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Error code:   DatasetGenerationError
Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 77
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
                  df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
                  return json_reader.read()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
                  obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
                  obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
                  self._parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
                  ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
              ValueError: Trailing data
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
                  for _, table in generator:
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = paj.read_json(
                File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 77
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
                  builder.download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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__label__cc	0.54078	0.45922	« Weekend Links [CBD] \| Main \| Open Thread In Preparation For Gardening! [CBD] » Fundamental Concepts – Guess what Conservatives? We can't win [Weirddave] Earlier this week, Drew M wrote another chapter in his long running “Let It Burn” saga, Can The GOP Be Reformed? Some Say No, Others Are Wrong. It's a good essay, I encourage anyone who missed it to take a moment to read it, because I'm about to take issue with it. The issue I have with Drew's thread has nothing to do with it's content. I happen to think that his observations are spot on, and I agree with them. The GOP isn't a conservative party. It isn't going to ever be as conservative as he, and I, and I suspect most of you, would want. The United States will never be as conservative as it should be, and in fact it never was as conservative as we like to pretend. Even if one views the Constitution as the greatest governing document devised by man, which it is, it still has its flaws, and from the day it was ratified efforts from all sides have been ongoing to change or modify its provisions. The problem I have with Drew's essay is that I think he misunderstands the role that we absolutely HAVE to play in the system. First, lets dispense with the canard that Conservatives need to just step back and let the worst happen. Let the inevitable collapse occur with an eye towards rebuilding a more traditional, freer, country from the ashes. It ain't going to happen. I can think of no situation in the history of mankind where societal or governmental collapse was not followed by a tyrannical government. Remember, oligarchy is the natural state of mankind, once all of the underpinnings of American law and government are destroyed, an oligarchy WILL form to reestablish “order” and to provide “security” for the people. Betting the house that we'd be able to form a successful, American version of the White Army to prevent this strikes me as gambling against very long odds indeed. I understand the seductive nature of let it burn, really I do, and sometimes in frustration or cynicism I waiver towards it's siren call, but ultimately I think it's a fool's gambit. That's not a world I want to live in or want my children or my grandchildren to inherit. Life there is nasty, brutish and short. Now here's a good idea. If the GOP no longer represents the values of a significant portion of it's members, those members should form a party that does. The two parties could then duke it out for the hearts and minds of the right side of the population, with one emerging triumphant. Assuming that it's the breakaway Conservative party, we would then be able to steer the country back in the direction of prosperity and freedom. Sign me up! Except.... I don't think we have the time. The Republicans deposed the Whigs in six years. But without an issue as divisive as slavery to drive the confrontation, I think it would take much longer than that. We don't have six years. A President Hillary or Warren with a Dem controlled House and Senate would probably cause a collapse in six months. Unfortunately, a serious attempt at forming a third party right now would do nothing but bring about the let it burn scenario. The GOP is useless! It's hard to argue against the thesis that the GOP is useless. Citizen push back against the leftist policies of the current Democrat party have given the GOP strong majorities in the House and Senate, and they've done nothing with them, squandering the leverage given them by the Constitution to control the budget, showing their belly on illegal immigration and refusing to even consider using Constitutional measured to bring an out of control Executive to heel. It's hard to see how anything is going to change in the next two years either. On the other hand, it's easy to forget or overlook things that the GOP has accomplished, either intentionally or unintentionally. For the former, we need look no further than gun rights, which are the best in 40 years. If the burning times ever do come, you can thank your lucky stars the GOP never went full squish on these, as you'll probably be depending on one to survive. In the later camp is global warming. Suppose Gore had won in 2000, and instituted cap and trade and a whole bunch of other nonsense. Not only would the economic growth of the 2000s not have taken place, but we'd be in a world where the 18 year halt in rising global temps would be touted every day as justification for some new government program or another. “We acted on global warming in 2000 and stopped it!” would be the left's first line of defense against any push back from conservatives, and it would be very hard to refute. Fine. So what is our role? Our role, as William F. Buckley so succinctly put it, is to stand athwart history, yelling "Stop!". All of the natural forces of history and humanity are constantly working against us. The natural state of mankind is poverty, with a small wealthy elite ruling over the masses. We have a system of government that is based upon individual freedom and responsibility, but like everything else, it's constantly reverting to the mean. Entropy in politics is no less real than it is in the universe. We can never stop it, but we have to work very hard to slow it down. We send conservative Republicans to Congress. Over time, as they get seduced by the DC political class, we replace them with others. Lather, rinse, repeat. This is our way of slowing the Overton window. If we can do that, if we thwart not just the natural tendency of human societies to revert to the mean but also those people who actively work to subvert the system and accrue power to themselves, then once in a while, every generation of so, an inflection point arrives where things are so bad that we actually have a chance to jump start the system again. Reagan was one such point, but what great conservative policy victories did he hand us? He didn't eliminate any government agencies, even though he promised to (bet he would have if he'd had the House). He got suckered into a bad immigration bill that's set the stage for so many of our problems today and he frankly got rooked by Tip O'Neill on spending cuts. Why then do we revere the Reagan presidency? He stood on principle and won the cold war. His conservative policies jump started the economy for 20 years, making the country prosperous enough to support collectivist garbage. He revitalized the concept of conservatism as a vibrant, viable option, such that it only took two years of Democrat malfeasance for the country to give the House to the Republicans in 1994 to put on the brakes. The 1994 conservative wave doesn't happen without Reagan, and without it we would have gotten Hillarycare. How much worse a shape would we be in today if that financial albatross had been hanging around our necks all this time? We got a 16 year reprieve from nationalized healthcare by electing the GOP in 1994, even though the vaunted “Contract With America” was for the most part a paper tiger. The good news is that as long as we are able to stave off total collapse, we are guaranteed to get these inflection points, because the policies of the Left create them. 2016 is just such a point. I don't see things getting better in the next 2 years, in fact they'll get worse (maybe much, much worse). A President Cruz, or Jindal, or Walker or Perry could very well engineer the same kind of turnaround that Reagan did. So we win, right? No. We don't win. That's the tough part in all of this. We can never win. The forces of entropy are always going to be working against us. Any victories we get are eventually going to be undone. Obamacare came along and made the victory over Hillarycare moot, but that victory did buy us 16 years. All we can do is slow things down and every so often pump some more energy into the system, keeping it going. Our job is to be the adults in the room. We have to get up every Saturday morning and cut the grass. No matter how good a job we do, cutting, weeding, trimming and edging, next week the grass needs to be cut again. And the following week, and the one after that. Forever. When we die, our kids have to cut the grass, and their kids, and their kids. The grass never stops growing, the same job always has to be done again next week. If we give up, slack off, stop cutting the grass, pretty soon we don't have a nice lawn, we have a weed choked lot. I don't want to live in a weed choked lot, so I cut the grass. It's boring and redundant and frustrating, but I do it. My (metaphorical) neighbors across the street don't bother, and their lawn looks like shit. Our political opponents don't bother, and their country looks like shit. Shit has one thing going for it: It's easy. It requires no work. I don't want my country to look like shit, so I do the work. It's Sisyphean, so I'll close with Camus: The absurd man says yes and his effort will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny, or at least there is but one which he concludes is inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of his days. At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which becomes his fate, created by him, combined under his memory’s eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling. I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. -The Myth of Sisyphus Our role is to be the absurd man. posted by Open Blogger at 10:25 AM	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line4
__label__wiki	0.697357	0.697357	Zynga’s Patent Portfolio Swells as It Doubles Down on Casino Gaming by Tricia Duryee Over the past year, Zynga has aggressively acquired dozens of game patents with an emphasis on gambling. According to a report by Envision IP, an intellectual property research firm, Zynga has grown its holdings from a single patent and nine pending a year ago to roughly 89 U.S. patents and 36 pending today. A Zynga representative declined to comment. A quick search on the U.S. patent site reveals that Zynga owns at least 50 patents for everything from “finding friends for multi-user online games” to “changing virtual items based on location-based actions” and “harvest mechanics for interactive social games.” Envision Managing Director Maulin Shah explains that another 38 or so patents have been reassigned to Zynga by a company named Walker Digital. Of those, he said, 33 patents relate to casino gaming and gambling technologies. The patents reassigned to Zynga range from technology that allows users to place wagers, to team play within a casino slot club, to making payouts based on predefined rules. Another five had to do with audio streaming. Shah said a significant ramp-up in patent holdings can be normal, especially if a company is trying to expand into a new business line. “They probably found it prudent to get some patents before they entered the online gambling space,” he said. To be sure, Zynga is serious about moving into real-money gaming from its core business of selling virtual goods on Facebook. Last month, it launched two landing pages in the U.K. that will eventually become the home to 180 casino games, including slots, roulette and blackjack. Additionally, Zynga’s FarmVille brand is expected to be used for one of the slot games. It also began the arduous process of seeking a license in Nevada to conduct real-money gaming online. The process could take close to two years — in just one state. The acquisition of licenses from Walker Digital is the most interesting part of this story. In August, The Wall Street Journal reported that Walker Digital had filed about 30 lawsuits targeting hundreds of companies, including Amazon.com, Google and Zynga. Walker Digital, which is owned by Jay Walker, the founder of Priceline.com, is known for enforcing patents opportunistically (a.k.a. patent trolling). Shah said on March 26 that the case was dismissed, just four days after Walker Digital reassigned the 33 patents to Zynga. However, the patent at issue in the lawsuit was not one of the ones reassigned. It is completely unclear if those events are connected, or how much Zynga paid for the patents (if anything). But Zynga’s not talking. We also sent an email to Walker Digital, but did not hear back immediately. If we do, we’ll be sure to provide an update. Return to: Zynga’s Patent Portfolio Swells as It Doubles Down on Casino Gaming URL: http://allthingsd.com/20130110/zyngas-patent-portfolio-swells-as-it-doubles-down-on-casino-gaming/	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line7
__label__wiki	0.560621	0.560621	Israeli authorities continue detention of al-Badan amid deterioration of her health Ramallah, ALRAY - The Israeli occupation authorities continues to administ Ramallah, ALRAY - The Israeli occupation authorities continues to administratively detain Palestinian mother of two kids Shorouq Mohammad al-Badan, 25 years old from Bethlehem, despite her deteriorated health condition, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said on Sunday. The committee pointed out, after the detainee’s lawyer visited her at al-Damon Prison, that she is suffering from severe stomach pain, as she is vomiting blood, noting that she receives no medical attention. After Israeli forces broke into her house, al-Badan has been detained on June 15, 2019, and held at a solitary cell in Hasharon prison for five days, the committee indicated. It also pointed out that the cell lacks ventilation and light, as it smells so bad due to the existence of a toilet inside it, which led her to suffering from psychological and health problems. The commission noted that the Israeli authorities issued a six-month order of administrative detention against detainee al-Badan, and rejected an appeal submitted by the committee’s lawyer against the order. It’s noteworthy to mention that at least 38 Palestinian female detainees are being held at the Israeli jail of al-Damon, two of them are administratively detained. Close to 500 Palestinians are currently being held under Israel’s illegal policy of administrative detention, under which prisoners can be held for renewable six-month periods without charge or trial.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line8
__label__wiki	0.753404	0.753404	Food & Drink Etc Historical Maps & Atlases Search Products Search Authors Search Events Search Stories Search ISBN Home / HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland Sort by popularity Sort by publication date Sort by price: low to high Sort by price: high to low Sort by title Sort by author Gaelic Proverbs Designed for those interested in the lore and tradition of a language, spoken until comparatively recently across much of Scotland, this is a compendium of Gaelic sayings and usage. The book includes notes, historical and social, and comparisons... Scotland: Her Story Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe... Set Adrift Upon the World They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were – thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode,... The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe’s economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the... The Making of the Crofting Community This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has... Ardkinglas Ardkinglas is a 45,000-acre estate in Cairndow, a beautiful area of the Highlands at the head of Loch Fyne. Sir Andrew Noble, the author’s great-grandfather, bought the estate in 1905 and his family have run it ever since. The estate has become... Alexander III Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected... The Story of My Boyhood and Youth In this moving memoir of an unusual childhood, John Muir recalls his younger days in East Lothian with a startling clarity, depicting a wild boy whose quiet individuality and determination were already emerging. Born in mid nineteenth-century... Máel Coluim III, ‘Canmore’ The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far... Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history’s romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the... Reay Country Reay Clarke’s family were sheep-farmers at in the far north of Scotland for over two centuries. In this book he tells the story of the Clarkes of Eriboll and a way of life that has now vanished forever. Seen through his own family’s experience,... The Appin Murder The wild weather having delayed the proceedings, it was five o’clock before the blacksmith hung the body in chains and onlookers turned for home through the gloaming. Margaret probably stayed overnight at Ballachulish House. She had bought sugar... Tarbert Dugald Mitchell’s Tarbert Past and Present (written in the late 19th century!) is a marvellous account of a community at the height of the fishing boom. Written with love and affection it is a minor classic of local history. Far less well known is... The Easdale Doctor When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh’s distinguished school of medicine with honours in 1890, a high profile career as a surgeon lay ahead of him. Any city across the world would have welcomed him, and his university... Calton Hill, on the eastern edge of Edinburgh’s centre, has a special relationship with the city. Development of the hill and its surrounding area (often referred to as Edinburgh’s ‘Third New Town’) began in the late eighteenth and early... Keep up to date with all the latest news Copyright © 2020 Birlinn.co.uk Site by Sinewave Design	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.76466	0.76466	THIS PAGE MAY TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD, PLEASE BE PATIENT. (THERE ARE LOTS OF PICTURES!) "That's enough stuff to fill a normal Okie's whole life." So said Steve Ripley when we told him of of our recent trip to New York City. We had a great time in NY, but it was quite the whirlwind trip. In less than 48 hours we took 4 flights, 6 trains, 3 subways, 4 taxis, 1 monorail, 4 shuttles, 1 ferry, saw Ground Zero, the Statue of Liberty, 5th Ave, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Wall Street, Trinity Church, the Virgin Mega Store, Greenwich Village, Broadway, ate at John's Pizzeria on 44th, a Middle Eastern deli on Houston street, some hole-in-the wall diner, McDonald's, Burger King, several street vendors, and played a 30 minute show at Arlene Grocery in lower Manhattan. The show went very well, and with a very receptive audience. We hope to get back up to New York and play again sometime soon. Our airport and hotel was actually in Newark, New Jersey. We discovered that the Newark airport wins the award for "most complicated layout" next to maybe Atlanta. We should also mention that it was positively chilly our entire trip. Which actually helped to create a Christmas like atmosphere in Manhattan. We rarely slept, but we had a splendid time. It was also a little surreal to be in NYC playing a gig on the anniversary of John Lennon's death. Perhaps we should've covered something by The Beatles. We had hoped to go by the Dakota Apartment building. But alas we ran out of time. Photos by Hanna Ferguson Photo by Hanna Ferguson On a side note, the Prince impersonator (Vince Gibbs) pictured with us in the October 16, 2002 news entry is currently featured in a new Missy Elliot music video that is in rotation on MTV. The new Admiral Twin record is nearing completion. There are three lead vocals left to record as of this time. Mixing has already commenced on many of the songs. We hope to stay on target and be mastering the record in late January. During the mastering process we will be finalizing the album artwork. Hopefully everything will be ready to go to the duplication plant by the beginning of February. However, bear in mind that things can fall behind schedule and/or other commitments can divert our attention and thus change the timeframe a bit. But we're hoping everything stays on track so we can enter phase 2 by March. What's phase 2? Stay tuned... "Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin', you gotta have somethin', if you wanna be with me!" --Billy Preston Well guess what? We got somethin'. We can't share the details just yet. But it does involve broadening the scope of our reach on a national and potentially global level. However, we are sorry to say that the aforementioned Christmas EP has been dropped. We will however put a Christmas EP on the recording schedule for next year. Current events and opportunities have prohibited the extra time we needed to do that project. So in it's stead we're moving headlong into the latter half of production on our new album. This is good because it means that we might actually get it out on time. The projected release date is sometime in February 2003. We would like to extend a special thanks to Santa Clause for sending us early Christmas cheer in the form of a care package filled with candies, candles, and other accoutrements. It helped spruce up the studio and it helped make us feel guilty for dropping the Christmas EP this year. But at least we're working. Please return to the official Admiral Twin headquarters frequently. All may seem quiet on the AT front, but just you wait... Last Saturday we somehow managed to snag our third Tulsa World Spot Award (Spotnik) for "Best Pop Act!" We owe much gratitude to the diligence and loyalty of our many fans stretched across the USA as well as in Tulsa County. We enjoyed the fun-filled evening at the Brady Theater here in Tulsa. Besides the ceremony and musical performances, it was quite splendid to spend the evening mingling with our friends and colleagues. Including our very own version of Prince (Vince Gibbs). Photo by Zuri Louis Next week the brand new Steve Ripley (The Tractors) CD hits record store shelves. As stated in a previous post, we provided backing vocals for the song Night Time Lover, Jarrod plays drums on Mr. Jingle Jangle, and our dear friend and AT alum Brad Becker provides an un-credited backing vocal performance (the artwork was already finished) on Down, Down (I Don't Believe You). Do yourself a favor and buy this disc the day it comes out. Mainly because it's fantastic! Progress on the new AT album has been a bit slow lately due to us taking a little time off and shopping some demos around the industry. Early prospects look good, but we'll make a post when anything really substantial happens. We hope to be forging ahead on recording next week. No matter how you look at it, Winter 2003 is going to be the projected target period for the new album release. And to whom it may concern, there will be a final paper issue of our fan club newsletter, The Secret Decoder Ring coming soon. On another note, after extensive research online, it would appear that many online CD outlets have Mock Heroic in stock. We are still out of stock on it, but hope to have it back in the future. However, if you're wanting a copy now, you should check out Wal-Mart, Barnes & Nobles, Amazon, and other online stores. Hello folks! Last Wednesday at Barkley's Uptown Dive we got together with some friends of ours and recorded backing vocals for a song that will be on our new album. It's a melancholy, circus-like song called The Fool's Brigade. The recording went off pretty much without a hitch. In fact, it was fantastic. Although we did have to borrow a couple of items at the last minute from our good friend Dave Lon, who happened to be on hand singing with us. The experience was great and a fun time was had by all. Many thanks go out to everyone who sang along: Nathan Brant, Jennifer Chancellor, Thomas Conner, Michelle Davis, Mark Furnas, Ashley & Mindy Greyson, Danielle Gueck, Isaac, Taylor, & Zac Hanson, Rachel Kemp, Dave Lon, Brian Parton, Elvis & Angelene Ripley, Michael Soucek, Steven, Esther, & Maayan Stafford, Jeff “Swany” Swanson, Wanda Watson, & Jonny Wright. Thanks also to Zuri Louis & Michael Wyke for taking photos of the event. Photos by Michael Wyke. Courtesy of Tulsa World We are currently in the process of mixing a 3-song demo to shop around the industry. We have decided to trim down the number of tracks on the new album from 15 to 12. The song titles are: Wait for the Bang, On & On, The Fool's Brigade, Dreamer, I'm Talking 'bout Me, That's Alright, Already Gone, Stay The Course, High Away, Misunderstood, How Long?, & You Get What You Pay For. The other three songs that are/were in production are Fairy Tale, Hey Now, & New Life. We'll also be taking a brief hiatus from album production to record a handful of Christmas songs in October. In addition to the backing vocals that we recently recorded for the new Steve Ripley CD, Jarrod has now laid down a drum performance as well. Although on a different song. And John recently composed the string/Mellotron section for the opening track on the upcoming Simon Starbuck CD (featuring former members of Royal Crush). And, still in progress is the new CD by Dave Lon, which will feature our backing vocals on the track Love Song. All these things are in addition to the usual overabundance of "dues paying" that we continue to do on a regular basis. Oh, but we are quite grateful. It keeps us in Spam and overalls. Or is that Spam and overhauls? It's all a blur now... Well, for the fourth year in a row we've been nominated for "Best Pop Act" by the Tulsa World Spot Awards committee. The last two years we actually took the award home. If you'd like to see us take it home for a third year, then you can cast your vote here. Being nominated gives you a nice sense of approval by your community. And for that we'd like to thank the Tulsa World and everyone else involved in getting us on the ballot. The Spotnik Award show is on October 12, 2002. In other news, we're still in the studio working on our new album. Vocals and other final touches are in progress as of this writing. We also have a working title for the new album. As soon as we have the artwork decided and the title is finalized, we shall post song titles and everything else. We do not have a release date as of yet though. On August 15th we went into the Church Studio (our Mock Heroic stomping ground) and recorded backing vocals for a song that will be on the new Steve Ripley (The Tractors) CD. The song is called Nighttime Lover. We shall be making the trek to New York City in early December to play the next installment of the International Pop Overthrow. We do not have a specific date just yet, but it should be sometime between the 3rd and the 14th. Keep checking our concerts page for updates. We're back from Los Angeles where we played a wonderful show for the IPO at The Joint. Among the many smiling faces in the crowd was none other than super singer/songwriter Michelle Branch. Quick and unrelated note: If you like eerie and fascinating things, you should check out SharkCam. You'll sit there watching blackness for a while, but every so often you'll see some chilling images. While we were in LA, we shopped on Melrose, Hollywood, & Venice Beach, ate at Senorita's on Sunset, had cocktails at Yamashiro, saw Jon Brion perform a fantastic show at Largo (where Fiona Apple was in attendance), saw David Poe perform a set just before Jon Brion, ate at AstroBurger, got sunburned on Zuma Beach, saw the wonderful new film Signs at the very ornate and majestic Graumans Chinese Theater, stayed at the Magic Castle Hotel (a time honored tradition), visited a modern art museum, bought groceries at Ralph's, and visited Chinatown among other things. There are some photos from Los Angeles and more on our newly revised Images page! While these are not official items, and are not available from us, you should check out the groovy Admiral Twin buttons available from HTP magazine. The new album is coming along nicely. Guitar recording was finished before we went to Los Angeles. Vocal recording will begin soon. As well as percussion bits and any other "noises" we may find inspiration for. Stay tuned... Photo by Kelly Kerr. Courtesy of Tulsa World Here is a transcript from the press release going out to media: Admiral Twin now a Trio After many fond years of performing together as a quartet, Tulsa rock group Admiral Twin and guitarist/singer Brad Becker have agreed to amicably part ways, due to new career opportunities for Becker outside of Oklahoma. The remaining members; bassist/singer Mark Carr, drummer/singer Jarrod Gollihare, and guitarist/singer John Russell will continue writing, recording, and performing as Admiral Twin. Meanwhile, Becker is moving to San Francisco, California to pursue a career with a computer software company. In a joint statement from the remaining members, the band said that Brad’s dynamic contributions to their history were plentiful, and his camaraderie will be sorely missed. They all remain friends and wish the best for one another. Currently Admiral Twin is in the studio working on their fifth release since 1998. The yet-to-be titled album should be completed by fall and made available to the public shortly thereafter. Admiral Twin can be found on the Internet at: www.admiraltwin.com And so it goes. Rumors have been around for quite some time. However, for a considerable amount of time the four of us were not sure about the state of things. Brad has a wonderful wife and daughter and recently he received a great job offer in San Francisco. This opportunity could considerably enrich the lives of him and his family. As such, the rest of us give him all of our blessings and deepest prayers. Brad has been an integral part of our music since its inception. So this does not come easy for us. But seasons change and life goes on. Good luck Brad, Kristina, & Tuesday. We love you dearly. Of course there's always the possibility for the obligatory reunion tour in our future! Send Brad your best wishes here. At long last we now accept online payments safely and securely through PayPal. So, feel free to test out this hot new feature by placing an order on our merchandise page today! In other AT news, guitar recording is just about finished for the new album. In fact, guitar recording should be complete sometime in the next two or three days. We hope to start vocal recording after we return from our trip to Los Angeles next week. In the near future, New Pop Revival will be listing auctions on ebay for original AdmiralTwin artifacts. These auctions will consist of original wardrobe, personal effects, rare items, and other random stuff. Proceeds from these auctions will go directly to our own debt-reduction efforts. What's more is that you can pay for the auctions with PayPal as well! We'll put a notification on this page when the first auctions go up. Well, we just returned from a whirlwind trip to Muskegon, MI where we played two concerts for the Summer Celebration. Thanks to Mel Boughton & the committee for Summer Celebration for making the shows happen. This trip was the maiden voyage of our new "band" van. It's a green, Ford Club Wagon. Many thanks go out to our assorted friends from the newsgroup alt.fan.admiral-twin for lending their support, and their gift basket laced with a stunning variety of meats and cheeses, wine, CD's, toys and other interesting items. Photo by Lauren Utter Very special thanks to Sara & Amy Splitgerber who put us up in Sara's home for the weekend. It's not everyday that you get to meet Miss Michigan 2002, so we were delighted when she personally autographed a picture to the band. Of course we provided her with one of our CD's. And, thank you Lauren Utter for these great photos from the performances. We rated a few of the restaurants that we ate at on the trip to Michigan. Here is a crude summation of our experiences: Steak & Shake - Rolla, MO Subway - Joliet, IL Racquets Downtown Grill - Muskegon, MI Kilwin's - Saugatuck, MI Wendy's - Clinton, IL KFC - somewhere outside of Springfield, MO Sara's house Grand Rapids, MI Thanks also to our good friend, Isaac Hanson, who joined us onstage last Tuesday at Barkley's for four songs (Ever Lonely, MMMBop, and a couple of brand new Hanson songs). On the "new album" frontier, bass guitar recording is now finished. Guitar recording begins today. We hope to wrap the rest of tracking (guitars, vocals, etc.) by the end of August. Drum recording is finished. Bass guitar recording begins today. Well, that and shopping for a new van. We've decided to take the Nestea plunge and replace "old blue." Our little van has seen much better days. And with the notion of trekking around the country becoming more of a reality, we need some new wheels. All the lyrics for Odds & Ends are now up. Be sure and check each link. Our good friend Jenny Labow is in town this week. We played an impromptu concert with her last night at the Voodoo Room. A new club here in Tulsa. Jenny moved to Los Angeles last year and returns to Tulsa once in a while to do a few shows. On June 14, Royal Crush, Tony Romanello Band, Fanzine, and Nathan Brant will join us for a concert of all original music at Curley's here in Tulsa. Better Than Nothing video shoot - January 2001 The new record is underway. Of the 15 songs in production, drums have been recorded for 11 of them in the last two weeks. We are hoping to finish drum recording on Monday or Tuesday of next week. The number of songs in production was whittled down from a list of about 40 new songs or sketches for songs. The process of recording the drums involves the band being set up and playing live together. However, the drums are isolated in a separate room, and are the only thing that has to be captured really well. After that, the next step in the process will be re-recording the bass and guitars for better refinement of the parts and sounds. While we've decided to make a pact of non-disclosure as to the content and sound of the new album (until it's completion), we will simply say that it is unlike anything we've ever done before. Although, it is still very much us. And... we're very excited about it! So last night we were having dinner at the Osaka Fantasy Steakhouse of Japan, and a couple of tables over were none other than Country-music superstars, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Well, of course we took the opportunity to put one of our CD's in Garth's hands, and talk to him about ourselves a little bit. They're both super-nice people. After Garth & Trisha left, we finished our dinner and then spent the rest of the evening over at our old stomping ground, The Church Studio, chatting with Steve Ripley of the Tractors. Currently Steve is working on a new solo project, which is still untitled. Steve was gracious enough to play us a few tracks of his new music. All we can say is that we are anxiously awaiting the completion of this new disc. The tunes we heard were very pop influenced and were quite catchy. A couple of days ago we set up the drums in our new recording environment and did some mic-testing. The room we're recording in has a very unique and different sound than what we've had before, which is very inspiring. We hope to be hitting the record button in the next day or two. Listening to Ripley's recordings has helped stir up the excitement even more on our new record. A few weeks ago we went into Dave Lon's studio and put down some backing vocals for a song on his new record which will hopefully be out soon. It's an acoustic album titled Woodsongs. As always, thanks for checking out our website. Greetings from AT World Headquarters! We're still playing numerous shows around our part of the country. In addition to that, our Odds & Ends CD's should be getting back to us soon. The release date is May 14. Then we'll be able to forward them on to those of you who have already ordered a copy. The new album is practically underway now. We know, we keep saying this. Well, buying the equipment that is needed has not been cheap. And, our company vehicle (the old van) was put in the shop this week for new brakes and rotors. And that won't be cheap either. This is why working musicians are always broke. Maintenance and job-related expenses eat our lunch. Which is often why musicians look as though they haven't eaten any lunch. Anyhow, thanks for stopping back by here now and again. We're trying to keep our updates timely for everyone interested. And yes we're excited that Spider-man (directed by Sam Raimi) is out in theaters today! We'd like to thank Michael Wyke for some wonderful photos that he took of our performance at the Majestic on April 6, 2002. These photos and the new photo on the Main page were all taken at that concert. Photos by Michael Wyke Alright already, sadly we've had several e-mails wanting to know if the News post from April 1 was an April fool's joke or not. Well of course it was an April fool's joke. My, my, these kids today. Anyhow things are shaping up at the Admiral Twin recording studio. We've been fine-tuning our new songs a bit more. Truthfully, we have not sparked the ignition on the old tape recorder just yet. But whilst polishing up the arrangements for our new material we have been amassing more equipment from various parts of the galaxy to utilize on our new aural excursion. New mics, stands, cables, speakers, guitars and guitar toys, and a flux-capacitor. We're looking for a Westinghouse blender to add to the array of new gear as well. It's kind of a sophisticated device and is good for making banana daiquiris. We've also been rehearsing a few new cover songs for our club gigs. Oh yeah, Odds & Ends is being pressed as of this writing. So, just a few more weeks and copies should be shipping out to those who have ordered it. A Tulsa World photographer just shot a ton of photos at one of our recent shows, so it is possible that some new pictures will be coming to the website very soon. In the meantime... Photos by Zuri Louis Well, recording began on our new CD last week. And what a week it was. What are the odds that in one week we would chance upon a few guest performances on our new CD by the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson? Stop, we know what you're thinking, there's no chance of that. Well, as it happens we were invited to a big soiree at the home of some friends of ours (you know, the blonde ones that are known around the world) Anyhow, Paul and Jacko happened to be there trying out a new salsa recipe that one of the boys was working on. We talked a bit of shop whilst chomping down chips and dips and then one thing led to another and then suddenly everyone was gathered together with instruments and having a good time. Well, we caught the whole thing on tape. But, you'll just have to wait until the album comes out to hear the track, part of the agreement we made with our big name guest artists, was to not share anything on the Internet or otherwise until the release date, which has not been set yet. We think it might be exactly a year from today's date though. Oh, and will someone please stop the rumors that one of us is seeing Jennifer Aniston behind Brad Pitt's back. It simply is not true. He knows all about it. We told him at the party last week. "Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends..."* Many apologies for the dormancy of our website over the last few months. Life has an interesting way of keeping you busy even when it seems like you're not. During November and December (between playing concerts, and playing Empire Earth) we played a few instruments and recorded a Christmas EP that we sent out to our fan club (it's now available along with some other new stuff on our Merchandise page). The entire month of January was spent writing songs for our next album, which we are currently in pre-production for. The actual recording process will break ground sometime this month. Imminent is the release of Odds & Ends, a CD compilation of various demos, unreleased music and rarities from the AT vault, spanning the period from 1996-2000. Among all the concerts that we'll be playing in Tulsa and the region, we have sincere hopes of getting around the country a bit more after our new album is completed. In July, we'll be returning to the International Pop Overthrow in Los Angeles. In the meantime, please keep checking back for updates. For starters check out the pages that have been updated today! Main, News, Merchandise, & Concerts. *excerpt from lyrics by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Return to ARCHIVES main page AdmiralTwin is a registered trademark of Admiral Twin Electric Company L.L.C. ©2002 All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line18
__label__wiki	0.584937	0.584937	AJ KLUTH m u s i c / s o u n d / e t c e t e r a SINKEATER: PURGE (2017) Music As Math (2015) AJ Kluth's ALDRIC (2011) AJ Kluth Quintet (2009) AJ Kluth \| CDs Chris Potter On Standards (PDF Download) Short Bio: Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, UCLA 2018; M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, NYU 2013; M.M., Jazz Studies, DePaul University 2006; B.A., Applied Music, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay 2003 AJ Kluth is a writer, saxophonist, and improviser whose research focuses on American musical experimentalisms (avant-garde/experimentalism, jazz studies, critical improvisation studies), music of the African Diaspora, continental aesthetics, and contemporary theories of interpretation (philosophical hermeneutics). His publications appear in the Journal of Jazz Studies, The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts, DownBeat Magazine, and Ethnomusicology Review’s “Sounding Board,” in addition to a book comprising a collection of transcribed solos by saxophonist Chris Potter. He is presently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of music at Case Western Reserve University. Outside of his academic work, Kluth is an accomplished saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. He has released two albums with OA2 Records and worked across musical genres in the Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles markets and has contributed to jazz education as a teaching artist for the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz’s “Jazz in the Classroom” outreach program. Longer Bio: AJ Kluth is a writer, saxophonist, and improviser. He holds degrees from the University of Los Angeles (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Systematic Musicology Specialization, 2018), New York University (MA in Humanities and Social Thought, 2013) and DePaul University (MM in Jazz Saxophone Performance, 2006). Kluth’s dissertation, "A Study of the Los Angeles DIY Experimental Music Scene: Reflections on the Promise of the Possible," puts ethnographic methodologies in conversation with aesthetic theory to address questions about the affective power of challenging, non-commercial music. In addition to an ethnography of the scene, the study offers productive critiques of the efficacy of sociological methods and theories of post-postmodernity in studying contemporary experimentalism and demonstrates the relevance of the hermeneutical turn in music study to account for the power of aesthetic experience. He is presently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of music at Case Western Reserve University. Kluth’s publications appear in the Journal of Jazz Studies, The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts, DownBeat Magazine, and Ethnomusicology Review's “Sounding Board,” in addition to his book of transcribed solos by jazz saxophonist Chris Potter. Research interests include musical experimentalism, jazz studies, musicology, aesthetics, theories of interpretation, philosophy of mind, and cognitive psychology. Outside of his academic work, Kluth is an accomplished saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist invested in teaching as well as performance. He has worked as a teaching artist for the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz’s “Jazz in the Classroom” outreach program and has taught extensively with the Music Institute of Chicago. As a performer, after his initial graduate studies in Chicago, Kluth worked in that scene with diverse artists such as the Chicago Afrobeat Project, Lauren Frost, the AJ Kluth Quintet, L’Orchestre Super Vitesse, Jerome Holloway, the University of Chicago’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, and leading his band ALDRIC. Moving to New York City in 2011 for graduate work at NYU, he worked with The Avalon Jazz Band, Caramelo, Ben Miller’s Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, and Hank Lane Productions. More recently he can be found working with pop, jazz, and world music acts in Los Angeles as well as Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox. As an OA2 Records recording artist, Kluth has released records featuring the AJ Kluth Quintet and his band ALDRIC, while in 2018 his project SINKEATER released an EP entitled PURGE. kluth(dot)aj(at)gmail(dot)com AJ's Instagram © . All rights reserved. Built with Virb	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line19
__label__wiki	0.712299	0.712299	Sistine Chapel Choir director steps down The Sistine Chapel Choir prepares to sing during the Good Friday service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 19, 2019. Msgr. Massimo Palombella, a Salesian who has directed the Sistine Chapel Choir since 2010, has stepped down, the Vatican announced July 10. PAUL HARING/CNS VATICAN— Msgr. Massimo Palombella, a Salesian priest who has directed the Sistine Chapel Choir since 2010, has stepped down, the Vatican announced. “The Holy Father accepted the maestro’s request to terminate his service,” the Vatican press office said July 10 in a statement that made no mention of an investigation, announced one year ago, into the choir’s financial and administrative operations. The statement said simply that the 51-year-old Salesian “had concluded his service as musical director” of the Sistine choir and is “now at the disposition of the Salesian congregation for the new ministry that will be entrusted to him.” Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office, said the director’s duties temporarily will be entrusted to Msgr. Marcos Pavan, current director of the boys’ section of the Sistine Chapel Choir. Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Msgr. Palombella to a five-year term as choir director in October 2010; Pope Francis appointed him to a new five-year term in November 2015. In September, the Vatican had confirmed that, “several months ago, Pope Francis authorized an investigation into the economic-administrative aspects of the choir,” and that the investigation was ongoing. The statement, the press office had said, was in response to an article published by “Vatican Insider,” the online news supplement to the Italian newspaper La Stampa, regarding the investigation. According to the article, the Vatican was investigating Msgr. Palombella and the choir’s manager, Michelangelo Nardella, on suspicion of financial mismanagement, particularly regarding income from concerts. In January, without mentioning the investigation, Pope Francis placed the Sistine Chapel Choir under the direct supervision of the office of papal liturgical ceremonies and appointed an archbishop as financial officer. Dating back to 1471, the Sistine Chapel Choir is one of the oldest choirs in the world and is made up of 20 men and 30 boys. PreviousArchbishop calls on church to confront suicide NextPastoral Letter on Suicide Pope Francis: In healthcare, we are responsible to the most vulnerable Chilean whistleblower to meet with bishops, victims ahead of abuse summit Pope says he prays for those who call him a heretic On anniversary, Japan’s bishops renew hope for nuclear-free world	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line23
__label__wiki	0.888808	0.888808	Home » Daily Analyst » Graveyard Humor in Belgrade Graveyard Humor in Belgrade By Diana Johnstone Graveyard humor is a Serbian specialty, so the Serbs elected a former undertaker, Tomislav Nikolic, as president. He beat the incumbent, Boris Tadic, who had spent his eight years in office trying to please the Western powers that have in return done all they could to keep Serbia alone and humiliated.Constantly compared to Nazi Germany, Serbs have been subjected to a sleazy imitation of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, but no Marshall Plan billions to revive the economy. Conditions are increasingly desperate. More than half the electorate, perhaps considering the election itself a joke, did not bother to vote. Nikolic promised change, but there is no sign that he has either a plan or the means to bring it about. Earlier in the month, parliamentary elections were tainted by evidence of massive ballot rigging in favor of the ruling coalition. Even before the presidential runoff, the Socialist Party leader made a deal to form a coalition with Tadic’s Democratic Party – the coalition favored by Western embassies. So Nikolic may find himself only a figurehead, with the government run by a prime minister from the same old Tadic majority. Still, voters at least get a chance from time to time to say “no”, and saying “no” to Tadic brought a fleeting illusion of freedom. For Western media and politicians, Serbia serves only one purpose: to be the bad example of “nationalism” that enhances the virtuous anti-nationalism of the EU and NATO. In an era when in EU countries a mere disparaging remark against any ethnic or religious group may lead to lawsuits for “incitement to racial hatred”, the Serbs are there to allow cartoonists, editorialists and film-makers to stigmatize the pariah group to their heart’s content. Serbia’s most prized export to Europe is its “genocidal war criminals”, sent to The Hague to feed Europe’s pride in its humanitarian values. So the best thing Serbia could do for Western media was to elect “an extreme nationalist” – well, not exactly – only a “former extreme nationalist”, or “a former ultranationalist”, or “a former strident nationalist”. In The Guardian, Ian Traynor fretted that “Serbia’s hopes of fast-track integration into Europe suffered a severe setback” with the defeat of the endlessly accommodating Tadic. This “fast track” is another sour joke. After eight years of giving in to EU pressure, all Tadic got this spring was grudging permission for Serbia to become an “official candidate” to join the EU. To join when? Only when Serbia makes some more “reforms” and above all, when Belgrade accepts the “independence” of Kosovo, stolen from Serbia by NATO bombing in 1999 and handed over to Albanian gangsters with friends in Washington. That is something no Serbian government dares to do. At least not openly. Like Tadic, Nikolic has promised to pursue two mutually exclusive policy aims: EU membership, and refusal to recognize that the historic Serb province of Kosovo is now an “independent State”. The election of Nikolic probably shows that enthusiasm for joining the EU is waning, which would make sense considering the current crisis of the euro zone. But even a sinking ship may look like salvation to a drowning man. Ever since the 1999 NATO war, Serbia has been a semi-occupied country, surrounded by NATO. Its politicians must seek approval of Western embassies and pro-Western media. Many have been groomed in the United States. Nikolic is an exception, but to compensate, he has turned to former U.S. Ambassador William Montgomery for advice on how to improve his image in the West. As a “former extreme nationalist”, Nikolic may be called upon by EU gatekeepers to do even more (if such is possible) to prove his conversion to “Western values”. He started off with the rather astonishing statement that he was eager to meet Angela Merkel, his “best ally in Europe” – astonishing since everyone knows that Germany and Austria, as Serbia’s historic enemies (Sarajevo 1914) were first to sponsor Croatian and Slovenian secession from Yugoslavia and have vigorously pursued their century-old vendetta against Serbs ever since. Nikolic has modified his former vow to pursue closer relations with Russia into a suggestion that Serbia must “have friends all over the world”. The “former extreme nationalist”, who left the Serbian Radical Party to form his own Progressive Party, does not appear to be the man to defy Serbia’s Western tormentors. “Take Him to The Hague!” -- Since only “former extreme nationalists” are left in Serbia, whatever happened to the real thing? Whatever happened to Vojislav Seselj? Nikolic’s political mentor, the lawyer and Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, has been in prison in the Netherlands for over nine years, as his trial for belonging to an alleged “joint criminal enterprise” gets nowhere. On February 24, 2003, learning that the Prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had issued a secret indictment against him, Seselj booked his own regular flight to the Netherlands to give himself up before the indictment could be issued. He announced boldly that he was “convinced that I’m capable of winning against The Hague tribunal and refuting these Western allegations against the Serbian people.” A farewell rally was held in Belgrade. He has been in the ICTY prison in the Netherlands ever since. The ICTY chief Prosecutor at that time, Ms. Carla Del Ponte, wrote in her memoirs “The Hunt” that the indictment was issued at the request of the authorities in Belgrade. At a meeting on February 17, 2003, Zoran Djindjic, who owed his position as Serbian Prime Minister to support from NATO powers, and was assassinated shortly thereafter, allegedly told her: “As far as Vojislav Seselj is concerned, we have only one request –take him away, never to bring him back again!” The reason for getting Seselj out of Serbia was obvious. He was a popular politician who had lost elections to Milosevic, but with Milosevic out of the way, he might be a formidable opponent for the pro-Western politicians sponsored by the NATO powers. Or so they might worry. The Seselj case illustrates an original purpose of the Hague tribunal, as described by one of its designers, Michael Scharf, a State Department adviser who took part in the creation of the ICTY. In an August 2004 Washington Post column, Scharf recalled: "In creating the Yugoslavia tribunal statute, the U.N. Security Council set three objectives: first, to educate the Serbian people, who were long misled by Milosevic’s propaganda, about the acts of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his regime; second, to facilitate national reconciliation by pinning prime responsibility on Milosevic and other top leaders and disclosing the ways in which the Milosevic regime had induced ordinary Serbs to commit atrocities; and third, to promote political catharsis while enabling Serbia’s newly elected leaders to distance themselves from the repressive policies of the past." To put it in slightly different terms, the purpose of the Tribunal was to oblige the Serbian people to accept the NATO version of events in their country. Already in 1992, U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger called for a war crimes tribunal as an instrument to force the Serbian people to see things our way: While “waiting for the people of Serbia, if not their leaders, to come to their senses, we must make them understand that their country will remain alone, friendless, and condemned to economic ruin and exclusion from the family of civilized nations for as long as they pursue the suicidal dream of a Greater Serbia. They need, especially, to understand that a second Nuremberg awaits the practitioners of ethnic cleansing, and that the judgment, and opprobrium, of history awaits the people in whose name their crimes were committed.” In reality, the Tribunal, precisely because it intervened in a complex civil war against the Serb side, has never been credible among most Serbs, but instead has served to strengthen the NATO countries’ own view of the conflict as caused solely by Serbian nationalism. The enemies of the Serbs, nationalist leaders of the Albanians, Bosnian Muslims or Croats, use the Western anti-Serb bias for their own purposes, first of all to portray themselves as pure innocent victims with no responsibility for the mayhem that tore Yugoslavia apart. That version is far too simplistic to convince Serbs who are aware of the complexities, even when they admit that crimes were indeed committed by Serbs during the bloody conflicts. Far from fostering reconciliation, the Tribunal has cemented divisions and made eventual reconciliation all but impossible. Seselj, however, is a special case. There is no evidence that he ever took part in combat, much less in war crimes, or that he exercised any command responsibility. He joined a national unity government briefly during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, but for the rest of the time was an often bitter and vehement political opponent of President Slobodan Milosevic. As a witness at the Milosevic trial in The Hague, Seselj surprised the prosecution by insisting that he, Seselj, was the real champion of “Greater Serbia”, while Milosevic was always opposed to the concept and instead wanted to preserve multi-ethnic Yugoslavia. Milosevic died in his cell before the end of his trial. In short, Seselj is spending years on trial for what he said, not for what he did. The Crime of the “Rusty Spoons” -- Some twenty years ago, Seselj became notorious in Western media for having allegedly boasted of “tearing out the eyes of Croats with rusty spoons”. This was one of the main horror stories that built the reputation of Serbs as genocidal maniacs. Vojislav Seselj was never one to be concerned with political correctness. He gained a certain prominence in the early 1980s as one of Yugoslavia’s best-known political prisoners. Internationally known intellectuals of the Praxis group rallied to his defense on grounds of free speech, even though they disagreed with him on just about all major questions, as they tended to be reformist Marxists and Seselj was strongly anti-communist. But even his adversaries acknowledged his courage and intelligence. Under Milosevic, political prisoners were released, and in the early 1990s Seselj became leader of the Serbian Radical Party, a revival of Serbia’s main historic political party from Serbia’s democratic heyday in the early 1900s, before World War I and the creation of Yugoslavia at the Versailles conference. As Yugoslavia began to break up under the pressure of Croatian and Slovenian secessionism, Seselj became the leading champion of Serb nationalism, meaning roughly the idea that if Yugoslavia were to break up into its component nations, Serbia should revert to the nation it could have been as a victor in World War I before the creation of Yugoslavia, World War II, and the Communist division of Yugoslav territory – in short, “Greater Serbia”. Milosevic never endorsed this idea. In 1991, conflict was brewing between ethnic Serbs and nationalist Croats in regions of Croatia with a large Serb population. Some Serbs fled to Serbia, fearful of a return of the Nazi-backed Ustasha movement that massacred Serbs after Nazi Germany invaded and broke up Yugoslavia in 1941. While the conflict aroused Serb fears of Ustasha, it also aroused Croat fears of Chetniks – the name for Serb guerrillas in wars against the Ottoman Empire or against the Nazi occupation. That year, Seselj was guest on a satirical television show called Minimaxovision that made fun of the accusations against Serbs. “So you Chetniks are slaughtering people again?” Seselj was asked. He replied deadpan: “of course, only we have changed our methodology. Now, instead of knives we use shoe horns. And rusty ones at that, so that it cannot be established whether the victim died because of butchering or from tetanus.” The talk show participants laughed at the absurdity of using shoe horns. This was graveyard humor in a tradition understood perhaps in Belgrade, but not everywhere. Urged on by their Croat friends, Western reporters took the whole thing seriously. The tasteless joke became a testimony to the fact that Seselj had boasted that his men slaughtered Croats with rusty spoons (the word kasika means both spoon and shoe horn in Serbian). Since then, Seselj has explained repeatedly that he was joking. But the story lives on. The May 22 report on Nikolic’s election in the International Herald Tribune included a background reference to Vojislav Seselj who “said he would like to gouge out the eyes of Croats with a rusty spoon. He is now in The Hague for war crimes.” An unmentioned aspect of this story is that in a paradoxical way it echoes the Italian author Curzio Malaparte, who wrote in “Kaputt”, his autobiographical account of Italy’s role in World War II, that when he visited the Leader of the fascist Independent State of Croatia, Ustasha chief Ante Pavelic, he was shown a basket of what looked like oysters and was told they were “human eyes… gouged from Serbs”. Personally, I have never been able to take Malaparte’s story literally, and tend to think that it, too, is an illustration of a certain Balkan humor. The simplistic belief that the Yugoslav wars of disintegration were caused solely by evil Serbs, imitating Hitler, is necessary to justify NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in order to “save the Kosovars”. This myth must be upheld as precedent for further “humanitarian intervention” whenever the United States and NATO decide to overthrow another recalcitrant government somewhere. Until NATO goes broke, or Western citizens wake up and oppose endless war, the Serbs have no chance of achieving truth or justice. They can only console themselves with graveyard humor. From CounterPunch.com	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line28
__label__cc	0.680054	0.319946	Jennifer Layke As cities grow, so should their energy efficiency Improving building efficiency presents a major opportunity to curb greenhouse gas emissions while saving money and improving quality of life. Photo by deano7000/Flickr. If you want to find major emitters of greenhouse gases, look no further than your city’s skyline. Buildings account for more than one-third of all final energy consumption and half of global electricity use. They’re responsible for approximately one-third of global carbon dioxide emissions. While rapid urban development demands new infrastructure, there is a cost-effective solution for reducing buildings’ environmental impacts – energy efficiency. That’s why the World Resources Institute (WRI) and Johnson Controls (JCI) are partnering today to launch the Building Efficiency Initiative. This Initiative will convene city and private sector leaders to accelerate progress on building efficiency using innovative finance and distributed energy. Urbanization poses a challenge to sustainable buildings While cities are engines of economic growth, they’re also engines of environmental impact. According to the Better Growth, Better Climate report, cities generate around 80% of global economic output and 70% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. And they’re poised to become even larger than they are today: By 2030, cities will account for 66% of the world’s population, up from 54% today. Much of this growth will occur in rapidly urbanizing countries in Asia and Africa, which are poised to make significant investments in new infrastructure to accommodate these population increases. In China, for instance, 60% of all buildings will be new buildings by 2020. City leaders have a choice: Continue today’s building practices and lock in inefficient energy consumption, or invest in energy efficiency, reduce electricity use, and save money in the long-term. Building efficiency brings cost savings and environmental benefits Energy efficiency advances both climate action and economic growth, and investments in building efficiency can have particularly high economic and social returns. According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2006, each additional dollar spent on energy efficiency in electrical equipment, appliances, and buildings avoids more than two dollars in energy supply costs. Many of the same design and operational principles that lead to greater energy efficiency can also lead to other benefits like reduced water use, greater climate resilience, and social improvements. New York City, for example, is using improvements in building efficiency as a means to combat inequality and meet the city’s new commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. Mayor Bill De Blasio compared energy costs to a regressive tax, because lower-income residents tend to spend a higher share of their income on energy than more affluent citizens and often live in less-efficient buildings. By investing in building efficiency, cities can reduce expenses for lower-income residents while curbing emissions. The city plans to spend at least US$1 billion in building efficiency improvements and aims to upgrade all public buildings with major energy use by 2025. Energy efficiency also gives cities the ability to supply energy to a greater number of people. Worldwide, 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity, and 14% of those are in urban areas. This is a particular challenge in rapidly growing cities with informal settlements or slums, whose residents often have access to energy sources that are costly, unreliable, or heavily polluting. Greater energy efficiency can make energy supply available to more people, and make energy more affordable for low-income households. Introducing the Building Efficiency Initiative The Building Efficiency Initiative – part of the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities – will combine Johnson Controls’ expertise in providing building efficiency solutions with WRI’s research excellence and on-the-ground experience to advance global solutions for resource efficiency. Specifically, the Initiative will engage public and private sector innovators to develop, test, and scale energy efficiency solutions like new finance models, and promote better approaches for integrating distributed energy systems at the building and community level. A flagship project of the Building Efficiency Initiative will be to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All Building Efficiency Accelerator Platform, which was launched at last week’s U.N. Climate Summit. The platform seeks to double the rate of energy efficiency improvement globally by 2030. The world’s growing cities can adopt a more sustainable path to growth, save resources and money, and build a brighter future for their citizens. This goal starts by improving energy efficiency, one building at a time. For more information on the partnership between WRI and Johnson Controls, read our press release. http://thecityfix.com/?p=46887 Topic: Building Efficiency Accelerator, Performance Management, Policy, Retrofits Tags: building efficiency, energy + climate change, alex perera, building efficiency accelerator, building performance, emissions, jennifer layke, new york city, public policy, retrofits, see4all, sustainable infrastructure, urbanization	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line32
__label__wiki	0.725138	0.725138	Though one can view Honoré Daumier’s 19th century lithographs from a purely artistic or purely political standpoint, they were often a blend of both. An artist whose work was characterized by whimsical and often surrealist imagery, Daumier (1808-1879) frequently made political statements with his art, but always sought to entertain. Brandeis is fortunate to count among its holdings the Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs (finding aid here). While Daumier’s works (which, in addition to lithographs, include numerous paintings, drawings, sculptures and wood engravings) are found at institutions and museums across the globe, Brandeis’s Trustman Collection is one of the major Daumier collections in the United States. Comprising as it does nearly all (3,878) of the 4,000 known Daumier lithographs, and several proofs, illustrated books, and woodcuts, this collection is a unique resource for the study of both Honoré Daumier's art and nineteenth-century French history.(1) Born in Marseilles in 1808, Daumier moved to Paris with his family in 1814, eventually becoming a part of and drawing inspiration from the cosmopolitan scene there. Daumier first used his talents in lithography on behalf of music publishers and advertisers at a young age (13 years old), before quickly expanding into political cartoons and other artistic endeavors. Early on in his career, Daumier received work and commissions from two magazines run by Charles Philipon known as La Caricature and then La Charivari.(2) While Daumier's star has risen in the art world since his death, he was well known during his lifetime for his sometimes grotesque and other-worldly caricatures of French politicians and other fellow countrymen. In fact, he was once thrown in jail for a controversial cartoon entitled “Gargantua.”(3) One example of his tongue-in-cheek portraiture is a lithograph depicting Agricol Perdiguier (1805-1875) -- a French socialist politician and a Deputy after the 1848 revolution -- who was forced into exile following the rise of Napoleon the Third in 1851. The caricature lampoons the salary of 25 francs the Deputy received, which was outrageous for the day. Perhaps one of Daumier’s most moving and most scathing pieces is an 1871 work captioned (translated from the French) “Other Candidates,” wherein political candidates come in to scavenge on the carcass of a woman, labelled “France.” Such seriousness is present in many of Daumier’s drawings, paintings, and lithographs and exemplifies his more overtly political work. Daumier did not, however, maintain a serious façade at all times, and there are examples of his lithographs being employed for less political ends. In amongst artwork lampooning French economy and politics, there are lithographs of polkas and poodles. One such piece, “Une Terrible Rencontre,” is a cartoon of an urban family encountering a frog on a walk in the country, the husband shielding his wife and child as though confronted by a monster. While not explicitly political, the image does gently rib the city dwellers of Paris for their increasing alienation from nature as the Industrial Revolution’s engines begin to turn. The simple image conveys a strong message about the strained relation between nature and the city dweller. Alongside Daumier’s cartoons and caricatures stand some of the advertisements he created, including one for Le Charivari (a French illustrated magazine to which Daumier contributed), attempting to draw in new subscribers. The ad is not without Daumier’s token humor, as the title’s letters are repeated in caption, in all capitals, as though one is being shouted at through the image (“VOILLLLLLLLLA! GRRRRRRAND GALOP…”). One of Daumier’s most famous prints is his “Rue Transnonain, 15 de Avril 1834,” depicting the aftermath of a bloody French National Guard attack on the French citizenry. The controversial lithograph stone was destroyed by the French government which also got rid of as many copies of the prints as possible. The only duplicates of this print were hidden from the state by Parisians and Brandeis has a copy of this rare piece.(4) The value and appreciation of Daumier’s pieces rose after his death, with the École des Beaux-Arts holding an exhibition of his works in 1901. Today, Daumier has works in many prestigious museums, including the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Brandeis is proud to join these great museums in housing a fine collection of lithographs made by this acclaimed French artist. High-quality digital images of the entire Trustman Collection are available through the Brandeis Institutional Repository. 1. While the vast majority of these prints are from the large editions done on newsprint, there are also many fine examples printed on wove white paper (sur blanc). 2. Wikipedia. “Honoré Daumier.” Last modified September 12, 2015. 3. Artble. “Honoré Daumier.” 4. Arts and Culture 104. “Rue Transnonain, Daumier.” Friday, December 10, 2010. Description by Max Close, undergraduate student in History and Archives & Special Collections assistant. We at Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections are dedicated to the preservation of the materials within our collecting remit. We are equally dedicated to making these materials freely and widely accessible. One of the ways we have been expanding this accessibility is by making many of our materials available online. As a member of the Boston Library Consortium, Brandeis University participates in the Open Content Alliance (OCA) project, which digitizes public-domain works from around the world. These digitized items are then made available on the Internet Archive (IA) ("a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more") where they are beautifully presented, free, and openly accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This occasional series will highlight some of the 1,829 (and growing) valuable, unique, and highly requested research materials owned by Brandeis and scanned through the OCA project. The Scourge : or, Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly. London: Printed by W.N. Jones for M. Jones, 1811. William N. Jones’s iconoclastic journal The Scourge: Monthly Expositor of Literary, Dramatic, Medical, Political, Mercantile and Religious Imposture and Folly (1811-1816) presents a cornucopia of biting satire aimed at every area of British society. What it is perhaps best known for is its presentation of George Cruikshank’s early work. Cruikshank’s hand-colored engravings were folded into the front of each issue (with extras being sold as separate prints). A famed British caricaturist and book illustrator whose many notable works include the illustrations for Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, The Mudfog Papers, and Oliver Twist, Cruikshank began his long and prolific career as a teenager drawing for The Scourge. The caricatures he created therein were highly radical, political, and informed, and as such move beyond mere decoration to intellectual and historical significance. Click here to view The Scourge on the Internet Archive. The Complete Cynic: Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Olive Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner. San Francisco, Calif. : P. Elder & Co., 1910. The Dial: A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion and Information, Chicago, December 16, 1910 calls it “a mirth-provoking collection of distorted proverbs with appropriate illustrations and decorations.” When an author and a famous resort architect meet in Waikiki, there is no telling what may happen. From The Many Mizners (Addison Mizner, Sears Publishing, 1932): “One day I twisted an old adage to fit the time, and Ethel came back with a quotation from Oliver Herford. We began twisting all the old saws and bringing them up-to-date. We got 365 together and sent them to Elder & Shepard in San Francisco to be printed for our Christmas presents. Elder wrote back and asked us if he could publish it for sale, with a few cuts.” The result was the clever and cheeky The Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903, thrown together on a whim by Ethel Watts Mumford (the author) and Addison Mizner (the architect) with some added (and unintentional) help from writer, artist, and illustrator Oliver Herford. It became a smash hit and was reincarnated several times over. The Complete Cynic is a fully developed book based on the wit of the original calendar. Click here to view The Complete Cynic on the Internet Archive. Posted by Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections at 9:16 AM No comments: Brandeis University recently acquired a significant quantity of material originally belonging to the dime novel author Ernest Avon Young. This unique assemblage of manuscripts, typescripts, and business and personal correspondence was generously donated by Victor Berch (Brandeis University’s first Special Collections librarian) and Elliott P. King. Spanning roughly two linear feet and containing materials dating from 1871 to 1936, this collection came about through Berch and King’s lengthy search for the avid writer’s personal history. The story of this exciting scavenger hunt can be read about in the June 1988 volume of The Dime Novel Roundup, (Vol 57, No. 3 / Whole No. 591). Through the hard work of these two researchers, this wonderful collection of Young’s writings, both personal and professional, was compiled and identified. A passionate writer of dime novel fiction during the late 19th century through the early 20th century, Ernest Young provided many publishers with a consistent stream of stories to be enjoyed by readers. Street & Smith and Frank Tousey--two of the largest publishing houses at the time--sought out Young’s pieces for their innate complexities and relatable plots. Dime novels initially focused on mostly western and frontier tales, but later expanded to include detective, school, sports, science fiction, and comic stories. Ernest Young is considered the father of detective dime novel stories published and disseminated in Massachusetts. The correspondence between Young and Street & Smith and Frank Tousey shows the high degree to which these dime novel publishing giants wanted to feature Young’s work within their papers. At one point, when Young took a leave of absence to deal with some family matters, his publishers were quite compassionate and showed great leniency in extending his deadlines. In some cases, though, Young still failed to meet the cutoffs for certain publications. Even so, and despite repeated stern warnings, his publishers never fired him or ceased to treat him as one of their most cherished writers. The Ernest A. Young papers house a variety of manuscripts and typescripts of Young’s works, many of which are complete. However, a good number of pieces are left untitled or incomplete. Despite being unfinished, these pieces are of great use to scholars, representing as they do Young’s writing process. As well, though not a great deal about Ernest Young’s personal life is known, this collection offers insight into his personality. His comical side is plainly evident in the birthday verses he wrote, and his serious side is clear in his correspondence about the deaths of his family members. On a humorous note, like many dime novel authors, Young held a variety of pseudonyms, ranging from Wesley Henshaw to a more feminine Ernestine Youtz. Young impacted the dime novel culture with his fascination for the genre of mystery and opened the door for many more writers to follow in his footsteps. Description by Hansol Lee, undergraduate student in Biochemistry and Archives & Special Collections assistant. Finding Aid for the Ernest A. Young papers Brandeis Special Collections is proud to announce the recent acquisition of two important first editions: Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. In these novels, Ellison and Wright delivered hugely impactful literary comments on African-American experiences in twentieth-century America. Both award-winning novels (Native Son won the 1941 Spingarn Medal and was named “The Most Distinguished American Novel Published Since 1939” by American Writers Congress; Invisible Man won the 1953 National Book Award), Native Son and Invisible Man continue to be taught, read and debated to this day.[1] These acquisitions enhance Brandeis’s already strong twentieth-century American literature collection (which includes archival collections of Joseph Heller and John Cheever as well as many literary first editions) and they particularly enrich the department's collection of African-American literature. Additionally, the Ellison and Wright acquisitions are interesting because of their connection with several other collections held in this department. A portrait of a young Wright can be found in the Carl Van Vechten collection of photographs and Ellison wrote several pieces for The New Masses, an American Marxist magazine, several issues of which can be found in the Radical Pamphlet collection. As well, these particular first editions are notable and rare for being in excellent condition, with their original cloth bindings. They are made even rarer by their original, first issue dust jackets, also in excellent condition. Ellison and Wright had a long friendship and powerful literary relationship, which began with Wright acting as a kind of guide to Ellison. “Beginning in June of 1937, at Ellison’s urging, Richard Wright served as the younger writer’s intellectual and literary mentor for many years. Langston Hughes had introduced Ellison to Wright’s penetrating poetry, including ‘Between the World and Me,’ which had appeared in the then-Communist literary journal Partisan Review. Wright was one of the first politically and philosophically complex black authors Ellison encountered in New York…Wright’s deep-South origins and his commitment to exposing glaring racial and social injustice were attractive to the younger man.”[2] Their relationship was not without its difficulties, however, as the two authors differed on many issues, not the least of which was their understanding of and approach to portraying African-American lives in twentieth-century America. “The tension between the two writers only intensified after 1968, when Wright’s dark vision of unresolved racial antagonism appeared more useful to a vocal and defiant black generation than Ellison’s offerings of high art and intellectual democracy.”[3] The divergent artistic and intellectual approaches to their work, coupled with the influential relationship between the two authors, give these tandem acquisitions additional piquancy. On Native Son, published by Harper Brothers in 1940: “[A] bleak and ungenerous depiction of black life,” Wright’s Native Son “sold an astonishing 215,000 copies within three weeks of publication. Thus, a great many people received a swift and unsparing education in the conditions in which blacks lived in ghettos all over America.” [February 2015 New York Timespiece discussing the lasting impact and significance of Native Son][4] On Invisible Man, published by Random House in 1952: “‘Invisible Man’ is tough, brutal and sensational…it blazes with authentic talent. No one interested in books by or about American Negroes should miss it.” [Original New York Times review of Invisible Man][5] “Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, is a searing exploration of race and identity. [2014 NPR piece marking Ellison's 100th birthday][6] [1] “Spingarn Award to Richard Wright” New York Times, February 1, 1941, page 18; “Native Son Wins Award for Novel” New York Times, June 8, 1941, page 46; “National Book Awards” New York Times, January 31, 1953. [2] Jackson, Lawrence P. “The Birth of the Critic: The Literary Friendship of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright.” American Literature, Volume 72, Number 2, June 2000, pages 321-322. [3] Ibid., pages 349-350. [4] Mathis, Ayana. “James Baldwin Denounced Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’ As a ‘Protest Novel.’ Was He Right?” New York Times, February 24, 2015. [5] Prescott, Orville. “Books of the Times: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.” New York Times, April 16, 1952. [6] Vitale, Tom. “Ralph Ellison: No Longer The 'Invisible Man' 100 Years After His Birth” NPR, May 30, 2014 4:46 PM ET. Description by Surella Evanor Seelig, Archives & Special Collections Outreach Librarian. Amid the campus grounds of Brandeis University, housed in the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, is one of America’s most significant primary documents, a pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine: Common Sense. This pamphlet, donated by Nettie Podell Ottenberg, is an original copy of the 1776 London edition. Thomas Paine awakened the world with his quill and ink; with delicate yet intense force, with the masterful use of language, he gave birth to Common Sense, from which ignited a revolution. Common Sense, published on January 10, 1776, was originally printed in the city of Philadelphia, but was soon reprinted across America and Great Britain, and translated into German and Danish.[1] Thomas Paine’s pamphlet was first published anonymously, due to fears that its contents would be construed as treason; it was simply signed, “by an Englishman”.[2] The version housed at Brandeis University is one of the London printings, which had hiatuses, where words and phrases were omitted that were offensive to the British crown.[3] Common Sense sold about 120,000 copies in the first three months alone, being read in taverns and meeting houses across the thirteen original colonies (the U.S Census Bureau estimates the population in 1776 to be about 2.5 million and today to be about 320 million, that would make it proportionally equivalent to selling 15,000,000 copies today!).[4] The 48-page pamphlet was the fuel that the colonists needed to have courage to rise against the British Empire, an astonishing contemplation for a common, non-militarized people to consider. Writing during a time when Kings and Monarchs ruled, Paine advocated for a government by the people, a highly innovative idea at the time. The colonists, still very much connected to the King and English ways, had not publicly voiced ideas of independence, and perhaps had not even brought the idea into consciousness; nevertheless, thoughts of independence were not far below the surface. Newspaper articles printed in response to Thomas Paine’s Common Senseportray a nation that seemed to have outgrown its parent, ready to step out on its own. The Essex Gazette printed a letter on March 17, 1776, which read, in part: “In your famous pamphlet entitled Common Sense, by which I am convinced of the necessity of Independence, to which I was before averse, you have given liberty to every individual to contribute materials for that great building, the grand charter of American Liberty.”[5] And from The New-London [Connecticut] Gazette, on 22 March 1776, “The doctrine of Independence hath been in times past greatly disgustful; we abhorred the principle. It is now become our delightful theme and commands our purest affections. We revere the author and highly prize and admire his works.”[6] Interestingly, the publishing date of Common Sense in January 1776 was only six months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and was perhaps a driving force behind the signing of that infamous document. Common Sense not only united average citizens and their political leaders behind the idea of independence, it transformed a colonial quarrel into the American Revolution. Common Sense makes for straightforward reading. Paine’s words are strong and honest, he writes with courage, makes no apologies, asks for no forgiveness. The pamphlet is split into four main sections, preceded by an introduction. Paine begins his writing with a challenge, at once giving the people permission to consider what is truly right and what is wrong: “Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.”[7] Later, Paine discusses the absurdity of an island (England) governing an entire continent (America): “Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”[8] Researchers will find Paine’s pamphlet useful as insight into the relationship between the crown and the colonists as it existed at that time, and as a window into the soul of the colonists given how quickly and to the extent that Paine’s ideas were adopted and affected the direction of America. Paine used his writing as his weapon against the crown. With masterful language, Paine united the will of the colonists, planting the seed and giving hope and inspiration to fulfill the dream of America as an independent nation. The pamphlet was originally published without his name and all of the royalties associated with Common Sense were donated to the Continental Army.[9] It would appear that Paine was looking for neither fame nor fortune in writing a pamphlet that profoundly affected the creation of a nation. To Paine, these ideas came naturally, they were simply, Common Sense. 1. Powell, Jim. “Thomas Paine, Passionate Pamphleteer for Liberty,” in The Freeman, January 1, 1996. Foundation for Economic Education. Accessed March 11, 2015. 3. Entry for Call# D793.P147c. Brown University Library Online Catalog. Accessed March 12, 2015. 4. Harvey Kaye. “Common Sense and the American Revolution.” The Thomas Paine National Historical Association. Accessed February 10, 2015. 5. “Praise for Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, 1776 as Reported in American Newspapers,” in America in Class: Making the Revolution: America, 1763-1791: Primary Source Collection. The National Humanities Center. Accessed March 13, 2015. 7. Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. London: J. Almon, 1776. 9. Kaye, Accessed February 10, 2015. Description by Kenneth Hong, Brandeis undergraduate and special contributor to the Special Collections Spotlight. This essay, by Brandeis undergraduate Kenneth Hong, resulted from a Spring 2015 course for the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program, taught by Dr. Craig Bruce Smith, entitled, “Preserving Boston’s Past: Public History and Digital Humanities.” In this course, students worked with archival materials, developed website content, and produced their own commemoration event, “The 250th Anniversary of the Stamp Act: A Revolutionary Exhibit and Performance,” marking one of the first steps of the American Revolution. The Transitional Year Program was established in 1968 and was renamed in 2013 for Myra Kraft ‘64, the late Brandeis alumna and trustee. It provides small classes and strong support systems for students who have had limitations to their precollege academic opportunities. How does one define a book? Most commonly, a book (or “codex”) is defined as a written or printed work that consists of pages sewn or glued together along one side that has some kind of cover, or a set of blank pages meant for writing or keeping records that is bound together. However, books did not start out looking like the typical modern books that might spring to mind. “In ancient Mesopotamia (current-day Iraq), baked clay tablets incised with tiny cuneiform script, which was based on picture-symbols, were used in the writing of several languages, most notably Sumerian, Babylonian, and Akkadian.”[1] Cuneiform, an ancient form of writing that uses pictographs and phonograms, dates back to 3500 BCE. Following the clay tablets, the Egyptians wrote on rolls of papyrus, which was made from a native plant. Years later, the prevalent medium became parchment (sheets made from tanned animal skin) and vellum (made specifically from calf skin). Paper did not become popularly used in England and Europe until the 14th or 15th century, even though it had been invented more than 1000 years prior by the Chinese.[2] Although we do not have any cuneiform tablets at Brandeis, we do have paper, papyrus, and parchment! In fact, Brandeis is home to a wide array of books, ranging from every subject, in all different sizes. Right here in the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, we have books that take up an entire reading room table, and books so small they look like they were made for a dollhouse. A miniature book is generally defined as being no larger than four inches in height, width, or thickness; although, in the United States, only books under three inches are classified as a miniature.[3] Within the umbrella of “miniature,” there are four size categories: Ultra Micro Mini (a book measuring smaller than ¼ inches), Micro Mini (a book measuring in between ¼ and 1 inch), Mini (a book measuring in between 1 and 3 inches), and a Macro Mini (a book measuring between 3 and 4 inches).[4] Micro Minis are also known as “dollhouse scale.” Brandeis’s collection of more than 200 miniature books includes everything from a 16th century copy of Homer’s Odyssey bound in vellum to a modern Dos-á-Dos (two books that were bound together in such a way that they share a common cover). The collection provides a little something for everyone, with books written in Greek, English, Latin, German, French, and Yiddish, covering a wide range subjects, such as religion, philosophy, and biography. One of our oldest miniature books, Expositio beati Gregorii pape super Canticacanticorum,was printed in 1511, just ten years after the period of incunabula ended. Latin for “in the cradle,” incunabula refers to a book that was printed before 1501, during the earliest stages of printing. Brandeis is not alone when it comes to having a passion for collecting miniature books. In fact, there are also many individual collectors--including some you may have heard of! Stanley Marcus, the founder of Neiman-Marcus, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, husband of Eleanor Roosevelt and our 32nd President, were both active miniature book collectors. Apparently, FDR collected more than 750 miniature books and kept them in handmade mahogany bookshelves.[5] Another name that might sound familiar is Arthur A. Houghton Jr., whose endowment to Harvard led to the dedication and opening of their Houghton Library in 1942, the first ever rare books and manuscripts repository to be opened by an American college or university.[6] Perhaps one of the most famous collectors, though, was Queen Mary of the United Kingdom (1867–1953), who had a dollhouse commissioned for her in the early 1920s. Built by famous architect Sir Edward Lutyens (1869-1944), the dollhouse boasts an incredible library filled with miniature books written by some of the most famous writers of the time, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, and Edith Wharton. The dollhouse is open to the public daily. If you wish to see a dollhouse library on this side of the pond, head over to Chicago to see American silent movie star Colleen Moore’s “fairy castle.”[7] Her miniature library holds over 100 books, and there is a bible in the castle’s chapel that was printed in 1840 from real type--it's one of the smallest in the world. One of the highlights in our collection is the Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah (The Five Books of Moses) printed in the 1540s and bound in leather. Miniature books have a long history in Judaica; Marc M. Epstein of Sotheby's auction house noted that “miniature Hebrew books owe their origins not to any mere conceit on the part of printers, but to the real need to conceal books during persecutions throughout history.”[8] Besides a variety of religious texts, we also have plays by Shakespeare, poetry by Emerson and Longfellow, and novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Dante. But, if you prefer something on a more whimsical note, come see our copy of Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children (circa 1880) or her Language of Flowers (1884). The former is a perpetual calendar, which has space to record birthdays (or other anniversaries) juxtaposed next to passages of short verse accompanied by images of children. The Language of Flowers acts as a kind of directory of flowers, wherein a flower is symbolically paired with a particular sentiment. For example, a Daisy symbolizes innocence, while the French Marigold symbolizes jealousy. The book also contains dozens of poems about flowers by poets such as Burns and Herrick. British illustrator Kate Greenaway’s (1846-1901) illustrations were so beloved and popular that the annual Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955; this medal is awarded to “an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.”[9] Whether a miniature book can help with your latest research project, or you are just looking for a good read in miniature form, we welcome you to come down to the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections and explore! Click here for a complete list of our miniature books. And, when you visit, make sure to ask about our latest acquisition: our very first micro mini! Handmade (and hand-delivered!) by Dutch miniature book binder Tine Krijnen, the book was commissioned by a gentleman from Qatar—one copy for the library in one of his doll houses, and the other for our library! The original book, The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and Other Parts of Divine Service for the Use of the Church of Scotland, has been scanned, and is available online. [1] Cuneiform Tablet. (n.d.). In Bromer’s Booksellers: Rare and Beautiful Books. [2] A History of the Book. (n.d.). [3] Home. (n.d.). In The Miniature Book Society Homepage. [4] Levitan, K. L. (1985). In Search of Miniature Books. Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: Kacee Press, p. ii. [5] Bromer, A.C., & Edison, J. I. (2007). Miniature Books: 4,000 years of Tiny Treasures. New York: Abrams, in association with The Grolier Club, p. 156. [6] History. (n.d.). In Houghton Library. [7] Colleen Moore’s Fairy Tale Castle. (n.d.). In Museum of Science and Industry Chicago. [8] as cited in Bromer, A.C., & Edison, J. I. (2007). Miniature Books: 4,000 years of Tiny Treasures. New York: Abrams, in association with The Grolier Club, p. 84. [9] The Kate Greenaway Medal. (n.d.). Bondy, L.W. (1981). Miniature Books: Their History from the Beginnings to the Present Day. London: Sheppard Press. O’Donnell, G. (1943). Miniaturia: the World of Tiny Things. Chicago: Lightner Publishing Company. Welsh, D.V. (1987). History of Miniature Books. New York: Fort Orange Press, Inc. Description by Chloe Morse-Harding, MAT, MS, Reference Assistant for University Archives & Special Collections. “I must tell you that the liberty and freedom [of the people] consists in having of Government, those laws by which their life and their goods may be most their own…If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the Power of the Sword, I needed not to have come here, and therefore I tell you…that I am the martyr of the people.” -King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland A final speech (from which the above lines are excerpted), delivered from the scaffold, was all that King Charles I left his subjects when he was executed on January 30, 1649. Charles I’s reign marked a difficult time for the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, characterized as it was by a royal court prone to deceit and legal circumvention, and culminating with the devastation of the English Civil War. Despite his last words praising the law, during his tenure, Charles belittled, bypassed, and even dissolved his Parliament. The Louis Nye collection at Brandeis University, comprising over 120 17th-century books and pamphlets, offers a variety of views and perspectives on the events that unraveled over the course of King Charles I’s rule. In addition to providing detailed insight into this period, the Nye collection includes varied works exploring the reigns of prior monarchs (including a history of Queen Elizabeth I), and the world beyond England (including documentation of exhibitions beyond Western and Central Europe). Highlights from the collection—which was generously donated by Louis Nye—are described below. Several pieces in the Nye collection provide an in-depth explanation of what led to King Charles I’s execution. Manipulation was Charles’s weapon of choice in his campaign to gain power. Cyprianus Anglicus details the life of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, and tells of Laud’s work with King Charles to change the oath of the king, rendering the monarchy more beneficial to the king and less to the common people. A complement to Cyprianus Anglicusis a pamphlet entitled The Unlimited Prerogative of Kings Subverted. This pamphlet expresses the belief that “Court Parasites” and “ambitious flatterers” should not have the authority to pressure the king or impact his decisions. It also describes Charles’s philosophy of the divine right of kings, in which kings can make decisions without the people’s input. However, the pamphlet clarifies that a king and his subjects create an agreement in which subjects will follow their king unquestioningly, and the king will do right by his subjects. Unfortunately, by not advocating for his people and refusing to work with Parliament, Charles did not uphold this oath – a fact of which he was keenly aware. England’s Black Tribunal describes how, prior to his death, Charles wrote to his son—later King Charles II—describing his failure to uphold his promise to his subjects. In this letter, Charles explained that he had not been the best of kings; though he does not actually account for his wrongdoings, Charles does confess to working against his subjects’ best interests and enlightens his son on how to be a better ruler than he ever was. In addition to many accounts of King Charles I, his accomplices and enemies, the Nye collection includes a detailed history of the childhood and reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Annales: The True and Royall History of the Famous Empresse Elizabeth, was written by William Camden and published just twenty-two years after Elizabeth’s death. This book summarizes Elizabeth I’s genealogy, the six wives of King Henry VIII, and the difficulties that each created. In order to wed Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII claimed “that [his] marriage [to] Katherine [of Aragon], who before had been wife to his brother…was forbidden by the Divine Law” (C3). The history continues with Elizabeth’s birth and Anne Boleyn’s beheading. After Queen Mary’s death, Elizabeth ascended the throne and was offered to her sister’s widower, with the “promise to obtaine a special dispensation from the Pope” (B2). However, Elizabeth believed that King Philip II of Spain only wanted control of England. Among Elizabeth’s many marriage proposals and their subsequent rejections outlined in Annales, there is a curious absence of any mention of Robert Dudley, Elizabeth’s good friend and the rumored favorite for her hand. But perhaps the most glorious part of this work is the frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth in which she is portrayed surrounded by clouds and the words, “Per Tal Variar Son Qui.” The exact origin and meaning of this phrase is unclear but it appears to refer to those change the world, an appropriate motto for Queen Elizabeth’s life and works. For Elizabeth was not a typical queen, but one who led her people with pride and honor, changing the English throne, and the world, forever. The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia (translated from the original Dutch by John Davies) describes those people and cultures that the titular ambassadors encountered abroad. The most fascinating parts of this anthropological narrative are the meticulously drawn maps. Each diagram is extremely fragile, but impressively depicts the places that were traversed. A new map of Muscovy is included in the illustrations, not only portraying the entire Duchy, but also present-day Finland, Ukraine, Iran, and Turkey. This map clearly illustrates different regions, cities, and bodies of water, producing a remarkable map of Central Eurasia, centered on present-day Moscow. Following the progression of the ambassadors’ journey, one of the next diagrams illustrates the Vulga River, which took these travelers from Moscow to the Caspian Sea. Ultimately, the Caspian Sea brought these voyagers to the Persian Empire. The map of Persia in The Voyages and Travells portrays the empire’s extent under the Safavid Dynasty and most of the present-day Middle East. It is extraordinary to look at these impressive 17th-century diagrams alongside modern maps and witness the travels of these ambassadors and the remarkable precision of the mapmakers. The Louis Nye collection at Brandeis University offers a unique perspective of 17th century England. Most of the works center on King Charles I, Parliament, and the English Civil War. These texts illuminate the events and issues of King Charles I’s time, showing him not only as the manipulative ruler he is known to be but also as a man who recognized his own failings as a leader. Ultimately, the Nye collection allows its readers to understand the past from the varied perspectives that it offers. Description by Lee Wilson, undergraduate student in International & Global Studies and Archives & Special Collections volunteer. Find out more about the Louis Nye collection on the Brandeis Library Catalog. A large part of the Louis Nye collection is digitized and freely available on the Internet Archive. From 1936-1939, Spain was wracked by a brutal civil war, sparked by a coup against its elected Second Republic. In the course of the conflict the rebelling Nationalist forces of General Francisco Franco ultimately overpowered their deeply divided Republican opponents. The conservative Nationalists profited from the military aid of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, while the Soviet Union gave a lesser degree of support to the leftist, more regional Republicans. The plight of the Republicans became a cause célèbre for the European and North American Left and for minority groups within those same societies fighting for equality. The conflict was highly mediatized and both camps and their supporters made extensive use of propaganda, resulting in the creation of huge amounts of literature and periodicals. The Nationalist victory, however, did not signal the end of publications memorializing, regretting, or continuing the war. A notable part of this particular print legacy—some 394 titles produced both during and after the Spanish Civil War—is held by Brandeis University’s Special Collections. A large number of periodicals created during the Spanish Civil War were created by the fighting forces, many by particular units within those forces. These publications were intended to promote the image of those fighters and to help maintain unit morale and cohesion. The January 23, 1938 edition of Nuevo Ejercito (New Army), the newspaper of the 47th Division of the Republican army, contained a summary of the division’s recent combat activity; a Catalan-language page; and unit news, all interspersed with photographs of the division’s soldiers in winter action. A similar approach is found in La Voz de la Sanidad, the newspaper of the international medical brigade attached to the 15th Division. Befitting the brigade’s multinational status, the paper was written in four languages: Spanish, French, English, and German. La Voz de la Sanidad’s content consisted of a mixture of the same items reproduced—side-by-side or on succeeding pages—in each of the four languages, alongside items, both informative and comic, unique to each language. A third example of such a text is Die erste Schlacht (The First Battle), a 1938 account of the early days of the Edgar André Battalion – the first battalion of the International Brigades, named after a German Communist executed by the Nazi regime – by the German Communist writer, and International Brigades officer, Bodo Uhse. Uhse’s short book, written in German and published in the French city of Strasbourg, strove to commemorate those who had fallen in fighting on the side of the Republicans and encourage those Germans who, in opposition to fascism, might find cause with them. A second type of periodical served to call for material support for the Republican side. In New York City, African-Americans combined this support with efforts to combat racism at home. The Negro Committee to Aid Spain, sponsored by such notables as Mary McLeod Bethune, Langston Hughes, A. Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright, published a pamphlet entitled A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain, which recounted the story of Salaria Kee, an African-American nurse from Harlem who joined the volunteer American Medical Unit in 1937. Kee’s story was juxtaposed with a more general account of those of African-American men who had volunteered for the International Brigades, as racism at home “appeared to them as part of the picture of fascism,” which could be most directly confronted in Spain. The pamphlet chronicled Kee’s early life, decision to go to Spain, and her service there, both in hospitals and directly behind the lines – until a shell wound made her unfit for further service. Kee returned to America, and joined the fundraising campaign for which the pamphlet was produced. The text concluded with a quotation from Kee: “Negro men have given up their lives there...as courageously as any heroes of any age. Surely Negro people will just as willingly give of their means to relieve the suffering of a people attacked by the enemy of all racial minorities–fascism–and its most aggressive exponents–Italy and Germany.” An additional example of this type of publication is the German-language pamphlet, Guernica...Ein Fanal des Faschismus (A Beacon of Fascism), produced after the bombing of that city. The text excoriated the fascist “beast” for the destruction wrought upon the Basque people, and called for direct material aid to the Basques so that they might succeed in the defense of their “freedom” in the face of fascist aggression. One further form of publication, that of outright propaganda designed to influence hearts and minds, forms an extensive part of the collection. A 1937 edition of the British magazine Spain Illustrated featured photographs (including those of corpses) and articles portraying “a year’s fight for democracy,” and condemning the Nationalists and their fascist backers for the tremendous suffering inflicted upon the Spanish people. The non-interventionist policy of the Western democracies was vilified as an utter failure, with Parliament coming in for particular criticism for its “pro-fascist” stance. Most dramatically, the magazine contended that the defeat of the Republicans would be but the prelude “for attacking England and France...all hope of peace in Europe would be at an end.” The April 26, 1939 edition of the German magazine Die Woche (The Week), on the other hand, had two celebrations to highlight: Hitler’s fiftieth birthday, and Franco’s triumph in the war, significant enough for the saluting Spanish commander’s photograph to dominate the cover, with the headline “Spaniens Freiheitskampf” (“Spain’s fight for freedom”). Inside, Franco was depicted as a “fighter for honor and freedom,” while Germany and Italy were said to “offer the hand of friendship” to the Spanish nation. International assistance to Spain was labeled as “Bolshevik,” and, under a photograph of British International Brigade volunteers, the magazine wondered why the British were engaged alongside “the Reds.” Finally, the example of quasi-neutral international media opens an interesting window on to how the conflict was perceived outside of Spain, outside of an obvious ideological lens. In August 1936, the famed French illustrated magazine, L’Illustration, published a special edition dedicated to the civil war. L’Illustration’s version of the war was one of utter tragedy, in which “fratricidal” conflict split the nation apart; its editors “could only see in the two Spains in conflict a single country which we love and which suffers.” Consequently, the magazine presented images of the conflict’s devastation, whether the rather graphic images of corpses left in public places, those of defiled churches, or of cities after bombardments and shelling. These particularly dramatic choices appear to serve an almost fatalistic reading of the conflict, in which no action can be taken but to observe this tremendous amount of suffering. L’Illustration and the other publications cited are but a small part of the Spanish Civil War periodicals collection, which serves to present the passions and problematics of this conflict, in both its trauma and its international resonance. Description by Sean Beebe, doctoral student in History and Archives & Special Collections assistant. Brandeis University's Archives & Special Collections holds a significant amount of material relating to the Spanish Civil War, including over 4,700 books, close to 400 periodicals and roughly 250 posters. In addition, the Charles Korvin photograph collection comprises 244 black and white images taken during the War. Follow the links below for further information about these holdings: Spanish Civil War periodical collection, 1923-2009 (finding aid) Charles Korvin photographs, circa 1937-1938 (finding aid) Spanish Civil War posters, 1936-1938 on Brandeis University’s Institutional Repository Spotlight on the Spanish Civil War posters Spotlight on the SCW poster ¡Jovenes! (circa 1937) Brandeis Special Collections on the Internet Archi... Spanish Civil War periodical collection, 1923-2009...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line36
__label__cc	0.717469	0.282531	The Politics of Reason & Goodwill, simplified January 4, 2011 \| Author Steve Harvey In my zeal to penetrate the mysteries of our lives, I often forget the value of simplicity. So here is a step-by-step explanation of A Proposal: The Politics of Reason and Goodwill, in very simple and straightforward terms (if you find the idea interesting, it’s worth it to read the long version): 1) I’d argue that the main obstacle to the implementation of policies based on reason in service to goodwill in the U.S. is insufficient popular support. There are several reasons for this deficiency in popular support, including the prevalence of blind ideologies superceding any commitment to a process or methodology (similar to scientific methodology or legal procedure) which narrows debate down to the range defined by reason and goodwill. Therefore, one major challenge for those who want to increase the influence of reason motivated by goodwill in public discourse and political decision making is to promote a commitment to procedures or methodologies which systematically favor reason over irrationality, and clearly identify what values, goals, and interests are being served. Certainly, increasing the breadth and depth of commitment to such methodologies increases popular support for the policies they generate and inform, and thus increases the extent to which we successfully implement them. So the question is: How do we increase the commitment to procedures and methodologies which favor reason and goodwill, and by doing so increase the popular support of well-reasoned and socially responsible policies in general? 2) When those of us committed to the promotion of reason and goodwill as the guiding principles in political decision-making limit ourselves to fighting it out on an issue-by-issue and candidate-by-candidate basis, we appear, in the eyes of most marginally engaged moderate Americans, to belong to the blindly ideological camp which supports the same issues or candidates, and to be just equal and opposite counterparts of those blind ideologues in the opposite camp. We need to establish a movement that does not assume a presupposed ideological bias (other than reason and goodwill), or primarily argue substantive policy, but rather one which advocates only the application of reason to evidence in service to goodwill. This is not something that anyone who aspires to be (or be seen as) a reasonable person of goodwill can simply reject out of hand. 3) A movement that can remove itself from the frame of “political ideology,” and into the frame of “alternative to political ideologies” gains an advantage. One movement has recently gained some of that advantage by framing itself as an alternative to existing political parties (the Tea Party Movement), but has done so not by framing itself in terms of a commitment to reason in service to goodwill, but rather in terms of a commitment to a zealously held political ideology (small government, individual liberty, etc.). That ideology is not a commitment to a process, to reason and goodwill, but rather to a fixed belief that, much like a broken clock that always points to the same hour, is occasionally right and frequently wrong. In other words, it is a fixed ideology that sometimes is most reasonable and best serves mutual goodwill, but frequently is not and does not. It is, in a sense, the opposite of what I am advocating. 4) I think that as many or more marginally engaged moderate Americans would be attracted to the more profound alternative that rallies around “reason and goodwill” or “kindness and reasonableness” as have been attracted to the Tea Party. I think lots of mostly silent Americans are sick of politics and hungry for “kindness” and “reasonableness.” They just don’t know where to find it. And they don’t trust existing political movements, because existing movements are still dominated by ideologues and focused on insufficiently examined or questioned substantive positions. 5) This movement has to distinguish itself from what’s already in place, so it can’t use the labels of existing political ideologies or movements. It must establish a new political vocabulary, talking about being reasonable people of goodwill, removed from those “other” ideologies shouting back and forth at each other. 6) One of the major obstacles to the establishment of reason in service to goodwill as a political movement is that it is very taxing on individuals to have to make sense of the complex and massive information relevant to public policy decision making. Thus a core challenge of the movement I am advocating is to provide a credible, comprehensive, user-friendly portal through which to access and evaluate relevant information and competing arguments. This would be an enormous on-going project, focused on maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio without promoting one conclusion or another. The goal would be to create a systematic, triangulated evaluation of all arguments, including competing evaluations of what interests are served or undermined by each policy idea. This is the first component of my proposed project (see A Proposal: The Politics of Reason and Goodwill for more details). 7) This first component not only creates a single reliable source for relevant public policy information and analysis, it also legitimates the claim to the mantle of “reasonableness.” It is the first component of a movement dedicated to the compilation and diffusion of comprehensive systematic analysis, to cutting through the cacophony of arbitrary opinions and political marketing campaigns. It’s the effort to lay everything we know and think on the table, all the work that’s been done by people trying to organize and evaluate relevant information, from all across the ideological spectrum, to sort out the information from the disinformation. 8) In order to claim the mantle of “goodwill,” this movement must be divorced from politics as we currently conceptualize it, focused entirely on cultivating cooperation. It’s purpose is to improve the quality of our lives, to recognize and facilitate our interdependence as members of a society, and to help one another to live the healthiest, freest, most secure, most satisfying, most enjoyable lives we can. This movement is addressed to those who are tired of ”politics,” but who want to make our communities stronger, and work toward shouting at one another less and listening to one another more, working together as reasonable people of goodwill in a shared society. That’s the third component of my proposal: Organizing in our communities to improve the quality of our lives locally in our neighborhoods and communities, and to create a foundation and context for civil discourse about city-and-countywide, statewide, national, and global issues (again, see A Proposal: The Politics of Reason and Goodwill for more details). 9) The challenge of building a bridge from this locally generated “goodwill” to support of well-reasoned public policies that are motivated by such goodwill involves redefining government as much as possible, in as many minds as possible, from some external thing imposed on us (what it was, to an already diminishing extent, prior to the American Revolution 230 years ago), to an imperfect and problematic agent of our collective will (the meaning of the popular sovereignty that we established as a result of that war). We do that by connecting the community-building work to the public policies we support that are mere logical extensions of it, using all media of communication to reinforce this idea, the notion of belonging to a society, of being interdependent, of existing in a systemic social reality in which public policies affect the amount and distribution of opportunities, the robustness and justness and sustainability of the framework of our coexistence. That’s the second component of my proposal (again, see A Proposal: The Politics of Reason and Goodwill for more details). I call it “meta-messaging,” reinforcing the single, underlying message of being reasonable people of goodwill, at all levels of social organization. One way to think of this second component is as an institutionalization of Marley’s Ghost and the Three Spirits from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Just as these uninvited counselors tapped into Ebenezer Scrooge’s own frames and narratives, and found within his formative past, his incomplete present, and his foreboding future the key to his own redemption, we must seek to activate the compassion and humanity that lies dormant or obstructed in many of those who blindly oppose compassionate and humane public policies. If our efforts succeed in moving one thousandth of our modern day Scrooges one thousandth of the distance toward reason and goodwill that their fictional archetype traveled, it would be a significant contribution to our ability to improve our social institutional landscape. 10) It’s important that the policies implicitly advocated by this movement be well-reasoned public policies motivated by goodwill, drawing on the first component, to legitimately avoid the argument that certain policies may be motivated by goodwill, but have effects that, on balance, detract from rather than contribute to others’ welfare. The response is that adherence to the politics of reason and goodwill eschews reliance on blind assumptions, but rather is committed to ensuring that our choices of action are the best informed ones possible, taking all knowledge and arguments into account. 11) I say “the policies implicitly advocated by this movement” because it is about changing attitudes and moving the zeitgeist, not about direct political advocacy. The Politics of Reason and Goodwill is about advocacy of Reason and Goodwill, and letting the politics follow from that. Members or fellow-travelers will of course be involved in other activities, advocating for the policies and candidates to which reason and goodwill have led them in good faith, sometimes in disagreement with one another. That’s fine; this movement isn’t to control choices, but to nourish the mind and the heart in the belief that minds and hearts so nourished will, on average, make more reasonable choices, better guided by mutual goodwill. It’s a fairly simple idea that becomes complicated only when it is fully fleshed out. It’s very ambitious, focused on the long-run rather than the short-run, and on marginally, gradually shifting the underlying foundation of political discourse rather than winning a little ground momentarily in an endless tug-o-war. It is a project aspiring to the overarching framework I’ve described, but comprised of numerous more modest goals, such as creating networks of community organizations dedicated to doing good works locally (such as tutoring and mentoring kids) and fostering robust, thoughtful, civil discourse (see Community Action Groups (CAGs) & Network (CAN)). This proposal is essentially the answer to the question “if we were a rational society, striving to govern ourselves as intelligently and compassionately and pragmatically as possible, how would we go about it?” It is not a panacea. It will not any time in the foreseeable future change human nature, or erase human bigotries, or eliminate blind ideological rancor. It would represent one, small, marginal effort to do better, and, if phenomenally successful, would move the center of gravity of public discourse in this nation a tiny bit in the direction of reason and goodwill, over a very long time. But even such tiny changes can have enormous effects. Please join me in trying to implement this idea, to find an organizational home for it, or independent financial backing. Again, any help in moving this project forward would be greatly appreciated! Posted in Political Forum \| Tags: community, community activism, goodwill, grassroots activism, progressive movement, public policy, reason, social change, social movement, social organization \| 2 Comments »	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line47
__label__cc	0.566568	0.433432	Construction Dig Latest news on the U.S. construction industry Commercial, Residential April 30, 2019 Construction leaders press for urgent action following $2 trillion infrastructure upgrade agreement ConDig (30-Apr-19). Leaders of the US construction industry are calling on Congress to act swiftly following an agreement between President Trump and top democrats to pass a $2 trillion infrastructure upgrade plan. “The fact President… Residential April 24, 2019 New home sales rise 4.5% in March on lower interest rates ConDig (24-Apr-19). Sales of new single-family homes jumped up 4.5% in March to a 16-month high as lower interest rates and wage growth underpinned stronger demand. New home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual… Commercial April 23, 2019 Primoris plugs into natural gas pipeline contracts worth $25M ConDig (23-Apr-19). Dallas, Texas-based construction and infrastructure company Primoris Services Corp has secured three contracts worth a total of $25 million for upgrades to natural gas pipelines in California. Under the first deal with an… Primoris secures $19M deal for second phase of industrial gas plant ConDig (18-Apr-19). Dallas, Texas-based construction and infrastructure company Primoris Services Corp has bagged an $19 million deal for the second phase construction of an industrial gas plant in Texas. Under the deal with the unnamed… Skanska bags two contracts worth $157M ConDig (11-Apr-19). Swedish developer and contractor Skanska has secured a $88 million contract to revamp an industrial manufacturing facility in the Midwest. Under the deal with the unnamed client, the company will self-perform all mechanical,… OSHA fines Ohio contractor following worker fall on Florida project ConDig (11-Apr-19). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a Berlin Heights, Ohio-based construction company $56,828 after an employee fell 26-foot on a construction worksite in Gainesville, Florida. The agency cited Hiebert Bros… Commercial April 4, 2019 Jacobs lands $40M deal to revamp HQ at Wright-Patterson Air Force base ConDig (04-Apr-19). Global engineering group Jacobs Engineering Group Inc has taken off with a $40 million deal to renovate the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) headquarters buildings at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Under… Lane Construction turns the taps on $524M reservoir deal ConDig (04-Apr-19). Lane Construction Corp and its parent company Salini Impregilo have secured a $524 million deal to build a reservoir in south Florida. Under the deal, Cheshire, Connecticut-based Lane Construction said the joint venture… Commercial, Residential April 2, 2019 Construction spending edges 1% higher in February ConDig (02-Apr-18). Construction spending rose 1% in February from the month prior to $1.32 trillion on a surge in public construction expenditure, according to latest figures from the Commerce Department. Public construction spending jumped 3.6%… Skanska to rebuild Jabil HQ in St. Petersburg for $57 million ConDig (01-Apr-19). Swedish developer and contractor Skanska has inked a $57 million deal to rebuild the headquarters of global manufacturer Jabil Inc in St. Petersburg, Florida. Under the deal with BA Leasing BSC, the company… Residential (159) Follow @TheDigger7	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line49
__label__wiki	0.563711	0.563711	Pontiac Grand Safari (LHD) "Call me about this fantastic car" Steering: LHD 1973 Pontiac Grand Safari (LHD) The Pontiac Grand Safari was Pontiac’s top-of-the-line full-size station wagon offered from 1971 to 1978. The Grand Safari used the grille and interior trim of the Bonneville and Grand Ville passenger car series, and most (but not all) examples were trimmed with woodgrain paneling on the sides and tailgate. 1971 to 1976 models were the largest Pontiacs ever built. The 1971-76 GM full-size bodies, at 64.3-inch (1,630 mm) front shoulder room and 63.4-inch (1,610 mm) rear shoulder room set a record for interior width that would not be matched by any car until the full-size GM rear-wheel drive models of the early to mid-1990s. The Grand Safari wagons, as did other GM full-sized wagons during these years, used a unique rear suspension with multi-leaf springs instead of the coil springs used on other full-sized Pontiacs, and other full-sized GM cars. Grand Safari wagons also featured a new ‘Clamshell’ tailgate design, marketed as the Glide-away Tailgate, where the rear power-operated glass slid up into the roof as the tailgate (manually or with power assist), slid into a recess under the cargo floor. The power tailgate, the first in station wagon history, ultimately supplanted the manual tailgate, which required marked effort to lift from storage. The power system was operated by switches on the instrument panel or a key switch on the rear quarter panel. The Clamshell system, heavy and complex, made it easier to load and unload the extremely long wagons in tight spaces. But it remained unique to GM, and would be subsequently eliminated when GM reduced the length of their wagons by about a foot in 1977, and the overriding concern became increased fuel economy. From 1971-76, Grand Safaris shared their 127.0 in (3,226 mm) wheelbase with the Buick and Oldsmobile C-Money cars but were designated as B-bodies. At 231.3 in (5,875 mm) in length the 1974-76 Grand Safaris are the longest Pontiacs ever built. And at 5,112 lb (2,319 kg) shipping weight, or about 5,300 lb (2,400 kg) curb weight, the three-seat 1974 Grand Safari wagons are easily the heaviest Pontiacs ever built. These wagons ran with V8 engines of either 400 or 455 cubic inches and ours has the more desirable 455 big block. Our stunning and iconic Grand Safari is finished in a beautiful Wine Red Red metallic with wood panel effect side panels and a complementary red interior with three rows of seats and a list of Optional extras including the following:- 4 BBL 455 V8 Engine 6 way power adjustment seats Custom 60/40 front seats Window sill mouldings Cordova top Custom air conditioning Body colour mirrors Rally II wheels AM & FM radio Rear speakers Wood grain option Protective bumper strips Now available for viewing at the DD Classics Dealership in London, please call 0208 878 3355 for more information. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the above information but errors may occur. Please check with a salesperson Pontiac GTO (LHD) Teal Turquoise metallic	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line51
__label__wiki	0.659854	0.659854	St Bartholomew's Church (Demolished) Longborough, St James's Church Longborough, Independent Chapel Bourton on the Hill, St Lawrence's Church Bourton on the Hill, Independent Meeting Room (Demolished) Batsford, St Mary's Church (2m.) Moreton in Marsh, Fosseway Gospel Hall (Demolished) Condicote, Baptist Chapel Condicote, St Nicholas's Church Moreton in Marsh, St David's Church Moreton in Marsh, Moreton in Marsh Congregational Church Donnington, Stow on the Wold, Baptist Chapel Blockley, Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Place of Worship has been Demolished. Image by courtesy of openclipart.org St Bartholomew's Church (Demolished), Sezincote St Bartholomew's Church (Demolished), Sezincote, Gloucestershire. We don't know whether this Church had a graveyard. We don't know when this Place of Worship was founded, but we understand it was closed about 1712. Kelly's Directory of 1923 describes Sezincote as a parish 2½ miles south-west from Moreton-in-Marsh station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western railway and 27 north-east from Gloucester. "The ancient church was demolished about 1712, and has not been rebuilt". The parish register is included with that of Longborough. The living was then a rectory, attached to the vicarage of Longborough, and had been held since 1921 by the Rev. Frank Kennen, of Hatfield College, Durham, who resided at Longborough. Sezincote House - "a mansion of stone, pleasantly seated in well-wooded grounds, containing a fine sheet of water" - was the seat of Col. Arthur Dugdale C.M.G. D.S.O. J.P. The east front of the house was said to be approached through beautiful pleasure grounds. In 1831, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England records that "Season Cote" contained 86 inhabitants. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) for "Season Cote" provides the information that there were just a few farmhouses in the parish, and that the Church "long since been demolished" was dedicated to St Bartholomew. Its site may be located on Old Maps of (for instance) 1902. The land now, as then, probably belongs to Sezincote House. Now or formerly Church of England. This Church was located at OS grid reference SP1725031018. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: St Bartholomew's Church (Demolished), Sezincote shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Sezincote shown on a Google Map. Information last updated on 19 Oct 2010 at 00:00.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line60
__label__wiki	0.591686	0.591686	Fire/EMS Services History of Harrisonville Fire/EMS Harrisonville Emergency Services Harrisonville Fire Department has an interesting history from its humble beginning to the department that it is today. The first firefighting equipment was purchased in the City of Harrisonville on November 29, 1869. However, it wasn't until the south side of the square burned on February 5, 1900, that an actual Harrisonville Fire Department was organized. The city established a volunteer fire company in July 1900, which operated until 1919 when the city began contracting with the local American Legion Post number 42 to operate the department. Fire protection was provided in this capacity until 1987 when it was once again brought under the direction of the City of Harrisonville. From 1987 to 1996 the department remained volunteer until lifestyle changes and more people seeking employment outside of Harrisonville required a change. Due to the increase in population, the number of calls for service was also on the increase, so in November 1996, the City of Harrisonville hired four career firefighters to provide ample staffing during the work week between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. All other times reverted to volunteer coverage. In 2000, the City of Harrisonville hired its first full-time fire chief. Harrisonville Emergency Medical Services was established in 1971, and was operating as a separate division of the City of Harrisonville. HEMS began as a volunteer service with one ambulance and seven personnel and evolved to a 24-hour in-station service that employed six full-time paramedics, 12 part-time paramedics, and 20 part-time EMTs. HEMS was one of the first Advanced Life Support Ambulance Services in Cass County. HEMS covered most of the southern half of Cass County including the communities of Peculiar, Freeman, East Lynne, Gunn City, Garden City, Archie, and Drexel. Harrisonville Emergency Management was established in 1977 and was under the direction of the Harrisonville Police Department. In 2000, the management of this division was transferred to the Harrisonville Fire Department upon hiring of the first full-time fire chief. The fire chief also holds the title of emergency management director. This division is responsible for the Emergency Operations and Hazardous Mitigation Plans for the City of Harrisonville. Other duties include weather spotting and assisting on emergency scenes with crowd control and traffic direction. Consolidation Begins: 2007 In 2007, the three divisions of the City of Harrisonville, the Fire Department, Emergency Medical Services, and the Emergency Management Agency consolidated services to create the Harrisonville Emergency Services. Initially, the staffing levels and times of coverage remained the same. Fire suppression staffing was from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and volunteers covered from 4:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. and on the weekends and holidays. EMS maintained a 24-hour on and 48-hour off schedule. Emergency Management personnel remained volunteer or on-call basis. Consolidation Completed: 2009 In April of 2009, the residents of the City of Harrisonville overwhelmingly passed a three-eight-cent public safety sales tax that was used for personnel in the Emergency Services Department and Harrisonville Police Department. This tax allowed the department to hire additional staff and provide 24-hour in station coverage for fire suppression. In June of 2009, the final stage of the consolidation was completed. The Harrisonville Emergency Services began providing 24/7 coverage with a minimum of seven staff members on duty. This coverage allows for the staffing of two paramedic ambulances (one firefighter / EMT and firefighter/paramedic) and one Engine Company (two firefighters/ EMTs and one firefighter/paramedic). Staffing is currently a combination of full-time, part-time, and volunteers. The department staffs two advanced life support ambulances and an additional ambulance in reserve for a heavy call load. All personnel is crossed trained to be certified in fire suppression and emergency medical services. The line personnel is currently working a schedule known as a Modified Berkeley Schedule. They work 24 hours shifts from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. the following day. Administration of the department is held by the emergency services director, more commonly known as fire chief. The ESD is responsible for the overall operations of the department, including the medical billing office. The department has to have a medical director to be licensed by the State of Missouri to operate an ambulance service. The medical director is a licensed physician with emergency medicine as an area of expertise. The medical director approves a set of medical protocols that allows the paramedics to function to provide emergency medical treatment. The medical director also reviews documents and sets standards for on-scene treatment times. Harrisonville Emergency Services is the primary ambulance provider for Dolan - West Dolan Fire Protection District, East Lynne - Gunn City Fire Protection District, and Drexel Fire Association. This includes the communities of Freeman, Westline, East Lynne, and Gunn City, and Drexel. Harrisonville Emergency Services also provides ALS mutual aid to other communities in Cass County. As Harrisonville has grown, it has expected more and more services from this department. No longer is a fire department just expected to put out fires. To make sure we live up to the expectations of our residents, Harrisonville Emergency Services provides a response to fire suppression incidents, hazardous materials responses, auto extrication, odor investigations, carbon monoxide detection, confined space rescue, and technical rescue operations. Another major component of the services provided is public education. It is our belief that in order to be prepared for an incident you need to know what to expect and how to handle the incident. This is why we pass this information along to the citizens. City Hall was the original location of the fire department. In the 1970s the department relocated to 903 S. Commercial and was known as Station number 2. In 2001, the facility was under renovation and additional space was added to move the EMS Department out of the basement of City Hall. The new facility houses both fire and EMS Departments. The new facility allows greater room for the equipment, staff area, sleeping quarters, and training areas for both staff and the public. The administration offices are located at the south end of the facility. Personnel & Staffing Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF)	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line61
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__label__cc	0.675927	0.324073	Before I even get started here, let me make it very clear that I don't have an answer to the questions I'm going to raise. What I'm offering here are observations on things that seem curiously inconsistent. There's a game on Greenlight called "Hatred". I'm not linking to it, and I'm not linking to the trailer, which, in my eyes, is reprehensible. It's not unfair, based on the trailer, to call this game an experience in virtual genocide. There are no fantasy trappings or "saving the world" plots here. This game is made by Polish developers who may or may not be linked to far right-wing groups, depending on who you believe. Hatred was taken down from Greenlight yesterday, without explanation, then put back up today following a statement by Gabe Newell saying (in part) "It turns out that it wasn’t a good decision". Here's what bothers me about censorship discussions. We already have censorship. This cannot possibly be a "Should censorship exist in games?" discussion. There are already obvious limits on what can happen to children in games (I'm trying to word this in such a way that work filter sirens don't go off). There are obvious limits on how sex is portrayed. So we already have an environment where children are "forbidden content", as well as realistic portrayals of sex. Why are these kinds of censorship allowed, but when anyone talks about restricting a realistic depiction of violence, everyone loses their minds? I'm not saying I know where the limits should be, or if there should be limits at all--like I said, I'm not offering solutions here. I just find it baffling that any kind of censorship on ultra-violent games (and ultra-violent cinema as well) provokes howls of outrage, when censorship of sexual content garners barely a peep. Another observation: we seem to be pretty comfortable with any kind of violence in games as long as it has a thin veneer of morality. Any kind of justification, no matter how flimsy, for the violence that will inevitably take place. This is true at a larger, societal level as well. Want to exterminate an entire group of people? Propagandize them into something less than human. That's essential to overcoming the basic disgust any decent human being would feel. This has happened so many times throughout history that it's almost commonplace. What's interesting about Hatred is that there's no pretension of morality. None. That thin line of humanity is obliterated. I don't credit the developers with this larger, philosophical intention--these guys have a strong whiff of dirtbag about them--but they did accidentally stumble onto a big question. Also, what does it say about us that there are some people who are absolutely reveling in the fact that a game of this kind is being made? Valve was in an impossible situation here. Just the fact that this game exists and was put onto Greenlight created a practical dilemma of enormous proportions. If you are willing to censor that kind of content on Steam, how do you police that? How do you draw up those guidelines? Where do you stop? That's a trap, and Gabe Newell was wise to sidestep it. The sidestep, however, comes with its own trap. Torture pron (again, trying to sidestep those work filters) is a bafflingly popular movie genre. I guarantee there are developers today sitting down and planning a PC game with that as the genre, because if Valve is unwilling to censor this game, it's not unreasonable to assume that they won't censor a game in this genre, either. That's going to put Valve in a very uncomfortable position. Some might even say "agonizing." A Scenario (your answers) A Scenario Papers, Please (iPad) Eli 13.4 Freestyle (your update) Coca-Cola Freestyle The Englishman's Daughter, Death, and Ants	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line67
__label__wiki	0.98117	0.98117	Tokyo? Check! Bafana's Luther Singh eyes Barcelona next 53dLeonard Solms Bafana's Luther Singh eyes Barcelona move in wake of Tokyo qualification Luther Singh made a heart after scoring against Ghana in the U23 Afcon bronze medal match, which the South Africans needed to win, and did, to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Omar Zoheiry/picture alliance via Getty Images Leonard Solms South Africa striker Luther Singh played a key role in booking Bafana Bafana's spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, finishing third at the recent Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations, but the versatile attacker is looking well beyond next year. The Moreirense starlet, on loan from Portuguese top flight side Braga, is focused on cementing a place in the senior national team, but his ultimate target is to eventually line up for Barcelona, much to his father's dismay. "If you don't [reach] your short-term goals, you can still make your long-term goals," he explains to ESPN. "For me, [I want] to see myself playing in the Braga first team. It's a club which is well-known in Europe and in Portugal, so first of all for me is to break into the team there. "Second of all is to see myself playing in any of the top three or four leagues in the world. I'm still aiming to play for Barcelona one day. It's always been a dream and the club that I like. "[My dad] and I are big rivals because he likes Real Madrid and I don't. We have our arguments about the two clubs and about some players. He will be more than happy if I go there [to Madrid]." The 22-year-old Singh, who was born in Soweto and is of Indian descent, finds comfort in planning both for the immediate and distant futures. For a player who has often had to wait his turn, this could be seen as a coping mechanism. Having been brought into the famed Stars of Africa Academy just before his 11th birthday, it took a while before Singh was old enough to make his breakthrough. Luther Singh has been in excellent form while on loan at Moreirense FC this season, but he hopes for a return to parent club Braga. Gualter Fatia/Getty Images His career began to take off in his late teens at second tier Swedish side GAIS in 2015, and he earned a move to Braga in January 2017. A honeymoon phase in his career quickly gave way to new challenges. Not only did Singh struggle to break into the first team at Braga, but he also endured heartbreak with Bafana Bafana. The promising youth international was handed his first senior cap in March 2017 by then-caretaker coach Owen da Gama against Angola. In May that year, Stuart Baxter became Bafana's permanent boss. Unfortunately for Singh, his experience under the English coach was testing to say the least. The first major sign of trouble came in the 2018 COSAFA Cup quarter-final against Madagascar in June. Singh was at the heart of many of South Africa's attacking forays. However, he missed a gilt-edged chance to put Bafana ahead in the 20th minute when his shot was saved one-on-one by Jean Dieu-Donné Randrianasolo. The game ended 0-0 and went to penalties. Then, things went from bad to worse for young Singh. His somewhat casually-struck penalty was saved by Randrianasolo and Bafana were subsequently sent packing. "Luther said afterwards that Stuart [Baxter] really had a go at him after that miss," Farouk Khan, the Stars of Africa Academy's Director of Coaching, told ESPN. "He really gave the boy a tongue-lashing, but live on air, he said: 'No, it's a youngster. He'll learn from his mistake.' You get coaches who say one thing in the press conference and tell you something totally different," Khan continued. "I was very disappointed. I didn't mention it to Stuart - I haven't had a chance yet. Hopefully, one day, when we meet, I want to say to him that it wasn't really fair to do that. Subsequently, he was excluded from any further participation [in the senior national team]." Luther Singh's two misses against Madagascar at the 2018 COSAFA Cup seemed to put him out of favour with South Africa manager Stuart Baxter. But will his fortunes change under the new boss, Molefi Ntseki? Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix The easy option for Singh would have been to retreat into the shadows and let his dreams stagnate. However, he went out on loan to Chaves midway through the 2018-19 season, scoring twice in 17 top-flight appearances for them. He missed out on Baxter's Africa Cup of Nations squad this year as Bafana made the quarter-finals in Egypt. Molefi Ntseki subsequently replaced the former Kaizer Chiefs and SuperSport United mentor in the national team hotseat. Baxter, who exited the Bafana set up after Afcon, explained his decision to confront the youngster, telling ESPN: "Being harsh with Luther - there's something called tough love, isn't there? "I wasn't harsh in as much as putting him down. I was harsh in as much as letting him know what I thought would be best for him in the future. "Before the game -- the evening before, when we were doing penalties -- Luther was putting one in the top corner, one in the bottom corner, because he's a talented boy. "I said to him: 'Make sure that you know that you're doing. If you get one tomorrow, this is not a show now to show how many different penalties you can take. Be comfortable with one, so that if you take one tomorrow, you score.' "When we got the decisive penalty, I think in Luther's mind, it was the same: 'Where should I put it? Top corner? Bottom corner?' He ended up not doing anything. "I know Luther was hugely disappointed, so all I said was, 'What did I tell you?' I didn't [lambaste] him. I just made him aware that the responsibility should have brought him to a place where he just thought, 'Put this one away, you just move on.'" Baxter saw parallels between Singh and Cristiano Ronaldo during his time at Manchester United. The 66-year-old maintains that Singh needed to be pushed to a higher level, as the Portuguese superstar was in his early years at the Red Devils. Explaining his subsequent decision to omit Singh from his Africa Cup of Nations squad, Baxter explained: "When we selected the squad, we felt that the journey for Luther was just starting to pick up speed [in Portugal]. "We didn't want to bring him in and give him a false dawn. Kermit [Erasmus] was very similar. Kermit was just putting his career back together, really, with Cape Town City. To bring him back too early into the national squad would have been more of a hindrance than a help. "When people are selected, they want to also play. They want a chance. When you bring them in and they don't play, it sometimes gets in the way and knocks their confidence." Former South Africa coach denies lambasting Luther Singh after his penalty miss at the 2018 COSAFA Cup, but admits he dished out some 'tough love' after the striker seemingly ignored the gaffer's instructions. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images According to Baxter, Singh now stands a good chance of catching current national team boss Ntseki's eye. "When Luther was at the COSAFA Cup, I think he was very satisfied with his progress," Baxter said. "He was [too] comfortable with his talent. "I think the challenges of being abroad have brought him through that, and I think now, he's ready to come back into the international setup." Baxter struck a sincere tone when speaking of a player who he perhaps had on his hands at the right place, but the wrong time. Nevertheless, in Singh's opinion, his former coach was off the mark in his belief that he was complacent. Singh added: "For me, I wasn't satisfied. I'm not satisfied even today with where I am. "Where I am now is not where I'm happy at. It's not where I want to end. Where I was at the COSAFA Cup wasn't where I wanted to be either. There was more to come. "I think everyone has their own opinions about people and about players as well. [Baxter] is an experienced coach and he knows what he speaks [about], but that's not what I feel. He read me wrong in that incident." After Chaves were relegated at the end of 2018-19, Singh went out on loan again to Moreirense in August 2019. Here, he has taken his game a step further, scoring three league goals in six starts and four substitute appearances. Perhaps most notably, he scored against giants Benfica in late September. "It's a dream come true for me, because Benfica is one of the biggest clubs in Portugal. Not everyone scores against Benfica," Singh said. Two months later, another target was met. South Africa beat Ghana on penalties in the bronze final at the recent U23 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt to qualify for the Olympics. "The day I scored against Benfica, it was a feeling I can't express. Last night [the win over Ghana] was the same," he said during this interview a day later. Luther Singh's goal for SA's Under-23s against Ghana's Black Stars in late November could be enough to see him return to the senior national team. Omar Zoheiry/picture alliance via Getty Images He was unsurprisingly handed the Man of the Match prize after the Ghana game. After all, it was his shot which opened the scoring against the Black Stars via a deflection off Habib Mohammed. The match ultimately finished 2-2 before going to penalties. Previously, Singh had picked up the Man of the Match prize in the 0-0 group stage draw with Nigeria. He now has his eyes set squarely on forcing his way into Ntseki's senior squad. "I'm working to get back into the Bafana squad -- and not just to go there for one game, but to stay there, to make a mark for myself, to be a regular," Singh added. Singh grew up watching some of South Africa's most talented players hone their skills at Stars of Africa. When he moved abroad, a new environment with fresh challenges only inspired him to improve. "When I moved to Europe, my mindset changed to say that I don't only want to be the best player in South Africa. I want to be the best in Africa. That's what I always keep in mind." Many of South Africa's youth players have showed plenty of promise, but have never reached their full potential. Singh is determined to go one step further and has a message for South African footballers at large. "Personally, I can only say to the players of South Africa that we have a lot of good players and a lot of talented players," he said. "The players just need to work hard and listen to the people they're with; listen to the mentors if they have, to their coaches, and continue working and never give up no matter how hard they tried or how many times they've failed. "We mustn't let people dictate where we can end up. We must always set goals to get where we want to be and not where people think we should be."	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line70
__label__cc	0.642562	0.357438	TWiki> TWiki Web>WebSearch (22 Mar 2009, TWikiContributor) EditAttach TIP: to search for all topics that contain "SOAP", "WSDL", a literal "web service", but not "shampoo", write: soap wsdl "web service" -shampoo Text body Topic title Both body and title All public webs (otherwise search TWiki Web only) Other search options: If you already know the name of the topic, enter the name of the topic into the Jump box at the top List all topics in the TWiki web in alphabetical order List topics that start with the letter: A \| B \| C \| D \| E \| F \| G \| H \| I \| J \| K \| L \| M \| N \| O \| P \| Q \| R \| S \| T \| U \| V \| W \| X \| Y \| Z Recently changed topics Topic revision: r22 - 22 Mar 2009 - TWikiContributor Note: Please contribute updates to this topic on TWiki.org at TWiki:TWiki.WebSearch	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line71
__label__cc	0.578133	0.421867	Mycological Research (1) British Mycological Society Symposia (1) 17 - Fungal parasites of invertebrates: multimodal biocontrol agents? from V - Fungal biocontrol of pests By L. V. Lopez-Llorca, Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology University of Alicante Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante Spain, H.-B. Jansson, Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology University of Alicante Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante Spain Edited by G. D. Robson, University of Manchester, Pieter van West, University of Aberdeen, Geoffrey Gadd, University of Dundee Book: Exploitation of Fungi Print publication: 24 May 2007, pp 310-335 Nematophagous and entomopathogenic fungi (NEF) comprise an important group of fungal parasites of invertebrates (FPI). NEF belong to a wide range of fungal taxa, but most of them are anamorphic fungi and facultative parasites. These fungi can infect, kill and digest nematodes and insects, respectively, which we will call their canonical, or normal, hosts. These hosts have barriers to the environment (eggshells and cuticles) that have common structural features. Therefore, the infection cycles share common strategies (e.g. adhesion to the host) or metabolites (e.g. proteases and chitinases for host penetration). Some species (e.g. Lecanicillium lecanii) can even be isolated from both infected nematodes and insects. The NEF may also infect other organisms (other fungi and plants) apart from their canonical hosts in a similar or different mode. We will use the term multimodal to describe the mode of action of these biological activities (Fig. 17.1). However, to date, the main emphasis in research has covered their mode of action on their canonical hosts (e.g. nematodes for nematophagous fungi). Many of these fungi are used for biological control of plant-parasitic organisms. In this review we will describe the NEF and their hosts in general terms (both canonical and non-canonical) at biological, ecological and physiological-molecular levels. We will also analyze the reasons for this multitrophic behaviour, trying to use a comparative approach of both types of hosts (canonical and non-canonical) and pathogens (nematophagous and entomopathogenic fungi) under an evolutionary perspective. Growth inhibition of nematophagous and entomopathogenic fungi by leaf litter and soil containing phenols L. V. LÓPEZ-LLORCA, C. OLIVARES-BERNABÉU Journal: Mycological Research / Volume 101 / Issue 6 / June 1997 In a soil survey, nematophagous fungi were recovered less from agar plates sprinkled with forest soil (Quercus ilex subsp. rotundifolia) than from those incubated with agricultural (Citrus orchards) soil. Nematodes were present in all soils. The organic matter was higher in forest soils. Water extracts from forest soils with high levels of phenols, leaf litter and Q. rotundifolia fresh leaves affected the development and growth of common species of nematophagous and entomopathogenic fungi. These results show that phenolics from leaf letter could play an important role in the ecology and biology of these invertebrate pathogens in soil.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line73
__label__wiki	0.97917	0.97917	Craig Armstrong’s music is as varied as it is successful. Born in 1959 in the east end of Glasgow, the musician and composer headed to London in 1977 to train at the Royal Academy of Music. Under the tutelage of such greats as Cornelius Cardew and Malcolm MacDonald, he developed an approach that evokes the most delicate shifts in atmosphere and emotion. On his return to Glasgow, Armstrong became in-house composer at the influential Tron Theatre, working for the first time with director Michael Boyd (now at the Royal Shakespeare Company). It was also at the Tron that Armstrong met actor/ director Peter Mullan, whose films (including The Magdalene Sisters and Neds) he continues to provide the music for today. Hollywood greats Armstrong’s early work, scoring for theatrical productions such as Boyd’s radical 1993 interpretation of Macbeth, laid the foundations for a spectacular career in film. Since the mid-nineties, he has created scores for both Hollywood and independent films, from Mullan’s directorial debut The Close Trilogy to Bafta, Golden Globe and Novello award-winning soundtracks for Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge! Many more films have benefited from Armstrong’s expert touch, including Richard Curtis’ Love Actually and Taylor Hackford’s Oscar-winning biopic Ray. Armstrong has composed two scores for Oliver Stone; World Trade Centre and in 2010, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Most recently Armstrong collaborated with Baz Lurhmann on their third feature film together, The Great Gatsby, for which Armstrong’s score was awarded an AACTA (Best Original Music Score award) and received a Grammy nomination. Classic and modern Running alongside his scoring work, Armstrong has built an impressive repertoire of both popular and classical music; a distinction of genres that he would prefer not to make, focusing simply on the excitement and integrity of the music itself. Shared inspiration with Bristol trip-hop outfit Massive Attack led to the platinum-selling album Protection, and Armstrong’s talents for arranging, remixing and composition have also been called upon by names as diverse as the London Sinfonietta, Yoko Ono, the Barbican and Sakamoto. Collaborative energy He has nurtured a long-time collaboration with Berlin-based poet and electronic artist AGF, working with her on various pieces as well as forming three-way collective The Dolls with Finnish musician Vladislav Delay. Armstrong’s influence extends to the world of visual arts, too, with pieces such as One Minute: 15 Pieces for Orchestra seeing him work with Scottish artists Dalziel + Scullion to mark the unveiling of the new Perth Concert Hall. Other orchestral works include Gesualdo, an operetta with words from author Ian Rankin commissioned by Scottish Opera, as well as acclaimed pieces for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, choral ensemble Cappella Nova and award-winning violinist Clio Gould. In 2012 Armstrong received a Herald Angel award for a new Scottish Opera commission The Lady From The Sea, featuring a libretto from Zoë Strachan which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival. A central virtuosity His series of solo albums, including the collaborative As If to Nothing (2002), and 2004’s Piano Works, reveal a more personal insight into a composer whose virtuosity is at the heart of every note. Armstrong’s third studio album It’s Nearly Tomorrow will be released this October on BMG Chrysalis and features work with long term Glasgow collaborators Paul Buchanan, Jerry Burns, James Grant and Katie O’Halloran. Other guests include Vladislav Delay (The Dolls), and Chris Botti on trumpet. The album was recorded all over the world: Glasgow, Babelsberg – Berlin, Prague, London, Sweden, Finland and Los Angeles. Working primarily from his studio in Glasgow, Armstrong continues to work internationally in film and composition. In 2010 he accepted an OBE at the Palace of Holyroodhouse for his contribution to music.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line75
__label__wiki	0.897328	0.897328	Jones after loss: We've got to win a football game 43dTodd Archer Jerry Jones questioning lack of success after 3rd consecutive loss Todd ArcherESPN Staff Writer Covered NFL since 1997, Cowboys since 2003 Previously covered Bengals and Dolphins Lives in Dallas area with his wife and two children CHICAGO -- Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones did not make any proclamations about changes to Jason Garrett's job status after Thursday's 31-24 loss to the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field, but he did question why the roster is not producing results. "These guys are mentally OK for me, and all these guys are talented enough for me, so that's good," Jones said. "I'm questioning how to put together a coordinated one that complements each other, how to put together a team that can win a football game. ... We're not collectively getting together as a team and doing the things it takes to win ballgames." Instead, at 6-7, the Cowboys are mired in their second three-game losing streak of the season despite a mostly healthy roster. "It's leveled out here. It's losing, losing, losing. I'm not trying to be funny here, but the point is we've got to win a football game," Jones said. "I don't care what the standings are, what the numbers are. We had thought that we could come up here and play a good team, play a fine football game and get our act to where we're starting to look like a team that could -- if we, by the slim chance, get in the playoffs -- where we could win. We can't do that until we play and start winning the football games, and we've got three more to play. When we do that, we can go." Mitchell Trubisky helps Bears beat Cowboys 31-24 Rating the job security of every NFL head coach: Who's on the hot seat? Thursday's loss was a disillusionment. After driving 75 yards on 17 plays for a touchdown on its first drive, the offense stalled until the fourth quarter when the game was out of hand. The defense forced a takeaway for the first time in four games on the opening possession but gave up scores on the next four possessions in the first half. The Cowboys scored 17 points in the fourth quarter to close the gap, but that did not impress Jones. "We know that the score didn't indicate how bad they beat us tonight," Jones said. Garrett's job security has been an issue since the start of training camp because he does not have a contract past 2019 and will continue to be a bigger topic in the final three weeks. Garrett said he believes that the players are still buying in. "I just see how they come to work every day," Garrett said. "I see how they practice, and unfortunately we didn't carry the practice work to the game." Nor did Garrett see any players quit. "I don't believe that," the coach said. The Cowboys will remain in first place in the NFC East even if the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants on Monday based off their October win against their division rival, but this season was supposed to be about more than making the playoffs. Now Jones does not care if the Cowboys finish 7-9 or 8-8 and make the postseason. "Are you asking me if I would take the division and go to the playoffs, if we got in on any basis? The answer is yes. Absolutely, yes," Jones said. "Acceptable? I don't know. Not if we're not playing good, but if we're playing a lot better than we played tonight, I'll take getting in. [Are] you talking about getting in the playoffs? Well, yes, I would on any basis. I realize if we don't play better in the last [three games] than we looked tonight, then that's tough to think about having success in the playoffs, but your goal, the first goal is to get to the playoffs."	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line76
__label__wiki	0.642302	0.642302	EOC Summer School: an assessment At the end of four truly intense days of the first EOC Summer School, we attempt to describe the experience By Benedetto Gui The proposal of a summer course on the Economy of Communion was launched thinking of a small group of young people, most likely scholars of various economic profession (students in doctorate programs, research fellowships, university professors at the beginning of their career). In this way, it would be possible to present and systematically discuss the theoretical reflections developed in these years around the economy of communion project. But obviously there were many other people, including university students in their last years of study, workers, directors, entrepreneurs and teachers, who shared the desired to spend four days studying and dialoging about the EOC project. And not only people under 35. Not wanting to say no to whoever was very interested in this reflection between science and culture, we found ourselves amidst a group of 90. There were 13 from Brazil, 8 Argentineans, 2 Filipinos (some were already in Italy, like students of Sophia, but others came just for the occasion). Then, there were also 8 from Slovakia, other Europeans, one from Palestine and obviously many Italians. Their relationships with the Focolare Movement was also very diverse (ranging from very active to less active, and even some who were making their first contact with the movement).. The program was intense (see program). even too much so, as we realized after the first day and thinking of all the translations. We tried to slow down the rhythm during the following days. Many of the reflections presented were part of a preview of articles that will make up a special edition of the magazine "Impresa Sociale" (Social Enterprise), a cultural magazine geared particularly towards Italian social cooperatives. After each presentation, there was time for questions and answers, although it was never enough. The time allowed for group work was also too little (two session of a little more than an hour each). One evening, going outside the scheduled program, we had a meeting with a film producer. He was someone who works in the artistic field (and art always has a place in any convention) and additionally he is also committed to "translating" the culture of unity into understandable terms for his speakers. What clearly and fascinatingly emerged from his words and the two short films he showed was the theme about vocation. At various moments in his career, this vocation had led him to make countercurrent choices, many times thanks to the encouragement of other people. To mark this four-day school with a particular characteristic, the proposal was to live according to the teaching on reciprocal love. This proposal, received and taking seriously, created a fraternal and joyful atmosphere throughout the day, whether in the lecture hall, during means or in other free moments. It was an atmosphere that cannot but characterize the memory of those days when one thinks about them and tries to give a summary. During the final exchange of impressions and the following moment of greetings, a common idea kept coming up: encouragement. Each one had received encouragement for their personal commitment to study or work in view of an "economy of communion". Another recurring topic was the invitation to continue this initiative, making it an annual appointment aimed towards youth. "Because within a few years," said one of the youth participants, "the generation that has brought the EOC ahead until now will have to pass on the witnessing to today’s 20 and 30-year-olds, and we have to be prepared for that moment, not only to prevent that what has already been done falls, but also in order to take those further steps ahead which we young people feel are necessary." Diese Website verwendet Cookies, auch von Drittanbietern, um die Nutzung zu erleichtern. Wenn Sie diesen Hinweis schließen, stimmen Sie der Verwendung der Cookies zu.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line80
__label__wiki	0.673768	0.673768	Oliver Ibert Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Erkner In July 2019 Oliver Ibert took over the position of the director of the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and Professor of Socio-Spatial Transformation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. Since 2009 he is head of the research department „Dynamics of Economic Spaces“. From 2009-2019 he was professor of Economic Geography at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1991 he started to study the topics Geography (major), German Literature and Political Sciences (both minor) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and obtained his master’s degree in 1997. In 2002 he acquired his PhD at the University of Oldenburg and in 2009 he completed his post-doctoral habilitation thesis at the University of Bonn. In summer 2014 Oliver Ibert was a visiting professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Toronto and in autumn 2018 he was a Halsworth Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography at Manchester University. He is a member of the editorial board of Palgrave Communications and acts as a spokesperson of the working group “Concepts of Crisis” as a part of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a globalized world”. The future of Edge Gernot Grabher Proposals for publications and further activities. November 21, 2019 9:00 am - 9:30 am	cc/2020-05/en_head_0039.json.gz/line81

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