoy great music written by JOHN BARRY,MAURICE...
Amore & Musica volume 3
This third part you will listen to more tracks from great Italian films and TV shows. With music from composers like : ENNIO MORRICONE.ARMANDO...
This second Part of Amore & Musica ,you will enjoy a great selection of tracks written by ENNIO MORRICONE,STELVIO CIPRIANI,ARMANDO TROVAIOLI,...
AMORE & MUSICA
Tonight show is a blend of Film music and easy listening tracks from famous composer and band, people like DANIEL SANTACRUZ,JAMES LAST,PINO CALVI,IL...
This show is dedicate to the 20th anniversary of FEDERICO FELLINI (1920-1993) death. I will take you into a journey into is great career . with the...
This show is dedicate to Nino Manfredi the great Italian actor. You will listen to songs sung by him,and to some score from some of is best films....
MUSIC FROM THE DISASTER MOVIES
This show is dedicate to the music from the Disaster Films, you will listen to score & songs from : THE POSEIDONE ADVENTURE (1972) THE TOWERING...
This show you will listen to dean Martin sing songs from films and is famous Tv Show. Sit down and prepare your Martini and enjoy one of the greatest...
This show you will listen to Frank Sinatra singing songs from some of the most famous films. Sit down and enjoy songs from "The Voice ". Enjoy the...
This show you will listen to Sammy Davis Jr great songs from films and Tv Specials Sit down and Enjoy this Great performance . Enjoy the show!!!
HAROLD AND MAUDE
This show is dedicate to the soundtrack of the cult film "HAROLD AND MAUDE" (1971) By Hal Ashby with the music from CAT STEVENS . Enjoy the show!!!
ENNIO MORRICONE play SERGIO LEONE
This show is dedicate to the great album call LE COLONNE SONORE ORIGINALI DI SERGIO LEONE. You will listen to the highlights of the Dollar Trilogy (...
SAN FRANCISCO IN THE MOVIES
This show is dedicate to the city of San Francisco in the movies. You will listen to some of the greatest film music. From movies like : PETULIA (...
NEW YORK CITY IN THE MOVIES VOLUME 3
In this third part you will listen to the music from films like : ARTHUR(1981),THE GOODBYE GIRL(1977),THE APRIL FOOLS(1969), THE LOVE MACHINE(1971),...
In this Second part you will listen to music from films like: BLACK CAESAR (1973),SUPERFLY(1972), THE SUPERCOPS(1973), THE ANDERSON TAPES (1971),THE...
NEW YORK CITY IN THE MOVIES
This show is dedicate to NEW YORK CITY . You will listen to music from films shoot in the Big Apple. like : MIDNIGHT COWBOY(1969),NEW YORK NEW YORK (...
BUD SPENCER & TERENCE HILL VOLUME 2
This is the second part of the show , dedicate to the music from the movies of Bud Spencer & Terence Hill. A lot of them written by Guido &...
IL SORPASSO
This show is dedicate to the music of one of the greatest Italian films ever. IL SORPASSO (1962) by DINO RISI with VITTORIO GASSMAN, music by RIZ...
ITALIAN LOUNGE BEAT PARTY
This show is about the grest compilation cd ITALIAN LOUNGE BEAT PARTY (2003). You will listen to some killer tracks from composer like : ALESSANDRO...
FRENCH CINEMA VOLUME 2
In THis show you will listen to the soundtracks of LE SAMOURAI (1967),LES AVENTURIERS (1967) by FRANCOIS DE ROUBAIX, then BORSALINO (1970) by CLAUDE...
FANTOMAS & ARSENE LUPIN
This show it's about Fantomas (1965) and Arsene Lupin (1971) music. You will listen to great tunes compose by MICHEL MAGNE ,JEAN-PIERRE BOURTAYRE....
BOSSA GALORE
This show its the music from Bossa Galore (2005) a great compilation of Bossa theme from Italian films. You will listen music from composer like:...
METTI UNA BOSSA A CENA
In this show you will listen to some highlights from the famous compilations METTI UNA BOSSA A CENA (2001). Sit down have a dinner with your lover or...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR PAUL
This show is dedicate to Paul Mc Cartney music from films. You will listen to GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET (1984),LET IT BE (1970) VANILLA SKY(...
HOLLYWOOD GOLD
This show is covering lots of music from great classics Hollywood films like: IT'S A MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963),EXODUS(1960),MY FOOLISH HEART(1948) THE...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STASERA IL CINEMA This is the third anniversary of my show to celebrate I will play the soundtracks of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)...
CHEVY CHASE & FRIENDS
In this show you will listen to the music from films from Chevy Chase, and a lots of others stars from the 80'. Music from:FLETCH (1985),NATIONAL...
THE MUSIC OF ROMOLO GRANO
This show is dedicate to ROMOLO GRANO very famous composer of music library and Tv series from RAI TV. You will listen to the soundtrack of HO...
ITALIANS CRIME FILMS VOLUME 4
This show is dedicate to the music from Italians crime films. In this fourth part, you will listen to the music from : IL COMMISSARIO DI FERRO (1978...
THE MUSIC OF LALO SCHIFRIN VOLUME 2
This show is dedicate to the music of one of my favourite film composer. Lalo Schifrin was born in Argentina is consider one of the best jazz...
THE MUSIC OF ELMER BERNSTEIN VOLUME 2
This show is about the Music of one of the greatest composer of American Cinema,Elmer Bernstein. In this part two,you will listen to themes from...
PETER THOMAS,BRIAN BENNETT,ALAN TEW,JOHNNY HARRIS
In THis show you will listen to the soundtrack of CHARIOTS OF THE GODS (1970) by Peter Thomas. Then THE SWEENEY (1976) and AIM HIGH (1999) by BRIAN...
CHARLTON HESTON SCI-FI
In this show you will listen to the music from Charlton Heston Sci- Fi movies. THE PLANET OF THE APES (1967),BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970),...
LE SIGLE TELEVISIVE OF RAI TV
In this show you will listen to the songs from very famous TV series of the 70" in Italy. Too many to mentions Surprise ,Surprise!!!! Enjoy the show...
This fourth part is dedicate to one of the great Italian film composer of the 70'. Franco Micalizzi was born in Rome in1939,he is very famous for...
The music of LUIS ENRIQUE BACALOV Volume 3
IL GRANDE ARMANDO TROVAIOLI
This show is dedicate to the memory of Armando Trovaioli (1917-2013). Il grande maestro pass away few days ago so sit down and enjoy this special...
IL GRANDE ALBERTO SORDI
THIS IS A SPECIAL SHOW DEDICATE TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT ALBERTO SORDI ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH. You will listening to highlights of...
CULT ITALIAN COMPOSERS VOLUME 6
This show is dedicate to some of the most great Italian composers of the 60 & 70. In this sixth part you will enjoy the magic touch of ENRICO...
This show is dedicate to some of the most great Italian composers of the 60 & 70. In this fifth part you will enjoy the magic touch of LUCIANO...
This show is dedicate to some of the most great Italian composers of the 60 & 70. In this fourth part you will enjoy the magic touch of ALBERTO...
This show is dedicate to some of the most great Italian composers of the 60 & 70. In this third part you will enjoy the magic touch of CARLO...
This show is dedicate to some of the most great Italian composers of the 60 & 70. In this second part you will enjoy the magic touch of FRANCO...
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome,is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films. In this sixth part ,you will listen to...
ELVIS PRESLEY IN THE MOVIES
This show is dedicate to Elvis Presley movies. You will listening to some of the most famous songs from his films. Sit down and start to rock with...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! This show is dedicate to the music of the greatest series of Rocky films. You will listening to the highlights of the soundtracks...
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL !!!!! THIS SHOW IS DEDICATE TO MY GREAT AUDIENCE WITH GREAT CHRISTMAS TUNES FROM TV & FILMS. HAVE A WONDERFUL...
This show is dedicate to the music from the films of CARLO VERDONE. One of the most famous comedian in Italian Cinema. You will listen to the...
THE MUSIC OF ENNIO MORRICONE VOLUME 14
Ennio Morricone was born in Rome is consider the greatest of the Italian film composer he s written more than 400 score and still write music. In...
They Call me .... MR TIBBS
Virgil Tibbs is a fictional character who is one of the two leading male characters in John Ball's 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night. He is also...
The Music of Walt Disney
In this show you will listen to the magic tunes from Walt Disney movies. I will play songs from SNOW WHITE & SEVEN DWARF (1937),PINOCCHIO (1940),...
The Music of Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand is a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores in addition to many memorable songs. He is best known for...
The Music of Maurice Jarre
In This show you will listen to the music of MAURICE JARRE , one of the greatest French composer from movies. I will play music from DOCTOR ZHIVAGO...
HALLOWEEN in the movies
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! This Show will play music from Horror films to celebrate Halloween . You will listening to the first 2 soundtrack of Halloween (...
LO CHIAMAVANO TRINITA
In This show you will listen to the 2 soundtrack of LO CHIAMAVANO TRINITA (1970), E CONTINUAVANO A CHIAMARLO TRINITA (1971). With the music of...
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome,is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films. In this fifth part ,you will listen to...
COUNTRY & WESTERN MOVIES
In this show you will listen to the music from Road Country & Western movies like: BRONCO BILLY(1980),EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978),ANY WHICH...
THE PERSUADERS & THE SAINT
This show is dedicate to the music from THE PERSUADERS (1970) & THE SAINT (62-69). You will listening to the full soundtrack from the Roger Moore...
CANTO MORRICONE
In this show you will listen to a selection of songs written by ENNIO MORRICONE from films like: METTI UNA SERA A CENA(1969),LA CALIFFA(1970),PER UN...
The Music of GIANNI MARCHETTI
In this show you will listen to the music of Gianni Marchetti very famous Italian composer from the 60'& 70". I will play music from the movies:...
Tutto Fellini
This show is dedicate to the music from the films of FEDERICO FELLINI You will listening to the music from films like: LA STRADA (1955),LE NOTTI DI...
Fortunella & Fantasmi a Roma
In This show you will listen to the music of FORTUNELLA (1958),and FANTASMI A ROMA (1961). Both Soundtrack wrote by Nino Rota ,the great Italian...
This show is dedicate to the music from Italians crime films. In this third part, you will listen to the music from : LA POLIZIA RINGRAZIA(1972),LA...
This show is dedicate to the music from Italians crime films. In this second part, you will listen to the music from LA MALA ORDINA (1972),TONY...
ITALIANS CRIME FILMS
This show is dedicate to the music from Italians crime films. You will listen to the music from MARK IL POLIZIOTTO (1975),IL CITTADINO SI RIBELLA (...
The Music Of Armando Trovaioli volume 8
Armando Trovaioli was born in Rome and is consider one of the best Italian film Composer, is charming touch of create music with the fusion of exotic...
SAM PECKINPAH WESTERNS
This show is dedicate to the music of Sam Peckinpah westerns written by GEORGE BASSMAN,JERRY FIELDING,JERRY GOLDSMITH & BOB DYLAN. You will...
TELEVISION MEMORIES
In this show you will listen to the music from a lots of famous TV shows from the 50'60'70'. Like THE ADDAMS FAMILY,THE MUNSTERS,GREEN ACRES,BARETTA,...
The Music of Henry Mancini volume 2
This show is dedicate to the great Henry Mancini one of the most famous film composer of the 20th century. In this second part you will listening to...
JOHN WAYNE -AMERICA-
This show is dedicate to the independence day the 4th of july America celebrating JOHN WAYNE the greatest American Icon of the 20th century. HAPPY...
The Music of SVEN LIBAEK volume 3
Sven Libaek is an Australian composer,record producer and musician. He is well-know for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant...
The Music of Dave Grusin
In This Show you will listening to the music of Dave Grusin. (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed...
HIPPIE & BIKERS
In this show you will listening to the soundtracks of films like: HELLCATS (1967), BORN LOSERS (1967),THE TRIP (1967),RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (1968) CC...
ROCK AT THE MOVIES volume 2
In this second part you will listening to various music from rock films. There will be a lots of songs from band like,BADFINGERS,LOVIN SPONFUL, JOHN...
ROCK AT THE MOVIES
In this show you will listening to various music from rock films. There will be a lots of songs from band like PINK FLOYD,ANIMALS,YARBIRDS ETC......
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STASERA IL CINEMA !!!!! This special show is dedicate to the music of the blues brothers. You will listening to the soundtrack of the...
PINOCCHIO,SPACE 1999 & U.F.O.
This is a special anniversary show ,to celebrate the 40th anniversary of LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO (1972) By Luigi Comencini with Nino Manfredi,Gina...
This third part is dedicate to one of the great Italian film composer of the 70'. Franco Micalizzi was born in Rome in1939,he is very famous for...
This show is dedicate to the music from all Shaft films & T.V. series . You will listening to Isaac Hayes memorable score from SHAFT (1971) then...
COPS & ROBBERS volume 2
This second part is dedicate to the music of films and TV shows of the 60" & 70' The vogue of the time was Police drama and action films . You...
This show is dedicate to the music of films and TV shows of the 60" & 70' The vogue of the time was Police drama and action films . You will...
EASTER IN THE MOVIE
This show is dedicate to the movies about Jesus Christ life. I choose this topic because next sunday it will be Easter . So sit down and listen to...
The music of Cordara Orchestra
Carlo Cordara represents a classic example of the quality of the Italian Easy Listening scene in the 60’s and 70’s. This incredible composer always...
The music of Piero Umiliani volume 3
Piero Umiliani was born in Florence ( Italy) in 1926 is one of the great composer in italian cinema of the 60 & 70 ,he die in 2001. In this part...
The music of Peppino De Luca
In this show you will listening to the music of Peppino de luca (1936-1974). Italian soundtrack and easy listening jazz composer. You will hear the...
SCI-FI MUSIC
This show is dedicate to some great music from great SCI-FI films . You will listening to some tracks written by composers like Peter Thomas, Fred...
This show is dedicate to one of the greatest film ever made in America cinema, FORREST GUMP 1994 by Robert Zemeckis, with Tom Hanks . You will...
The Godfather Trilogy
This Show is dedicate to the music from THE GODFATHER TRILOGY. You will listening to highlights from part 1,part 2,and part 3 . Great music score...
ST Valentine in the movies
This show is dedicate to all the lover of the world ,that today celebrate ST VALENTINE . I choose some memorable tracks from various Drama, Romance...
This second part is dedicate to one of the great Italian film composer of the 70'. Franco Micalizzi was born in Rome in1939,he is very famous for...
The Music OF CARLO RUSTICHELLI
The Music OF JOHN WILLIAMS
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has...
BILLY GOLDENBERG and KENYON HOPKINS
Billy Goldenberg was born in 1936 in NYC ,was a very popular composer in the 1970s, he wrote the famous theme of KOJAK the TV show with Telly Savalas...
The Music OF DOMINIC FRONTIERE
Dominic Frontiere (born June 17, 1931) is an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the...
The Music OF BERTO PISANO
Berto Pisano was born in Cagliari (ITALY) in 1929, was the younger brother of Franco,they were member of the orcherstra ASTERNOVA , famous group of...
The Music OF FRANCIS LAI Volume 2
Francis Lai (born April 26, 1932, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores. In 1970 Francis...
The Music OF FRANCIS LAI
The Music OF ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI
Alessandro Alessandroni (born March 18, 1925 in Rome) is an Italian musician. He plays multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin,...
The Music OF SVEN LIBAEK
Sven Libaek is an Australian composer, record producer and musician. He is well-known for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant...
The Music OF FRANCO BIXIO
Franco Bixio is one of the most underrated Italian film composer he wrote more than 70 score. I choose for you some really incredible scores, very...
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome,is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films. In this fourth part ,you will listening...
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome,is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films. In this third part ,you will listening...
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome, is regarded one of the most famous in this genre of score music from films . In this second part ,you will...
The Music of Franco Micalizzi
This hour is dedicate to one of the great Italian film composer of the 70'. Franco Micalizzi was born in Rome in1939,he is very famous for writing...
Venezia In The Movies
This is a special hour dedicate to the most beautiful city in the world Venezia. Lots of films been done here but I choose some with the most...
The music of Gianni Ferrio
Gianni Ferrio was born in 1924 he one of the most interested Italian composer and songwriter of the 20th century he wrote lots of score from films,...
The Music of Fred Bongusto
Fred Bongusto was born in Italy in 1935 is an Italian singer and songwriter very famous and during the 60 and 70 he wrote a lots of film score for...
This is the second part of Riz Ortolani music, you will listening to the soundtracks of BUONA SERA MRS CAMPBELL 1968,CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST 1980,...
The music of Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
Piero Umiliani was born in Florence ( Italy) in 1926 is one of the great composer in italian cinema of the 60 & 70 ,he die in 2001. In this...
The music of Aunty Wendy's Mob
This show is dedicate to the children music . You will listening to the wonderful tunes of AUNTY WENDY'S MOB one of the most famous children band in...
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
This show is dedicate to the great ALFRED NEWMAN . You will listening to the highlights of one of his best score. LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING...
Songs from Cult Movies
This is a show where you will going to listen to some of the best Italian songs from films written by ENNIO MORRICONE,STELVIO CIPRIANI ,PINO DONAGGIO...
As Seen on the Movies volume 2
In the second part of this show I will cover the time from 1969 to 1987. There will be lots of famous tune from films like it: THE APRIL FOOLS 1969,...
This first part is dedicate to the great songs from famous films of the past. You will listening of a selections of tunes from 1942 to 1969 . Songs...
Cult Italian Composers
This show is dedicate to some of the most great Italian composers of the 60 & 70. In this hour you will enjoy the magic touch of FRANCESCO DE...
Comedy Italian Style
This show is dedicate to the music from the Italian comedy films. You will listening to the score from the movie DON CAMILLO 1951 and themes from the...
Today I celebrate the first year of my show Stasera il Cinema. For the occasion I choose to play for you all over the world the music from one of my...
American gems volume 2
In this second part of American Gems you will listening music from movies like TAXI DRIVER 1976,THE THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR 1975, THE WARRIORS 1979,...
This show is the first part of discovery some of the great soundtracks of modern American cinema. The first one is from the movie BANG THE DRUM...
The music of David Shire
David Shire is one of the most important Jazz musician of the 70 and 80,in the film world is regarded a very original composer.For your own trivia...
The Music of Vangelis
Vangelis is one of the most famous Greek Composer,is regarded one of the most innovative musician of electronic music. In this show you will...
Saturday night fever & Grease
In this show you will listening to the music of one of the biggest seller soundtrack ever SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER 1977. Then to highlights of the...
The music of Bill Conti
Bill Conti is one of the most famous Hollywood composer is the one that wrote the music from ROCKY 1976. In this show you will listening to...
The music of Goblin
Goblin is a great progressive rock band from Italy. in the 70"their music play a major role in Dario Argento films,creating a myth among the Italians...
The Music of Elmer Bernstein
This show is about the Music of one of the greatest composer of American Cinema,Elmer Bernstein. You will listening to themes from SWEET SMELL OF...
The Music of Jerry Goldsmith
This show is dedicate to the Great Jerry Goldsmith,one of the most famous American composer.You will listening to some music from FIRST BLOOD 1982...
Basil Poledouris & Michael Small
This show is dedicate to two great American composer Basil Poledouris and Michael Small . You will listening to the score of Big Wednesday 1977 from...
This show is dedicate to the music from the film of James Bond you will listening to the songs from some of the best films of the series. From Dr No...
This show is dedicate to the great Alberto Sordi on the 25 of February will be the eight anniversary of his death . I wanna dedicate this show to his...
The music of Piero Umiliani
Piero Umiliani was born in Florence ( Italy) in 1926 is one of the great composer in italian cinema of the 60 & 70 ,he die in 2001. In this show...
The music of Henry Mancini
This show is dedicate to the great Henry Mancini one of the most famous film composer of the 20th century. You will listening to the music from THE...
The Music of Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British Jazz musician and a film composer. He wrote some great score in the 70 . You will listening to some from the movie DIAMONDS...
The music of Bruno Nicolai
The music of Riz Ortolani
This show is dedicate to the music of Riz Ortolani, you will listening to the soundtrack of Fratello Sole ,Sorella luna aka Brother Sun Sister Moon...
The music from the films of Bud Spencer & Terence Hill
This show is dedicate to the music from the movies of Bud Spencer & Terence Hill. A lot of them written by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. You...
The music of Nino Rota
Nino Rota was born in Milano and is consider the greatest of the Italian film composer cause was the original and is music relationship with Federico...
The music of John Barry
John Barry was born in England is one of the most famous film composer of the 20TH Century, is popularity reach the top with the soundtracks of the...
The Christmas Show
This show is dedicate to Christmas movie music famous and obscure. Got a various selections from different films in different era. you will listening...
The music of Lalo Schifrin
The music of Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones was born in Chicago his career spans five decades in the entertainment industry In the Film world he written some great score. In this...
The great western themes
This show is dedicate to the music of the Great american western movies. You will listening to composer like ELMER BERNSTEIN,JERRY GOLDSMITH, ALFRED...
The Thanks Giving Show
This show is dedicate to the Holiday of Thanks giving through out film music of various genre in American cinema. You will listening to songs from...
The songs from great movies
This show is dedicate to great songs to famous and not so famous films you will listening to songs from TO SIR WITH LOVE 1967,BARBARELLA 1968...
The music of Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani was born in Rome, is regarded one of the most profilic Italian composer in 1970 won the Nastro D 'argento for the music of Anonimo...
The music of Luis Bacalov
Luis Enrique Bacalov is Argentinian composer,he had a very important role in writing score in Italian cinema in the 60 and 70 . This hour I will...
Armando Trovaioli was born in Rome and is consider one of the best Italian film Composer,is charming touch of create music with the fusion of exotic...
The music of Ennio Morricone volume 9
Ennio Morricone was born in Rome is consider the greatest of the Italian film composer he s written more than 400 score and still write music. This...
Amarcord Italiano
This show is dedicate to a very touching Italian score music from the 70 You will listening to very moody theme background sweet tunes. I call it...
Underground Italians score
This show is dedicate to the very obscure Italian film music of the 70. Lots of the tracks i choose for you are from various R rated film Horror,etc...
This show is dedicate to the Police italian films of the 70, great drama ,locations and much much funky music. You will listening to different score...
Police story
This show is dedicate to the music from the 70 Cops & Robbers of American cinema . You will listening to score from SUPERFLY 1972,SHAFT 1971,MCQ...
This show is dedicate to the independence day the 4th of july America celebration trough some of the greatest American Films. You will listening to...
French Cinema
This show is dedicate to some famous some obscure themes from French Films of the 60 & 70, there will be some songs as well from Mireille Mathieu...
Roma in the movies
This show is dedicate to the eternal city Rome. You will listening to some themes from famous films shot in Rome. Movies like ROMA 1972,LA DOLCE...
This show is all about the music from the Spaghetti Western genre. You will listening to the touch of maestro ENNIO MORRICONE as well others like...
Love in the Movies
This show is dedicate to Love in the movies. There been so many romantic films done in the history of cinema, but I choose one from Italy call...
Movie showcase
This second part of Stasera il cinema is dedicate to a lots of different film composer,from RIZ ORTOLANI,ENNIO MORRICONE,BERTO PISANO, and many more...
Welcome to Stasera il cinema I am Big AL and I will entertainment you with the most beautiful music ever written in films. I will explore with you...
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Aviation Education
NBAA to Honor Van Allen Group Founder Pete Agur with Doswell Award
August 7, 2018 Kim Stevens National News
Pete Agur
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has announced that it will present the organization’s John P. “Jack” Doswell Award to Pete Agur at the 2018 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), to be held Oct. 16-18, in Orlando, FL. The Doswell Award recognizes lifelong individual achievement on behalf of and in support of the aims, goals and objectives of business aviation.
Agur is the chairman and founder of The VanAllen Group, an aviation management consultancy. Prior to founding The VanAllen Group in 1993, he began his consulting career in 1985 with the Mescon Group, an organization design consulting firm.
Agur began his aviation career in 1968 as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot and safety officer. From 1973-1985, he was marketing manager and sales representative for four domestic and international airframe manufacturers.
He has served on what today are known as NBAA’s Business Aviation Management Committee and Safety Committee, and has served as chairman of an NBAA convention local committee. He was instrumental in the start of NBAA’s Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference, founded both the NBAA Leadership Conference as well as Georgia State University’s Business Aviation Leadership certification program. In 2006, he received NBAA’s Certified Aviation Manager (CAM) designation.
Agur has served on the Flight Safety Foundation’s Corporate Advisory Committee as vice chairman, and has been a member of the Society of Aerospace Communicators, as well as the Aviation Speakers Bureau. He is a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at universities, colleges and industry programs, and has had more than 100 articles published or cited in a wide variety of magazines, including FORTUNE, The Wall Street Journal, Business Aviation Management Journal, AeroSafety World, Business Aviation Safety Journal, BusinessJet Traveler, Flying Magazine, Career Pilot and Professional Pilot.
Agur holds an MBA from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical sciences from Denver’s Metropolitan State College. He holds an ATP for fixed wing, commercial helicopter and private glider ratings. He also is a former military, airline and civil flight and ground instructor.
“NBAA and the business aviation community are indebted to Pete for his lifelong dedication to the safety and growth of business aviation,” said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. “Through his extensive service on a number of NBAA committees, and his involvement with many industry safety and performance initiatives, Pete has had a positive and lasting influence on the industry.”
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Browns flirted with QBs, but went with the pass rusher. The Bengals expect his counterpart to be a rookie making his fir
Payton fondly remembers his time in the UK when he played quarterback for the Leicester Panthers in 1988 and he has been a keen observer of the growth of the game on the other side of the pond.
Martin Luther King Jr., time comes when silence is betrayal. Vegas Vic take: Time to end all the ugly. But if it’s not if the Seahawks lay yet another beatdown on the high flying Broncos that’s your clue that the Seahawks aren’t playing by science’s rules..
Until that happens, he still has a chance. 23rd St. In joined the Saginaw News fulltime staff in 1962, then became the sports editor in 1970, retiring in 1996. And sure, they’ll have to evaluate every player that has a possible head injury. That’s an average margin of not going to lose a game this season.
He started as William and. The idea came up in the negotiations that led to the 2011 labor deal between the league and union following a lockout. I pay extra for the season pass on television so I can watch every single game. Of all the activities one can enjoy in all the world, sex is easily a top 10 event.
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Family travel | Food | Fun
Sharing our Family's travel adventures with the world, hoping to inspire YOU to travel more.
Dambulla Rock Cave Temple
On 05/10/2017 By threeapoltravellers
A sacred pilgrimage site for many years, Dambulla Cave Temples have the best preserved frescoes in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist mural paintings, which covers an area of 2,100 square metres, has to be seen to be believed.
Stone steps lead up to the Temple complex
Stairway to Caves
Access to the rock is via the stairs beside the ticket office. The walk up the gentle slope leads to the entrance of the Temple complex and offers panoramic views of the surrounding areas, including Sigiriya.
Panoramic views on the walk up to the temple complex
There are five caves at the base of Dambulla Rock, all of which would have been built during the ancient times of when Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa were the capital cities of Sri Lanka.
Beautiful entrance to the Hindu cave temple
Murals make a mark on Izzy
It was here in these caves surrounded by it’s history, when the penny dropped for Izzy. Having listened attentively to our guide, she suddenly understood the significance of what she was seeing.
What a great place for a school trip!
With eyes wide open, she listened intently as we learnt of the exiled King who, with the help of the monks, took refuge in these caves for 15 years. We waked around in awe at how the murals followed the contours of the rock.
The detail of each image on the paintings, were meticulous and covered E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G! Not a spot that was missed.
Just as impressive were the many statues of Buddha that we saw. There are a total of 153 statues of Buddha, three statues of Sri Lankan Kings and a few of Hindu gods and goddesses.
The verdict from a 9-year old
When asked what she remembers most about Dambulla, she says…”that it’s so old and it’s still here! And that I stood in the same place that Kings of Sri Lanka did ages ago!”
Our afternoon at Dambulla is a perfect example of the magic of Sri Lanka. What was supposed to be a quick stop as we travelled from Passikudah to Kandy, turned out to be an amazing experience. For all of us.
Have you travelled to a cultural or historical site with kids? Are there any that they have enjoyed?
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Ground broken on first installation
Ground broken on first solar-power installation
Solar power is on its way to Marshall Elementary School.
Work has started on the first of more than 40 solar-power systems that will be installed at Tucson Unified School District schools.
The solar program represents the district's commitment to using renewable energy and reducing its carbon footprint while saving money. More than 19,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions will be averted from local power plants in the project's first full year of operation, along with 23.5 tons of nitrous oxides.
The 18-month project is expected to save TUSD approximately $170,000 in the first year and more than $11 million in energy costs over 20 years. As an added benefit, the majority of the 38,000 solar panels will be placed over playgrounds to provide shading.
Bringing solar to schools provides students with an up-close view of alternative energy at work. TUSD expects to incorporate an educational component, with the goal of encouraging students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math – or STEM.
The other schools in the first group to be "solarized" are Erickson, Gale, Henry, Soleng Tom and Wheeler elementary schools, as well as Secrist Middle School. Construction at each school is expected to last about 10 weeks.
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Shiver (Wolves of Mercy Falls #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
12:38 am 22 November 2013
I like werewolves, sadly I am not that sold on the mythology in this series.
I did truly enjoy reading it though, I couldn't really put it down, I just wanted to know what happened next.
Both Sam and Grace were easy to like. And you were very invested in their relationship, as much as the book is about werewolves, it's more about Sam and Grace and it's handled so well, and it's such an easy relationship you can't help but to like it.
They both have to deal with a lot of sadness, but it's not overwhelming to read and it's dealt with in a very true way.
The language it's written in is captivating, it's like a melody that just flows.
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It comes with the old familiar interface and categories, and even some of the same users. The internet is being used for a wide range of things these days, with everyone finding something they love on the world wide web. Shemaroo has many films available that way. Download them as a 1. This torrent site has all the Hindi movies you could possibly want. In the coming year, the Indian film industry has a lot in store: Numerous films are scheduled to hit theaters in 2019. It's not a torrent site, but I recommend YouTube for older movies.
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Rumor has it that the plot of the movie is about a tourist guide near the town of Kedarnath. The film is expected to come on January 26, 2019 in theaters. Torrent websites have become the best choice for people looking to download huge files — such as Bollywood movies — online. Extra Torrent is one of the most popular torrent sites around. The tracker was founded in 2008 and is presently increasing number of torrents and users. Nowadays, with all the competition from other torrent websites and the occasional issues they had to face, The Pirate Bay still enjoys over 5 million users and delivers an exceptional range of top-quality content. Well Torrent Well Torrent is one of the best torrent movie sites for Hindi movies.
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It will get installed on your computer in seconds and it unlocks a world filled with high-quality torrents. The release date is not fixed yet. One of the oldest torrent trackers, The Pirate Bay needs no introduction as users from all over the world access it to download all types of content. Here are some films that are definitely worth the wait for and that could turn into real box-office hits and crowd pleasers. You can find and download all the latest and greatest Hindi movies in high quality with a simple downloading process.
Our Cyber crime department is getting harsher and stricter to trace people who use torrents to download pirated illegal version you can read the full India Today article by going through below link Hotstar. Full Control Want to control the priority of downloads, where each file will be saved or even more advanced stuff like automation and remote management? It has approximately 700,000 torrents available at no cost for about 500,000 users. Torrents are also a familiar and popular choice to share files of any kind between computers. However, not everyone has the potential to be a complete success. It allows everyone to get the Hindi movies they want from dedicated Hindi torrent sites. With it you can download big files and keep all your other online activities at the same level. Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan are working together for the first time on a film.
IsoHunt was among the most popular resources for torrents with thousands of new files added each day. The biography is based on life of the Olympian Balbir Singh, shown in the film by Akshay Kumar , who was instrumental in winning the medal with his performance on the Indian hockey team. Eros also has an app and a site where one can watch older movies for free and just pay if one needs subtitles I don't know the differences between different regions, but Netflix is getting more and more Indian movies, it isn't free but a cheap legal alternative and possible to get for free trough some unions as a member benefit. Last but not least on our torrent sites list for Hindi movies is IsoHunt. Are some sites where you can download and watch movies of all genres and kind.
This torrent site has pretty much every Bollywood movie from 2011 onwards, with movies available at high quality. This alternative torrent site is best for beginners, but works great for experienced internet users as well. Here are some films that are definitely worth the wait for and that could turn into real box-office hits and crowd pleasers. I don't recommend Torrents at All. The new version is just as good, so give it a try.
If you want quality and the promise that all torrents you download are exactly what they offer, The Pirate Bay is your go-to torrent site. You can download more than just Bollywood movies as well. . Gold director Reema Kagti deals in this film with winning the first Olympic gold medal that India achieved in the first year of independence in 1948. As per the latest news you can go to jail if you are caught using torrents. It can be used to download games, movies, and software.
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Review : London Zoo
A Short Guide to Hampstead Heath
Review : Camden Market
A Short Guide to the British Museum
A Short Guide to the National History Museum
London Zoo was officially open in 1828 as the world’s first scientific zoo, it was not opened to the public until 1847. Located near to Regent’s Park, the grounds of London Zoo were designed by Decimus Burton and included a number of features including the Clock Tower, the Giraffe House and the East Tunnel that links the north and south parts of the zoo together. Later other architectural features were built including the mountain landscape of the Mappin Terraces in 1914, the Round House in 1933, The Penguin Pool in 1934 and the Snowdon Aviary in 1964.
In recent years, the Zoological Society of London which runs the Zoo have decided to concentrate more on conservation and breeding programmes and to have fewer animals and begin to build environments that was more suitable for the animals that live in them.
Highlights of the zoo include :
Land of the Lions is the latest new enclosure for London Zoo’s Asiatic lions, which opened in Spring 2016. The enclosure is designed to resemble the Gir Forest National Park in India.
Tiger Territory recreates an Indonesian habitat for its Sumatran tigers which are under threat in the wild, the successful European breeding programme has led to the birth of tiger cubs at the zoo in the last couple of years.
Gorilla Kingdom features a colony of western lowland gorillas in a purpose-built environment.
Penguin Beach recreates a South American beach landscape with a colony of Humboldt penguins (and one special rockhopper).The new exhibit features a large pool with underwater viewing areas.
Into Africa offers the opportunity to look at some of Africa’s animals including Giraffes, zebras, okapi, warthogs and African hunting dogs.
In with the Lemurs is a walk-through exhibit where visitors can get closer than ever before to ring-tail lemurs.
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Kent Monkman, Interdisciplinary
Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. He has had solo exhibitions at numerous Canadian museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal and Trepanier Baer Gallery in Calgary.
As a young artist, I was a good representational painter but I felt like that style was too easy. Instead, I adopted a pared down vocabulary that was more in line with abstract expressionists. I realized that ultimately the paintings were too personal and people were outside of the work too much. It’s almost like someone talking about their dreams–you glaze over when someone is talking about their dreams.
At that point, I started looking deeply into art history where I could deal with more layers and narratives. I wanted to be better at communicating and use a more expansive vocabulary of painting. My newest exhibition of work focuses on mythological allegories of violation to represent First Nations being violated by European settlers. For example, there’s the Greek myth where Danae is impregnated by Zeus disguised as golden coins. It’s about money and exploitation. In my painting, Miss Chief [a reoccurring character] is receiving a golden shower. It’s kind of perverted. I’m a little perverted.
I develop ideas constantly and I keep them in a log book. It’s really personal. My studio assistants haven’t even seen it. It’s just for me. There’s thoughts, ideas, visuals and concepts. I’m absorbing material from reading books and looking at art so it comes out in different ways. Actually, I should make copies of that book because if it ever disappears, I’m screwed. When I’ve gone back through the book, I realized that I’ve executed most of them into paintings or installations.
You need to have a scheduled practice to be productive. I’ve never treated by art as something I did only when I felt like it. I would never get anything done. When I started getting a lot busier, about 15 years ago, I couldn’t do everything by myself. I would spend the entire day answering emails, running errands and buying supplies. By the time I got back to the studio mid-afternoon, I was already depleted and exhausted. That was the critical turning point when I started working with assistants.
There can be misconceptions when people hear that you have studio assistants. They think, ‘Oh, he doesn’t make all of his own work.’ Actually, it’s difficult to have a team that you train and organize to help you execute your vision. Because they know how I make paintings, they can help develop the strategy for a body of work–someone is going to gesso, someone is going to stretch canvas–everything is set up and organized. We have a project that needs to be ready for 2017 and we’re already working on it. It takes times to produce a big project. The logistics of production, after all the research and conceptualization, will probably take a year.
When I need to recharge, I go to my farm in Prince Edward County. I love nature and I always wanted a place in the country but it took awhile to make it happen. I’ve always prioritized my art making. That’s been number one. I lived in my studio for many, many years and made my personal things secondary. It was only last year that I stopped living in the same place as my studio. It was time to separate because five assistants coming to your house everyday is too much. I could never take a day off. The move has increased productivity because now my team isn’t tiptoeing around my space. It’s the studio and it’s only for making art.
–Kent Monkman, as told to Studio Beat
Photos by Courtney Vokey
Visit Kent Monkman’s website here.
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Star Trek: Voyager Alumni Robert Picardo & Michael DeMeritt Join Forces For "IT'S A FRAME-UP"
By Captain Pyke | September 3, 2013 - 10:11 pm
If you're in the LaLa-Land area (Los Angeles Califor-ni-ya), be sure to swing by the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 theater to check out IT'S A FRAME UP. The Michael DeMeritt (Life After Trek Episode) co-produced short will be playing Tuesday through Thursday and features another well known Voyager alumnus, Robert Picardo. IT'S A FRAME UP features 30's slapstick comedy in the style of Abbot & Costello or better yet Benny Biffle and Sam Shooster. Check out the info below to learn more.
The movie that sets comedy back 75 years--to when it was, y'know, actually funny. Those merry madcaps of mayhem, Biffle & Shooster, are back in an all-new "made in 1938" three-reel comedy (in B&W, of course) that finds them landing jobs in an art gallery--on the very day a priceless painting has been delivered. You can figure out what happens next. Making his writing/directing debut, renowned classic film distributor and independent producer Michael Schlesinger pours his love of Old Hollywood into an authentic-as-possible recreation of the glory days of comedy teams, replete with snappy dialogue, grievous puns, plenty of slapstick, familiar-seeming character actors and even impressions--plus a plot twist or two. Who says they can’t make ‘em like they used to?
Location & Dates
laemmle's music hall 3
Tuesday, September 3rd @ 7:10 & 9:30
Wednesday, September 4rd @ 7:10 & 9:30
Thursday, September 5rd @ 7:10 & 9:30
Check out the official Laemmle's website for more details.
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The Deception of US Law in the Curious Case Against Julian Assange
Posted On : 24 December, 2010 Published By : karlsie
By Karla Fetrow
Resurrecting a Ninety Year Old Behemoth
Deception weaves a very tangled web and nobody has learned this better than those who have attempted to hide behind the policies of International affairs in order to conceal unlawful activities.� While Julian Assange remains out on bail, a furor erupts over whether or not he committed a legal infraction, and the unlawful activity of freezing his bank accounts and assets are quietly shifted into the background.� While International courts scrutinize Wikileak documentary to determine whether Assange could� be tried as an informant against the US Government for publishing classified information, assumed whistle-blower, Bradley Manning, remains in solitary confinement, after seven months in jail; charged with releasing secret documents but convicted of no wrong doing.
Public analysts for important political figures have discovered that the best way to extract yourself from a scandal is through a Hegelian Dialectic; the tactic of creating an issue to distract from the larger one; or in plain layman’s language, throwing sand in the eyes.� Recent rumors suggest that Bradley Manning has been offered a deal.� According to Ian Dunt of Politics.co.uk., the soldier allegedly responsible for passing on confidential information to Mr Assange, was offered a plea bargain if he names the Australian as a fellow conspirator.
“We have heard today from one of my US lawyers that there may be a US indictment for espionage for me coming from a secret grand jury investigation,” the Wikileaks founder told Sky News.
“There are obviously serious attempts to take down the content by taking us down as an organisation and taking me down as an individual.”
Further rumours, according to Dunt, suggest that a grand jury has been secretly assembled in Virginia to consider an indictment.
It is thought that authorities would struggle to extend the use of the Espionage Act 1917 or the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 1986 from Pte Manning to Mr Assange, as it would come up against the firmly entrenched rights to free speech in the US Constitution.
Without any evidence of him having instigated Pte Manning’s activities, Mr Assange would be under a similar legal category as the New York Times, experts say. The thought of a legal fight with the newspaper would be unthinkable for the White House.
The conservative media has been very unsympathetic in its� coverage of Bradley Manning.� A friend of who; according to “The Lid”; was a friend of “information thief, David House, a computer researcher who visits Manning regularly, that Bradley may be losing his cognitive skills due to the stress of his solitary confinement.� Snickering at the reported phrase, “poor baby”, The Lid feels Manning deserves a a court martial and up to 52 years in prison for his role in the WikiLeaks distribution, and probably extra time because he smuggled the data out via a Lady Gaga CD.
According to The Lid, “Part of a dedication to human ethics is a dedication to the rule of law. Who the hell is Manning,� to have decided on his own what could be released safely and what could not? That’s what the freedom of information act is for.� If Manning was truly interested in “human ethics,” instead of passing along the documents, he would have told his friends to file freedom of information requests for certain documents. He could have even given them general directions of what to ask for.� If the State Department refused they could have filed a lawsuit and let a judge decide.”
There is very little chance that the State Department, or even the courts of the United States would have cleared Manning’s information for publication.� Nor has any journalist or informant ever received clearance from a court first before publishing documented proof of their story.� Once again, the opposition to the Wikileaks foundation has taken refuge in legalities instead of lawful moral and ethical considerations.
Selective Prosecution
Wikileaks has not published information that could potentially harm the well-being of the general public.� It hasn’t even published anything that a great many people had not already suspected and had conveyed to each other via Internet connections.� It has only published the evidence that confirms these suspicions.� Activists in Iraq and Afghanistan had already disclaimed the military abuse of civilians before the damaging tapes were presented of helicopter air strikes.
David Edwards and Danial Tenoir, of “The Raw Story” argue that there isn’t anything that the U.S. could charge Julian Assange with without charging The New York Times as well.� The founder of WikiLeaks and the US’s pre-eminent major daily both basically did the same thing: They published confidential State Department cables allegedly stolen by Pfc. Bradley Manning.
However, Michael Mukasey, President George W. Bush’s last attorney general, the matter is clear cut: The US should prosecute Assange because it’s “easier” than prosecuting a major news outlet.� Said Mukasey, “The distinction I’m drawing is that it is easier, from a policy standpoint, to prosecute Assange. There’s a clearer case with respect to Assange. With regard to the Times, I think, just as a matter of discretion, I would hold back.”
Mukasey said he would like to see Assange prosecuted under two clauses of the 1917 Espionage Act, “one of which criminalizes the publication of defense-related information, and the other of which criminalizes the publication of classified information.”
Wall Street Journal’s Paul Gigot, pointed out that there has never been a prosecution under the 1917 Espionage Act, and that the Supreme Court has never ruled on its constitutional validity. Mukasey, who described the law as “an oldie but goodie,” was confident that the Supreme Court would uphold it as a reasonable limitation on freedom of speech.
Iceland Thaws Wikileak’s Frozen Assets
This reasonable limitation of free speech would probably never have brought to the surface the guilt behind the perpetrators of the Icesave scandal.� In an August 9th, 2009 article, Iceland announced Wikileaks had made the nightly news by revealing documentation of the Kaupthing reports.� Two days later, Herdis Sigurgisdottir of Associated Press announced from Reykjavik, Iceland – “A court in Iceland lifted a gag order Tuesday that allowed Kaupthing Bank to prevent media coverage of a leaked file that discloses details of the bank’s weak position shortly before it collapsed in October.
The Reykjavik district magistrate lifted the order only hours after Kaupthing itself yielded to public pressure to stop pushing for the ban. The injunction had forbidden further coverage of a risk analysis report that had been leaked via the WikiLeaks whistleblower Web site.”
Jon Jonson of Slashdot wrote of August 2nd of the year, “Information from the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing has been leaked to WikiLeaks, revealing billions in insider loans, and the bank has been working day and night to censor the information contained in the document. Last night at 6:55pm GMT, they served an injunction against the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, five minutes before the 7pm news was due to be aired. The TV station just displayed the WikiLeaks URL instead. They’ve also injuncted Iceland’s national radio, banning all discussion about the contents of the document, and they are actively trying to censor the rest of the Icelandic media along with WikiLeaks.”
Several months later, Wikileaks again published confidential information� concerning the negotiations between Iceland and their financiers in London and Holland, in a January 13th 2010, dispatch between the Amembassey Reykjavik and the United States Treasury.� The country urged the United States to be supportive of Iceland in its attempts to renegotiate a fair loan payment plan with lowered interest rates, while the response of the US Treasury was that it felt is was wisest to remain neutral.� The two officials, Gunnarsson and Burgess responded that they understood the United States’ stated position of neutrality on the issue; however, they expressed the view that it was impossible to remain neutral regarding the Icesave matter. Iceland, they said, was being bullied by two much larger powers and a position of neutrality was tantamount to watching the bullying take place. They suggested that a public statement from the U.S. in support of Iceland
would be very helpful. They also felt that U.S. intervention in the IMF could be of assistance, specifically if it was targeted at getting Iceland’s review placed on the IMF agenda. Gunnarsson acknowledged that U.S. support during the review was appreciated but, realistically, the issue would never make it on the agenda unless external pressure was applied on the IMF.
External pressure was never applied.� On June 16th, Iceland announced that it says yes to Wikileak law.� Iceland’s government and parliament, the Al�ing,� voted for the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), a law co-developed with whistleblowing website Wikileaks. The law is posed to turn Iceland into a press haven for journalists worldwide, as it is combines best-practice legislation from around the world in a legislative package designed to protect sources and whistleblowers.
The victim of an International crime had suddenly become the defender of the Wikileaks foundation.� Earlier this month, France was introduced to an online� web site with a game called, Wikileaks.� After only a few days of being online, millions of people had played the game, making it an instant hit. The game was designed by Icelander, Thorir Aron Stefansson and his Dutch colleague, Sebastiaan Moeys. In WikiLeaks: The Game, the player assumes the role of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hiding behind President Obama’s desk. The player must then manipulate the Assange character to smuggle secret documents from Obama’s laptop onto a USB drive as the president falls asleep.
Moeys said, “We didn’t plan for this to be a smash hit. We created it as a sort of joke, a social commentary on a developing story.” According to Moeys, the WikiLeaks game has been so popular that the site’s servers have been under strain. “We had a really difficult time keeping everything online,” added Moeys.
According to DV, the WikiLeaks game has received international attention with news websites such as CNN, CNBC Wall Street Journal and other major media covering the story.
Iceland has also taken on the giant credit card companies.� In a December 12th publication of the Democratic Underground, a news bulletin declares, “Representatives from Mastercard and Visa were called before a parliamentary committee to explain the credit companies’ refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.
“People wanted to know on what legal grounds the ban was taken, but no one could answer it,” said Robert Marshall, chairman of Iceland’s allsherjanefnd, according to the Reykjavik Grapevine.
Vidar Thorkelsson, CEO of Valitor, which operates Visa and Mastercard in Iceland, said the Icelandic branch had nothing to do with the decision.
Meanwhile, DataCell, the Icelandic-Swiss web host is reporting that donations to Wikileaks have increased in recent days, despite the actions of Mastercard and Visa. The web host has been processing direct bank transfers to help facilitate the donations.”
A tiny country is big in heart, makes US seem shriveled in comparison.
Quote from Democratic Underground
The attempts to stifle Wikileaks have been shabby, filled with unveiled threats and liberally sprinkled with cloak and dagger tactics.� On June 6, Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he “boasted” in an Internet chat — with convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo — of leaking to WikiLeaks the now famous Apache Helicopter attack video, a yet-to-be-published video of a civilian-killing air attack in Afghanistan, and “hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records.”� Lamo, who holds himself out as a “journalist” and told Manning he was one, acted instead as government informant, notifying federal authorities of what Manning allegedly told him, and then proceeded to question Manning for days as he met with federal agents, leading to Manning’s detention.
On June 10, former New York Times reporter Philip Shenon, writing in The Daily Beast, gave voice to anonymous “American officials” to announce that “Pentagon investigators” were trying “to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks [Julian Assange] for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security.”� Some news outlets used that report to declare that there was a “Pentagon manhunt” underway for Assange — as though he’s some sort of dangerous fugitive.
The Hegelian Dialectic is not working this time.� In order for the US Government to prosecute Bradley Manning, it must first acknowledge complicity and cover up in the murder of innocent civilians.� In order for the US Government to pursue charges against Julian Assange, based on a ninety year old, never before practiced mandate, it must first drop all pretenses of representing a democracy upholding basic human rights, which include freedom of press and freedom of speech.� It must live with its lies and live with the fact that we know it is lying.� The web is tangled, but the weavers are not invisible.� They leave a trail of evidence in broken lives, bankrupt countries and political persecutions.� While the militant propaganda machine of the conservative right lifts a heavy hand to throttle the voices of civil liberties, the rest of the world will be watching.� It has already seen the failure of America to stabilize its economy.� It has seen the failure of America to provide its inhabitants with adequate health care.� It has seen the failure of America to use non-invasive policies in International affairs.� It might yet also witness America’s failure to protect freedom of speech.� What is legal is not always lawful.� What is lawful, we should always remember as guardians of truth for a humanitarian society.
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http://www.techeye.net/internet/iceland-says-yes-to-wikileaks-law
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Laurie Bowen says:
karlsie, nice job, very infomative, thankyou for for the posting.
The Late Mitchell Warren says:
27 December, 2010 at 2:48 am
What a shameful story, but indeed, great coverage Karlsie. I’m glad that people like you are staying on top of this story and showing what rotten eggs the US government is turning out to be. People really don’t change…and the United States never stopped being the McCarthyistic, bully, power-hungry monster that it was has been since the mid 20th century.
karlsie says:
Laurie, thank you for your feedback. While my viewpoint isn’t always agreeable to American flag wavers, i’ve never been an advocate of “my country, right or wrong”. If the country is wrong, we have the tools within our Constitution to fix it and make it right. To do otherwise, we are traitors to the precepts visualized and laid down by our forefathers.
Mitch, any story that gets shuffled into the back corners of mainstream media wakes my watch dog instincts. While i was just a little too young for the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement to have a strong effect on me, Watergate certainly did. My father was an avid supporter of Nixon, until his dirty laundry was put out on display. When Woodward and Bernstein began publishing the Watergate documents and the significance of the affair marched into public view, his belief in the US Government as a noble and fair acting institute, shattered. His belief in the power of the vote dwindled. He sought and gained retirement from his high ranking job with the civil service, a full six years early. He never again showed a strong interest in politics.
I think it’s significant that the McCarthy era has been downplayed quite a bit in recent years. His reign of power would have continued indefinitely if the press had not stepped up to the plate to denounce his actions. I don’t take a great deal of interest in personal skeletons lurking in the closet unless those skeletons have an effect on society. In this case, the skeletons that might be lurking in Assange’s closet are very minor compared to those within the U.S. Government. America has the right to know why our youth are being sacrificed overseas. It has the right to know how the monetary interests of major banks and corporations have affected the global economy. It has the right to know how devious and subtle policies are affecting the freedom of press. If America shrugs its shoulders and says it doesn’t care, it has just surrendered its most powerful weapon into the hands of tyranny.
Jefferson Tallada says:
5 January, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Keep it up Julian Assange – no-one else has exposed as much deceit.
Christian Hauer says:
You’ve come too far to surrender to the demands of the lunatic republican fringe!
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News City Arts Music Culture The 7th Annual Summer Festival Guide
EPIC MOMENTS FOR PERFORMERS AND AUDIENCES
41st Winnipeg Folk Festival opens with locals and celebrates 50th anniversary of Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant
Doug Kretchmer Volunteer
The first Winnipeg Folk Festival (WFF) was started by Mitch Podolak, Colin Gorrie and Ava Kobrinsky to celebrate Winnipeg's Centennial in 1974. The festival has grown immensely over the years and has attracted folkies from all over the world.
With attendance reaching 80,000 over the course of the weekend, the festival was a four day event until 2009 when the organizers started a day earlier on Wednesday for Elvis Costello. This year the WFF is back to a four day stint starting on Thursday, July 9.
This year's festival will see 69 performers on 10 stages, including Arlo Guthrie performing his epic album <i>Alice's Restaurant</i>, which he released 50 years ago.
“I didn’t think I was gonna live long enough to have to learn <i>Alice’s Restaurant</i> again,” Guthrie says. “It was a quirky kinda thing to begin with. Nobody writes an 18-minute monologue expecting fame and fortune...I’m surely looking forward to adding it to the repertoire though for the 50th Anniversary Tour.”
The daytime stages feature workshops and themed performances by artists who jam with other musicians who they might not otherwise play with. There have been many magical moments on those stages over the years. You never know what's going to happen.
“The artists that we have booked really capture the spirit of the contemporary folk scene going on there right now,” artistic director Chris Frayer says.
This year there are 17 main stage acts, starting off with Winnipeg band Mariachi Ghost. "We are very thankful for our selection. The Winnipeg Folk Festival has been an enormous part of our youth. We have seen acts that we admire on that stage and this booking feels like an enormous victory,” Jorge Requena (vocalist/guitarist for Mariachi Ghost) says.
“This day will part our music life as the before and the after. That stage is a dream come true. And we will do Winnipeg proud. We promise."
Other main stage acts include Arlo Guthrie, Wilco, Steeleye Span, Shakey Graves and Nahko and Medicine For The People. You'll also hear bluegrass, celtic, world, blues, roots, indie folk, americana, folk rock, gospel, old time, contemporary singer-songwriters, and children's performers.
In the children's area, as well as arts and crafts and activities for the little ones, they also have the Chickadee Big Top, where world class performers entertain the young and the young at heart. Children's favourite Lulu and the Tomcat will be one of the acts on stage this year.
On-site food vendors sell a variety of meals with an emphasis on local, organic and fair trade ingredients, which are served on reusable plates. Artisans will also be selling their unique wares in the Hand Made Village.
An army of 3,000 volunteers help facilitate the festival doing everything from cooking for the musicians, staff and other volunteers to assisting concert goers. The volunteers are a huge part of the festival.
Doreen Wardale, who along with husband Len volunteered for more than 30 years, described her experience as a volunteer as a “very cathartic, wonderful, peaceful experience.” While the Wardales have retired, their two daughters have volunteered over the years and this year their grandson will start as a volunteer apprentice.
Two campgrounds are not far from the festival site - a quiet campground as well as a festival campground for the partiers. The Times Change(d) will have a live music tent in the campground this year, and the The Flaming Trolleys Marching Band will be back as well, parading through the campground.
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ROGER A. LANGE
Roger A. Lange, 65, of Green Lane, died August 8, 2012.
Born in Hebron, IL, he was a son of the late Gerhart and Mariellen (King) Lange.
He grew up on the family farm. He was a Platinum Principal Consultant for SAP America in Newtown Square. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sumneytown, where he was a past member of the choir, church council and music committee. His favorite pasttime was reading and he owned many books. He enjoyed old time music and played banjo, recorder, and autoharp. He was a Ham Radio operator. He was a member of the Green Lane-Marlboro Lions Club.
Surviving is his only child, Christine E. Lange, of Paradise, and her mother, Camilla Lange, of Pottstown; his siblings: Gayle Puhl, of Evanville, Wisconsin, Lore Memmen, of DesPlains, Illinois and Henry Lange, of Bangor, Wisconsin. He was predeceased by siblings: Barbara Behrens, John Lange, and Gene Lange.
Memorial services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 25 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sumneytown. Friends may call from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Interment will be in the family plot at Linn-Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, Illinois, at a later date.
The Falk Funeral Homes & Crematory, Pennsburg, is in charge of arrangements.
Contributions may be made in his memory to St. John’s Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 255, Sumneytown, PA 18084, or to the Camphill Special School, 1784 Fairview Road, Glenmoore, PA 19454.
To offer on-line condolences, please visit www.falkfuneralhomes.com.
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Hairspray Jr. for Non-Diverse School?
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Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > H > Heresy
I. Connotation and Definition
II. Distinctions
III. Degrees of heresy
IV. Gravity of the sin of heresy
V. Origin, spread, and persistence of heresy
VI. Christ, the Apostles, and the Fathers on heresy
VII. Vindication of their teaching
VIII. Church legislation on heresy: ancient, medieval, present-day legislation
IX. Its principles
X. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction over heretics
XI. Reception of converts
XII. Role of heresy in history
XIII. Intolerance and cruelty
Connotation and definition
The term heresy connotes, etymologically, both a choice and the thing chosen, the meaning being, however, narrowed to the selection of religious or political doctrines, adhesion to parties in Church or State.
Josephus applies the name (airesis) to the three religious sects prevalent in Judea since the Machabean period: the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the Essenes (Bel. Jud., II, viii, 1; Ant., XIII, v, 9). St. Paul is described to the Roman governor Felix as the leader of the heresy (aireseos) of the Nazarenes (Acts 24:5); the Jews in Rome say to the same Apostle: "Concerning this sect [airesoeos], we know that it is everywhere contradicted" (Acts 28:22). St. Justin (Dialogue with Trypho 18) uses airesis in the same sense. St. Peter (II, ii, 1) applies the term to Christian sects: "There shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition [aireseis apoleias]". In later Greek, philosophers' schools, as well as religious sects, are "heresies".
St. Thomas (II-II:11:1) defines heresy: "a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas". "The right Christian faith consists in giving one's voluntary assent to Christ in all that truly belongs to His teaching. There are, therefore, two ways of deviating from Christianity: the one by refusing to believe in Christ Himself, which is the way of infidelity, common to Pagans and Jews; the other by restricting belief to certain points of Christ's doctrine selected and fashioned at pleasure, which is the way of heretics. The subject-matter of both faith and heresy is, therefore, the deposit of the faith, that is, the sum total of truths revealed in Scripture and Tradition as proposed to our belief by the Church. The believer accepts the whole deposit as proposed by the Church; the heretic accepts only such parts of it as commend themselves to his own approval. The heretical tenets may be ignorance of the true creed, erroneous judgment, imperfect apprehension and comprehension of dogmas: in none of these does the will play an appreciable part, wherefore one of the necessary conditions of sinfulness--free choice--is wanting and such heresy is merely objective, or material. On the other hand the will may freely incline the intellect to adhere to tenets declared false by the Divine teaching authority of the Church. The impelling motives are many: intellectual pride or exaggerated reliance on one's own insight; the illusions of religious zeal; the allurements of political or ecclesiastical power; the ties of material interests and personal status; and perhaps others more dishonourable. Heresy thus willed is imputable to the subject and carries with it a varying degree of guilt; it is called formal, because to the material error it adds the informative element of "freely willed".
Pertinacity, that is, obstinate adhesion to a particular tenet is required to make heresy formal. For as long as one remains willing to submit to the Church's decision he remains a Catholic Christian at heart and his wrong beliefs are only transient errors and fleeting opinions. Considering that the human intellect can assent only to truth, real or apparent, studied pertinacity as distinct from wanton opposition supposes a firm subjective conviction which may be sufficient to inform the conscience and create "good faith". Such firm convictions result either from circumstances over which the heretic has no control or from intellectual delinquencies in themselves more or less voluntary and imputable. A man born and nurtured in heretical surroundings may live and die without ever having a doubt as to the truth of his creed. On the other hand a born Catholic may allow himself to drift into whirls of anti-Catholic thought from which no doctrinal authority can rescue him, and where his mind becomes incrusted with convictions, or considerations sufficiently powerful to overlay his Catholic conscience. It is not for man, but for Him who searcheth the mind and heart, to sit in judgment on the guilt which attaches to an heretical conscience.
Heresy differs from apostasy. The apostate a fide abandons wholly the faith of Christ either by embracing Judaism, Islamism, Paganism, or simply by falling into naturalism and complete neglect of religion; the heretic always retains faith in Christ. Heresy also differs from schism. Schismatics, says St. Thomas, in the strict sense, are they who of their own will and intention separate themselves from the unity of the Church. The unity of the Church consists in the connection of its members with each other and of all the members with the head. Now this head is Christ whose representative in the Church is the supreme pontiff. And therefore the name of schismatics is given to those who will not submit to the supreme pontiff nor communicate with the members of the Church subject to him. Since the definition of Papal Infallibility, schism usually implies the heresy of denying this dogma. Heresy is opposed to faith; schism to charity; so that, although all heretics are schismatics because loss of faith involves separation from the Church, not all schismatics are necessarily heretics, since a man may, from anger, pride, ambition, or the like, sever himself from the communion of the Church and yet believe all the Church proposes for our belief (II-II, Q. xxix, a. 1). Such a one, however, would be more properly called rebellious than heretical.
Degrees of heresy
Both matter and form of heresy admit of degrees which find expression in the following technical formula of theology and canon law. Pertinacious adhesion to a doctrine contradictory to a point of faith clearly defined by the Church is heresy pure and simple, heresy in the first degree. But if the doctrine in question has not been expressly "defined" or is not clearly proposed as an article of faith in the ordinary, authorized teaching of the Church, an opinion opposed to it is styled sententia haeresi proxima, that is, an opinion approaching heresy. Next, a doctrinal proposition, without directly contradicting a received dogma, may yet involve logical consequences at variance with revealed truth. Such a proposition is not heretical, it is a propositio theologice erronea, that is, erroneous in theology. Further, the opposition to an article of faith may not be strictly demonstrable, but only reach a certain degree of probability. In that case the doctrine is termed sententia de haeresi suspecta, haeresim sapiens; that is, an opinion suspected, or savouring, of heresy (see THEOLOGICAL CENSURES).
Gravity of the sin of heresy
Heresy is a sin because of its nature it is destructive of the virtue of Christian faith. Its malice is to be measured therefore by the excellence of the good gift of which it deprives the soul. Now faith is the most precious possession of man, the root of his supernatural life, the pledge of his eternal salvation. Privation of faith is therefore the greatest evil, and deliberate rejection of faith is the greatest sin. St. Thomas (II-II, Q. x, a. 3) arrives at the same conclusion thus: "All sin is an aversion from God. A sin, therefore, is the greater the more it separates man from God. But infidelity does this more than any other sin, for the infidel (unbeliever) is without the true knowledge of God: his false knowledge does not bring him help, for what he opines is not God: manifestly, then, the sin of unbelief ( infidelitas) is the greatest sin in the whole range of perversity." And he adds: "Although the Gentiles err in more things than the Jews, and although the Jews are farther removed from true faith than heretics, yet the unbelief of the Jews is a more grievous sin than that of the Gentiles, because they corrupt the Gospel itself after having adopted and professed the same. . . . It is a more serious sin not to perform what one has promised than not to perform what one has not promised." It cannot be pleaded in attenuation of the guilt of heresy that heretics do not deny the faith which to them appears necessary to salvation, but only such articles as they consider not to belong to the original deposit. In answer it suffices to remark that two of the most evident truths of the depositum fidei are the unity of the Church and the institution of a teaching authority to maintain that unity. That unity exists in the Catholic Church, and is preserved by the function of her teaching body: these are two facts which anyone can verify for himself. In the constitution of the Church there is no room for private judgment sorting essentials from non-essentials: any such selection disturbs the unity, and challenges the Divine authority, of the Church; it strikes at the very source of faith. The guilt of heresy is measured not so much by its subject-matter as by its formal principle, which is the same in all heresies: revolt against a Divinely constituted authority.
Origin, spread, and persistence of heresy
Origin of heresy
The origin, the spread, and the persistence of heresy are due to different causes and influenced by many external circumstances. The undoing of faith infused and fostered by God Himself is possible on account of the human element in it, namely man's free will. The will determines the act of faith freely because its moral dispositions move it to obey God, whilst the non-cogency of the motives of credibility allows it to withhold its consent and leaves room for doubt and even denial. The non-cogency of the motives of credibility may arise from three causes: the obscurity of the Divine testimony ( inevidentia attestantis); the obscurity of the contents of Revelation; the opposition between the obligations imposed on us by faith and the evil inclinations of our corrupt nature. To find out how a man's free will is led to withdraw from the faith once professed, the best way is observation of historical cases. Pius X, scrutinizing the causes of Modernism, says: "The proximate cause is, without any doubt, an error of the mind. The remoter causes are two: curiosity and pride. Curiosity, unless wisely held in bounds, is of itself sufficient to account for all errors. . . . But far more effective in obscuring the mind and leading it into error is pride, which has, as it were, its home in Modernist doctrines. Through pride the Modernists overestimate themselves. . . . We are not like other men . . . they reject all submission to authority . . . they pose as reformers. If from moral causes we pass to the intellectual, the first and most powerful is ignorance . . . . They extol modern philosophy . . . . completely ignoring the philosophy of the Schools and thus depriving themselves of the means of clearing away the confusion of their ideas and of meeting sophisms. Their system, replete with so many errors, had its origin in the wedding of false philosophy with faith" (Encycl. "Pascendi", 8 September, 1907).
So far the pope. If now we turn to the Modernist leaders for an account of their defections, we find none attributing it to pride or arrogance, but they are almost unanimous in allowing that curiosity--the desire to know how the old faith stands in relation to the new science--has been the motive power behind them. In the last instance, they appeal to the sacred voice of their individual conscience which forbids them outwardly to profess what inwardly they honestly hold to be untrue. Loisy, to whose case the Decree "Lamentabili" applies, tells his readers that he was brought to his present position "by his studies chiefly devoted to the history of the Bible, of Christian origins and of comparative religion". Tyrrell says in self-defence: "It is the irresistible facts concerning the origin and composition of the Old and New Testaments; concerning the origin of the Christian Church, of its hierarchy, its institutions, its dogmas; concerning the gradual development of the papacy; concerning the history of religion in general--that create a difficulty against which the synthesis of scholastic theology must be and is already shattered to pieces." "I am able to put my finger on the exact point or moment in my experience from which my 'immanentism' took its rise. In his 'Rules for the discernment of Spirits' . . . Ignatius of Loyola says . . . etc." It is psychologically interesting to note the turning-point or rather the breaking-point of faith in the autobiographies of seceders from the Church. A study of the personal narratives in "Roads to Rome" and "Roads from Rome" leaves one with the impression that the heart of man is a sanctuary impenetrable to all but to God and, in a certain measure, to its owner. It is, therefore, advisable to leave individuals to themselves and to study the spread of heresy, or the origin of heretical societies.
Spread of heresy
The growth of heresy, like the growth of plants, depends on surrounding influences, even more than on its vital force. Philosophies, religious ideals and aspirations, social and economic conditions, are brought into contact with revealed truth, and from the impact result both new affirmations and new negations of the traditional doctrine.
The first requisite for success is a forceful man, not necessarily of great intellect and learning, but of strong will and daring action. Such were the men who in all ages have given their names to new sects.
The second requisite is accommodation of the new doctrine to the contemporary mentality, to social and political conditions.
The last, but by no means the least, is the support of secular rulers.
A strong man in touch with his time, and supported by material force, may deform the existing religion and build up a new heretical sect. Modernism fails to combine into a body separate from the Church because it lacks an acknowledged leader, because it appeals to only a small minority of contemporary minds, namely, to a small number who are dissatisfied with the Church as she now is, and because no secular power lends it support. For the same reason, and proportionately, a thousand small sects have failed, whose names still encumber the pages of church history, but whose tenets interest only a few students, and whose adherents are nowhere. Such were, in the Apostolic Age, the Judeo-Christians, Judeo-Gnostics, Nicolaites, Docetae, Cerinthians, Ebionites, Nazarenes, followed, in the next two centuries, by a variety of Syrian and Alexandrian Gnostics, by Ophites, Marcionites, Encratites, Montanists, Manichæans, and others. All the early Eastern sects fed on the fanciful speculations so dear to the Eastern mind, but, lacking the support of temporal power, they disappeared under the anathemas of the guardians of the depositum fidei.
Arianism is the first heresy that gained a strong footing in the Church and seriously endangered its very nature and existence. Arius appeared on the scene when theologians were endeavouring to harmonize the apparently contradictory doctrines of the unity of God and the Divinity of Christ. Instead of unravelling the knot, he simply cut it by bluntly asserting that Christ was not God like the Father, but a creature made in time. The simplicity of the solution, the ostentatious zeal of Arius for the defence of the "one God", his mode of life, his learning and dialectic ability won many to his side.
In particular he was supported by the famous Eusebius of Nicomedia who had great influence on the Emperor Constantine. He had friends among the other bishops of Asia and even among the bishops, priests, and nuns of the Alexandrian province. He gained the favour of Constantia, the emperor's sister, and he disseminated his doctrine among the people by means of his notorious book which he called thaleia or 'Entertainment' and by songs adapted for sailors, millers, and travellers. (Addis and Arnold, "A Catholic Dictionary", 7th ed., 1905, 54.)
The Council of Nicaea anathematized the heresiarch, but its anathemas, like all the efforts of the Catholic bishops, were nullified by interference of the civil power. Constantine and his sister protected Arius and the Arians, and the next emperor, Constantius, assured the triumph of the heresy: the Catholics were reduced to silence by dire persecution. At once an internecine conflict began within the Arian pale, for heresy, lacking the internal cohesive element of authority, can only be held together by coercion either from friend or foe. Sects sprang up rapidly: they are known as Eunomians, Anomoeans, Exucontians, Semi-Arians, Acacians. The Emperor Valens (364-378) lent his powerful support to the Arians, and the peace of the Church was only secured when the orthodox Emperor Theodosius reversed the policy of his predecessors and sided with Rome. Within the boundaries of the Roman empire the faith of Nicaea, enforced again by the General Council of Constantinople (381), prevailed, but Arianism held its own for over two hundred years longer wherever the Arian Goths held sway: in Thrace, Italy, Africa, Spain, Gaul. The conversion of King Recared of Spain, who began to reign in 586, marked the end of Arianism in his dominions, and the triumph of the Catholic Franks sealed the doom of Arianism everywhere.
Pelagianism, not being backed by political power, was without much difficulty removed from the Church. Eutychianism, Nestorianism, and other Christological heresies which followed one upon another as the link, of a chain, flourished only so long and so far as the temporal power of Byzantine and Persian rulers gave them countenance. Internal dissension, stagnation, and decay became their fate when left to themselves.
Passing over the great schism that rent East from West, and the many smaller heresies which sprang up in the Middle Ages without leaving a deep impression on the Church, we arrive at the modern sects which date from Luther and go by the collective name of Protestantism. The three elements of success possessed by Arianism reappear in Lutheranism and cause these two great religious upheavals to move on almost parallel lines. Luther was eminently a man of his people: the rough-hewn, but, withal sterling, qualities of the Saxon peasant lived forth under his religious habit and doctor's gown; his winning voice, his piety, his learning raised him above his fellows yet did not estrange him from the people: his conviviality, the crudities in his conversation and preaching, his many human weaknesses only increased his popularity. When the Dominican John Tetzel began to preach in Germany the indulgences proclaimed by Pope Leo X for those who contributed to the completion of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, opposition arose on the part of the people and of both civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Luther set the match to the fuel of widespread discontent. He at once gained a number of adherents powerful both in Church and State; the Bishop of Würzburg recommended him to the protection of the Elector Frederick of Saxony. In all probability Luther started on his crusade with the laudable intention of reforming undoubted abuses. But his unexpected success, his impetuous temper, perhaps some ambition, soon carried him beyond all bounds set by the Church. By 1521, that is within four years from his attack on abuse of indulgences, he had propagated a new doctrine; the Bible was the only source of faith; human nature was wholly corrupted by original sin, man was not free, God was responsible for all human actions good and bad; faith alone saved; the Christian priesthood was not confined to the hierarchy but included all the faithful. The masses of the people were not slow in drawing from these doctrines the practical conclusion that sin was sin no longer, was, in fact, equal to a good work.
With his appeal to the lower instincts of human nature went an equally strong appeal to the spirit of nationality and greed. He endeavored to set the German emperor against the Roman pope and generally the Teuton against the Latin; he invited the secular princes to confiscate the property of the Church. His voice was heard only too well. For the next 130 years the history of the German people is a record of religious strife, moral degradation, artistic retrogression, industrial breakdown; of civil wars, pillage, devastation, and general ruin. The Peace of 1648 established the principle: Cujus regio illius et religio; the lord of the land shall be also lord of religion. And accordingly territorial limits became religious limits within which the inhabitant had to profess and practise the faith imposed on him by the ruler. It is worthy of remark that the geographical frontier fixed by the politicians of 1648 is still the dividing line between Catholicism and Protestantism in Germany. The English Reformation, more than any other, was the work of crafty politicians. The soil had been prepared for it by the Lollards or Wycliffites, who at the beginning of the sixteenth century were still numerous in the towns. No English Luther arose, but the unholy work was thoroughly done by kings and parliaments, by means of a series of penal laws unequalled in severity.
Persistence of heresy
We have seen how heresy originates and how it spreads; we must now answer the question why it persists, or why so many persevere in heresy. Once heresy is in possession, it tightens its grip by the thousand subtle and often unconscious influences which mould a man's life. A child is born in heretical surroundings: before it is able to think for itself its mind has been filled and fashioned by home, school, and church teachings, the authority of which it never doubted. When, at a riper age, doubts arise, the truth of Catholicism is seldom apprehended as it is. Innate prejudices, educational bias, historical distortions stand in the way and frequently make approach impossible. The state of conscience technically termed bona fides, good faith, is thus produced. It implies inculpable belief in error, a mistake morally unavoidable and therefore always excusable, sometimes even laudable. In the absence of good faith worldly interests often bar the way from heresy to truth. When a government, for instance, reserves its favours and functions for adherents of the state religion, the army of civil servants becomes a more powerful body of missionaries than the ordained ministers. Prussia, France, and Russia are cases in point.
Christ, the apostles, and the fathers on heresy
Heresy, in the sense of falling away from the Faith, became possible only after the Faith had been promulgated by Christ. Its advent is clearly foretold, Matthew 24:11, 23-26: " . . . many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. . . . Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. For there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not." Christ also indicated the marks by which to know the false prophets: "Who is not with me is against me" (Luke 11:23); "and if he will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican" (Matthew 18:17); "he that believeth not shall be condemned" (Mark 16:16). The Apostles acted upon their Master's directions. All the weight of their own Divine faith and mission is brought to bear upon innovators. "If any one", says St. Paul, "preach to you a gospel, besides that you have received, let him be anathema" (Galatians 1:9). To St. John the heretic is a seducer, an antichrist, a man who dissolves Christ (1 John 4:3; 2 John 7); "receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you" (2 John 10). St. Peter, true to his office and to his impetuous nature, assails them as with a two-edged sword: " . . . lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction . . . These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved" (2 Peter 2:1, 17). St. Jude speaks in a similar strain throughout his whole epistle. St. Paul admonishes the disturbers of the unity of faith at Corinth that "the weapons of our warfare . . . are mighty to God unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, and every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God . . . and having in readiness to revenge all disobedience" (2 Corinthians 10:4, 5, 6).
What Paul did at Corinth he enjoins to be done by every bishop in his own church. Thus Timothy is instructed to "war in them a good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme" (1 Timothy 1:18-20). He exhorts the ancients of the Church at Ephesus to "take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God, . . . I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock . . . Therefore watch, . . ." (Acts 20:28-31). "Beware of dogs", he writes to the Philippians (3:2), the dogs being the same false teachers as the "ravening wolves". The Fathers show no more leniency to perverters of the faith. A Protestant writer thus sketches their teaching (Schaff-Herzog, s.v. Heresy): "Polycarp regarded Marcion as the first-born of the Devil. Ignatius sees in heretics poisonous plants, or animals in human form. Justin and Tertullian condemn their errors as inspirations of the Evil One; Theophilus compares them to barren and rocky islands on which ships are wrecked; and Origen says, that as pirates place lights on cliffs to allure and destroy vessels in quest of refuge, so the Prince of this world lights the fires of false knowledge in order to destroy men. [Jerome calls the congregations of the heretics synagogues of Satan (Ep. 123), and says their communion is to be avoided like that of vipers and scorpions (Ep. 130).]" These primitive views on heresy have been faithfully transmitted and acted on by the Church in subsequent ages. There is no break in the tradition from St. Peter to Pius X.
Vindication of their teaching
The first law of life, be it the life of plant or animal, of man or of a society of men, is self-preservation. Neglect of self-preservation leads to ruin and destruction. But the life of a religious society, the tissue that binds its members into one body and animates them with one soul, is the symbol of faith, the creed or confession adhered to as a condition sine qua non of membership. To undo the creed is to undo the Church. The integrity of the rule of faith is more essential to the cohesion of a religious society than the strict practice of its moral precepts. For faith supplies the means of mending moral delinquencies as one of its ordinary functions, whereas the loss of faith, cutting at the root of spiritual life, is usually fatal to the soul. In fact the long list of heresiarchs contains the name of only one who came to resipiscence: Berengarius. The jealousy with which the Church guards and defends her deposit of faith is therefore identical with the instinctive duty of self-preservation and the desire to live. This instinct is by no means peculiar to the Catholic Church; being natural it is universal. All sects, denominations, confessions, schools of thought, and associations of any kind have a more or less comprehensive set of tenets on the acceptance of which membership depends. In the Catholic Church this natural law has received the sanction of Divine promulgation, as appears from the teaching of Christ and the Apostles quoted above. Freedom of thought extending to the essential beliefs of a Church is in itself a contradiction; for, by accepting membership, the members accept the essential beliefs and renounce their freedom of thought so far as these are concerned.
But what authority is to lay down the law as to what is or is not essential? It is certainly not the authority of individuals. By entering a society, whichever it be, the individual gives up part of his individuality to be merged into the community. And that part is precisely his private judgment on the essentials: if he resumes his liberty he ipso facto separates himself from his church. The decision, therefore, rests with the constitutional authority of the society--in the Church with the hierarchy acting as teacher and guardian of the faith. Nor can it be said that this principle unduly curtails the play of human reason. That it does curtail its play is a fact, but a fact grounded in natural and Divine law, as shown above. That it does not curtail reason unduly is evidenced by this other fact: that the deposit of faith (1) is itself an inexhaustible object of intellectual effort of the noblest kind, lifting human reason above its natural sphere, enlarging and deepening its outlook, soliciting its finest faculties; (2) that, side by side with the deposit, but logically connected with it, there is a multitude of doubtful points of which discussion is free within the wide bounds of charity--"in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus charitas." The substitution of private judgment for the teaching magisterium has been the dissolvent of all sects who have adopted it. Only those sects exhibit a certain consistency in which private judgment is a dead letter and the teaching is carried on according to confessions and catechisms by a trained clergy.
Church legislation on heresy
Heresy, being a deadly poison generated within the organism of the Church, must be ejected if she is to live and perform her task of continuing Christ's work of salvation. Her Founder, who foretold the disease, also provided the remedy: He endowed her teaching with infallibility (see CHURCH). The office of teaching belongs to the hierarchy, the ecclesia docens, which, under certain conditions, judges without appeal in matters of faith and morals (see COUNCILS). Infallible decisions can also be given by the pope teaching ex cathedra (see INFALLIBILITY). Each pastor in his parish, each bishop in his diocese, is in duty bound to keep the faith of his flock untainted; to the supreme pastor of all the Churches is given the office of feeding the whole Christian flock. The power, then, of expelling heresy is an essential factor in the constitution of the Church. Like other powers and rights, the power of rejecting heresy adapts itself in practice to circumstances of time and place, and, especially, of social and political conditions. At the beginning it worked without special organization. The ancient discipline charged the bishops with the duty of searching out the heresies in their diocese and checking the progress of error by any means at their command. When erroneous doctrines gathered volume and threatened disruption of the Church, the bishops assembled in councils, provincial, metropolitan, national, or ecumenical. There the combined weight of their authority was brought to bear upon the false doctrines. The first council was a meeting of the Apostles at Jerusalem in order to put an end to the judaizing tendencies among the first Christians. It is the type of all succeeding councils: bishops in union with the head of the Church, and guided by the Holy Ghost, sit as judges in matters of faith and morals. The spirit which animates the dealings of the Church with heresy and heretics is one of extreme severity. St. Paul writes to Titus: "A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid: knowing that he, that is such a one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment" (Titus 3:10-11). This early piece of legislation reproduces the still earlier teaching of Christ: "And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican" (Matthew 18:17); it also inspires all subsequent anti-heretical legislation. The sentence on the obstinate heretic is invariably excommunication. He is separated from the company of the faithful, delivered up "to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 5:5).
When Constantine had taken upon himself the office of lay bishop, episcopus externus, and put the secular arm at the service of the Church, the laws against heretics became more and more rigorous. Under the purely ecclesiastical discipline no temporal punishment could be inflicted on the obstinate heretic, except the damage which might arise to his personal dignity through being deprived of all intercourse with his former brethren. But under the Christian emperors rigorous measures were enforced against the goods and persons of heretics. From the time of Constantine to Theodosius and Valentinian III (313-424) various penal laws were enacted by the Christian emperors against heretics as being guilty of crime against the State. "In both the Theodosian and Justinian codes they were styled infamous persons; all intercourse was forbidden to be held with them; they were deprived of all offices of profit and dignity in the civil administration, while all burdensome offices, both of the camp and of the curia, were imposed upon them; they were disqualified from disposing of their own estates by will, or of accepting estates bequeathed to them by others; they were denied the right of giving or receiving donations, of contracting, buying, and selling; pecuniary fines were imposed upon them; they were often proscribed and banished, and in many cases scourged before being sent into exile. In some particularly aggravated cases sentence of death was pronounced upon heretics, though seldom executed in the time of the Christian emperors of Rome. Theodosius is said to be the first who pronounced heresy a capital crime; this law was passed in 382 against the Encratites, the Saccophori, the Hydroparastatae, and the Manichæans. Heretical teachers were forbidden to propagate their doctrines publicly or privately; to hold public disputations; to ordain bishops, presbyters, or any other clergy; to hold religious meetings; to build conventicles or to avail themselves of money bequeathed to them for that purpose. Slaves were allowed to inform against their heretical masters and to purchase their freedom by coming over to the Church. The children of heretical parents were denied their patrimony and inheritance unless they returned to the Catholic Church. The books of heretics were ordered to be burned." ( Vide "Codex Theodosianus", lib. XVI, tit. 5, "De Haereticis".)
This legislation remained in force and with even greater severity in the kingdom formed by the victorious barbarian invaders on the ruins of the Roman Empire in the West. The burning of heretics was first decreed in the eleventh century. The Synod of Verona (1184) imposed on bishops the duty to search out the heretics in their dioceses and to hand them over to the secular power. Other synods, and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) under Pope Innocent III, repeated and enforced this decree, especially the Synod of Toulouse (1229), which established inquisitors in every parish (one priest and two laymen). Everyone was bound to denounce heretics, the names of the witnesses were kept secret; after 1243, when Innocent IV sanctioned the laws of Emperor Frederick II and of Louis IX against heretics, torture was applied in trials; the guilty persons were delivered up to the civil authorities and actually burnt at the stake. Paul III (1542) established, and Sixtus V organized, the Roman Congregation of the Inquisition, or Holy Office, a regular court of justice for dealing with heresy and heretics (see ROMAN CONGREGATIONS). The Congregation of the Index, instituted by St. Pius V, has for its province the care of faith and morals in literature; it proceeds against printed matter very much as the Holy Office proceeds against persons (see INDEX OF PROHIBITED BOOKS). The present pope [1909], Pius X, has decreed the establishment in every diocese of a board of censors and of a vigilance committee whose functions are to find out and report on writings and persons tainted with the heresy of Modernism (Encyclical "Pascendi", 8 Sept., 1907). The present-day legislation against heresy has lost nothing of its ancient severity; but the penalties on heretics are now only of the spiritual order; all the punishments which require the intervention of the secular arm have fallen into abeyance. Even in countries where the cleavage between the spiritual and secular powers does not amount to hostility or complete severance, the death penalty, confiscation of goods, imprisonment, etc., are no longer inflicted on heretics. The spiritual penalties are of two kinds: latae and ferendae sententiae. The former are incurred by the mere fact of heresy, no judicial sentence being required; the latter are inflicted after trial by an ecclesiastical court, or by a bishop acting ex informata conscientia, that is, on his own certain knowledge, and dispensing with the usual procedure
The penalties (see ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURES) latae sententiae are: (1) Excommunication specially reserved to the Roman pontiff, which is incurred by all apostates from the Catholic Faith, by each and all heretics, by whatever name they are known and to whatever sect they belong, and by all who believe in them ( credentes), receive, favour, or in any way defend them (Constitution "Apostolicae Sedis", 1869). Heretic here means formal heretic, but also includes the positive doubter, that is, the man who posits his doubt as defensible by reason, but not the negative doubter, who simply abstains from formulating a judgment. The believers (credentes) in heretics are they who, without examining particular doctrines, give a general assent to the teachings of the sect; the favourers (fautores) are they who by commission or omission lend support to heresy and thus help or allow it to spread; the receivers and defenders are they who shelter heretics from the rigours of the law. (2) "Excommunication specially reserved to the Roman Pontiff incurred by each and all who knowingly read, without authorization from the Apostolic See, books of apostates and heretics in which heresy is defended; likewise readers of books of any author prohibited by name in letters Apostolic, and all who retain possession of, or print, or in any way defend such books" (Apostolicæ Sedis, 1869). The book here meant is a volume of a certain size and unity; newspapers and manuscripts are not books, but serial publications intended to form a book when completed fall under this censure. To read knowingly (scienter) implies on the reader's part the knowledge that the book is the work of a heretic, that it defends heresy, and that it is forbidden. "Books . . . prohibited by name in letters Apostolic" are books condemned by Bulls, Briefs, or Encyclicals emanating directly from the pope; books prohibited by decrees of Roman Congregations, although the prohibition is approved by the pope, are not included. The "printers" of heretical books are the editor who gives the order and the publisher who executes it, and perhaps the proof-reader, but not the workman who performs the mechanical part of printing.
Additional penalties to be decreed by judicial sentences: Apostates and heretics are irregular, that is, debarred from receiving clerical orders or exercising lawfully the duties and rights annexed to them; they are infamous, that is, publicly noted as guilty and dishonoured. This note of infamy clings to the children and grandchildren of unrepented heretics. Heretical clerics and all who receive, defend, or favour them are ipso facto deprived of their benefices, offices, and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The pope himself, if notoriously guilty of heresy, would cease to be pope because he would cease to be a member of the Church. Baptism received without necessity by an adult at the hands of a declared heretic renders the recipient irregular. Heresy constitutes an impediment to marriage with a Catholic (mixta religio) from which the pope dispenses or gives the bishops power to dispense (see IMPEDIMENTS). Communicatio in sacris, i.e. active participation in non-Catholic religious functions, is on the whole unlawful, but it is not so intrinsically evil that, under given circumstances, it may not be excused. Thus friends and relatives may for good reasons accompany a funeral, be present at a marriage or a baptism, without causing scandal or lending support, to the non-Catholic rites, provided no active part be taken in them: their motive is friendship, or maybe courtesy, but it nowise implies approval of the rites. Non-Catholics are admitted to all Catholic services but not to the sacraments.
Principles of Church legislation
The guiding principles in the Church's treatment of heretics are the following: Distinguishing between formal and material heretics, she applies to the former the canon, "Most firmly hold and in no way doubt that every heretic or schismatic is to have part with the Devil and his angels in the flames of eternal fire, unless before the end of his life he be incorporated with, and restored to the Catholic Church." No one is forced to enter the Church, but having once entered it through baptism, he is bound to keep the promises he freely made. To restrain and bring back her rebellious sons the Church uses both her own spiritual power and the secular power at her command. Towards material heretics her conduct is ruled by the saying of St. Augustine: "Those are by no means to be accounted heretics who do not defend their false and perverse opinions with pertinacious zeal (animositas), especially when their error is not the fruit of audacious presumption but has been communicated to them by seduced and lapsed parents, and when they are seeking the truth with cautious solicitude and ready to be corrected" (P.L., XXXIII, ep. xliii, 160). Pius IX, in a letter to the bishops of Italy (10 Aug., 1863), restates this Catholic doctrine: "It is known to Us and to You that they who are in invincible ignorance concerning our religion but observe the natural law . . . and are ready to obey God and lead an honest and righteous life, can, with the help of Divine light and grace, attain to eternal life . . . for God . . . will not allow any one to be eternally punished who is not wilfully guilty" (Denzinger, "Enchir.", n. 1529). X.
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction over heretics
The fact of having received valid baptism places material heretics under the jurisdiction of the Church, and if they are in good faith, they belong to the soul of the Church. Their material severance, however, precludes them from the use of ecclesiastical rights, except the right of being judged according to ecclesiastical law if, by any chance, they are brought before an ecclesiastical court. They are not bound by ecclesiastical laws enacted for the spiritual well-being of its members, e.g. by the Six Commandments of the Church.
Reception of converts
Converts to the Faith, before being received, should be well instructed in Catholic doctrine. The right to reconcile heretics belongs to the bishops, but is usually delegated to all priests having charge of souls. In England a special licence is required for each reconciliation, except in case of children under fourteen or of dying persons, and this licence is only granted when the priest can give a written assurance that the candidate is sufficiently instructed and otherwise prepared, and that there is some reasonable guarantee of his perseverance. The order of proceeding in a reconciliation is: first, abjuration of heresy or profession of faith; second, conditional baptism (this is given only when the heretical baptism is doubtful); third, sacramental confession and conditional absolution.
Role of heresy in history
The role of heresy in history is that of evil generally. Its roots are in corrupted human nature. It has come over the Church as predicted by her Divine Founder; it has rent asunder the bonds of charity in families, provinces, states, and nations; the sword has been drawn and pyres erected both for its defence and its repression; misery and ruin have followed in its track. The prevalence of heresy, however, does not disprove the Divinity of the Church, any more than the existence of evil disproves the existence of an all-good God. Heresy, like other evils, is permitted as a test of faith and a trial of strength in the Church militant; probably also as a punishment for other sins. The disruption and disintegration of heretical sects also furnishes a solid argument for the necessity of a strong teaching authority. The endless controversies with heretics have been indirectly the cause of most important doctrinal developments and definitions formulated in councils to the edification of the body of Christ. Thus the spurious gospels of the Gnostics prepared the way for the canon of Scripture; Patripassian, Sabellian, Arian, and Macedonian heresies drew out a clearer concept of the Trinity; the Nestorian and Eutychian errors led to definite dogmas on the nature and Person of Christ. And so down to Modernism, which has called forth a solemn assertion of the claims of the supernatural in history.
Intolerance and cruelty
The Church's legislation on heresy and heretics is often reproached with cruelty and intolerance. Intolerant it is: in fact its raison d'être is intolerance of doctrines subversive of the faith. But such intolerance is essential to all that is, or moves, or lives, for tolerance of destructive elements within the organism amounts to suicide. Heretical sects are subject to the same law: they live or die in the measure they apply or neglect it. The charge of cruelty is also easy to meet. All repressive measures cause suffering or inconvenience of some sort: it is their nature. But they are not therefore cruel. The father who chastises his guilty son is just and may be tender-hearted. Cruelty only comes in where the punishment exceeds the requirements of the case. Opponents say: Precisely; the rigours of the Inquisition violated all humane feelings. We answer: they offend the feelings of later ages in which there is less regard for the purity of faith; but they did not antagonize the feelings of their own time, when heresy was looked on as more malignant than treason. In proof of which it suffices to remark that the inquisitors only pronounced on the guilt of the accused and then handed him over to the secular power to be dealt with according to the laws framed by emperors and kings. Medieval people found no fault with the system, in fact heretics had been burned by the populace centuries before the Inquisition became a regular institution. And whenever heretics gained the upper hand, they were never slow in applying the same laws: so the Huguenots in France, the Hussites in Bohemia, the Calvinists in Geneva, the Elizabethan statesmen and the Puritans in England. Toleration came in only when faith went out; lenient measures were resorted to only where the power to apply more severe measures was wanting. The embers of the Kulturkampf in Germany still smoulder; the separation and confiscation laws and the ostracism of Catholics in France are the scandal of the day. Christ said: "Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34). The history of heresy verifies this prediction and shows, moreover, that the greater number of the victims of the sword is on the side of the faithful adherents of the one Church founded by Christ (see INQUISITION).
APA citation. Wilhelm, J. (1910). Heresy. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07256b.htm
MLA citation. Wilhelm, Joseph. "Heresy." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07256b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Mary Ann Grelinger.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Shoal comprises 30 small fish skeletons, each one unique and individually encrusted with a growth of alum crystals. The fish skeletons are stripped, prepared and de-greased, forming crystals around the fish bones after placement in a hot chemical solution. As it cools down, alum crystals start to form and attach themselves to the bones, effectively embalming them.
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About Ackroyd & Harvey
Much of our work concentrates on organic processes of germination and growth. When asked to produce an exhibition in Western Australia in 1994, thoughts of evaporation and crystalline deposits came to mind and it was here we did our first experiments with simple salt crystals. The exquisite formation and yet mathematical simplicity of crystal structure then started to influence our working practice and has featured in a series of sculptural works.
Shoal is also a reflection on the changing chemical balance of the oceans as the upper level of seawater absorbs increasing levels of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere.
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Sea bream skeleton, alum crystals, perspex case
Often reflecting environmental and scientific concerns, Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) are acclaimed for large-scale interventions in sites of architectural interest, acknowledging political ecologies by highlighting the temporal nature of processes of growth and decay in the urban space. In 2013 they grew the stone façade of a former British military building in Derry, N. Ireland for the City of Culture; ten years earlier they grew the soaring vertical interior of a deconsecrated church in London and in 2007 created a monumental living intervention on the exterior of the Royal National Theatre.
In 2011, they were awarded the prestigious Mapping the Park commission for London 2012, a series of living sculptures entitled ‘History Trees’ at ten of the major entrances into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Ackroyd & Harvey have received many awards for their photographic work utilizing the pigment chlorophyll in making complex bio-chemical photographs; most recently they were presented with the Rose Award at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014 and in 2012 the Wu Guanzhong Innovation prize for the 3rd Art & Science International Exhibition, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Currently the artists are developing a series of new artworks for the University of Cambridge. Beuys’ Acorns, an ongoing work growing two hundred oak trees from acorns collected from Joseph Beuys’s seminal 7000 Oaks will be exhibited in France throughout autumn 2015, culminating in a major artistic intervention in partnership with scientists at the Institut national de la recherche agronomique (Inra) to coincide with COP 21, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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June 29, 2012 Posted by thepcprinciple in News
Firefly cast reunites for SDCC 2012
Firefly is a show that just won't go away. Although it was cancelled 10 years ago, the show still has a huge cult following and fans all over the world. Many of today's top shows have paid homage to Firefly in one way or another. Shows like the Big Bang Theory and Castle have all added little tributes to the show over the years. With hundreds of websites, several fan movies and a documentary about the fans of the series, Firefly isn't going anywhere anytime soon. In the past year, the Science Channel acquired the rights to air the 14 episodes that were produced and the episodes have not only done well in the ratings, but have exposed a whole new group of fans or Browncoats to the cult series. Over the years, Joss Whedon has expressed an interest in revisiting the series and many of the cast and crew are on board as well to revisit their beloved characters. Now comes the news that in honor of the shows 10th anniversary, several of the cast members and creative team behind the show are coming together for a very special panel at this year's San Diego Comic Con. The Science Channel is bringing together Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Tim Minear, Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, Sean Maher and Michael Fairman. The panel is scheduled to last an hour and will also include some never before seen footage and some noteworthy surprises according to the people from the Science Channel. For more information on the upcoming San Diego Comic Con and the schedules for all the upcoming panels, head on over to their San Diego Comic Con.
Supernatural Season 8 news
WARNING! If you don't want to know anything about the upcoming season of Supernatural, then I suggest you stop reading right now. If you are interested to know some tidbits about Season 8, then by all means continue reading! When we last left the Winchester brothers, they had been double crossed by Crowley...he took the Prophet from Sam and let's just say Dean and Cass ended up in purgatory for all eternity. The end scene with Dean standing in the middle of purgatory with those red-eyed creatures surrounding him was just creepy! Quite the predicement the Winchesters find themselves in wouldn't you say? But, I am sure that one way or the other, they will find their way back to each other. According to our good friends over at Zap2it.com, production will begin in a few days in Vancouver and new show runner Jeremy Carver is already putting his stamp early on the season by adding a recurring love interest for Sam. For more information on this development and other tidbits, you can read the article from Zap2it.com here.
June 19, 2012 Posted by thepcprinciple in PC Podcast
Seeking Justice review and interview
Say what you want to say about Nicolas Cage, the man sure knows how to keep himself in the spotlight. Recently with trouble in his personal life, unusual choices of roles in films and an overall mystique about him, Cage is definitely one who stays in our collective conscience. With recent roles in such films as Ghost Rider:Spirit of Vengeance, Season of the Witch and Drive Angry, he hasn't been on shall we say a hot streak at the box office. So it was with a little apprehension that I sat down to watch his latest film Seeking Justice. Although Seeking Justice had a limited theatrical release, it is being released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 19th nationwide. The film boasts what I consider a very solid cast. Guy Pearce, January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, Harold Perrineau and Xander Berkeley. You would think with a cast this strong, there is no way they can mess this up right? Well, I am here to tell you that although there is nothing new here with Seeking Justice, it's still a worthwhile film to check out.
School teacher Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) and his wife Laura (January Jones), lead a normal life in suburbia when that is all shattered after Laura is brutally attacked and raped by a stranger. In the hospital, Will is confronted by a shady character named Simon (Guy Pearce) who represents an organization that is tired of people getting away with crimes and not paying the price for what they have done. He offers Will an option. We'll take care of the person who did this to your wife and in return, we'll ask a small favor from you sometime in the future, nothing to worry about. Now, any sane thinking person would surely turn down such an offer, but put yourself in Will's shoes. Would you actually consider it? As I am sure you can guess, Will does take Simon up on the offer. He is told by Simon to go to the vending machine in the lounge area and order 2 candy bars. Once he's done that, they will know he is in. I really didn't understand the candy bar thing and who actually saw the signal, but we will leave that one alone. Will soon finds out that this secret organization has branches all over and they use the relatives of victims to commit the actual crimes, thus leaving them with no real connection to the crimes. I found this a little hard to believe from the beginning that such a group exists, but I went with it. To complicate matters, Will's best friend Jimmy (Harold Perrineau) is a member of this group. Will doesn't find this out until he decides not to play along with what the group wants. We get the nice car chases and action sequences, all well done by director Roger Donaldson, but again, nothing we haven't seen before. After Laura is kidnapped by Jimmy to get Will to finish the job, we have the final showdown with all three men. I won't spoil anything for you,but I guess you can figure out how it ends.
In the end, I didn't find myself turning away from the film at anytime which is a good thing. It kept my attention throughout. It's definitely not Cage at his best, but it's still a pretty good film and definitely a step up from his last couple of movies. Both Guy Pearce and Harold Perrineau do well with their parts, January Jones is a bit more animated than she usually is and Jennifer Carpenter is almost non-existent in the film. Seeking Justice kind of reminded me of those spy thrillers from back in the day with its plot and action. If you are looking for a film that has a decent plot, some good old fashion action and Nicolas Cage showing again what he is capable of, then Seeking Justice just might be a nice film for you to see. Pop Culture Principle was lucky enough to sit down with one of the stars of the film, Harold Perrineau, who gave us some insight on the film, how it was working on set with Nicolas Cage and some other nuggets of information on the film. We want to thank Harold for taking the time to talk with us. Below you will find the interview we did with Harold. Seeking Justice (Anchor Bay) Directed by Roger Donaldson Starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Harold Perrineau Jr., Jennifer Carpenter.
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Music of Puerto Rico
Variety of musical genres from Puerto Rico, US
A (c. 1900 - 1915) Puerto Rican Cuatro
Aguinaldo (Jíbaro)
Décima
Plena
Salsa romántica
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
La Borinqueña
Aruba and the Dutch Antilles
The music of Puerto Rico has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources. The most conspicuous musical sources have been Spain and West Africa, although many aspects of Puerto Rican music reflect origins elsewhere in Europe and the Caribbean and, in the last century, the USA. Puerto Rican music culture today comprises a wide and rich variety of genres, ranging from essentially indigenous genres like bomba to recent hybrids like reggaeton. Broadly conceived, the realm of "Puerto Rican music" should naturally comprise the music culture of the millions of people of Puerto Rican descent who have lived in the USA, and especially in New York City. Their music, from salsa to the boleros of Rafael Hernández, cannot be separated from the music culture of Puerto Rico itself.
1 Traditional, folk and popular music
1.1 Early music
1.2 Folk music
1.2.1 Jíbaro music
1.2.2 Bomba
1.2.3 Plena
1.3 Danza
1.4 Puerto Rican pop
1.5 Reggaeton
2 Caribbean influences
2.1 Bolero
2.2 Merengue
2.3 Guaracha and salsa
3 Classical music
4 Hip-Hop
5 Dance of Puerto Rico
5.1 Historical influences on dance
5.2 Salsa
5.3 Cha Cha Chá
Traditional, folk and popular music [ edit ]
Early music [ edit ]
Music culture in Puerto Rico during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is poorly documented. Certainly it included Spanish church music, military band music, and diverse genres of dance music cultivated by the jíbaros (peasants, of mixed race) and enslaved Africans and their descendants. While these later never constituted more than 11% of the island's population, they contributed some of the island's most dynamic musical features becoming distinct indeed.
In the 19th century Puerto Rican music begins to emerge into historical daylight, with notated genres like danza being naturally better documented than folk genres like jíbaro music and bomba y plena and seis.
The African people of the island used drums made of carved hardwood covered with untreated rawhide on one side, commonly made from goatskin. A popular word derived from creole to describe this drum was shukbwa, that literally means 'trunk of tree'
Folk music [ edit ]
If the term "folk music" is taken to mean music genres that have flourished without elite support[clarification needed], and have evolved independently of the commercial mass media, the realm of Puerto Rican folk music would comprise the primarily Hispanic-derived jíbaro music, the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, and the essentially "creole" plena. As these three genres evolved in Puerto Rico and are unique to that island[citation needed], they occupy a respected[neutrality is disputed] place in island culture, even if they are not currently as popular as contemporary musics like salsa or reggaeton.
Jíbaro music [ edit ]
A Tiple Requinto (1880) from Puerto Rico
Jíbaros are small farmers of primarily Hispanic descent who constituted the overwhelming majority of the Puerto Rican population until the mid-twentieth century.[citation needed] They are traditionally recognized as romantic icons of land cultivation, hard working, self-sufficient, hospitable, and with an innate love of song and dance. Their instruments[1] were relatives of the Spanish vihuela, especially the cuatro—which evolved from four single strings to five pairs of double strings —[2] and the lesser known tiple.[3] A typical jíbaro group nowadays might feature a cuatro, guitar, and percussion instrument such as the güiro scraper and/or bongo. Lyrics to jíbaro music are generally in the décima form, consisting of ten octosyllabic lines in the rhyme scheme abba, accddc. Décima form derives from 16th century Spain. Although it has largely died out in that country (except the Canaries), it took root in various places in Latin America—especially Cuba and Puerto Rico—where it is sung in diverse styles. A sung décima might be pre-composed, derived from a publication by some literati, or ideally, improvised on the spot, especially in the form of a “controversia” in which two singer-poets trade witty insults or argue on some topic. In between the décimas, lively improvisations can be played on the cuatro. This music form is also known as "típica" as well as "trópica".
The décimas are sung to stock melodies, with standardized cuatro accompaniment patterns. About twenty such song-types are in common use. These are grouped into two broad categories, viz., seis (e.g., seis fajardeño, seis chorreao) and aguinaldo (e.g., aguinaldo orocoveño, aguinaldo cayeyano). Traditionally, the seis could accompany dancing, but this tradition has largely died out except in tourist shows and festivals. The aguinaldo is most characteristically sung during the Christmas season, when groups of revelers (parrandas) go from house to house, singing jíbaro songs and partying. The aguinaldo texts are generally not about Christmas, and also unlike Anglo-American Christmas carols, they are generally sung by a solo with the other revelers singing chorus. In general, Christmas season is a time when traditional music—both seis and aguinaldo—is most likely to be heard. Fortunately, many groups of Puerto Ricans are dedicated to preserving traditional music by continued practice.
Jíbaro music came to be marketed on commercial recordings in the twentieth century, and singer-poets like Ramito (Flor Morales Ramos, 1915–90) are well documented. However, jíbaros themselves were becoming an endangered species, as agribusiness and urbanization have drastically reduced the numbers of small farmers on the island. Many jíbaro songs dealt accordingly with the vicissitudes of migration to New York. Jíbaro music has in general declined accordingly, although it retains its place in local culture, especially around Christmas time and special social gatherings, and there are many cuatro players, some of whom have cultivated prodigious virtuosity.
Bomba [ edit ]
Main article: Bomba_(Puerto_Rico)
Historical references indicate that by the decades around 1800 plantation slaves were cultivating a music and dance genre called bomba. By the mid-twentieth century, when it started to be recorded and filmed, bomba was performed in regional variants in various parts of the island, especially Loíza, Ponce, San Juan, and Mayagüez. It is not possible to reconstruct the history of bomba; various aspects reflect Congolese derivation, though some elements (as suggested by subgenre names like holandés) have clearly come from elsewhere in the Caribbean. French Caribbean elements are particularly evident in the bomba style of Mayagüez, and striking choreographic parallels can be seen with the bélé of Martinique. All of these sources were blended into a unique sound that reflects the life of the Jibaro, the slaves, and the culture of Puerto Rico.
In its call-and-response singing set to ostinato-based rhythms played on two or three squat drums (barriles), bomba resembles other neo-African genres in the Caribbean. Of clear African provenance is its format in which a single person emerges from an informal circle of singers to dance in front of the drummers, engaging the lead drummer in a sort of playful duel; after dancing for a while, that person is then replaced by another. While various such elements can be traced to origins in Africa or elsewhere, bomba must be regarded as a local Afro-Puerto Rican creation. Its rhythms (e.g. seis corrido, yubá, leró, etc.), dance moves, and song lyrics that sometimes mimic farm animals(in Spanish, with some French creole words in eastern Puerto Rico) collectively constitute a unique Puerto Rican genre.
In the 1950s, the dance-band ensemble of Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera performed several songs which they labelled as "bombas"; although these bore some similarities to the sicá style of bomba, in their rhythms and horn arrangements they also borrowed noticeably from the Cuban dance music which had long been popular in the island. Giving rise to Charanga music. As of the 1980s, bomba had declined, although it was taught, in a somewhat formalized fashion, by the Cepeda family in Santurce, San Juan, and was still actively performed informally, though with much vigor, in the Loíza towns, home to then Ayala family dynasty of bomberos. Bomba continues to survive there, and has also experienced something of a revival, being cultivated by folkloric groups such as Son Del Batey, Los Rebuleadores de San Juan, Bomba Evolución, Abrane y La Tribu and many more else where in the island. In New York City with groups such as Los Pleneros de la 21, members of La Casita de Chema, and Alma Moyo. In Chicago Buya, and Afro Caribe have kept the tradition alive and evolving. In California Bomba Liberte, Grupo Aguacero, Bombalele, La Mixta Criolla, Herencia de los Carrillo, and Los Bomberas de la Bahia are all groups that have promoted and preserved the culture. Women have also played a role in its revival, as in the case of the all-female group Yaya, Legacy Woman, Los Bomberas de la Bahia, Grupo Bambula (Originally female group) and Ausuba in Puerto Rico.
There has also been a strong commitment towards Bomba Fusion. Groups such as Los Pleneros de la 21, and Viento De Agua have contributed greatly towards fusing Bomba and Plena with Jazz and other Genres. Yerbabuena has brought a popular cross over appeal. Abrante y La Tribu have made fusions with Hip Hop. Tambores Calientes, Machete Movement, and Ceiba have fused the genres with various forms of Rock and Roll.
The Afro-Puerto Rican bombas, developed in the sugarcane haciendas of Loíza, the northeastern coastal areas, in Guayama and in southern Puerto Rico, utilize barrel drums and tambourines, while the rural version uses stringed instruments to produce music, relating to the bongos. (1) “The bomba is danced in pairs, but there is no contact. The dancers each challenge the drums and musicians with their movements by approaching them and performing a series of fast steps called floretea piquetes, creating a rhythmic discourse. Unlike normal dance routines, the drummers are the ones who follow the performers, and create a beat or rhythm based on their movements. Women who dance bomba often use dresses or scarfs to enhance bodily movements.[4] Unlike normal dance terms, the instruments follow the performer.
Like other such traditions, bomba is now well documented on sites like YouTube, and on a few ethnographic documentary films.
Plena [ edit ]
Puerto Rican Güiro
Around 1900 plena emerged as a humble proletarian folk genre in the lower-class, largely Afro-Puerto Rican urban neighborhoods in San Juan, Ponce, and elsewhere. Plena subsequently came to occupy its niche in island music culture. In its quintessential form, plena is an informal, unpretentious, simple folk-song genre, in which alternating verses and refrains are sung to the accompaniment of round, often homemade frame drums called panderetas (like tambourines without jingles), perhaps supplemented by accordion, guitar, or whatever other instruments might be handy. An advantage of the percussion arrangement is its portability, contributing to the plena's spontaneous appearance at social gatherings. Other instruments commonly heard in plena music are the cuatro, the maracas, and accordions.
The plena rhythm is a simple duple pattern, although a lead pandereta player might add lively syncopations. Plena melodies tend to have an unpretentious, "folksy" simplicity. Some early plena verses commented on barrio anecdotes, such as "Cortarón a Elena" (They stabbed Elena) or "Allí vienen las maquinas" (Here come the firetrucks). Many had a decidedly irreverent and satirical flavor, such as "Llegó el obispo" mocking a visiting bishop. Some plenas, such as "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" and "Santa María," are familiar throughout the island. In 1935 the essayist Tomás Blanco celebrated plena—rather than the outdated and elitist danza—as an expression of the island's fundamentally creole, Taino or mulatto racial and cultural character. Plenas are still commonly performed in various contexts; a group of friends attending a parade or festival may bring a few panderetas and burst into song, or new words will be fitted to the familiar tunes by protesting students or striking workers which has long been a regular form of protest from occupation and slavery. While enthusiasts might on occasion dance to a plena, plena is not characteristically oriented toward dance.
In the 1920s–30s plenas came to be commercially recorded, especially by Manuel "El Canario" Jimenez, who performed old and new songs, supplementing the traditional instruments with piano and horn arrangements. In the 1940s Cesar Concepción popularized a big-band version of plena, lending the genre a new prestige, to some extent at the expense of its proletarian vigor and sauciness. In the 1950s a newly envigorated plena emerged as performed by the smaller band of Rafael Cortijo and vocalist Ismael "Maelo" Rivera, attaining unprecedented popularity and modernizing the plena while recapturing its earthy vitality. Many of Cortijo's plenas present colorful and evocative vignettes of barrio life and lent a new sort of recognition to the dynamic contribution of Afro-Puerto Ricans to the island's culture (and especially music). This period represented the apogee of plena's popularity as a commercial popular music. Unfortunately, Rivera spent much of the 1960s in prison, and the group never regained its former vigor. Nevertheless, the extraordinary massive turnout for Cortijo's funeral in 1981 reflected the beloved singer's enduring popularity. By then, however, plena's popularity had been replaced by that of salsa, although some revivalist groups, such as Plena Libre, continue to perform in their own lively fashion, while "street" plena is also heard on various occasions.
Danza [ edit ]
External audio
You may listen to Graciela Rivera's interpretation of Fernández Juncos' version of "La Borinqueña"" here.
You may listen to Luciano Quiñones piano interpretation of Tavárez's "Margarita"here
You may listen to Luciano Quiñones piano interpretation of Morel Campos' "No me toques" here
Main article: Danza
Manuel Gregorio Tavárez
By the late 1700s the country dance (French contredanse, Spanish contradanza) had come to thrive as a popular recreational dance, both in courtly and festive vernacular forms, throughout much of Europe, replacing dances such as the minuet. By 1800 a creolized form of the genre, called contradanza, was thriving in Cuba, and the genre also appears to have been extant, in similar vernacular forms, in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and elsewhere, although documentation is scanty. By the 1850s, the Cuban contradanza—increasingly referred to as danza—was flourishing both as a salon piano piece, or as a dance-band item to accompany social dancing, in a style evolving from collective figure dancing (like a square dance) to independent couples dancing ballroom-style (like a waltz, but in duple rather than ternary rhythm). According to local chroniclers, in 1845 a ship arrived from Havana, bearing, among other things, a party of youths who popularized a new style of contradanza/danza, confusingly called "merengue." This style subsequently became wildly popular in Puerto Rico, to the extent that in 1848 it was banned by the priggish Spanish governor Juan de la Pezuela. This prohibition, however, does not seem to have had much lasting effect, and the newly invigorated genre—now more commonly referred to as "danza"—went on to flourish in distinctly local forms. As in Cuba, these forms included the musics played by dance ensembles as well as sophisticated light-classical items for solo piano (some of which could subsequently be interpreted by dance bands). The danza as a solo piano idiom reached its greatest heights in the music of Manuel Gregorio Tavárez (1843–83), whose compositions have a grace and grandeur closely resembling the music of Chopin, his model. Achieving greater popularity were the numerous danzas of his follower, Juan Morel Campos (1857–96), a bandleader and extraordinarily prolific composer who, like Tavárez, died in his youthful prime (but not before having composed over 300 danzas). By Morel Campos' time, the Puerto Rican danza had evolved into a form quite distinct from that of its Cuban (not to mention European) counterparts. Particularly distinctive was its form consisting of an initial paseo, followed by two or three sections (sometimes called "merengues"), which might feature an arpeggio-laden "obbligato" melody played on the tuba-like bombardino (euphonium). Many danzas achieved island-wide popularity, including the piece "La Borinqueña", which is the national anthem of Puerto Rico. Like other Caribbean creole genres such as the Cuban danzón, the danzas featured the insistent ostinato called "cinquillo" (roughly, ONE-two-THREE-FOUR-five-SIX-SEVEN-eight, repeated).
The danza remained vital until the 1920s, but after that decade its appeal came to be limited to the Hispanophilic elite. The danzas of Morel Campos, Tavárez, José Quintón, and a few others are still performed and heard on various occasions, and a few more recent composers have penned their own idiosyncratic forms of danzas, but the genre is no longer a popular social dance idiom. During the first part of dancing danza, to the steady tempo of the music, the couples promenade around the room; during the second, with a lively rhythm, they dance in a closed ballroom position and the orchestra would begin by leading dancers in a "paseo," an elegant walk around the ballroom, giving gentlemen the opportunity to show off their lady's grace and beauty. This romantic introduction ended with a salute by the gentlemen and a curtsey from the ladies in reply. Then, the orchestra would strike up and the couples would dance freely around the ballroom to the rhythm of the music.[5]
Puerto Rican pop [ edit ]
Much music in Puerto Rico falls outside the standard categories of "Latin music" and is better regarded as constituting varieties of "Latin world pop." This category includes, for example, Ricky Martin (who had a #1 Hot 100 hit in the U.S. with "Livin' La Vida Loca" in 1999), the boy-band Menudo (with its changing personnel), Los Chicos, Las Cheris, Salsa Kids and Chayanne. Famous singers include the Despacito singer Luis Fonsi. Above all, singer and virtuoso guitarist Jose Feliciano born in Lares, Puerto Rico, became a world pop star in 1968 when his latin-soul version of "Light My Fire" and the LP Feliciano! became great successes in the American and international rankings and allowed Feliciano to be the first Puerto Rican to win Grammy awards that year.
You may listen to José Feliciano's "Light My Fire" here.
Reggaeton [ edit ]
See also: List of Reggaeton artists
Puerto Rico is perhaps the single biggest center for production of reggaeton. The roots of reggaetón lie in the 1980s "reggae en español" of the Panamanian artist El General and certain songs by Puerto Rican rapper Vico C. In the early 1990s reggaeton coalesced as a more definitive genre, using the "Dem Bow" riddim derived from a Shabba Ranks song by that name, and further resembling Jamaican dancehall in its verses sung in simple tunes and stentorian style, and its emphasis—via lyrics, videos, and artist personas—on partying, dancing, boasting, "bling," and sexuality rather than weighty social commentary. While reggaeton may have commenced as a Spanish-language version of Jamaican dancehall, in the hands of performers like Tego Calderón, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and others, it soon acquired its own distinctive flavor and today might be considered the most popular dance music in the Spanish Caribbean, surpassing even salsa.[6]
Reggaetón is a genre of music, significantly blown up in Puerto Rico and across the world, that combines Latin rhythms, dancehall, and hip-hop and/or rap. Reggaetón is frequently affiliated with “machismo” characteristics, strong or aggressive masculine pride. Since women have joined this genre of music they’ve been underrepresented and have been fighting to change its image.[7] This inevitably is causing controversy between what the genre was and what it is now. Reggaetón has transformed from being a musical expression with Jamaican and Panamanian roots to being “dembow” a newer style that has changed the game[8], which is listened to mainly in the Dominican Republic. Despite its success, its constant reputation highlights sexuality in the dancing, its explicit lyrics that have women screaming sexualized phrases in the background, and clothing women are presented in. In the '90s and early 2000s Reggaetón had been targeted and censored in many Latin American countries for its ranchyness nature and truths. Censorship can be seen as the government’s way of suppressing the people and ensuring that communication isn’t strong amongst the community. Since then, many women have joined Reggaetón in hopes of changing the preconceptions. Many of them have paved the way and have successful careers such as Karol G, and Natti Natasha and others.
Ivy Queen was born as Martha Ivelisse Pesante on March 4, 1972, in Afiasco, Puerto Rico. After writing raps during her youth and competing in an underground nightclub called The Noise, it led to the beginning of her musical career. Many consider her as the “Queen of Reggaeton.”[9] In the beginning of her career, it was very difficult for her to be taken seriously in the reggaeton industry because this genre of music is seen as misogynistic. Recently, there has been controversy regarding how big her female influence has been on the genre. Another reggaeton artist, Anuel AA, questioned her place as the “Queen of Reggaeton” since she had not had a hit in seven years.[10] He also insinuated that his girlfriend, Karol G, should be the queen of reggaeton. Ivy Queen responded saying her career paved the way for female artists to thrive in this genre.[11]
Ivy Queen has had influence on other women like Cardi B and Farina. Even men, such as Bad Bunny[12], have listed her as an influence for their lyrics. Her ability to compete amongst men who dominated Reggaetón gave hope to other women who had similar interest in the music industry. Her influence and her dominance in the genre has helped other women be able to break through in the reggaetón scene and sparked a place for women empowerment not only for Puerto Rican artist, but for other Latinas who are newer to the game such as Karol G and Natti Natasha, leaving Ivy Queen to crown herself with the title “The Queen”[13].
Karol G is a Colombian reggaeton singer who has done collaborations with other reggaeton singers, such as J Balvin, Bad Bunny, and Maluma.[14] Throughout her career, Karol G has had troubles in the industry because reggaeton is a genre that is dominated by males. She recounts how when starting her career she noticed that there weren't many opportunities for her in the genre because reggaeton was dominated by male artists.[15] In 2018, Karol G’s single "Mi Cama" became very popular and she made a remix with J Balvin and Nicky Jam. The Mi cama remix appeared in the top 10 Hot Latin Songs and number 1 in Latin Airplay charts.[16] This year she has collaborated with Maluma on her song "Creeme" and with Anuel AA in the song "Culpables". The single, "Culpables" has been in the top 10 Hot Latin Songs for 2 consecutive weeks.[17] On May 3,2019 Karol G was able to release her new album called Ocean.[18]
Natti Natasha is a Dominican reggaeton singer who has also joined the reggeaton industry and has listed Ivy Queen as one of her influences for her music.[19] In 2017 she made a single called "Criminal" that features reggaeton artist, Ozuna. Her single "Criminal" became very popular on Youtube with more than has 1.5 billion views.[20] In 2018 Natti Natasha collaborated with RKM and Ken Y in their single "Tonta". She later also collaborated with Becky G in “Sin Pijama” which made it to the top 10 in Hot Latin songs, Latin Airplay, and Latin Pop Airplay charts.[21] After all the collaborations that Natti Natasha has done she was able to release her album called illumiNatti on February 15, 2019.[22]
Caribbean influences [ edit ]
Bolero [ edit ]
The bolero originally derived from Cuba, but by the 1920s it was being both enjoyed as well as composed and performed by Puerto Ricans, including such outstanding figures as Rafael Hernández and Pedro Flores. There are no distinctively "Puerto Rican" features—such as singing "lelolai" or playing the cuatro—in their boleros, but it would be pointless to go on regarding the bolero solely as a "Cuban" genre; it is, of course, a Cuban genre, but since the 1920s it has also been an international genre, including a Puerto Rican one. The main differences are found in the musical arrangements and subject matter.
Merengue [ edit ]
In the 1990s the most popular dance music in the island was merengue, as performed by visiting Dominican bands and a few locals such as Olga Tañon. Similar disagreements have been voiced about local rock bands, such as Fiel a la Vega, Puya, and Konfrontazion, that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s, and which continue to be very popular. The choreography of the ballroom merengue is a basic side two-step, but with a difficult twist of the hip to the right, which makes it somewhat hard to perform. The two dance partners get into a vals, or waltz-like position. The couple then side steps, which is known as a paso de la empalizada or "stick-fence step," followed by either a clockwise or counter-clockwise turn. During all of the dance steps of the ballroom merengue, the couple never separates. The second kind of merengue is called the Figure Meringue or Merengue de Figura, and the performing couple makes individual turns without releasing the hands of the partner and still keeping the rhythm of the beat.[23]
Guaracha and salsa [ edit ]
The timbales of Tito Puente on exhibit in the Musical Instruments Museum in Phoenix, AZ
Salsa is another genre whose form derived from the Cuban\Puerto Rican melding of genre, especially Cuban dance music of the 1950s—but which in the 1960s-70s became an international genre, cultivated with special zeal and excellence in Puerto Rico, and by New York Puerto Ricans. Forms such as the Charanga was hugely popular to Puerto Ricans and Nuyoricans, indeed, rescued this music, which had been stagnating and isolated in Cuba itself in the 1960s, giving it new life, new social significance, and many new stylistic innovations. Salsa is the name acquired by the modernized form of Cuban/Puerto Rican-style dance music that was cultivated and rearticulated from the latter 1960s by Puerto Ricans in New York and, subsequently, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. While salsa soon became an international genre, thriving in Colombia, Venezuela, and elsewhere, New York and Puerto Rico have remained its epicenters. Particularly prominent in the island itself were El Gran Combo, Sonora Ponceña, and Willie Rosario, as well as the more pop-oriented "salsa romántica" stars of the 1980s-90s. (For further information see the entry on "salsa music.")
Other popular Nuyorican and Puerto Rican exposers of these genres have been Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez (guaracha and bolero singer), pianists Eddie Palmieri, Richie Ray and Papo Lucca, conguero Ray Barreto, trombonist and singer Willie Colón, and singers La India, Andy Montañez, Bobby Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Ismael Rivera, Tito Nieves, Pete El Conde Rodríguez and Gilberto Santa Rosa.
Classical music [ edit ]
The island hosts two main orchestras, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico. The Casals Festival takes place annually in San Juan, attracting classical musicians from around the world. Since the nineteenth century there have been diverse Puerto Rican composers, including Felipe Gutierrez Espinosa, Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, Juan Morel Campos, Aristides Chavier, Julio C. Arteaga, and Braulio Dueño Colón. At the beginning of the 20th century we find José Ignacio Quintón, Monsita Ferrer and José Enrique Pedreira. Moving to the mid-20th century a new wave of composers appeared, some of them with a significant degree of nationalism. In this group are Amaury Veray, Héctor Campos Parsi, Jack Delano and Luis Antonio Ramírez. With more contemporary languages come to the musical scene Rafael Aponte Led and Luis Manuel Álvarez. From the 1970s on, a fair number of musicians add to the list and, though with different styles, they all had an imposing international flavor. Ernesto Cordero, Carlos Alberto Vázquez, Alfonso Fuentes, Alberto Rodríguez, William Ortiz-Alvarado, José Javier Peña Aguayo, Carlos Carrillo and Roberto Sierra belong to this group.
Hip-Hop [ edit ]
As social conditions and urban decay took its toll in the projects New York City during the 1970s, blacks and Puerto Ricans were equally affected. As a way of coping with the disarray that was taking place in New York, both Puerto Ricans and blacks worked together to collaborate on rap music that would help express their creative art. As Deborah Pacini Hernandez wrote in her article, "Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music," many of the ways that blacks and Puerto Ricans coped with their struggles was through, "graffiti, DJing, emceeing, break dancing, and fashion—the cultural elements comprising hip-hop." (56) As hip-hop music rose to prominence, it was clear that Puerto Ricans had an influence on the hip-hop industry, from the break dancing to the sound of the music.
"To speak of Puerto Ricans in rap means to defy the sense of instant amnesia that engulfs popular cultural expression once it is caught up in the logic of commercial representation. It involves sketching in historical contexts and sequences, tracing traditions and antecedents, and recognizing hip-hop to be more and different than the simulated images, poses, and formulas the public discourse of media entertainment tends to reduce it to. The decade and more of hindsight provided by the Puerto Rican involvement shows that, rather than a new musical genre and its accompanying stylistic trappings, rap constitutes a space for the articulation of social experience. From this perspective, what has emerged as “Latin rap” first took shape as an expression of the cultural turf shared, and contended for, by African Americans and Puerto Ricans over their decades as neighbors, coworkers, and “homies” in the inner-city communities." - Juan Flores, Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots and Amnesia[24]
Despite the fact that Puerto Ricans had a huge impact on the rise of hip-hop during the late 1970s, they struggled to receive credit as hip-hop was portrayed through the media as a genre that was predominantly black. Instead of switching genres, they had to find other ways to mask their cultural identities. For example, DJ Charlie Chase was one of the first Puerto Rican artists to burst onto the scene with his group, the Cold Crush Brothers, but was the only person in the original group who wasn't black. He said that he knew he had to change his name because if he went out to perform as Carlos Mendes, he might not have gotten the credit or attention that he deserved.
However, rappers such as DJ Charlie Chase set the scene for more mainstream success in the future. Because of the development of Puetro Ricans in hip-hop, artists like Big Pun, Daddy Yankee, Fat Joe, Swizz Beats, and Young MA have become more successful.
Dance of Puerto Rico [ edit ]
Dance is a performing art related to expressing one's ideas and values. This activity is associated with exercise because of the required movements required to execute specific dance patterns. In Puerto Rico, dance is considered to be a part of the culture which is passed on from generation to generation, and practiced at family and community parties and celebrations.
Historical influences on dance [ edit ]
Dance has been influenced by the different cultures of the Taíno natives, the Spaniards and the African slaves. Since pre-Colombian times, dance has always been part of the culture of Puerto Rico and has evolved according to the social and demographic changes. The earliest dances documented by the early historians were the Taíno areyto dances that were chanted by a chorus, set to music, and led by a guide. They practiced storytelling while the guide indicated which steps and songs to repeat until the story was finished. Dances of European origin also became popular among the country folk and the settlers of the central part of the island. These dances rapidly got unique features of rhythm, instrumentation, interpretation, and even fashion.
As the population of the Taíno dwindled down, Spanish, African and, from 1898 on, North American dances appeared on the island and took root and developed in the mountains, on the coast, and in urban centers.[25]
After the island was taken over by Spain, the music and dance of Puerto Rico consisted of a combination of the harmonious musical styles that are borrowed from Spanish, African, and other European cultures, creating Puerto Rico's signature style of Latin dance.[23]
Salsa [ edit ]
Salsa is a Spanish word that means sauce. It refers to the mixture of different rhythms composed of different Latin, African and Caribbean dances. Salsa is said to be first created around the 1960s and became popular to the non-Latino world drastically. The salsa dance is similar to the mambo dance.[23]
Salsa dancing is structured in six step patterns phrased on 8 counts of the music. The 8 different steps include 6 moves with 2 pauses. The pattern of the dance is 1,2,3 and pause for 4, move for 5,6,7 and pause for 8. The basic steps are: (1) the forward and backward: in this step consist of two rock steps going in and out of the moves. The second step is known as the basic side dance step, it is similar to the first step except for this step, the moves are towards the side. The side to side feels and turns are of the significant aspects of the salsa dance.[26]
Cha Cha Chá [ edit ]
The Cha Cha Chá dance is known to be one of the funniest ballroom dances which does not consume a lot of time. It has a lot of flirty and sharp moves. Before you start the dance, you need to know how to count the Cha Cha Chá. The following are the first basic steps: (1) count the Cha Cha Chá in “rock step, triple step and then rock step”. (2) You will eventually count to three “1,2,3 Cha Cha Chá” which brings us to the 3 full beats and 2 half beat of the dance. The second category is known as the Cha Cha Chá side basic. This step is the most often used basic move of the dance. It is pretty similar to the previous one except for this step you have to do the triple step to the side rather than in place, and this introduces us to the third stage which is known as “underarm in Cha Cha Chá”. This step teaches how to do lady’s underarm turn to the right. Base on the previous step, guys might not struggle but the ladies might because ladies have to know the exact turning spot in order to do this. Overall, the dance is named of the scraping sounds produced by the feet of the dancers.[27]
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^ "Becky G and Karol G on Lifting Up Music's Latinas: 'There's Space For All Of Us'". Billboard.
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^ "Karol G Unveils 'Ocean,' Her Most Intimate Album Yet: It's 'My Heart and Soul'". Billboard.
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A Fading Flutter: Melbourne's Endangered Butterflies and Moths
This is a guest post by Mackenzie Kwak.
There is perhaps no greater dichotomy in the public’s mind than that of the butterfly and the moth. While the butterfly is admired for its bright colours and gentle flutter, the moth is despised for its often dull wings and seemingly erratic flight. The distinction between moth and butterfly, though, is often difficult to grasp. Superficially many colourful day-flying moths are mistaken for butterflies. To the average person, moths are the ugly sisters of butterflies, so uncommon and few that they needn’t even have common names.
However, in reality butterflies are merely a small branch comprising five colourful families in the mega-diverse tree of moths, which contains more than 180,000 named species, collected into approximately 126 families. Many species remain unknown, and chances are high that if you look out of your window on a warm, overcast night, at least one of the many moths congregated on the glass will be unnamed. Unsurprisingly, many species of moth and butterfly which have been studied well enough are recorded as threatened in Victoria. In fact, eight of the 14 insect species listed as Critically Endangered in our state are moths or butterflies.
Emerald moth. Image: Wiki Commons
Perhaps the most well-known of our state’s threatened butterflies is the enigmatic Eltham copper butterfly (Paralucia pyrodiscus lucida), which was thought to be extinct until it was famously rediscovered in 1986. It has an extremely complex life cycle and lives in close association with its larval host plant, sweet bursaria (Bursaria spinosa), and ants of the genus Notoncus, which tend to its caterpillars. If either of these essential associates is absent, the butterfly will also be. While found primarily in the township of Eltham along Diamond Creek, small populations also exist in scattered locations across the state.
However, the species has been mired in controversy of late (the quiet type that only a handful of entomologists remark upon amongst themselves). The Eltham copper butterfly was originally described as a distinct species (Paralucia lucida) before being downgraded to subspecies rank (Paralucia pyrodiscus lucida). However, recent findings have suggested that it does not possess the distinctiveness to warrant even the rank of subspecies, and some authorities now only consider it to be a race of the more common fiery copper butterfly (Paralucia pyrodiscus). Many conservationists, however, aware of these recent taxonomic changes, still consider this butterfly to represent an evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) worthy of conservation.
Overshadowed by the wide public awareness of the Eltham copper butterfly is the critically endangered small ant-blue butterfly (Acrodipsas myrmecophila). The small ant-blue, like its name suggests, is an inconspicuous little species which spends most of its life deep in the nests of ants. The caterpillars are peculiar in that unlike many other caterpillars, which live on plants, this species live in the nests of the coconut ant (Papyrius nitidus). The peculiarities don’t stop there, though, as the little caterpillars are ant-eaters, technically termed myrmecophilous by entomologists. Like Eltham copper butterflies, if they lose their ant associates, they quickly disappear from the environment.
Native butterfly (Painted Lady). Image: Wiki Commons
Perhaps the most threatened of the native moths to call the greater Melbourne region home is the golden sun-moth (Synemon plana) which gets its name from the striking golden orange hindwings sported by the adults. It has also been subject to the most intensive conservation efforts compared with its equally threatened sister species, the orange sun-moth (Synemon nais), reddish orange sun-moth (Synemon jcara) and the small orange spotted sun-moth (Synemon discalis), which are also regarded as Critically Endangered in Victoria.
The golden sun-moth formerly inhabited the vast volcanic plains grasslands which stretched thousands of acres west of Melbourne, and the grassy woodlands which skirted Melbourne city until they were converted into pasture and later urban sprawl. The moth is now in decline and almost extinct, save for a few scattered populations around the greater Melbourne region. The caterpillars are rather strange, in that they do not eat the foliage of their native grass food plants, but instead eat their roots! The adult moths are remarkable as well as they do not feed at all; instead they frantically seek out a mate before producing eggs on native grasses and dying.
Orchard Swallowtail. Image: Wiki Commons
Unfortunately we are too late to save some of Melbourne’s butterflies and moths, which in the past century have disappeared from our little place in the world. The bright-eyed brown (Heteronympha cordace wilsoni), orange ringlet (Hyposysta adiante), and the cryptic sun-moth (Synemon theresa) have all vanished from Melbourne. However, there are small things we can all do to ensure butterflies and moths flourish in our city!
Perhaps the most helpful thing you can do is plant indigenous species, which provide food and shelter for caterpillars, and nectar for adult butterflies. Some common food plants which look great in the garden and are largely drought-tolerant include paper daisies (Xerochrysum spp.) and tussock grasses (Poa spp.). They also have the added bonus of being extremely well adapted to the climate and soils of the greater Melbourne region.
You may also like to get involved with local environment groups like ‘The Friends of Merri Creek’ who have done much work to enhance local habitats along the Merri Creek for one of the few remaining populations of golden sun-moths. Last and most simple is to get to known our local butterflies and moths a little better and champion their conservation in the local community! Tell a friend or a neighbour what you have just learned and get people talking about these remarkable locals!
Header image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Mackenzie Kwak is a zoologist with a broad interest in Australia's diverse flora and fauna. His research focuses on the biogeography, systematics and ecology of Australasian ectoparasites, particularly ticks, fleas and lice.
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Antonia Juhasz, "Oil For Sale, Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatzation," AlterNet, December 7, 2006.
The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money.
In its heavily anticipated report released on Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group made at least four truly radical proposals.
The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government.
President Bush hired an employee from the U.S. consultancy firm Bearing Point Inc. over a year ago to advise the Iraq Oil Ministry on the drafting and passage of a new national oil law. As previously drafted, the law opens Iraq's nationalized oil sector to private foreign corporate investment, but stops short of full privatization. The ISG report, however, goes further, stating that "the United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise." In addition, the current Constitution of Iraq is ambiguous as to whether control over Iraq's oil should be shared among its regional provinces or held under the central government. The report specifically recommends the latter: "Oil revenues should accrue to the central government and be shared on the basis of population." If these proposals are followed, Iraq's national oil industry will be privatized and opened to foreign firms, and in control of all of Iraq's oil wealth.
The proposals should come as little surprise given that two authors of the report, James A. Baker III and Lawrence Eagleburger, have each spent much of their political and corporate careers in pursuit of greater access to Iraq's oil and wealth.
"Pragmatist" is the word most often used to describe Iraq Study Group co-chair James A. Baker III. It is equally appropriate for Lawrence Eagleburger. The term applies particularly well to each man's efforts to expand U.S. economic engagement with Saddam Hussein throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Not only did their efforts enrich Hussein and U.S. corporations, particularly oil companies, it also served the interests of their own private firms.
On April 21,1990, a U.S. delegation was sent to Iraq to placate Saddam Hussein as his anti-American rhetoric and threats of a Kuwaiti invasion intensified. James A. Baker III, then President George H.W. Bush's secretary of state, personally sent a cable to the U.S embassy in Baghdad instructing the U.S. ambassador to meet with Hussein and to make clear that, "as concerned as we are about Iraq's chemical, nuclear, and missile programs, we are not in any sense preparing the way for preemptive military unilateral effort to eliminate these programs."*
Instead, Baker's interest was focused on trade, which he described as the "central factor in the U.S-Iraq relationship." From 1982, when Reagan removed Iraq from the list of countries supporting terrorism, until August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Baker and Eagleburger worked with others in the Reagan and Bush administrations to aggressively and successfully expand this trade.
The efficacy of such a move may best be described in a memo written in 1988 by the Bush transition team arguing that the United States would have "to decide whether to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority. We strongly urge the latter view." Two reasons offered were Iraq's "vast oil reserves," which promised "a lucrative market for U.S. goods," and the fact that U.S. oil imports from Iraq were skyrocketing. Bush and Baker took the transition team's advice and ran with it.
In fact, from 1983 to 1989, annual trade between the United States and Iraq grew nearly sevenfold and was expected to double in 1990, before Iraq invaded Kuwait. In 1989, Iraq became the United States' second-largest trading partner in the Middle East: Iraq purchased $5.2 billion in U.S. exports, while the U.S. bought $5.5 billion in Iraqi petroleum. From 1987 to July 1990, U.S. imports of Iraqi oil increased from 80,000 to 1.1 million barrels per day.
Eagleburger and Baker had much to do with that skyrocketing trade. In December 1983, then undersecretary of state Eagleburger wrote the U.S. Export-Import Bank to personally urge it to begin extending loans to Iraq to "signal our belief in the future viability of the Iraqi economy and secure a U.S. foothold in a potentially large export market." He noted that Iraq "has plans well advanced for an additional 50 percent increase in its oil exports by the end of 1984." Ultimately, billions of loans would be made or backed by the U.S. government to the Iraqi dictator, money used by Hussein to purchase U.S. goods.
In 1984, Baker became treasury secretary, Reagan opened full diplomatic relations with Iraq, and Eagleburger became president of Henry Kissinger's corporate consultancy firm, Kissinger Associates.
Kissinger Associates participated in the U.S.-Iraq Business Forum through managing director Alan Stoga. The Forum was a trade association representing some 60 American companies, including Bechtel, Lockheed, Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, and Hunt Oil. The Iraqi ambassador to the United States told a Washington, D.C., audience in 1985, "Our people in Baghdad will give priority -- when there is a competition between two companies -- to the one that is a member of the Forum." Stoga appeared regularly at Forum events and traveled to Iraq on a Forum-sponsored trip in 1989 during which he met directly with Hussein. Many Kissinger clients were also members of the Forum and became recipients of contracts with Hussein.
In 1989, Eagleburger returned to the state department now under Secretary Baker. That same year, President Bush signed National Security Directive 26 stating, "We should pursue, and seek to facilitate, opportunities for U.S. firms to participate in the reconstruction of the Iraqi economy, particularly in the energy area."
The president then began discussions of a $1 billion loan guarantee for Iraq one week before Secretary Baker met with Tariq Aziz at the state department to seal the deal.
But once Hussein invaded Kuwait, all bets were off. Baker made a public plea for support of military action against Hussein, arguing, "The economic lifeline of the industrial world runs from the Gulf and we cannot permit a dictator such as this to sit astride that economic lifeline."
Baker had much to gain from increased access to Iraq's oil. According to author Robert Bryce, Baker and his immediate family's personal investments in the oil industry at the time of the first Gulf War included investments in Amoco, Exxon and Texaco. The family law firm, Baker Botts, has represented Texaco, Exxon, Halliburton and Conoco Phillips, among other companies, in some cases since 1914 and in many cases for decades. (Eagleburger is also connected to Halliburton, having only recently departed the company's board of directors). Baker is a longtime associate and now senior partner of Baker Botts, which this year, for the second year running, was recipient of "The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers Oil & Gas Law Firm of the Year Award," while the Middle East remains a central focus of the firm.
This past July, U.S. Energy Secretary Bodman announced in Baghdad that senior U.S. oil company executives would not enter Iraq without passage of the new law. Petroleum Economist magazine later reported that U.S. oil companies put passage of the oil law before security concerns as the deciding factor over their entry into Iraq. Put simply, the oil companies are trying to get what they were denied before the war or at anytime in modern Iraqi history: access to Iraq's oil under the ground. They are also trying to get the best deal possible out of a war-ravaged and occupied nation. However, waiting for the law's passage and the need to guarantee security of U.S. firms once they get to work, may well be a key factor driving the one proposal by the Iraq Study Group that has received great media attention: extending the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq at least until 2008.
As the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group are more thoroughly considered, we should remain ever vigilant and wary of corporate war profiteers in pragmatist's clothing.
*All quotes are referenced in my book, "The Bush Agenda."
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Antonia Juhasz is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time," and a contributing author, with John Perkins and others, of "A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption." www.TheBushAgenda.net.Recommend this Post
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ASM : PRESS BLOG
Represented Artist 2016-2017
The greatest failure of photography is its inherent nostalgia. It forces us to constantly look backwards, filling present voids with imperfect depictions of the past. Photographs promise something permanent yet their very existence is a direct result of how ephemeral the experiences they represent actually are. They fall pitifully short in capturing the essence of what we want them to represent, yet we still expect them to act as stand-ins for the past. My work, while stemming from autobiographical experiences, investigates our relationship, expectations, and attachment to the photographic image. The images are direct, photographed with an objective distance that hovers between the intimate and the analytic. Linear time is disregarded as the very existence of a photograph is an interruption to that system. Photographs can be reflected on with both sorrow and delight as their presence suggests a glimpse of our past, present, and future all in one moment. The expectation that photography can be equated with foreverness is undone through images of unending landscapes, ailing pets, and the nostalgia associated with vernacular images and documents.
About Sarah Smith:
Originally from Middletown, New York, Sarah Smith received a MFA from the University of Iowa in 2013 and a BFA from Murray State University. Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions include, I Can’t Love Nobody Else But You at Penn State Altoona’s Sheetz Gallery and An Island is Unreliable at the Janice Mason Art Museum. Her work has been included in various group exhibitions including Art Helix in Brooklyn, Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Her short film “Everything is Here” was recently screened at Torch Cinema Outdoors at TROOST in Brooklyn, NY. In 2017 she will be showing new work in a solo exhibition at The Shed Space in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah currently lives in Tennessee where she teaches at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
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Original Styx Vocalist Dennis DeYoung Announces ‘The Grand Illusion’ 40th-Anniversary Tour
February 8, 2018 Jason Bullinger
Dennis DeYoung has announced a special live tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of Styx’s iconic 1977 album release, “The Grand Illusion”. DeYoung will reflect back on more than four decades of musical excellence throughout the performance. This includes performing the entire “Grand Illusion” album plus all the greatest hits written and sung by DeYoung, including “Come Sail Away”, “Babe”, “Mr. Roboto”, “The Best Of Times” and “Lady”. Other hit songs attendees may expect include fan favorites “Renegade”, “Blue Collar Man”, “Suite Madame Blue” and more.
The excitement of “The Grand Illusion 40th Anniversary Tour” is the magic of DeYoung’s instantly recognizable voice bringing the classic Styx catalog to the live stage. For fans that weren’t witness to the original album tour, DeYoung shares: “‘The Grand Illusion’ album was Styx’s greatest achievement, and this year my band and I will bring its sound and spirit to life nightly on concert stages across America.”
Of “The Grand Illusion” album, DeYoung adds: “I formulated the theme behind ‘The Grand Illusion’ album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products. I told the audience that we were part of the Illusion and warned them not to be ‘fooled by the radio,’ which was us, and that in the end, despite the illusions and hype created, that ‘deep inside we’re all the same.”
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Islam, Apostasy, and Abdullah Ibn Sa'd Ibn Abi Sarh
Muhammad ordered his followers to kill apostates. Yet people who leave Islam often do so for very good reasons. Abdullah Ibn Sa'd Ibn Abi Sarh, for instance, decided to leave Islam when Muhammad let him add words to the Qur'an. Is the Islamic penalty for apostasy simply a means of keeping people from going where the evidence points?
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R S Roudh said...
I have always wondered why the Quran never warns against, condemns, recognises or says anything about false prophets. In its narratives all who claim to be prophets are always telling the truth and anyone who rejects a prophet’s credibility is always wicked. The message of the Quran is that anyone who claims to be a prophet must be believed, or else face Allah’s wrath.
Verse 6:93 is an exception and the only verse in the Quran that condemns anyone for bringing a false revelation. On this occasion Muhammad was forced to recognise that someone could falsely claim to have received inspiration because the affair of Abdullah Ibn Sa’d Ibn Abi Sarh was too damaging to his credibility. Perhaps the only other time that the Islamic sources record someone bringing a false revelation is in the story of the Satanic Verses. This story, however, still does not recognize the concept of a false prophet.
Because of the degree of opposition and rejection Muhammad encountered against his own claim of prophethood the last thing Muhammad wanted to talk about was false prophets, whether they came in the past or were yet to come. In other words the reason why Muhammad completely avoided the subject of false prophets was because he did not want to throw off the scent of his own deceit.
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Brian is a speechwriter and humorist.
Brian’s humor writing has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Splitsider, and Funny or Die. His pilot about young Senate aides, Staffers, was a finalist in the 2011 New York Television Festival-Fox Comedy Script Contest. He served on the writing staff for the District of Comedy Roast of James Carville, and has contributed material to the Alfalfa Club, Gridiron Club, and Al Smith dinners. Occasionally, he emerges victorious at New York City’s only pun competition, Punderdome 3000.
When he’s not crafting jokes, Brian writes for Fortune 50 CEOs, foundation presidents, and some of the country’s most influential thought leaders on a range of topics including global trade, mobile technology, and the evolution of media. Recently, he was part of the on-site speechwriting operation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Before joining West Wing Writers, Brian was a media strategist at OMD. Previously, he worked with The Second City, in Chicago, and on Thomas Menino’s successful 2010 reelection campaign in Boston.
Brian graduated magna cum laude with a degree in political science from Tufts University, where he delivered the Wendell Phillips Memorial Address. He currently lives in New York City.
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Kyousuke and Madoka have finally arrived at the point where they are close to graduation and have to decide where they want to go to college. Naturally, they want to go together, so beside all the studying they also have to look for a proper college where they can enter both. Hikaru, still a year from graduating, wants to support Kyousuke as well and does that in her own way. But while she does that, Madoka feels jealous and tells her feelings to Kyousuke. And then Kyousuke has to take action to finally decide on the girl he loves.
Sex and the Beauties (2004)
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The Clowns (1970)
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Bonkers (2005)
Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctively does things like an elephant as a result. Her single mother, Lis, is bi-polar and at times spends days on end without even getting out of bed. Then there are other times when she will manically do wild acts, such as impromptu dancing in public. As a result, Bonnie's sturdy and stable grandmother must hold the family together by doing all the cooking, etc. After her grandmother is killed by a car, Bonnie becomes the most responsible family member and struggles with preparing meals and getting her reluctant mother to take her medication. She also must dodge Jorien, a social worker who is attempting to place her in a foster home.
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
LOL (2006)
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Crimi Clowns: De Movie (2013)
Not so long ago, Ronny Tersago and his gang where at the top of the Flemish showbiz as Clown Norry and Co.. Their heyday are over. Nowadays they are working overtime at night as burglars. Ronny's son Wesley was kicked out of the Amsterdam film school, filming their passionate performances and crimes, their nocturnal excesses and turbulent private life. It seemed it was going downhillwith for the gang when suddenly they hit hte jackpot. And then the problems really start..
Oo Na... Mahal Na Kung Mahal (1999)
A Filipino coming-of-age film directed by Johnny Manahan.
The Elephant Man (1980)
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
Flame & Citron (2008)
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?
The King and the Clown (2005)
Set in the late 15th century during the reign of King Yeonsan, two male street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng (Gam Wu-seong) and Gong-gil (Lee Joon-gi), are part of an entertainer troupe. Their manager prostitutes the beautiful Gong-gil to rich customers, and Jangsaeng is sickened by this practice. After Gong-gil kills the manager in defense of Jangsaeng, the pair flee to Seoul, where they form a new group with three other street performers...
The Legend of Suriyothai (2001)
During the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up to help protect the glory of the Kingdom of Ayothaya. Based on the life of Queen Suriyothai.
Cabiria (1914)
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna. She is sold as a slave in Carthage, and as she is just going to be sacrificed to god Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by both Fulvio Axilla, a Roman noble, and his giant slave Maciste. Maciste is captured just after having confided Cabiria to Sophinisbe's safe keeping, while Fulvio Axilla manages to escape from Carthage. Ten years went away with Punic wars before he is able to come back to Carthage...
Night on Earth (1991)
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Look for a Star (2009)
Wealthy construction mogul Andy Lau and cabaret dancer Qi Shu fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Shu doesn't know is that Lau is the man responsible for razing a building representing cherished memories from her childhood. Can they live happily ever after if this secret gets out?
Sit Ho Ching used to be an everyday white-collar worker who had no ambition and no plans for his future. Everything went smoothly until one day, when his boss set him up and his girlfriend cheated on him, he suddenly became a jobless single man, which made him rethink his past life of duties and routines. From then on, he decides to pursue wealth and fame by all means.
Gaz Bar Blues (2003)
This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the best he can and tries to stay happy no matter what happens. This movie relates all the small tragedies surrounding the gaz bar, such as hold-ups, competition from the big companies invading the neighbourhood, and the fact that is sons don't seem to be interested in the gas station.
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko's daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.
The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
Always: Sunset on Third Street 3 (2012)
The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...
Air Bud (1997)
A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. Josh is amazed when he realizes that Buddy loves basketball...that is playing basketball...and he is GOOD! Josh eventually makes the school team and Buddy is named the Team Mascot. Josh and Buddy become the stars of halftime. Buddy's half-time talent draws media attention. Unfortunately, when Buddy's mean former owner, Norm Snively, comes along with a scheme to cash in on the pup's celebrity, it looks like they are going to be separated.
Strange Gardens (2003)
Lucien, 14, cant understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Luciens fathers best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Luciens fathers strange behavior.
The Elephant Boy 2 (2004)
Saeng is helping his friend Nual repay her family debt by once again taking his elephant on the streets. But the money isn't any good so they decide to enter an elephant competition with a prize money more than enough to repay the debt.
The Gigolo (2015)
Fung looks like a super-heartthrob and was bon with a special endowment, making him the high school idol. He was expelled from school when he was caught fighting on campus. When his mom, the sole provider of his family with her poultry business, had to stop working due to her back problems, Fung decides to support his family financially. And from that moment, his life takes on a tumultuous change
The Gigolo 2 (2016)
Fung, aka King of the Gigolos, is now retired and running a nightspot in Hong Kongs Lan Kwai Fong entertainment district. He takes on a rare new client, Monica, who has reluctantly turned to prostitution to pay her mothers medical bills. Having been referred to him for carnal guidance after a customer labels her a dead fish, Monica inevitably falls for Fungs charms.
City of Hope (1991)
This gritty inner-city film by John Sayles follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father (Tony Lo Bianco). Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn (Joe Morton), an idealistic young politician.
Triad Underworld (2004)
When Triad leader Hung's wife gives birth to a baby boy, Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters. Despite the fact that he is not sure of his decision, word gets out fast and now, a brutal war begins in the world of "jiang-hu". Two hoodlums, Wing and Turbo, set to make a name for themselves, are ordered to kill Hung. Meanwhile, an internal conflict begins between Hung and his #1 man, Left-Hand. Despite this conflict, the two have nothing but respect for each other. However, they know deep down, that there are people waiting to get rid of Hung.
When Elephants Were Young (2016)
A young man and his young elephant street beg in gritty Bangkok amid the controversial elephant business that threatens their survival, until the opportunity comes to release the elephant to the wild.
Elephant Walk (1954)
The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.
Elephant Boy (1937)
This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Selena (1997)
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
RPG Metanoia (2010)
Nico's hundrum daily existence simply cannot compete with the fantasy life he leads the world's most popular MMORPG METANOIA, as the swashbuckling vagabond Zero, together with his companions: the spiritist Mang Ernie, renegade chi-master K'mao, apprentice weapon-smith Sumpak, folk hero Ahdonis and the beast master Cassandra, they explore Metanoia's vast virtual landscape in search of untold on-line fortune and glory! As the malevolent force surfaces and threatens to destroy everything they hold precious, the fate of two worlds rests upon the shoulder of one very unlikely champion. One who must first find way to burst out of his shell and discover the true hero within-before it's too late!
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
Fire (1996)
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Killers (2014)
Mr. Nomura is an eerily handsome, sharply dressed, sociopathic serial killer who preys on the women of Tokyo. In Jakarta, a world-weary journalist named Bayu finds himself unexpectedly falling into vigilantism after brutally killing two sadistic robbers. When each posts videos of their violent sprees online, the pair find one another on the Internet and begin a toxic and competitive duel. While Bayu clings to the hope that he can resume a normal life, Nomura continues to spill blood without remorse. Killing, advises Nomura, is something everyone ought to consider.
Return of the Texan (1952)
A young widower named Sam Crockett returns from Kansas City to his small hometown in rural Texas, bringing with him his feisty grandfather and two young sons, Steve and Yoyo. He tries to make a go of the old family homestead but faces financial problems and pressures from his well-to-do neighbor, Rod Marshall. He also begins an on-again-off-again romance with Rod's sister-in-law, even though she's engaged to wed the town's doctor. Events come to head when Sam's grandfather suffers a stroke.
Elephant Song (2014)
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, where he locates the baby elephant in a restaurant owned by the evil Madame Rose, the leader of an international Thai mafia. With the support of the efficient Thai sergeant Mark, who was involved in a conspiracy, Kham fights to rescue the animal from the mobsters.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
Gimme Gimme (2001)
Lobo and Skid are very close friends. They study in the same class and often play in a band and play skateboards with their classmates. Soda, one of their classmates, has many girlfriends concurrently, and Suki is his closest girlfriend. Fion is another classmate. She is addicted to chat in phone with friends and strangers every day. She always thinks she will find a true love from playing line.
Killer Elephants (1976)
This ain't no circus! From the depths of Thai film history comes Kom Akadejs forgotten masterpiece about cops, gangsters, a house-crushing story of love, and killer elephants!
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn, is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades "Uncle" Goldie, Dodo's agent in the good old days, to find a booking for Dodo. He can't, and Dink is sent to live with his remarried-and-wealthy mother, Paula. The unhappy Dink runs back to his father. His welcome return gives Dodo the courage needed to try a knockabout TV show offered by Goldie
The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Searching for the Elephant (2009)
A freelance photographer Hyun-woo seems to live an enviable life with a successful career. But his inside is torn apart from the sorrow of being deserted by his ex-girlfriend Mari. He even gets unclear about whats really happening in reality and whats delusion. One of Hyun-woos friend and a riding-high plastic surgeon, Min-seok is married to Soo-yeon, a sister of Hyun-woo. But he is always having affairs with the girls around him and doubts himself if hes addicted to sex. Jin-hyuk, their longtime friend, is a financing specialist. And he is having a secret affair with Min-seoks wife. He is willing to leave everything behind for the love. Three men, who look like the winners in life, are in fact struggling with their own sufferings that they desperately strive to keep undisclosed. The harder they try to get out of the agony, the more complicated and puzzled it gets.
Cold Fish (2010)
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
The Elephant King (2006)
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this reason, Oliver is sent to Thailand to retrieve his brother. Once there, Oliver finds himself in Jake's bizarre life and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lek. However, it is not a coincidence that she and Oliver have met
Mera Naam Joker (1972)
Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make people laugh and be happy, no matter how unhappy he is within. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."
The Green Elephant (1999)
The movie is set in the brig, the walls of which are painted in a poisonous green color. There fall into two junior officers, Sergei "Fallen" Pakhomov and Vladimir "Little brother" Epifantsev. So, both lieutenant begin their dialogue. The dialogue began with a discussion of various philosophical problems, as well as the stories of two army lieutenants. Afterwards, "Fallen starts to turn the conversation in a completely different direction, telling the "Little brother" of how he first had sex with a drunken woman, about how he ejaculated at her face, and then he defecating in the sea, and also how during his urgent service he just did not become a queer...
Crimi Clowns 2.0: Scum (2016)
The Tersago family isn't your average family business: clowns by day, thieves by night. They get arrested following a robbery homicide in a villa in Brasschaat, but let off for lack of evidence, except for son Wesley. Wesley's sister Amber decides to finish Wesley's wacky reality movie herself. Father Ronny wants to get out of organized crime and launder the stolen money with the production of a musical. Ronny and his companion Lou get approached by two police inspectors entirely convinced of their involvement with the robbery homicide. The stolen money is rumored to belong to a powerful Russian drug lord. The Tersago's now realize their lives are in danger. An armed man slips into the theater during the premiere of the musical while son Wesley plans an escape from prison.
Vulgar (2000)
Vulgar is about a man who is a childrens clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment wich he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn.He has a nagging mother who lives in a nursing home, and his best friend is a moocher.One day he comes up with the idea to become a bachelor clown.
The Red Thread (2008)
Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
The Last Circus (2010)
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spains most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
Ponette (1996)
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; Ponette survives, but her mother does not. Her father (Xavier Beauvois) initially reacts with anger over his late wife's careless driving, while her Aunt Claire (Claire Nebout) tries to comfort the child by telling her about Jesus and the resurrection. However, none of this does much to reassure Ponette or clarify her confusion about the practical realities and spiritual dilemma posed by death. In time, Ponette and her cousins Matiaz (Matiaz Caton) and Delphine (Delphine Schiltz) are sent off to boarding school, where they have to resolve their confusion and loss on their own. ~Mark Deming, Rovi
The Blue Elephant (2014)
After 5 years of drop-out, Psychiatrist Dr. Yehia (Karim Abdel Aziz) returns to his job in El-Abbaseya Hospital, Just to find his College friend Sherif (Khaled El Sawy) just arrived for mental and psychological evaluation for being accused of murder. Trying to help him, Yehia unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
Born to Love You (2012)
Born to Love You is a romantic comedy about poor lass, portrayed by Angeline Quinto, who tries her best to provide the needs of her siblings by joining singing contests. In one of the singing contests she joined in, she met Martins character who is a photographer. The two then found themselves falling in love with each other.
Elephants and Grass (2001)
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Dervi? Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.
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Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
(Indonesia)
Ground transport infrastructure
Road construction;
Agricultural encroachment;
Illegal logging;
Poaching;
Institutional and governance weaknesses.
Road construction,
Illegal logging,
Encroachment.
Total amount granted: USD 1,800,000 for the 3-year UNF/UNFIP Project (2005-2007) – Partnership for the Conservation of Sumatra Natural Heritage; USD 35,000 Rapid Response Facility grant (2007); USD 30,000 International Assistance for development of Emergency Action Plan (2012).
Total amount approved : 96,600 USD
2012 DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIALIZATION OF THE EMERGENCY ACTION ... (Approved) 30,000 USD
2005 Emergency Assistance for the Rehibilitation of ... (Approved) 66,600 USD
2006: UNESCO/IUCN reactive monitoring mission; 2007: World Heritage Centre/IUCN reactive monitoring mission; February 2009: World Heritage Centre/IUCN reactive monitoring mission; April 2011: World Heritage Centre/IUCN reactive monitoring mission.
2013 Report on the IUCN Reactive Monitoring Mission to Jakarta, Indonesia, regarding the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of ...
2007 Report on the Joint IUCN-UNESCO Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, 5-11 ...
2006 Report on the IUCN-UNESCO Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, 25 February - ...
On 1 February 2013, the State Party submitted a detailed report on the state of conservation of the property, including a draft proposal for the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger for adoption by the Committee, which was developed jointly with IUCN and its Species Survival Commission. No corrective measures are proposed yet by the State Party for adoption by the Committee.
a) Road construction
The State Party reports that it has contacted several international donors to raise funds for the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the road network in the Bukit Barisan Mountain Range, as requested by the Committee in Decision 36 COM 7A.13, and that it expects that 600,000 USD will be available in 2013 to start the implementation of the SEA, which will take 18 months to complete. However, the State Party does not provide any information on whether a moratorium has been imposed on the construction of new roads that could negatively impact the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the property.
b) Boundary demarcation, law enforcement, and governance
The State Party reports that in 2012, 120 km of the boundary of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (BBSNP) have been reconstructed. It also reports continued conflicts with encroachers around Kerinci Seblat National Park (KSNP), particularly in the Lembah Masurai District, where they remove boundary markers. A solution to this problem is still being sought, and in the meantime park rangers routinely maintain boundary markers (600 km maintained in 2012) and, as a preventive measure, plant fruit trees along the boundary (60 km planted in 2012) which can be harvested by local communities.
The State Party notes that the boundary of Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) was formally established by decree in 1997 with an area of 1,094,692 ha. In 2000, a new decree reduced the size of GLNP, which continues to cause different interpretations of the park boundaries by the park authorities and the provincial government. The Centre of Forest Boundary Consolidation is currently in the process of clarifying this issue. The State Party emphasizes that the area of GLNP which is inscribed on the List of World Heritage is based on the latter decree. Also on the basis of the latter decree, the entire boundary of GLNP in the Province of North Sumatra (372.55 km) has been reconstructed, while in the Province of Aceh, which includes the larger portion of GLNP, only 159.83 km have so far been reconstructed. The State Party further notes that, as in the case of KSNP, encroachers around GLNP have removed boundary markers, particularly in Southeast Aceh Regency.
The State Party provides detailed information on a number of efforts undertaken in recent years by the authorities (government, park authorities, police, army) to address encroachment, illegal logging and poaching, which have led to the apprehension and prosecution of a modest number of offenders in KSNP. Joint operations in BBSNP to reduce encroachment, with the participation of park staff, police, local government institutions, state attorney offices, state army, NGOs and local communities, have resulted in the voluntary relocation of 1217 households, and the destruction of 866 illegal huts and 12 illegal bridges. Furthermore, several operations conducted by GLNP authorities and police forces resulted in the destruction of 35,000 illegally cultivated rubber trees in approximately 200 ha, as well as the destruction of 10 ha of illegal oil palm and cocoa plantations. The State Party further provides information about arrests on charges of encroachment (7 people) and illegal logging (6 people) in GLNP, indicating the involvement of the Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Southeast Aceh in a 40 ha encroachment, and the involvement of a local division of the army in illegal logging.
The World Heritage Centre and IUCN note with utmost concern that a recent report in the Jakarta Globe indicating that the Provincial Government of Aceh has proposed a new spatial plan which would convert 1.2 million ha of forests located near the property to mining, plantations, logging concessions and roads. On 2 May 2013, the World Heritage Centre sent a letter to the State Party requesting further information about this issue.
c) Mining
The State Party notes that the overlap between the mining areas of PT. Arustirta and PT. Aspiration Widya Chandra (1773 ha and 161 ha respectively) with GLNP is due to ambiguities of the boundaries of GLNP (see paragraph (b) above), which are defined differently in different ministerial documents.
In relation to concerns raised in 2012 by the World Heritage Centre and IUCN about small scale illegal mining occurring within the property, the State Party notes that any mining within the property, including small scale, is prohibited by law.
d) Wildlife monitoring
The State Party provides a detailed account of wildlife monitoring activities conducted in recent years in all three components of the serial property, focussed in particular on Sumatran tiger, Sumatran elephant, Sumatran rhino and Sumatran orangutan. It notes that it has set up a new format of baseline data to carry out monitoring for these species, however, it is not clear if the population estimates provided in its report constitute the baseline data, as for most species these estimates cover only parts of the components of the property.
Tigers were recorded in all three parks in 2011 and 2012, with the highest number in KSNP, but does not provide tiger population trend data, nor does it provide information on levels of poaching of any of the key species.
Elephants are also encountered in all three parks, and survey data in BBSNP suggest a population decline in part of their range in 2012 compared to 2010. However, the State Party considers that the perceived decline may be a result of different survey methods. In GLNP, the State Party notes that the elephant population in Langkat Regency has fragmented into two blocks, probably as a result of the rampant illegal logging and encroachment in that area.
The State Party notes that in BBSNP, a 2012 rhino population survey concentrated on the area around the recently upgraded Sanggi – Bengkunat road with the aim to determine, among others, the effect of the road on rhino and other wildlife. Results show that rhino distribution is negatively affected by the road, as rhinos tend to avoid it. Other wildlife appears less affected. In GLNP, a camera trap survey held in early 2012 recorded 5 individual rhinos in one area, which is a significant finding as it is the first photographic evidence of the existence of rhinos in GLNP in 32 years. No rhino has been recorded in KSNP in a 2012 survey. However, the State Party notes that appropriate rhino habitat still remains in KSNP, and further surveys in different areas of the park are planned in 2013 to determine the existence of rhino.
Finally, the natural range of orangutans is restricted to the northern part of Sumatra, hence it is only found in GLNP. A survey conducted in 2011, which included degraded forests and forests up to an altitude of 1,500 metres, estimated the number of orangutans in GLNP at 6684 (4536 - 9861), which is significantly higher than the 2025 orangutans estimated in 2004. However, the State Party notes that this difference does not necessarily reflect an increase in the orangutan population, as previous surveys excluded degraded forests and forests above 900 metres. The 2011 survey further showed that total orangutan abundance is clearly higher in the western (Aceh) part of GLNP than in the eastern (North Sumatra) part.
e) Ecosystem-based restoration plan and invasive species
The State Party reports that in 2012, forest rehabilitation activities were carried out in KSNP, BBSNP, and GLNP, covering 11,895 ha, 13,500 ha, and 2,500 ha, respectively, by planting at least 26 different indigenous tree species. The activities were carried out by park authorities in cooperation with the army, which provided support in areas with difficult terrain or potential conflict. Further forest rehabilitation activities are planned in KSNP until 2014 included, but no information is provided on further planned activities in GLNP and BBSNP.
In regards to the invasive species Meremia peltata, which occurs in parts of BBSNP, the State Party notes experimental treatments that have taken place in 2012 to identify treatments with minimal environmental impact. Two projects for the removal of invasive species are planned for 2013.
f) Emergency Action Plan and Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger
The State Party notes that after the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee, several workshops were organized at national and local level to further develop the draft Emergency Action Plan (EAP) for the property. Among the outcomes of these workshops was a recommendation to improve the EAP to make sure that it is compatible with the draft Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger, while maintaining a focus on nature preservation as well as the prosperity of the people living in the area.
The State Party provided a draft proposal for the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger, which was developed in cooperation with IUCN and its Species Survival Commission. It is noted that two of the indicators proposed (forest cover and population trend data for key species) will require comprehensive studies to establish baselines, while some indicators need to be further discussed and agreed between the State Party, IUCN and the World Heritage Centre.
g) Other conservation issues – buffer zone and geothermal energy
The State Party notes that GLNP and KSNP are currently undergoing the process of being designated National Strategic Areas (NSA), while BBSNP will start this process in 2013. The components of the property will form the core zones of these NSAs while the remaining area of the NSA will serve as a buffer zone. It is expected that these NSAs will effectively regulate planned and ongoing development located within their boundaries. It is further expected that the NSAs for all three components of the property will be prepared in time for the 2013 revision of the National Spatial Plan.
The State Party notes that due to the recent national energy crisis, it is considering the option of developing geothermal energy within the property, while endeavouring to minimize the resulting forest loss.
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 2013
The World Heritage Centre and IUCN note that there has been significant investment on the part of the State Party in addressing requests made by the Committee in previous decisions (35 COM 7B.16 and 36 COM 7A.13). The State Party reports a range of activities in terms of identifying and dealing with boundary issues (boundary demarcation, removal of encroaching settlements) and also reports having consulted extensively on its Emergency Action Plan. Though not yet finalized, significant progress has been made on the plan, and on the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger. They recommend that the Committee request the State Party to invite as soon as possible an IUCN reactive monitoring mission to assist the State Party to conclude, through consultation with the relevant institutions, the development of the Emergency Action Plan, the Desired state of conservation, and the Corrective Measures, and provide an agreed version of these documents to the World Heritage Centre by 1 December 2013.
The World Heritage Centre and IUCN welcome the information provided by the State Party that funding for a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the road network in the Bukit Barisan Mountain Range is expected to be released in 2013. However, they remain concerned that pressure from local governments for the construction of new roads remains high. They recommend that the Committee urge the State Party again to impose and maintain a moratorium on the construction of new roads that could compromise the outcomes of the SEA, until the SEA has been completed and its results translated into a legal framework to ensure they are applied. They also welcome the reported progress with the designation of the property’s components as National Strategic Areas, and consider that this is an important step towards establishing an appropriate buffer zone and ensuring stronger oversight of spatial and economic planning in areas adjoining the property and support management of the property at a landscape level.
The three component national parks that comprise the property are the most important habitats for critically threatened iconic species explicitly recognized in the property’s Statement of Outstanding Universal Value. The World Heritage Centre and IUCN welcome the renewed investment on the part of the State Party in population monitoring for these species, but note that results obtained so far do not provide a property wide impression on overall trends.
The World Heritage Centre and IUCN express concern about plans for developing geothermal energy inside the property, and they recommend that the Committee request the State Party to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments of any such plans, including an assessment of their potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value, and submit these to the World Heritage Centre before any decisions are taken that are difficult to reverse, in line with paragraph 172 of the Operational Guidelines.
Finally, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN recommend that the Committee retain the property on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
37 COM 7A.14
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia) (N 1167)
1. Having examined Document WHC-13/37.COM/7A.Add,
2. Recalling Decision 36 COM 7B.13 , adopted at its 36th session (Saint-Petersburg, 2012),
3. Welcomes progress on several items previously requested by the Committee, but notes that these have not yet been finalized, and urges the State Party to continue its efforts, namely to:
a) Finalize the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger in consultation with IUCN and the World Heritage Centre,
b) Draft corrective measures for consideration by the World Heritage Centre and IUCN,
c) Complete the Emergency Action Plan, ensuring its complementarity with the Desired State of Conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger;
4. Also welcomes the announcement that a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the road network in the Bukit Barisan Mountain Range is expected to proceed in 2013, and also urges the State Party to impose a moratorium on the construction of new roads that could compromise the outcomes of the SEA, until it has been completed;
5. Further welcomes the reported progress with the designation of the property’s components as National Strategic Areas and its implications for broader spatial and economic planning beyond the property’s boundaries;
6. Notes the detailed results obtained from various ecological monitoring efforts, and requests the State Party to continue these efforts, with the objective of developing a property wide understanding of the population trends for key species;
7. Further urges the State Party to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) of any plans to develop geothermal energy within the property boundaries, including an assessment of their potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value, and submit these EIAs to the World Heritage Centre before any decisions are taken that would be difficult to reverse, in line with Paragraph 172 of the Operational Guidelines ;
8. Urges furthermore the State Party to continue to take measures to address the other main threats noted by the Committee in previous decisions, including encroachment, poaching, and governance issues that complicate the resolution of these threats;
9. Also requests the State Party to invite an IUCN reactive monitoring mission as soon as possible, in order to conclude through consultation with the relevant institutions, including the World Heritage Centre, the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger, the corrective measures, and the Emergency Action Plan, and provide an agreed version of these documents to the World Heritage Centre by 1 December 2013 ;
10. Further requests the State Party to provide to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2014 , a comprehensive report on the state of conservation of the property, including a report on the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 38th session in 2014;
11. Decides to retain the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Having examined the state of conservation reports of properties inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger (WHC-13/37.COM/7A, WHC-13/37.COM/7A.Add and WHC-13/37.COM/7A.Add.
Decides to maintain the following properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger:
Afghanistan, Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam (Decision 37 COM 7A.29 )
Afghanistan, Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley (Decision 37 COM 7A.30 )
Belize, Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Decision 37 COM 7A.16 )
Central African Republic, Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.1)
Chile, Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works (Decision 37 COM 7A.37 )
Colombia, Los Katíos National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.17 )
Côte d'Ivoire, Comoé National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.2 )
Côte d'Ivoire / Guinea, Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Decision 37 COM 7A.3 )
Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Virunga National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.4 )
Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.5 )
Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Garamba National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.6 )
Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Salonga National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.7 )
Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Decision 37 COM 7A.8 )
Egypt, Abu Mena (Decision 37 COM 7A.23 )
Ethiopia, Simien National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.10 )
Georgia, Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery (Decision 37 COM 7A.32 )
Georgia, Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (Decision 37 COM 7A.33 )
Honduras, Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (Decision 37 COM 7A.18 )
Indonesia, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Decision 37 COM 7A.14 )
Iraq, Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) (Decision 37 COM 7A.24 )
Iraq, Samarra Archaeological City (Decision 37 COM 7A.25 )
Jerusalem, Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (Decision 37 COM 7A.26 )
Madagascar, Rainforests of the Atsinanana (Decision 37 COM 7A.11 )
Mali, Timbuktu (Decision 37 COM 7A.19 )
Mali, Tomb of Askia (Decision 37 COM 7A.20 )
Niger, Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves (Decision 37 COM 7A.12 )
Palestine, Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Decision 37 COM 7A.27 )
Panama, Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo (Decision 37 COM 7A.36 )
Peru, Chan Chan Archaelogical Zone (Decision 37 COM 7A.38 )
Senegal, Niokolo-Koba National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.13 )
Serbia, Medieval Monuments in Kosovo (Decision 37 COM 7A.34 )
Uganda, Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi (Decision 37 COM 7A.21 )
United Republic of Tanzania, Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara (Decision 37 COM 7A.22 )
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (Decision 37 COM 7A.35 )
United States of America, Everglades National Park (Decision 37 COM 7A.15 )
Venezuela, Coro and its Port (Decision 37 COM 7A.39 )
Yemen, Historic Town of Zabid (Decision 37 COM 7A.28 )
37 COM 8E
Adoption of retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value
1. Having examined Documents WHC-13/37.COM/8E and WHC-13/37.COM/8E.Add,
2. Congratulates States Parties for the excellent work accomplished in the elaboration of retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value for World Heritage properties in their territories;
3. Adopts the retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value, as presented in the Annex of Document WHC-13/37.COM/8E, for the following World Heritage properties:
Andorra: Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley;
Argentina: Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas; Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba; Quebrada de Humahuaca; Iguazu National Park;
Australia: Shark Bay, Western Australia; Greater Blue Mountains Area; Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens; Willandra Lakes Region; Kakadu National Park;
Austria / Hungary: Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape;
Bangladesh: The Sundarbans; Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur;
Belgium : La Grand-Place, Brussels;
Belgium / France: Belfries of Belgium and France;
Bolivia: Fuerte de Samaipata; Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture; Historic City of Sucre; Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos;
Brazil: Serra da Capivara National Park;
Chile: Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works; Rapa Nui National Park; Churches of Chiloé; Sewell Mining Town; Historic quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaiso;
China: Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area; Mount Huangshan; Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde; Ancient City of Ping Yao; Classical Gardens of Suzhou; Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing; Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun; Longmen Grottoes; Yungang Grottoes; Yin Xu; Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Historic center of Macao; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor;
Colombia: Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena; Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox; San Agustín Archaeological Park; National Archeological Park of Tierradentro;
Costa Rica: Area de Conservación Guanacaste;
Cuba: Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios; Desembarco del Granma National Park; Alejandro de Humboldt National Park; Old Havana;
Cyprus: Choirokoitia; Painted Churches in the Troodos Region;
Denmark: Kronborg Castle;
Ecuador: City of Quito; Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca; Galápagos Islands;
El Salvador: Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site;
Ethiopia: Aksum; Fasil Ghebbi;
Finland / Sweden: High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago;
Guatemala: Archeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua; Antigua Guatemala;
Germany: Classical Weimar; Messel Pit Fossil Site; Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier; Aachen Cathedral; Cologne Cathedral; Hanseatic City of Lübeck; Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar; Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin; Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof; Speyer Cathedral; Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen; Town of Bamberg;
Greece: Mount Athos;
Honduras: Maya Site of Copan;
Hungary: Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings; Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment; Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae); Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape; Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta; Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue;
Hungary / Slovakia: Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst;
India: Sun Temple, Konârak; Group of Monuments at Hampi; Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya; Elephanta Caves; Great Living Chola Temples; Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus); Mountain Railways of India;
Indonesia: Ujung Kulon National Park; Komodo National Park; Lorentz National Park; Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra; Sangiran Early Man Site;
Iran (Islamic Republic of): Pasargadae; Takht-e Soleyman;
Ireland: Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne;
Italy: Venice and its Lagoon;
Japan: Yakushima; Shirakami-Sanchi; Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area; Shiretoko; Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities); Shrines and Temples of Nikko; Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range; Itsukushima Shinto Shrine; Himeji-jo;
Latvia: Historic Centre of Riga;
Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Town of Luang Prabang;
Lithuania: Vilnius Historic Centre;
Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications;
Malaysia: Kinabalu Park;
Mauritius: Aapravasi Ghat;
Mexico: Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan; Historic Centre of Morelia; Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl; Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro; Historic Fortified Town of Campeche; Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro; Agave Landscape and the Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila; Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino; Ancient Maya City of Calakmul, Campeche; Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco; Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan; Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza; Historic Centre of Zacatecas; Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán; Sian Ka’an; Luis Barragán House and Studio; Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco; Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes; Historic Centre of Puebla; Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines; Pre-hispanic town of Uxmal; Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara; Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California; Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco; Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque; El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City;
Netherlands: Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station); Schokland and Surroundings; Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder); Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House);
Nicaragua: Ruins of León Viejo;
Nigeria: Sukur Cultural Landscape;
Norway: Rock Art of Alta; Urnes Stave Church; Bryggen;
Oman: Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn;
Pakistan: Taxila; Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta; Rohtas Fort; Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol;
Panama: Darien National Park; Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá;
Paraguay: Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue;
Peru: City of Cuzco; Chavin (Archaeological Site); Historic Centre of Lima; Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu;
Philippines: Historic town of Vigan;
South Africa: uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park;
Switzerland: Abbey of St Gall; Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair; Old City of Berne; Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona;
Thailand: Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex; Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries; Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns; Ban Chiang Archaeological Site;
Turkey: Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia; Nemrut Dağ; Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği; Hierapolis-Pamukkale;
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape; Blenheim Palace; Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church; Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd; City of Bath; Durham Castle and Cathedral; Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast; Heart of Neolithic Orkney; Ironbridge Gorge; Maritime Greenwich; New Lanark; Old and New Towns of Edinburgh; Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites; Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey; Tower of London; St Kilda; Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church;
Uruguay: Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento;
Uzbekistan: Itchan Kala;
Venezuela : Coro and its Port; Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas;
4. Decides that retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value for World Heritage properties in Danger will be reviewed by the Advisory Bodies in priority;
5. Further decides that, considering the high number of retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value to be examined, the order in which they will be reviewed by the Advisory Bodies will follow the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting, namely:
World Heritage properties in the Arab States;
World Heritage properties in Africa;
World Heritage properties in Asia and the Pacific;
World Heritage properties in Latin America and the Caribbean;
World Heritage properties in Europe and North America;
6. Requests the World Heritage Centre to harmonise all sub-headings in the adopted Statements of Outstanding Universal Value where appropriate and when resources and staff time allow to carry out this work;
7. Also requests the State Parties, Advisory Bodies and World Heritage Centre to ensure the use of gender-neutral language in the Statements proposed for adoption to the World Heritage Committee;
8. Further requests the World Heritage Centre to keep the adopted Statements in line with subsequent decisions by the World Heritage Committee concerning name changes of World Heritage properties, and to reflect them throughout the text of the Statements, in consultation with States Parties and Advisory Bodies;
9. Finally requests the States Parties to provide support to the World Heritage Centre for translation of the adopted Statements of Outstanding Universal Value into English or French respectively, and finally requests the Centre to upload these onto its web-pages.
Draft Decision: 37 COM 7A.14
2. Recalling Decision 36 COM 7B.13, adopted at its 36th session (Saint-Petersburg, 2012),
c) Complete the Emergency Action Plan, ensuring its complementarity with the Desired state of conservation;
7. Further urges the State Party to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) of any plans to develop geothermal energy within the property boundaries, including an assessment of their potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value, and submit these EIAs to the World Heritage Centre before any decisions are taken that would be difficult to reverse, in line with Paragraph 172 of the Operational Guidelines;
9. Also requests the State Party to invite an IUCN reactive monitoring mission as soon as possible, in order to conclude through consultation with the relevant institutions, including the World Heritage Centre, the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger, the corrective measures, and the Emergency Action Plan, and provide an agreed version of these documents to the World Heritage Centre by 1 December 2013;
10. Further requests the State Party to provide to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2014, a comprehensive report on the state of conservation of the property, including a report on the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 38th session in 2014;
Criteria: (vii)(ix)(x)
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Support for Multiple Languages
Although there are many reasons why it is desirable to support Eclipse development using multiple languages, in general these can be broken down into two broad categories:
benefits of using a particular language
benefits from enabling dynamic development
The benefits of being able to develop for Eclipse using specific languages include:
We extend the ability to develop for Eclipse to those who know how to program using that language.
This has potential to both increase the size of our community, and to make the experience better for our existing developers. For this to work however, it requires the resulting experience to be first-class. It isn't enough to be able to build toy applications; all the power of Eclipse must be available, and the programming style needs to be appropriate for the language. A good test case would be that some of the 4.x SDK plug-ins should be developed in some other language(s).
We allow Eclipse to be used in contexts where only that language can be used.
Of course, this assumes that the infrastructure to start the plug-in is available in that context, but this does not imply that all of Eclipse needs to be there — think "JavaScript bundles that run on the desktop and in web pages".
Depending on the direction that we take, OSGi could become significantly more flexible
Minimally, we need to extend OSGi to support the ability to recognize bundles written in other languages and locate/make available the required resources in order to run them. It's worth at least considering whether OSGi itself could benefit from being implemented in other languages, as way to bring the capabilities it provides to new environments (e.g. OSGi for the web, OSGi for (non-Java) embedded systems, etc.)
By enabling a more dynamic development style within Eclipse we:
make eclipse more malleable
By making the capabilities that Eclipse provides dynamically available, it will be easier to manipulate the appearance and behavior of Eclipse applications. For example, developers will be able to write code that drives other parts of the system (a la AppleScript). In addition, the boundaries between programmatic and declarative APIs will be reduced (e.g. plugin.js versus plugin.xml, or use of JS instead of core expressions).
enable new debugging workflows
For example, it will be possible to open views on the running workbench to introspect on the current state of the model and dynamically manipulate it. This will be possible without starting a second copy of Eclipse and/or running in debug mode, which greatly increases the ability to deal with those transient how-did-I-get-in-this-state problems.
simplify the task of implement macro recording/playback support
Although additional work is required to providing macro recording, the kinds of changes that must be made to support dynamic access to the Eclipse functionality are also required for effective macro support.
It could be argued that it is possible to make Eclipse development be more dynamic without moving to a different language, but the complexity of modifying java classes on the fly and inserting them into a running VM makes this difficult. Alternatively, using an interpreter for Java syntax is also possible, but this also introduces additional complexity, since the map between the running Java and the interpretation of it is complex. In any case, using Java directly makes it too easy to rely on Java code, rather than explicitly making the required functionality available as language neutral API.
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Jupiter shines brightest in February
Our solar system’s largest planet hits opposition this month, making it a perfect time to watch the dance of its four brightest moons.
By Eric Betz | Published: Thursday, January 29, 2015
RELATED TOPICS: JUPITER
When viewed through a telescope, Jupiter reveals lots of interesting features.
Damian Peach
Now’s the time to break out the telescope for a long look at Jupiter. The king of planets is making its closest approach to Earth, showing off its subtle features and dancing moons.
Jupiter lies among the relatively faint background stars of Cancer the Crab at its February peak.
Astronomy: Roen Kelly
Jupiter’s return to opposition happens every 13 months and makes the gaseous giant loom its largest and brightest in our night sky. When it reaches its peak at 1 p.m. EST February 6, the planet will span 45 arcseconds (1 arcsecond equals 1/3,600 of 1°) and shine at magnitude –2.6. That places Jupiter at three times the brightness of the brightest star in the sky, Sirius. It’s easily visible by naked eye, as the only objects in the night sky that are brighter are the Moon and the planet Venus.
Opposition occurs when Jupiter lies directly opposite from the Sun as seen from Earth. That means the planet will rise at sunset and set at sunrise, placing it in the sky all night long. This alignment also puts the solar system’s largest planet highest in the sky at local midnight, where it can be seen through the least amount of Earth’s atmosphere for the best possible view. You’ll easily spot the planet about halfway between the Beehive Cluster (M44), another great binocular target in Cancer the Crab, and 1st-magnitude Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo the Lion.
The solar system's largest planet will shine brilliantly during the long winter nights. It spends this period near the border between Caner and Leo.
At opposition, most will find their telescopes reveal Jupiter’s two dark belts, which are separated by a brighter equatorial zone. And the planet’s increase in apparent size should allow eyepiece views of cloud features in the jovian atmosphere too. Observers also will find it obvious that the planet is not perfectly circular, which is not an illusion. This is caused by the gaseous giant’s composition and rapid rotation. In fact, Jupiter spins completely in under 10 hours, which would allow a dedicated viewer to see the entire planet in just one long winter night.
Jupiter’s four brightest moons, which Galileo discovered in 1610, will also be an excellent sight. These Galilean satellites — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (in order of increasing distance from Jupiter) — seldom line up by distance. This happens on the night of opposition. Between sunset and about 2 a.m. EST, an observer can name the moons just by noting how far east of Jupiter they lie.
Three jovian moons lie near one another the night of February 26/27. Between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., four mutual events take place among them.
One particularly exciting series of events unfolds on the night of February 26. In a six-hour period above North American skies, there will be four interactions between the moons worth staying up for. Starting at 9:17 p.m. EST, Io will pass in front of Ganymede (an occultation). Then at 10:31 p.m., Io’s shadow will envelop Ganymede (an eclipse). At 11:28 p.m., Callisto eclipses Ganymede. And, for the night’s final event, Callisto’s shadow will engulf Io in an eclipse at 2:49 a.m.
The satellites are easy targets in small telescopes and will put on an inspiring period of dozens of these transits, eclipses, and shadows cast on the planet through August 2015. And for those in cold climes clouded out or not willing to brave the chill, the planet will remain fantastically bright for much of the coming year.
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Berkeley This Week
Tuesday July 04, 2006
Fourth of July at the Berkeley Marina, from noon to 9:30 p.m. A free admission, alcohol-free event, with live entertainment, arts & crafts, food, and activities for children. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. Sponsored by the City of Berkeley. www.ci.berkeley.ca.us.
Fourth of July Open House at Tilden Park Visit the Nature Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to meet critters, make nature crafts and have fun. 525-2233.
Free Sailboat Rides from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cal Sailing Club in the Berkeley Marina. Bring change of clothes, windbreaker, sneakers. For ages 5 and up. cal-sailing.org
Red Oak Victory Ship 4th of July BBQ at 6 p.m. Music, tour of the ship and a great view of fireworks around the Bay. Cost is $20. Located in Richmond harbor, Berth # 6, off Canal Blvd. Reservations required. 237-2933.
Save the Bay Fireworks Paddle Enjoy the Bay Area Fireworks by canoe off Arrowhead Marsh, from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Minimum age 10, children 10-12 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Cost is $30-$40. Registration required. 452-9261, ext. 109. www.saveSFbay.org
Family Storytime at 7 p.m. at the Kensington Library, 61 Arlington Ave. 524-3043.
Tuesday Tilden Walkers Join a few slowpoke seniors at 9:30 a.m. in the parking lot near the Little Farm for an hour or two walk. 215-7672, 524-9992.
Berkeley Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m., at the Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda. Share your digital images, slides and prints and learn what other photographers are doing. 548-3991.
St. John’s Prime Timers meets at 9:30 a.m. at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave. We offer ongoing classes in exercise and creative arts, and always welcome new members over 50. 845-6830.
Walking Tour of Jack London Waterfront Meet at 10 a.m. at the corner of Broadway and Embarcadero. Tour lasts 90 minutes. Reservations can be made by calling 238-3234. www.oaklandnet.com/walkingtours
“Super Size Me” a documentary on the physical, legal and financial costs of Americans and fast food, at 7:30 p.m. at Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland. Donations of $5 accepted.
“Predators and Their Prey” An introduction to live wild animals by Wildlife Associates at 2:30 p.m. at the Albany Library, 1247 Marin Ave. 526-3720, ext. 17.
American Red Cross Blood Services Volunteer Orientation from 10 a.m. to noon. Help is needed to support the more than 40 blood drives held each month all over the East Bay. For information call 594-5165.
Red Cross Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Herrick Campus, Maffley Auditorium, 2001 Dwight Way. To make an appointment call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE. www.BeADonor.com
The Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club provides free instruction Wed. and Sat. at 10:30 a.m. at 2270 Acton St. 841-2174.
Sleep Seminar at 7 p.m. at New Moon Opportunities, 378 Jayne Ave., Oakland. Free, but registration required. 465-2524.
Walk Berkeley for Seniors meets every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Sea Breeze Market, just west of the I-80 overpass. Everyone is welcome, wear comfortable shoes and a warm hat. 548-9840.
Fresh Produce Stand at San Pablo Park from 3 to 6:30 p.m. in the Frances Albrier Community Center. Sponsored by the Ecology Center’s Farm Fresh Choice. 848-1704.
Berkeley Peace Walk and Vigil at the Berkeley BART Station, corner of Shattuck and Center. Sing for Peace at 6:30 p.m. followed by Peace Walk at 7 p.m. www.geocities.com/
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First Thursdays at Fruitvale Village A street fair and farmer’s market from 5 to 8 p.m. with music, tastings, and children’s activities. Sponsored by Los Cantaros Taqueria and the Unity Council. 534-6900.
Teen Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club will discuss Poul Anderson’s “The Broken Sword” and J.R.R. Tolkein’s Ring trilogy at 4 p.m. at Claremont Branch Library, 2940 Benvenue. 981-6133.
East Bay Vivarium An introduction to insects, lizards, amphibians and reptiles at 11 a.m. at the Brookfield Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 9255 Edes Ave. 615-5725.
Avatar Metaphysical Toastmasters Club meets at 6:45 p.m. at Spud’s Pizza, 3290 Adeline at Alcatraz. jstansby@yahoo.com
World of Plants Tours Thurs., Sat. and Sun. at 1:30 p.m. at the UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive. Cost is $5. 643-2755.
Impeachment Banner Fridays at 6:45 to 8 a.m. on the Berkeley Pedestrian bridge between Seabreeze Market and the Berkeley Aquatic Park, ongoing on Fridays until impeachment is realized. www. Impeachbush-cheney.com
“Keep the A’s in Oakland” Tailgate Party from 5 to 7 p.m. at the B parking lot tailgate area on the Hegenberger side. Entertaintment and speeches fromlocal leaders. chooseorlooseoakland@yahoo.com
Stagebridge Story Workshop with local storytellers on Fridays in July from 10 a.m. to noon at Arts First Oakland Center, 2501 Harrison St., Oakland. Bring a bag lunch. Cost is $10 per workshop, or $25 for the series. 444-4755.
Celebración: Food and Music of Peru at 6:30 p.m. at Crowden Center for Music, 1475 Rose St. Suggested donation $15. Please RSVP to 526-5194.
Berkeley Critical Mass Bike Ride meets at the Berkeley BART the second Friday of every month at 5:30 p.m.
Berkeley Chess Club meets Fridays at 8 p.m. at the East Bay Chess Club, 1940 Virginia St. Players at all levels are welcome. 845-1041.
Women in Black Vigil, from noon to 1 p.m. at UC Berkeley, Bancroft at Telegraph. wibberkeley@yahoo.com 548-6310, 845-1143.
Mini-Farmers in Tilden A farm exploration program, from 10 to 11 a.m. for ages 4-6 years, accompanied by an adult. We will explore the Little Farm, care for animals, do crafts and farm chores. Wear boots and dress to get dirty! Fee is $6-$8. Registration required. 636-1684.
Crown Beach Clean-up in the aftermath of the 4th from 9 a.m. to noon at Crown Beach, Alameda. Trash bags, gloves and other equipment provided by Save the Bay. 452-9261, ext. 109. www.saveSFbay.org
Oakland Heritage Walking Tour of the F. M. “Borax” Smith Estate from 10 a.m. to noon. Meet at the redwood tree, corner of McKinley Ave. and Home Place East, one block off Park Blvd. Cost is $5-$15. 763-9218. www.oaklandheritage.org
Walking Tour of Historic Oakland Churches and Temples Meet at 10 a.m. at the front of the First Presbyterian Church at 2619 Broadway. Tour lasts 90 minutes. Reservations can be made by calling 238-3234. www.oaklandnet.com/
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Produce Stand at Spiral Gardens Food Security Project from 1 to 6 p.m. at the corner of Sacramento and Oregon St.
Guide Dogs for the Blind Meet a puppy in-training at 2 p.m. at the Kensington Library, 61 Arlington Ave. 524-3043.
Sushi Basics Learn the natural and cultural history of sushi as you prepare and taste several different types.Fee is $25-$39. Registration required. 636-1684.
Himalayan Cooking Class from 3 to 5 p.m. at Taste of the Himalayas. Cost is $50. Registration required. 849-4983.
ChiRunning/ChiWalking A talk at 3 p.m. at Elephant Pharmacy, 1607 Shattuck Ave. 549-9200.
Free Garden Tours at Regional Parks Botanic Garden Sat. and Sun. at 2 pm. Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Tilden Park. Call to confirm. 841-8732.
Around the World Tour of Plants at 1:30 p.m., Thurs., Sat. and Sun. at UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive. 643-2755.
Car Wash Benefit for Options Recovery Services of Berkeley, held every Sat. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lutheran Church, 1744 University Ave. 666-9552.
Toddler Nature Walk for two and three-year-olds to look for butterflies and other inscets at 10:30 a.m. at Tilden Nature Center, Tilden Park. 525-2233.
Oakland Heritage Walking Tour of the Mountain View Cemetery from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Meet at Chapel of the Chimes, 4400 Peidmont Ave. Cost is $5-$15. 763-9218. www.oaklandheritage.org
Green Sunday: Oakland’s Oak to Ninth Street Scandal Can we stop this massive give away of our waterfront? From 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North Oakland.
New Farmers’ Market Opens in Kensington, and will run year-round on Sun. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the parking lot behind ACE Hardware at 303 Arlington Ave. at Amherst. 528-4346.
Summer Sunday Forum: Wold Vision with Angela Mason at 9:30 a.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Rd., Kensington. 525-0302, ext. 306.
Free Hands-on Bicycle Clinic Learn how to keep your bike in excellent working condition through safety inspections, from 10 to 11 a.m. at REI, 1338 San Pablo Ave. 527-4140.
Twilight Tour to Learn Botanical ABC’s at 5:30 p.m. at the UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive. Cost is $8-$12. Registration required. 643-2755.
Miksang Contemplative Photography A talk at noon at Elephant Pharmacy, 1607 Shattuck Ave. 549-9200.
Free Garden Tours at Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park Sat. and Sun. at 2 p.m. Call to confirm. 841-8732.
Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace Peace walk around the lake every Sun. Meet at 3 p.m. at the colonnade at the NE end of the lake. 763-8712. lmno4p.org
Tibetan Buddhism with Sylvia Gretchen on “Visualization and Sacred Art” at 6 p.m. at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute, 1815 Highland Pl. 843-6812.
Commission on the Status of Women meets Wed., July 5, at 7:30 p.m., at the North Berkeley Senior Center. Tasha Tervelon, 981-5190. www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/
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Housing Advisory Commission meets Thurs., July 6, at 7:30 p.m., at the South Berkeley Senior Center. Oscar Sung, 981-5400. www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/
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Landmarks Preservation Commission meets Thurs. July 6, at 7:30 p.m., at the North Berkeley Senior Center. 981-7419. www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/
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Public Works Commission meets Thurs., July 6, at 7 p.m., at the North Berkeley Senior Center. Jeff Egeberg, 981-6406. www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/commissions/publicworks
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Michigan Court of Appeals Upholds Zoning Escrow Fee Policy
In Forner v Allendale Charter Township Supervisor, an unpublished decision decided on March 21, 2019 (Case No. 339072, 2019 WL 1302094), the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the application of Allendale Charter Township’s zoning escrow fee policy pursuant to a zoning board of appeals case. The township required the plaintiff to pay a $1,500 zoning escrow fee pursuant to an appeal to the township’s zoning board of appeals. The plaintiff alleged that the township lacked statutory authority to charge the fee. Both the district court and the circuit court held that the township had the right to charge a zoning escrow fee pursuant to MCL 125.3406(1) because plaintiff’s request related to a legal question regarding land use. The Court of Appeals determined that MCL 125.3406(1) applies only to zoning permits and does not authorize a zoning escrow fee for appeals to the administrative zoning board of appeals. However, the Court of Appeals upheld the zoning escrow fee for the appeal to the zoning board of appeals based on the jurisdiction of the township’s zoning board of appeals pursuant to MCL 125.3603 and the Allendale Charter Township Zoning Ordinance, which provides that fees may be charged for an appeal to the zoning board of appeals. The Court held that township ordinance authority is to be broadly construed. Furthermore, the township had in place a resolution which both authorized fixed fees and also variable zoning escrow amounts. The Court noted that the zoning escrow fees in the case were only used to reimburse the township for actual costs incurred for the services necessarily incurred by the township for the zoning board of appeals to carry out its duties. Read More
Important Michigan Court of Appeals Decision regarding Zoning Site Plan Appeals to Circuit Court
In Woodcreek of Ann Arbor Association, et al. v City of Ann Arbor, et al., unpublished decision dated March 12, 2019 (Case No. 342848; 2019 WL 1140261), the City of Ann Arbor approved a site plan to allow a developer to develop a condominium complex. Neighboring property owners and a nearby property owners association filed a lawsuit in the Washtenaw County Circuit Court to overturn the zoning approval. The circuit court dismissed the neighbors’ lawsuit as untimely, which decision was upheld by the Michigan Court of Appeals. Read More
The Michigan Court of Appeals Enhances Township Regulation of Public Roads
In Oshtemo Charter Township v. Kalamazoo County Road Commission, decided on June 25, 2013, the Michigan Court of Appeals made it easier for Michigan townships to enact reasonable regulations regarding county public roads (especially truck route ordinances) over the objection of the local county road commission. For more information, contact our office. Read More
Michigan Supreme Court to Hear Appeal Regarding Demolition Orders
In December 2012, the Michigan Court of Appeals issued a published decision that requires municipalities to give property owners an opportunity to repair structures prior to demolition, regardless of the extent of the damage or the cost to repair. Read More
Crystal Morgan and Cliff Bloom: Success at the Michigan Supreme Court in a Riparian Case
After receiving an unfavorable decision in the circuit court in a case involving riparian/lake access issues, the plaintiffs/riparian property owners hired our attorneys to pursue an appeal of the decision. Our clients won a partial victory in the Michigan Court of Appeals, which reversed portions of the trial court’s adverse decision. Thereafter, our clients pursued an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court and based on the record and the application for leave to appeal drafted by BSM attorneys, the Michigan Supreme Court vacated the erroneous portions of the Court of Appeals decision regarding a prescriptive easement, and granted major relief to our clients. To read the Court of Appeals opinion and the Michigan Supreme Court order, click here Read More
Michigan Medical Marihuana Act
On July 31st the Michigan Court of Appeals issued an opinion involving the “medical marihuana” ordinance adopted by the City of Wyoming in 2010. The amendment prohibited any use in the city that was contrary to federal law. The effect of the amendment was to prohibit the use of medical marihuana in its entirety within the city because federal law prohibits the use of marihuana. Wyoming was not alone in this response to the adoption of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (“MMA”); a number of communities on the eastern side of the state took the same approach. Read More
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Favorite: Ohio State. With Kansas out of the picture, the Buckeyes are the new team to beat in the Midwest Region. Although it hasn’t played its best yet, Ohio State has the pieces to get to Indianapolis. The Buckeyes overcame poor shooting nights from Evan Turner and David Lighty to beat UC Santa Barbara in the first round by 17, then held Georgia Tech’s lottery pick post duo of Gani Lawal and Derrick Favors to 21 points and eight rebounds in a nine-point second round win. Turner leads the way for this team; the National Player of the Year has shown he can carry the Buckeyes for multiple games. Jon Diebler is a lights-out three-point shooter. He is averaging 21.5 points and has gone 11-for-22 from behind the arc in the NCAA Tournament. William Buford can create his own shot, while David Lighty is one of the most versatile defenders in the country. Dallas Lauderdale doesn’t provide much offensively, but he has totaled 16 rebounds and 11 blocks in two games. The Buckeyes don’t have much depth, which could haunt them eventually. Against Tennessee, Ohio State needs to handle the Vols’ ball pressure and be sure to defend against dribble penetration.
Cinderella: Northern Iowa. The story of the Tournament so far – aside from parity – was the Panthers’ upset of top-seeded Kansas in the second round on Saturday. Ali Farokhmanesh has been the hero for UNI, hitting the game-winning 27-footer against UNLV in the first round and then the clinching three against Kansas on Saturday. UNI has not shot the ball tremendously well, but it continues to make clutch baskets and make big stops on the defensive end. Keeping games in the half-court has been key, as well. Farokhmanesh has hit nine three-pointers and is averaging 16.5 points, while Kwadzo Ahelegbe needs to find his shot – he is just 4-for-17 thus far. Up front, 7-0 center Jordan Eglseder has been supremely effective, averaging 11.5 points and 7.5 rebounds in 18.0 minutes. Adam Koch is a versatile inside-outside forward who needs to be more aggressive. The Panthers have received steady point guard play from Johnny Moran, as well as great production from their bench. Back-ups are scoring 17.5 points per game for UNI. With Michigan State’s Kalin Lucas out, the Panthers should be able to win the tempo battle, but will need to be sure to keep the Spartans off the glass.
Most intriguing personnel match-up: Ohio State’s Evan Turner vs. Tennessee’s J.P. Prince. Two of the most versatile perimeter players in the country, both Turner and Prince are the keys to their respective teams. Turner is the best player in the country, and his ability to score, rebound and distribute is unbelievable. He bounced back from a rough first round, and is now averaging 16.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 7.0 assists in the Big Dance. Prince has plenty of talent, but he has been inconsistent throughout his college career. The 6-7 lefty is excellent in transition and can get to the basket effectively. Prince is playing well lately, scoring in double-figures in seven of his last eight games, including both NCAA Tournament contests. He has the size and length to slow down Turner’s penetration ability. If Turner is able to take care of the ball – he had nine turnovers against Georgia Tech – and get into the lane, Tennessee is in trouble.
First-weekend knockout that will be here next year: San Diego State. A lot of this hinges on early-entries, considering Georgetown (Greg Monroe), Kansas (Cole Aldrich, Xavier Henry) and Georgia Tech (Derrick Favors, Gani Lawal) will be big-time contenders next season if everyone returns. As it stands, the Aztecs look like a team poised to win a couple of games in March next season. SDSU will return all five starters from a team that won 10 of its last 12 games and nearly knocked off Tennessee in the first round. Kawhi Leonard and Malcolm Thomas are an excellent forward tandem, while Billy White is another athletic frontcourt player. D.J. Gay was impressive as a freshman point guard. UNLV also returns most of its key players, and will get Kentucky transfer Derrick Jasper back from injury.
All-First Weekend Team:
Guard- Ali Farokhmanesh, Northern Iowa: 16.5 points, multiple clutch shots
Guard- Jon Diebler, Ohio State: 21.5 points, 50% 3pt
Guard- Evan Turner, Ohio State: 16.5 points, 9.5 rebounds, 7.0 assists
Guard- Greivis Vasquez, Maryland: 21.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 7.0 assists
Forward- Marcus Morris, Kansas: 21.0 points, 7.0 rebounds
Sixth Man- D.J. Cooper, Ohio: 19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 2.5 steals
You can't forget about Kyle Singler, from Duke. He averages 16.5 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. he is definitely someone to watch this season.
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Did Catholic Bishops’ Advocacy Cross the Line?
The furor over abortion and health care has brought fresh scrutiny to the nation’s Catholic bishops, who’ve emerged as formidable lobbyists but who face virtually none of the lobbying or disclosure rules that apply to the rest of Washington.
That’s angered some on Capitol Hill, who argue the Catholic bishops have stepped over the line, and prompted calls for more transparency and better oversight of lobbying by religious organizations.
The bishops’ direct role crafting the House health care bill’s abortion language raised eyebrows both on and off Capitol Hill.
Lobbying laws specifically exempt churches from reporting requirements, and tax laws likewise require virtually no disclosure. Though all non-religious 501(c)3 charitable organizations must file IRS Form 990 reporting their basic finances, churches are, again, exempt. Tax laws do forbid churches and other charities from engaging in anything more than “insubstantial” lobbying, but legal experts say that term is ill-defined.
In this regulatory vacuum, the Catholic bishops have quietly built a sophisticated legal, public relations and lobbying team that’s waded aggressively into the health care fight. At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church, which operates health insurance plans and hospitals all over the country, has a substantial financial stake in the debate.
“The reality is that they have a horse in this race, and it’s a financial horse,” said Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, which backs abortion rights. Indiana alone has 35 Catholic hospitals and 26 other Catholic health care facilities, according to O’Brien. Catholic Charities, the bishops’ service arm, gets 67 percent of its income from government funding, he noted, an amount that he said totaled $2.6 billion in 2008.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the church’s governing body in the U.S., declined to comment beyond its public statement that it “will remain vigilant and involved” throughout the health care debate, which has “serious moral dimensions.” The bishops have taken care to make sure that their strong health care statements do not threaten the church’s tax-exempt status, Bishop William Murphy recently told Roll Call.
But the bishops’ direct role crafting the House health care bill’s abortion language raised eyebrows both on and off Capitol Hill. Following personal calls and visits to Democratic leaders and lawmakers, the bishops won approval for an amendment introduced by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and other conservatives that would block the insurance plans under the bill’s public option from covering elective abortions.
Abortion rights advocates said the measure went far beyond current so-called Hyde Amendment restrictions, which bar federal funding from paying for abortions except in cases of life endangerment, health risk, rape or incest. The Senate bill contains less stringent abortion language, but the issue may still prove a sticking point.
There’s “a visceral sense that this [Catholic lobbying] went way over the line — even if as a technical matter, it didn’t violate the law,” said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
At a recent press conference with several religious organizations, Lynn called on the Catholic bishops to voluntarily disclose their lobbying expenditures. The move would not be without precedent. The Friends Committee on National Legislation, the advocacy arm of the Religious Society of Friends, details its $3.5 million budget on its Web site.
Not that Lynn really expects the bishops to take up his challenge. The Catholic hierarchy has mightily resisted pressure from its laity to open its books as it doles out tens of millions in sexual abuse lawsuit settlements.
Nor is Congress likely to embrace new restrictions on churches, despite a recent suggestion by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., that IRS rules may be too lenient. “The IRS is less restrictive about church involvement in efforts to influence legislation than it is about involvement in campaigns and elections,” Woolsey recently noted in Politico. “Given the political behavior of USCCB in this case, maybe it shouldn’t be.”
Still, recent religious political activism has exposed regulatory loopholes, said legal scholar Brian Galle. The Mormon church’s multimillion-dollar ballot initiative campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California “exposes a serious hole in the fabric of the federal law,” Galle recently wrote in the Northwestern University Law Review.
While churches and other charities may do no more than “insubstantial” lobbying, Galle said, the IRS has failed to precisely define that term and issued few clear guidelines to govern lobbying by charities. In the recent debate over abortion and health care, Galle said in an interview, it’s unclear whether Catholic lobbying was “insubstantial” or not.
The bishops’ conference has a 2010 budget of $144.5 million and operates a Committee on Pro-Life Activities run by nine bishops that boasts 13 consultants and an eight-person staff.
“The organization as a whole is spending a very tiny part of their resources on lobbying activities,” said Galle, a professor at Florida State University’s College of Law. “But in absolute terms, that might be millions of dollars of value. So is that an insubstantial amount?”
To the bishops’ lobbying adversaries, it’s enough to warrant scrutiny.
“They are playing politics,” said O’Brien, of Catholics for Choice. “This is not a pastoral role. And Catholics need to ask themselves what’s being said in their name, just as Congress needs to ask who’s playing and how they’re playing — especially when it has this type of impact.”
The article originally appeared in the National Journal.
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Ohio rally pushes abortion rights, women’s health
Julie Carr Smith
Participants from around the state and nation are expected at a Statehouse rally on Wednesday opposing Ohio laws that limit access to abortions and other women’s health care.
Members of more than 50 women’s groups, labor unions and others are expected at the “We Won’t Go Back” event. Its organizers take issue with effective funding cuts to Planned Parenthood as well as abortion-related restrictions placed on Ohio’s publicly funded hospitals and on counselors at taxpayer-funded rape crisis centers.
“This was done in a trick maneuver and it’s very important that women rally and fix it,” said Feminist Majority Foundation President Ellie Smeal, one of the event speakers. “This has to be changed. Women’s lives and their health care can’t be made a political football like this.”
What Smeal calls a “trick maneuver” was the last-minute addition of several abortion-related provisions to the state budget that didn’t allow time for debate. Several of the proposals, including Planned Parenthood defunding, had been extensively debated earlier as separate bills.
Smeal said in a telephone interview ahead of the event that she hopes the rally will show the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature that Ohio women oppose the closure of clinics that provide inexpensive services including pap smears, birth control, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and abortions.
She will be joined at the podium Wednesday by National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill, Catholics for Choice domestic program director Sara Hutchinson and the state directors of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio.
The groups, joined by legislative Democrats, have sought to raise the profile of the women’s health care debate in Ohio in the wake of the abortion-related budget changes. They’ve had mixed success.
Their latest effort comes on the heels of an annual state report that shows slightly more abortions were logged in Ohio last year than in 2011, marking the first increase in more than a decade.
The Department of Health says 25,473 abortions were reported in the state in 2012. That’s about 700 more than in 2011, when the number hit its lowest level since the data-tracking started in 1976. The number had decreased annually between 2000 and 2011.
The report doesn’t speculate on reasons for the latest year-to-year increase, though it notes an unusually small number of abortions were reported for January 2011. Most patients last year were Ohio residents, with about a third between ages 20 to 24.
As abortion rights advocates push for relaxing state restrictions on the procedure and facilities that perform it, Republican lawmakers are under pressure from the right to impose even more stringent rules.
In August, backers of an Ohio bill to effectively ban abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat re-introduced the measure, which failed to clear the Legislature last session.
The so-called heartbeat bill would prohibit abortions from being performed as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Supporters envision restrictions in the bill will provoke a legal challenge with the potential to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion up until viability, usually at 22 to 24 weeks.
This piece was originally published by the Associated Press.
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History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100
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§ 99. The Pastoral Epistles.
Comp. § 33, pp. 327–329.
The three Pastoral Epistles, two to Timothy and one to Titus, form a group by themselves, and represent the last stage of the apostle’s life and labors, with his parting counsels to his beloved disciples and fellow-workers. They show us the transition of the apostolic church from primitive simplicity to a more definite system of doctrine and form of government. This is just what we might expect from the probable time of their composition after the first Roman captivity of Paul, and before the composition of the Apocalypse.
They are addressed not to congregations, but to individuals, and hence more personal and confidential in their character. This fact helps us to understand many peculiarities. Timothy, the son of a heathen father and a Jewish mother, and Titus, a converted Greek) were among the dearest of Paul’s pupils.11941194 For biographical details see the Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries. They were, at the same time, his delegates and commissioners on special occasions, and appear under this official character in the Epistles, which, for this reason, bear the name "Pastoral."
The Epistles contain Paul’s pastoral theology and his theory of church government. They give directions for founding, training, and governing churches, and for the proper treatment of individual members, old and young, widows and virgins, backsliders and heretics. They are rich in practical wisdom and full of encouragement, as every pastor knows.
The Second Epistle to Timothy is more personal in its contents than the other two, and has the additional importance of concluding the autobiography of Paul. It is his last will and testament to all future ministers and soldiers of Christ.
The Pauline Authorship.
There never was a serious doubt as to the Pauline authorship of these Epistles till the nineteenth century, except among a few Gnostics in the second century. They were always reckoned among the Homologumena, as distinct from the seven Antilegomena, or disputed books of the New Testament. As far as external evidence is concerned, they stand on as firm a foundation as any other Epistle. They are quoted as canonical by Eusebius, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Irenaeus. Reminiscences from them, in some cases with verbal agreement, are found in several of the Apostolic Fathers. They are included in the ancient MSS. and Versions, and in the list of the Muratorian canon. Marcion (about 140), it is true, excluded them from his canon of ten Pauline Epistles, but he excluded also the Gospels (except a mutilated Luke), the Catholic Epistles, and the Apocalypse.11951195 See the testimonies in Kirchhofer’s Quellensammlung, as translated and enlarged by Charteris, Canonicity, 255-268. Renan admits the resemblance between the First Epistle of Clemens Romanus (c. 44) and Second Timothy (e.g., in the use of the word ἀνάλυσις for death), but assumes that both borrowed from a common source, the favorite language of the church of Rome, and also that the forger of the Pastoral Epistles probably made use of some authentic letters of Paul. L’Église chrét., p. 95: "Quelques passages de ces trois építres sont d’ailleurs si beaux, qu’on peut se demander si le faussaire n’avait pas entre les mains quelques billets authentiques de Paul."
But there are certain internal difficulties which have induced a number of modern critics to assign them all, or at least First Timothy, to a post-Pauline or pseudo-Pauline writer, who either changed and adapted Pauline originals to a later state of the church, or fabricated the whole in the interest of Catholic orthodoxy. In either case, the writer is credited with the best intentions and must not be judged according to the modern standard of literary honesty and literary property. Doctrinally, the Pastoral Epistles are made the connecting link between genuine Paulinism and the Johannean Logos—philosophy; ecclesiastically, the link between primitive Presbyterianism and Catholic Episcopacy; in both respects, a necessary element in the formation process of the orthodox Catholic church of the second century.
The objections against the Pauline authorship deserve serious consideration, and are as follows: (1) The impossibility of locating these Epistles in the recorded life of Paul; (2) the Gnostic heresy opposed; (3) the ecclesiastical organization implied; (4) the peculiarities of style and temper. If they are not genuine, Second Timothy must be the oldest, as it is least liable to these objections, and First Timothy and Titus are supposed to represent a later development.11961196 Baur and Hilgenfeld (Einleit., p. 764) bring them down to 150 (after Marcion, 140), and date them from Rome. But this is impossible, and rests on a false exegesis. Pfleiderer, of the same Tübingen school, puts 2 Timothy in the age of Trajan, the other two in the age of Hadrian. He, moreover, regards the passages 2 Tim 1:15-18 and 4:9-21 as fragments of a genuine Epistle of Paul. Comp. also Holtzmann, p. 271.
The Time of Composition.
The chronology of the Pastoral Epistles is uncertain, and has been made an objection to their genuineness. It is closely connected with the hypothesis of a second Roman captivity, which we have discussed in another place.
The Second Epistle to Timothy, whether genuine or not, hails from a Roman prison, and appears to be the last of Paul’s Epistles; for he was then hourly expecting the close of his fight of faith, and the crown of righteousness from his Lord and Master (2 Tim. 4:7, 8). Those who deny the second imprisonment, and yet accept Second Timothy as Pauline, make it the last of the first imprisonment.
As to First Timothy and Titus, it is evident from their contents that they were written while Paul was free, and after he had made some journeys, which are not recorded in the Acts. Here lies the difficulty. Two ways are open:
1. The two Epistles were written in 56 and 57. Paul may, during his three years’ sojourn in Ephesus, a.d. 54–57 (see Acts 19:8–10; 20:31), easily have made a second journey to Macedonia, leaving Ephesus in charge of Timothy (1 Tim. 1:3); and also crossed over to the island of Crete, where he left Titus behind to take care of the churches (Tit. 1:5). Considering the incompleteness of the record of Acts, and the probable allusions in 2 Cor. 2:1; 12:13, 14, 21; 13:1, to a second visit to Corinth, not mentioned in the Acts, these two journeys are within the reach of possibility.11971197 So Schrader, Wieseler, Reythmayr, formerly also Reuss (in his Gesch., etc., 5th ed., 1875, but withdrawn in his French Com. on the Pauline Epp., 1878). But such an early date leaves the other difficulties unexplained.
2. The tradition of the second Roman captivity, which can be raised at least to a high degree of probability, removes the difficulty by giving us room for new journeys and labors of Paid between his release in the spring of 63 and the Neronian persecution in July, 64 (according to Tacitus), or three or four years later (according to Eusebius and Jerome), as well as for the development of the Gnostic heresy and the ecclesiastical organization of the church which is implied in these Epistles. Hence, most writers who hold to the genuineness place First Timothy and Titus between the first and second Roman captivities.11981198 So Theophylact, Oecumenius, Ussher, Pearson, Tillemont, Neander, Bleek, Ruffet, Lange, Farrar, Plumptre, Lightfoot, etc.
Paul certainly intended to make a journey from Rome to Spain (Rom. 15:24), and also one to the East (Philem. 22; Phil. 1:25, 26; 2:24), and he had ample time to carry out his intention even before the Neronian persecution, if we insist upon confining this to the date of Tacitus.11991199 A release of Paul from the first Roman captivity and a visit to Spain is also asserted by such critics as Ewald and Renan.
Those who press the chronological difficulty should not forget that a forger could have very easily fitted the Epistles into the narrative of the Acts, and was not likely to invent a series of journeys, circumstances, and incidents, such as the bringing of the cloak, the books, and the parchments which Paul, in the hurry of travel, had left at Troas (2 Tim. 4:13).
The Gnostic Heresy.
The Pastoral Epistles, like Colossians, oppose the Gnostic heresy (γνῶσις ψευδώνυμος,1 Tim. 6:20) which arose in Asia Minor during his first Roman captivity, and appears more fully developed in Cerinthus, the contemporary of John. This was acknowledged by the early Fathers, Irenaeus and Tertullian, who used these very Epistles as Pauline testimonies against the Gnosticism of their day.
The question arises, which of the many types of this many-sided error is opposed? Evidently the Judaizing type, which resembled that at Colossae, but was more advanced and malignant, and hence is more sternly denounced. The heretics were of "the circumcision" (Tit. 1:10); they are called "teachers of the law" (νομοδιδάσκαλοι,1 Tim. 1:7, the very reverse of antinomians), "given to Jewish fables" (Ἰουδαϊκοι μῦθοι, Tit. 1:14), and "disputes connected with the law" (μάχαι νομικαί, Tit. 3:9), and fond of foolish and ignorant questionings (2 Tim. 2:23). They were, moreover, extravagant ascetics, like the Essenes, forbidding to marry and abstaining from meat (1 Tim. 4:3, 8; Tit. 1:14, 15). They denied the resurrection and overthrew the faith of some (2 Tim. 2:18).
Baur turned these heretics into anti-Jewish and antinomian Gnostics of the school of Marcion (about 140), and then, by consequence, put the Epistles down to the middle of the second century. He finds in the "genealogies" ( 1 Tim. 1:4; Tit. 3:9) the emanations, of the Gnostic aeons, and in the "antitheses" (1 Tim. 6:20), or anti-evangelical assertions of the heretical teachers, an allusion to Marcion’s "antitheses" (antilogies), by which he set forth the supposed contradictions between the Old and New Testaments.12001200 The ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως(" oppositions" in the E. V. and Revision) are understood by the best exegetes to mean simply the doctrinal theses which the heretics opposed to the sound doctrine (comp. 2 Tim. 2:23; Tit. 1:9). So DeWette, Matthies, and Wiesinger. Hofmann and Huther identify them with κενοφωνίαι and λογομαχίαι (1 Tim. 5:4). Holtzmann (p. 131) likewise rejects Baur’s interpretation. But this is a radical misinterpretation, and the more recent opponents of the genuineness are forced to admit the Judaizing character of those errorists; they identify them with Cerinthus, the Ophites, and Saturninus, who preceded Marcion by several decades.12011201 Holtzmann, l.c., p. 127; also Lipsius, Schenkel, Pfleiderer.
As to the origin of the Gnostic heresy, which the Tübingen school would put down to the age of Hadrian, we have already seen that, like its counterpart, the Ebionite heresy, it dates from the apostolic age, according to the united testimony of the later Pauline Epistles, the Epistles of Peter, John, and Jude, the Apocalypse, and the patristic tradition.12021202 See above, § 96 (this vol.)
Ecclesiastical Organization.
The Pastoral Epistles seem to presuppose a more fully developed ecclesiastical organization than the other Pauline Epistles, and to belong to an age of transition from apostolic simplicity, or Christo-democracy—if we may use such a term—to the episcopal hierarchy of the second century. The church, in proportion as it lost, after the destruction of Jerusalem, its faith in the speedy advent of Christ, began to settle down in this world, and to make preparations for a permanent home by a fixed creed and a compact organization, which gave it unity and strength against heathen persecution and heretical corruption. This organization, at once simple and elastic, was episcopacy, with its subordinate offices of the presbyterate and deaconate, and charitable institutions for widows and orphans. Such an organization we have, it is said, in the Pastoral Epistles, which were written in the name of Paul, to give the weight of his authority to the incipient hierarchy.12031203 Such is the ingenious reasoning of Baur and Renan (L’Egl. chrét., pp. 85 and 94 sqq.). Comp. the discussion of details by Holtzmann, l.c., ch. XI., pp. 190 sqq.
But, on closer inspection, there is a very marked difference between the ecclesiastical constitution of the Pastoral Epistles and that of the second century. There is not a word said about the divine origin of episcopacy; not a trace of a congregational episcopate, such as we find in the Ignatian epistles, still less of a diocesan episcopate of the time of Irenaeus and Tertullian. Bishops and presbyters are still identical as they are in the Acts 20:17, 28, and in the undoubtedly genuine Epistle to the Philippians 1:1. Even Timothy and Titus appear simply as delegates of the apostle for a specific mission.12041204 1 Tim. 1:3; 3:14; 2 Tim. 4:9, 21; Tit. 1:5; 8:12. See above, § 61 (this vol.) The fact is acknowledged by impartial episcopal writers, as Dean Alford, Bishop Lightfoot, Dean Stanley, and Dean Plumptre (in Schaff’s Com. N. T., III. 552). I will quote from Canon Farrar (St. Paul. II. 417) "If the Pastoral Epistles contained a clear defence of the Episcopal system of the second century, this alone would be sufficient to prove their spuriousness; but the total absence of anything resembling it is one of the strongest proofs that they belong to the apostolic age. Bishop and presbyter are still synonymous, as they are throughout the New Testament ... Timothy and Titus exercise functions which would be now called episcopal; but they are not called ’bishops.’ Their functions were temporary, and they simply act as authoritative delegates of the Apostle of the Gentiles. Nor is there any trace of exalted pretensions in the overseers whom they appoint. The qualifications required of them are almost exclusively moral." Comp. also some good remarks of Prof. Wace, in the Speaker’s Com. on the New Test., III. 764, where it is justly said that the church polity in the Pastoral Epistles represents an intermediate stage between the Presbyterian episcopacy of the earlier apostolic period and the post-apostolic episcopacy. The qualifications and functions required of the bishop are aptness to teach and a blameless character; and their authority is made to depend upon their moral character rather than their office. They are supposed to be married, and to set a good example in governing their own household. The ordination which Timothy received (1 Tim. 4:14; 5:22) need not differ from the ordination of deacons and elders mentioned in Acts 6:6; 8:17; comp. 14:23; 19:6). "Few features," says Dr. Plumptre, himself an Episcopalian, "are more striking in these Epistles than the absence of any high hierarchical system." The Apocalypse, which these very critics so confidently assign to the year 68, shows a nearer approach to episcopal unity in the "angels" of the seven churches. But even from the "angels," of the Apocalypse there was a long way to the Ignatian and pseudo-Clementine bishops, who are set up as living oracles and hierarchical idols.
The Style.
The language of the Pastoral Epistles shows an unusual number of un-Pauline words and phrases, especially rare compounds, some of them nowhere found in the whole New Testament, or even in Greek literature.12051205 This philological argument was begun by Schleiermacher, but confined to First Timothy, and was carried out, with reference to all three Epistles, by Holtzmann, l.c., ch. VI., pp. 84-118. I will give his results. The Pastoral Epistles have, in all, 897 words. Of these there are 169 Hapaxlegomena not found in the New Testament, namely:
(a) 74 in First Timothy, such as ἀγαθοεργεῖν. ἁγνεία, ἀδηλότης, ἀνδραποδιστής , ἄδροφόνος, ἐτεροδιδασκαλεῖν, θεοσέβεια, καταστολή, πλέγμα, ορισμός , φιλαργυρία, ψευδολόγος, ψευδώνυμος .
(b) 46 in Second Timothy, e.g ., ἀγωγή, ἀθλεῖν, βέλτιον, μεμβράνα, ὀρθοτομεῖν, πραγματεία, φιλόθεος.
(c) 28 in Titus, e, g., αἱρετικός , ἀκατάγνωστος, ἀφθορία, ἀψευδής , καλοδιδάσκαλος, ματαιολόγος , πρεσβύτις, σωτήριος , φιλάγαθος, φίλανδρος (παλινγενεσία, Tit. 3:5, occurs also Matt. 19:28, but in a different sense).
(d) 21 common to two or three Past. Epp., e g, διάβολος, (as adjective), ἀνόσιος , διδακτικός, κενοφωνία, νομίμως , παραθήκη, γενεαλογία, εὐσεβῶς.
But, in the first place, the number of words peculiar to each one of the three epistles is much greater than the number of peculiar words common to all three; consequently, if the argument proves anything, it leads to the conclusion of three different authors, which the assailants will not admit, in view of the general unity of the Epistles. In the next place, every one of Paul’s Epistles has a number of peculiar words, even the little Epistle of Philemon.12061206 Farrar (II. 611) affirms that there are no less than 111 peculiar terms in Romans, 180 in Corinthians, 57 in Galatians, 54 in Phillipians, 6 in Philemon. Luke’s peculiar vocabulary is especially rich; he uses, as Holtzmann observes (p. 96), 34 words in common with the Pastoral Epistles, and has, besides, 82 words not found in Paul. The most characteristic words were required by the nature of the new topics handled and the heresy combated, such as "knowledge falsely so called" (ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις, 1 Tim. 6:20) "healthful doctrine" (ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία, 1 Tim. 1:10); "Jewish myths" (Tit. 1:14); "genealogies" (Tit. 3:9); "profane babblings" (2 Tim. 2:16). Paul’s mind was uncommonly fertile and capable of adapting itself to varying, conditions, and had to create in some measure the Christian idiom. The Tübingen critics profess the highest admiration for his genius, and yet would contract his vocabulary to a very small compass. Finally, the peculiarities of style are counterbalanced by stronger resemblances and unmistakable evidences of Pauline authorship. "There are flashes of the deepest feeling, outbursts of the most intense expression. There is rhythmic movement and excellent majesty in the doxologies, and the ideal of a Christian pastor drawn not only with an unfaltering hand, but with a beauty, fulness, and simplicity which a thousand years of subsequent experience have enabled no one to equal, much less to surpass."12071207 Farrer, II. 611.
On the other hand, we may well ask the opponents to give a good reason why a forger should have chosen so many new words when he might have so easily confined himself to the vocabulary of the other Epistles of Paul; why he should have added "mercy" to the salutation instead of the usual form; why he should have called Paul "the chief of sinners" (1 Tim. 1:15), and affected a tone of humility rather than a tone of high apostolic authority?
Other Objections.
The Epistles have been charged with want of logical connection, with abruptness, monotony, and repetitiousness, unworthy of such an original thinker and writer as Paul. But this feature is only the easy, familiar, we may say careless, style which forms the charm as well as the defect of personal correspondence. Moreover, every great author varies more or less at different periods of life, and under different conditions and moods.
It would be a more serious objection if the theology of these Epistles could be made to appear in conflict with that of his acknowledged works.12081208 Pfleiderer (Protestanten-Bibel. p. 834) says: "Die kirchliche Lehrrichtung der Hirtenbriefe ist eine von der altpaulinischen sehr weit verschiedene. Von den eigenthümlich paulinischen Lehren über Gesetz und Evangelium, über Werke und Glauben finden sich in unseren Briefen nur abgeblasste Reste, die fast wie feststehende überliefte Formeln klingen, während das Glaubensbewusstsein ein anderes geworden ist."In this harsh and unjust judgment the fact is overlooked that the three Epistles are pastoral and not doctrinal Epistles. But this is not the case. It is said that greater stress is laid on sound doctrine and good works. But in Galatians, Paul condemns most solemnly every departure from the genuine gospel (Gal. 1:8, 9), and in all his Epistles he enjoins holiness as the indispensable evidence of faith; while salvation is just as clearly traced to divine grace alone, in the Pastoral Epistles (1 Tim. 1:9; Tit. 3:5), as in Romans.
In conclusion, while we cannot be blind to certain difficulties, and may not be able, from want of knowledge of the precise situation of the writer, satisfactorily to explain them, we must insist that the prevailing evidence is in favor of the genuineness of these Epistles. They agree with Paul’s doctrinal system; they are illuminated with flashes of his genius; they bear the marks of his intense personality; they contain rare gems of inspired truth, and most wholesome admonition and advice, which makes them to-day far more valuable than any number of works on pastoral theology and church government. There are not a few passages in them which, for doctrine or practice, are equal to the best he ever wrote, and are deeply lodged in the experience and affection of Christendom.12091209 Such passages as 1 Tim. 1:15, 17; 2:1, 4-6, 8; 3:2, 16; 4:1, 4, 7, 10, 15; 5:8, 17, 18, 22; 6:6, 9-12; 2 Tim. 1:6; 2:11, 12, 19, 22; 8:12, 16, 17; 4:2, 6-8; Tit. 1:7, 15; 2:11; 8:5, 6.
And what could be a more fitting, as well as more sublime and beautiful, finale of such a hero of faith than the last words of his last Epistle, written in the very face of martyrdom: "I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day: and not only to me, but also to all them that have loved his appearing."
Schleiermacher led the way, in 1807, with his attack on 1 Timothy, urging very keenly historical, philological, and other objections, but assuming 2 Timothy and Titus to be the genuine originals from which the first was compiled. DeWette followed in his Introduction. Baur left both behind and rejected all, in his epoch-making treatise, Die sogenannten Pastoralbriefe, 1835. He was followed by Schwegler (1846), Hilgenfeld (1875), Mangold, Schenkel, Hausrath, Pfleiderer (both in his Paulinismus and in his Commentary in the Protestanten-Bibel, 1874), Holtzmann; also by Ewald, Renan (L’Église chrétienne, pp. 85 sqq.), and Sam. Davidson (Introd., revised ed., II. 21 sqq.). The most elaborate book against the genuineness is Holtzmann’s Die Pastoralbriefe kritisch und exeg. behandelt, Leipzig, 1880 (504 pp.); comp. his Einleitung (1886).
Reuss (Les épitres Pauliniennes, 1878, II. 243 sq., 307 sq., and Gesch. des N. T, 1887, p. 257 sqq.) rejects 1 Timothy and Titus, but admits 2 Timothy, assigning it to the first Roman captivity. He thinks that 2 Timothy would never have been doubted except for its suspicious companionship. Some of the opponents, as Pfleiderer and Renan, feel forced to admit some scraps of genuine Pauline Epistles or notes, and thus they break the force of the opposition. The three Epistles must stand or fall together, either as wholly Pauline, or as wholly pseudo-Pauline.
The genuineness has been ably vindicated by Guericke, Thiersch, Huther, Wiesinger, Otto, Wieseler, Van Oosterzee, Lange, Herzog, von Hofmann, Beck, Alford, Gloag, Fairbairn (Past. Ep., 1874), Farrar (St. Paul, II. 607 sqq.), Wace (in the Speaker’s Com. New Test., III., 1881, 749 sqq.), Plumptre (in Schaff’s Com. on the New Test., III., 1882, pp. 550 sqq.), Kölling (Der erste Br. a. Tim. 1882), Salmon (1885), and Weiss (1886).
1194 For biographical details see the Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries.
1195 See the testimonies in Kirchhofer’s Quellensammlung, as translated and enlarged by Charteris, Canonicity, 255-268. Renan admits the resemblance between the First Epistle of Clemens Romanus (c. 44) and Second Timothy (e.g., in the use of the word ἀνάλυσις for death), but assumes that both borrowed from a common source, the favorite language of the church of Rome, and also that the forger of the Pastoral Epistles probably made use of some authentic letters of Paul. L’Église chrét., p. 95: "Quelques passages de ces trois építres sont d’ailleurs si beaux, qu’on peut se demander si le faussaire n’avait pas entre les mains quelques billets authentiques de Paul."
1196 Baur and Hilgenfeld (Einleit., p. 764) bring them down to 150 (after Marcion, 140), and date them from Rome. But this is impossible, and rests on a false exegesis. Pfleiderer, of the same Tübingen school, puts 2 Timothy in the age of Trajan, the other two in the age of Hadrian. He, moreover, regards the passages 2 Tim 1:15-18 and 4:9-21 as fragments of a genuine Epistle of Paul. Comp. also Holtzmann, p. 271.
1197 So Schrader, Wieseler, Reythmayr, formerly also Reuss (in his Gesch., etc., 5th ed., 1875, but withdrawn in his French Com. on the Pauline Epp., 1878).
1198 So Theophylact, Oecumenius, Ussher, Pearson, Tillemont, Neander, Bleek, Ruffet, Lange, Farrar, Plumptre, Lightfoot, etc.
1199 A release of Paul from the first Roman captivity and a visit to Spain is also asserted by such critics as Ewald and Renan.
1200 The ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως(" oppositions" in the E. V. and Revision) are understood by the best exegetes to mean simply the doctrinal theses which the heretics opposed to the sound doctrine (comp. 2 Tim. 2:23; Tit. 1:9). So DeWette, Matthies, and Wiesinger. Hofmann and Huther identify them with κενοφωνίαι and λογομαχίαι (1 Tim. 5:4). Holtzmann (p. 131) likewise rejects Baur’s interpretation.
1201 Holtzmann, l.c., p. 127; also Lipsius, Schenkel, Pfleiderer.
1202 See above, § 96 (this vol.)
1203 Such is the ingenious reasoning of Baur and Renan (L’Egl. chrét., pp. 85 and 94 sqq.). Comp. the discussion of details by Holtzmann, l.c., ch. XI., pp. 190 sqq.
1204 1 Tim. 1:3; 3:14; 2 Tim. 4:9, 21; Tit. 1:5; 8:12. See above, § 61 (this vol.) The fact is acknowledged by impartial episcopal writers, as Dean Alford, Bishop Lightfoot, Dean Stanley, and Dean Plumptre (in Schaff’s Com. N. T., III. 552). I will quote from Canon Farrar (St. Paul. II. 417) "If the Pastoral Epistles contained a clear defence of the Episcopal system of the second century, this alone would be sufficient to prove their spuriousness; but the total absence of anything resembling it is one of the strongest proofs that they belong to the apostolic age. Bishop and presbyter are still synonymous, as they are throughout the New Testament ... Timothy and Titus exercise functions which would be now called episcopal; but they are not called ’bishops.’ Their functions were temporary, and they simply act as authoritative delegates of the Apostle of the Gentiles. Nor is there any trace of exalted pretensions in the overseers whom they appoint. The qualifications required of them are almost exclusively moral." Comp. also some good remarks of Prof. Wace, in the Speaker’s Com. on the New Test., III. 764, where it is justly said that the church polity in the Pastoral Epistles represents an intermediate stage between the Presbyterian episcopacy of the earlier apostolic period and the post-apostolic episcopacy.
1205 This philological argument was begun by Schleiermacher, but confined to First Timothy, and was carried out, with reference to all three Epistles, by Holtzmann, l.c., ch. VI., pp. 84-118. I will give his results. The Pastoral Epistles have, in all, 897 words. Of these there are 169 Hapaxlegomena not found in the New Testament, namely:
1206 Farrar (II. 611) affirms that there are no less than 111 peculiar terms in Romans, 180 in Corinthians, 57 in Galatians, 54 in Phillipians, 6 in Philemon. Luke’s peculiar vocabulary is especially rich; he uses, as Holtzmann observes (p. 96), 34 words in common with the Pastoral Epistles, and has, besides, 82 words not found in Paul.
1207 Farrer, II. 611.
1208 Pfleiderer (Protestanten-Bibel. p. 834) says: "Die kirchliche Lehrrichtung der Hirtenbriefe ist eine von der altpaulinischen sehr weit verschiedene. Von den eigenthümlich paulinischen Lehren über Gesetz und Evangelium, über Werke und Glauben finden sich in unseren Briefen nur abgeblasste Reste, die fast wie feststehende überliefte Formeln klingen, während das Glaubensbewusstsein ein anderes geworden ist."In this harsh and unjust judgment the fact is overlooked that the three Epistles are pastoral and not doctrinal Epistles.
1209 Such passages as 1 Tim. 1:15, 17; 2:1, 4-6, 8; 3:2, 16; 4:1, 4, 7, 10, 15; 5:8, 17, 18, 22; 6:6, 9-12; 2 Tim. 1:6; 2:11, 12, 19, 22; 8:12, 16, 17; 4:2, 6-8; Tit. 1:7, 15; 2:11; 8:5, 6.
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Ronnie Brown re-signs with Chargers
May 22, 2013 By: aaronmillett3 360 News, Chargers News, Roster Changes No comments
The San Diego Chargers now have three running backs who all rushed over 200 yards last season. Coming in to Free Agency they only had one legit threat at that position, Ryan Matthews. That is, If you can call him a legit threat. So the signing of Ronnie Brown will bulk up their running back depth chart.
Ronnie re-signed to a 1 year/ $1 million contract.
Ronnie Brown rushed for 4,815 yards with the Miami Dolphins before becoming a Charger.
Ronnie Brown has been in the league for nine years, six of those with the Miami Dolphins. He also played with the Philadelphia Eagles for a year, before signing with the Chargers last June.
His career stats go as follows: 5,171 rushing yards and 1,862 receving yards over the nine seasons he has been in the league. Brown was the second pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.
During his career with the Dolphins, Brown never rushed less than 600 yards in a season. He also never had less than four touchdowns during any of those seasons. During his last two seasons (with the Eagles and Chargers) he has rushed for a total of 356 yards. Only scoring one touchdown during both seasons.
Yet, he has stayed somewhat consistent.
Although the numbers I mentioned earlier are not flashy, his presence on the field was definitely felt. He averaged the same yards per carry as he did in Miami with the Dolphins. He also averaged more receiving yards with the Chargers than he did in any year with Miami (371), besides the 2007 season (389 yards).
Ronnie Brown is a good quality veteran backup, for a position in football that takes a lot of hits.
Brown, Chargers, Dolphins, Eagles, Matthews, Miami, Philadelphia, Ronnie, Ryan, San Diego
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2008 P.I.E. Program Tours Set
The NCC scheduled dates/locations for the '08 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program.
Contact: Marjory Walker or T. Cotton Nelson
MEMPHIS, TN – The National Cotton Council has scheduled dates and locations for the 2008 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program.
Now in its 20th year, the P.I.E. program has an overall goal of helping its participants improve yields and fiber quality. Upon completion of this year’s four tours, the P.I.E. program will have exposed more than 800 U.S. cotton producers to innovative cotton production practices in regions different than their own.
This season, cotton producers from the Mid-South will see operations in Arizona and California on June 22-27; Southwest producers will travel to North Carolina on July 20-25; Far Western producers will visit Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee on August 10-15; and Southeastern producers will visit Texas on August 17-22. The NCC’s Member Services staff, in conjunction with local producer associations, conducts the P.I.E program, including participant selection. The program also receives support from The Cotton Foundation via a grant from Bayer CropScience.
Cotton Foundation President Charles Parker, a Senath, MO, cotton producer, said the P.I.E. program enables cotton producers to gain new perspectives in such fundamental practices as land preparation, planting, fertilization, pest control, irrigation and harvesting as well as to observe unique ways in which their peers are using new technology.
“However, embracing new tools and production systems is not enough, today’s producers need to achieve better farming efficiencies along with their yield and fiber quality,” Parker said. “By offering firsthand observation and one-to-one interaction with innovative producers, P.I.E. is giving its participants a leg up on their quest for better efficiency and profitability.”
Gary Gaar, U.S. sales manager, Bayer BioScience, said, “P.I.E. participants are leaders in the cotton industry, and we’re glad to sponsor this program, as well as strengthen our ongoing partnership with cotton growers and the National Cotton Council. The information growers receive from these tours helps them enhance their own farming operations and build long-term friendships."
2019 P.I.E. Program Tour Dates Set The NCC has scheduled tour dates and locations for the 2019 Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program. Mid-South Cotton Producers to See Texas Operations Eleven cotton producers from the Mid-South will see cotton and other agriculture-related operations in Texas on August 20-23 as part of the 2018 National Cotton Council Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.). Southeast Cotton Producers to See San Joaquin Valley Agriculture Eleven cotton producers from the Southeast will observe cotton and other agricultural operations in California’s San Joaquin Valley the week of August 13 as part of the NCC’s 2018 Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program.
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Army researchers engage in quantum entanglement research
ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 27, 2016) -- At the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, scientists are looking at new ways to exploit the most fundamental or "quantum" component of light -- the photon -- to enhance communications, sensing and cryptography, and anything else they can think of.
"We don't really know what all the applications are. But our mandate, in part, is to find those applications," said Michael Brodsky, a physical scientist at Army Research Laboratory.
Michael Brodsky, a physical scientist at Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md., explains efforts to develop quantum networks. He is one of several researchers within the Army working to find new ways to exploit the most fundamental or "quantum" component of light -- the photon -- to enhance communications, sensing and cryptography, and anything else they can think of.
"If a sufficient number of parties share a sufficient number of entangled particles, is there any application?" Brodsky asked. "That's what we're looking for. Ten years from now, we'll have a better answer to that question."
Brodsky is setting up a new lab at the ARL, located about 12 miles north of the Pentagon in Adelphi, Maryland. He has boxes there that generate entangled photons -- the smallest measure of light. It's entangled photons that are of interest to Brodsky and the Army. A pair of entangled photons exhibits a unique property that Brodsky and his team hope to exploit.
A single photon, on its own, can be captured in a memory unit -- or "quantum storage" -- and subsequently measured. The measurements can be recorded as well. But when two entangled photons are captured and measured in the same way, they yield the same measurements every time, Brodsky said.
Those same two entangled protons could be split up, on different sides of the lab, on different sides of a research campus, or on different sides of the country, and still, because they are entangled, they behave the same way, and so they yield the same measurements no matter where they are.
The results of those measurements are unpredictable -- completely random -- and can be converted to a string of zeros and ones, Brodsky said, but "you get identical strings of zeros and ones at two remote locations. Which, for instance, could be used as a key for secure communications."
A critical part of cryptography and secure communications is the use of random numbers. On both sides of the communication, both parties will need the same string of random numbers to encrypt that communication. If both parties had one half of an entangled pair of photons, then they would both have an endless supply of random numbers at their disposal, and those random numbers would be the same. So a pair of entangled photons, distributed to two parties, could be used to encrypt communications between the two parties.
Distributing those entangled photons is a key issue for Brodsky and his team -- how to get the entangled photons to where they need to be, to multiple parties, so everybody can make use of the properties of the entangled photons. One way to do that is with fiber optics. A photon, which is light, can be sent by fiber optics.
"We've looked at how to take classical networking devices and integrate them in a fashion that would allow us to perform that function," said Robert J. Drost, also with ARL. "The idea is that a conventional networking design has requirements that are more restrictive than what we need to do. Because we have less restrictive requirements, we are able to optimize this design to minimize the loss that these photons experience through the network, and minimize the number of devices that are needed to be able to perform the function that we wanted."
It's not just two parties that can make use of the properties exhibited by entangled photons. It's multiple parties. And at ARL, they are looking at how to build networks of fiber optics with fiber-optic switching devices, to distribute those photons where they need to go, without degrading the photons themselves.
"The question is, how many switches you need to serve all possible entanglement requests from 6, 8 or 10 parties," Brodsky said. "We developed a theoretical framework, and subsequently performed some optimization routines, based on which we said these designs are optimal; the least number of switches you could possibly use to satisfy all possible entanglement requests."
Brodsky and his team will be working to develop networks where command posts or stations, called nodes, can get what they need, and where it's possible to distribute entangled photons in every combination to every node, but at the same time, also use the least amount of hardware so as to ensure the least amount of degradation.
Having entangled photons generated from a single, central node, and then distributed outward to other nodes, is one idea.
"At this central node, we're going to generate entangled photons, but we need to know how to get those entangled photons to the ... neighboring nodes that are necessary to allow one particular node and another to do some quantum communications," Drost said. "And then maybe an hour later, this same node wants to do some secure communications with a completely different node. We need a device that will allow us to reroute and send those entangled photons to those new pair of users that want to perform some sort of quantum protocol."
Another quirk of entangled photons is "entanglement swapping." Two photons can be entangled: A1 and A2, for instance. And two other photons are also entangled: B1 and B2. A1 and A2, because they are entangled, behave the same, as do B1 and B2.
Brian Kirby, a post-doctoral fellow at ARL, explained that by doing a particular "operation" on B2 and A1, those two photons will be destroyed. But as a result, A1 and B2 will become entangled, even if they've never been together.
"This idea of distributing entanglement in this way has been thought of before. And we're interested in how it would work for the warfighter, and how it would work in very noisy, realistic situations," Kirby said. "I did a lot of modeling on how this operation, this spreading of entanglement, would work if you are in a very noisy environment, places that have low signals and things like that. So for example, how it would be on the battlefield, where it's messy and loud and things don't work very well."
Finding ways to distribute entangled photons, and using those entangled photons for secure networking are just two challenges that ARL is working on now. But they are looking at other ways to use entangled photons as well, such as enhancing sensors and quantum computing, for instance.
"We need to search for more applications. We need to see what is possible -- what this quantum relation can be used for," Brodsky said.
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Loop: Four shot, two fatally, after gunfire erupts inside moving car on Michigan Avenue
The vehicle crashed into the pole at left. Two occupants of the car sought help in the Congress Hotel, which is seen with the red awning in this Google image. | Google
Four men were shot, two fatally, when someone started shooting during an altercation inside a moving car in the Loop late Sunday night, police said. No one is in custody.
Five adult men were riding southbound in the 400 block of South Michigan when an argument broke out among them around 11:55 p.m. Police said the confrontation escalated and gunshots rang out, leading to four of the occupants being struck by bullets.
The 29-year-old driver lost control of the car and crashed into a pole after he was shot in the shoulder. The car flipped upside down and two men with less-serious injuries ran into the Congress Hotel at 520 South Michigan Avenue to get help, police said.
A 31-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to his face, according to police. A man whose age was not known was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head. A second 29-year-old man also suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Finally, a 39-year-old man was taken to Stroger Hospital for neck and back injuries that were suffered in the car crash. He was not shot.
All of the surviving men were listed in “stable” condition by police.
Investigators said early Monday that the men had given conflicting accounts of what happened inside the car, which has hampered the investigation. Two guns were recovered at the scene.
A CPD source said that only the 31-year-old man who died is “known” to investigators.
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Tags: celebrity smiles dental implants
Everyone has to face the music at some time — even John Lydon, former lead singer of The Sex Pistols, arguably England’s best known punk rock band. The 59-year old musician was once better known by his stage name, Johnny Rotten — a brash reference to the visibly degraded state of his teeth. But in the decades since his band broke up, Lydon’s lifelong deficiency in dental hygiene had begun to cause him serious problems.
In recent years, Lydon has had several dental surgeries — including one to resolve two serious abscesses in his mouth, which left him with stitches in his gums and a temporary speech impediment. Photos show that he also had missing teeth, which, sources say, he opted to replace with dental implants.
For Lydon (and many others in the same situation) that’s likely to be an excellent choice. Dental implants are the gold standard for tooth replacement today, for some very good reasons. The most natural-looking of all tooth replacements, implants also have a higher success rate than any other method: over 95 percent. They can be used to replace one tooth, several teeth, or an entire arch (top or bottom row) of teeth. And with only routine care, they can last for the rest of your life.
Like natural teeth, dental implants get support from the bone in your jaw. The implant itself — a screw-like titanium post — is inserted into the jaw in a minor surgical operation. The lifelike, visible part of the tooth — the crown — is attached to the implant by a sturdy connector called an abutment. In time, the titanium metal of the implant actually becomes fused with the living bone tissue. This not only provides a solid anchorage for the prosthetic, but it also prevents bone loss at the site of the missing tooth — which is something neither bridgework nor dentures can do.
It’s true that implants may have a higher initial cost than other tooth replacement methods; in the long run, however, they may prove more economical. Over time, the cost of repeated dental treatments and periodic replacement of shorter-lived tooth restorations (not to mention lost time and discomfort) can easily exceed the expense of implants.
That’s a lesson John Lydon has learned. “A lot of ill health came from neglecting my teeth,” he told a newspaper reporter. “I felt sick all the time, and I decided to do something about it… I’ve had all kinds of abscesses, jaw surgery. It costs money and is very painful. So Johnny says: ‘Get your brush!’”
We couldn’t agree more. But if brushing isn’t enough, it may be time to consider dental implants. If you would like more information about dental implants, please call our office to schedule a consultation. You can read more in the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Dental Implants” and “Save a Tooth or Get an Implant?”
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OrientalReview.org: Waiting For The Second Algerian Revolution
Posted by: Berhane.Habtemariam59@web.de
Date: Monday, 08 April 2019
Written by Eric MARGOLIS
Algeria has long been the forgotten nation of North Africa. But now, it is bursting into the news as the latest example of popular revolution in the woefully misgoverned Arab word.
After seven weeks of mass street protests, Algeria’s ruler for the past two decades, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, finally faced the inevitable and resigned after a big shove from the army and the governing elite, known as ‘le pouvoir’ (the power).
Algeria is an important nation in spite of its recent semi-obscurity. At the center of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean and great Sahara Desert, Algeria has over 42 million people, with an important ethnic Berber minority in the mountains and uplands of the interior. Algeria is a major, world class producer of oil and gas, most of which is exported to Europe. In fact, 90% of government revenue comes from energy exports.
I have a particular interest in Algeria because I nearly went there as a guerilla fighter during its long, bloody war for independence from France (1954-1962). Algerian independence from brutal, exploitive French rule was then a noble cause that inspired many young men and women. Over one million people, mostly Algerians, died in the struggle. Torture and murder were rampant.
I led student demonstrations in Europe calling for free Algeria. As a result, I received my first death threats from La Main Rouge, a supposedly independent organization that murdered supporters of Algerian independence. Later, it was revealed to be a false flag branch of French foreign intelligence.
After independence, the victorious FLN (National Liberation Front) leadership set about killing one another. The revolution devoured its own. So much for youthful idealism and hope.
Post-war Algeria was run by the FLN hierarchy and military until gas and oil prices dropped in 1991 and the regime did not know what to do. It was decided to actually allow a free vote in local elections, one of the first in the Arab word. The moderate Islamic Salvation Front (FIS in French) won a landslide. The dictators, king and soldiers who ran the Arab world under US, British and French tutelage were horrified. The FIS was banned, its leaders jailed, and martial law imposed over Algeria.
A national uprising erupted against military rule. The army fought back with extreme cruelty, using torture, beheadings and executions that far exceeded the cruelties inflicted by former colonial ruler, France.
Over 200,000 Algerians died in this butchery.
Most FIS leaders were killed or murdered. But some escaped to Morocco, Libya and the Sahara to create a new militant fighting group, GIA, which still operates today in the Sahara, notably Mali, Cameroon, Chad and Togo. Leaders of the Islamic State took their cues from FIS/GIA.
A young, bright, personable former army officer, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was named foreign minister. He eventually became president because the regime’s bigwigs (le pouvoir) could not agree on who was to become leader. Bouteflika became the compromise candidate and occupied this role for twenty years – at least until he suffered a severe stroke that left him crippled and mute. He kept ruling from a wheelchair.
Algerians, half of whom are under thirty years old, poured into the streets to demand democracy and free votes. Even army chief Ahmed Salah could not withstand these demands for a new Arab spring. The last one in 1991 turned into a disaster as reactionary forces in the Arab word and their US, French ad British backers reimposed autocratic rule on the long-suffering Arab world.
Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gestures while talking with Army Chief of Staff General Ahmed Gaed Salah during a graduation ceremony of the 40th class of the trainee army officers at a Military Academy in Cherchell 90 km west of Algiers, Algeria June 27, 2012.
But Algeria might spark a new wave of revolution, notably in war-torn Libya, Tunisia and medieval Morocco. Egypt, a virtual US-Saudi colonial dictatorship, would be threatened by a democratic Algeria. The Saharan region would seek real independence from foreign rule.
As of now, we wait to see what will happen in Algiers. It would be good to see Algeria’s military step back and give up its unproductive role in politics. Algeria urgently needs to develop its civilian economy away from oil and gas. When they run out, Algeria will be forced to rely on agriculture and fishing.
Most important, Algeria’s army must ensure a peaceful transition to civilian government and fair elections. This would be the real second Algerian revolution for which so many have died. As we used to chant long ago, ‘long live free Algeria.’
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Sam Francis - works on paper
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Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) occupies a prominent position in post-war American painting. Although associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement and Clement Greenberg's Post-Painterly Abstraction, unlike many American painters of he time he had direct and prolonged exposure to French painting and to Japanese art which had an individual impact on his work.
On leaving the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1944 owing to illness Francis took up painting as a hobby. He decided to make this a serious undertaking studying under David Park in 1947 and completed his BA and MA at the University of California. He was greatly influenced by Abstract Expressionism particularly the works of Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock. In his use of space on the canvas to allow free circulation of strong colour and the sensitivity to light Francis developed his own style by the time his studies had ended.
Francis moved to Paris in 1950 where he met Jean-Paul Riopelle who was to remain an important influence, and study of Monet's Waterlilies had a profound impact on his work. From a very muted palette of greys and whites he returned to the qualities of light and colour producing such works as Big Red 1953. He continues to develop the use of white space and increased the dimensions of his paintings for greater emphasis. During his period in Europe he executed a number of monumental mural paintings.
Francis returned to California in 1962 and was then influenced by the West Coast School's preoccupation with mysticism and Eastern philosophy. Blue had become a more dominant feature of his work since 1959 inspired by personal suffering and the great joy of becoming a father for the first time in 1961. This led to combinations of hard colour and more disciplined structures with centrally placed rectangles during the 1970s. Eventually these more rigid structures gave way to looser configurations sometimes of snake-like forms with web-like patterns. Blue, sometimes brilliant, remained an important part of many later works.
We are interested in purchasing original paintings by Sam Francis, both on canvas and paper, from all periods.
Condensed exhibition history of Sam Francis
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Vidurashwatha Temple, Gauribidanur
Vidurashwatha is a small village located in the Gauribidanur taluk of Chikkaballapur district in the state of Karnataka, India. Situated near the Karnataka - Andhra Pradesh border and about 6 km from Gauribidanur, it had a major role to play in the freedom movement of India.
The name Vidurashwatha is derived from that of a big Ashwatha (Ficus religiosa) tree located in this village. According to a legend of the times of Mahabharata, this tree was planted by Vidura, a courtier in the kingdom of Dhritarashtra; and hence the name Vidurashwatha. Unfortunately, in 2001, this ancient tree fell to the ground.
Naga Devatha Temple which is as old as the tree, here people do the prathishtapana of the naga god, to fulfil their desires, like having child, do better in business etc., the pooja here is done to alleviate all problems concerned with Naga dosha.
There is also lots of monkeys which are harping at people to get something to eat. There are few charity halls which give food to the devotees these charity halls are mainly the religion based, like the arya vysya choultry which provide food for their community people who come to visit the temple, there is new Sri Raghavendraswamy math, on the way to temple for brahmins also they have provision for lodging which is charged very nominally on a weekend about 200-250 people are fed. (there are no good hotels in the vicinity for about 10 km on either side).
Moreover the peace you get after going to the temple is astounding, it is said that snakes used to visit the temple during festivals and take the offerings given by the devotees. The place is very close to Bangalore (about 100 km) and from Gauribidnaur (10 km), it is also close to Hindupur (Andhra border).
The other nearby interesting place is the Lepakshi Temple (about 30 km from Vidurashwatha. Vidurashwatha can be reached by bus directly from Bangalore, the nearest railway station is about 4 km to 5 km but the next best option is to get down at Gauri bidnaur and take a private vehicle to the temple. There is one more option to get down at Hindupur station (18Km) from Vidurashwatha. You can get hotel accommodation and can reach the place by bus.
The wishes of many who have rendered service at this Ashoka tree have come true. Every year thousands of pilgrims visit this place and hundreds of weddings take place before the principal deity. The Brahmarathotsava (car festival) of this shrine takes place on full moon day in the month of Chaitra every year (the day of Bangalore Karaga). On this occasion a cow mela takes place. There is bus and train facility to reach this place, which is located 85 kms away from Bangalore.
Vidurashwatha is known as the Jallianwala Bagh of the South. On April 25, 1938, as a part of the freedom struggle of India, a group of villagers had congregated in a ground to organise a Satyagraha. Similar to what happened at Jallianwala Bagh, police fired indiscriminately at the group resulting in the death of 10 people. A memorial has been erected in this location bearing the names of those who lost their lives in this incident.
Gauribidanur, Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka State, India
Shri Anand Guruji refered this temple for Sarpa Dosha, Kala Sarpa Dosha Parihara and problems related to skin etc.. One should visit this temple for 3 poornima or for 11 weeks and offer prayers for santhana phala. The other temples refered by Guruji are:
Shree Kukke Subrahmanya Temple
Ghati Subramanya Temple
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Final two issues of 2018 series of JCP Digest
JCP Digest 11 (2018: 45) provides a summary of research carried out at two universities in Belgium which compared guided bone regeneration (GBR) with connective-tissue graft (CTG), simultaneous with implant placement, to restore the buccal convexity of single-tooth gaps.
This single-blind, randomised controlled trial, which took place over a year, found that there was no statistically significant difference between the two techniques in terms of restoring buccal convexity and volume. Researchers said that both techniques can be considered as good alternatives for this type of reconstruction.
The study, published in full in the November 2018 edition of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology (JCP), was summarised for JCP Digest by students of the postgraduate programme in periodontology at the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.
Tissue-level versus bone-level implants
JCP Digest 12 (2018: 45) summarises research that compared the implant survival rate between short (6mm) and standard-length (11-15mm) implants, the latter placed in combination with bone grafting, at five years from loading.
Secondary aims of this prospective controlled multicentre study included biological and technical complications, changes in marginal-bone levels, peri-implant soft-tissue parameters, and patient-reported outcomes.
Researchers – at universities in Austria, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA – found high implant-survival rates for both techniques but noted that the shorter implants were more prone to technical complications. They said that shorter dental implants should be considered as a suitable option to treat maxillary posterior edentulous areas, but they should be closely monitored during the first three years after loading.
This research, published in the December 2018 edition of the JCP, was summarised for JCP Digest by students of the postgraduate programme in periodontology at the University of Strasbourg in France.
Series complete
With the publication of issue 12, the series of JCP Digest based on papers published in the JCP during 2018 has been completed – at least in terms of the English-language versions.
Translation continues apace and, at present, the first five 2018 issues of JCP Digest are available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, with the first issue also available in Croatian.
Over the next few months, the remaining issues will be translated into these languages, and also Hebrew.
JCP Digest is edited by Phoebus Madianos and Andreas Stavropoulos, from the EFP’s scientific affairs committee, working with the EFP-accredited postgraduate programmes of periodontology, whose students provide the summaries.
09 APR 2019 Clinical practice · Communication · Science · New Classification
EFP toolkit for clinicians on new classification is now available for use
The EFP toolkit for periodontists and other dental professionals to help them implement the new classification of periodontal and peri-implant diseases has now been formally launched and materials can be viewed and downloaded from a dedicated website.
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The English Language Center is a refugee focused English acquisition program that teaches English to students who speak more than 15 different languages from dozens of different countries. We serve an average of 120 students a day, 5 days a week.
The first thing I saw in Boise was the washing machine. I though that it was a cooker or a fridge, but later, I asked someone I was living with and he told me, it is a washing machine. I wondered what that was. I saw him using it to wash his clothes. So the first thing I did was to call my family to tell them in Boise there's a washing machine that washes and dries everything within three hours. -Ernest, Uganda
The first thing I saw in Boise was snow. I just got down and touched it. It was very beautiful. - Christina, Pakistan
What's Worth Saving
a collaborative poem
The way my baby says, Da, da, da, da
Spice beef smell of korma
the color of snow
my daughter's red wedding dress
the sound of the ocean
the yellow red of every sunset
when it rains outside
the race of wind in the trees
the quiet of a lamb
quiet footsteps of an elephant
the raining color of the sky
the innocence of animals
the memory of my girlfriend's voice
the sound of a lion, when he cries the walls begin to shake,
when he cries it sounds like thunder.
My name...
Kyaw
My name is Kyaw Pah.
In my language, my first name means to jump or flying over the sky.
My last name means small frog.
I am the color green.
My name sounds like a hurricane
blowing over the trees,
blowing through the clouds.
It is the number six,
in the middle,
not a high number,
not a low number.
I was named after my father,
my whole family gave me the name.
When I was born,
they saw me and told me my name.
Kyaw Pah.
And I believed them.
Writing Through Emotions
Red like blood, like
the Royal Massacre in Nepal,
red across all of the doorways,
and flowing on the ground.
It happens when I think
about that night in Nepal.
It sounds like people crying,
like the sound of weapons,
like glass breaking,
like the buildings coming apart.
It smells like flesh, like smoke, like gunfire.
Sadness.
Where I'm From
I am from not remembering where I was born,
from growing up in the refugee camp,
a place like a small box,
a place that always sounded like birds quarreling,
from dreaming of a different place,
from mountains shaped like the letter M,
green spring leaves,
and red poppy flowers.
I can call back
I can call back camels,
tall as trees,
long necks,
and backs shaped like mountains.
I can call back Kakuma Camp, small,
filled with trees, green like lemons.
I can call back the small trees and how
they smelled like perfume.
I can call back the camp called Kakuma
with it's hot sun, like fire, burning my neck and ears.
I can call back the mountains in Kenya,
just like the mountains in Idaho.
Diversity is our Strength
Our students come from all over the globe. Here is some information on the countries that our refugees have come from in the last year. For more information about the current conflicts and crises in those areas, please check out the links below:
The International Rescue Committee
The United Nations Refugee Agency
Afghanistan is home to the world’s first oil paintings, found in the caves of Bamiyan, where the world’s two largest standing Buddhas once stood. It is also the birth place of the poet Rumi and boasts the worlds “wildest national sport”: buzkashi, or goat-grabbing;
Population: 30 million
Population displaced by crisis: Nearly 9 million
Recognized national languages:
There are several national parks and wildlife reserves in the Central African Republic that are home to hundreds of species of animals including the endangered black rhinoceroses and bongo antelope.
Because the constitution of Eritrea states “equality for all Eritrean languages” there is no official language. Eritrea’s waters are home to 1,400 fish species and 250 coral species (17-20% are found nowhere else).
Kunama
Called the “Cradle of Civilization”; Iraq is the birthplace of the first written story “The Epic of Gilgamesh” as well as other well-known classics like “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”. It is also one of the three largest date producers in the world.
People displaced by crisis: 3.4 million
Home to the worlds “last Eden”, Nouabal-Ndoki National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to a variety of unique wildlife such as the okapi, African golden cat, and the giant otter shrew.
Kituba
The capital city of Syria, Damascus, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the word and the National Museum if Damascus contains artifacts from every age. Syria is a founding member of the United Nations.
Population Displaced by crisis:11 million
Called the “Land of Thunder Dragons” because of powerful Himalayan storms, Bhutan is home to the world’s highest unclimbed peak, Gangkhar Puensum. Bhutan is one of the only countries in the world where citizens have a constitutional obligation to protect the environment.
Population: almost 800,000
Code d’Ivoire has two capitals; that official capital at Yamoussoukro and the commercial and administrative capital at Abidjan. Cote d’Ivoire is the largest exporter of cocoa and is home to the pygmy hippopotamus.
Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations in the world and the only country the world to have a 13 month calendar; it is also the only country in Africa with its own alphabet. The oldest fossil human skeleton was found in Ethiopia’s Great Rift Valley.
Also known as ‘Burma’, Myanmar is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia and, like the United States, is one of only three countries that don’t use the metric system of measurement. Myanmar is home to the largest book in the world.
Formed in July of 1960, Somalia is known as the “nation of poets”, with poetry playing a major role in Somali society. This is also the place where camels were domesticated for the first time.
People displaced by crisis: 17 of every 100
Lake Tanganyika in Burundi is estimated to be the second largest, and second deepest, freshwater lake in the world. Burundi is also the home to Gustave, a Nile crocodile who – at 7 meters long - may be the largest crocodile in the world.
The second largest country in Africa, the people of the DRC represent over 200 ethnic groups with nearly 250 languages. It is also home to the oldest national park in Africa; Virunga National Park.
Tshiluba
One of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations, Iran has settlements dating back to 4000 B.C. and was home to one of the Seven Wonder of the Ancient World; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Iran is currently home to 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites including the Bam Citadel and the Lut Desert.
Pakistan boasts the largest canal-based irrigation system, the largest earth-filled dam, and the largest salt mine in the world; as well as the longest glacial system outside the polar region. Pakistan is also home to a number of famous archaeological sites including Harappa, Taxila and Takht Bhai.
Population: 200 million
The two tributaries of the Nile, the White and Blue Nile, merge at Khartoum, the capital of Sudan where they flow north towards Egypt and the Mediterranean. There are more pyramids in the northern Sudanese desert than there are in Egypt.
The first gas lamp was invented in Lviv, Ukraine, a city in the west that is also known as the “café capital of the world “. Ukraine boasts a long tradition of crafting beautifully intricate Easter eggs, known as pysankas. Ukraine is also home to seven UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the primeval beech forests of the Carpathians.
Population displaced: possibly up to half a million
Language is Power
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EEOC Sues Texas Oilfield Services Company for Retaliation
By Wayne Perkey October 29, 2014 Employment Law No Comments
Garrison Contractors Fired Its Only Female Oilfield Roustabout After Reporting Sexual Harassment, Federal Agency Charges
DALLAS – An Iraan, Texas oilfield construction and services company violated federal discrimination law by firing its only female roustabout after she reported being sexually harassed on the job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, Elma Garza was hired by Garrison Contractors, Inc. in January 2012 as a roustabout (a kind of oilfield worker). The EEOC said that during her employment, Garza was subjected to unwelcome sexual conduct by a co-worker and by an individual employed by another company. After Garza’s report of the unwanted sexual contact by the other company’s employee came to the attention of Garrison’s CEO, he fired her, the EEOC said.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against retaliation for filing an EEOC charge or complaining about discriminatory practices, including harassment. The EEOC filed suit, Civil Action No. 4:14-cv-00073, in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Pecos Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. In this case, the EEOC seeks compensatory and punitive damages and back pay, as well as injunctive relief, including an order barring Garrison from engaging in retaliatory treatment in the future.
“Employers are only compounding their own troubles and liability when they make a bad situation worse and punish a harassment victim,” said Devika Seth, senior trial attorney in the EEOC’s Dallas District Office. “The EEOC stands ready to vindicate Ms. Garza’s exercise of her civil rights and the rights of all employees who are punished when they report harassment on the job.”
EEOC Regional Attorney Robert Canino added, “In cases where women may work in a traditionally male environment, they need to have the confidence that they can talk to managers about harassing conduct without risking their income to do so. A woman should not have to wait until sexually offensive conduct reaches its most extreme forms before she calls the company’s attention to it. Retaliation, if uncontested, strips workers of the protections afforded by our laws.”
Eliminating policies and practices that discourage or prohibit individuals from exercising their rights under employment discrimination statutes, or that impede the EEOC’s investigative or enforcement efforts, is of one of six national priorities identified by the EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP).
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov. The EEOC’s Dallas District Office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in northern Texas and parts of New Mexico.
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November 19, 2004 Allison McCracken / DePaul University 10 comments
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
America is making people disappear. While the “real” casualties of this administration are rarely represented on television, rituals of death are continually replayed and the sense of loss remains, haunting these texts. My subject for this first column is, appropriately, what we have lost and how we’re coping with that loss — on television, anyway. With a fall season marked by the popularity of programs entitled Without a Trace and Lost, the importance of loss as a televisual theme seems rather obvious. We can easily look back on the past few years for confirmation of this trend. For example, competitive reality programs in which the “unchosen” disappear into the night, through a ritual cab ride (as in The Apprentice or The Bachelor) or simply by going “off” camera. Others like Wife Swap exploit fears of spousal disappearance, creating fractured families who long for reconnection. And death, not love, is certainly all around in the crime procedurals that dominate prime time. These programs litter our evenings with corpses, most often women or children, casualties in a domestic war that has no name. Invisible during their lives, such bodies become sites for investigation after their death, as professionals use the latest technology to probe their flesh for clues to their untimely demise. As hard as these investigators work, however, the “losses” continue to pile up. On the one hand, these programs serve as cautionary tales reinforcing the terror warnings: we must be fearful, we must be good consumers, we must not lose the game. If we make a mistake, we shall be erased. On the other hand, these programs also enact a revealing displacement: both domestically and internationally, America is making people disappear. While the “real” casualties of this administration are rarely represented on television, rituals of death are continually replayed and the sense of loss remains, haunting these texts.
In American prime-time, such losses are not exclusively thematic; the industry itself has dramatically changed in the last four years, and the loss of socially progressive programming has been devastating to liberal producers and to the communities they serve. During the 2000 Presidential election, for example, I alternated between watching the returns and reading the reactions to them by Buffy fans on-line. That evening, we had all previously watched a new episode of the program’s 5th season, “Family,” in which Buffy producer Joss Whedon took a firm stance in support of gay couples, to the delight of fans. This year, one week before the Presidential election, Whedon unexpectedly shut down his television production company, Mutant Enemy, because, he said “I have a bitter taste in my mouth with where tv has gone the past five years.” (Variety, Oct.24, 2004). Since the surprise cancellation of Angel this year, all of Mutant Enemy’s programs are now off the air, replaced by sometimes entertaining but largely reactionary boy-centered melodramas like Smallville, Everwood, The O.C., Jack and Bobby, and life as we know it. Aside from a few female-centered programs, none of which offers the innovations Buffy did, girls (and queers) have largely vanished from prime time prominence, along with socially progressive agendas. Television’s experiments in the mid-to-late 90-s,which resulted in such gems as Freaks and Geeks, Homicide, My So-Called Life, Ellen, Oz, Once and Again and Sex and the City seems over. For their audiences, these texts represented a socially liberal space that enabled viewers to connect with alternative forms of community which may not have been available to them otherwise. Their loss (and the lack of comparable replacements) is a potentially profound one for many television viewers, who are no longer permitted the range of discussion or opportunity for community richer, more critical texts made available to them (and often encouraged by producers like Whedon).
It’s perhaps no surprise that, amidst such loss, prime-time television has turned to God (like many voters in this year’s election). While in the 90s Buffy re-appropriated religious symbols and icons to serve feminist and queer ends, and Oz acknowledged religious diversity and linked spiritual practices with broader humanitarian concerns, God has reappeared in more traditional forms in recent years, as a wise advisor or institutionalized icon. This shift to God in “straight” form has been particularly hard on female characters. The most obvious example is Joan of Arcadia, whose creator, Barbara Hall, rediscovered God after suffering a sexual assault. Hall created Joan so that adolescent girls and other viewers could turn to God in dealing with the perils of modern life. The program, however, often seems to have the opposite effect for Joan. God tells his handmaiden how to make everyone else’s life better except her own, which is continually disrupted by his bizarre requests (unsurprisingly, Joan is not permitted to know God’s reasons beforehand). Similarly, on the much-heralded new drama Jack and Bobby, future President Bobby recoils from his fiercely secular (and unfortunately shrill) mother to embrace religious life, paving the way to his becoming a minister. And last season on Everwood, local doctor Harold Abbott races to church to confess his sins after performing an abortion for a random teenage girl. While the girl herself never reappears, the point is clear: the fallen woman caused this good man to sin.
Alongside these literal references to God, the desire for supernatural or spiritual intervention has taken hold of more secular-seeming dramas as well, most notably J.J. Abrams’ Lost. Lost begins where most disaster films end — after the plane crash on the deserted tropical island. The program is particularly timely in that it deals both with lost people and feelings of loss generally, especially for a liberal-minded middle-class audience. Lost represents many of those who are normally invisible as protagonists on television (non-Americans, non Anglos, the disabled, the overweight, an Iraqi citizen, a drug user), but it also suggests the world view of American liberals who feel stranded in a land in which they have lost social power, and who are haunted by past events which have brought them to where they are. This is a potentially powerful scenario, but Lost has resisted complex interrogations of liberal alienation or American social violence in favor of more comforting supernatural band-aids.
The most successful episode, “Walkabout,” found fans absolutely overjoyed and in tears when it was revealed that wheel-chair bound Terry O’Quinn had been mysteriously healed by the plane crash. Even on such seemingly secular boards as televisionwithoutpity.com, religious rhetoric was plentiful as fans referred, some in gingerly quotations, to the “miracle” that had occurred. While the quotation marks indicate some possible discomfort with the term, especially in relation to a program coming from generally more progressive Buffy writer David Fury and Alias/Felicity creator J.J. Abrams, they also suggest an increased willingness to entertain religious explanations. Indeed, a recent TV Guide poll revealed that 26% of viewers think that the “survivors” are actually all dead, another 23% that they’re in “Purgatory” (TV Guide, 11/14/04). Perhaps more than anything else, this poll suggests the hopelessness of many audience members who seem willing to embrace, at least televisually, some sign of a divine or at least an easy, solution to a depressing, perhaps intolerable, situation.
Remarkably, I find myself looking to a procedural for representations of the “disappeared” in which conditions of actual social violence are referenced. Without a Trace is unusual for today’s procedurals because it is the only crime program which consistently offers thoughtful characterizations, fallible detectives, failed investigations, and moments of progressive politics. The program recently departed from its procedural format to offer a pretty faithful adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich’s social critique of the situation of low-wage working women (the episode titles are “Nickel and Dimed, Parts I and II”). In this case, the “vanished” woman is a single mother, trying to make ends meet by working at “Everymart” and cleaning houses on her days off. Desperate for money for her son’s hearing aid, she works as a go-between for drug-dealers, who kidnap and eventually kill her. Single female Detective Samantha Spade empathizes with the women, putting her own life at risk in order to search for her by going undercover as a low-wage worker; Spade’s “break from common procedure” allows the program to further expose these women’s inhumane working and living conditions. In the episode’s thesis statement, the frustrated Spade angrily mourns the missing woman: “It shouldn’t have been so hard for her, you know? She deserved better. This isn’t about records or files or paper trails. The problem is she’s invisible. This woman has vanished into thin air, and if it weren’t for Jake, [her son], it wouldn’t have even made a ripple. I feel like things happen to people like her and no one notices and no one’s held accountable!” Spade’s critique is remarkable in that it exposes the blinders of our culture generally, well represented by television’s other procedurals — their devotion to “paper trails” and elaborate autopsies while larger structural causes are never addressed. While her outburst does not offer a divine or easy solution, it does significantly acknowledge the pervasive losses caused by our social system. And Spade does mourn these losses, at least for a television moment — and such moments may be the only “real” comfort television has to offer for the next four years.
ABC’s Lost Home Page
CBS’s Without a Trace Page
Religion Online
Religion and The Mass Media: Bibilographic Database
tagged with Faith/Religion, Hegemony, Morality, Television
James Golsan
God and Television
I really like this article. In the 90s, and even leading up to 9/11, things definately felt more free and adventurous in the media. It’s as though we feel bad about where we went with our entertainment, and are moving back in a penitent direction, albeit only with our fictional texts. Reality TV seems entirely unaffected by this trend. Does God exist, in the American concience, as a force to be expressed and explained ficticiously? With the religious right & the GOP more powerful then ever, is Jesus becomming less a part of personal spiritualism, and more pop-culture icon?
Hollis Griffin
Oh look, God is on my television….
I read Allison’s column and kept thinking of the recent brouhaha over the Monday Night Football/”Desperate Housewives” promotion spot on ABC that featured a nude (albeit from the back) Nicolette Sheridan jumping into the arms of a uniform-clad NFL player. Given the FCC’s somewhat recent turn to the radical right, is anything “safe” anymore? Conflating “safe” television with “pious” television is ideological irksome and not economically sound given the constant erosion of network audiences… Frankly, I would prefer that the FCC sanctioned ABC for casting the lone Iraqi character on “Lost” as a conscience-plagued war criminal — because that is far more offensive than the other. However, in a political climate that is much more hospitable to representing monstrous Arab characters than the bare shoulder blades of blonde sexpots, the Iraqi war criminal barely created a stir. Which is highly, highly unfortunate.
Cameron Pirzadeh
Thoughts of Bush…
I enjoyed this article thoroughly, and even though the piece is as political as any on this site, I didn’t mind at all. I kept wanting to nail it for excessive Bush-bashing, except that her discussion of reemerging religion and conservatism in Bush-era TV is really spot-on. Media and TV, as so many have said, reflects the culture from which it’s propagated, and certainly that applies here to the new media ideals apparently inspired by the Christian Right. Perhaps the most interesting portion of the piece was the section on “Lost” and its multiple readings for a post-9/11 America. While the tendency to turn towards the supernatural for comfort in both production and private life seem commonplace, I found the postmortem reading of the show’s scenario very interesting. I don’t think that this reading must simply be that of reactionary Christians; think of the critical dialogue on what the final scenes of “Taxi Driver” could possibly mean, along similar lines. This is just critical dialogue, nothing more. What I found even more fascinating was her liberal reading of the same scenario. Naturally a popular TV show wouldn’t fully explore the avenues of isolation, purgatory and deep character psychology so much as it would want to entertain its audience as much as possible, so we shouldn’t be shocked. Pointing out the alienation of contemporary political groups was powerful enough for me.
Ryan Abrams
I really enjoyed this article. I liked how it pointed out the lack of minority roles in these crime shows. Can Black and Brown people not solve mysteries like White people can? As for the characters of Lost, I honestly never considered heaven or purgatory as options, and as these two account for 50% of the survey, it shows me a (not so) suprising turn to the right.
Varun Shah
Conservatism – merely an ideology or a way of life?
With the progressive voice starting to disappear from major pillars of American society (government, justice etc.)and the ideological divide of the country being more apparent than ever before ,it is not surprising that the voice of reason is also disappearing from prime time television.As networks increasingly turn to God and the supernatural , they are only reflecting the desires of millions of Americans who seek solace through faith and religion, especially in turbulent times. There is nothing wrong with that per say, but the sheer lack of competing alternatives, along with the recent spat of FCC censorships, surge of the radical Christian right wing as a political force, elimination of contrasting or moderating viewpoints is alarming. Not only the great American melting pot not proportionally represented, but stereotypes are exploited to fit conventional wisdom (ex Iraq war criminal -completely outrageous) and the ideals of democracy and freedom, which are widely broadcasted as universal values and reasons to invade other countries, entirely missing from American life. Conservatism, it seems is not merely content to remain an opposing ideology, but seeks to become a way of life. And in its absolutes, it tends to be saying – this is America, and this is what we all believe. If you don’t agree, there is probably something wrong with you!.
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Kate Lipinski
Race – There’s no paper trail.
When the few progressive voices on television started to disappear, only a few people noticed. There was a large audience upset by the cancelation of shows like “Angel” but the general public never heard about any uproar when they left the airwaves and, I doubt most people who didn’t watch these shows, knew about the statements these shows were making. Shows like “Buffy” and “Angel” were making statements about queer and gender issues but only if you were watching — they’re message managed to miss the general public who didn’t know that social statements could be made by vampires. Now that they are gone and replaced by carbon-copy teen dramas there aren’t sounding board for these audiences and even in the months since this article was published nothing has changed. The world of prime time television is filled with conservative shows that are dealing with things that middle class America wants. These shows are not dealing with a number of issues that are facing this country, gender and sexuality issues are still being ignored as women remain in supporting roles to male leads that are merely supplements to story lines and gays are being presented as flamboyant best friends. What’s worse is that there has been little progress made in the areas that even “Buffy” and “Angel” didn’t address. It’s true that “Buffy” and “Angel” were progressive and liberal shows. They dealt with a lot of issues that other shows wouldn’t touch but they never bothered to deal with race. The empowered female characters on “Buffy” were almost never (if ever) black. The characters never dealt with the stereotypes that African Americans and Hispanics are facing today in terms of their sexuality. Most of the characters on these shows were white. The issue of intersectionality is staring viewers in the face. It is impossible to understand race without looking at one’s gender, sexuality, class, etc. Shows like “Buffy” and “Angel” were only starting to break the ice by discussing gender and sexuality openly, they needed to take it a step further to make a difference but didn’t. Race is something that isn’t talked about in today’s culture because it isn’t a problem; everyone has taken to ignoring it because if they pretend that they don’t see it it’s not there. In television, it’s really not there. The rest of the progressive shows mentioned in this article have no or only token minority characters. “Sex in the City” featured no minorities (unless you count Charlotte because she’s a brunet), “Freaks and Geeks” didn’t have any minorities as main characters either. “My So-Called Life” was about a white suburban family with Ricky as the only minority and he was a stereotypical black gay male, covering all minorities in one token character. It’s not that these shows weren’t making statements. They did. They had to choose which statements they made though. It’s impossible to cover all of the injustices facing television in one show. One cannot be too progressive in today’s market and because “Buffy” and “Angel” dealt with gender and sexuality – they couldn’t deal with race as well. Now that these shows are gone and America is tuning in to yet another reality show or shows were God is the one of the characters (these are interesting because wouldn’t God included minorities because he loves us all?) Is there any hope to raise the topic of race? The answer is, most likely, no. When the shows talking about sexuality and gender disappear, the shows about the race are set back another ten years because we cannot talk about race until we deal with those first. Those are easier to discuss after all because we actually can see them. We don’t spend time pretending that gender doesn’t exist. That would make all those dating shows really messy. When the idea of people disappearing “Without a Trace” because they leave behind no paper trail is brought up, shouldn’t we bring up the idea of how even when watching programs with God as a character race disappears the second we turn on our television sets?
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Labour MEPs welcome High Court defeat for tobacco companies on eve of plain packaging becoming law
Labour MEPs have welcomed today's High Court ruling against tobacco companies on the eve of new plain packaging regulations coming into force.
The court struck down the challenge from four of the world's biggest tobacco firms, Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International, with the judge, Mr Justice Green, ruling the regulations are "valid and lawful in all respects".
Also tomorrow, the EU tobacco products directive (TPD) comes into force across the European Union, under which graphic health warnings must cover two-thirds of cigarette packs, with an immediate ban on flavourings in cigarettes, as well as a ban on lipstick, and perfume packs, with a menthol ban phased in from 2020.
E-cigarettes will be regulated, having to meet certain quality and safety standards, including a strength limit - and if companies claim e-cigarettes help smokers quit, they will have to seek a medicines licence.
Linda McAvan MEP, the European Parliament lead negotiator on the TPD, said:
"Today's court case shows the desperation of the big tobacco companies - it's great news their challenge has been thrown out, as happened when the European Court of Justice ruled against them earlier this month.
"The big tobacco companies did everything to block these laws, employing hundreds of lobbyists along the way, but they lost their cases in what is a major victory for health campaigners.
"Let's hope the law will lead to fewer young smokers being recruited by tobacco companies."
Ms McAvan added:
"The plain packaging regulations and the tobacco products directive - which I steered through the EU law making process in the last Parliament - become law in the UK and across the EU tomorrow. This will mean an end to gimmick tobacco products such as "lipstick" packs, chocolate cigarettes and other marketing ploys designed to lure teenagers into smoking.
"Four thousand British children start smoking each week - that's a staggering 200,000 new childhood smokers a year. More than 700,000 people a year die in the European Union as a result of smoking and 70 per cent of those started smoking before the age of 18. Nearly half of all smokers will die from a smoking related disease and tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable premature deaths across Europe.
"These new laws are an important step towards preventing children taking up smoking."
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Towards a Local Church of Western Europe
A Metropolia of Western Europe
It was in April 1988 that I first proposed in French a paper on a Metropolia of Western Europe, composed of six dioceses in six different linguistic and cultural areas (cross-border) which I called, Gallia, Germania, Iberia, Italia, Scandinavia and the Isles. (See, ‘A Vision for the Orthodox Churches of Western Europe’, published in Orthodox England, Vol 4, No 1, September 2001). My thought then was that this could become the foundation of a restored Local Church of Western Europe. This was a historic suggestion, as for well over 900 years this had ceased to exist.
Thirty Years Ago
The idea was dismissed in Paris, the historic centre of the Russian emigration in Western Europe, and the forward-looking project proved to be impossible then. There were only three groups who could realistically have contributed something towards it: the Rue Daru or Paris Exarchate group (RD); the Moscow Patriarchate Exarchate (MP) and the Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). Of these three, the old Rue Daru had tied itself up in modernist knots (nothing can be built on compromises) and in any case under US-run Constantinople it was not politically free to do anything of the sort.
As for the old MP, it was tiny because it was so distrusted by all. Run in fact by part of the Soviet Communist Party, it too was not politically free and moreover it had dangerously renovationist figures in it. As for the old ROCOR, it was small, disorganized, elderly and above all, inward-looking, as it still defined itself as being a group opposed to the atheist regime inside Russia, rather than as a key part of a future Local Church. It was living in reference to the past, not the future. The situation was to alter radically only after the year 2000, for those with the vision to see ahead.
Fifteen Years Ago
After the Moscow Council of August 2000, with a new archbishop after 1993, the Rue Daru group fell into conversations with the by then largely politically free MP, which was still very small in Western Europe. It was virtually agreed that RD would at last return to the jurisdiction of the MP and become an autonomous Metropolia within it, as a foundation for a future Local Church. However, Archbishop Serge (Konovalov) of the Rue Daru jurisdiction was to die tragically on 22 January 2003 and the next archbishop, Gabriel (De Vylder), was a furious Russophobe and strongly modernistic.
Indeed, since then, having missed the boat and set on a suicidal path, the Rue Daru group has largely fallen into irrelevance, its vital forces having quit it for one part or the other of the Russian Orthodox Church. Looking back, there was Providence here, since Archbishop Serge’s hopes would in any case have been dashed by the dominant wing of the Exarchate, represented by his successor. Today Rue Daru represents only 60 scattered parishes and communities, most of them very small. Most of its living parishes are in fact Moldovan and Romanian, with priests loaned by the MP.
The MP Needs a Partner
Why did the MP enter into such negotiations with Rue Daru? Simply because alone it could do nothing. Thus, even though the once few MP parishes of 30 years ago today number perhaps 250 in Western Europe with six bishops, dwarving the one-bishop Rue Daru group (ROCOR has about 100 parishes in Western Europe with three bishops), it is essentially an ethnic group. It is composed of recent immigrants, often not understanding local languages and culture. The MP needs those who have this understanding. Let us compare as examples the MP and ROCOR dioceses in the Isles.
Although on paper the MP diocese here is much bigger, in reality most of its communities are tiny (less than ten!), often with only a few services a year, without property and without a regular priest. It is a paper empire, all its money expended on its ex-Anglican church in London. ROCOR probably actually has almost as many people, more property, is better established and tends to attract people who are better-established in these Isles. Often, those immigrants who have been here for more than ten years tend to drift across to ROCOR, their children more integrated into society.
The old, inward-looking and too often politicized ROCOR, which largely died out in the 1980s and 1990s, could not have been a partner for the ultimate aim of building a new Local Church: however, the new ROCOR, born after the reconciliation with the MP in 2007, can be such a partner. The MP of the early 2000s, still with an old-fashioned, Sovietized cast of mind, could not see this and sought the wrong partner, one compromised in modernism. Today it needs a skeleton, a structure, solid Russian Orthodox people with local knowledge: it is only ROCOR that can provide this.
This entry was posted in Metropolia, Western Europe and tagged The Future on May 28, 2018 by Father Andrew.
On Injustices in Church Life
The Church, the Incarnate Body of Christ, has always been the central battlefield between God and the world, whose prince is Satan. It is for this reason that the world constantly tries to destroy and corrupt the Church, infiltrating it with those who foolishly and blindly do Satan’s will. History is full of notorious examples of internal enemies and traitors in Church life. Indeed this was the foundation of monastic life in the fourth century. All this is because the presence of Christ is abhorrent to Satan, who wants the world for himself, as we see in the temptations of Christ, related in the Gospel of Matthew 4. Satan has always tried to make the Church into the world, to make Faith into a mere State or institutional ‘religion’. He makes bishops and priests into anti-pastors, into scribes (vain and pompous intellectuals like Arius and so many pompous academics who, puffed up with futile knowledge as the Apostle Paul describes (2 Tim 3, 4), think that they know everything) and pharisees (ritualists), not to mention persecutors and bureaucrats. Thus, in Church history, every heresy and every schism has been an attempt, usually unconscious because of the spiritual delusion of those who lead heresy and schism, to compromise the Church with the world.
Thus, in the seventh century in these Isles, disorganized but holy Irish monks were bewildered by organized but cold Roman religion; during the later first millennium the zealous monks of New Rome (Constantinople) were cruelly persecuted by iconoclast emperors and empresses with their pro-Islamic political projects; in the eleventh century Old Rome fell into the temptation of making its bishop into a universal emperor who commanded armies and tortureers, replaced God and from whom, they said, proceeded the Holy Spirit and so all truth and authority; a few centuries ago in Russia a great debate arose between non-possessing hermits and those who ran monasteries as economic units with farmlands and peasants; a little over a century ago the Russian Church, though with great institutions, was compromised as part of State machinery and the people flocked not to wealthy bishop-bureaucrats, city career priests and professional Italianate opera choirs in stone city churches, but to poor spirit-bearing elders in wooden chapels in provincial monasteries; and in our own times the greatest saint of the Diaspora, St John of Shanghai, was put on trial by bishops who backed secular-minded people who had money and power, and not the faithful and the true.
What are we to do in the face of injustices in Church life?
Firstly, we may be wrong: we can only know that we are right, if we are persecuted. Christ tells us so (Lk 21 and Jn. 16). So let us accept persecution provided that it does not force us into breaking the commandments. If it does mean compromising the commandments, we must leave for another canonical, and not uncanonical, diocese. For persecution is no self-justifying excuse for falling away into schism. The Church is everywhere littered with little groups, or rather sects of extreme, for instance of new calendarists and old calendarists, who were often initially victims of episcopal injustices, but who now have no canonical status and so have discredited themselves. But the Church calendar is also everywhere littered with those who bore injustices, only recently St Nectarius of Egina and St John of Shanghai, and so became saints. They did not take off their crowns.
Secondly, while you stay in the Church with those who cause injustice, do not participate in that injustice, side with the victims of the injustice. They are anti-pastors, but you must remain pastors, your conscience clean. The bullies, narcissists and manipulators of the naive, with their ‘gaslighting’ lies, hypocrisy and attempts to discredit, will not win. They do not think of the Last Judgement and tremble at it, but you do think of it and tremble at it.
Thirdly, we must know that, as they say, what goes round, comes round. Our persecutors should be trembling – in any case, they soon will be. I have seen so many who have persecuted Church people, terrible things have happened to them all sooner or later, without exception. Over the last forty years and more, I have seen them, bishops and priests dying suddenly after acting outrageously. They thought they could get away with it: they could not. Be patient: the Truth will out. God is always on the side of the good and the faithful. Be patient, justice is always done, for man proposes, but God disposes: Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6, 7).
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Wind Directions Article: EWEA at 30 - from humble beginnings to mainstream power player
Over the last three decades both EWEA and the wind power industry have come together to successfully influence European energy policy. Chris Rose and Zoë Casey take a walk down memory lane...
Britain and Argentina were waging war over the Falkland Islands in 1982, the first artificial heart transplant in a human occurred in the US, Germany, at the geographic centre of the Cold War, was still divided, Apartheid had made South Africa a pariah, and the Euro did not exist.
But at the other end of the news spectrum, a small group of scientific and engineering visionaries meeting in Stockholm agreed to establish the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) which in the next 30 years went on to become the world's major voice for wind power.
From a humble start in London to the modern twofloor office it currently inhabits near the European Commission, Council and Parliament in Brussels, EWEA is now recognized as the largest wind energy network in the world.
It wasn't always that way…
Jos Beurskens remembers the idea of forming EWEA being discussed after the ISES (International Solar Energy Society) Solar World Forum in Brighton 23-28 August 1981. A small group discussed "intensifying European wind power collaboration" which at the time was dominated by the British Wind Energy Association.
By the next international wind energy conference in Stockholm 21-24 September 1982 a new meeting was held and the European Wind Energy Association was formed with Dr. Gijsbrecht Piepers elected as Chairman.
Some of the people who participated in the early discussions were Mario Pedersen from Denmark, Horst Selzer from Germany, Giuseppe Selva from Italy, Norman Lipman, Donald Swift-Hook and John Dixon from the UK,
Gijsbrecht Piepers from the Netherlands and Charles Hirsch.
"EWEA is now recognised as the largest wind energy network in the world"
In the early days, EWEA had modest objectives including acting as a coordinating body to bring together the industry and represent their views at European level. "It is hoped that EWEA would have some infl uence on the European research scene with regard to the size of the resources that governments and EEC are prepared to put into wind energy R&D," the offi cial minutes of the meeting held in September 1982 said.
In its founding stages, Beurskens remembers EWEA beginning as "a few of enthusiastic volunteers" from Britain, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
Getting EWEA and wind power off the ground
EWEA's first Chairman, Gijsbrecht Piepers, noted that the problems of developing modern wind power, which was pursued after the 1970s oil price crisis, were extremely underestimated.
"People thought you just build turbines without any problems, but it proved much more diffi cult to design a machine that would make optimum use of the variable power of wind — and then translate that energy into useful electricity," Piepers recalled in a Wind Directions interview in 2007.
His memory of the birth of EWEA is that "it was very easy to say that we will have a new Association, but not so easy to devise a programme of action and fi nd the money to fund it."
By the 1980s EWEA had increased its membership to 200 individuals, but the then-Chairman Norman Lipman felt the need for the association to work together. "We must…convince our bureaucracies and our governments that we have something here of long term benefi t to our societies.
A European view is essential if we are to succeed," he wrote in the April 1986 edition of Wind Directions.
At the time, the wind energy sector was most successful in two places: California – fuelled by generous tax breaks, and Denmark – the birthplace of modern wind energy; and the world's installed capacity stood at just 100 MW.
"it was very easy to say that we will have
a new Association, but not so easy to
devise a programme of action and fi nd
the money to fund it." Gijsbrecht Piepers
on the founding of EWEA
Bigger and better
By the early 1990s, all that was changing as turbines were getting bigger and capable of generating larger amounts of electricity. EWEA was fast becoming a well-run, professional organization that spoke with one voice for the entire industry.
EWEA developed a positive reputation for always promoting truth and scientific facts, Beurskens noted, adding the association gained credibility because its scenarios for future wind energy targets were conservatively pragmatic instead of being wildly optimistic.
In parallel, national governments in Denmark, Germany and Spain began to put their weight behind wind power with Denmark setting ambitious targets in 1990 and Germany launching its fi rst Feed-In Tariff in 1991.
- A meeting is held in Brighton, UK, to discuss the set-up of a European Wind Energy Association.
- EWEA is formed in September, in Stockholm. It has no staff or budget of its own, and represents individuals rather than organisations. Gijsbrecht "George" Piepers is elected as Chairman.
- A group of European agricultural machinery manufacturers fly to California to assess the market for producing wind
turbines. 20-30 turbines are shipped and installed from Europe to California by the end of the year.
- Wind turbine size reaches 55 kW.
- The first European wind farm (5 x 20 kW turbines) opens on Greek island of Kyathos.
- Denmark's Development Program for Renewable Energy (the UVE program) is established.
- EWEA joins the then British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) in publishing Wind Directions, now the oldest English language journal devoted to the technology of wind energy (originally published in 1977).
- Europe exports 350 turbines, with a total capacity of 20 MW, to California.
- First official European wind energy conference ("EWEC") held in Hamburg.
- In Denmark, Vestas starts serial production of a 75 kW three-bladed turbine.
EU-decision makers targeted
In 1991 a report part-funded by the European Commission called "Time for Action: Wind Energy in Europe," was launched. It set out the arguments for wind power including the environmental and economic benefits, its target was EU decision makers and it marked a turning point for wind power.
Throughout the 1990s, under the leadership of Ezio Sesto and then Ian Mays, EWEA introduced corporate membership allowing major turbine manufacturers and developers involvement in the organisation and boosting EWEA's funds for its work with the European Commission's Energy, Research and Environment departments.
By the late 90s with Christophe Bourillon as its first Executive Director, EWEA was officially recognized by many global organisations and was the only international renewables body to attend the historic 1997 Kyoto climate change meeting.
Klaus Rave, current Chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council, recalls that when, in 1999, Arthouros Zervos joined, it was a joint decision to move from London to Brussels. "Having a base in Brussels meant that for the first time we could invite the industry to Brussels where the European Commission and European Parliament are located," Rave said.
In 1999 Rave became President. "I tried to expand EWEA since we are not just manufacturerbased and component makers. We are the industry from project developers and insurance to R&D and national associations. We are an umbrella organisation," he said.
The Presidency was handed on to Zervos in 2001 and in the early 2000s EWEA started holding its own conferences to generate income which goes right back into building the industry.
Christian Kjaer, the current Chief Executive Officer of the association, knows all about the need to obtain funds to invest in the political lobbying, communications and events which in turn hugely benefi t the industry.
By early 2006, Kjaer was promoted from policy director to CEO at the same time the Association's board promoted Bruce Douglas from marketing director to Chief Operating Officer.
Kjaer said that "dual structure" worked well in that the goal was to make money to hire people to influence European policy to incorporate more wind power onto EU grids. "Increasing income was Bruce's doing and hiring the people, the policy people, was my contribution," he said.
Malogsia Bartosik, EWEA's Membership and Events Director, who joined in 2004 refl ected on the growth of EWEA's events: "I was the seventh person to join the association. Eight years later, we are over 60 people working on behalf of our over 700 members! My first event was EWEC 2004 in London. We had gathered 2,000 people at that event and I thought it was enormous. This year's event in Copenhagen had almost 11,000 participants – that's more than I could have ever imagined back in 2004."
During the period with Kjaer at the helm, EU installed wind power capacity has risen from 40,506 MW to 93,957 MW at the end of 2011, the sector has moved from being dominated by Denmark, Germany and Spain, to a truly European industry with new markets offshore and emerging in Eastern EU nations, and major political decisions took place.
A mainstream source of electricity
"For me, the biggest achievement was the adoption of Renewable Energy Directive," Kjaer said, referring to the 2009 EU approved legislation that called for a binding target of a 20% share of wind power and other renewable energies in the region's energy portfolio by 2020. Crispen Aubrey, who was editor of Wind Directions, between 1997 and 2008, says the main change for the wind power sector was its transformation from a niche market into a major international industry.
He said what has been particularly impressive is the steady industrialisation
of the manufacturing process, enabling wind turbines and their components to be produced at a scale that is necessary if it is to make a significant contribution.
"For me, the biggest achievement was the adoption of Renewable Energy Directive," – Kjaer
- West German firm, Windkraft- Zentrale, begins exporting wind turbines.
- Installed wind power capacity in the US - all of it in California - exceeds 1,000 MW from about 13,000 turbines.
- The EU announces funding for 97 demonstration projects and trials up to 1989.
- Dr. David Lindley becomes president of EWEA.
- The European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC) conference is held in Rome. 800 participants from 36 countries attend.
- Europe's installed wind energy capacity reaches 40 MW.
- The Dutch government sets up a financing programme - the 'Integraal Programma Windenergie'(IPW) – for the wind turbine industry in the Netherlands.
- Vestas decides to concentrate exclusively on wind energy.
- EWEA holds international workshop on wind energy and the environment and publishes a reference book on wind energy.
- Germany launches 100 MW wind energy support programme.
- The UK announces plans for its first wind farm.
- 600 delegates attend EWEC '89 in Glasgow, Scotland, sponsored by the UK government and the European Commission.
- Europe's largest wind farm installed in Jutland, Denmark (42 x Nordtank 300 kW turbines).
- California's wind capacity reaches 1,500 MW from 15,200 turbines.
- Danish government sets target for 800-1,350 MW of wind energy by the year 2000.
- Dr. Ezio Sesto becomes EWEA's president.
- Germany introduces feed-in tariff law for renewable energy (Einspeisegesetz) with payment to producers of 90% of retail electricity price per kilowatt/ hour.
- First offshore wind park constructed at Vindeby off the coast of Denmark with 11 x 450 kW turbines.
- EWEA publishes action plan for European wind energy development, showing potential for 100,000 MW by 2030.
- First Spanish wind farms open at Tarifa in Andalucia; National Energy Plan envisages up to 200 MW of wind capacity by 2000.
- The EU has a cumulative wind power capacity of 800 MW.
- British Board of Trade announces new government target for wind energy of 3,500 MW of installed capacity.
- Spanish company Gamesa starts joint venture with Vestas to manufacture wind turbines in Spain.
- Wind power estimated to supply 2.5 million Europeans with electricity.
- France installs its fi rst wind farm in the Tramonte wind corridor of the western Mediterranean using four
Vestas 500 kW turbines.
- EWEA's new president is Dr. Ian Mays
"I also have to take my hat off to the German green movement, which has single-mindedly promoted the fixed feed-in tariff environmental incentive that has proved such an important factor in the growth of the industry."
Aubrey noted that the ongoing challenge for wind power is to ensure that current industry trends continue – that mass produced turbines become more reliable, efficient and economic, and that wind continues to be integrated into a network alongside other renewable sources, including solar, biomass, wave and tidal, without any need to fall back on expensive nuclear just because
it is relatively low-carbon.
There are many hurdles on the way to achieving this, not least securing new EU renewable energy targets for 2030, but also bringing down costs in the industry, especially offshore and ensuring the funding flows into R&D projects, and "EWEA will work tirelessly to achieve these", Kjaer said.
EWEA from 2006 to 2012
• EWEA revenues increased from €3.8 million
to €15.8 million,
• Staff increased from 14 to 65,
• Membership rose from 230 to 720 today.
Rave said the wind power industry must now give birth to new markets and face its coming of age. "This is both tough and worrying because in some markets wind power is having a mid-life crisis," he said. "Market entry costs are high. More mature markets face fierce competition from China and an overcapacity in manufacturing. It's a very demanding time for the industry."
Andrew Garrad, President of GL Garrad Hassan, recalled: "I have witnessed the birth and growth of an industry. It has been fascinating commercially, technically and politically," he said, adding the wind energy sector has moved from ridicule from the conventional generators to being part of the mainstream.
Thirty years after it began as a kernel of an idea, EWEA has become the world's largest and most powerful wind energy network. ?
"I have witnessed the birth and growth of an industry. It has been fascinating commercially, technically and politically" - Andrew Garrard
Thirty years of technology improvements Ten years ago, on the occasion of EWEA's 20th anniversary, the installed capacity of wind energy in Europe had reached the then dramatic figure of more than 20 GW. Now it is almost five times as much, pushing towards a total of 100 GW, supplying over 6% of European electricity and leading the renewables revolution.
One reason why these impressive landmarks are being reached is that the basic technology of wind power has achieved a level of reliability and consistency which would have been unimaginable when the Association first opened its doors.
At the heart of this has been the design of the wind turbine itself which, after many years of disparate branches and tributaries through which numerous options have been explored, has been consolidated into the horizontal axis, three-bladed, upwind confi guration which now dominates the market. Last year over 24,000 machines were manufactured around the world, nearly all of them following these basic design parameters. This in itself is an achievement worthy of celebration. Individual turbine size has also followed an interesting trajectory where initial adventurous forays into giant megawatt capacity or larger machines were sensibly hauled back until reliable models in the 5-750 kW bracket were first established at mass production level before moving up to 1.5 MW and more recently 2-3 MW series Thirty years of technology improvements By Crispin Aubrey designs. Meanwhile, some manufacturers have achieved series production turbines with a capacity of 5 MW and above, enabling more productive use to be made of increasingly scarce European sites with a good wind regime.
The largest capacity turbine on the market at the moment – the 7.5 MW Enercon E-126 – is a testament to the engineers who developed it in the company's German headquarters. Enercon's founder and chief executive Aloys Wobben enjoys reciting his vision that his country's electricity supply could be substantially secured if one of these giants was located close to every rural
Wind turbines have also become more efficient in terms of the cost of energy production. This has been helped by reducing the relative weight of components as turbine sizes increase. The latest 6 MW Siemens turbine, for example, has a weight per megawatt similar to that of many turbines in the 2 to 3 MW range. According to Henrik Stiesdal, the company's Chief Technology Officer, "reaching this low weight with a strong and robust machine is the result of targeted innovation combined with our more than thirty years of wind industry experience."
Within the envelope of the turbine there are other specific achievements. The use of composite materials to manufacture rotor blades has seen both their size and durability reach unprecedented levels. As a rough guide, doubling a turbine's rotor diameter quadruples its rated capacity.
- Danish manufacturer Nordex erects prototype of 1.5 MW
turbine in Denmark. Vestas and German company Tacke soon follow suit.
- European Commission publishes Green Paper on energy policy, with commitment to increase contribution from renewables.
- France launches a tender programme with a target for 500 MW by 2005: "Eole 2005"
- The Kyoto Protocol is agreed in Japan, with a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% of their 1990 level by 2012.
- An EU White Paper sets non-binding goal to double Europe's share of renewable energy from 6% to 12% (14 to 22% of electricity supply) by 2010.
- EWEA announces target for 100,000 MW by 2020.
- Global wind industry record for new installed wind capacity in 1997: $1.5 billion in sales and 1,520 MW new capacity installed—up 22% over 1996's figures
- Greenpeace, EWEA and the Danish Forum for Energy and Development publish the Windforce 10 report, showing
how wind could generate 10% of global electricity by 2020.
- Dr. Klaus Rave becomes EWEA's president.
- First large scale offshore wind farm, Middelgrunden, is erected off Copenhagen.
- New German Renewable Electricity Law continues support for wind energy through fixed payments per kWh of
output over 20 years.
- European Directive on Electricity from Renewable Sources sets national indicative targets for each EU member state with an overall goal of 22% by 2010.
- France introduces fi xed tariff support system linked to target for 10,000 MW of wind capacity by 2010.
- UK opts for Renewables Obligation, with rising quota for renewable energy linked to green certificates.
- Professor Arthouros Zervos takes on EWEA's presidency.
- Horns Rev offshore wind farm opens in Danish North Sea (80 x Vestas 2 MW turbines).
- EWEA is represented.at Earth Summit in Johannesburg.
- The EU's cumulative wind power capacity exceeds 20,000 MW at 23,157 MW.
- Vestas and NEG Micon merge to form the world's largest turbine manufacturer, Vestas.
- Spanish government sets target for 13,000 MW of wind by 2011.
- EWEA sets new targets for 75 GW by 2010 and 180 GW by 2020.
- German turbine manufacturer REpower installs prototype 5 MW turbine.
- Siemens buys Bonus Energy of Denmark, the fi fth largest wind turbine manufacturer, and joins the wind energy business.
- Oil price moves above $70 per barrel, boosting gas prices and intensifying concerns about security of fossil fuel supplies.
This year, at the EWEA conference and exhibition in Copenhagen, the Danish company LM Windpower displayed a blade which was 73.5 metres long, the fi rst to breach the 70 metre barrier. The ability to produce blades of such length is largely the result of advances in the use of composite materials, in this case a combination of glass fi bre and polyester. The skill has been to reduce the weight of the materials while at the same time ensuring that they are strong enough to withstand the constant battering from the weather which is their daily experience.
The other major area in which innovation has driven wind power's technology advances has been out at sea. Installing wind turbines offshore, where the output from individual machines can be 40% more than on land, has brought enormous challenges. At the core of these has been the requirement to lodge foundations either into or on to the sea bed which will be strong enough to support turbines being buffeted by winds which are substantially stronger than on land, and, increasingly, in water depths of 30 metres or more.
So far, there has been no consolidation on foundation types, but the industry has come up with a range of solutions - from the simple monopole to the gravity foundation to a range of tripod structures – which have shown that it is
possible to ensure a solid, reliable support for offshore turbines across a range of different sea bed conditions and water depths.
There are some areas where the technology challenges have been greater than most. One of these is the turbine gearbox, whose reliability has posed major headaches for operators. On current evidence, however, those days have largely passed. A recent survey of 350 turbines for the European ReliaWind project, managed by GL Garrad Hassan, showed that gearbox assemblies contributed just over 5% to the overall failure rate of components, as against more than 10% for yaw systems and more than 20% for pitch systems.
At the same time, there is continuing debate about whether the logical move is to abandon the gearbox completely in favour of a direct drive system where the turbine rotor is directly connected to a low speed, usually permanent magnet, generator. Almost 20% of the world's turbine manufacturers (by output) have so far opted for that route.
Alongside the wind turbine and its components, there have been major advances in the assessments required to ensure that a cluster of turbines in a particular location makes best use of the wind available and can then transfer its electricity output seamlessly into the local grid network.
These advances include computer modeling of the surrounding terrain and specifi c proposed location for a wind farm in order to understand which would be the best precise position for the turbines, and always taking into account restrictions such as vegetation and nearby habitations.
In terms of the grid, modern turbines now have the capacity to supply electricity in a manner which meets all the requirements of the network operators, including the ability to continue operating when faults or breakdowns occur in the wider system. A number of European countries have also inaugurated dedicated control centres where the variability of wind output can be integrated with the national grid, alongside other generating inputs, in a way which ensures it is a much more predictable and reliable contributor to the national power supply. As the proportion of wind energy in country networks moves steadily upwards to levels of 10% or more, this is an essential tool.
There are still improvements to be made, not least in the cost of manufacturing and operating turbines and in the infrastructure required to make large offshore wind parks a stronger economic proposition. But the last 30 years
have already shown that the skills and dedication of the engineers and researchers who have carried the wind industry thus far are well up to the task. ?
- China sets target for 30 GW of wind power by 2020.
- European wind power moves above 40,000 MW, exceeding the EU target for 2010 five years ahead of time.
- US wind power capacity leaps above 10,000 MW
- EWEA sets new target for 180 GW of wind in Europe by 2020, 300 GW by 2030.
- Christian Kjaer becomes EWEA's CEO.
- EU adopts new binding target for 20% renewables in energy supply by 2020.
- Eurobarometer survey shows that 71% of EU citizens are "very positive" about the use of wind power in their country.
- First European Wind Day marked across Europe with a wind turbine erected in the centre of Brussels.
- The world's largest wind turbine, the 7 MW Enercon E-126, is installed in Emden, Germany.
- Italy passes a Financial Act including a green certificate scheme for renewable energy.
- Nine zones are identified around Britain's coast for construction of 25 GW of wind farms in the third round of government sponsored offshore development.
- The EU's 2009 Renewable Energy Directive is agreed, committing Europe to getting 20% of its energy from renewables by 2020.
- The European Parliament's energy committee agrees to dedicate €565 million to offshore wind projects as part of the EU Economic Recovery Plan.
- EWEA joins forces with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) to coordinate Global Wind Day.
Wind power past, present and future: the national view
Renewable UK
Dr. Gordon Edge, RenewableUK Director of Policy, said the sector was "just on the drawing board or in place in terms of small scale, domestic machines" 30 years ago. The first commercial onshore wind farm opened in the UK in 1991 in Cornwall and today the UK sector has "6.8 GW of onshore and offshore wind, and leads the world in the latter."
But the UK sector had to overcome a number of obstacles and challenges over the past three decades. "In the early days, there was a lack of financial support for wind available, making it difficult to get projects off the ground. Then we saw long delays with planning, grid connection and lack of ability to deal with the problem of aviation radar."
The sector continues to face serious obstacles. "In 'austerity Britain' some question whether we can afford renewables like wind. There is also opposition on visual grounds, and there are still delays with planning, particularly as local authorities have seen cuts."
Edge said 2012 has been a challenging year for the UK industry as financial support was reviewed for the short term (2013-2017) but companies are moving forward with projects, and the offshore industry has made an important step in showing how it can reduce costs out to 2020.
Edge also said polls consistently show that two out of three in the population favour wind power even though a vocal minority get a lot of media coverage and therefore some local politicians oppose wind developments.
AEE – the Spanish Wind Energy Association
Heikki Willstedt, Energy Policy Director of the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE), said the development of wind energy in Spain has been pretty successful due to an early approach from companies, a solid regulatory framework and society's general backing of the generating technology.
"These three factors were crucial for the industry to develop in every single link of the value chain, from the very big turbine manufacturers to the small components companies, Willstedt said. "Our companies became world leaders and are present in over 30 countries, and export technology and know-how worldwide.
The Spanish wind industry is currently facing serious obstacles, he said. "This is the most challenging period ever and we need to sit down with our Government as soon as possible to design together a new roadmap for our industry."
"2012 is the last year of the Preallocation Register, meaning that developers are making the final push to install the approved megawatts (1,900 MW in total). It is the last year for the current regulation, Royal Decree 661/2007, which means that, with no regulatory framework from 2013 onwards and suffering a green moratorium that nobody knows when will end, there have been no new turbine orders for the Spanish market so
far this year."
He said he believes that once the current recession is over and electricity demand picks up, wind energy will be back as the only mature enough renewable technology that can make European renewable targets happen by 2020.
"The question is in what shape will the industry be if governments are stubborn enough to stop it for a few years, as [that would mean] manufacturers would leave the country. That would mean Spain would probably have to import turbines in order to reactivate wind energy's growth."
DWIA – the Danish Wind Industry Association
Jan Hylleberg, CEO of the Danish Wind Industry Association, said the sector has grown tremendously in the past 30 years and by 2020 50% of the nation's electricity consumption will come from wind power.
Hylleberg said economic recessions and political "stop and go" schemes were the biggest obstacles the national association had to overcome and, because the sector is a relatively new industry, technical challenges also played a role.
Today, the biggest challenge is the global financial crisis, because the Danish industry is by far the most globalised in the world.
Meanwhile, "polls show that more than 90% of the Danes support wind power," he said, adding 95% of the Danish Parliament supports the political agreement which secures that 50% of the electricity consumption in Denmark will come from wind power by the year 2020.
In 10 years from now, he predicted the industry will be bigger, stronger and more globalised, and the cost of wind energy having been reduced significantly.
APREN – the Portuguese wind energy association
António Sá da Costa, President of APREN, the Portuguese wind energy association, said wind power in Portugal was insignificant 20 years ago. By 2000, he said, the sector was responsible for only 0.5% of consumption but today it represents slightly over 20% of the Portuguese electric consumption.
He said the national sector initially had to overcome a number of challenges including obtaining funding for expansion and making the electricity grid operators understand the industry and its advantages.
Nowadays, the industry has to deal with the ongoing financial crises while also meeting the country's obligations towards the EU objectives for renewable energy.
"The big challenge for the sector is to inform correctly the real costs of wind electricity compared with the 'other' electricity coming out of the large thermal power plants," he noted.
Despite that challenge, he predicts in 10 years the share of wind electricity in Portugal should be around 25%, with some of it coming from offshore wind farms installed in fl oating platforms.
Austrian Wind Energy Association
Martin Fliegenschnee-Jaksch of IG Windkraft, the Austrian Wind Energy Association, said the national association was founded in 1993 and the first wind farms were erected in the nation the following year.
"All of them are still working and producing green wind electricity," he said. The national sector has benefited from feed-in tariffs and that by 2020, with the aid of a new renewable energy law, wind power installations in Austria will increase to more than 3,000 MW.
"Up to 2020 more than 10% of the electricity consumption will be from wind energy. In 2020 more than 3,000 MW will be installed and will supply 50% of all households in Austria with green wind energy."
But the future potential is much higher: "Sites in forests and alpine regions have just started to be developed and re-powering hasn't even started." Not only that but EWEA will be holding its next annual event in Austria next year – EWEA 2013 will take place in Vienna 4-7 February. ?
What has EWEA done for you?
RenewableUK: "EWEA's ability to lobby the European institutions effectively was key in securing a strong Directive in 2009; that Directive, with its challenging targets, has transformed the policy landscape for renewables in the UK," Edge said. "EWEA's research reports and EUwide statistics are also very useful in building a picture of the UK as part of a wider European
industry."
AEE: "EWEA has played an important role in the adoption of the 20% renewable energy target for 2020 for the whole of EU that has helped set an ambitious wind power objective for Spain, and given the sector the needed long-term vision.
Current efforts by EWEA to convince the EU Commission to set mandatory renewable energy objectives for 2030 are also appreciated.
The assistance given by the EWEA to AEE in regards to communication with the European Commission has been quite valuable."
DWIA: "Even though wind power was invented In Denmark, EWEA has played an important role in the sector's success. The organization has a strong voice in European politics which is very important at a time where the EU plays a big role in its member states. EWEA is also an important player when it comes to knowledge and statistics about wind power."
APREN: "The role of EWEA has been very important in several ways like helping to defend the sector in Brussels and giving to our association,
APREN, the full support in the current difficult situation we are facing in Portugal. EWEA is very good at passing on information from Brussels about the wind energy industry and the politics that effect its development. The open discussions with the other country associations, mainly in the NAN meetings and EWEA's conferences and exhibitions are also very important."
IG Windkraft: "The lobbying at the EU level of EWEA is very important. The support with information and fi gures about wind energy is a crucial source for our work here in Austria.
Also the National Association Network (NAN) is a very important platform for interexchange of wind power information."
- Wind power provides 2% of worldwide electricity.
- Europe accounts for 48% of the world's wind energy capacity - the EU-27's cumulative wind power capacity is 75,103 MW.
- The European Commission allocates over €902 million to electricity interconnection projects as part of its broader European Economic Recovery Plan.
- Ten North Seas Countries agree to work together to develop an offshore electricity grid.
- Denmark's wind power share of electricity reaches over 20%.
- The EU-27's cumulative wind power capacity is 84,650 MW.
- The European Parliament votes to create a dedicated budget line for wind energy research and development for the first time.
- 9,000 people attend EWEA's 2011 Annual Event, which takes place in Brussels. EWEA launches its call for 2030 renewable energy targets.
- Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster - Germany announces plans to shut down all nuclear plants by 2022 as well as double the country's share of renewable energies.
- The EU Energy Roadmap 2050 is launched, binding renewable energy targets for 2030 could be in place by 2014.
- The world's largest offshore wind farm opens off the coast of Cumbria, England. It has a capacity of 367 MW.
- Commission launches Renewable Energy Strategy
- EWEA turns 30!
Find out many more timeline facts: www.ewea.org/30years
Read the full issue of Wind Directions.
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The ReCap by Rachele Lena: 9.26.18 Podcast / October 6, 2018 by HWTP Sports Talk
This week, Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell joins HWTP Sports Talk with David Weinstein to talk about his new STARZ docuseries, “The Warriors of Liberty City.” We were also joined by The Washington Post sports reporter Des Bieler who talks to us about ignorant comments made about Houston’s quarterback Derrick Deshaun Watson.
Derrick Deshaun Watson labeled as a black quarterback you can’t count on
A Texas school district superintendent made ignorant comments on Facebook regarding the choices made by Houston’s quarterback, Deshaun Watson during a game. Superintendent Lynn Redden, whose Facebook comment read, “That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I've seen in the NFL. When you need precision decision making you can’t count on a black quarterback,” recently resigned from his position as superintendent.
After his resignation, Redden stated that, “I recognize that given the opportunity to respond by criticizing or belittling me, Watson chose peace and positivity instead.” Redden went onto say that Watson was a great role model for the children in his Texas school district.
Bieler stated that these comments “sparked a new discussion on the state of the black quarterback in football these days,” explaining that despite black men being 70% of the NFL, they only makeup 20% of quarterbacks.
Bieler also explained that the comments sparked outrage because Redden attacked the decision making, and therefore intelligence of Deshaun Watson and other black athletes. He describes the common phenomenon that “when you want a player with intelligence, you may favor the white player over the black player.”
Uncle Luke of 2Live Crew fame creates a compelling docuseries, “Warriors of Liberty City”
Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell joins David to discuss his decision to give back to the community of Liberty City through the creation of his docuseries on STARZ called “Warriors of Liberty City.” Campbell stated that he wanted the program to be “organic” and a safe space for young men in the neighborhood to go and spend their time. Luke describes the area where the young men practice as “sacred ground.”
Luke also tells David that none of the kids are reacting negatively to this newfound fame. He explains that they are already local celebrities because of their position in the “Warriors” program, so the filming of the docuseries has not created any big heads on the team.
When discussing the impact of the “Warriors” program on the children’s academics, Luke explains that it is mandatory for the children to bring in their report card for the previous year to ensure that the program is not interfering with their studies, emphasizing the importance of dedication to both the program and school.
As described by Luke, the purpose of the docuseries is to show that they are, “men that are out there, whether they are incarcerated or not, that are out there trying to make a difference with their sons.” Campbell describes his shock at the fact that the kids that come out of his program in Liberty City are going on to college and the NFL. He explains that this program, “isn’t just football, it’s a family.”
Rachele is a student at Fordham University. She studies Sociology and Education. She loves writing and takes part in various journalism clubs on campus. In her free time she enjoys watching rugby, playing with her dog and cat and reading. Follow Rachele on Twitter @rachelelena4, Facebook and Instagram @rachelealena.
9.26.18 Episode
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Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre Newgrange and Knowth
Brú na Bóinne Visitor centre is situated on the south side of the River Boyne overlooking the core of the World Heritage Site. It opened in 1997.
The Centre contains exhibitions that describe the society that created the Neolithic tombs, their homes, dress, food, tools and weapons. Great emphasis is placed throughout the Exhibition on the building of the monuments; why they were built: how they were used; where the building stones were found and how these were moved to the site. The audio—visual show deals primarily with the solar alignments in the Boyne Valley. The extensive exhibition also contains a partial full-scale replica of the chamber at Newgrange as well as a replica of one of the smaller sites at Knowth.
For more information and to arrange a visit go to Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre Newgrange and Knowth .
The OPW offers free access to all OPW managed Heritage Sites to school-going children under their Free Schools Visits programme. This Programme is intended to support the educational curriculum and children can, with their teachers, engage with many relevant aspects of their learning including art, history and social science at these historic & heritage locations throughout the country.
Text and image courtesy of Heritage Ireland and World Heritage Ireland.
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Trading art for city's future
Why have we been stubborn about the issue of using Detroit's assets stored at the DIA to improve Detroit Public Schools (DPS)?
Its about the future of the city and it's citizens. Our first thoughts concerning the art was it should not be sold and under Chapter 9 bankruptcy law the city was not obligated to sell the collection to pay debts so the art collection could be left in tact.
We then went through a mental exercise assuming Detroit was a new city sitting on $10 billion in assets and it was our job to recommend the best use of the funds. The art was never fully appraised but a recent article in the Detroit Free Press indicated the Ford House sold one piece of art in 2013 for $100 million.
Per The article, "Mullins said Ford House officials didn't release news of the sale when it occurred for fear of causing further problems for the DIA, which by then was at the center of the bankruptcy debate. DIA director Graham Beal, who was unaware of the Cézanne sale until recently, agreed that the publicity and price would have emboldened creditors — or the emergency manager's office — in their arguments against the museum's absolutist stance against selling art.". $100M for Cézanne painting? Ford House couldn't refuse, December 19, 2014
Once again the focus was on saving the DIA and not the city.
We concluded the last thing to consider was buying art. It was wiser to invest in the city's infrastructure that would enable the city and its citizens to grow and prosper. Schools are a part of the infrastructure.
In order to accomplish a level of prosperity, including a solid tax base, it is necessary to have a solid middle class and that will not happen without a good school system. Middle class families will not move to Detroit if its schools are under performing.
DPS is in need of improvement and it will take time, disciplined oversight, a solid plan and plenty of money. Realistically it will take a good part of a decade to turn DPS around. Expecting a total turn around in less time is not realistic. Progress will be seen quickly but a complete turn around will take longer.
The good news with such a plan is there is no need for a fire sale of all the art. It can be sold as needed over a period of years. More
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INSPIRING EXAMPLES of EXCELLENCE from SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY
Celebrating South Africa's Heritage
The book, Sketches from South African History presents a fascinating tapestry of unforgettable characters, dramatic events and magnificent milestones in the development of this extraordinary country.
Spectacular Stories
Sketches provides a captivating kaleidoscope of characters, conviction and courage. Extraordinary exploits and amazing achievements, despite daunting dangers and difficulties.
Extraordinary Leaders
Prominent personalities, such as founding father, Jan van Riebeeck, Maria de la Quellerie, the first French Huguenot to land in South Africa. The heroic self-sacrifice of Wolraad Woltemade rescuing the perishing amidst a tempestuous storm in Table Bay. Paul Kruger, who at age eleven, was already a Voortrekker who had fought the ferocious Matabele at the battle of Vegkop.
Role Models to Respect
The great Missionary, Dr. David Livingstone, the best friend Africa ever had, the dynamic Andrew Murray, Missionary to the Voortrekkers for 11 years and the most prolific and successful South African author in history. Principled political leaders, such as Paul Kruger, Marthinus Steyn and James Barry Hertzog. Courageous commandoes, such as Danie Theron, the founder of the Reconnaissance Corps of the Transvaal, General Christian de Wet of the Orange Free State and General Koos de la Rey - The Lion of the Western Transvaal.ÂÂÂ
Incredible Individuals
The tenacious Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse, who exposed the British scorched earth and concentration camp policies, brought down a government and hastened the end of the ruinous Anglo-Boer War. The pioneer German Missionary, Carl Hugo Gutsche, who planted churches throughout the Eastern Cape and trained the first Black Baptist missionaries to Transkei.
Turning Points in History
Decisive battles that determined the direction of South African History, such as Vegkop, Blood River, Majuba, Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.
Landmarks and Historic Towns
Great monuments such as the first monument to women ever erected anywhere in the world, the Women's Memorial in Bloemfontein. The inspiring and magnificent Voortrekker Monument and many others are featured in Sketches from South African History. Various historic towns and museums are also featured in this 208 page book with 185 pictures and maps.
An African Historian
The author, Dr. Peter Hammond, is a Missionary who has pioneered ministry throughout Africa and Europe, including in the war zones of Mozambique, Angola and Sudan, establishing schools, clinics and churches. Over the last 34 years, he has travelled and ministered in 36 countries across four continents. Dr. Hammond is the Founder of Frontline Fellowship, Africa Christian Action, The Reformation Society, Livingstone Fellowship and William Carey Bible Institute. He has written a number of History books, including: The Greatest Century of Missions, The Greatest Century of Reformation, Victorious Christians - Who Changed the World, A Christian History of Africa, Church History Manual, and Faith Under Fire in Sudan. The South African History Audio and Data MP3 Boxset includes 20 audio lectures and 15 PowerPoint presentations of Dr. Peter Hammond on South African History and PDF versions of this book, Sketches from South African History, in both English and Afrikaans.
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Comedy scripts
Film - TV - Radio
#RLDS
New Year, new things, new website
Personally, it’s been a challenging start to 2015, but things are getting back up to speed now.
As always with a new year comes new things, well - promises, at least. And I’ve got plenty things going on in 2015. I’m not one for writing personal blogs, as such - I prefer writing about someone, or something else (usually rugby league!) - but we'll see how this goes…!
First up, a website redesign. I’d be keen to know what you think - and whether it’s useful in any way for you. I’m planning to produce a new series of my Rugby League Down South podcasts in 2015, although with my work commitments I’m not sure how regular they’ll be. It’s set to be an interesting year for the game all round, specially teams in the South. And with the podcast passing 28,000 plays last week (adding in the YouTube plays, it’s about 30,000 which was my target when I set out on a second series, last year) your continued support and listens/downloads would be highly valued.
In the last few weeks I’ve found out more about the dual-code international who, a few months ago, I was told was a distant relation of mine. He had a very successful and fascinating career and there are a few people looking into his life and career - so more on that topic soon…
Of the new things, having moved into Hampshire last year, I’ve been working part-time at new local TV station That’s Solent, as a programme editor - whilst continuing my role at BBC London. It’s been a challenge since launching in November 2014, but a great test of my journalistic, editorial and technical credentials.
There’s also a number of people working behind the scenes to bring about a new series of The Greenwich Show, which I launched in September 2014, as the executive producer and director. Hopefully more concrete news on that soon.
On other notes, as it’s a different style of blog… I’m not usually one for watching feature films, but have had two trips to the cinema since the turn of the year.
A Theory of Everything - worth seeing; Steven Hawking is an extraordinary man.
Into the Woods - disappointing.
And the turn of the year I also hadn’t decided my new year’s resolution. Having kept last year’s promise for an entire year for the first time I was keen to have another for this year. Hanging up on an unwanted phone call the other day, I knew what my resolution would be. That’ll create a considerable amount of more time to attempt to cram all this in...
Let me know what you think of the website.
Ian Ramsdale
broadcasting, filmmaking, tv, radio, rugby league, #RLDS, #GreenwichShow, comedy, script writing, #panto, engineering, maths, science, photography.
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Ian Ramsdale: broadcasting, tv, radio, rugby league, #RLDS, filmmaking, directing, Greenwich Show, comedy, script writing, panto, engineering, maths, science, photography.
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